Eastern Sun, 12 April 1969

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  • 21 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 3 No. 96»i Saturday, 12 April 1969. MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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  • 339 1 SINGAPORE, Fri. A Bill seeking to establish a pension scheme for persons who have served as Members of Parliament and to provide for a gratuity upon their death under certain circumstances has been introduced in Parliament. The payment of pensions is payable to persons who
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  • 63 1 JAKARTA. Fri. (Reuter) Foreign Minister Adam Malik's surprise visit to Malaysia today was decided on at a Cabinet meeting yesterday, Foreign Office officials said here today. But the purpose of the unofficial three-day visit was not known. Mr. Malik originally was scheduled to leave here for
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  • 94 1 CANBERRA. Fri. (UPI) Australia will not withdraw any troops from Vietnam unless there Is a major reversal of United States policy in the war zone. Government sources said today. Australia's task force of 8.500 men is an independent iorce whose effectiveness w*ould be severely set
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  • 166 1 —Dr. Cooley BALTIMORE. Maryland W (UP!) Dr. Denton A. Cooley. who performed the Ar*t artificial hfart implant, said on Thursday a Federal investigation of his operation was Just -routine." Coolev revealed he had made no attempt to obtain Federal rlearanre but had performed the operation
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  • 277 1 SINGAPORE. Fri. Singapore is only technically a developing country. In fact, the Republic is a developed developing country. The Chairman of the Commission on International Development, Mr. Lester Bowles Pearson, expressed this opinion when he met newsmen today. Mr Pearson an eminent statesman and
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  • 68 1 SYDNEY Fri. (Reuter) More than 400 psychiatrists from all over the world will attend a symposium on anxiety In Melbourne next month. Psychiatrists from Europe, the United Btates and the Soviet Union are due to speak at the symposium organised by the World Psychiatric Association and the
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  • 57 1 LONDON. Frl (Reuter) Police held back screaming women fans today when actor Roger Moore. 40-year-old star of the television series "The Balnt". married Italianborn actress Lulsa Mattloll. 30 A crowd of 600 surged against the police cordon outside London's Caxton Hall Register Office. Roger Moore's previous marriage
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  • 156 1 JERUSALEM, Fri (UPI) Defence Minister Gen Moshe Dayan warned on Thursday that Israel wll pay back •double" if Arab guerillas persist in attacking the Port of Elath. He also predicted Egypt may try to fight Its way across the Buez Canal and invade Sinai this
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  • 51 1 LONDON. Frl. (Reuter)— Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery. 81. will not be well enough to attend the memorial service for ex-Presi-dent Eisenhower here on Monday, It was announced today. When General Elsenhower was Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in the Second World War Lord Montgomery ("Monty") was his
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  • 341 1  -  By PETER LOKE SINGAPORE, Frt. The new Commander-in-Chief of the Far East Command, Admiral Sir Peter HillNorton, said here today that one of his main tasks would be to ensure "sensible defence arrangements be set up in Singapore and Malaysia by
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  • 376 1 Fri. (Reuter) Egypt's Army was on full-scale alert along the Suex Canal today after another big artillery battle across the waterway and a call by Cairo's leading political commentator for a limited war against Israel. Firing in last night's two-hour flare-up hardly had died down
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  • 69 1 NAPLES. Fri. (Reuter) The Soviet Union has built up its Mediterranean Fleet to about 45 ships, just below the highest point reached last year, a U.S. Navy spokesman said today. A total of 15 ships have entered the Mediterranean through the Straits of Gibraltar in
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  • 84 1 NEW DELHI. En (Reuter) Sixty-two spy rings and gangs of saboteurs have been smashed In Jammu and Kashmir since the 1965 Indo-Pakis-tan war over Kashmir. Parliament was told today. Police hart arrested 4fl peoKle from Pakistan or Pakistaneld Kashmir and 214 people from the Indian side
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  • 118 1 VATICAN CITY. Frt. (Heuten Pope Paul deplored international discord and said humanity remained divided despite the tragic lesson* of history. He was speaking at a meeting here today with Dr. Nicanor Costa Mendez. the first Argentine Foreign Minister In history to pay an official visit
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  • 80 1 SYDNEY, Fn. (UPI)— Mass arrests followed s clash today between police and university students protesting conscription and the Vietnam war. Police estimated at least 140 of 1.200 students had been arrested. The clash occurred outside the Commonwealth Centra in Chifley Square and spread to near the
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  • 43 1 BANGKOK. Fri (Reuter)— A Royal Thai F-5 Air Force Jet crashed in flames minutes after take off yesterday but the pilot baled out and escaped with a broken leg after landing on a house top, air force sources said today.
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    • 93 1 fv In This Issue... THIS week's first Lucky Shopper Page 2. 11.000 trying for 2.500 places Page 3. DENTAL Health feature Paces 4 and 5. ISRAELI conductor's busy schedule In S'pore— Page 9. YOMIURI Open Golf Page 11. •K. LUMPUR race prospects Page 12. THE Dollv row worsens Page 12.
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 330 2 SINGAPORE, Fri. One of the ways to attract more people to this country is to hold more conventions, said Mr. Pedro Kaminsky, manager of Viajes Utramar Express in Barcelona, Spain. "Most people attend conventions as a pretext to 7' I'* 1 0 country and
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  • 201 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Australia's Minister for the Armv, Mr. Philip R. Lynch, today *<aid his countr> s defence arrangements with Malaysia and Singapore including the continuation of assistance in equipment and training would not only be a valuable contribution to the security of the
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  • 182 2 KOTA BHARC. Fri. The Alliance has plans to make Kelantan one of the most advanced States in the country. the Deputy Prime Minister. Tun Abdul Razak, said today. He said the people In the State had suffered under the Pan-Malayan Islamic Party rule in the past
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  • 113 2 KOTA BHARU. Fn. The Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdual Razak. said today without economic strength. Islamic society would stagnate He was speaking at th# opening of a $25,000 mosque in Bunut Susu, Pasir Mas. 10 miles from here He added that the Mualim society had to improve
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  • 174 2 BANGKOK, Fri. (Rcu- Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn aaid pfodav Thailand should not adopt a policy of neutralIsm because it would spell danger to the nation. He was brieflnf over 200 Government officials about his Government's policy. Thailand was following a policy of Independence, and "we are not
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  • 142 2 SINGAPORE. Fri. Mr. Justice Tan Ah Tah today granted a salesgirl, Ng Lei Kheng, a divorce on the grounds of constructive desertion. Ng told the court that she left the matrimonial home in May 1964 as a result of her husband assaulting her. On one occasion her
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  • 59 2 SEOUL, Fri. (Router) Mr. Marshal Green, designated as U.S Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, flew In here todaj for a three-day visit during a familiarisation tour. Mr Green, who was Charge d'Affaires in Seoul in 1960. Is scheduled to hold talks
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  • 69 2 MILAN. Fri. (Reuter) A small home-made bomb exploded in front of the Milan Stock Exchange early today, shattering windows. Police said they had no clue to the motives behind the bombing nor to the identity of these responsible. It was the latest in a series
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  • 235 2 SINGAPORE. Frl. Two pre-unlverslty students leave for Osaka on an exchange programme on April 17 to show Japanese students the way of life In Singapore. They are Jeanette Ann Michael.' 18. of Can Eng Seng Secondary School, and Clarence Tan Tiong Tee. o1 AngloChinese School.
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  • 221 2 TOKYO, Fri. (Reuter) Japan Is attaching Importance to the coming general meeting of th? I nited Nations Economic Commission for Asia and Far East (ECAFE) to open In Singapore on Tuesday, a Japanese Government spokesman said today. Development plans and programmes to come
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  • 67 2 SINGAPORE, Fri. Belnr the second last day of the annual sale at Robinsons crowds thronged the many sections of this department store today to take last-minute advantage of the fantastic bargains being offered. Tomorrow will be the last day of the annual sale and even bigger
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  • 116 2 MANILA. Frl. (Reuter) Pollomyelltii. typhoid fever and cholera 13 Tor outbreaks have been reported In Manila and the Southern Philippines and could grow into epidemic proportions, according to health report* reaching here. Firit reports of polio rases came from North Cotabato Province on Mindanao Island where
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  • 126 2 HONG KONG. Tri. (UPI)— The Commerce and Industry Department today asked the Malaysian Police and electricity authorities for information about "killer lamps" allegedly exported by Hong Kong. "We sent a cable to Kuala Lumpur this morning, and an investigation will be made after we have
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  • 112 2 ROTORUA. New Zealand. Fri. (Reuter) New Zealand wil. inevitably soon cease to use the Privy Council tor the hearing of second appeals, Attorney-General Ralph Hanan said here today. Mr. Hanan did not give a positive alternative, other than saying it could be In strengthening and
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  • 113 2 Manv shoppers at C K. Tan?, Metro and Metrotex. the Republic's leading department store*, have so far been declared "Luckv Shoppers" in this Eastern Sun twice-weekly contest. You could very well be the next "luckv shopper" and receive a $2O gift voucher If you are "spotted"
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  • 72 2 SINGAPORE Frl The Lnited Nations Under-Secre-tarj-General. Mr CV Narasimhan. arrived in Singapore thu evening to attend the ECAFE Conference. Mr Narasimhan will be repirsen'ing the Secret a rv-Gen-eral of the Cnited Nations, U Thant at the conference. He was met on arrival by th#> Minister of State
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  • 211 2 SINGAPORE, Fri. The second and last of the Special Grand Prix Draws will be carried out this Sunday, April 13. It will be telecaat 'live' over T.V. Singapura at 3.15 p.m. The telecast will include also a Lucky Draw for the gift prizes comprising
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  • 111 2 LONDON. Fri. (Reuter) A centre to promote investment in Singapore opened for business here today, the Ministry of Overseas Development announced. Part of the cost of the centre set up by the Singapore Government Is being met out of the £5O m special aid offered by
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  • 93 2 SINGAPORE. Fri.—ln accordance with the Public Utilities (Amendment) Act passed r»* Par lament on December. 23 1968. to increase the number of members of the Public Utilities Board from nine to twelve in order to cope with the increase in the volume of work of the Board, the
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  • 293 3 SINGAPORE, Fri. The public response to offer of places in the Republic's vocational training institutions has been "embarrassingly high", the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education, Dr. Lee Chiaw Meng disclosed today. He said nearly 11.000 applications for the 2.500 places were received and
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  • 62 3 SINGAPORE Fri. Chiang Yong Poh. 28. of Tanglin Halt Road, was today fined a total of $BOO by the Second District Court for abetting In using forged import licences to brin* in $191,236.40 worth of cotton goods. Chiang admitted committing the offences between Jan 7 and April
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  • 50 3 KATMANDU. Fri. (UPI) The German Alpine Club's 10 members expedition to Annapurna under the leadership of Ludwig Greisl has established its base camp at 18.000 feet on the mountain's southeastern ridge, the Nepal Foreign Office reported. All members were reported In good health, the report said.
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  • 329 3 SINGAPORE, Frl. A popular student leader from Singapore, who recently graduated in dentistry from the University of Melbourne, has decided to stay on in Australia for another two years t« do postgraduate studies in oral surgery, which will lead him to a
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  • 133 3 HONG KONG, Fri. (Reuter) The North Korean news agencv today accused the United States* of launching a "provocative play with fire" by bringing British troops into South Korea. The United States yesterday began a joint landing operation in the Bay of Chinhae with Britain's Far East
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  • 116 3 SINGAPORE. Frl. Special stamps to commemorate the 25th Plenary Session of ECAFE will be placed on sale on Tuesday, at all post office* in the Republic. The commemorative issue consists of three values of 15 cts.. 30 cts. and 75 cts. in a square format measuring 25.5 mm
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  • 55 3 SINGAPORE. Fri. The Singapore Armed Forces will be conducting demolition exercises at the Southern Islands Ranges at Pulau Senang and Pulau Pawai from Monday to Friday. These exercises will take place daily from 800 a.m. to 12.00 midnight. The public are warned, for their own safety, to
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  • 799 3  -  By John F. Barton WASHINGTON. Fri. (UPI) President Nixon Is having trouble finding someone who will accept the sensitive assignment as U.S. ambassador to Japan. Nixon administration officials regard the ambassadorship to Japan as one of the mos' important diplomatic assignments to
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  • 128 3 SINGAPORE. Fri. The National Library n currently holding an exhibition of books on business and industry in its entrance foyer. On displav are four showcases of books on personnel management, marketing, advertising and sales promotion, public relations, industrial organisation and management and on manufactures and
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  • 178 3 SINGAPORE, Fri.—Leow Sin Keng. 27, was sentenced to six months' jail and six strokes of the rotan by the Third District Court today for outraging the modesty of an 18-vear-old nurse at Kallang Park. He was also jailed for six months on a
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  • 299 3 SINGAPORE, Fri. Mr. K. Vethiveloo. Singapore Ministry of Social Welfare Probation Officer, has been selected to attend the 1969 Council of International Programmes for Youth Leaders and Social Workers (CIP). He is scheduled to leave for the United States on Monday. The CIP programme for
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  • 135 3 LOBATBI. Botswana Fri (Reuten A cinema-owner in this dusty tow n on the edge of the Kalahari desert has hit on a way of drawing packed houses that never seems to Jail. He shows films banned In South Africa As *oon as the censors in neighbouring
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  • 38 3 SINGAPORE. Fri—Littering in the Botanic Gardens is now strictly controlled. The Gardens watchmen are empowered to issue tickets to offenders who may be fined in court. Uniformed and plainclothes policemen are also patrolling the Botanic Gardens.
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  • FEATURE ON BETTER HEALTH
    • 333 4 SINGAPORE, Fri. The rapid economic, technological, scientific and social change which the 20th century is experiencing is a phenomenon of a civilised society. However, without health, the products of our civilisation can hardly flourish. Thus they are both comple- mentary and reciprocal. The well known saying
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    • 1106 4  -  By H. C. Tan SINGAPORE, Fri. Mankind is now entering the age of space technology an era where everything is reduced to automation. One has only to press a button to brush one's teeth, comb one's hair, operate a shaver, obtain a drin*, choose one's menu
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    • 226 4 Milk has beer. called "nature's moat perfect food" and the story of milk began centuries ago. Yet this story it ag new as tomorrow. For thousands of vears. milk has played a fascinating part in history. Its use is written into the most ancient records and
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    • 549 4 SINGAPORE, Fri. Through the ages the arrival of a baby has always been an important event for the whole family. The new born is showered with gifts from visitors. Everyone looks forward to takirg o peek at the baby. And yet, when all the excitement
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    • 919 5 To a certain extent, o factory can be comBared to a battlefield. epending on the industrial process in use, the hazards facing the workers can escalate steadily. Shrapnel is no more.lethal to the human body than t.ie flying piece of steel that
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    • 338 5 SINGAPORE. Frt. One of the vital factors that contributes towards a person's good health is a sound and healthy set of teeth. A healthy set of teeth can help a person to chew food properly for his (or her) body system to
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    • 276 5 SINGAPORE. Frt Fruits and vegetables are a good source of vitamins, but unfortunately they are highly perishable and are thus susceptible to vitamin losseg if not properly cooked. Green, leafy vegetables like spinach, salad (jreens and broccoli lose their store of vitamins easily if not kept
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    • 113 5 There are germs on Your toothbrush As soon as you crack a toothbrush out of its plastic case, it starts collecting germs. And by the* time you brush once or twice there are millions of them. And if you're wondering why some toothbrush maker hasn't done something about the problem,
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    • 113 5 VAN HOUTIN > icjf t yfy WITH MALCOA THE NUTRITIOUS INSTANT FOOD BEVERAGE HOT or OOCD V i t ami? IT. uiowin C c e /s r< °b,. s *fe EACH HICEE IS EQUIVALENT TO 10 ORANGES(Vit.C) WONDER TONIC WITH CANDY TASTE Your complexion is your fortune, but only if
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  • 389 6 fjiHE world will be different, better if politiclans do actually mean what they declare. Seldom do their words match their actions. And instances are not wanting when the exact opposite is aimed at. The drawback with most men and women the masses today is that they
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  • 260 6 UPI. mHE Daily Mirror, in an editorial on Thursday entitled 'Vietnam: sense at last,' said: •There is every sign that President (Richard M.) Nixon's first act of world statesmanship will be to bring Judgment and common sense to bear on the appalling Vietnam war. •Within
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  • 654 6  -  BT THAUNG MYINE TALA. Southern Thailand, Frl. (Reuter) Malaysian communists entrenched in four Thai provinces close to the Malaysian border are using electronics propaganda with considerable effect on the local population. according to provincial officials. They said that when communist guerrillas visit outlying villages,
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  • 214 6 OTTAWA. Fri. (CWB) Fragments of an archaic culture came to light recenUy on Twillingate Island. Newfoundland. when a resident, digging in his garden, unearthed the point of a slate spear. When his shovel turned up another 34 items, he notified the Director of the National Muaeum of
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  • 369 6 ROME. Frl. (AFP) The Communist Party today t charged that Premier Maria- no Rumor* centre-left coail- tion government was pushing the country toward* a crisis situation and called for the ouster of Interior Minister Franco Restlvo following clashes at Battipaglia In which two persons died yesterday.
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  • 41 6 JAKARTA, Fri. (Reuter) The Christian newspaper Sinar Harapan (Ray of Hope) reported from Samarinda, East Kalimantan, todav that local shipping agencies would soon open shipping lines with Sabah and Tawao. East Malaysia. The paper gave no other details.
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  • 222 6 PARIS. Fri (AFT) —French President Charles de Gauile today threatened to resign if the nation rejected, in the April 27 referedum. proposals for decentralisation and reform of the I'pper House of i Parliament. He said in a nation-wide television interview that the people's repfy to
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  • 580 6 WASHINGTON, Frl. (UFI) C 8. Defense Department data shows defense spending in the Rvukyus in fiscal 196 ft added 200 million dollars to the U.S. balance of payments deficit. U.S. Defence spending In Japan during the same fiscal period totalled 547 million dollars and
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  • 152 6  -  By Yahya Khan RAWALPINDI. FYt (UPI) President Yahya Khan pledged yesterday to create conditions to reatore a civilian admlnlatratlon In Paklstan. In hla flrst news conference since he took over the Presidency and imposed martial law on March 25. Yahya said step* had been taken for the
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  • 503 6 PARtS, Fri. (AFP) A French centrist leader tonight accused President Charles de Gaulle of demanding "a blank cheque under the threat of his resignation" if the forthcoming national referendum went against him. In one of the first reactions to Gen. de Gaulle's televised interview
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  • 19 6  -  Robert Louis. Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. Stevenson, Robert
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  • 142 6 HONG KONG. Fri. (Reu'e-) Communist guerrillas .n Thailand have executed a nwni ner of enemy spie s in recent operations against the govern, ment administration, the New China News Agency reported today. Quoting the clar.desti.~e "Voice of the People of Tht> land" radio, it reported successful
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  • 413 6  -  BY EDITH FUCHS BOCHFM. Frt. (Reuter) A West German restaurant which features puma stews and jaguar roas-ts is doing a roaring trade here, despite fierce criticism frcm animal lovers i The owner and chef 55-vear-old Bernhard Schuh. has already won
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  • 112 6 HONO KONG. Fri. (AFP) Radio Peking tonight reported that the Ninth Party Congress in session glnce April 1 has Inspired a recordbreaking output of steel, oil. textiles, cars, plastics, cement, chemical fertiliser, machinery and electronic product# in China. Most outstanding in productive effort were industrial
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  • 392 6  -  By Dale Morsch U «W DELHI, Frl. <CH> Mobi roamed the streets «f s Calcutta on Thursday to en--1 force a 24-hour strike called l by the Communist Initei i Front Government that paralyx sed India's strategic industrial j state of West Bengal The agitation against
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL

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    111 8 WASHINGTON; President Nixon addressed the 20th anniversary meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers on April 10 in the departmental auditorium, the same hall in which NATO was signed into being on April 4, 1949. Picture shows (from left): Netherlands Minister of Defence, W. den Toom: West German Minister of
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  • 402 8 WASHINGTON, Fri. (Reuter) King Hussein of Jordan revealed today that Jordanian troops immediately arrested Arab guerrillas who launched a rocket attack on the Israeli port of Eilath last Tuesday. He told the National Press Club here that the counter-attack by Israeli planes killed eight Jordanians,
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  • 147 8 SYDNEY, Fri. (Reuter) Seeretarv of the U.S Treasury David M. Kennedy today promised to seek Legislative approval for an American contribution to the Asian Development Bank's special funds. Mr. Kennedy told the second annual meeting of the bank to. day that the government fully
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  • 68 8 NEW DELHI. (Reuter) More than 1.000 junior doctors from eight government hospitals returned to work last night after a nine-day strike which left thousands of patients in Delhi without medical care Earlier yesterday the government declared the strike illesal. Skeleton staffs of senior doctors tended the most
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  • 75 8 BERLIN. (UPI) The top leadership of Communist Poland and East Germany held a surprise meeting yesterday in East Berlin The East German News Service ADN reported the airport arrival of Polish Communist Chief Wladyslaw G<v mulka's delegation for a "friendship visit" that had not been announced earlier.
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  • 56 8 NEGRO TO PLA Y QUEEN LONDON. (Reuter) A coloured American woman is to portray England's Tudor Queen Elizabeth In an opera premiere at this year's Edinburgh International Festival, in August. Soprano Shirley Verrett. 38. will play the Queen In Donizetti's "Maria Stuarda" being presented by the Florence Opera Company. Teatro
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  • 281 8 WASHINGTON, Fri. (Reuter) —North Atlontic alliance Ministers today agreed on the need to improve relations with the Soviet Union but urged extreme caution until the Russians showed a tenuine desire for a uropean detente. Diplomatic sources said Ministers at NATO's 20th anniversary meeting called for a careful probe
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  • 121 8 PARIS. (Reuter) Trench officials last night expressed disappointment at Britain's decision to pull out of the European Airbus Project. Although Trance and West Germany decided last month to go ahead without Britain if necessary. Prime Minister Maurice Couve de Murville said at the time: "We want
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  • 95 8 PARIS, i Reuter) The National Liberation Front today rejected proposals by South Vietnam and the United States to end the Vietnam war as unreasonable at the 12th full-scale session oI the peace talks here N.L F. spokesman Tran Buu Kiem. in a session which brought
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  • 170 8 WASHINGTON. (Reuter) Three Navy Officers were today named for America's second voyage to the moon. The astronauts for the Apol-In-12 flight will be Commander Charles Conrad. Commander Richard Gordon. Junior, and Lieutenant Commander Alan Bean, the National Space and Aeronautics Agency (NASA) announced.
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  • Bulletins
    • 61 8 SAIGON. < Reuter) Vieteong gunners shelled 30 towns and military camps throughout South Vietnam last night, the highest number for more than two weeks, a US military spokesman reported. He said that three civilians were killed and 3 wounded in the shellmgs. but none were followed
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    • 68 8 OTTAWA. (Reuter) The Canadian Trade Minister. Tean-Luc Perin, will tour six Pacific rim countries in a trade-expanding trip starting later this month, it was announced today. The trip will start in Tokyo on April 20 following the fifth Japan-C a n a d a ministerial meeting there.
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    • 52 8 WASHINGTON. (Reuter) Canadian External Affairs Minister Mr. Mitchell Sharp confirmed today that China was readv to start substantive discussions" on setting up diplomatic relations between the two countries. Canada proposed talks with Peking early this year as part of the Ottawa government's efforts to forge a more Independent
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    • 66 8 JAKARTA. (Reuter* Seventy-two Indonesian holidaymakers drowned in the flowing Djuana River in Central Java on Monday when a motor boat capsized. Indonesia's Antara news agency reported today. The agency said 39 people were rescued Police are still searching fo r bodies. The people were celebrating fishermen's
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    • 67 8 HOUSTON. Texas (UPI) A Joe A Bunch, a 37-year-old service station manager who waited seven months for surgery, received a new lung in the 15th such transplant ever conducted on Wednesday. Bunch, reported in "good condition" shortly after the operation, received the lung of Donald
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    • 48 8 BONN (UPI) West Germany requires still more guarantees from Russia before it can sign the nuclear weapons non-proliferation treaty, the government spokesman declared today. State Secretary Guecther Diehl added that "The disadvantages of a premature signature seem to us to be weightier than the alleged advantages."
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    • 94 8 HOUSTON. Texas (UPI) Dr. Denton A. Cooley. who performed history's first artificial heart operation, said he has not been called to appear before any medical board here Dr. Cooley also played down a possible rift between himself and fellow Houston transplant surgeon Dr. Michael Debakey and
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    • 87 8 LONDON. (UPI) British Immigration officials put Maurice Chilton of Melbourne on a plane to Israel vesterdav after refusmf him entry into Britain. Chilton. 22. arrived at Southampton on the liner Fairstar on Wednesday. He had £7OO in his pocket and a visitors visa in his passport.
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    • 68 8 LOS ANGELES. (Reuter) Chief defence council Grant Cooper, in his closing argument in the Slrhan B. Slrhan murder trial, said that whether Sirhan liked it or n ct he deserved to go to jail for the rest of h:« life for killing Senator Robert Kennedy. "We are
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    • 65 8 THE VALLEY, Angullla. (Reuter) A British detective Inspector was struck on the head with a brick and five other policemen received scratches and bruises today during clashes with a noisy crowd of Angulllans outside a magistrate's court here The crowd grabbed five defendants due to appear
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    • 52 8 CHESTER. England. (Reuter) Police last night hunted a bomb gang of Welsh nationalists blamed for an explosion that tore through an English tax office on the welsh The pre-dawn blast rocked the tax office in Chester City which handles Welsh-paid taxes, levied by the predomi-nantly-English parliament
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    • 92 8 BATTIPAGLIA. Italy. (Reuter) Angry demonstrators packed a square in this riottorn southern Italian town last nieht and forced members of parliament to abandon attempts to explain the Italian government's measures to ease mounting unemployment. Two thousand people who crushed Into the small square turned over a speaker's
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    • 68 8 MANHATTAN. Kansas. <UPI> A talk by Gen. William Westmoreland was marred briefly by a scuffle over a Vietcon* flag and four persons wrapped like mummies to protest the Vietnam war. Gen. Westmoreland appeared unruffled He received a standing ovation following his Kansas State University address in which he
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    • 47 8 PANMUNJOM. Korea, (UPI) The United Nations Command (UNC) and North Korea held the longest meeting over the Korean Armistice Military Commission yesterday since the Korean true® was signed 16 years ago. The meeting lasted 11 hours 35 minutes, from 11 a.m. to 10 35 t>.m.
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    • 64 8 GENEVA. (Router) The United States and the Soviet Union announced today they had agreed to begin technical talks in Vienna next Monday on the peaceful uses of nuclear explosions The aims of the talks are to exchange know-how on peaceful nuclear explosions and their possible implications
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    • 294 9 SINGAPORE. Fri. Mr. Shalom Ronlv-Riklis, the Internationally acclaimed conductor from Israel, who recently arrived in Singapore, has taken to task the extremely busy programme that was planned for him. In Singapore for the next two months he will be the guest conductor of the Singapore
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    • 545 9  -  By SHEILAH GRAHAM HOLLYWOOD (Nana) Jackie Gleason Is going for broke In the sex department. He wants to sign Anita Ekberg to play his mistress in "Let Me Count The Ways." Maureen O'Hara is the wife. If Anita says yes. she will
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    • 245 9 SINGAPORE. Fri.—They are a verv different set of artistes. But whatever they mav be night-club goers will' find their acts hot. exciting, and thrilling. Thev eall themselves "Carrousel de Pans" which is a surprise show by itself. The group which was
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    • 75 9 SINGAPORE. Fri. These lovely models will appear in a fashion show to be held in conjunction with a dinner and dance "TV Nite" at the Golden Lotus, Hotel Malaysia, tomorrow nifht. The dinner and dance will also Include a beauty contest to elect "Miss TV**.
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    • 404 9 I b SHAW I ORGANISATION L I D O Phone ***** 1 I OPENS TODAY No Free List Due to film'* lenjth ahows Note Timet: 11. 2.30. 6 15. 8 15 p m Dick Van Dv*e Sa.iy Ann Hove, j CHIT TV CHITTV B ANC B ANG" 70MM Pma vision
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    • 24 9 TODAY and YOU... Saturday, April 12, 1969. wr. 2i ri OCT. ii<~l 4- 6-1124 GIMINI 'f it rVjUwf J9 ,51 59tD 6471-79 90 aOu*«iuj
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    • 121 9 [gal axxßß TOD4T s SHOWS! S. a. p.m. I Ri'kmit Kartolo Smc* For You in IIAPA JANG KAU TANGISI W D. Morhtar Tin* Mel.osa Chi!«rrn 85 cu To All Beau Tonite at M:dnite Xn(!eia»:a Top Vufleal? I tmsntnTimm tm* m, u»m ODEON: Tonight Midnight! KEEP AN EYE ON DJANGO HE'S
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    • 255 9 EEESC ORGAN IS 1 I O N I""".J CATHAY 33A00 NOW (mOWWG: 11 a IM. 4.00. *> MGM*s "MISSION MARS" Darren MeOavm Co'or by DeiuM TEACHEBS A BTCDENTS PrrTlew Calba*: Tomorrow 8.45 a.m. Odren Ktmnf Tomorrow I<V3O The Prtmf Of Mls» Jea* Brodle Maggie Smith Color <Fo*> A<im II 00
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  • 426 10 QINGAPORE, Fri.—The agendo for the ECAFE U plenary session which opens here on April 1 5 includes the wide variety of ECAFE's actionoriented regional or sub-regional programmes already operating or in the near-action stage. These include offshore prospecting for mineral resources in the western Pacific
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  • 157 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri.—The Government i 5 studying the possibility of converting the Minden Barracks in Penan* into the Penang University when it is vacated by the British forces. The Minister of Education. Enche Mohamed Khir bin Johari. told newsmen at the Alliance Headquarters here today that
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  • 117 10 GENEVA. Fri. (UPI) Malaysian spokesmen said today the two-day visit to Switzerland starting Saturday by the King and Queen of Malaysia is strictly private and there will be no meetings with Swiss Government officials. The special royal plane arrives from Teheran at 1305 GMT. The royal
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  • 206 10 SINGAPORE. Fri. A newly-ordained Singaporeborn Jesuit priest. Father Richard Geoffrey Colond will leave for Manila at the end of next month to complete the final year of his seven years' studies. Father Colond. 31, completed his two-year novicei ship in Hong Kong and followed
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  • 309 10 FLDA Schemes KI'ALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Democratic Action Party today described the Alliance Government s FLDA land schemes which promise rural Malay youths an income of $3OO a month and 10 acres of land, as nothing more than a "subtle exploitation of cheap Malay labour."
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  • 223 10 SINGAPORE. Fri. A Bill which seeks to impose control on the possession of certain kinds of drugs so as to prevent their misuse has been tabled in Parliament. Under the Bill which was read the first time in Parliament this week, it would be an offence
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  • 151 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Government is to be urged to implement "without further delay" the principle of equal waxes for equal work for men and women. The call it contained In one of three resolutions to be tabled at the annual meeting of the University
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  • 73 10 SINGAPORE, Frl. Nanvang University has received books from the United States Embassy here for the development of Chinese language materials used in classroom instruction. Picture shows Mr. James D. McHale, Cultural Affairs Officer of the CS Embassy (right) presenting 357 Chinese language books and reference
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  • 109 10 SINGAPORE. Fri. Mr. Koh Tiong Seng, the acting Deputy Traffic Manager (Labour and Operations) of the Port of Singapore Authority has been granted a Fellowship Award bv the Netherlands Government to attend the sth International Seminar on Port Management to bp held at Delft. Amsterdam and
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  • 311 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Frl. Malaysia's educational system must be so geared as to produce more Individuals capable of becoming professionals In the field of agriculture, the Chief Secretary to the Government. Tunku Tan Sri Mohamed bin Tunku Besar Burhanuddln. said today. He said agriculture wax a prime Industry
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  • 300 10 SINGAPORE. Frl. Mr. Harry Moses, an eminent educational authority, will deliver a series of lectures here next week Mr. Moses, who has been prominent in the fields of edu c a t lonal philosophy, psychology and method for more than 25 years, has taught at
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  • 92 10 SINGAPORE. Fri. The Chinese Chamber of Commerce Foundation Fund today received a $350,000 boost as a result of personal approach by the donation committee. Mr. Wee Cho Yaw. the President of the Chamber said today's support came from the Lee Foundation ($200,000) and the Shaw Foundation
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  • 304 10 SINGAPORE. Fri. Four school teachers and six students from the National Junior College will attempt to scale 7,186-ft. Gunong Tahan, the highest mountain in West Malaysia from tomorrow. Organised by Mr. Twang Peck Ee. a teacher of the Broadrick Secondary School, the other
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  • 306 10 BATTIPAGLIA. Italy. Fri. (Reuter) —A wave of worker unrest swept Italy today and the shakv coalition Government faced mounting criticism from right and left over the two-day riots in this embattled southern town. Millions of workers have been called to stage a threehour token strike this
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  • 158 10 SINGAPORE. Fri. National servicemen selected for officer training will be required to do three years' full-time service instead of two years as at present under provisions of a Bill now before Parliament. The Bill which was introduced this week, titled the National Service (Amendment) Bill, also
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  • 167 10 SINGAPORE. Fri. The Adult Education Board will be organising an "Introductory Course on Interior Decoration and Home Furnishing" commencing April 19. It Is designed to help housewives and home owners to plan and decorate their homes, in more congenial and harmonious ways and yet with the cheapest
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  • 195 10 LONDON. Fri. (Reuter) Richard Attenborough moved from actor to director here last night with the world premiere of his film "Oh What A Lovely War.** acclaimed by London critics as a masterpiece. The cast who came forward to work under "Dickie" Attenbrough reads like a "Who's Who" of
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  • 346 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Party Rakyat today challenged the findings of the Anti-Corruption Agency over the party's allegation that an UMNO youth leader was paid $6,290 by the Pahang Government to entertain UMNO youths. The Secretary General of the party, Syed Husin Ali, invited the Director of
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  • 215 10 SYDNEY. Frl. (Reuter> Directors of Humes Industries Far East Limited reported today that it has been necessary to make an alteration to the figures in the preliminary- report released on March 6 for the year ended December 31. Directors said verbal advice had just been received from
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  • 46 10 DERBY, England, (Reuter) A man given a new liver in a transplant operation three days ago died here last night. The Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, where the operation was carried out on Wednesday. gave no immediate cause of death. The patient wai never identified.
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 217 11 RIO DE JANEIRO. Fri. (Reuter) Play was held up for 40 minute* after two players were sent ofT during a stormy soccer International between former world champions Brazil and Peru here last night. Trouble flared up shortly before half-time with the score* at 2-2 when
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    • 520 11 LONDON, Fri. (Reuter) The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) admitted yesterday that their officers had suppressed advice that South Africa would not accept the Cape coloured (mixed blood) all-rounder Basil D'Oliveira in a touring party from Britain. D'Oliveira. 34. who has settled in
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    • 184 11 'I Am Thinking Of Resigning'— GRIFFITH LONDON. Fri. (Reuter) Thf Daily Mail reported todav that >lr. Billv Griffith, one of three MCC officials who admit withholding Information on the DOUveira cricket affair, is considering resigning. He made his personal position known last night alter the publication of a statement by
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    • 73 11 BLOEMFONTEIN. S Africa. Fn. (Reuter) Gary Anderson. an American Olympic marksman from Axte.l. Neoraska. bettered a world shooting record during the smallbore standard rifle competition at the South African games here yesterday. Anderson, firing with decimal 22 rifle over 50 metres in the prone, kneeling ar.d
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    • 66 11 NEW YORK. Fn. (Reuter> Major League hasehaii results of yesterday's games: National League: New York Mets 4. Montreal Expos 2 Chicago Cubs 6, Philadelphia Phillies 2. Pittsburgh Pirates 3. St. Louis Cardinals 2. San Diego Padres 2. Houston Astros o. American League Washington Senators 9. New York Yankees
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    • 143 11 Masters Tourney AUGUSTA. Georgia. Frl (Reuter) Billy Casper played flawless golf over the Augusta National Course yesterday, shooting a six under par 66 to seize the first round lead in the 33rd Masters championship. "It was one of mv finest putting rounds in quite some
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    • 113 11 BUENOS AIRES Fri. (Reuter> Former world flyweight boxing champion Pascual Perez has been rescued from virtual destitution by a government decree appointing him to a senior post in the education department. The 45-year-old Perez won the world crown bv outpointing Japan's Yoshio Shirai in Tokyo in
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    • 87 11 NEW VCHK, Fri. (UPI) Frank Howard slammed two homers his third and fourth in three games as the Washington Senators trounced the New York Yankees. 9-6 on Thursday with a 16-hit attack. Howard dri.led a wrong field" homer over the right field fence with a
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    • 252 11 Yomiuri Open TOKYO. Fri. (Reuter) A three under par 69 today lifted Walter Godfrey of New Zealand into one-stroke lead in Japan's Yomiuri Open golf tournamrnt. the final let of the Asian circuit. The 27-year-old World Cup player from Auckland had started four strokes behind for
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    • RACING COMMENTS
      • 1127 12 Race l: Horses Class 2, Div. 3 7 Furs. —2.30 p. in. (FOR LOCAL RIDERS ONLY) 1 325 Prior MM 1W 900 H p Wan Stable Rodger« Allan Mamam Allan 9 12 'j i 4 mo 000 20 oino Streamlifht New Lane 7v Ay a 12 810
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      • 266 12 SINGAPORE. Fri. Twentyone horses 18 from class three and three from class six have been promoted a class, according to the Malayan Racing Association classification list issued today. They are: From class 3 to class 2: Pisang Goreng, Firecracker. Literati, Dendrobium, Ness Lane, Ultraman, Cum Dividend. Nice
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      • 150 12 BIG BEN JIMMY LAD KB K CISCO BACL I BRONZE KNIGHT Nonpariel Pelor Mas DALTARNEWS Nonpairel N'es» Lane B. KNIGHT Nonpariel Pelor Mas DALTARNEWS Nonpariel Fair Rego RACE 1 PETER'S GOLD Beau Chimes Chateau Rni PETER'S GOLD Chateau Roi Beau Chimes CHATEAU ROI Venga Peter's Gold RACE S STATE
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      • 981 12  -  GOING: GOOD r BIG BENmd /GOODWILL II has been going great guns during training week and if he runs up to that form he should have the beating of the class one division two field (Race Five) at Kuala Lumpur today. His last run was
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      • 27 12 Big Ben Peter's Gold State Law Ming Dynasty Jimmy Lad Dictionary Goodwill II El Alto K.B.K. Peter's Gold Dictionary Grand Volant Cisco Daltarnews Dictionary Fireball
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      • 69 12 American jockey Mr. George Sloan lies beneath the legs of his mount "Peccard." after the horse had fallen at Bechers Brook, first time round, in the Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree recently. George's brother Paul was also riding in the great race, but his mount, Terossian, refused at the tenth.
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      • 336 12 LONDON. Fri. (Reuter) Pressure mounted today for cancellation of cricket contacts between England and South Africa in the growing row over cricketer Basil D'Oliveira The "D'Ollveira affair" has become the biggest cricket row since the bodyline bowling issue of the 1930'5. It involves
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      • 260 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Champion sprinter King's Knight showed impressive form when he did a smart 3f sprint in 38-2 5 finishing with plentv in hand. He was ridden by apprentice Rao. The going was good. Despite topweight of 9 08 King's Knight should giv* a good account
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      • 93 12 WORCESTER. England. Fri. (Reuter) Tom Graveney, who suffered from exhaustion after the recent England cricket tour of Pakistan, said vesterday he was now perfectly fit for the forth-coming England season. Graveney. 42. who is captain of the Worcestershire County team, reported with the County players for
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      • 56 12 SINGAPORE Fri. The Western Australia Youth Soccer team currently touring Malaysia will play a friendly game here next week. They wi!l meet the Singapore Combined Schools at the Jalan Besar Stadium on Tuesday at 7.30 p.m. The tourists who have won all the matches In
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      • 124 12 LONDON, Fri. (Reuter) British Davis Cuo players are to be sponsored by a leading cigarette firm, the Lawn Tennis Association announced here yesterday. The firm have offered a "substantial and generous sum," to back the seven-man Cup squad. Mr. Staniev Hawkins. chairman of the
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    • 480 11 RELIGIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS URACk BAPTIST I HI K« H (Cantonese English > 13 Slut Crescent. Singapore a. Sunday 830 am. Sunday School 9 4ft a m Sunday Worship 1100 am. learning Union kBO p m Sunday School. 7 «ft d m. Evening Worship IHIKI H OF THIS GOOD SBEPBERD A. Dundee
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    • 110 12 Time And Tide TODAY Singapore town: 1 a.m. (5 ft. 5 ins): 6.27 am. (7 ft. 3 ins.): 2.09 p.m. (1 ft 6 ins); 9.16 p.m. (7 ft. 4 ins.). Naval Dockyard: 1.03 a.m. (6 ft. 4 ins.): 5.50 a.m. (8 ft. 2 ins.); 1.33 p.m (2 ft 6 ins
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