Eastern Sun, 14 April 1969

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  • 22 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. A No. 068 Monday, 14 April 1969. MC (P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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  • 713 1 SINGAPORE. Sun —The 25th Ses 5 on of the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE) will discuss, among other proposals, a "Port Development Scheme" for Singapore. The discussion will also cover plans for the training of mercantile marine personnel. The Execuitve Secretary
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  • 27 1 BEIRUT, Sun. (Reuter) Egyptian and Israeli troops exchanged artillery fire across the central section of the Suex Canal thi* afternoon, Cairo radio reported.
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  • 447 1 SYDNEY, Sun. (UPI) Army Minister Mr. Phillip R. Lynch said today that Australia would not immediately follow the U.S. in withdrawing troops from Vietnam. He said the Australian task force was wellbalanced "and any reduction would probably reduce its viability/' Mr. Lynch arrived
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  • 225 1 BASLE. Switzerland. Sun. (L"PI) Western Central Bankers held another of their regular monthly meetings here today with rising interest rates in the I'nited States reportedly heading the agenda. The bankers—from Western Europe plus Japan, the U.S. and Canada—met as usual at the Bank for
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  • 42 1 MIAMI. Florida. Sun (Reuter) A Pan American Airways jetliner with 91 people on board has been hijacked to Cuba by four men while en route from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Miami, the Federal Aviation Administration here announced today.
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  • 79 1 PRAGUE. Sun. (Reuter) Warsaw Pact armies will hold anti-aircraft exercises on Czechoslovak. Polish. Hungarian and Soviet territory from Monday to Wednesday of this week a Prague Defence Ministry spokesman announced today. Planes, anti-aircraft units, liaison stafT and auxiliary service units will tak'- -art. the spokesman said. His statement,
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  • 141 1 No StraitJacket Facts CANBERRA. Sun (Reuter) India's Deputy Prime Mln. liter and Finance Minuter, Mr. Morarjl Desal. today discounted an Asian regonal defence system based on a rigid system of alliances. He said a system of mutual defence could evolve in a more informal way if goodwill between countries in
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  • 86 1 VATICAN CITY. Sun (Reuter) Pope Paul today described the Vietnam. Middle East and Nigarian conflicts as "three atrocious wounds bleeding in the body of mankind." Addressing about 10.000 pilgrims in Saint Peter's Square, the Pope also prayed for peace and order inside nations. "We feel sharp
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  • 146 1 STOCKHOLM, Sun. (Reuter) Education Minister Olof Palme, tipped to become Sweden's next Prime Minister, has said the United States posed the greatest obstacle to peace in Vietnam. In an interview broadcast here, Mr. Palme. 42. said the Americans "are still carrying out a rather big war in South
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  • 228 1 LONDON. Sun (Reuter) Britain's much-batwed Labour government looked set for a last-ditch fight today over its plans to bring in laws against wildcat strikes The issue was widely regarded as the most critical of all the struggles that have tested the administration of Prime Minister Harold Wilson
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  • 38 1 AMMAN. Sun. (Reuter) Two Israeli fighters raided the Karameh area on the east bank of the River Jordan today, a Jordanian military spokesman said. Israeli artillery then opened fire on the same area, the spokesman said.
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  • 147 1 TAY NINH. South Vietnam. Sun. (Renter) A Vietcong rocket whistled through the rifle slit of a bunker near here —and <> ut through the back door leaving a startled L.S. soldier inside untouched. The three-foot 107 mm missile ripped into the ground a few feet behind the
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  • 49 1 LONDON. Sun. (UPI) Lady Clementine Churchill, 83. is a "little better" in her recuperation from a fractured thigh, a Westminster Hospital spokesman said. The widow or Sir Winston Churchill "had a confortable night and is now feeling a little better." an afternoon medical bulletin said.
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  • 659 2 SINGAPORE, Sun. The New Zealand Minister for Customs, Mr. N.L. Shelton today urged local manufacturers to send a mission to his country so as to take advantage of the vast trading opportunities available there. Mr. Shelton. who is also the Associate Minister
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  • 130 2 SINGAPORE. Sun.—The bead of the Russian delegation to the 25th session of ECAFE, Mr. A E. Nesterenko. said today it was quite encouraging to see Asian countries having some progress daring the past year. The rate of economic development, he said was higher than the past
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  • 230 2 TOKYO. Sun. (AFP> For the first time In the world, the existence of a ribonucleic acid (RNA) type of virus gene has been substantiated in human leukemia tissue. The discovery was announced at the 31st Japan Hematological Society Congress In Kyoto yesterday by Prof. Itaru Watanabe
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  • 139 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The United Nations Under Secretary-General. Mr. C. V. Narasimhan, today attributed the "development conscious'' of countries in this region to the activities of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE). "Countries in this region have realised that it is far easier to
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  • 43 2 MOSCOW. Sun. (UPI) Russian orthodox worshippers in Moscow observed their Easter Sunday with services in the Russian orthodox Cathedral of the Epiphany and at other churches throughout the Soviet Union. Police were on hand in Moscow...allegedly to protect worshippers from hoodlums.
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  • 264 2 BREMERTON, Washington, Sun. (UPI) Vice Adm. Daniel Barbey. the "father" of the Navy's amphibious fleet in the Southwest Pacific during World War 11, died on Fridav in Bremerton Naval Hospital. He was 79 "Uncle Dan," as he was called by officers and men alike, directed the
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  • 366 2 AGANA GUAM. Sun. (UPI) —A Japanese woman knelt on the ground and dug he r gnarL ed hand into the earth. As she scooped a handful into a sack, a solemn voice rung in measured cadences: "War has taught ui many lessons We must not
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  • 286 2 CHICAGO, Sun. (UPI) Rampaging rivers gnawed away at waterlogged levees in the upper midwest yesterday, driving more residents from Homes in the areas worst flood disaster since the record 1965 inundation. The total homeless topp**d 8.000 The hardest hit areas were North Dakota. Minnesota South
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  • 76 2 HONG KONG. Sun. (UPI) A total of 14.463 visitors from the United States representing the largest group, visited the crown colony last month. It was a 20 per cent increase over March 1968. Close behind were Japanese visitors who tota led 14.239. an increase of
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  • 137 2 BANGKOK. Sun (Reuter) —The Thai International Airline will buy new American DC-9 aircraft to replace its fleet of French Caraveiles. according to Dr. Renoo Suwannastf, director of the Budget Bureau. Dr. Renoo was *peak;ng to reporters yesterday on his return from Copenhagen where he had
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  • 81 2 BUENOS AIRES Sun (Reuter) Police using teargas last night broke up a march of about 200 sugar workers led by priest? to protest against the closure of a local sugar mill at Villa Campo in the province of Santa Fe Press reports here today said the
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  • 73 2 BEIRUT. Lebanon. Sun. (UPI) Reports reaching Lebanon say four IraQis apparently have been executed in Baghdad on conviction of spying for the United States A non-scheduled Radio Baghdad broadcast said the four apparently all Moslems were sentenced bv a revolutionary court to die for spying and acting
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  • 171 2 SINGAPORE, Sun Singapore has been invited to participate in the second Asian International Trade Fair to be held in Teheran in October this year. This trade fair is bein* organised by Iran in co-opera-tion with ECAFE The Iran Deputy Minister for Economy. Mr. Mohamed Yeganeh
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  • 357 2 MALACCA, Sun.-- The Minister of Finance and National President of the M.C.A. Tun Tan Siew Sin, today "categorically" denied charges by opposition parties that the Alliance hod received funds from abroad. Tun Tan. w ho has been the treasurer of the Alliance since
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  • 44 2 JAKARTA. Sun. (Reuter) Gamblers captured in a police raid in the Central Java city of Semarang were ordered to dance soul and A-Go-Go in front of police for several hours as punishment, Indonesia's Antara news agency reported. Gambling is illegal in Indonesia.
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  • 587 4 SINGAPORE'S First Lady, Puan Noor Aishah freetin* Mrs. R. Ohri during a coffee morninf given recently by Mrs. P. Coomaraswamy for committee members of the 17th International Bazaar for the Blind. 0 THE Prime Minister. Mr. Lee Kuan Tew, was guest of honour at a dinner last
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  • 592 5  -  By DON C. BECKER r pHE VALLEY, Anguilla, Sun. (UFI) Britain announced a successor to embattled Commissioner Anthony Lee yesterday but Anguiilan leader Mr. Ronald Webster termed the move "too late with nothing/' Mr. Webster announced that an island-wide referendum would be held next
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  • 357 5 UNITED NATIONS. Sun. (UPI) Pakistan complained to the Security Council in a letter circulated yesterday that Indian legislation is robbing Kashmiri Moslems of their property and suppressing rights of free speech. i It warned that application of India's 1967 Unlawful Activities Prevention Act to
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  • 859 5 LONDON. Sun. (UPI)—Lady Clementine Spencer-Churchill. 84. continued to improve yesterday in her recovery from a fractured thigh, doctors at Westminster Hospital said. S.r Winston Churchill's widow "continues to show signs of improvement." an evening medical bulletin said. Lady Churchill broke the thigh when she fell in her London apartment
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  • 308 5 SAIGON, Sun. (UPI) Communist forces fired rockets or mortar rounds into about 35 military bases or towns in South Vietnam in a third night of intensified shelling attacks, military spokesmen said today. The barrages caused generally '•light* damage and casualties, the spokesmen said. US communiques reported
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  • 560 5 CAPE KENNEDY. Sun. (t'PI) America's most complex scientific satellite, a 75 million dollar stargazer. responded to emergency commands from earth yesterday after coming within three hours of death from a mysterious electronic ailment. Engineers at the satellite control centre at Greenbelt. Maryland, quickly ordered
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  • 277 5 AGANA. Guam. Sun. (IPI) Lt. Gen. Lewis W. Walt, assistant commandant of the I S. Marines, said yesterday there was no expectation that the military would withdraw from Okinawa or the Philippines. He said the marines were In need of more land in these strategic
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  • 88 5 STOCKHOLM.(UPI)-The biggest obstacle to peace in Vietnam is the South Vietnamese Government. s wp dish Minister of Education Mr. Olof Palme, said on Saturday night in a television interview with British reporter David Frost. Frost, who came to Sweden to interview Mr. Palme on Swedish televisions on Saturday
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  • 194 5 RIO DE JANEIRO. Sun <UPI> Newspaper reported yesterday the finding of the bullet riddled bodies of two unidentified men who were thought to be the latest victims of Brazil's death squadron. The bodies were found naked and with their hands tied behind their backs on
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  • 89 5 IJVERMORE. Calito rma. (UPI) Dr. Emvard Teller, who helped develop the Hydrogen Bomb said on Saturday he favours some form of an anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system in the United States. The University of Cai f orna physicist said it w 'as "very crucial." terhnologiral y sneaking. for the
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  • 61 5 LONDON. (LTI) Two unions on Saturday urged an emergency conference of Britain's Trades Union Coneress (TUC) to deal with Prime Minister Harold Wilson's plans to seek anti-strike legislation. One union made a ca'.l for a one-day general strike throuchout Britain to express opposition to any strike-curb-ing laws
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  • 253 6 TWO suggestions by India's Deputy Prime Minister Mr. Morarji Desai at the recent Asian Development Bank meeting deserve closer attention. They are: (1) that the ADB should do more to expand the export interests of its developing member nations and (2) the need for less restrictive contributions.
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  • 228 6 THE New York Times said today that an Asian Alliance for progress would be "an ideal vehicle" for Japan's debut as a leading world power. In an editorial, the newspaper said: Prospects for peaceful, post-Vietnam war development in Southeast Asia received a boost last week when
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  • 218 6 UPI. Fan editorial entitled High noon in Vietnam' the Sydney Daily Mirror on Thursday commented on reports the United States may withdraw 50,000 men from Vietnam. 'The Americans are trying to get out of Vietnam. That becomes clearer every day. 'The Mirror said
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  • 466 6  -  By WILLIAM MacPHERSON OTTAWA, Sun. (Reuter) Canada's luxurious but ill-starred turbo-train. the most modern in North America, is back in the repair shop while scores of mechanics try to cure its ailments. The experts say It will take several months before
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  • 306 6 COLOMBO. Sun (Renter) Government officials in Ceylon are wearing little more than loin cloths or sarongs in their offices to beat the heat wave and weather forecaster* tee little relief until May. A prolonged drought has forced the government to order
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  • 225 6 VATICAN CITY. Sua. (Reuter) The Vatican today stepped up lt« campaign against erotic and sadistic films calling for i tight ending of present censorship procedures. An article in the Vatican newspaper L Osservatore Romano said the low point in commercial exploitation of eroticism in
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  • 671 6  -  (From Sua Chew Jit Poh AFTER the heated debate for three day* among the pros and con* on the controversial Abortion Bill In the Parliament, it passed the second reading recently, is there really a necessity for the legalisation of abortion? The controversy on this problem did not
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  • 388 6 HONG KONG. Sun. (AFP) Hanoi's army paper Quan Doi Nhan Dan today warned that should Nixon refuse to draw a lesson from Johnson's bitter failure, he would surely meet with still bigger setbacks in Viet- nam. In a commentary quoted by the North Vietnam News Agency
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  • 95 6 WASHINGTON. Sun. (ArP) —America intends to establish diplomatic relations with Cambodia. State Department spokesman Carl Bartch said today. He said Washington had asked Australia's representative at Pnom Penh to give this note to the Cambodian Government stating that "in conformity with the UN Charter, the United States
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  • 30 6  -  Mill. John Stuart people, it appear*, may be progressive for a certain length of time, and then stop. When doe* it stop? When it cease* to possess Individuality.
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    • 486 6  -  TAN TECK CHUAN I REFER to the notice in the Government Gazette to trace the descendants of Mr. Tan Tock Seng for the purpose to discover whether there should be anv objections to the proposed exhumation and removal of this grave situated at
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    • 460 6 I BEG to forewarn your personnel if the v happen to tour the west end of this Lion Island in daylight. They might b# literally asphyxiated by the dua« storms existing there, especially in Jalan Ahmad Ibrahim round about the Jurong Town Corporation Office (J.T.C.).
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  • 482 6  -  Bv EDITHA FUCHS BONN, Sun (Reuter) The struggle within West Germany's coalition rahinet over Bonn's signature to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty appears to have blown up into an open row between the Chancellery and the Foreign Office. While Foreign Minister Willy Brandt and hi* Social Democratic
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  • 254 6  - 'Unkempt Walrus Smart Penguin' V Alfonso Mauri BCTtfOS Aires. Sun. (Renter) Argentine President Lt -Gen. Juan Carlos On*arm does not like to be depicted a* a walrus but appsrently does not mind being shown as a penguin. Shortly after seizing power in a military coup in 1966. a front page
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  • 254 6 LONDON. Sun. (AFP) Tht Soviet Union's goal in the Mediterranean is to become the protecting power of the Sue? Canal exit to tne Indian Ocean because of Moscow's growing interest in India as a bulwark against China, a military expert wrote today. In a Defence
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  • 48 6 PRAGUE Sun. f AFP) Ceteka News Agency this afternoon killed "at the request of the Federal Government Chancellerya report issued two hour a earlier that Soviet troops and military equipment in Czechoslovakia were to be reinforced this month. The report vas also broadcast over Prague Radio.
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 1202 7  -  -The weekly market review B X Goh Eng Kee SINGAPORE, Sun. The Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singa- P° r e on a full week's tradina after the Easter recess had rather quiet and dull dealings during tne first three days. Although
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    • 185 7 STNGAPORE. Sun. The general manager. Mr. N.N. Handa of the Great Eastern Life Assurance Co.. Ltd. played host at a dinner held recently in the Imperial Room, Singapore to celebrate a record breaking year when sales for 1968 exceeded $lOO million sums assured. Among
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    • 66 7 TOKYO. Sun. (UPI) Mitsubishi Electric and Mitsubishi Heavy Industry companies announced they had won an International bid for exporting one 30,000 kilo watt steam turbine generator and ore 37.500 kilo volt generator to Malayia. The Mitsubishi group companies earlier cold a boiler, a steam
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    • 32 7 TOKYO, Sun. (UPI) Nlsshq-Iwan Trading Company announced yesterday it had imported 200 tons of copper ore worth US$4O,OOO from India's protectorate Kingdom of Sikkim for the first time.
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    • 392 7 WASHINGTON, Sun. (AFP) President Nixon yesterday announced a cutback of four thousand million dollars in the estimated budget for the next fiscal year, starting in July. His announcement reflected the American Government anti-inflationist programme nnd marked a further step in the tightening
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    • 156 7 LOS ANGELES. Sun. (Reuter» A new method of condens.ng steam discovered during a space research project has opened the way to development of a steamdriven family car. an American firm said here. The new principle, called the Closed Hydroloop. would eliminate the bulky and
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    • 44 7 TOKYO. Sun. (UPI) The government statistics office announced yesterday that 47.770.000 Japanese were employed as of Feb. 28. a decrease of 90.000 over January. The unemp oyed numbered 690.000 or gO.OOO fewer than in the previous month, according to the office.
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    • 155 7 Picture shows a happy group of travellers at Singapore's Paya Lehar International Airport recently before their departure bv a Lufthansa Jet for Frankfurt. Germany. This group of Sabahans led by Mr lai Swee Sang (left), will spend sometime in Europe and the I'nlted Kingdom As
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    • 140 7 RAWALPINDI. Sun. (UPI) The military government yesterday reduced the price of wheat. Deputy Mart:al Law Administrator S. M. Hussain announced Vice Admiral Hussain. who is also Navy Chief and new member of President Yahya Khan's Council of Administration. told his first press conference that
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    • 590 7  -  By HARRY HOBBS LONDON, Sun. (UPI) Record machine tool orders and near record steel output in March added to the evidence this week of an improving home economy but businessmen feared Tuesday's budget may again squash their hopes of more rapid growth. Chancellor of
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    • 695 7 OTTAWA. Sun (UPI) A high-ranking five-man ministerial mission left for Tokyo today to keep Canada-Japan trade growing and to put substance into the government's promise to strengthen contacts with the Pacific rim. Government sources in Ottawa said the mission led by External
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    • 141 7 MANILA. Sun (UPI) Scientists at the University of the Philippines have discovered a "wonder sugar caneJhhat could boost sugar yields |jjora 25 to 50 per cent. jjSHto The Philippine News reported that given the proper care, the new sugar cane varieties can mature faster, produce
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    • 79 7 TOKYO. Sun. (UPI) Hitachi Electric Co. has won a bid over American competitors for a New York state'* order of four 320.000 kilo volt. 420,000 horsepower motors for electricity generators. the Japanese company said vesterday. It added Hitachi became the first Japanese company to export
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  • 303 8  -  By ALEXANDER CHANCELLOR VATICAN CITY, Sun. (Reuter) Pope Paul yesterday appointed Monsignor Jan Willebrands, one of the founders of the Roman Catholic movement for Christian unity, to head the Vatican Secretariat which fosters closer relations with other Christians. Monsignor Willebrands. 59. a Dutchman
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  • 97 8 STOCKHOLM. Sun. (Reuter) Comedian Charlie Chaplin has been nominated for the Nobel Literature prize by Danish poet Piet Heim. a television programme disclosed last night. Mr. Heim. a clo*e friend of Mr. Chaplin, toid a Swedish television interviewer in Waterville. Southwest Ireland, that he thought the comedian
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  • 66 8 TOKYO, Sun. (UPl)—Communist China announced on Sunday that it has received two messages from West European communist parties congratulating the opening of the Ninth National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, the New China News Agency reported. NCNA. in a broadcast monitored here, said thev were from
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  • 476 8  -  By Vernon Scott HOLLYWOOD. Sun. (UPI) Will it be "Oliver" or "The Lion in Winter"? The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences will let the world know tomorrow night which movie it thinks was the best of 1968 at the 41st annual Oscar awards presentations.
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  • 143 8 WASHINGTON. Sun. (UPI) Mr. Robert Bradshaw, Premier of the three-island government of St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla. met British Foreign Secretary Mr. Michael Stewart yesterday and renewed his call on Great Britain to take a firm hand in solving the Anguilla situation. The meeting, which lasted about 40 minutes,
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  • 269 8  -  Br Francosi Giuliani UNITED NATIONS. New York. Mon. <Reuter> World tourists have virtually been Ignoring the sunshine and absence of crowds offered by black Africa, according to a United Nations report. In 1966. for instance, black Africa attracted only 1.75 per cent of the world's tourists and
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  • 84 8 LEE SUN-KUN (extreme right), former vice-president of North Korean Central News Agency, who "defected" to South Korea two years ago, went on trial here on April 10 on spy charges. Lee, who was arrested on Jan. 31 while trying to return to North Korea, admitted
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  • 91 8 A smiling Madame Nguyen Thi Binh. acting leader of the National Liberation Front delegation at the Vietnam war peace talk* in Paris, prior to her speech at the campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Rally in Trafalgar Square recently. Madam* Binh. was the principal speaker, and her
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  • 165 8 HONG KONG. Sun (UPI) —The Ked Chines Government appears to have clamped a new s blackout on the activities of the ninth Congress of the Chinese Communist Party which entered its 13th day today. Except for the opening day press communique of the Congress. nothing more
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  • 79 8 JAKARTA. Sun. (UPI) Japanese Finance Minister Mr. Takeo Fukuda arrived here last night on an undisclosed mission. He declined to issue any arrival statement but sources said he was here to discuss with Indonesian Trade Minister Mr. Sumltro. the Jakarta Government's 120 million U S dollars loan
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  • 232 8 HOUSTON. Texas. Sun. (UPI) Doctors at Methodist hospital said yesterday they removed the heart and lung from a dead man and placed them In a special preservation chamber to keep the organs functioning until a suitable recipient can be found It was the first
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  • 79 8 TOKYO. Sun (UPI) The Tokyo-based Indonesian Oil Resources Development Co. (J APEX) announced yesterday the discovery of what it claims is the largest oil resource in South-east Asia JAPEX said it had found an undersea oil field 2W) kilometres (125 miles) north-east of Medan
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  • 811 8 ESSEN. West Germany, Sun. (Reuter) Life-long Communist Kurt Bachmann. 59. was last night elected chairman of West Germany's reconstituted Communist Party by an almost unanimous vote at the party s first congress here. He won the chief executive post with 768 votes to 4 against with one abstention. Herr
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  • 381 8 WASHINGTON, Sun. (Reuter) The U S. Government moved yesterday to end a four-day rupture of diplomatic relations with Cambodia by announcing willingness to respect the Asian kingdom s present frontiers The State Department said it believed the U S. action "will lead
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  • 61 8 KING Mohammed Zahir Shah (centre) and Queen Homaira of Afghanistan were greeted at Tokyo International Airport by Emperor Hirohito (right) and Impress Nagako, upon their arrival for a week- long visit as state guests recently. The King said in his statement that his visit would strengthen relations between the two
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  • 174 8 VIENNA. Sun. (UPl)—Soviet and American atomic energy experts will limit their discussions to technical problems when they begin bilateral talks tomorrow on the peaceful uses of nuclear arms, sources clo e e to the US. delegation said yesterday The sources stressed that the disarmament issue currently being discussed
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  • 176 8 WASHINGTON. Sun (UPI) President Nixon yesterday appointed a former Congressman and his White House Assistant as the new Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. Robert F Ellsworth. 42. of Lawrance. Kansas, who served in the House from 1960 until 196? will succeed Harlan Cleveland jn
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  • 50 8 TOKYO. Sun (UPl)—Noble prize winner Yasunari Kawabata reveled on Saturday he has been selected honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The grey-haired Japanese novelist said he was notified of the selection while teaching Japanese literature at the East-West Centre at the University of Hawaii
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  • 518 9 Sun. Post partum motivation for family planning has shown good results, according to the Singapore Family Planning and Population Board. In 1967. a year after the post-partum pr o g r amme was reorientated nearly 90 per cent of the women interviewed accepted the appointments
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  • 168 9 NAIROBI. Sun (Reuter) Kenva has expelled a senior Soviet diplomat, the Nairobi newspaper Sunday Nation reported today. The newspaper also said the Kenyan Government had requested the Central African correspondent of the Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda to leave the country. Senior Kenyan official* declined to confirm
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  • 123 9 SINGAPORE. Sun The Department of Extramural Studies. University of Singapore In collaboration with the Singapore Association for Mental Health Is presenting a public lecture on "Mental Heal th Programmes In Schools." The speaker is Dr. James F. Magary. Associate Professor of Educational Psychology. University of Southern
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  • 61 9 .A PLAQUE was presented to the Corporals of Changi as an expression of gratitude for the hospitality and facilities extended to the crew of H.M.S. Hermes during their recent visit to Singapore. Picture shows LAM Bunn (left) of No. 848 Squadron, H.M.S. Hermes, presenting a plaque to Cpl. Forrester who
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  • 172 9 MARA Loans KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Bumlputra businessmen in Kelantan received the largest share of the $4B million which MARA has given out as loans Enche Mohamed Rasll bin Mohamed N'awi, said today. He said that between 1951 and February this year, about $6 52 million was
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  • 134 9 MALACCA. Sun. The Indonesian Foreign Minister. Mr. Adam Mal;k. will make a three-hour visit to Malacca tomorrow at the invitation of the Minister without Portfolio. Enche GhafTar Baba. Enche GhafTar. who Is also the chairman of MARA, said here today that he would discuss with Mr
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  • 478 9 SINGAPORE. Sun. A new Polaroid camera that makes colour pictures and costs just only $lOO is now available in the local market. The sales supervisor of the Polaroid Corporation in Africa and the Far East, Mr. Kelvin Thompson launched this new camera, thp
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  • 190 9 SINGAPORE Sun The Department of Extramural Studies is offering mother course on 'Woman and the Facta of Life. Part II". It consists of six lectures by Professor Tow Siang Hwa. Professor and Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Singapore. These
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  • 52 9 SINGAPORE. Sun—A 12-year-oid jirl, R Mariavee of Kranji Road, died on the spot after she was knocked down by a military truck at 134 m.s. Kranji Road yesterday at 6.25 p.m. There were 53 other road accidents, of which eight were serious during the past 24 hours in
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  • 228 9 SINGAPORE. Sun. The fourth in a series of elementary training programme* for redundant workers of the British Services Establishments will begin on May 19. The fourth programme will be run along similar line* as those previously conducted, and will provide training courses In turning
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  • 727 9  -  By KIM WILLENSON BANGKOK. Sun (I'PI) The two.day Asian Highway motor rally from Vientiane to Singapore which starts on Tuesday is not going to be any picnic for the participants. I can verify that personally, because I made three quarters of the drive
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  • 158 9 MALACCA. Sun. The Minister without Portfolio and a Vice-President of UMNO Malaysia Enche Abdul Ghafar bin Baba. today challenged Party Rakyat leaders to name two Cabinet Ministers they alleged had received money from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Enche Ghafar was commenting on allegation* made
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  • 31 9 SINGAPORE Sun. Police arrested four persons ridinf stolen bicycles along Victoria Street yesterday. The four were riding along Victoria Street when they were stopped by two police detectives.
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  • 92 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. The Malaysian Prime Minister. Tunku Abdul Rahman will meet the Indonesian Foreign Minister. Mr. Adam Malik, tomorrow to discuss "matters of common interest "I will he meeting him tomorrow t"> have talks on matter o: common interest." he to i reporters
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    • 562 10 NEWSPAPERS are not recent innovations. They were produced a very long time ago, about the year sixteen hundred and nine. Those newspapers were carved by hand in small blocks of wood. A few years later news were supplied by means of news letters which were handwritten
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    • 504 10 "MAKE hay while the sun shines" is a wise and intelligent proverb. It means literary that we must dry grass when the sun is shining. You cannot dry grass when the weather is bad. In fact education is very important to everybody. It will
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      561 10 Advertisements take many forms. They bring the attentions of the general public to products, goods or inventions. In this modern, progressive society, many factories and firms make use of advertisements to draw attention to the consumers to buy their goods. The public seem to be flooded with advertisements in
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    • 315 10 THE rubber plantations, green padi fields and the numerous coconut trees swished past. 1 was filled with a surging excitement, for a strange new life lay ahead of me. 'Life in the boarding house' seemed like an incredible dream which came true. I considered myself extremely
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      586 10 WATER is very important to every human being. Eighty per cent of the human body weight is made up of water. Without food we can live for quite a number of days but without water we can live only for a few days. Three-quart-ers of the earth's surface is
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    • 682 10 IF everything that exists around us Is monotonous then life too, would be dull and monotonous Thus changes are Inevitable and essential as long as living things exist in the wide world Change is also necessary to achieve a better standard in life. Wherever man s struggle
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 812 11 Leeds Set RecordBreaking Pace r ONDON, Sun. (Reuter) Leeds United, 2-1 winners over Arsenal on the London Club's ground yesterday, are setting a record-breaking pace as they move towards their first English League championship. They now have 61 points from 38 games and need six more from their last four
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    • 66 11 B i°2 D w flow «J ro n rut over WBA| world junior lightweight champion Hiroshi Knhavashi s (right) left eve as he punches with Panamanian challenger Antonio \maya in the 13th round at Kuramae Sumo (Japanese wrestling) Sta?ZV"? L a l 4 Koba > as hl
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    • 283 11 CARDIFF Wales. Sun (Reuter) Wales beat England 30-9 in the Rugby Union mterternat:oral here yesterday to win both the five-nation cnamplon«'n p and the triple crown. Hero of the Welsh victory wbi winger Maurice R:chards. who scored four tries Other We sh scorers \*ere brilliant fly-half Barry
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    • 167 11 MANILA. Sun (UPI) Veteran jockev TeoAlo Alvarez. was thrown and tramp'ed to death by his own horse yesterday at Manila's Santa Ana race track. Alvarez. 52. is survived by 13 children, three of them jockeys. The accident happened during the fourth race with Alvarez up
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    • 383 11 SINGAPORE. Sun —Defending champion Keppel Club, winner of the SGA League Trophy proved that their victory last vear was no fluke after beating the strong SICC team by six points to two. at the Thomson SICC links today. Keppel's combination of Alisdair Malcom and Anthony Trienen started
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    • 98 11 NEW YORK. Sun (Router) Results of major league baseball games played yesterday: American League New York Yankees 4. Detroit Tigers 0Boston Red Sox 5. Cleveland Indians 3. Kansas City Royals 9. Oakland Athletics 3 Baltimore Orioles 9. Washington Senators 0. Seattle Pilots 5. Chicago White Sox 1. California
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    • 1543 12 By BIG BEN KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Champion jockey Glynn Pretty and apprentice Wadi scored a double each here today, second day of the Selangor Turf Club's April meeting. Apprentice Wadi had an early double he won on Montesano ($33) in the first race and followed it
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    • 319 12  -  By HUGH BRACKEN AUGUSTA. Georgia, Sun. (Renter) The fourth and final round of the 33rd Masters golf championship begins here today with Billy Casper clinging to a one stroke lead over George Archer but with at least 14 other golfers given
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    • 287 12 LONDON. Sun (Reuter) Coloured cricketer Basil D'Olive ra today said a n offer of a £4.000 a year coaching job in his native South Africa was made to him. provided he declared himself unavailable to play for England in their tour of that country. In a detailed.
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    • 1209 12  -  By CHAN KAM YAU KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Graeme Lawrence of New Zealand who won the Singapore Grand Prix last week today added the Selangor GP honours to his collection. Countryman Roly Levis who started off last as a result of a bad start drove
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    • 576 12 TOKYO, Sun. (Reuter) Guy Wolstenholme burst to life with three quick birdies todav to snatch the USS 15.000 Yomiuri Open and second place In the Asian golf circuit championship The 38-year-old Englishman now resident in Australia shot a three under par 69 for a four-day total
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    • 426 12 LONDON. Sun. (Reuter) English County cricket starts the 1969 season later this month with a new look which cricket lovers hope will boost the game and improve the dire flnancia; position of several counties In addition to the traditional County championship
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    • 219 12 SINGAPORE Sun. Brilliant bowling by 8 K. Kasinathan helped Singapore Recreation Club to snatch their fifth successive victory in the SCA Division One league tournament played at the Padang today. SRC beat University of Singapore by 114 runs and are now on top of the
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    • 182 12 ASCOT. England. Sun. te r) ,-r Mr Raymond Mollers fidy Full Dress had her odds for the 1.000 Guineas on May 1 slashed when she upset odds-on Peace in the Ascot 1.000 Guineas trial stakes yesterday. Taking the lead two furlongs from home In the
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    • 109 12 SYDNEY. Sun. (Reuter) \ain. the fastest two-year-old in Australian racing history Is not for sale at any price, his owners said today. Melbourne brothers Wallr, Fred and George Johnson today turned down an offer of A 5200.000 (about £93.300) for the son of French sire Wilkes
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