Eastern Sun, 16 April 1969

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  • 23 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY -V Esld. 1966. Vol. 3 Nlo. 970 Wednesday* 16 April 1969. ft MC<P) 0737 Price 15 cent.
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  • 472 1 U THANT'S CALL TO E.C.A.F.E. NATIONS... SINGAPORE, Tucs. The Secretary-General of the United Nations, U Thant, today called on notions to explore every avenue which would lead to a more balanced international economic structure during the next decade. He made this call in
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  • 240 1 SINGAPORE. Tues. The situation in Asia is now such that regional co-operation is inevitable and has undoubtedly come to stay. This was stated by ECAHS** Executive Secretary, U Nyun. when he spoke at tfte opening session of ECAFETs 25th plenary conference here. The only
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  • 100 1 TAIPEI. Tues. (Reuter) Thirty-year-old farmer Hsu Chin-Mei has warned police not to be alarmed bv large crowds which may surround him next Sunday they will only be watching him talking to owls. The farmer, at Shutting, south of Taipei, said he would "summon" the owls In the surrounding
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  • 203 1 THE largest conference ever to be held in Singapore the 25th plenary session of the ECAFE was opened yesterday in a colourful ceremony. Some 400 delegates from 30 countries and several I'nited Nations agencies and organisations are attending the meeting The flag-raising
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  • 343 1 HOLLYWOOD. Tues (UPI) Katharine Hepburn, who won her first Oscar before Barbra Streisand was born, tied with the 26-year-old singer for best actress of the year on Monday night at the 41st Academy Awards. Miss Hepburn won an unprecedented third time for Eleanor of
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  • 60 1 BOMBAY. Tues- (Reuter) The only surviving son of Mahatma Gandhi. Mr. Ramdas Mohandas Gandhi, died in a Bombay hospital at midnight at the age of 73. Born in Johannesburg In 1896, Mr. Gandhi came to India when 24. planning to say goodbye to his parents and settle
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  • 72 1 PLYMOUTH. Montserrat. Tues. (Reuter) —A state of emergency has been declared on this British Caribbean island following a stone and bottle attack by about 20 people on the local police station. But officials on the tiny 14.000 population island said the demonstration had no political overtones. The
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  • 143 1 WASHINGTON. Tues. (Reuter) A four-engine U.S. reconnaissance aircraft loaded with electronic gear is missing off North Korea, the Defence Department said today. The EC-121 aircraft, a modified version of the civilian Super Constellation, carried 31 persons. Pentagon officials said. A huge search
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  • 159 1 DACCA, Tues. (Reuter) Nearly 400 people are feared dead and 3.000 injured in a cyclonic storm which lashed this East Pakistan capital with 90-mile an hour (140 km) winds. Dacca's Deputy Commissioner, who made a tour of devastated areas, confirmed the deaths
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  • 89 1 AMMAN. Tues. tUPI) Jordanian and Israeli forces fought an Intermittent battle with tank and medium machinegun fire near AlAdasslyah. three miles south of the Sea of Galilee, for nearly four hours today. A Jordanian military spokesman said the Israelis started shooting at 6:40 a m (0440 GMT>.
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  • 59 1 TOKYO. Tues (Reuter) Japan is likely to become the economic centre of Asia in the late 1970'5. Japanese Finance Minister Takeo Fukuda said today. Mr. Fukuda has just returned from Australia where he attended the general meeting of the Asian Development Bank earlier this month
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  • 35 1 MOSCOW. Tues (ReutersCzechoslovak Communist Party leader Alexander Dubcek is arriving in Moscow this afternoon for important talks with Soviet leaders, usually well informed sources reported There was no immediate official confirmation.
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 1041 2 SINGAPORE Tues. Netherlands intends to continue its role os 0 full member of ECAFE and to carry out its share of the burden instead of uttering empty words. The leader of the Netherlands delegation to the Oth session of ECAFE Mr L H
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  • 57 2 PALM BEACH. Florida. Tues. (UPI) Mr. Aver ell Harrlman former Chief of the US negotiation team at the Paris peace talks says Americans should forget about winning the Vietnam war. Mr. Harriman said in Palm Beach. Florida, that the chief aim of the US Is to al'.ow the
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  • 42 2 SINAPORE, Tues. A 16-year-old boy. Mohammed Hussain bin Ali. was fined $l2O by the Ninth Magistrate's Court today for outraging the modesty of a 15-year-old girL Hussain admitted committing the offence at Lelth Road yesterday.
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  • 30 2 Nine dealers of National products in Singapore left for Japan on Monda? to attend the "National" dealers convention. Eastern Sun picture shows the dealers at the Singapore Airport before departure.
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  • 214 2 BONN, Tues. (Rueter) Malaysia's Yartg dl-Pertuan Agong hag his first opportunity for sight-seeing when he visits Cologne's famed twln-splred Cathedral today, the second day of hla State Visit to West Germany. Later today the King and his consort, the Raja Permalsuri Agong will attend a luncheon
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  • 602 2 SINGAPORE. Tues The leader of the Cambodian delegation to the 25th Session of ECAFE. Mr. Brey Pong today warned that if peace was not forthcoming to tnls region, the efforts put Into economic development would have been done In vain. Mr Brey Pong, speaking
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  • 256 2 SINGAPORE. Tues. The McGraw-Hill Far Eastern Publishers hope to export 90 per cent of what they produce In their Singapore plant. Disclosing this today. Mr. Cho Jock Kirr., managing director of the company said that the merger of the two companies McGraw-Hill and Far Eastern
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  • 167 2 SYDNEY. Tues Renter) Australian businessmen had a wide range of advantages over •nvestors from other developed nations in investing in Asia, according to the vice president of the Asian Development Bank. Mr C S Krishna Moor, thi Addressing a seminar yesterday on Australia's role in joint
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  • 317 2 SINGAPORE. Tues The Institute of Southeast Asian Studies has received a gift of $l5O 000 from National Iron Steel Mills. Ltd. of Singapore, according to Professor Harrv J. Benda. Director of the Institute. The monies are dengnetf as an endowment fund, the income of which will
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 53 2 STORE DIARV 12 45 pm—2 pm.: Rotary Club of Singapore's weekly luncheon at Blue Room. Capitol Building 7.30 p.m Free film shows by Ministry of Culture at Tiremen's quarters (Naval Base*. West Coast Road 9 m and Taman Juronp Block SIS. 8 p m.: Oreintal dance practice at National Theatre
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  • 937 3 SINGAPORE, Tues The Executive Secretary of ECAFE. C Nvun today called for renewvigour and firm determination to create *ne economic breakthrough to provide a fuller and richer life ior the teeming millions of people in Asia. VPr fn a 6 1 85 3 wh Ole
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  • 205 3 SINGAPORE, Tues. Two 19-year-old pupils of St. John's British Army School, Singapore, are holdini their own art exhibition at the British Council's art rallerv, Amber Mansion, this week. They are Roland Shannon, son of Major J.C.P Shannon. RAMC, of HQ FARELF. and Leslev Pover, daughter of
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  • 541 3 SINGAPORE, Tuts. The overall regional average of 5 per cent growth of national product among Asian countries last year conceals a wide range of disparities in economic trends. However, even with this growth rate of the year, the economic achievement
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  • 155 3 SINGAPORE Tues. The current domestic savings drive launched In September last year, showed encouraging results over the first three months of this year, said a Government Statement, today. The Government Statement added that the number of new accounts opened with the Postal Savines Bank rose from 1.754 In
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    • 132 3 Very High Frequency. In fact the very highest frequency— BOAC flies more jets out of Singapore than any other airline. 10 flights to Europe and U.K. 5 to Australia. 2 to New Zealand. It gives you more choice, we rather specialise in that. Like the choice of VCIO and Rolls-Royce
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  • 232 4 SINGAPORE. Tu e s SATA's second Mass X-ray Campaign for 1969 will commence in the Alexandra Constituency on Friday. It will be opened by Professor Wong Lin Ken. Member of Parliament for Alexandra, at 7.30 p.m. on that day at the Alexandra Community Centre. Mei Ling
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  • 157 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The body of a servicemen who was killed In a rail accident In Sabah will be flown here by a Royal Malaysian Air Force aircraft tonight, a Ministry of Defence spokesman said today. Private Ya'acob bin Hussein of the sth
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  • 83 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues Two men held up four employees including a woman, of a motor accessories shop in Jalan Birch here yesterday and made off with cash jeweFery and accessor.es worth $1.400, a poll re spokesman s today The shop assistant. Mr. George Kean Tze Khek. told police
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  • 413 4 SINGAPORE, Tuei. The High Court was told today of a "marriage of convenience'' an illegal immigrant entered into with a local man purely for the purpose of staying in Singapore. Making this submission before Mr. Justice Tan Ah Tah. Enche Eyed Alwee of the
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  • 162 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues Malaysian and Indian industrialists will set up five or six Joint ventures In Malaysia by the end ol the year, the secretary to the Indian Ministry of External Affair*. Mr V. H. Coelho. said today. The proposed ventures include textile production, glass
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  • 95 4 KATHMANDU. Tues. (ATP) The Nepaiese government today gave priority to a Japanese team to scale certain Himalayan peaks, including Mdu Mount Everest. The Japanese Alpine Club, which Intends to make its attempt on Everest next year, was given preference to climbing groups from seme six coun•ries. including
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  • 172 4 MANILA. Tues (Reuter) Twenty delegates from seven countries started discussions on lowering air fares in the East Asian region and training tourist personnel as the East Asia Travel A**oc.a*lon (EAJA> annual meeting opened today. EATA comprise* the official tourist organisations of Japan. Hon? Kong. Thailand. Macao.
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  • 248 4 KrALA LUMPCR Tues A 16-year-old boy was robbed *%and stabbed to death while travelling in a bus along Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman here last night. He has been identified as Leong Kah Kuans, son of a restaurant and bar manager at the Merdeka Stadium. A
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  • 165 4 RAUB. Tues The Deputy Prime Minuter. Tun Abdul Razak. today called on the people of Malaysia to live in harmony and thus create a single race of true Malaysians. No single race could rule the country, as this would only bring chaos, he told
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  • 283 4 SINGAPORE Toes The Administrator of the I'nited Nations Development Programme. Mr. Paul Hoffman, today stated that the difficulties the world fared in shaping a more just, a more proaperous and a more peareful world rould not be resolved by nations acting in isolation from each other.
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  • 68 4 KUALA LUMPUR Tues West Malavsia exported *0.749 cubic tons of sawn timber to 24 countries during the first two months of the year. Of these 13.317 tons were exported through Singapore, according to the January and February statistics issued jointly by the Malaysian and Singapore Timber
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  • 44 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues.— A housewife. Karsiah binte Harun, wag held up by two men armed with dagge-s in her house in Sungai Tinggi Kenan in Tanjong Kranx. 40 miles from here, and robbed of cash and jewellery amounting to $3,099 yesterday.
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  • 85 4 SINGAPORE. Tues The chairman and members for 1969 of the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board will be entertained to a luncheon given by the rhalrman and committee of the Singapore Tourist Association in the Co em an Room Adelphi Hotel. Singapore on Thursday at 12 30
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  • 41 4 SINGAPORE T^es—A youth, who had seven bearing acrappers. an axe a bayonet and an iron file w;th h:m. was arrested by two Police Constables this morning He will be charged in court tomorrow with unlawful possession of offensive weapons
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  • 401 4 SINGAPORE, Tues A former businessman, Kohi Chor Phuen. told the Second District Court today that the J* u |rn t0 Commercial Crimes Branch in demanded $lO,OOO quash the Lee Wah Bank cheating case against him. Koh, 43, now serving a three-year sentence
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  • 362 4 SINGAPORE, Tues. The Select Committee of Parliament has called for representations from members of the public on the Abortion and Voluntary Sterilization Bills. The objects of the Bills are: Abortion Bill: To reform and liberalise the law of abortion so that treatment to terminate pregnancy may
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  • 81 4 SINGAPORE. Tues A group of members from the Siglap Women's Association today v-.sited the Jurong Industrial Estate and government institutions. The group wa s led by the president of the association. Che Mawan Wajid Khan. Among the places the group visited during the eight-hour tour were the
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  • 1482 5  -  By Charles R. Smith H ONG KONG. Tues. (J-N) In Peking's puz*nng power game, no figure is» more puzzling than a frail, bushy-browed man who named himself "Tiger cat" Lin. 8 Described by many as China s finest military strategist, Defence Minister Marshal
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  • Bulletins
    • 44 5 JAKARTA. (Reuter) President Suharto will present a special banner to the crack Army Special Paratroop Regiment RPKAD tomorrow in Bandung. West Java, a spokesman said today. The President will also watch manoeuvres bv the regiment to mark its seventeenth anniversary.
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    • 66 5 MILAN. Italy. (Reuter) More than 1,000 police hurling tear gas grenades charzed into riot-torn San Vittore jail here early today to trv regain the vast prison from the hands of 1,500 convicts At least 10 injured police were taken from the jail on stretchers soon after the
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    • 81 5 HONG KONG. (Reuter) Soviet Union is still waiting for a reply to its April II offer to Chin* to resume border negotiation!. Radio Moscowsaid today. The Soviet Union in a note forwarded to the Chinese Embassy in Moscow on Friday had proposed that representatives from both
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    • 61 5 LONDON. (Reuter) Mr. Harold MacMillan, 75. former British Prim* Minister, entered hospital here today suffering from jaundice. He was adm i ted for observation in St. Thomas's, one of the big London teaching hospitals. For the pas* three weeks Mr. MacMillan has been confined to his home
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    • 78 5 TOKYO. (Reuter) A burst water main has flooded 300 houses and left taps dry in 20.000 Tokyo homes As trucks carrying huge drums dispensed water, residents demanded compensation from the local municipality, alleging requests for stronger street tizrfacet to withstand the weight of big vehicles had been
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    • 103 5 DACCA. (Reuter) A devasting hurricane struck this East Pakistan capital last night and first reports said at least 12 people were killed and 1.500 injured. Ninety-miles an hour winds were recorded as the hurricane moved in. smashing buildings and uprooting trees. The death toll was put
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    • 83 5 BLOXWICH. Eng and. (Reuter* An Indian woman was cho-en to be queen of a beauty carnival in this central Frtaland town and two white g:r!s resigned their posts as maids heeour. One of them said today she disagreed with the way judging was carried out at the weekend.
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    • 115 5 THE VALLEY. Angu i 11 a. (Reuter) Anguillan leader Ronald Webster said today a referendum originallv planned .'or Thursday had been called off The Island Is peaceful and ant it to remain like that, know that 90 per cent of the Hand ia behind me
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    • 107 5 LILLE, (Reuter) Pnme Minister Maurice Couve de Murville opened the French government s official campaign for the April 27 referendum here last night and said those who intended voting "No" wanted on> to oppose General de Gaulle and if possible overthrow him. He said the referendum on
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    • 91 5 SAIGON 1 Reuter) Vietcong guerrillas unleashed rockets and mortar attacks against military posts and towns lying in an arc around Saigon during the night, military spokesmen said today. The attacks inflicted only light damage and rasualtie* and coincided with an apparent lull in around fighting across
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    • 51 5 KARACHI, i Reuter) On* of Pakistan's top academics will lead the Pakistani del*, gation to a conference of Moslem nations beginning in Kuala Lumpur on April 21. the military government announced in Rawalpindi today. It said Punjab University vice-Chancellor Allam Allauddin Siddiqui would head the eight-member
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    • 65 5 CHICAGO <UPI) Six thousand rebellious Harvard University students voted yeaterdav to continue their threedav str-ke at the nations oldest university and gave the administration three days to reply to eight demands The students cut classes and gathered in the Harvard stadium. where tney adopted by voire vote
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  • 331 6 Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE) is meeting in Singapore after a gap of twenty years. The current session is significant to Singaporeans especially since it coincides with the 150 th anniversary celebrations of the Republic. The growth of the island from a tiny
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  • 273 6 AFP 'J'HE Ninth Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in Peking has been "going very smoothly and in great unity and It is very fine", Peking Radio announced on Monday. The Congress, which opened on April Ist, has gone entirely according to plan, consecrating the
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  • 402 6  -  BY K.C. THALER LONDON, Tues. (UPI) —A British defence authority said on Monday Russia's submarine fleet is now twice the size of the combined submarine fleets of all NATO navies, including the t'nited States. Nearly one fourth of these are missile firing submarines. But it Is
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  • 258 6 PRAGUE. Tues <AFP> Moscow reports that Party Secretary Alexander Dubcek would pay a snap visit to the Soviet capital before the Plenum of the Czechoslovak Communist Party Central Committee on Wednesday evoked no immediate response hen* today. The only official reported leaving for Moscow was State
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  • 45 6 HONG KONG. Tues. (AIT) Today's Hanoi papers frontpaged a roundup battle report claiming that communlits had killed 7.500 troops, among them 5.000 American! downed 69 aircraft and sunk four military vessels In Thua Thien, Hue Province, during the 17 days before AprlL 10
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  • 260 6 YEW YORK Tufs (UFI) I would welcome being handed for my people Ahdul Mamid Bhashani described as Pakistan most outspoken idvocate of violence recently told a reporter. In an interview quoted in the current issue of Time Magazine. the IU»-year old grandfather leader of millions of
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  • 13 6  -  Shaw.George Bernard. Equality is fundamental in every department of social organisation
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  • 303 6 MOSCOW. Tues. (AFP) A Soviet journalist expert in Chinese affairs predicted here today that China will seek a rapprochement with the United States after the Ninth Party Congress. now in session in Peking The journalist who declined to have his name cited, also forecast
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  • 438 6  -  BY PHIL NEWSOM NEW YORK. TUPS. (I*PI) "We can afford neither to blind our eye* with hatred nor to distort our vision with rose-coloured glasses. The real world is too much with us to permit either stereotyped reaction or wishful thinking to lay waste our powers." President
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  • 627 6  -  (From Sin Chew Jit Poh The Ninth General Conference of the world Fellowship of Buddhists w» opened In Kuala Lumpur yesterday. That in the capital of Islamic Malaysia. this conference could be held Is rratifyinc. because this has proved the religious freedom of Malaysia, which deserves
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  • 750 6  -  —By John A. Collcott GENEVA, Tues. (U PI) Charlie Chaplin marked his 80th birthday on Wednesday as remote and unapproachable as ever, shunning all callers. It was a" anniversary as silent as the "little tramp" movies which made him his fame and fortune Chaplin
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  • 428 6  -  BY DICK WEST WASHINGTON, Tues. (I'PI) Great controversies are raging in many areas of the I S. over sex education in schools. I personally have no strong feelings on either side of the issue To me. It isn't important whether my children are taught the
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  • 75 6 NEW YORK. Tues. (UPI) Newsweek magazine reported on Sunday U.S. Secretary of defense Melvtn Laird has ordered an examination of manpower needs abrosd. "One of Laird's main targets is reported to be overseas t&ses where he believes the U.S is overcommitted.** the magazine's Periscope column sa'd.
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  • 159 6 Peking. Tues. (ATP) Peking tonight feted the approval by the Ninth communist Party Congress of the political report submitted by party Vice-Chairman Lln-Piao on April 1, the Congress opening day. and of the new par y statutes. A communique announced today that both the report and
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  • 54 6 Operation Daniel Boone' NEW YORK. Tues (UPI) Newwwk magazine'a Periscop# column reported on Sunday that U.S. troops of Oriental ancestry are 'operating with South Vietnamese commandos in long-distance patrols into Laos and Cambodia to hunt down North Vietnamese and Vietcor.g supply sources and infiltration bases" Newsweek said the opera ion
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  • 171 6 PRAGUE. Tues. (UPI) Thousands of Prague students flocked to a "teach-in" at Charles University on Monday as protest against the freezing of Czechoslovakia's 1968 reform programme. An April snow drifted over the students as they filed quietly into classrooms to observe "the day of post-Jan-uary reform" by
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
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      95 7 0 Mr. J. McDonough. president of Seagrams Overseas Sales Company, is in Singapore with his Far East representative. Mr. Ben Kokot. to discuss marketing strategy for the wide range of Seagrams liquor products with Mr. Bohhy L i m. managing director of Seagrams local distributors. Food Beverage (Pte.) Ltd. Mr.
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    • Article, Illustration
      93 7 Willard C. Butcher, executive vice president in charge of the International Department of the Chase Manhattan Bank V A. will be in Singapore this week to confer with government and business leaders. He will be accompanied by James A. Jacobson. senior vice president having responsibilities for South East Asia. Pacific
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    • 697 7  -  By KIM WILLENSON "OANGKOK, Tues. (UPI) Asia had a generally rood economically in 1968, the United Nations said today, but there are serious problems on the horizon and some of them may materialise in 1969. The world organization" made the comment in the
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    • 70 7 HONG KONG. Tues. (UPI) Money Quotations: H.K. dollars 6.075 per U.S. dollar. H K. dollars 6.***** per U.S. dollar TT H.K. dollars 14.54 per pound sterling H.K dollars 317.75 per tael of gold 94.5 per cent fineness. H.K dollars 162.3 per 10.000 Japanese yens. H.K dollars 130.2
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    • 128 7 BANGKOK. Tues. (Reuter) Thailand had an adverse trade balance of 11,303 million baht (over US$565 million) in 1963. half of which was accounted for by its trade deficit with Japan, according to Economic Affairs Minister Bunchana. Despite lt s trade deficit, Thailand had been enjoying a
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    • 79 7 LONDON. Tuts. (UPI) Rubber market closed quiet with spot 25-1/8 25-3/8. Settlement House. May 25-3/16 25-5/18 June 2i-l/4 25-3/8 July 251/4 25-7/16 July/Sept 25-.V16 25-7/16 Oct/Dec 25-5/16 25-3/8 Jan- March 25-3/16 25-5/16 April/June 25-1/16 25-1/8 July Sept 24-15/16 25-1/16 Oct/Dec 24-13/16 24-15/16 Jan/March 24-11/16 24-13/16 Apr/June
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    • 36 7 NEW YORK, Tues. (UPI) Dow Jones closing average on the New York stock exchange: 30 Industrials 932.64 20 Ralls 239.70 15 Utilities 128.13 65 Stocks 321.59 40 Bonds 73.55 Commodity Futures Index 139.63
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    • 132 7 SINGAPORE. Tues. The Association o f Banks In Ma-laysia-Singapore today made the following changes In Its rates to (rates are quoted to the equivalent of 100 units of foreign currency). SELLING T.T. or O.D. ready Deutsche Marks 576.3675; Holland Guilders $84.5050; Swiss Frailcs $70.9723; Belgian Francs $6.1175, French
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    • 48 7 NEW YORK. Tues. (UPI) Rubber futures closed 15 to 50 point® higher on no sales yesterday (Bid) (Ask) May 27.50 27.75 July 26.40 27.00 Sept. 26.35 26.55 Nov. 25.95 26.55 Jan 25.95 26.55 March 25.95 26.55 May 25 95 26.55 Locally. No. 2 RSS was 26J
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    • 1818 7 By Our Morket Reporter^ SINGAPORE, Tues. Despite the reassuring thoughts of on improved trend this week after the recent developments, the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore ruled only slightly steady today. The market seemed to betray a softer look and an easier undertone. Total turnover
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    • 151 7 NEW YORK. Tuer (UPI) Gold prices dropped In moderately active trading yesterday on markets here and abroad. In Lcndcm. gold sllpr«d 12) cents at the morning fixing and another 12) cents for a second fixing of 43.13 dollars P«r troy ounce. The closing range
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    • 222 7 NEW YORK. Tues. (UPI) Stock* declined yesterday, as traders seemed to be awaiting further developments on Vietnam and the domestic economic situation. Turnover was moderate. Shortly before the close, the UPI stock market indicator, measuring all stocks traded, was off 0.09 per cent on 1.547 issues
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    • 270 7 SINGAPORE Tuea Ma* first grade r«bb»r buyers r!o»fd at 5 prn ia Singapore and Kuala i nmpur today at 72-1 cts per lb.. dawn three eight ha of cent from the previous cloae The ton* of the market was quiet Absence r<t r rders and proflttaking
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    • 16 7 SINGAPORE Tues.— The tin price for today was $598 87$ per ptcul, up $0.62}.
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    • 291 7 SINGAPORE Tues Th„ fol. low n* is a berthin* list released by the Port of Singapore Authority for April 1*: DEPARTURE: Vfs^li 12 Karimun 3'4 Garryhank 5 Fa«t*"ind 10/11 Baden<tel n 13 It Bamora 15 16 Pernhill SW.I/J Hua H*ng 31 22 Pha Sh*> Gyiv Ywa 25
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  • 276 8 UNITED NATIONS, Tues. (Reuter) The U.N. chief observer in the Middle East, Lt.-Gen. Odd Bull, today blamed the United Arab Republic for starting the fighting in the Sue* Canal sector over the week-end. I In a report covering the artillery duels fought across the canal between
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  • 131 8 CANBERRA. Tues. (Reuter) Australia Is riving Malaysia 10 Sabre aircraft with spares, ground support equipment and a training simulator. The Prime Minister Mr John Gorton who announced this today said the sabres would be delivered in A-One condition with an operational life before them of
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  • 243 8 MANILA. Tues. (Heuter) West Germany and the Netherlands are opposed to a European Economic Community proposal to levy inland tax on vegetable oils (USS3O per ton on copra and S6O per ton on coconut oil), according to Foreign Secretary Carlos PRomulo. Mr. Romulo made this
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  • 74 8 WASHINGTON. (UPI) President Nixon has questioned the achievements of the Alliance for Progress as set up under the Kennedy administration Mr. Nixon said that U.S. relations with Latin America have been "smothered in fine sloeans and beautiful references." He said the alliance for progress was a good
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  • 71 8 SAIGON. Tues (UPI) Some 600 North Vietnamese troops attempting to storm a small US. Army post 33 miles northwest of Saigon lost at least. 120 dead The Americans lost 14 men. eight of them when the Communists overran a listening post near th# camp The defenders
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  • 49 8 LOS ANGELES. Tues. <UPI> Jury in Los Angeles is weighing a verdict in the case of Slrhan Slrhan. accused slayer of Senator Robert Kennedy. It will decide on a first or second degree murder conviction one carrying a possible death sentence...the other assuring life imprisonment.
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  • 365 8 SINGAPORE. Tues. Miss Australia 1969 arrives in Singapore on Thursday. Miss Suzanne McClelland a fair haired 20-year-old from Perth. Western Australia. was crowned Miss Australia 1969 at a Presentation Ball in Melbourne on 28th October 1968. She was born and educated in Perth, matriculating
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  • 158 8 MANILA. Tues. (AFP) The Philippine Central Bank has decided to scrap a Ave-month-old circular requirinf incoming and outgoing travellers to declare the amount of pesos and dollars they are carping. Central Bank deputy governor Amado Brinas said the bank's monetary board decided to lift
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  • 359 8 NEW YORK. Tues (AFP) The Naval Commission en- i quiring Into the conduct of Captain Lloyd Bucher and his crew, detained for 11 months last year when North Korea seized their ship. The Pueblo, has found that the captain violated no C S. Navy Refutations. an
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  • 63 8 WASHINGTON. Tues (UP!) The Army has released a study of 116 soldiers who hav« deserted to Sweden It shows ?hat the typical deserter there ;s 23 years old; has had three years of hiah school, is single, has no emllan occupation or skill, come? from a heavilypopulated State,
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  • 89 8 JERUSALEM Tues (UPI) Israeli Prime Minister Mrs. Golda Melr said today that Israel tried to persuade Jordan's King Hussein to stay out of the six-day 1967 war. In an exclusive Interview with UPI. Mrs M*lr said King Hussein apparently was persuaded that Egypt could win the war.
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  • 38 8 MONROVIA, Tues (ATP)— There is little chance that a solution will be found for the Nigerian civil war during this week's three-dav meeting here of th« organisation of African Unity (OAU) consultative committee on Nigeria
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  • 105 8 CHICAGO. (UPI) —A berserk ex-Marine slew two policemen, shot two other officers and a civilian and injured two more policemen dunnf a flve-hour rampage m-tth bullets, grenades and dynamite before he was captured in hig beseiged apartment last night. After the capture, police moved the bodies of
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  • 252 8 UNITED NATIONS, Tues. (AFP) l»ro«l Hoi U Thant that it will not comply a Security Council r «soluhon g Israeli authorities to abrogate decisions aimed qt reunifica salem, it was announced here today. The announcement was contained in a report by the United Nations
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  • 29 8 SANTIAGO. Chile. Tues (Reuter) Hundreds of people rushed into the streets when «n earth tremor shook this university city last night. No damage or casualties were reported.
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  • 103 8 CHICAGO. (UPI) National Guardsmen are working feverishly in an effort to evacuate several thousand flood victims in North Dakota Some 3.500 residents of Minot. North Dakota, already have left their homes to escape high waters But another 3.500 people are being evacuated now Spotter planes are
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  • 136 8 HONG KONG. Tues. (Reuter) The people of Peking converged on the capital's vast Tien-an-men Square banging drums and gongs and chanting slogans to greet last night's press communique from tne Ninth Partv Congress, the New China News Agency reported todav The communique, announced over Radio Peking ni?ht, reported
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    • 1202 9  - Echoes Of The Past: John Julie Garfield By Sheilah Graham WOULD I like to infT terview John ond Julie Garfield together? I said yes. Julie, 23, a bit plumpish she is dieting strenuously arrived at the Regency hotel restaurant first. She had a long coat over her long silk pants.
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    • 867 9  -  By Sheilah Graham Barbra Streis- and recently announced Her "trial separation" from husband Elliot Gould, she was following the classic Hollywood tradition of discarding the mate you married when you were poor and struggling, and dropped with a thud when fame and
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    • 136 9 ALL PARTICIPATING IN SINGAPORE 150 TH ANNIVERSARY CHAMPIONSHIPS L. jrr WWMz >3~r- .".J apriT JACK CLAYBOURNE \egro Heavyweight Champion of the World) CHARLIE LONDOS S (Hero of Singapore) fans from U.S.A.) Shintaro FUJI Japan's Karate King seen in the action pictures here) KING KONG Needs No Introduction STEVE RICKARD (1969
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
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  • 585 10  -  Bv PETER LOKE SINGAPORE. Tue s Singapore a model in miniature orchestration of human differences. The leader of the United States delegation to the 25th Session. Mr Glenn Olds said this when he recorded a vote of thanks to the President of the Republic. Enche
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  • 160 10 SINGAPORE, Tues—The leader of the Singapore delegation. Mr. S. Rajaratnam —Minister for Labour and Foreign Affairs was today elected Chairman of the 25th Session of ECAFE. Mr. Rajaratnam was nominated by the Foreign Affairs Minister of Indonesia and head of the delegation. Mr. Adam Malik. The proposal
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  • 251 10 SINGAPORE, TUM. McGraw-Hill Far Eastern Publishers (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. is a unique publishing house in the world. Thig was the view of Mr. Shelton Fisher. President and Chief Executive Officer of McGraw-Hill Inc.. New York, who flew into Singapore a few days ago to attend
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  • 224 10 SINGAPORE. Tues. Certain roads in the city area will be closed on April 20 from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. to mark the Asian Highway Motor Rally and Victory Parade which will be held at the City Steps. The Deputy Commissioner of Police. Mr P Rajaratnam
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  • 70 10 SINGAPORE. Tues. Police are looking for the relatives and friends of a male Chinese who suddenly collapsed and died at the Peck San Thenf Cantonese Cemetery at Upper Thomson Road, yesterday. Police described the deceased to be about 50 to 54 years of age. He kad short
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  • 551 10 SINGAPORE, Tues. Asion notions must recognise ond oceept the adjustments to thought as well as practice which economic cooperation demands, the President of the Republic, Enche Yusot s a* said today. The President made this call when he opened the 25th
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  • 121 10 SINGAPORE. Tues Sin. gapore Pools <P*> Limited is again givinr Increased dlvidends tor the 3rd and 4th prize winners in lajrt week s Toto Draw All participants who have four numbers correct will each receive $350 plus a bonus ol SIOO making a total of $450. All
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  • 124 10 SINGAPORE. Tues. Between 21st and 30th April 1969, all of 3rd Battalion Light Infantry Trill leave Malaya. The battalion is flying back to England from Subang Airport, Kuala Lumpur. The first flight, of 70 officers, soldiers and families will leave Subang cn Monday for London. Captain Mark
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 121 10 PAL introduces the on Karachi, Rome and Amsterdam Our new daylight route to Amsterdam a*u is the third new schedule we've started since April 1. 1968. (Tokyo and Bali were the others You can pick up a fast, sleek DCB in Manila at 8 45 a m. on a Thursday
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 171 11 SINGAPORE. Tu«i The Western Australian Under-18 soccer team defeated the Singapore Combined Schools l- n n a hard fought friendly match played at the Jalan Besar Stadium tonight. Although the Aussieg scored easy wins in all their matches played in Malay«:a they had a tough time
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    • 93 11 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) England will add a sixth player to their badminton team to play in the finals of the Über Cup in Japan in June if an appeal for funds it successful. The girl to fill the sixth place, if enough monev is raised, will
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    • 232 11 BANGKOK Tues 'AFP). Indonesia were lucky to share honours with Ceylon in the Group "A" match of the 11th Asian Youth Soccer Tournament when the game »rtdert in a 2-2 draw at the National Stadium here tonight At half time. Indonesia led by 1-0. Scorers were Waskito
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    • 161 11 PARIS Tues (LTD —The Tour of France Motor Rally, not held since 19*4. is to be revived this year. The event will take place over six stages and 5.200 km (3.250 miles; from September 18 to 26 next This was announced here by Bernard Cor.sten.
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    • 127 11 MAN C H ESTER. England. Tues (Reuter) —Manchester United fans will see the first leg of the European Cup semifinal against AC. Milan on April 23 live from Italy on closed circuit television at their home ground. Old Trafford. United announced last night that negotiations are in
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    • 412 11 BANGKOK, Tues. (AFP). Thailand, the host country, made an impressive start in the 1 Ith Asian Youth Soccer Tournament when they whipped Japan 4-1 in the Group "B" match played before a 10,000 crowd at the National Stadium here tonight. Thailand were superior in practically ail
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    • 221 11 SINGAPORE Tues With the arrival l~st r.ght of the .Negro rea.*> we.zhi champion of toe worla. the 1969 wrestLng season m will commence with a b.g programme on the 19th at tre Gay world Stac.um. This is the first t.rr.e n Singapore's r.ng ranking wrestler of
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    • 143 11 MOSCOW Tue« <UPI. Defending world chess champion Tifra n Petrosvar. in strong position on Tuesday in the first ram* of his new championship series against chal'enger 80-15 Spassky. Petrosyan, playing black, mas pawn up when he sealed his 4l*t move. The game will conclude later on Tuesday Spasskv.
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    • 479 11 SIXGAPORE. Toes. The bawling standard in the Republic is comnaiable to other bowling-minded countries in the world and it ha* more "Class A" bowlers than any other country with the same number of bowling centres as here These were some cf the comments
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    • 158 11 DURBAN South Africa. Tues 'Reite-. Tagh. Akbar:. a mrrrbe- of Iran's Daw, Cur «q iad. made Sou'h Af- car. r*P* r *aiO n3 l C!:ff Drvsda> strigc e t n r x 'Ctcry tn the Natal Op»r. Tennis C>"amp on-'hip* men* single# here ▼e«terday. D-v«daU nven'ually v-on
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    • 286 11 MONTEVIDEO. Tues. (L"PI) The world volleyball championship opens on Tuesday night with 12 nations competing. Trams from Europe. America and Asia clash durin* three days of elimination matches in two South American cities Montevideo, Uruguay and Santiago, Chile. Tn« competing countries are: Ur. -erf States. Czechoslovakia. Soviet
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    • 155 11 GEORGETOWN. Guyana. Tu»s Guyana's too box:ng promoter. L»n Beharry. cablet! "ar. attracts* of> to Commonwealth welterwe.ght rhar-p.on Ra.ph Charles. of Sr.tam, to mft local champion L«ennox Beckles In a titi® 1 gilt in G^-getowr. Mr B*harry's oiler to the Brtt?sh champ «n foilo-A-ed Becilta' una"
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    • 355 12 VIENTIANE, Tues. (UPI) Eighty-five motor vehicles today roared off from the 300-year-old That Luang temple here to officially inaugurate the first Asian Highway Motor Rally. The vehicles, mostly cars plus a few trucks and one bus, were carried by ferry across the Mekong River
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    • 553 12 MONTE CARLO. Tues. (Reuter) Professional players Owen Davidson, of Australia, and Britain's Roger Taylor were taken to the brink of defeat by amateurs before winning their men's singles matches at the Monaco international open tennis tournament yesterday. Paul Hutchins. of Britain, forced three match points
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    • 91 12 THOMAS CLP NEW DELHI. Tues (Reuter) The Standing Commit.ee of the All-India Council of Sports today gave approval to the Indian Badminton Association to stage their Thomas Cup badminton tie against Indonesia in India by next September. Previously the Council had rejected clearance for the association
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    • 128 12 LONDON. Tues. <UPI> Golfers playing in tournaments under the auspices ot the Professional Golfers Association (PGA) this season will he allowed to clean ball before each putt, the PGA announced on Monday. This is contrary to the r»»1'» introduced by the Royal and Ancient last Januarv which
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    • 634 12 TOKYO, Tues. (UPI) The Yomiuri Giants should capture their fifth straight pennant in Japan's Central Professional Baseball League this season and their fifth Japanese championship in a row over the rival Pacific League winner. The Giants not only have the best balanced team In the country but
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    • 84 12 Driver Jack Brabham takes the chequered flag as he wins the International Trophy Formula I rare at Bri tain s Silverstone track coasting over the line with an empty petrol tank. The Brabham-Ford spluttered over the line only seconds in front of Jochen Kindt's Lotus-Ford,
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    • 500 12  -  By LESLIE NAKASHIMA TOKYO, Tues. <1 PI) Japan are favoured to defeat the Philippines on Friday. Saturday and Sunday In the "A" section semifinals of the Davis Cup Eastern Zone largelv because Koji Watanabe Is exported to win his
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    • 377 12 LONDON, Tues. (Reuter) Desperate Leicester City breathed new hope of avoiding relegation when they pulled off their first away win of the season an encouraging 3-1 triumph over Sheffield Wednesday in English First Division soccer fixtures last night. The win earned two invaluable points
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    • 166 12 GLASGOW. Srotland. Tues (Reuter) Billy Bremner was named captain of Scotland's soccer team for Wednesday's World Cu»> qualifying match against West Germany Here after passing a fitness test yesterday. Bremner. who injured a leg m a game for Leeds Unued on Saturday, was one of five
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    • 202 12 SYDNEY. Tues. (Reuter) Australian organisers may be disappointed, but not over-concerned if India can play only three Test matches against Australia during its proposed Indian tour la t e this year, an official said here today. "If that's all they are prepared to play, well that's
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    • 368 12 NEW YORK, Tues. (Reuter) The Chicago Cubs maintained their lead in the tasto n Division of the National League yesterday as they shut out the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-0 for their victory m seven games. Southpaw Ken Holtzman hurled a sevenhitter and the cubs
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    • 49 12 JAKARTA. Tues. (Reuter) The Malaysian women's football team beat the Indonesian women's team of Bandung, West Java. 0-5 today. Halftime score was 3-0 This was the first match the Malaysians have had since they arrived here on Friday. They will tour Central and East Java.
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 17 11 TODAY and*?/OU f VVcdn«*da>, April 16. 1969. I 24-41-47 C AFKICOIN MC.U 5- »54 2-68 81 85
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 106 12 Time And Tide TOD A? Singapore town: 4.28 a.m. (1 ft. 9ins 10.43 a.m. (9 ft. 1 in.); 456 p.m. (2 ft.): 10.55 p.m. (8 ft. 8 ins.). Naval Dockyard: 4.15 a.m. (2 ft. 5 ins.): 10 59 a.m. (10 ft. 8 ins.); 4.41 p.m. (2 ft. 6 Ins.); 11.13
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