Eastern Sun, 24 April 1969

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  • 22 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY -fr Estd. 1966. Vol. 3 Mo. 978 Thursday, 24 April 1969. MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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  • 919 1 SINGAPORE, Wed. ECAFE today gave full support to Singapore's proposal for the establishment of an Asian Handicraft Centre to be sited in the Republic. ECAFE's Executive Secretary, U Nyun, said that, while noting some of the observations made by various delegates, he would
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  • 145 1 HOrSTON. Wed. (Reuter) Doctors at Houston s Methodist Hospital have given a 54-year-old photographer a new right eye in the world's first total optic transplant. T>e one-hour operation on John Madden was performed early yesterday but only announcer! late last night. It was carried out
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  • 138 1 SHEFFIELD, England, Wed. (Reuter) Business has boomed for David Renwick and his five-man workshop since they started making hand-forged iron chastity belts. He reports orders are flooding in from the United States, Norway, Malta, France. Italy and Hong Kong. The workshop's stock in trade used to be items
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  • 264 1 SINGAPORE. Wed. The adviser to the Malaysian ECAFE delegation todav refuted the reported statement bv Dr. Hiroshi Kitamura. retiring chief of ECAFE's research and planning division, regretting that his report on the Malaysian economy had been made an issue of in domestic politics. Enche Ismail Ambia.
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  • 248 1 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) Mr Lee Kuan Yew. Singapore Prime Minister, conferred with officials of the Singapore High Commission here this morning before leaving for a short stay at Cambridge University. Mr Lee, who flew' here last Thursday on a private visit, has had talks on International.
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  • 200 1 LAGOS, Wed. (Reuter) Federal forces have captured the Biafran stronghold of I'muahia, Radio Nigeria reported here today. The radio which broke into its regular programmes, said the key city fell to the forces of the First Army Division commanded by Colonel Mohammed Shuwa Umuahia served the
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  • 110 1 NEMOURS. France. Wed (UPI) A housewife whom police said calmly confessed to murdering seven of her 12 children helped search for the bodies of four of the infants in her garden today "If I had not killed seven of my babies and had abortions almost every year.
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  • 60 1 LOS ANGELES. Wed. (UPI> Sirhan B. Sirhan cculd be tried all over again for the assassination of Sen. Robert F Kennedy. The jury In the three and rpe-half month trial, after returning a verdict of first degiee murder, today still had not been able to
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  • 483 1 TOKYO, Wed. (UPI) A U.S. naval reconnaissance plane similar to the one shot down by North Korea took off from an airbase in Japan yesterday for a flight on an undisclosed track. Japanese press and television reports said. The reports said the EC-121
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  • 150 1 'WE WARN O NLY ONCE...' WASHINGTON. Wed (UPT) —Senate Republican leader Everett M Dirksen. noting that U.S. reconnaissance planes will be protected in the Sea of Japan, said on Tuesday "this country warns only once." Mr. Dirksen told ntamen at the White House following a meeting with President Ni\on that
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    • 39 1 hi This Issue ECAFE conference roundup Pages 2 and 3. ABOI'T people in Singapore Page SINGAPORE Pestabadminton first day Page 9 ASIAN Youth Soccer Page 9. STUDENTS* winning essays Page 10. P E N Alf G trackwork Page 12.
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 323 2 SINGAPORE, Wed. ECAFE countries today gave their full and enthusiastic support to Singapore's resolution calling for the establishment of an Asian Handicraft Centre in the Republic. Principal supporters came from the five ECAFE countries co-sponsoring the resolution tabled by Singapore during the plenary session on
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  • 353 2 SINGAPORE. Wed. Indonesia today spoke up against the assembling of craftsmen from ECAFE countries to produce handicraft In one countrT where the proposed Asian Handicraft Centre would be located. However, Indonesia fully supported a regional handicraft centre which would function "solely as a sales promotion agency
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  • 414 2 SINGAPORE. Wed. Russia today interrupted the proceedings In an ECAFE plenary session to question the right of South Vietnam. South Korea and Taiwan to participate in the ECAFE conference. This protest came in the early afternoon after the Chairman of the 25th Sess.on
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  • 905 2 SINGAPORE. Wed. ECAFE's Executive Secretary, U Nyun. said today the "project approach" would be used side by side with the main committees of the commission to benefit participating countries. He made this remark while summing up the debase on the development of
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  • 450 2 SINGAPORE, Wed. Singapore fully subscribes to the concept of regional and international cooperation in technical assistance. This year, the Republic will increase its pledged contribution to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) by 100 per cent. Meanwhile. In the past five years, from 1984 to
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  • 43 2 JAKARTA The Singopore delegation to the 4th World Confederation of Organisations of the Teaching Profession conference beinq held here from April 20-26. Teachers' representatives from 13 Asian and Pacific countries are taking part in the conference. UPI UPI Picture.
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  • 116 2 SINGAPORE Wed Drug reg.stration is a must, savs the Pharmaceutical Society of Singapore, in an editorial :n its latest newsletter It said the control of drug safety was bevond the means of any individual or any private organ.sation The public and the professional had
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  • 263 2 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Canadian Minister of Industry, Trade and Commerce. Mr. Jean-Luc Pepm, arrives here tomorrow as part of his tour of Pacific Him countries. During his three-day stay Mr. Pepin will make an on-the-spot investigation of the possibilities for increased trade and joint ventures
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  • 141 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed Part of t.-.e 54 5 million a vear aid g.' en by Canacs to Malaysia has net been used yet. th« Canadian Minister for Tra~« ana Commerce. Mr Jean-L-c Pepin, said here today. He was spcaiiin| to reportera after meeting tne Governor of
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  • 64 2 SINGAPORE, Wed "Miss Tourism 1969". Miss Roaalind Or.g. leaves here for a tour of the Philippines on Saturday. During her Philippine tour. Mis* Ong will be accompanied br Mr Paul Peral'v Execu* Uvi Officer of the Sir.tap^re Tourist As"C vicn who will ?ct 8s publ religions
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  • 338 4 SINGAPORE, Wed. A nineteen-year-old girl who was found guilty by a lower court for being in possession of a prohibited publication today had her conviction quashed by the High Court. The girl. Lau Sing Ngin. who was given a conditional discharge for twelve months
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  • 353 4 THE Singapore Musical Society Choir under the directorship of Jean Collyer gave a very charming performance over the series of Sunday Afternoon Concert for the young. The first item was Handel's Lenten Cantata. featuring three soloist: SheUa Aitken (soprano); Peter Beale (tenor) and Colin Parsons (bass)
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  • 56 4 THE visiting Prime Minister of the State of Victoria, Australia. Sir Henry Bolte and Lady Bolte, paid a courtesy call on the President of Singapore. Enche Yusof bin Ishak and the First Lady of State. Puan Noor Aishah at the Istana yesterday. Eastern Sun picture shows Sir Henry Bolte (left)
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  • 136 4 SINGAPORE. Wed.—A 23-year-old youth who committed housebreaking and theft of goods valued at 53.600 was sentenced to three vears* imprisonment in the Third District Court today. On July 2 last year at 2 p m the accused. Abdullah Latiff bin Matdome broke into a flat in
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  • 144 4 Public Speaking Elocution Course SINGAPORE. Wed The Adult Education Board is organising a 15-week Course in Public Speaking and Elocution, commencing May 16. from 7.00 p.m to 900 pm. at the Cultural Centre. Canning Rise. Singapore 6 The course is designed to enable those who have to deliver regular talks
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  • 352 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Plans are being finalised for three joint ventures costing $lOO million between Malaysia and Canada, the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Tan Sri Dr. Lim Swee Aun, an- nounced today. The Joint projects were "brought up to date'' by
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  • 134 4 SINGAPORE Wed The Adult Education Beard will be organising an ElementaryWoodwork Class for hobbyists commencing May 14 at the Tanglin Integrated Secondary Technical School from 7 pm to 10 p.m. This 16-we*k course covers the study and practical use of the basic hand tools, the construction
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  • 35 4 SINGAPORE. Wed A 31-year-old woman. Mary Si ok Keow was today fined $6O or 12 days' Imprisonment for behaving in a disorderly manner at Beach Road Police Station today at 7.10 a m.
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  • 310 4 Kl ALA LI'MPtH, Wed. Some members of the Peoples' Action Party from Singapore and other noncitizens from South Thailand have infiltrated West Malaysia to influence voters during election, it was alleged here todav. Enche Mohamed Khlr Joharl. the Minister of Education and Director of Elections
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  • 55 4 SINGAPORE. Wed Tuan Haji Ya'acob bin Mohamed. Minister of State for Prime Minister's Office and MP for Kampong Übi. has announced that the meet-the-people session for the Kampong Üb: Constituency will be held on every Wednesday evening commencing 730 pm at Kampong l*bi PAP Branch. No
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  • 90 4 SINGAPORE Wed An unknown male Chinese clad in a blue swimming trunks, was found dead m a highlv decomposed state on the beach off Nicoll Drive On April 2 at about 6 3n p.m. The Coroner's Court which held an inquiry mto his death today returned an open
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  • 259 4 SINGAPORE. Wed. The National Trades Union Conpress and the National Productivity Centre will jointlv organise a series of educational courses for union officers who represent industrial workers. The courses are on job evaluation (from April 28 to May 9). joint consultative machinery (from July 14
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  • 24 4 SINGAPORE. Wed.—There were a total of 51 road accidents of which si* were serious during the past 24 hours in the Republic
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  • 79 4 SOME 500 people attended Israel's 21st anniversary. To mark the occasion, the trade representative of Israel in Singapore held a cocktail reception at the Golden Lotus. Hotel Malaysia. Present at the reception were
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  • 510 4 MR. PREM Bhatia. High Commissioner of India will be guest of honour at a tea party given by the president ana members of the management committee of the Malabar Muslim Jama-ath, at 471, Victoria Street on Wednesday. April 30. At the AGM of the Singapore Society
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  • 105 4 SINGAPORE. Wed. A for. mer student of the Chung Cheng High School. Ang Ah Bah. 22 was released from detention today He was arrested on June 15. 1967 for taking an active part in the promotion of Communist United Front Activities amongst the students of Chung
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  • 277 4 SINGAPORE. Wed. A 51-year-old man who claimed that he was a stateless person and was forced by circumstances to chea* others was today sentenced to five years imprisonment by tIM Third District Court Judge, Mr KT Alexander The accused. Kan Erg Hong, who admitted to 21
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 98 4 SPORE lIIARY 1 p.m.—2 p.m.- Rotary Club of Singapore (West) weekly luncheon at Hollandsche (Dutch) Club. Camden Park off Adam Road 5 3fl p.m. 9 r.m.: SATA free mass X-ray station at Alexandra Community Centre. Mei Ling Street. 7.30 pm Free film shows by Ministry of Culture at Serangoon Village.
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  • 170 5 SAIGON. Wed. (tPI) An American helicopter gunship killed s ix allied soldiers with rockets and niachineguns todav when its crew mistook the ground troops for a Communist unit in the central highlands, military spokesmen said. The accident about 30 miles north of Ban Me
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  • 363 5 TOKYO. Wed. (IPI) Ratna Sari Dewi. Japanese wife of former Indonesian President Sukarno, says she wants to settle down eventually j n Switzerland and educate her daughter there. Switzerland is the best place to educate children because students there are taught in three languages."
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  • 705 5 (A ROIND-LP BY UP!) PENANG: The Englishlanguage Straits Echo, writing on the "Vietnamisation" of the Vietnam conflict said: "As Hanoi moves to the conclusion that a military solution is not possible, the more agreeable should it be to the U.S. proposition of a mutual troop withdrawal. Such
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  • 191 5 RELIGIOUS RIOTING BELFAST, Wed. (UPI) Police and civil rights demonstrators battled for two hours last night in the heart of the Roman Catholic area of the city. The demonstrators hurled Molotov cocktails, stones, slates and iron bars at police. One gasoline bomb was thrown
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  • 200 5 NEW ORLEANS. Louisiana. Wed. (UPI) The Formosan owners of the freighter Union Faith, on which 25 men died after a Aery crash on April 6. in the Mississippi River collision with a string of oil barges, filed a US$4 m. damage suit yesterday
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  • 213 5 MELBOURNE. Australia. Wed. (UPI) Prime Minister John G- Gorton said last night peace could be brought to the Middle East if the United States and Russia together called for an end to hostilities. A settlement could be reached if the two great powers said "enough
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  • 151 5 NEW DELHI. Wed (UPI) The explorer's Club of India has announced plans for a 10.000 mile sailing expedition to Indonesia retracing the ancient maritime route between the two countries. A crew of two or three will be selected from young, adventurous applicants to man a specially-built boat
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  • 72 5 BANGKOK. Wed. (Reuter) Several senior government officers reaching the retirement age of 60 years have petitioned Prime Minister, Marshal Thanom Kittlkachorn to allow them to continue working for five more years They said they were still healthy and active and could be of service to the Thai
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  • Bulletins
    • 34 5 CAIRO. (Reuter) President Nasser has accepted the resignation of Mr. Mohammed Abdel-Wahab AlBlshrl, Minister of War Production. the authoritative newspaper A 1 Ahram reported today. The newspaper gave no further details.
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    • 45 5 TEL AVIV. (Reuter) Two Arab guerrillas were killed last night when an Israeli patrol Intercepted them in the Jordan valley, about four miles north of Umm Sidra. an Israeli military announcement said. The Israeli patrol suffered no causaltles in the gunflght. it added
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    • 85 5 BOMBAY. (Reuter) The great grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, Dr Shantikumar K. Gandhi, will marry an American nurse. Miss Susan La Force, on May 3, the Indian news agency Press Trust of India reported today. The report *aid the mar- riage would take place in Struthers.
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    • 91 5 LOS ANGELES (Reuter) Singer Eddie Fisher today sued for divorce from film star Connie Stevens in Santa Monica Superior Court, charging "extreme cruelty." Fisher 40, was previously married to film stars Debbie Reynolds and Elizabeth Taylor. The singer sued Miss Stevens under her real name of
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    • 48 5 LONDON. (UPI) Beatle John Winston Lennon has changed his name lega'.ly to John Ono Lennon to honour new wife. Japanese avant garde artist Yoko Ono. The name change ceremony was held on the roof of the Beat es* Apple Company headquarters In Savile Row yesterday.
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    • 98 5 ROME. (Reuter) A parish priest has been executed and bishops and priests jailed in a continuing wave of persecution against Roman Catholics in Albania, reliable church sources said here today. Reports of anti-religious campaigns and persecutions, particularly by Chinese-style "Red guards." have been Altering out of the tiny
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    • 58 5 MANILA, (Reuter) Three people were killed and seven others wounded seriously in a gunfight between two rival groups in Batangas province, south of Manila on Monday night, police reported here today. The shootings occurred when two groups of unidentified men fell out over a game of
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    • 65 5 MANILA. (Reuter) President Ferdinand Marcos has submitted to the Senate for ratification the agreement establishing the Asian Coconut Community (ACC) formed by Ceylon. India, Indonesia. Malaysia. Singapore. Thailand and the Philippines. The ACC was conceived to develop programme of united action to solve common problems and to promote
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    • 72 5 HONG KONG. "Reuter) A British mine-sweeper today towed into Hong Kong a Tai-wan-registered fishing vessel after going to its aid, 230 miles from the colony. H.M.S. Hubberston, a 230-ton mine-sweeper based in the colony, went to the aid of the 100-ton Ket-Tai after sighting its distress flares.
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  • 220 5 BERKELEY California. Wed. (Reuter) A bridge Unking North America with Asia across the 50-mile wide Bering Strait was proposed here today by an internationally recognised University of California engineer. Professor T Y. Lyn announced he had incorporated a nonprofit corporation-Interna-tional Peare Bridge Inc. to undertake the
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  • 120 5 BERKELEY. California. Wed. < Reuter > The world's population will be well on the way to doubling Its present total by the year 2.000. according to a prominent US. sociologist Professor Klngsley Davis, head of the University of California* International Population and Urban Research Unit, last night
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  • 38 5 LAUNCESTON, Tasmania. Wed (Reuter) A road tanker carrying liquid oxygen exploded here today, killing the driver and forcing evacuation of nearby factories and homes until firemen quelled a blare which destroyed the fuel storage building.
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  • 145 5 STOKE-ON-TRENT. England. Wed < Reuter) A master house-breaker's career came to an end during his 876 th robbery when an Irate householder pumped 240 shotgun pellets Into him. a court was told today Until then no one could catch Gordon Thomas Emery, known to his
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  • 88 5 TOKYO. Wed (Reuter) The Japanese government Is studying proposals to increase its holdings of West German marks to profit from any revaluation of that currency, the Nlhon Kelzal Shlmbun. a leading financial dally reported today. The Finance Ministry however declined to comment on the report Nlhon
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  • 99 5 JAKARTA. Wed. (Reuter)— Indonesia does not believe that it is threatened by attack from any country within the next five or ten years, the head of the Armed Forres Information Service Brigadier General Sugandhi said here. But in an interview with the national newspaper Suluh
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  • 158 5 MR. Lee Cheong Sear, a chemical engineering student at the University of Adelaide, South Australia, has been using computers to soeed up his studies. "Calculations which previously took me 2* hours On a slide rule have been reduced to less than a second with a computer," he
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • 202 6 XJLTE h6pe the proposal for the setting u£ Of an Asian Handicraft Centre in Singapore will get the backing of the ECAFE. Handicrafts are big attractions in the world of today. Almost all the countries surrounding Singapore have developed the in ways peculiar to their tradition and
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  • 216 6 UPI THE Washington Daily News said on Tuesday that conflicting Administration statements on the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam result from the Administration "talking to three major audiences, each with a different outlook." In an editorial the News said: "The Administration would like the North Vietnamese to
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  • 177 6 AFP NORTH Vietnam celebrated the 99th anniversary of the birth of Lenin with an affirmation that "diversities" were inevitable inside the socialist camp. Lenin approved of "authentic patriotism," and the idea that differences among peoples could be erased was "a myth" the party newspaper Nhan
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  • 826 6 PRAGUE, Wed. (AFP) Workers of o big metallurgical plant here who have a history of ratifying important party decisions spoke out ominously today against the new Czechoslovak Communist Party leadership. The stafT at the Dukla Plant of the CKD Metallurgical works expressed their "bitterness"
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  • 240 6 HONG KONO Wed. (A TP) Ninety-five per cent of the professors at North China NartKai University who were noted as China's "economic authorities" have been won over to Maoist line. Radio Peking reported tonight. For more than a decade after liberation, these professors have helped deposed President
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  • 456 6 ROME. Wed. (TIS) A Roman calendar painted on a wall has come to llfht in the course of excavations now being carried out under the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore In Rome. From the discovered portions one can figure that it was simply enormous, perhaps over 12rt feet
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  • 145 6 HONG KONG. Wed. (APT) President Ho Chi Minh has praised Lenin as "the compass and the sun showing the way to final victory of communism", a North Vietnam magazine said In a commentary marking the 99th anniversary of Lenin. Quoted by Hanoi Radio
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  • 22 6  -  Wilde, Oscar O'Flahertie Wills. The only war to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it Wilde, Oscar
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  • 273 6 HONG KONG. Wed <ArP> Radio Peking tonight attacked Soviet "revisionists" as "modern pirates" for having robbed a Chinese freighter on the eventful I'aaurl River in last September The Radio reported an eyewitness account by three Chinese cameramen of how the crew from five Soviet
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  • 107 6 BOSTON. Massachusetts. Wed (UPI) The Christian Science Monitor said on Tuesday Prince Norodom Sihanouk should participate in any Vietnam settlement. The paper said: "...Prince Norodom Sihanouk remains a remarkable example of successful nationalist leadership in Southeast Asia. From this it follows that his (and
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  • 684 6  -  (from Sin Chew Jit Poh OR. Rayaon Llsung Huang, the new Vice-Chancellor of Nanyang University, on the 18th of this month, in his premier news conference since he took office, declared that Nanlah will establish a research institute next year, which will confer masters' and doctors'
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  • 607 6  -  BY JEAN RAFFAELLI uAcrnv n>d (AFP) Party Secretary-General Leonid Breihnev surprised observers herem°memont making a speech at the televised ceremony, which heads of all the Soviet bloc countries attended In the Kremlin Instead, one of the Central Committee Secretaries, Ivan Kapitonov. delivered a 75-mi-nute speech on foreign
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  • 196 6 MANILA. Wed. (UPI) Manila's major newspapers published on Wednesday a Join* appeal for an early, nonpolitical convention to overhaul the Philippine constitution. The editorial, which appeared on the front pages of the Manila Times. Philippines Herald. Manila Chronicle. Manila Bulletin and the Philippine
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  • 360 6  - The Yes' And 'No' In France By Jean Marie Pelou PARIS. Wed. (AFP) Gaullists and opposition leaders alike were increasingly concerned today with the prospect of a brisk resignation bv President de Gaulle after a "no" victory in the referendum next Sunday. The General has Mid he could not remain
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  • 219 6 WASHINGTON, Wed (UPI) More than 250 student Sr. y P re?ident s and newspaper editors at colleges around the United States declared on Tuesday their "intention to refuse induction" for U S military service until the immoral and unjust" Vietnam war ends. "We will not serve in
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 98 7 The Board of Directors of Veneer Products Limited announced that Mr. Charles Tow Siang Ling has been appointed a director of the Company. With Mr. Tow's appointment the company now has six directors. Mr. Tow (above) started Ramunia Bauxite Limited pioneering bauxite mining in Malaya in 1952. Currently he is
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    • 261 7 j LA LtMPIR, Wed. The Malayawata Steel Berhad yesterday offered a further 7,775,000 ordinary shares of SI each to finance the mill's phase two construction programme costing $2l million. The offer wa§ made by the board of directors of the company which on
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    • 123 7 TOKYO, Wed. (Reuter) A leading United States banker yesterday called upon Japan to step up efforts to *ase its curbs on Imports and capital entering Japan. Mr. John B.M. Place, vicechairman of the Board of Chase Manhattan Bank, aald at a press
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    • 65 7 HONG KONG. Wed. (UPI) —Money Ouotations HK 090 per U S dollar. HK $6 105 per US dollar TT HK $l4 53 per pound sterling HK $322 125 per tael of gold 94.5 per cent fineness HK $162.5 oer 10.000 Japanese yens. HK $131.5 per 100 Philippines
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    • 2061 7 SINGAPORE, Wed. With continued concentration of Interests In the new issues, trading in the Btock Exchange today again ruled easier. Stag selling from the opening formed the main activity and kept the prices of most of the newly listed issues down. The confinement
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    • 286 7 SINGAPORE. Wed May first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p m in Singapore and Kua.a Lumpur today at 72-3 8 rents per lb., uncharged from the previous close. The tone of the market was quiet The market opened steadier On higher London advise; and speculative
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    • 132 7 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Association of Banks In Ma-laysia-Singapore today made the following changes In It® rate# to merchants (rates are quoted to the equivalent of 100 unl'a of foreign currency). SELLING T.T. or O D. ready Deutsche Marks $77.2800; Holland Guilders $B4 8825; Swiss Franca $*****5; Belgian Francs
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    • 15 7 SINGAPORE. Wed. The tin price for todiv was $6ll per picul, up $4.00.
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    • 105 7 SINGAPORE. Wed. The noon prlcet at tbe Singapore ChineM Produce Exchange today ■re:— Huiri Wltri Coconut OH 48 .V (F.O B Knlk a t aaaa Coconut Oil SI .00 (FOB) Drum MUFD I'IIDIK Miinlnfc While P« SI 00 pprr (F.O.B.) N 1 125 00 U»Mt i»U" U* Ml (FOB)
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    • 158 7 LONDON. WW. (UPI) Currency worries sparked new buying of industrial shares on the stock market yesterday and reversed the post-budget downturn which had taken the list down to its lowest point since September. Most of the popular blue chips advanced. Uniliver. Beechams. Imperial Tobacco. Courtaulds. Dunlop.
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    • 128 7 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) President Nixon's request for elimination of the 7 per cent investment credit touched off renewed selling on Wall Street yesterday, and prices on the New York stock exchange finished lower for the second successive day in moderate turnover. Also pressuring the
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    • 38 7 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) Ecw Jones closing averages on the New York stock exchange: 30 Industrials 91?.59 20 Rails 23.2 15 Utilities 129 54 65 Stocks 316 68 40 Bonds 73.72 Commodity Futures Index 139.04
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    • 56 7 MANILA. Wed (UPI) Ph'hppine Pre-:dent Ferdinand E Marcos yesterday submitted the Asian Coconut Community Agreement to the Senate ior ratification. The agreement seeks to group Ceylon. India, Indonesia. Malaysia. Singapore. Thailand and tlte Philippines in the wake of proposed increased taxes on copra oil to be imposed by
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    • 137 7 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) Sterling dipped steeply here yesterday, caught up in the backwash of renewed speculation ove r the future of the West German Mark and the French Franc. The slide took the British currency's dollar rate down 46 points on the day to 2.3910 and at
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    • 82 7 LONDON. Wed. (UPI) Rubber market closed idle yesterday with spot 24-1/2 24-3/4. Settlement House May 24-5/8 24-3/4 June 24-11/16 24-13/16 July 24-13/16 24-15/16 July Sept 24-7/8 25 Oct Dec 24-7/8 25-1/18 Jan' March 24-13/16 25 April/June 24-3 4 24-7/8 July Sept 24-11/16 24-13/18 Oct/Dec 24-9 16 21-11/16 Jan/March
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    • 53 7 NEW YORK. Wed (UPI)— Rubber futures closed unchanged to 75 points lowe r on no sa.es: (Bid) Ask) May 25 90 27 40 July 26-33 Sept. 26 00 26 60 Nov. 25 60 26.20 Jan. 25 60 26 20 Mar. 25.60 26.20 May .25.60 26.20 Locally N6. 2
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    • 215 7 TOKYO. Wed (Reuter) Committees for economic development from Japan, the United States and Australia have agreed on the need to establish a "Southeast Asian Development Council" at a twoday joint conference which ended here yesterday. The Japanese Committee for Economic Development (Keizai Doyukai)
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    • 591 7 SINGAPORE. Stock El- t change told and c ther prlcea officially listed at the cl DM Of '"■-toes*. INDUSTRIAL A( MA MO 2 40 A Co. 2 34 Borneo Bhd IM 1.89 Camel PI>wood 2.7* C. >ugar 4 46 4 1* Cold -tnrace 8.50 6 70
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  • 389 8 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) Britain's youngest member of parliament, 21-year-old Northern Ireland civil rights worker Bernadette Devlin, made her parliamentary debut today as tension continued to run high in the British province. She was hoping to make history with
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  • 30 8 RANGOON. (Reuter) Five children died yesterday in a fire which gutted six houses in the town of TaungEyi in Shan «tate, Press reports ere said today.
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  • 180 8 GENEVA, Wed. (I'PI) nation disarmament talks in Japan may join the 18Geneva In the near future, officials said here. The Netherlands and Hungary will likely become members first, they said, probably in July. The Conference began in 1962 as an 18-nation affair five Western, five
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    • 89 8 LOS ANGELES. (Reuter) Pop Singer "Mama" Cass Elliot 27, formerly of the Mamas and Papas group, has has been granted an uncontested divorce from her husband. singer and songwriter James R. Hendricks, 29, in Los Angeles superior court. Mama Cass, who appeared in a full-length mink
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    • 85 8 WELLINGTON, New Zealand, (Reuter) Six Japanese seamen died when a tuna fleet was battered by a storm 250 miles off the east coast of NewZealand's South Island. News of last Friday's tragedy was revealed here today by the master of one of the boats from
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    • 67 8 CANBERRA. (Reuter) Young Australians should be saving their pennies and if they can't, the government should make it compulsory. Victorian MP David Chipp said today. He told the House of Representatives that a compulsory saving scheme for young people would benefit the national economy and brake inflation.
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    • 58 8 SEOUL. (Reuter) Nine South Korean Army soldiers, including a Second Lieutenant, were killed when their truck ran over an embankment at Yonchon, about 40 miles northeast of Seoul, last night, it wa s reported today. Eleven others were injured when the truck tumbled down the sixteen
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  • 133 8 MADRID Wed. (ATP) Fifty-five deputies In. the Cortes (Parliament) have expressed reserves over renewal of the Spanish-American agreement on US. military bases In Spain. Renewal of the agreement, first signed in 1953, is at present bein* negotiated In Washington. The deputies sent a message to the Foreign
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  • 33 8 IRRID JORDAN Survivors gather near rubble after Israeli raid. Israel struck with Mirage jets at what they claim was a guerrila base. Two Egyptian radar stations were also knocked out. IPI radio photo.
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  • 63 8 DACCA: A woman with crying child stand amidst the ruins of her home in Demra, destroyed by a tornad which tore through Dacca and other regions of East Pakistan on April 14. More than 1,000 people are feared to have been killed in the tornado. Nearly 15,000 people have been
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  • 273 8 WINDSOR, England, Wed. (Reuter) Queen Elizabeth yesterday welcomed Italy's President Giuseppe Saragat to Britain with a glittering state ceremony ot Windsor Castle. The 70-year-old Presi-! dent, starting a week-long visit, saw all the pomp and pageantry once accorded routinely to the visiting crowned heads
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  • 135 8 JAKARTA. Wed. (AFP) Indonesia expects the United States to continue contributing a large share of the total of foreign aid. Foreign Minister Mr. Adam Malik said today. He was commenting on last Monday's congressional speech of Mr. Marshall Green, former Ambassador to Indonesia and now
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  • 252 8 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) Singapore Prime Minister Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, ond Mr. Roy Jenkins, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, hod a general discussion of economic relations between the two countries here, a treasury spokes- man said today. Mr. Lee. who is here on a
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  • 202 8 WELLINGTON, Wed. (Reutter) Russian stamen who rescued three New Zealanders from a crippled yacht tried to entice them to the Soviet Union, a magistrate's court here was told today. Two of the three rescued men were appearing for sentence on a charge of unlawfully taking a
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  • 179 8 MANILA Wed. (UPI> A group of Senators filed a revolutionary bill in Congress yesterday requiring business and commercial firms in the Philippines to share corporate profits with workers and employers. It provide? that ail profits in excess of 20 per cent of invested
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  • 87 8 MELBOURNE. Australia. Wed. (UPI) Professor John David Legge. Foundation Professor of history at Monash University has been appointed Director of the Institute of South-east Asian Studies in Singapore. He succeeds Professor H.J. Benda, of Yale University. Mr. Benda has been director of the institute since
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  • 67 8 MACAO. Wed (Reuter)— The unlucky cyclist walked into a Macao police station to report the theft of his bicycle from outside the greyhound racing track over the weekend. And 33-year-old Wong Pak-Chuen walked back outside to find the new bicycle he'd just bought for 50 patacas
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  • 148 8 PARIS Wed (UPI) President Charles de Gaulle once again has warned that he will resign if h' is defeated in a referendum and time many Frenchmen are far from sure he will win President de Gaulle has called on France's 28 million registered voters to
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  • 204 8 VATICAN CITY, Wed (UPI) The new Nationalist Chinese ambassador to the Holy See his credentials to Pope Paul VI yesterday and used the occasion to let loose a condemnation of Communist China. "A great misfortune has fallen upon China in the last 20 years."' Ambassador Chen
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  • 306 8 MOSCOW, Wed. (Reuter) Czechoslovakia's authoritarian new Communist Party chief Dr. Gustav Hu>ak held talks with Kremlin leaders today while Last bloc party heads and Prime Ministers gathered for an economic summit opening today. It was Dr. Husak's first meeting with his Soviet counterpart.
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  • 123 8 MANILA. Wed. 'UPI) The Philippines will observe for the first time on Sunday Lapu-Lapu Day to honour the Filipino who killed Ferdinand Magellan, the first circumnavigator of the globe Lapu-Lapu was chief of Filipino natives on Mactan Island in Central Philippines who defeated the colonial forces of
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  • 82 8 HELSINKI. Wed. (AFP) Finland and China today signed here an agreement on the exchange of goods this year. The value of the exchange 1# estimated at 62 million marks (some £62 million). A new Finnish export item to China is fertilizers totalling 30.000 tons among other export
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  • 118 8 WASHINGTON. Wed. (AFP> President Nixon is "deeply disturbed and saddened by the conflict that has marre« the great success" attained by Israel during its 21 years of existence he said in a letter to Israeli Pres dent Za'.man Shazar yesterday. The letter said: *'My warmest congratulations go out
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  • 86 8 WASHINGTON. Wed. (UPH Tne Deience Department has all but conrtrmea U S. .n--telligence flights over the Sea of Japan have been resumea. "The orders of the president (to continue the rtlgnts> ai» being carried out." said Mr. Daniel Z. Henkin, acting assistant Secretary of Defence for
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  • 600 9 SINGAPORE. Wed Defending Champion Darmadi of Indonesia had an easy 15-4, 15-3 victory over Omar Ibrahim of Singapore in the singles first round of the Singapore Pestabadminton championships held at the Singapore Badminton Hall. Guillemard Road this evening. With the victory Darmadi qualifies for the quar-ter-finals.
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  • 393 9 BANGKOK. Wed (AFP) Israel outclassed and outplayed the Philippines to win 3-0 in the Group "B" match of the 11th Asian Youth Soccer tournament at the National Stadium here tonight. Israel led 2-0 at half time. Scorers werf Melr Narda. Galili Darchl and Moshe Onana. The Israelis
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  • 191 9 BANGKOK. Wed. (AFP) Burma, defending ehampiona. whipped South Vietnam 1 1 in the last match of the preliminary league rounda of the 11th Asian Youth Soccer tournament at the National Stadium here tonight. At half time Burma le" 2—o. Scorers were Ye Nyun: (2). Ilaung Myint
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  • 90 9 CANBERRA Wed. 'ATP) The United States in joint operation with Australia will establish a space communications facility at Woomera rocket range ready for operation by end of 1970. The construction will begin in October or November. It is expected that up to 300 technicians and ancillary staff
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  • 102 9 MANILA. Wed (UPI) The .Philippines' First Lady. Imelda R. Marcos, will leave for Rome tomorrow to attend the Investiture of Archbishop Julio Rosales of Cebu as Cardinal next Monday. Mrs. Marcos will be accompanied by her two daughters. Imee. 13 and Irene, 8. her secretary.
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  • 116 9 HELSINKI. Wed < AFP) Finland and China today signed here an agreement on the exchange of goods this year. The value of the exchange Is estimated at 62 million marks (some 62 million sterling). A new Finnish export Item to China is fertilizers totalling 30.000 TNS.
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  • 162 9 SYDNEY, Wed (Router) India is anxious lor closer ties with Australia, Mr. Chester Bowles, the retiring U.S. ambassador to India said today. Previously India looked to the West, but was now turning to the East in a constructive way. he said. "It sees Australia as an
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    • 477 10 IT was a fine, Saturday afternoon when my colleagues and I had just finished our extracurricular activities in school. We found that it was very dull staying at home during the weekend, so we decided to have something on for our
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    • 427 10 ONE night, I woke up with a terrible tcothcche. I could not stand the pain, so I immediately woke my mother and toid her the incident. She decided to take me to a dentist for treatment the next dayThe next day we went to Lim's
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    • 347 10 WHAT is an accident? An accident is an unexpected event. Accidents may happen in the house and outside the house. Most accidents happen because of carelessness. Therefore to prevent accidents on the road we must be careful and we must follow the rules. Accidents may happen
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      268 10 MY parents had an important appointment one Sunday and knowing that I would be lonesome, I decided to invite some friends for lunch. I intended to prepare fried mee for them. So I invited two of my very close friends to my house for lunch. They
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    • 265 10 IN my opinion, I should think that space exploration is not a waste of money, time and effort. In this modern world, science is advancing by leaps and bounds. One can travel from one place to another comfortably and swiftly.
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      166 10 AFTER a tiring game of netball, I returned home. There awaiting me. was a delicious supper. After supper. I changed into my pyjamas and went to sleep. I dreamt that I was in a jungle. I was all alone. The jungle was dark. I heard a lion roaring,
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      564 10 On dull cloudy morning I ©addled my boat up a smal. stream towards my birds' nests cave. The day was very floomy and I felt Quite cold. Just before noon I arrived at the place were I had to tie up my boat I walked for
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      235 10 I LIKE my house to be situated near Changi point go that every weekend, I can go there for a swim I like It to be built of bricks. I like my house to be as big as the school and surrounded bv a beautiful garden planted
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      244 10 MY hobby is reading novels. I find that reading is both fascinating and useful. This is a hobby which serves a double purpose while we are occuping our time usefully, we also, at the same time gain knowledge and wisdom. This is said to be a royal hobby
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    • 292 10 QUEEN Elisabeth Walk is one of the most picturesque spots in Singapore. It is situated in front of the City Hall and faces the sea. Also, it is beautifully laid out with colourful flowerbeds, fountains, sunken gardens and path-ways. There are many large trees planted. Seats are
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      181 10 AS I was going home from school there was a strong wind. The elouds had drifted away. The sky became dark. Then lightning struck and the rain came. It became heavier and heavier. It rained for three days. On the second day, however, the rain came down in
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 60 11 SINGAPORE. Wed. The S:nfapor« Civilians XI will meet the Singapore Combined Services in an annual cricket match to be played at the Padang. on Sunday at 11.00 am Civilians: Reggie da Silva (Capt). Gary Burling, Keith Elloy. S N. Houghton, Jeffery Jeremiah M. Kumar, J. Martens. Henr>* Scully,
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    • 326 11 Knox- Johnston Ends Global Voyage FALMOUTH, England, Wed. (Reuter) Thirty-year-old Robin Knox-Johnston tailed into this windswept Cornish harbour today to become the first man to complete a single-handed, non-stop voyage around the world. Knox-Johnston and his battered 32-foot ketch Suhaill kept welcoming yachts and crowds waiting for several hours as
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    • 203 11 i nder-23 Soccer LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) Arsenal forward John Radford. dropped from his club's first team because of poor form In recent weeks. was named today in England's Under-23 soccer 6ouad to tour thf Netherlands. Belgium and Portugal next month Radford is the only full
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    • 68 11 TAIPEI. Wed. (AFP) A toxin* match between two friend* ended in on* dead in Chiayi County of South Taiwan, police reported here today. The police said that the two friends had a boxing game which turned out to be more than friendly. A quarrel developed
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    • 206 11 ROME, Wed. (UPI)— Two American girls advanced to the third round of the 26th Italian tennis championships today but little pro Rosemary Casals of San Francisco was upset by Mrs. Monique Salfati Di Maso of France. Mrs Mary Ann Eisel Curtis of St. Louis, Missouri,
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    • 137 11 Da\ is Cup SAIGON. Wed. (AFP) The disappearance in Hong Kone of South Vietnam's number one tennis player has led his country to pull out of the Asian B Zone finals of the Davis Cup. The President of the South Vietnamese Tennis Federation, Nguyen Kim Dinh.
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    • 110 11 INDIANAPOLIS. Indiana. Wed. (Reuter) Eighty-four cars, the second largest field in the history of the race, have been en ered for this year s Indianapolis 500-mile races on May 30. the organisers announced today. The record of 90 cars was set In 1907. The fastest
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    • 316 11 By LITTLE NENE BINGAPORE, Wed. R. A Da vies (Heap 10) and William Lee (24) won the Burong Trophy after beating Albert Moody and Dennis Mitchell by 1-Up during the 18-holes final held at the Bukit Chermin course yesterday. A popular yearly tournament here,
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    • 122 11 British Open LONDON. Wed (AFP) Australians John Kewconbe and Margaret Court are top seeds for the British Open hard court tennis championship* on the Wewt Hampshire Club courts at Bournemouth starting next Monday. The championships. worth £7,000. mark the first anniversary of open tennis in Britain. The
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    • 215 11 MILAN, wed. (Reuter) Jimmy Rimmer. Manchester United transfer-seeking 21-year-old reserve goal keeper, will make his European Cup debut in the first leg semi-final match against AC. Milan here tonight. Rimmer :a preferred to £60.000 first choice keeper Alex Stepney, who has been out of form recently.
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    • 106 11 CYCLING MANILA. Wed. (Renter) South Vietnamese cyclist Pham Lu won the fifth lap In the "1969 tourine Pill p 1 n a s M (Philippine Tour) yesterday. Earlier, It was reported that overall lea- der, Filipino cyclist Domingo Quilban had won the lap. In overall standings
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    • 703 11 NEW YORK. W*d (Reuter) The Chicago Cubs, who had the best *tart of any team in the major baseball leagues this season, had th*lr worst day yesterday they lost a double header w'.th the Pittaburgh Pirates and their manager. Leo (The Lip» Durocher
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    • 133 11 SINGAPORE. Wed—Mr Norman Siebel. 53. the sports editor of the Strait* Times. Kuala I.umpur, collapsed and died at Empress Place here this evening It it believed he died from a stroke. Mr Siehel. a veteran Journalist arrived in Singapore from Kuala I.umpur this morning to report
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    • 177 11 LONDON, Wed. A young Cypriot jockey Justified the interest of in English racehorse owner when he led a field of 18 runners past the post in an event for two-year-olds in the North of England. Twenty-six-year-old Andreas Demetriou started working for owner Mr. W. C.
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    • 71 11 LOS ANGELES. Wed. (AFT) Takao Sakurai of Japan fights Ruben Ollvares, Mexico's number one world bantamweight boxing challenger In a bout scheduled for ten icurds at the Forum here on May 23. announced Los Angeles boxing promoter George Parnassus. According to Parnassus the u inner could
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    • 256 12  -  BY Big Ben PENANG, Wed. West Kalimantan revealed top form on the training track here this morning. With a riding boy he went smartly over Sf in 37 3/5 on good going. It was the fastest workout of the day. Treasure Hunter (Coles) and Stormy
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    • 189 12 ROME Wed «Reuter) Mrs Lesley Bowrey. 0 f Australia begin* her challenge to win the women# singles title for the third successive year when play continues today in the Italian Open Tennis Championships here The blonde 26-year-old Sydney g:rl. formerly Lesley Turner, who beat compatriot
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    • 117 12 LONDON. Wed. Nearly £5.000 In prize money will oe awarded for the oldeit motor race ciassic of the world, the Royal Automobile Club (RAC) tourist trophy, which n to oe run this year at Oulton Park. Cheshire. English Midlands, on May 26. The race, won last
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    • 66 12 HONOLULU. Wed. (UPI) Adolph Pruitt, Ring Magazine's No. 2 ranking junior welterweight. will meet Richard "Rocky" Medrano, the North American junior welterweight champion, on April 29. in a 10-round non title bout, it was announced yesterday. In a companion 10-rounder. Bernabe Fernandez of the Philippines, the World Boxing
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    • 250 12 BANGKOK. Wed. (AFP) The Malaysian soccer team are badly hit by injuries after their last match against Indonesia In the 11th Asian Youth Soccer tournament here last night. The game ended In a 1-1 draw which enabled the Malaysians to advance to the quarter-finals round which
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    • 112 12 MILAN. Wed. (Reuter) Reigning champions Manchester United lace the toughest challenge to their European Cup supremacy when they meet the Italian masters of defence AC Milan in a first leg semi-final tie here tonight. A capacity 90,000 crowd has paid a record £135.000 to watch the epic
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    • 75 12 EPSOM. England. Wed. (Reuter) Clever Scot owned by Henrv Alper won the Great Metropolitan Handicap run over two and a quarter miles here today. J.J. Kenny's Jacthelot w'as second and R E Parkes' Cannonade finished third of 15 runners. Richard Dicey rode the winner Clever
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    • 71 12 JAKARTA. Wed. (Reuter) A women's soccer tournament has been organised in Indonesia for the first time following a series of crushing defeats by a visiting women's team from Penang. Malaysia. Teams from Malang. Jogjakarta and Semarang. will meet in Semarang, Central Java, for the two-day tournament on
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    • 587 12 MUNICH. West Germany. Wed (Reuter» World ranked No. 2 Mitsuru Kono swept Japan to a 5-3 victory over West Germany as the Asian aces retained their 011 ajf tilling Cup men's team trophy at the world table tennis championships here last
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    • 363 12 HOUSTON. Texas, Wed. (Reuter) Joe Frazier last night knocked out challenger Dave Zvglewicz in the first round of a 15-round bout billed here as a world heavyweight boxing title fight. The 24-year-old Frazler. recognised a* world champion In five U S States plus Mexico and
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    • 137 12 CHESS MOSCOW. Wed (Reuter) Challenger Boris Spassky. of the Soviet I'nion. drew level with title holder Tigran Petrosyan last night at the end of the fourth game in their world chess championship aeries. Petrosyan. a Soviet Armenian, who has held the title fo* si*
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    • 158 12 LONDON. Wed (Reuter> The English Test and County Cricket Board are putting forward a proposal that all cricketing countries should experiment with a new lbw law The proposal will be put to the MCC Council meeting on May 1 with the suggestion that the experimental
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    • 355 12 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) Leeds United moved another step nearer to winning the English Football League championship last night when they drew 0-0 away against Everton. Their nearest rivals, Liverpool, fought out a goalless draw awav against lowly Coventry City, so Leeds need to win only
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    • 112 12 LONDON. Wed. i-lizaoetn will be present at i. e Amateur Swimming Association (ASA) centenary ga a at tne Crystal Palace National Recreation Centre. South London, on May 15 According to the ASA, the afternoon will oe non-competi-ti\e and the mam objectne will be to show the
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