Eastern Sun, 26 June 1969

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    21 1 Eastern Sun SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 3 No. 1039 Thursday, 26 June 1969. MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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    Lock icon Thai Envoy Dies In K'Lumpur
    140 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Thai ambassador to Malaysia. Lek Tantemasapva. 55. died of a heart attack in the Kuala Lumpur General Hospital this morning. His body will be flown back to Thailand for burial. The late Mr. Tantemasapya was the consul-general of the Thai consulate
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    Lock icon Now Its A Land Grab By Peru
    122 1 LIMA. Wed. (UPl)—Peru's President told the nation last night his military backed government would take ove r all major, privately owned land tracts including those of such American investors as New York Gov. Nelson A Rockefeller and turn them into farming co-operatives for
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    56 1 COPENHAGEN. Wed. <TPI) Submachine guns and ammunition will no longer by distributed to private members of the Danish Home Guard under the age of 21, Defence Minister Erik Ninn-Hensen said today. He said the policy change was made because of three killings within the past year by teen-age
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    Lock icon Judy: Death From Incautious Overdosage Of Drug
    624 1 Not Alcoholic; Could Sleep With o LONDON. Wed (CTI) Judy Garland died in the locked bathroom of her home on Sunday becau>e of an "incautious selfoverdosage of the sleeping drug. Seconal." a London coroner decided today. Gain Thurston, who acts as coroner for
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    Lock icon Smith Scornful Of More Talks With Britain
    269 1 SALISBURY, Wed. (t'PI) Prime Minister lan Smith today said he sees little chance of fresh fence fence-mending talks between Britain and his break- away Rhodesian regime. In an exclusive interview. Smith also scoffed at Britain's action yesterday in cutting off its last diplomatic
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    Lock icon SABOTAGE AT BOEING FACTORY
    70 1 EVERETT Washington. Wed. (UPI) The Boeing Co. has ordered tighter security at its 747 production line here after sabotage on two of the giant jets was disclosed. Electrical wires on flight decks of two 747's on the production line at Everett were found to have been
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    Lock icon DR. GOH TO VISIT MSA OFFICES TODAY
    62 1 THE Minister for Finance, Dr. Goh Keng Sweii will pay a visit to the Malaysia-Singapore Airlines Head Office at Robinson Road today. This is the first visit by the Minister to the MSA since the Finance Ministry took over from the Ministry of
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    Lock icon Humour In Sober Inquiry
    304 1 SUBIC BAY NAVAL BASE, Philippines, Wed. (UPI) Everything is not all grim and glum in the inquiry into the tragic collision between the Australian carrier Melbourne and the U.S. destroyer Frank E. Evans. A wayward loudspeaker and two American sailor witnesses provided some li«ht moments during
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    Lock icon More Train Sabotage
    94 1 MUNICH. Germany. Wed. (UPI) Two davs after an ammunition train exploded in Hannover, saboteurs tried to derail a passenger train and shot at it in Bavaria. West German police reported today. The train, heading from Munich to Holzkirchen in Southern Bavaria, rammed a heavy girder that had
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    Lock icon 25-CENT SECRET FOR 62 YEARS
    112 1 ST. LOUIS MISSOURI. Wed. (UPI) Honesty is the best policy even if it takes 62 years to get around to it. Rickey J. Sunners of Louisville, Kentucky, was a newspaper distnbutor in 1907 lor the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. One day h« accidentally received five more
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    Lock icon ROCKET EXPERT LEY DIES
    130 1 NEW YORK. Wed. (Reuter) Willy Ley. »the Germanborn rocket expert and science writer, collapsed and died at his home here today aged 62. Ley. who came to the United Btates in 1935, died of an apparent heart attack. He wrote many space science books. including "Rockets,
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    Lock icon On Sea Tests
    25 1 CHERBOURG. France, Wed. (Reuter) France's first nuclear submarine. Le Redoutable. began sea trials today, escorted by warships and with helicopters buzzing overhead.
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    Lock icon Israeli Jets Hit Raider Base
    216 1 TEL AVIV. Wed. (UPl)—lsraeli fighter planes today attacked guerrillas in Jordan east of the Jordan River, witnesses said. They said the planes struck for 25 minutes at guerrilla positions near Adassiya after the Arab bands had fired on an Israeli patrol. In earlier action just
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    Lock icon NZ Seeks Collective Action For Security
    311 1 WELLINGTON, Wed. (Reuter) —Defence Minister Dsvid Thomson said today New Zealand must seek collective action to promote regional security in South-east Asia. "Such collective effort should enable us to establish a claim for help should we ever be in need of support and protection/'
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    Lock icon Bomb Threat To Charles
    166 1 HOLYHEAD, Wales. Wed. (UPI) —A homemade bomb was found today at the entrance to the pier Prince Charles will use to get to the royal yacht Britannia following his investiture on Tuesday as Prince of Wales.. It was the first bomb scare in Wales with obvious
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    Lock icon Rajaratnam Sees Tito
    53 1 BELGRADE. Wed. (UPI) President Tito today received visiting Foreign Minister Mr. S. Rajaratnam of Singapore for a private talk, the news agency Tanjue reported. Mr. Rajaratnam has had talks with several top Yugoslav officials, including Foreign Secretary Mirko Tepavc and Premier Mitja Ribicic. since his arrival in
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    Lock icon High Court Rules Election Of SBEU Officials Is Void
    324 2  -  Robert Wins One-man Battle By R.V. Lingam The election of 27 members to the executive committee of the Singapore Bonk Employees' Union wos yesterday declared null and void 1 by the High Court. The court, granting a declaration, following an application
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    Lock icon NZ Trade Group Steps In
    188 2 SIXTEEN New Zealand businessmen arrived here last night for a flve-day visit to consolidate and expand trade between the two countries. The leader of the team. Mr T.E Clark, said this last night on arrival at the airport here The team arrived from Indonesia following
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    Lock icon Escaping Robber Shot Dead By PC
    134 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A 25-year-old robber was shot dead this morning in st chance encounter with the Police. He and three accomplices were ransacking a secondhand goods dealer's house at Jalan Kundor. off Cheras Road, when a police patrol car came upon them. The
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    Lock icon His Old School
    35 2 President Yusof bin Ishak and the First Lady, Puan Noor Aishah, will be present at the Old Rafflesians' Association's annual dinner at the Golden Lotu* Restaurant, Hotel Malaysia on Friday, June 27.
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    Lock icon Choice Of Docs. Leads To Divorce
    104 2 HIS wife's preference for private doctors over government doctors led to the breakup of their marriage, a packer. Lee Siew Teng. told the High Court yesterday. Lee said: "I could not meet with the demands of my wife. How Juan Tee, for money to
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    Lock icon Critical Friends
    85 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Malaysia was today reminded that her friends "in South-east Asia and outside" might be critical but basically were still her friends. These nations now appreciated her problems in trying to mould a united nation out of a multi-racial society, said Mr. D.K. Hunn, who left
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    Lock icon About People In Singapore
    574 2 MR. PREM PAUL OHRI, Managing Director of G. C. Nanda and Sons, was elected President of the Singapore Travel Association recently. Other office-bearers include: Vice-President: Mr. N.A. Cloke, Cooks World Travel Service; Secretary: Mr. Thomas Llao of Straits Central Agencies; Treasurer: Mr. Lucky Ng of Anglo
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    Lock icon Hope For More's $'s To The Blind Fund
    115 2 Hope For More's s To The Blind Fund THE PRESIDENT of the Singapore Association for the Blind. Dr. Arthur S. M. Lim, and Mrs. Lim today gave an informal lunch to helpers and stall organisers of the recent 17th International Bazaar for the Blind. The lunch was held at the
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    Lock icon Please Assist -Judge
    265 2 The victim of an alleged abduction was yesterday urged by the Second District Judge. Mr. Donald leo Hock Chwee, to cooperate and atop giving evasive replies. The District Judge made this remark when Lim Ron Hlong, 30. under crossexamination by defence counsel. did not give direct answers
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    Lock icon $9 Mil. 'Training Pact'
    89 2 THE TECHNICAL Education Department of the Ministry of Education and the United Nations Development Programme (Special Fund) have concluded an agreement for the $9 million Technical Teacher Training and Vocational Edu c a tion Project. Both parties signed the agreement at the Education Min i s
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    Lock icon Knitting Factory Shares Top Offer By $23 Mil.
    295 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The oversubscription by more than $23 million of a share issue of the Min Ngai Knitting Factory was a reflection of the confidence Malaysian investor* had in the country's economic stability, the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Enche Mohamed
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    Lock icon School Leavers' Training Course
    96 2 THE PRIMARY Production Department intends to start a 3-month training course for youths, school leavers and fishermen, on Aug. 1. The course will be conducted at the Fishing Training Institute at Changi by personnel of the Fisheries Division of the Department and staff of the Food
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    Lock icon Work Permit Law Due July 1
    126 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed The Minister of Labour. Mr. V Manickavasagam said today the Employment (Restrictions) Act would come into force "n July 1. The Minister told reporters at the Kuala Lumpur Interrational Airport that application forms would be made available to everyone. for employment
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    Lock icon 1st Envoy Of Turkey
    44 2 The first Turkish Ambassador to Singapore. Mr. Hlkmet Hayri Anli. presented his Letters of Credence to President Yusof Ishak at the Istana yesterday Mr Anii is concurrentlv the Turkish Ambassador to Thailand Vietnam. Laos and Malaysia. He resides in Bangkok.
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    Lock icon 'Krakatoa' Premiere
    67 3 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) The cinerama film "Krakatoa, East of Java." held its New York premiere on broadway last night, attended by the Indonesian ambassador to the United Nations, Roeslan Abdulgani and Consul General Ramli Jusuf. The climax of the film was based on the 1883 eruption of
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    Lock icon LIVE FROM THE MOON
    289 3 July 21 Spectacular WASHINGTON, (UPI) Two hours end 40 minutes of live television from the surface of the moon will be transmitted to earth by Apollo 11 beginning at 0612GMT on July 21. Black and white pictures will ehow Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong stepping onto the
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    Lock icon Expensive Friends
    162 3 WASHINGTON. Wed. <Reuteo Ninet per cent of the US$375 million the Pentagon is seeking for military aid in 1970 will go to Turkey. Greece, Nationalist China and South Korea. Defence Secretary Melvin Laird said today. He said the budget request was the "irreducible minimum" and more money would
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    Lock icon KMT To Appoint Chiang Ching-Kuo Vice Premier
    364 3 TAIPEI, (UPI) Defence Minister Chiang Ching-Kuo, eldest son of President Chiang Kai-Shek, will be appointed Vice Premier in a cabinet reshuffle to be announced in the next few days, the government information office said today. This was decided at a meeting of the
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    Lock icon 'The Black Racist' By Hoover
    351 3 Children Being Brutalized Young vr®ETROIT, Michigan, Wed. UTPI) FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover yesterday called Negro columnist Carl T. Rowan a racist while discussing the controversy over the tapping of the telephones of slain Civil leader Martin Luther •King Jr., two Knight Newspaper reporters said.
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    Lock icon Killer In The Rhine Believed To Be Insecticide
    289 3 MILLIONS OF DEAD FISH THE HAGUE, Wed. (Reuter) Dutch experts believe the poison which drifted down the Rhine killing millions of fish was probably an insecticide called Endosulvan, The Dutch institute for public health said last night the insecticide, related to chlorinated
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    Lock icon Good Results
    50 3 HONG KONG. Wed. (UPI)— Support for Indonesia's fiveyear development Dlan "has been pouring in from all parts of the world, the Indonesian Minister of Economic, Financial and Industrial Affairs, said today. Sultan Hamengku Buwono, was on a three-day visit here following trips to Belgrade. Brussels, Warsaw and Japan.
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    Lock icon Riot During Annual Parade
    107 3 MONTREAL. Wed. (Reuter) Hundreds of youths chanting "Quebec pour les Quebecois" Quebec for the Quebecoischarged through the city centre today, smashing windows, knocking over potted trees on the pavement and strewing garbage. The charge began shortly after the demonstrators overturned a float bearing a statue of
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    Lock icon Glass For New Giant Telescope
    96 3 TOLEDO. Ohio. Wed. (ATP) Sixteen tons of molten cera. mic glass were today pounded into a mould here to form a giant mirror for what will eventually be part of the world's second largest telescope. The telescope will be second In size only to the
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    Lock icon Pope Adamant On His Church's Tradition
    203 3 VATICAN CITY. Wed. (UPI) Pope Paul VI told Catholics todav they cannot escape the obligation to obey the "difficult law" against artificial birth control simply because they want an easier life. He warned against tendencies toward "an easy Christianity" and said this also has
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    Lock icon Sir Kenneth Fraser Dies
    87 3 BRISBANE, Queensland. Wed. (UPI) —Sir Kenneth Fraser. 72. leading Australian surgeon and pediatrician, died suddenly in a private hospital here yesterday. Sir Kenneth, who was made a Knight Bachelor in 1958. was the senior visiting surgeon at the Brisbane Children's Hospital. A former president of the
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    Lock icon DEATH FOR A PERVERT
    56 3 MOSCOW. Wed. (UPI) A man who killed and raped two women last year was sentenced to death by the collegium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, the government lewspaper Izvestia said tooay 3. V. Gusakov was charged vith first killing, then sexually nolesting. two
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    Lock icon Another 10 Per Cent Rise In Crime
    110 3 WASHINGTON. Wed. (AFP) —The number of crimes in the I'nited States increased by ten per cent in the first three months of 1969. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director J. Edgar Hoover announced today. The FBI chief said however that showed a 15
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    Lock icon £6.7m Fire Offering
    187 3 AHMEDABAD. India. Wed. (Reuter* A leading Hindu spiritual leader plans to burn more than 9.000 tons of food In a sacrificial fire later this year "to foster universal peace and the welfare and prosperity of the human race Lakshman Chalrany a Brahmacharijl Maharaj told reporters here yesterday
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    Lock icon Using Force On Rhodesia Will Produce Much Slaughter, Says Stewart
    310 4 r; LONDON Wed. (Reuter) Foreign Secretary, Mr. Michael SteWdrt said last night Britain believed sanctions were a surer policy over than force which would produce much slaughter j^ e British Cabinet Minister was asked on a television news proViramme why
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    Lock icon Nixon Briefs Cabot Lodge
    77 4 WASHINGTON. Wed. (Reuter) President Nixon yesterday held a 30-minute meeting with Chief U.S. negotiator Henry Cabot Lodge to discuss the next session of the Vietnam peace talks In Paris. A White House spokesman was unable to say whether the envov had been given any new instructions.
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    Lock icon Tunisia To Set Up Mission In India
    132 4 NEW DELHI. Wed. (Reuter) Tunisia has agreed to set up a resident mission in India to consolidate the increasing collaboration between the two countries in all fields. A Joint communique issued at the end of the five-day visit here of the Tunisian Foreign
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    Lock icon 'Shocks' made Mao Impotent Court Told
    145 4 BAL O NI CA. Northern Greece. Wed. (Reuten A defendant told a court m?rtlal here yesterday he had been made Impotent by electric shock treatment received during Interrogation by security men. Theoharis Koussourls. 21. a silversmith, with 15 other people Is facing charges of
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    Lock icon Village Prepares For Duke's Visit
    78 4 MUNICH. Wed. (Reuter) For a year the Bavarian village of Biindheim, where the Duke of Marlborough defeated the French at the Battle of Blenheim 265 years ago. has been making costly preparations for a visit by the present British Duke. The village (pop. 904) was
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    Lock icon Judy's Body Flown To New York For Burial
    294 4 NEW YORK. Wed. (Reuter) j u dy Garland's body was being flown to New York secretly today from London but no final plans have yet "been made when and where the singer-actress will be buried. Actress Lisa Minelli. Miss Garland's daughter, said
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    Lock icon NO PULLOUT OF U.S. SUPPORT FOR THE SAIGON GOVERNMENT
    240 4 PARIS, Wed. (UPI) An American delegate to the Vietnam peace talks said today the United States would not withdraw its support for the Saigon Government despite increased Communist conditions for a settlement. "We are not going to be worn down by
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    Lock icon Dragon Boat Regatta
    70 4 ANNUAL dragon boat regatta was held at Royal Naval Base, central district recently commemorating the death of the famous Ch'u Yuan, a virtuous statesman who drowned himself in the Kwat Lo River in protest against a decadent government on the sth dav of the sth lunar month
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    Lock icon New French Govt. Holds First Cabinet Meeting
    355 4 PARIS. Wed (Reuter)— The new French government holds its first Cabinet meeting todav amid moves to head off threatened labour unrest in the autumn. Prime Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas said last night he was ready to meet trades union leaders to explore current problems
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    Lock icon Govt. Workers On Strike For More Pay In Italy
    171 4 POME. Wed (Reuter) Government offices throughout Italy faced a shutdown today as an estimated 250.000 state employees went ahead with a 48-hour strike. Public employees ranging from museum attendants to civil service clerks and customs officials Joined in the walkout which
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    Lock icon China Pledges Support For Rumania's Independence
    199 4 BUCHAREST, WecL (Reuter) China's new ambassador to Rumania. Chian Hai-foun, yesterday assured President Nicolae Ceausescu of Chinese support for Rumania's independent stand. Presenting his credentials to Mr. Ceausescu, the Chinese envoy hailed Rumania's courage in defending its independence and national soverelgntv in the struggle
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    Lock icon DELEGATES DIFFER ON MIDDLE EAST CRISIS AND CZECH INVASION
    253 4 EAST BERLIN, Wed. (Reuter) Delegates to the world assembly for peace which ended here vesterdav, agreed to differ on the Middle East crisis and iast year's Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. The four-day assembly, which brought together 1.000 delegates from over 100
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    Lock icon FRONTIER POST
    75 4 OUJDA. Morocco, Wed. (Reuter) Moroccan and Algerian Ministers yesterday laid the foundation stone of a new frontier post at Jouj Bghal, near this north eastern town. The post was described by the official* as a symbol of the new spirit of co-operation between both countries. The ceremon v
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    Lock icon MOVE TO BRING BACK THE GALLOWS FAILS IN PARLIAMENT
    301 4 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) A move to bring back the gallows for certain types of murder failed in Parliament last night despite an MP's protest that armed gangsterism was increasing In Britain. The M P. Mr. Duncan Sandys, a former Conservative Minister,
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    Lock icon Arabs Quit Homes Near Wailing Wall
    79 4 JERUSALEM. Wed. (Reuter) The first four of 17 Arab families ordered to leave their homes on a street leading to the Wailing Wall here were evacuated yesterday. By evening they had been moved into new premises in eastern Jerusalem, a spokesman for the municipality
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    Lock icon Yugoslav News Agency Chief Editor Resigns
    138 4 BELGRADE Wed. (Reuter)' Momcilo Pudar. Editor in Chief of the Yugoslav News Agency Tanjug. has resigned following a political controversy caused by the agency's publication of a commentary attacking the Moscow World Communist summit. Tanjug said yesterday. The agency's council last night decided to
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    Lock icon Healey Meets H.K. Governor
    98 4 HONG KONG. Wed. (UPI) British Defence Minister Mr. Denis Healey today met with Governor Sir David Trench at the Government House on the second day ol his visit to this British colony. Military spokesmen declined to disclose the subject discussed but it was generally believed the
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    Lock icon US Hands Over 64 Crafts To Saigon
    467 5 SAIGON, Wed. (Reuter) Tht United States today turned over 64 river gunboats to the South Vietnamese Nary in the largest singlg transfer of American military equipment of the war. General Crelghton W. Abrams, U.S. Commander In Vietnam, signed the transfer at a ceremony
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    Lock icon New HK-Perth Route Planned
    98 5 HONG KONG. Wed (Reuter) Cathay Pacific Airways will inaugurate services between Hong Kong and Perth in April next year, the airline announced today. A spokesman for the Hong Kong-based, British-owned airline said it would operate twice-weekly Jet services via Jakarta, with direct same plane connections to
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    Lock icon New Worry For Nato
    476 5 NAPLES. Wed. (Reuter)— Defence planners are counting Russian ships instead of sheep in their beds at night as they try to guess Soviet intentions in the Mediterranean. Soviet fighting strength in the sensitive area fringing the Arab world grew to an alltime high about 60 ships
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    Lock icon 'Ponography' Catches Votes
    76 5 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) John J. Marchi. RepublicanConservative candidate for mayor, said he would take up B:lly Grahams' suggestion and make a campaign issue of pornography. Marchi said that New York suffers from "an awful incumbus'* because of its narcotics and pornography problems. He said he would
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    Lock icon Floods Isolate Assam
    176 5 SHILLONG. India. Wed. fßeuter) High floods in the E~ahmaputra, the Barak and their tributaries have totally cut off the Northeast Indian border State of Assam from the rest of the country. Feads and rail lines were nnder water and communications had broken down, officials said. v ast
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    Lock icon CPO Volunteered To Stay Last, Drowned
    438 5 MELBOURNE INQUIRY SUBIC BAY, Philippines, Wed. (Reuter) —Ten men escaped from their pitch dark cabin aboard the sinking bow of the U.S. destroyer Frank E. Evans because of a small penlight—but the sailor who owned the torch drowned. He had volunteered to be the
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    Lock icon Blow Up
    168 5 HONG KONG Wed. (AFP) British freelance photographer Philip John Prinr today punched a local press photographer outside a court where Prtng had appeared on alleged sex and drug charges. Tne man-to-man blow hit the face of China Mall photographer Raymond Tam after he had taken a picture of
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    Lock icon 'Fantas'
    87 5 PEKING. Wed. (AFP) A spokesman for the Information Bureau of the Chinese Foreign Ministry today described as "pure fabrication" a report about the Chinese nuclear bases published this month by Australian Journalist Francis James In a London periodical on Sunday. "It was claimed by James that in calling In
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    Lock icon Security Men Examine Top Secret Files
    79 5 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) Security officials today were examining military-type documents labelled "top secret" found lying in a London hotel lounge. Unconfirmed newspaper reports said the documents found in a briefcase at the President Hotel, Central London, last night referred to troop manoeuvres in West
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    Lock icon TOUGH TRADING FOR NZ
    141 5 JAKARTA. Wed. (Reuter) The leader of a 20-man New Zealand trade mission to Indonesia, Mr. Tom Clark, said today New Zealand faced tough problems which would have to be overcome if New Zealand were to take advantage of the Indonesian market. In a press statement before
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    Lock icon India Asks Japan For Economic Help
    191 5 TOKYO. Wed (UPI) India today asked for Japan's economic assistance to help implement the nations industrialisation projects centered on port facility expansion and offshore oil development. The Indian request was made when visiting Indian Foreign Secretary T.N. Kaul met with his Japasese counterpart Nobuhiko
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    Lock icon Chinese Balloon In Orissa
    43 5 BHIBAVESWAR. India. Wed (Reuter) A balloon carrying Chinese maps, leaflets and photographs of Chinese Communist Party chairman Mao Tsetung landed at Kalyampur in Orissa State last night. Thre« villagers were injured when the balloon burst as they examined it.
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    Lock icon COLLECTIVE SECURITY
    852 6 THE year 1971 is not far off by any reckoning Just a bare 18 months away. In no time at all the Year of the Pig will be upon us. But yet what happens during these 18 months will be of deep interest to the Malaysia-Singapore area. Mr.
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    Lock icon The Lagoon Of Eight Sons
    767 6  -  By ALBERT E. KAFF AKITA, Japan (UPI) They pumped the sea-water from one of Japan's biggest lagoons in order to grow rice the nation no longer needs. Hachiro (Eight Sons) Lagoon constitutes one of the most ambitious land reclamation projects ever undertaken in Japan. But
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    Lock icon Snowmobile Replace The Sled Dog
    426 6  -  By T. M. BROWN BARROW, Alaska (I'PI) The sled dog is disappearing from the Arctic with scarcely a whimper. His replacement Is the übi-1 quitous snowmobile faster, more economical, but pitifully unromantlc. A few short years ago, virtually every Eskimo or Indian family had at
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    Lock icon An Antarctic Hotel Some Day
    1011 6  -  By Dorothy Braxton WELLINGTON, N.Z. A centrally-Heated hotel on the ice. Huge landscape windows looking out on an aurora. Helicopters to the freak Antarctic crater of Mount Erebus. Husky trips across the tnow. Visits to Scott's hut. Every journalist is allowed a daydream. This is
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    Lock icon Booming Economy Of Japan
    692 6  -  By TEIJI SHIMIZU TOKYO. (UPI) Taro Suzuki won't graduate from high school until next March but he is already swamped with Job offers. Jiro Sato is in ninth grade and he. too. is getting job offers, some of them so attractive with all kinds of fringe
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    404 6 UNITED NATIONS Wed. (UPI) The Communist economies developed more than 1-1/2 times as rapidly as the capitalist nations over the last decade, according t* United Nations Statistics released this week. Statistics furnished by more than 150 nations filled the UN. Statistical Yearbook, a 796page. bilingual
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    159 6 DURING one of the many recent Soviet-Csechoslovak conferences In Moscow concerning the "normalisation" of the Czechoslovak government, one of the Soviet officials became abusively critical. "Why is it" he demanded, "that Ciechoslovakia. a land-locked country, needs a Ministry of the Seas?" "Please. Comrade." responded the urbane Ciech.
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      265 7 July first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m., in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 71-5/8 cents per lb., up one eighth of a cent from the previous dose. The tone of the market was quiet. In sympathy with overseas advices opening quotations were again
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      93 7 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) Trade between Britain and China is increasing at a monthly rate of £2.500.000 the SinoBritish Trade Council reported. The total value of trade in both directions between January and April this year **as £27.876.000 compared with £17.314.000 in the same period last year. The
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      Lock icon MALAYSIAN PLASTICS INDUSTRY EXPANDING
      220 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Malaysian plastics industry's consumption of raw material increases at the rate of 25 per cent annually, said Mr. Thomas Wong, managing director of Century Plastic Sdn. Bnd. in Petaling Jaya. Mr. Wong disclosed this before he left recently on a month-long trip
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      36 7 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) Dow Jones closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange. 30 Industrials 877.20 20 Rails 215.68 15 Utilities 121.17 65 Stocks 29R.35 40 Bonds 72.61 Commodity Futures Index 138.98
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      160 7 MANILA, Wed. (Reuter) Rice millers here believe there will be an acute shortage of rice in the Philippines this year but the government's Rice and Corn Administration (R.C.A.) claims there will be no shortage. The Manila Times reported today that a long drought had heavily
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      74 7 HONG KONG, Wed. (UPI) Money Quotations: Hong Kong dollars 6.095 per U.S. dollar Hong Kong dollars 6.***** per U.S. dollar TT Hong Kong dollars 14.52 per pound sterling Hong Kong dollars 303.75 per tael of gold 94.5 per cent fineness Hong Kong dollars 163.0 per 10.000 Japanese yens
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      Lock icon Stock Mart Remains Steady
      376 7 By Our Market Reporter WITH some rather subdued trading, the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday remained steady for the second successive day following Monday's reversal ot the previous week's bearish conditions. After opening firm, the market met with selling and dipped. The appearance of
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      273 7 The following is a berthing list released by the Port of Singapore Authority for June 25: DEPARTURE God owns Vessels 1/2 Quirinal* 6'7 Broholm 13/14 Pyrrhug 15/16 Centaur 18 Tigre N.W. 5 Serampang 21/22 Luna Marina 27 Keningau 40/41 Ras Maersk 45 Alaska Maru 46 Mersey Lloyd
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      968 7 DUSIXESS done in and reported to the trading rooms u of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia snd Singapore with the number of shares traded In brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified: INDUSTRIALS Acma $1.92 (1) $1.93 (1) $1.94 (1); Ben $2.00 (2) $2.01 (1); Borneo
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      86 7 NEW YORK. Wed (UPI) Steel production slipped to 2.769,000 tons last week from 2.771.000 tons the week before. the American Iron and Steel Institute reported yesterday. Production in the week end*d on June 21 was equal to 148 6 on the institute's index (average weeklv production
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      447 7 ARRIVALS. 8 00 a.m. MSA MLO29 Koala Lumpur. 8.15 a.m. LTA LT 15*5 Lnlted States. Papeete. Pacific. 900 a.m. MSA MLII 9 Kuala Lumpur 35 a-m. GAKLUA GAMW Jakarta. 10.15 a.m. MSA ML 121 Kuala Lumpor. 10-25 ajn. MSA MLOOA Penang, lpob, Kuala Lumpur. Malacca. 1245 p.m. PAN
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      Lock icon Stock Exchange Closing Prices
      599 7 8IMUAPOKE. Htoct fa* fhange tola and other prices nttlrially u»ied at the ekwa Of buslnra* INDUSTRIALS Arm# 1.93 1 98 B#>n Co 201 05 Borneo Bhd CD 1.73 1 76 Bou«tfid \D oo Camel Ply* nod C BI 2 55 1 56 Cold Storaj e t
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      118 7 THE AMoeiation of Banks in Malaysia-Singapore yesterday made the following changes in its rates to merchants (rates are quoted to the equivalent of 100 units of foreign currency): SELLING T.T. orOD ready: Deutsche Marks $76.8575; Holland Guilders $84.3125; Swiss Francs $71.5625: Belgian Francs $6.1125; French Francs $61.9000; Italian
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      Lock icon London Rubber Barely Steady
      92 7 LONDON. Wed. (UPI) Rubber market closed barely steadv yesterday with spot 25-1/2 25-3 4 nominal. Settlement House July 25-3 '8 nom 25-5 8. Aug 25-1 8 25-3 8. Oct. 24-7/8 25-1/8. Oct./ Dec. 24-3/4 24-7/8 Jan /March 24-1/2 24-s'B. April/June 24-7/16 24-1/2. July /Sept 24-1/4 24-7/16.
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      111 7 THE noon price* at the sinrapore Chinese Produce Exchant* j e&terdaj were Bvci ftrlier L'oconnt OH 48.-V) (F.O.B) Balk Coconut Oil 51-00 (FOB) Drum mm Mixed Copra 11 00 Muntok wtutc Pepper 122 50 (FOB) tiara auk White Pepper 120 00 (FOB.) Sarawak Special Black Pepper (F.O.B.) M* 90
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      50 7 i Huuien i Prtee > 1st Malayan *.79 2nd Malayan z. on 3rd Malayan 1.22 The Com. Ind. XD 1-01 Ill The Saving Fnnd 1.12 1 22 M. Invert Fond UM 1.35 1st Hons Ron* 1.45 1.51 2nd Hong Kong XD 100 105* Sterling Com 8/4 (•Hon* Kong
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      47 7 NEW YORK. Wed <UPI> Rubber futures closed 25 points lover on no sales. Sept 25.70 26.20 Nov 25.25 25 85 Jan up 24 60 25.35 Mar 2450 24 85 May 24.50 24.85 July 24 50 24.85 Locally. No. 2 RSS was 26-7/8 c~ent» per pound
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      12 7 THE tm price tor yesterday was $618.62* per picul, unchanged.
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      371 7 FAR EAST FINANCE ORGANIZATION LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of Singapore) BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31ST DECEMBER, 1968. £7 SHARE CAPITAL 30.000 Authorised: 10.000.000 Share® of $lOO each )0.105 Issued: 1.000 105 Shares of $1 00 each fully paid 5.000 RESERVE FUND 3,701 PROFIT AND LOSS APPROPRIATION ACCOUNT LONG TEEM
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      Lock icon The Value Of Newspapers
      352 8 In this modern world newspapers are of vital importance to people of all walks of life. They play such an important role in our daily lives that many of us may go without tea but not without newspapers. Newspapers are the medium through which we are
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      Lock icon Fire As A Friend And Enemy
      313 8 THE world is changing and as days go by .many things are invented. Fire was accidentally discovered in ancient times. It accidentally happened when either two stones were rubbed together or when a lightning struck a tree, causing a forest fire. Since then, fire
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      Lock icon COOK FOR A DAY
      276 8 MY parents had an important appointment one Sunday. Knowing that I would be lonesome, I decided to invite some friends for lunch and prepare some fried 'mee' for them. They were my close friends, Angeline, Lucia and Irene. When my parents left at 8.30 a.m. I
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      Lock icon Man Has Learnt From Animal World
      401 8 CAMOUFLAGE If you were a hunter, it would be very difficu't for you to detect a deer in the jungle. That is because the spots on its brown body blend with the flecks of sun and shade in the jungle. It is nature's way
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      Lock icon Postman – A Humble Worker With A Tough Job
      344 8 Postman A Humble Worker With A Tough Job THE postman is a very humble xoorker and has a tough job to do especially in the countryside. He has to go on long journeys on a But, he has an important part to play. A great system would break dawn but
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      258 8 WE all know that a life without fun or leisure would be meaningless and a dull life. Some of the students who don't realise the importance of spending leisure become 111 because of tirin* themselves out. They do not have any plana in their minds to
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      232 8 FAILURE and success, they are the opposite words. But do you know there is a relationship between them? Everyone has to overcome their difficulties. Either they solve them successfully or fail. We, students from primary schools, have difficulties and problems. When we do some work, we usually
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      Lock icon 'Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder'
      215 8 A PROVERB says: "Absence makes the heart grow fonder" and it Is really true. This proverb means that if someone is present, his or her friend may be scolding him or her for mistakes. If one is absent, well, his or her friend's eyes
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      59 8 Students: This is your page to further your interests. Therefore please send to us your articles on sports and extra-curricular activities. stories, poetry and painting for publication in the Eastern Sun. They will benefit the entire student community. Address your letters to the Editor, Students Page. Eastern Sun, 23-B Cantonment
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      184 8 NEW ESSAY CONTEST: RULES TO OBSERVE THE EASTERN SUN'S new essay writing contest for boy® and girls of 14 and under appears in this page every Thursday. One of the objects of this contest is to encourage young boys and girls to express themselves properly. And what better way to
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      102 8 AMY By Jack Tipp'+ m L;IW>C lllSw 1 Daddy f will Mom be as smart as you when she's as old as you are?" DATELINE; DANGER! by John Saunders and Akfen McVflfams E THOUGHT WE WfcS > THROUGH WITH THEM, DANNY...AND I DIDNT WANT TO WORRY VtXJ V 4 BUT
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    Lock icon Hollywood Honours John Wayne
    385 9 FORTY Y MOTION P HOLLYWOOD paid tribute to John Wayne on the occasion of his 40th anniversary in mdtiGn pictures at an invitational preview of his 200 th film. Paramount Pictures' 'True Grit/' held at the Directors Guild Theatre recently. One of the greatest turnouts of
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    Lock icon Lynn Quitting Show-biz To Become Actress
    287 9  -  By K. S. Sidhu WRiGGLING American entertainer, pretty Miss Lynn Iza, wtll no more be the "cynosure" or the stage. Her life under the floodlights comes to an end in 60 days' time Instead, she will take tip a more challenging and glamorous life
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    Lock icon 2 ACTRESSES FOR ROLES IN 'TROPIC OF CANCER'
    224 9 NEW YORK. Ellen McCrae and Dominique Deipierre have been signed by producer-director Joseph Strick for major roles in the Paramount Pictures' screen version of Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer." The motion picture, which stars Rip Tom as the narrator. Henry Miller, currently
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    Lock icon ASIA'S BEST STARS
    43 9 RIC RODRIGO of the Philippines (right) and Kim Ji Mi of Korea are all smiles after receiving awards as best actor and actress during awards night of the 15th Film Festival in Asia which ended in Manila recently. UPI Photo.
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    Lock icon Barbra Wins Top Italian Film Award
    151 9 ROME Barbra Streisand has been named winner of Italy's equivalent of the Oscar, the cove.ed David of Donatello Award for 1969 as best foreign sctress for her performance in "Funny Girl." the Columbia Pictures-Rastar Pro ductions Presentation in which she made her motion picture
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    Lock icon PARAMOUNT'S 1st. SOUNDTRACK ALBUM
    108 9 NEW YORK. Th* 8r»l sound track album to be released by Paramount Records was for Paramount Pictures." Those Daring Youn* Men In Their Jaunty Jalopies" In addition, the title sons from the picture, sung by Jimmv Durante, with music and lyrics by Ron Goodwin, was released
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    Lock icon THE NEW LEE INTERNATIONAL STUDIOS ARE SO LOCATED, THEY CANNOT LOSE!
    550 9  -  By Sheilah Graham LONDON AT new studio near London's West End The Lee International Studios one sound stafe is up and operating, with the James Mason picture "Spring and Port Wine." Three more are beln* built, with all the
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      184 9 #SHAWJ 3£i?SSIESIISr LIDO Phone *****1 NOW SHOWING: 11 Am.. 1-c.V 4.00, 0.30 A- 9.15 p a Albert Tinnev. Liza MinnelU "CHARLIE BI'RBLES" Color NEXT CHANGE! Ann-Mareret Vittona Oilman "Th* 1 Tigrr The Pmsycat" Color (SBI CAPITOL Phone 2975® 1 NOW SHOWING! No Free Lilt 11 a.m., 1.30. 4.00. 14i A
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      83 9 TODAY and YOU. Thursday. June 26, 1969. m mm* of your Zodioc birth »ign.. S Be 2 Tourion# 3 New 4 Ttni# 5 Ple«on» «6' Bm'nm 62 S'xjw 63 Heart's 64 About 65 Concerns 66 Derres 67 And 61 69 70 71 31 Pgitufi 32 Over 33 Dipi—i 34 Or
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      271 9 rnarniiim CATHAY ***** 2ND "EXHJirSTIVr WEEK' 11 a.m.. l.s». 4. «.S». 9.3 ft p m BMinmrndrd ONLY To Tb«M Of 1? and Abort Michel* Morgan "BENJAMIN" A Paramount Picture In Color NEXT CHANGE' Sidney Jamea TARRY ON DOCTOR" (In Color) A Rank Organisation Picture PRC HARD-***** j New Shewiag'. 1
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  • SUN SPORT
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      Lock icon Pacific Lodge Sparkles On Good Track
      222 10 By BIG BEN QJINGAPORE, Wed. Pacific Lodge did o O sparkling workout in the company of Young Rawson returning 39 4 5 for 3f on good going here this morning. He looks very fit and bears watching at this meeting. The Train, a newcomer
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      Lock icon Harizugema, Hunters Joint Leaders
      160 10 Harizugema and the Hunters are joint leaders in the three-man team league tournament now being held at the Jackie's Bowl. Katong. Both teams have so far played 64 game s each, winning 48 of them. In third position are the Trio, who have won 46 games.
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      Lock icon 22 Acceptors For Plate H'cap
      90 10 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) Twenty-two acceptors were announced today for the Northumberland Plate Handicap to be run over two miles at Newcastle on Saturday. They are with weights: LexiQflftO l. Alignment 9.0. Richmond Fair 8.6, Lucky Match and Alvaro both 8.3. Hipster 8.1 Philoctetes 7.13, Mustwyn.
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      Lock icon Probable Fields For Sunday At Bt. Timah
      1256 10 Horses Class 2 Div. 1—1 MUe 311 Yakin 4y 900 Tunku T C N. 618 Dendrobium 5y 8.10 Orchard Stable Teh 004 Likewise 5y 8.08 J. Donnelly Owner 000 State Law 6y 806 Bukit Stable J. Donnelly 203 Brave Bambino lOy 8.06 B.K
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      Lock icon HK 'No' To Merdeka Tourney
      129 10 HONG KONG. Wed. (Reuter) Hone Kong officially decided yesterday not to compete in the Merdeka Soccer tournament in Kuala Lumpur in November because of other commitments. The chairman of the Hong Kong Football Association, Mr. Francis Chine, said the decision was reached at a Council
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      Lock icon 'No Intention Of Leaving Brazil'—Pele
      113 10 MILAN. Wed (Reuter) Several Milan newspapers hinted yesterday that Pele. the Brazilian football idol, wants to join a leading Italian club after the 1970 World Cup series in Mexico. But Pele. who plays for Santos Club of Brazil, told reporters: "I have no intention of
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      Lock icon Move To Restrict Olympic Events Leads To Row
      448 10 ZURICH, Wed. (Reuter) A major row was brewing todav between the International Football Federation (FIFA) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) over the decision to restrict the number of countries competing in the final stages of Olympic team events to eight. FIFA
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      Lock icon Santos Edge Inter-Milan In Super Cup
      212 10 MILAN. ITALY, Wed. (Reuter> Santos, the Brazilian football league champions, won the first leg of their world "Super Cup" final with Internationale Milan by 1-0 here last night with a single 57th minute goal from inside right Tonlnho. Only a superb display by 18-year-old
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      Lock icon Little Stakes First Title Defence
      157 10 TOKYO. Wed —World Junior middleweight champion Fred Little of Las Vegas will make his first title defence against Hisao Minami of Japan Sept. 9 in Osaka Japan's second largest city, it was reported today Minami. 25. is the World Boxing Associations' No 3 junior middleweight
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      Lock icon Japan's Two For S'pore's Golf C'ships
      84 10 TOKYO. Wed. (Reuter) Japan will send two leading golfers to the 17th World Cup golf competition starting in Singapore from Oct. 2. The Japan Committee of the International Golf Association today said it has selected Takaaki Kono, 29. and Haruo Yasuda. 26. Kono was
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      Lock icon Millions Gather At U.S. Bowling Centres Every Week
      1118 10  -  American Sports Notes By J. RICHARD SKUSE THIS is a roundup of items of current interest in the U.S. sports world, highlighting American youth's growing interest in bowling, in snowmobiles and in the sport known as "soaring,'' or sailing the skies in
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      Lock icon Chartchai In Shock Defeat
      90 10 BANGKOK. Wed. (UPI) Unrated Willie Del Prado of the Philippines scored a stunning upset last night by winning a unanimous 10-round decision over former world flyweight champion Chartchai Choinoi of Thailand. Del Prado was the aggressor almost throughout the match and won all rounds except the
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      Lock icon 'Confrontation' For Charity
      61 10 BANGKOK. Wed. (Reuter) ZT T s® ruling United People Thai Party and the opposition Democratic Party have decided to confront each other on a PJ tch all in the name of charity. two parties will clash in what is hoped will be a ccer matc h here
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      Lock icon Mrs. King In Easy Victory
      635 11 WIMBLEDON r ON DON, Wed. (Reuter) Defending champion Billie Jean King successfully opened the defence of her Wimbledon title today with a 31-minute 6-2, 6-1 victory over Bernice Vuko- vich of South Africa. Mrs. King, who has won the title for the past three years,
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      Lock icon Takayama Outpoints Calderon
      202 11 HONOLULU. Hawaii. Wed. <UPI> Japan Katsuyoshi Takayama who was dropped from fourth to seventh in the WBA bantamweight ratings this week, took his revenge in Leo Calderon of Mexico last right bv winning a split 10-round decision over fourth-ranked Calderon. The Japanese jumping Jack took an early
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      Lock icon Iran Take 3rd Placing
      83 11 ATHENS. Wed. (Reuter) Iran, drawing I—l with South Korea in the international military soccer championship here last night, took third place in the tournament. Despite the draw in the match for third and fourth places. Iran finished ahead of South Korea because they conceded fewer comers
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      Lock icon A Last Chance For WI To Restore Reputation
      287 11 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) The West Indies face their last chance to restore their reputation as one of the foremost cricketing powers when they start the Second Test match against England at Lord's here tomorrow. One match down in the three-Test series, they
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      Lock icon Gloucs Lead Table With Resounding Win Over Hampshire
      688 11 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) Gloucestershire, who have won the English County cricket championship since 1877, jumped into the lead yesterday with a resounding win over Hampshire by 202 runs. Gloucestershire earned 18 points from the match to h*ad the championship table with 77
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      Lock icon Coldwell To Retire
      92 11 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) Len Coldwell, the former England medium-fast bowler, is to retire from first-clas s cricket later this season, it wag announced today. Coldwell, 36. will make his last appearance for his County. Worcestershire, against Nottinghamshire on July 22. He made his debut for Worcestershire in
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      Lock icon Carew Is Doubtful For 2nd Test
      203 11 LONDON. Wed. Reutfr) Joey Carew, the West Indies opening batsman, is doubtful for the second cricket Test against England, which starts at Lord's here tomorrow Apart from h:s continuing hand trouble, he has developed a side miurv following a recent fall while fielding He
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      33 11 SUV A. Fiji. Wed. (Reuter) Wales turned on a brilliant serond half burtt to beat Fiji 31-11 in their Rugby Union international clash in Suva today. The half-time score was eight-all.
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      373 11  -  Br Betzi Woodman ANCHORAGE. Alaska. Wed (Reuter) If you build a golf course from synthetic turf, how will it shape up when a 140n-pound <7OO kilo) moose walks across it?. Answer: Just fine. Better in fact than if a careless golfer crops a
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      898 11 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) Harmon KlUebrew drove in 'he deciding run in the fifth inning with an infield roller ast night as the Minnesota Twin* aefeaied the California Angelj 5—3 to move Into first place in the American League Western Division. Ted Unlaender
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      Lock icon Jesse Captures Masters Crown
      305 11 Singapore's veteran bowler, Jesse Dy emerged the champion in the Masters final at the American Club third annual bowling championships held recently. Last year's Singapore's national champion. Jesse, scored a total of 3,164 pinfalls. John Rose who rolled 3.152 pins, was runner-up. Jenny Parkhurst clinched the
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    97 12 MR. JACKIE CHUA Tian Hock has been appointed Manager of Hecny Transportation (S) Pte. Ltd., a newly established Hong Kong air-freight and travel organisation in the Republic. Hecny Transportation pioneered the air-freight business in the Orient in 1950 and had its head office In Hong Kong with
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    437 12  -  By Albert Johnson SINGAPORE'S fledgling "military might" will be on show when the Singapore Armed Forces celebrate its first Armed Forces Day, on Tuesday, July 1. The Minister for Interior and Defence. Mr. Lim Kim San, will review the main
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    105 12 A "floating hose" worth more than $1 million has been ordered for the Esso installation in Singapore. This Is reported in the Overseas Press Service of the British Information Service issued this week. The order was made by Imodco of Los Angeles in the
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    Lock icon Man With Chopper Wins Plea
    91 12 THE HIGH Court yesterday set aside the sen'ence imposed on Koh Seng Kim. who was convicted by the lower court on a charge of carrying an offensive weapon. Koh. who had in his possession a chopper on June 27, last year was sentenced to six
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    181 12 THE WORLD famous sitar player, Miss Kalyani Roy. will give a recital of Indian classical music at the Singapore Conference Hall on June 30 at 8.30 p.m. Miss Roy, 38. is accompanied by two leading dancers. Mr. Mrs. Pratap Pawar and four other artistes.
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    99 12 EIGHT organising secretaries of the People's Association will join hands with residents of the 9th mile West Coast Road and the Eng Khoon School Advisory Committee in a "Gotong Royong' road repair project on Sunday. They will spend six hours repairing a three-quarter mile track off 9th
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    Lock icon Peter Vim Off To Conference
    91 12 THE District Sales Promoter of Bata Shoe Co Ltd., Mr. Peter Yim Sow Nam has left the Republic to attend the Bat a World Conference in Canada. During his trip abroad. Mr. Yim will also participate in the Bata Retail Conference In Toronto and will
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    75 12 A LEADING Singapore businessman. Mr. LP. Maheshwary. has been elected Governor of District 308 nf Lions International for the year *****0 District 308 consists cf 30 Lions Clubs In Singapore. East and West Malaysia. The election took place at the Business Meeting of the 7th Lions
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    Lock icon CALL UP IN JULY
    128 12 THE NATIONAL Service registration for male Singapore citizens born between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31, 1952, will commence at the Central Manpower Base, Kallang, in July. A press release issued yesterday from the Ministry of the Interior and Defence stated that regardless of whether registration notification
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    Lock icon Dr. Wong Directs Research
    142 12 THE former Dean of the Facultv of Education. University of Singapore. Dr. Ruth Wong Hie King, has been appointed the Director of Research In the Ministry of Education. The Education Ministry In a news release stated that the appointment was made in the light of the
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    Lock icon Shell Malaysia Announces $33 Mil. Expansion
    174 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Shell Malaysia Limited today announced plans for a $33 million expansion programme in East and West Malaysia. According to the Chairman of the Company, Mr Joost J. Gerzon, $26 million would be utilised to expand refining, marketing and distribution facilities in
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    Lock icon Amah In A Pool Of Blood
    98 12 Swift action by the Police resulted in the arrest of two persons in connection with the murder of a domestic servant yesterday. The servant. Miss S- Suppama. 25. was found dead in the grounds of the General Hospital at about 820 ajn. only a
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    226 12 AN APPLICATION by a former political detainee, Low Tai Thong to set aside a bankruptcy notice issued against him by the Minister for the Interior and Defence was dismissed by the High Court yesterday. Dismissing Low's ex parte application. Mr. Justice Choor Singh, in a reserved
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    22 12 THIEVES broke into a hcuse in MacPherson Road on Tuesday and escaped with 5500 in cash and jewellery worth $BOO.
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    16 12 THERE were a total of 62 road accidents of which six were serious on Tuesday.
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    45 12 A 33-YEAR-OLD man wept a? he was fined $l5O or one months' jail in the Nin>h Magistrate's Court yesterday for outraging the modesty of a 13-year-old girl. Ho Kum Kwong admitted committing the offence at a fun fair in Queensway on June ?4
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    83 12 A MAN. Soh Yong Tie. was fired a total of $450 in the Ninth Magistrate's Court yesterday for evadine income tax on fixed deposit interests. Soh, a'ias Ah Tie. was also made to pay a penalty of $952.50. Soh admitted that on March 9. last year
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    161 12  -  ("By Peter Ong and Jerome DESPITE the wild crowd their boos and jeers a bevy of 17 beautiful (iris from Eusoff College, University of Singapore, braved their way through the InterHall competition at the "Varsity Showtime '69" and carried off the challenge trophy. Showtime
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    161 12 THE GENERAL Manager of Galax? Cinema, Mr. Chia Soon Ann. recently made a 10-day visit to Indonesia to see for himself the shooting of Indonesia's famed production—"The Man Without A Name.' The movie is expected to be released In Singapore, shortly. Mr. Chia said
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      112 12 S PORE DIARY P" l 2 p.m Rotarv pub of Singapore-West's weekly luncheon at Hollandsche (Dutch) Club. Camden Park off Adam Road. 2 p.m.: Heats of the Ninth Annual Safety First Quiz for Schools, at Shell Theatrette. Collyer Quay. 8 p.m.: Malay dance pract.ce at National Theatre Club. Clemenceau Avenue
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      34 12 Naval Dockyard —9 09 am. (8.5 ft.) 8.23 p.m. (9.2 ft.) Low Tide (Tomorrow) Singapore Town 2.17 am. (1.4 ft.) 2.25 p.m. (3.9 ft.) Naval Dockyard 204 am. (2.2 ft.) 234 pm. (5 ft)
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