Eastern Sun, 1 August 1969

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    20 1 EASTERN SUN OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1075 Friday, 1 August 1969. MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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    Lock icon I WILL RESIST IRRESPONSIBLE ELEMENTS -TUNKU
    459 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Tunku Abdul Rahman said today he would step down by himself but would not bow to the pressures of the irresponsible young people. The Tunku warned these people that they would eventually fall into the holes which they were digging. The
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    Lock icon Sihanouk To Give Up Powers
    63 1 PHNOMPENH, Thurs. (Reuter) Prince Norodom Sihanouk told the Cambodian National Assembly today that he tntenas to nahd over the duties of Head of State to a regency council. In a press release of his speech to the opening session of the 27th Congress, Prince Sihanouk
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    Lock icon 'SERIOUS SITUATION'
    76 1 UNITED NATIONS, New York, Thurs. (Reuter)—Secre-tary-General U Thant said today that the breakdown of the Security Council-ordered ceasefire in the Middle East was "a development of the utmost seriousness" for world peace. In s special report, he also appealed to the council "to ensure that decent and proper
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    Lock icon NEW RUBBER HIGH
    208 1 THE price of rubber reached a new high yesterday to just one cent short of 80 cents per lb., in the wake of its current steadiness. August first grade rubber buyers closed at 79 cents t>er lb., up one and one eighth of a cent from the
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    Lock icon Kennedy Won't Run In 1972
    28 1 WASHINGTON. Thurs. (Reuter) Senator Edward M. Kennedy today said flatly he would not be standing as Democratic candidate for the 1972 presidential elections.
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    Lock icon ONLY PARTIAL CONTACT WITH MARINER-7
    396 1 PASADENA, California, Thurs. (Reuter) Scientists restored partial contact with the mute Mariner-7 unmanned spacecraft near Mars as its twin, Mariner-6, swept to within 2,130 miles of the red planet. Mariner-7 had failed to respond to the wake-up call sent out seven hours earlier and scientists
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    Lock icon Nixon In New Delhi
    137 1 NEW DELHI. Thurs. (UPI) President Richard M. Nixon, nearing the end of an Asian tour, arrived in India today for a whirlwind visit to less than one day. The presidential Jet which brought Nixon and his party from Bangkok arrived at New Delhi's Palam International Airport
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    Lock icon 'Moon Rock Is Different'
    279 1 SPACE CENTRE, Thurs. (UPI) An Australian scientist yesterday led a team that made a chemical analysis of moon rocks brought back in Apollo 11. They reported that lunar soil differed significantly from the earthly variety. The team, headed by Dr. S.R. Tavlor of the Australian National
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    Lock icon Cricket Star Forged Ministers' Signatures For $650,000 Overdraft
    864 1  -  JAILED SIX YEARS by PETER ONG SINGAPORE, State cricketer Henry Victor Scully used his father's lifesavings as a security pledge with forged documents. Then he went on an "overdraft spree" for two years. Finally, his overdrafts totalled $650,000 as to back up
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    Lock icon 3 US Soldiers Decorated For Gallantry In V-N
    677 2 DI AN, SOUTH VIETNAM. Thurs. (Reuter and UPI) Three American soldiers yesterday received the distinguished Service Cross from President Nixon during a one-hour visit by the President to this muddy First Division Infantry Base 12 miles north of Saigon. The medal is
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    Lock icon Unrestricted Use Of Okinawa Bases: US
    525 2 TOKYO, Thurs. (UPI) U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers indicated at a news conference to-day that if the United States returns Okinawa to Japan it wants a special agreement giving the U.S. unrestricted use its Okinawan military bases. Rocers said President Nixon told nlm
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    Lock icon Treasure Find
    80 2 AUCKLAND, Thurs. r Reuter) Three New Zealanders claim to have found a treasure estimated to be worth several million New Zealand dollars in a privateer sunk off Tong in 1806. They are negotiating with the Tongan Government over their discovery, which by Tongan Law is the property of
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    Lock icon Permits Not Required
    68 2 RAWALPINDI. Thurs. (UPI) •—Martial Law Authorities announced yesterday conventions and indoor meetings of working committees and councils of political parties will now be allowed without prior Government permission. Public meetings and processions. however, remained in force. The new regulation was issued following the nationwide broadcast on Monday
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    Lock icon Tight Security Back To Normal In Saigon
    850 2 SAIGON, Thurs. (Reuter) Security precautions in Saigon today returned to normal after a whirlwind, tightly-guarded visit by President Nixon in which he said America and South Vietnam had gone as far as they should in taking peace initiatives. Nixon, the first U.8. President
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    Lock icon Rogers In ROK To Hold Talks
    520 2 SEOUL, Thurs. (UPI and Reuter) U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers arrived in South Korea to-day barely missed being attacked bv a Japanese youth at Tokyo International Airport because of mistaken iden- tity. On his arrival In Seoul. Rogers reaffirmed the US. readiness and
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    Lock icon Indian Left Fails In Bank Bill Move
    123 2 NEW DELHI, Thurs. (Reuter) An Opposition attempt to expand the scope of the Bank Nationalisation Bill to include foreign banks operating in India failed in the Lower House of the Indian Parliament yesterday. The House rejected by 198 votes to 59 votes an
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    Lock icon N. V-N Against Democratic End To War: Paris
    537 2 PARIS, Thurs. (UPI) The United States toughening its negotiating stance, bluntly accused North Vietnam and the Vietcong to-day of opposing a democratic solution of the Vietnam War. Chief American negotiator Henry Cabot Lodge, who previously had avoided tough statements and tried instead
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    Lock icon Airport Attack On US Ambassador
    423 2 TOKYO Thurs. (UPI and Reuter) A young Japanese man armed with a pointed ing a note opposing Americas poisonous gas attempt d to attack U.S. Secretary of State William Rogers at Tokyo International Airport today but instead knocked down the American Ambassador to Japan. Police
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      110 3 Leave home Forget the office. Forget the house. Forget the kids. And let things run themselves for a while. Just plain run away. Right away. Like today. Just the two of you. To a beach in Honolulu, perhaps. A cable car in San Francisco. A New York skyscraper. They're all
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    Lock icon Pope Paul Off To Uganda
    153 4 ROME. Thurs. (Reuter) Pope Paul left here today for Uganda on a pilgrimage to the shrine of black Africa's first martyr saints and if possible to try and mediate for peace in Nigeria. The Pope will also attend a symposium of African bishops' meeting to
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    Lock icon U THANT URGES RESUMPTION OF MERCY FLIGHTS
    382 4 UNITED NATIONS, New York, Thurs. (Reuter) U.N. Secretary-General U Thant yesterday appealed to both sides in the Nigerian civil war to permit the resumption of emergency relief flights lest the civilian population "again be plunged into the dreaded cycle of starvation, disease and
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    Lock icon Paris Upholds 'European Europe' Idra
    58 4 PARIS. Thurs. (UPI) —Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann said yesterday President Nixon's Asian trir and other international developments have strengthened France's resolve to pursue policies of independence from both east and west. Simultaneously. Schumann upheld the concept of a "European Europe'' in what appeared a French
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    Lock icon 2 Deformed Boys Get $33.000
    61 4 LONDON. Thurs. (Reuter) A judge yesterday awa.ded two boys deformed bv 'he drug thalidomide damages £33.000 in a decision that will help settle some 60 other similar British cases. The two boys, identified as David, eight. and Richard seven, received £20.800 and £12.800 respectively. David
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    Lock icon Have Voice Will Trave 'Girl In A Suit-case'
    168 4 WHAT'S the cost of travelling to six Asian cities? The airlines estimate it at $10,000. But for pretty Miss Chim Feng, a noted Taiwanese vocalist it's just a suitcase and a rich, lovely voice. And this is what she is ''paying" to
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    Lock icon Moonmen Brief Space Experts
    284 4 HOUSTON. Thurs. (Reuter) Astronauts Nell Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin Aldrin yesterday faced a galaxy of top space officials and described how they flew to the moon and made man's first landing there. While the Apollo 11 spacemen recounted their adventure. scientists at the Lunar Receiving
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    Lock icon Ted Decides To Stay In Senate
    727 4 BOSTON, Thurs. (Reuter ond UPI) Senator Edward Kennedy announced yesterday he will remain in the U.S. Senate and run tor re-election next vear when his current term expires. In a statement issued by his Boston office he added that if re-elected in 1970, he
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    Lock icon RUSSIANS SHOW OFF SUPERSONIC TU 144
    139 4 MOSCOW, Thurs. (UPI) The Soviets yesterday displayed their supersonic passenger liner TU 144. rival of the Bri-tish-French Concorde, to Pan American Airlines. Najeed Halaby. president of Pan American, first saw the sleek supersonic jet on Tuesday when he arrived for a 'study" visit with
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    Lock icon Molotov Cocktail Protest In Berlin
    53 4 BERLIN. Thurs- (UP I) Molotov cocktails thrown through the windows of the West Berlin Citv Hall library early yesterday set books and furnishings ablaze. Police said the incident was part of a protest action against the extradition of eight West German army deserters from the
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    Lock icon 4 COPS HELD
    52 4 COVENTRY. Rhode Island. Thurs (Reuter) —Four members of the 22-man Coventry police force have been arrested here in connection with the shotgun slaying of a bartender. A fifth man. a former member of the police department, was being sought on a war-ant for murder in connection with
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    Lock icon Germ War: Russia Blasts UK, America
    171 4 GENEVA, Thurs. (UPI)" Russia yesterday sharply attacked the British proposal for an international convention banning germ warfare as a halfway measure. Soviet disarmament negotiator Alexei A. Roshchin said any such treaty should include chemical as well as biological, or germ, weapons. Roschin. at an
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
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      347 4 I i) SHAW I ISATION L I D O Phone 2*414 NOW SHOWING! II a-B».. 1.45. 4.00. 6 30 9 15 p.m. Suzanne Pleshette. Ian McShane "If It's Tuesday This Must Be Belgium" Color iUAi LIDO CAPITOL Bv Demand! Encore Midnight Tomorrow! Li Li-hua. Shen Yunz-chun 'THE PARTISAN LOVERS" 'A
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    • Miscellaneous
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      145 4 TODAY an Friday* August 1, 1969 m By CLAY R. POLLAN Your Daily Activity Gvid* According to tho Start. <r To develop messoge for Friday, reod words corresponding to numbers of your Zodioc birth sign. 1 Mats 2 You 3 Catering 4 Enjoyoc e SToke 6l<sten 7 Avoid A Fofr
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      493 4 CRGAM j 1 N i.T# ORCHARD ***** sow SHOWING: DAILY 3 SHOWS: 2.00, 5.30 A 8.45 p.m. No Free List! Adm.: $1.50, S2.50 J4 00 Spore Film Festival Picture Columbia's "FUNNY GIRL" Barbra Streisand Omar Sharif Technicolor PanaVision School: $1 50 to any seat at 2.00 and 5.30 p.m. shows
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
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      Lock icon Stock Exchange Closing Prices
      604 5 SINGAPORE "ItlcUIlT iUiro „t biuloai. Stork Exother prices the clo»« of I.VDCRTHIALS AOL4 B I M c>. 1 74 l a;< 1 us 1 S7 207 1 34 i l.fltt 34)2 Ben A Co. \D l i« 1.76 bcnifo Bhil Came] Pljw oo<l \BI 1 67
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      88 5 THE noon prices at the pore Chinese Produce Exchange yesterday mere:— Bayer heUei Coconut Oil (FOB) Bulk 48.25 t Odinut Oil .FOB.) Drum 50.75 Mixed Copra Momok Uhlte Pepper 3050 (FOB-) lin on Sf iHaii White Pepper (FOB-) 137 50 Sarawak Special Black Pepper (FOB.) »6% MW 95.00 lam
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      49 5 (Managers Prices) 1st Malayan XD 2.61 2nd Malayan XD 186 3rd Malayan 1.19 The Com. Ind .97 1 07 The Saving Fund... 1.02 112 M- Invest Fund 1.20 1 30 1st Hong Kong 1.50 1.56* 2nd Hong Kong 102 1.07* Sterling Com 5 '3 <*Hong Kong currency)
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      Lock icon Rubber Futures
      62 5 NEW YORK. Thurs (UPP Rubber futures closed 35 to 20 points higher on the New York Commodity Exchange yesterday. There were no sales. Bid Ashed Sept 29 35 Nov 28 60 Jan (70) 27 85 23.10 Mar 27.25 27 60 May 27.10 27 60 July 26 85 27.45
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      Lock icon London Rubber Closes Steadier
      96 5 LONDON. Thurs. (UPI) Rubber yesterday closed slightly steadier with spot 27$, 27J. Settlement House Sept 27-1/2 27-5'8 Oct 27-9/16 27-3'4 Nov and Oct Dec 27-5 8 27-11/16 Jan Mar 27-1 15 27-1 8 Apr June 26-13/10 26-7'8 July Sept 26-1 2 26-5 8 Oct Dec 26-3
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      Lock icon H.K. Money
      64 5 HONG KONG. Thurs. (UPI) —Money Quotations: HK S6.***** per U.S. dollar HK $6 0975 per U.S. dollar TT HK $14.53 per pound sterling HK $306.5 per tael of gold 94.5 per cent fineness HK S161.3 per 10.000 Japanese ven HK $132.5 per 100 Philippines pesos buyers HK $133.5
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      Lock icon SHIPS IN PORT
      286 5 The following is a berthing list released by the Port of Singapore Authority for August 1: DEPARTURE: Godowns Vessels 1/2 Italy Maru (I) 1/2 Italy Maru (2) 6/7 Houshun Maru 8/9 Cecilie Maersk 10/11 Barpeta 35/36 Memnon 21/22 Aiko Maru 27 Hua Li 28 Nikkou Maru 33/34
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      Lock icon Stock Mart Maintains Steady Conditions
      232 5  -  BY OUR MARKET REPORTER STEADY conditions were maintained in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday as the recent sharp fall in share prices continued to tempt "bargain hunting." New spectulative buying and shortcovering made for the initial firmness before profittaking and some short
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      Lock icon Gold Prices Slip On World Marts
      133 5 NEW YORK. Thurs. (UPI) Gold prices slipped in routine trading yesterday on markets here and abroad In London, gold fell 1 cent at the morning fixing and an additional 2$ cents for a second fixing of US$41,475 per troy ounce. Gold closed in a
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      Lock icon Dow Jones averages
      39 5 NEW YORK. Thurs. (UPI) Dow Jones closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday. 30 Industrials 803 58 20 rails 193.19 15 utilities 116 05 65 stocks 273.22 40 bonds 72.32 Commodity futures index 138.61
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      Lock icon RUBBER: (79 Cts.) Highest Since Feb. 1963
      319 5 AUGUST first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur vesterday at 79 cen*s cer lb.. up one and one eighth of a cent from the previous close. The tone of the ma-ket was uncertain. After opening half a
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      Lock icon EXCHANGE RATES
      105 5 THE Association 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 TT. or O.D ready: Deutsche Marks $77.0850; Holland Guilders $84.9150; Swiss Francs $71 5375. Belgian Francs $6 1500:
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      Lock icon INDUSTRIALS BOUNCED UP ON LONDON STOCK MART
      177 5 LONDON. Thurs. (UPI) Industrial shares forgot about Wall Street and bounced up on the stock market yesterday when bargain hunters did some "cheap buying" after the recent slide and handed the list widespread gains. The index Jumped 5.8 to 363.8 about half an
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      Lock icon TIN PRICE
      13 5 THE tin price for yesterday was $642.62£ per picul. up S1.50.
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      Lock icon AIR MOVEMENTS
      457 5 ARRIVALS: 5 00 am. -»1SA Ml 029 Koala Lumpur 9 00 a.m. MSA ML119 Kuala Lumpur. 1015 ».m MSA ML121 Koala Lumpur. 10.25 a.m. MSA ML005 Penanx, Ipob. Kuala Lumpur. Malacca. 1.10 p m MSA ML 451 Kucbing. 2.25 pm MSA ML047 Kota Bbaru. Trengganu. Koala Lompor. 8.25p.m.
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      Lock icon BUSINESS DONE
      1227 5 OUSINESS done in and reported to the trading rooms -D of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified: INDUSTRIALS Acma $174 (1); Be n $1.76 (1); Borneo $168 (3) $1.66 (1) $1.67
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    Lock icon ANATOMY OF CHANGE
    706 6 AS usual Foreign Minister Rajaratnam's speech at the Diplomatic and Consular Corps luncheon on Wednesday was a reporter's nightmare and an editorial writer's paradise. In a rather long speech he has compacted so many ideas some age-old truisms with ultramodern concepts that any ordinary listener would have
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    Lock icon RHODESIANS HERE?
    340 6 IT IS with shock we read that the Football Association of Singapore is inviting the Rhodesian soccer team to come and play in the Republic. When almost the whole world has unequivocally condemned the racist policies of Rhodesia and her principle of white supremacy over the coloured, it
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    13 6 A food conscience is a continual Christm a s Benjamin Franklin.
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    Lock icon ABC Of Comecon
    227 6 LONDON: The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance was created in 1949 to facilitate economic exchange between and development of member countries. Each member is equally represented on the council. Comecon's aim is to coordinate development of individual economies and to rationalise production by means of specialisation. This
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    Lock icon Socialists Prepare To Take On Trudeau
    583 6  -  (By JAMES POST, OTTAWA: Canada's left-wing New Democratic Party appears to bo in for a spell of good fortune. Positive proof of an upswing in popular support for the Socialists came last month when the New Democratic Party unexpectedly ousted the middle-of-the-road Conservative Manitoba
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    Lock icon Why The Last Place?
    219 6 LETTERS... "IT was indeed a great disappointment to me and I am sure many others to see that the 11-year-old Ravi who sang his way into the quarter finals and to hundreds of radio listeners and TV. viewers, left out In the 6th and final quarter
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    Lock icon 'Sinophobia' Of The Soviets
    837 6  -  (From Sin Chew Jit Poh WHEN the British Parliament was in session last week, the Conservative members, one after another, brought up the question that the British decision to withdraw from East of the Suez would create a "vacuum' in the Indian Ocean and cause the
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    Lock icon Dawn Of A New Era
    650 6  -  By Frank Mankiewicz and Tom Bradcn^=- WASHINGTON The headlines which will be saved for posterity all said "Man Walks on Moon." At like moments in the past they did not say "Man Flies Alone to Paris"; "Man Climbs Everest" or even "Man Discovers Polio Vaccine."
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    Lock icon What Chance For Donnelly's Democrats?
    1011 6  -  By DAVID COHEN. Gemini Newt Service LONDON, On January IS 1968, Desmond Don- nelly did something few British Members of Parlia- ment have either the inclination, or the courage, to do. He resigned the Labour Whip. Resigning the Whip is the quaint phrase used for
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE
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      Lock icon 'Learn Early To Accept True Responsibility'
      809 7 Proud Parents And Pupils SINGAPORE could i tray succeed if her young citizens learned early to accept true responsibility, the Director of Research, Ministry of Education, Dr. Ruth Wong Hie King, said yesterday. Dr. Wong, who was speaking at the annua! speech and prize
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      Lock icon Man Pollutes His Own Air
      381 7  -  By Delos Smith NEW YORK, (UPI) People complain of air pollution yet they're all personally, constantly and involuntarily polluting the air themselves and, what's more with that notoriously deadly poisonous gas, carbon monoxide. Dr. Stephen A. Landaw explained this relatively new realisation of the sciences
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      Lock icon Infra-red Thermometer
      649 7 THE trouble with taking a person's temperature using an ordinary clinical thermometer is that you usually have to wait a couple of minutes to get a reading. Then the thermometer has to be shaken to get the mercury down the glass again with the result that many thermometers
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      Lock icon Infant Swims World Record
      315 7 COLOGNE (DaD) He can barely walk or talk and yet he feels much more at home in the water than on a hard surface. Little Andre Auch, born in November 1968, is the proud owner of a "world record" at the tender age of six months:
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      Lock icon Need For Occasional Solitude
      507 7 DEAR Ele and Walt: I like people. I like to be with them and to do things in a group. I also enjoy chatting with one. two or three friends at other times. But there are also times when I Just want to be alone. People
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
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      44 7 (1) If someone is polyglot, what will he be able to do? (2) Who was William Booth? (3) What is an Isotope? f5«e this page next Friday for answers) AMY By Jack Tippit I HPS "Dad, could Mom cook when you first met her?"
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      98 7 DATELINE: DANGER! by John Saunders and Alden McW&ams COME SUN-UP TOMORROW LEE ROY IS GOING TO LEARN THE RULES OP A NEW GAME... IT? CALLED WORKING FOR j A LIVING/ m I FI6URE THE BEST TREATMENT FOR BAD HABITS IS TO KEEP THE VICTIM •USy/> YOU'RE FORTUNATE, LEGS...I'M SURE DANNY
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  • Feature On Transport And Communications Exposition
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      Lock icon Progress Of Communications
      314 8  -  YONG NYUK LIN Minister for Communications. fFHIS first ever Exposition on Transport and Communications in Singapore is most appropriately held during the 150th Anniversary celebrations of the Founding of Singapore. Our geographic and progressive development over the years has made Singapore what it is today, a major
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      Lock icon CHAIRMAN'S MESSAGE
      610 8  -  Phua Bah Lee Chairman. Organising Committee. ON behalf of the Organising and Working Committees of the Transport and Communications Exposition, I would like to express our thanks to the Minister for Communications, Mr. Yong Nyuk Lin, for being our patron. This Exposition to be staged from 1st August
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      Lock icon War Against Pollution
      1557 8 Fuel Cell Model ''FHE twentieth century has seen phenomenal progress in transport and communications but this progress has brought in its wake some problems. One of the major one faced by both industry and government is the danger of polluting the environment in which man lives the
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      Lock icon Highlights Of Exposition
      599 8 THE multi-million dollar Transport and Communications Exposition 1969. opening tonight at Kallang Park, is expected to draw more than 500,000 visitors to see a large range of its exhibits recording human achievements in the field of transport and communications. The main pavilion* of the Exposition wll] cover
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      Lock icon TOP FILMS TO BE SHOWN
      212 9 VISITORS to the Transport and Communications Exposition will see a colour film that has won an award for "the best film contributing to world peace" to be shown at the air-condi-tioned Mobil theatrette Admission will be free. The film, called "A Fable." was produced by
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      234 8 r > A I The twentieth century has seen phenomenal progress in transport and communications. Progress can often bring problems in its wake. One of the major problems that both industry and government must face today is the danger of air and water pollution. While greater concentration of industry has
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      369 8 iT TOURS s "i^ DON'T VISIT JAPAN NEXT YEAR Unless you have joined our C. E. TOURS EXPO '70 TOURS This once-in-a-lifetim« thing you can't afford to missFor gathered here are the nations of the world displaying for your pleasure their arts and science with the central theme "Progress and
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      Lock icon B. Singapura Does Smart 3f Workout
      198 10  -  By BIG BEN IPOH, Thurs. Bintang Singapura did a smart sprint over 3f in 39 2/5 on the bit on a firm track here this morning. Kakamion, winner of his last two starts, is retaining his winning form. With Lawrence Wong astride, Kakamion went
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      229 10 GOODWOOD. England. Thurs. (Reuter) —Jimmy Reppin, first runner from trainer John Sutcliffe's cough-stricken Epsom stables for five weeks, put up a fine performance to win the valuable Sussex Stakes here yesterday. The one mile event, richest race of the four-day Goodwood Summer meeting, was worth
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      73 10 RAFFLES Institution will clash against St. Andrew's School in the annual 'Kiwi Cup* rugby match at the St. Andrew's ground Serangoon Road, at 5.00 p.m. today. Raffles outplayed St. Andrew's by 24 points to three in the Singapore Combined Schools league final last week. A victory
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      97 10 HAMBURG. Thurs. (AFP) Tony Roche and Miss Judy Tegart. both of Australia, were the respective top seeds of the men's and women's singles of the West German international tennis tournament to be held here from August 4 to 11 Seedings: Men's Singles: 1) Tony Roche (Australia)
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      355 10 LONDON. Thurs. (Reuter) Derbyshire reached their first Gilette Cup cricket final yesterday routing Sussex lor a record low score of 49 in the one-day County knockout competition. Man of the match named by England selector Don Kenyon was Derbyshire's medium-pace bowler Peter Eyre with
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      105 10 Three clubi, will be participating in the Singapore Polo Club's Gymkhana, to be held in conjunction with the 150 th Anniversary of Singapore and the Pesta Sukan Week, at Thomson Road, on Aug. 2 and 3. They are the Singapore Polo Club, Bukit Timah Saddle Club
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      24 10 ANGLO CHINESE SCHOOL will hold their 32nd annual swimming championships at the Chinese Swimming Club, Amber Road, at 2.00 pan. today.
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      2538 10 1 SATURDAY Race l: Class 5, Dlv. 1-6 Ptunu*2.oo pan. ($5,000) f FOR LOCAL RIDERS ONLY) 1. 445 Motivation 10y 9 CO Capt. Moment 5 2. 785 Watania Commando 7y 9.00 Tai Chong Stable Rahwi 1 3. 338 Judith Anton II fy 8 12
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      254 10 JOHANNESBURG, Thurs. (Reuter) The Australian rugby selectors have brought three new caps into the team to play the Springboks in the First Test here on Saturday. Most notable of these is 27-year-old flyhalf Rupert Rosenblum. who donned the Wallaby Jersey for the
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      131 10 STOKE MANDEVTLLE, England, Thurs. (Reuter)—Abebe Biklla. Ethiopia's double Olympic marathon champion who was almost totally paralysed in a motor-cycle accident four months ago returned to the sporting scene here yesterday as an archer ®l ki^JL 6 year 0l d Lieutenant of Emperor Halle
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      Lock icon Omar & Yeo Top Seeds
      436 11 Omar Yeo Top Seeds SBA National /"IMAR IBRAHIM last year's runner-up, and Kingston Games representative Yeo Ah Seng, are top seeded in the men's singles in the Singapore Badminton Association's national championships, to be held in conjunction with the Republic's 150th anniversary and the Pesta Sukan Week, at the SBA
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      Lock icon Pesta Sukan Netball Tourney
      214 11 New South Wales netba!l team will represent Australia in the Singapore Women's Netball Association's Testa Sukar. International Netball' tournament, to he held in conjunction with the 150th anniversary of Singapore, at the Padang from Aug. 11 to 16 Australia are unable to send their National team,
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      301 11  -  By DAVID ROGERS LONDON, Thurs. (Reuter) The cost of a topclass British footballer has nearly doubled in the past year. Transfer fees have rocketed to an all-time high as England's big clubs scramble for star players before the new season kicks off o n
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      69 11 Loching Yee. 54 a former handicap 18 golfer holed his ball with one stroke at the 139 yards, par 3. 7th hole of Keppel link* yesterday. Using a No 4 iron, and playing with Quek Kok Kim and Loh Chan Yee. Loching Yee said after his rare
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      Lock icon UPPER ALJUNIED TECH CHAMPS
      434 11 UPPER Aljunied Technical School captured the boy's senior and junior titles of the 1969 National Schools Gymnastic at the Gay 'Vorld Stadium yesterday. Results:—Girls Junior: Vaulting: 1. Tan Kim Choo 9.6 pts, 2. Nah Poh Quay 9.3, pts; 3. Yeo Siew May 9.5 pts. Floor Exercise:
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      433 11 BRILLIANT bowling by Mahesh Kuma r enabled the Singapore Under-23 side to score a 22-run victory over the strong Far East Air Force team in a one-day cricket match at the Padang. yesterday. Kumar. a student of the Singapore Polytechnic, raptured six wickets
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      114 11 NEW YORK. Thurs Neuter) The results of yesterday's major league baseball games: National League Houston Astros 16. New YorK Met s 3 (1st). Houston 11, New York 5 (2nd). San Francisco Giants 6. Chicago Cubs 3 Pittsburgh Pirates 4, Los Angeles Dodgers 2. Atlanta Braves 6, Philadelphia
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      129 11 ANOTHER two countries have accepted the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association's invitation to compete in the Singapore 'open' annual athletic championships to be held in conjunction with the Republic's 150th anniversarv and the Pesta Sukan Minggu, at the Farrer Park Athletic Centre from Aug. 15
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