Eastern Sun, 14 August 1969

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  • 22 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY ft Estd. 1960. Vol. 4 No. 1087 Thursday, 14 August 1969. MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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  • 258 1 SMR Rubber In Short Supply' KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The success of Malaysia's SMR rubbers —as evident by consumer acceptance in markets abroad —is being threatened by "a real shortage of supply." This was disclosed by the director of the Rubber Research Institute, Mr. B. C. Sekhar, in his closing address
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  • 220 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Malaysian Minister ol Commerce and Industry. Enche Mohamed Khir Johari. tonight warned industrialists that the government might consider withdrawing its incentives, assistance o r protection to industries if their manufactured products proved to be inferior in quality and yet, unreasonably
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  • 70 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed Non-citizens who have worked here and helped Malaysia for a lone time need fear for their jobs, the Minister of Home Affairs. Tun (Dr.) Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman, assured today. Tun Dr Ismail said this to allay "fears by non-eiti/ens already employed that thev
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  • 111 1 KUALA LUMPUR Wed. Foreign correspondents wh r recently reported on the disturbances in Malaysia came under fire again today this time from the chairman of the Gerakan Ra'ayat Malaysia. Professor Syed Hussain Alatas. He told a press conference in Penang that the foreign press reports, on
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  • 90 1 BANGKOK. Wed. (Reuter) Thai Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman today questioned the value of any new security arrangement for Southeast Asia. Asked by reporters to comment on a proposal by Malaysian Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman for a conference of Southeast Asian countries to consider a
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  • 385 1 UNITED NATIONS. New York. Wed. (Reuter) Israel has asked for an urgent meeting of the Security Council, charging Lebanon with "acts of aggression and warfare.*' Lebanon earlier also requested a meeting of the council following an Israeli raid against alleged guerrilla bases in southern
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  • 113 1 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) Britain today reported a trade deficit of £37 million In July but then revised it down to £27 million. The lower figure was still more than had been expected, and in the foreign exchange market sterling's rate against the dollar dropped several points.
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  • 248 1 ONE of Singapore's most-wanted criminals was yesterday sentenced to a total of seven years jail and seven strokes of the rotan by the Third District Judge, Mr. K. T. Alexander. "RoLand" Tay Ah Tee was sentenced after he pleadeo guilty to 20
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  • 94 1 The Government has released another political detainee Tan How Kiat. a former third-year chemistry student at Nanvang University, after nearly three years of detention. Tan was detained in late 1966 for having participated in Communist United Front activities in Nantah and also as a member of the Faculty
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  • 324 1 HONG KONG, Wed. (Reuter) Chinese and Russian troops clashed today on the border of the Soviet Union and the remote Chinese province of Sinkiang, and China charged that hundreds of Soviet troops had invaded with tanks, armoured cars and helicopters. Many Chinese troops were killed and injured.
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  • Article, Illustration
    147 1 Sleeping residents In several shops along lit m.s. Woodlands Road were thrown out of their beds when a car jumped a ten-foot wide monsoon drain to crash into the pillars of the houses. The incident occurred at about 105 a.m. yesterday. There were no official details of the
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  • 107 1 AMSTERDAM, Wed. <Reuter» Able Nathan, the selfappointed Israeli peacemaker, today bought a Dutch coaster which he plans to station In the Mediterranean to broadcast peace messages to the people of Israel and Egypt. The 160.000 guilder (about £19.000 sterling) price of the 570-ton vessel "Cito" was raised in
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  • 78 3 SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA: Korean opposition lawmakers set up a barricade around the speaker's rostrum and staged a sit-in on the National Assembly floor on Aug. Bth to block a special assembly session which will tackle a constitutional revision. A total of 25 legislators of the
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  • 634 3 SAIGON. Wed. (Reuter and UPI) The Vietcong's secret radio station said to-dav the upsurge in fighting in Vietnam yesterday was ordered bv President Ho to celebrate forthcoming North Vietnamese anniversaries on August 19 and September 2. The National Liberation Front also announced that
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  • 376 3 HONG KONG. Wed. (UPI) Two drunken Dutch seamen mav have provided a tip-off in a significant shift in Red China's diplomatic policy. The two seamen, detained in Communist China for desecrating a statue of Mao Tsetung. slipped quietly into Hong Kong yesterday after
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  • 52 3 AUCKLAND, New Zealand. Wed. <UPI) The Auckland University Students Association voted yesterday in favour of legalising marijuana. The Association has 8.500 members but only 184 attended the Annual Meeting to vote on a motion urging the New Zealand Government to legalise pot smoking. One-hundred-twelve voted lor the motion and
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  • 511 3 Green Berets Murder: SAIGON, Wed. (Reuter) Reliably sources here say there may be a strong link between the Green Beret murder charge case and a Presidential Palace spy ring recently discovered by the South Vietnamese Police. The lawyer of one of the eight
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  • 612 3 NEW DELHI, Wed. (Reuter) India is preparing for the most crucial Presidential Election in 22 years of Independence which could hasten a possible split in the ruling Congress Party. A college of 4.137 Central and State Legislators will vote to choose a new Head
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  • 96 3 SUBIC BAY NAVAL BASE Philippines, (UPI) —A U.S. Navy investigating officer heard testimony from three final witnesses too ay in the pre-trial hearing on the "Evans-Melbourne" sea collision last June 3 Commander Harry Hall, the hearing officer, is exp* to submit his recommenoations within a few davs whether
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  • 798 3 WASHINGTON. Wed. (Reuter and UPI> President Nixon's plans to withdraw more American troops from Vietnam were in the balance yesterday after Vietcong and North Vietnamese attacks broke a seven-and-a-half week lull on the battlefield. The 137 mortar and rocket attacks on cities, towns
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  • 64 3 BANGKOK. Wed (UPI) A DC-3 passenger plane of Thai Airways domestic service hit a water buffalo yesterday on landing at Phrae. about 300 miles north of Bangkok, but there were no injuries to passengers and crew, reports said this morning. The plane lost its nght propellor and suffered
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  • 218 4 PARIS, Wed. (UPI and Reuter) The weekly newspaper France Dimanche said yesterday in an exclusive front page story that Mrs. Aristotle Onassis the former Jacqueline Kennedy was expecting a child early next year. The newspaper said Mrs. Onassis had made three visits recently
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  • 365 4 BONN, Wed. (Reuter) —West Germany'# coalition cabinet split over the deutsche mark revaluation issue meets here today to map out future policy after devaluation of the French franc. One topic expected to be discussed is the implication of the French
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  • 271 4 PRETORIA, Wed. (Reuter) A 43-year-old man Is to appear In court here today over the alleged kidnapping of a millionaire university professor's wife. The man. whose Identity has not been revealed, was said by the woman's husband. Professor Koos Van Der
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  • 71 4 JOH ANNESBUR G. Wed. (Reuter) South Africa's gold reserves dipped by another 7.550.000 rands (£4.*****0) last week, indicating further sales of gold abroad. The country's gold holdings last Friday stood at 821.880.000 rands (£483.400.000, the reserve bank announced In its weekly statement. Total gold and
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  • 197 4 PARIS. Wed. (Reuter)—The French Government continues talkg with trade union leaders today to explain its oost-deva-luat:On measures with little sign so far that union chiefs are satisfied. M. Jean-Louis Moynot. a senior official of the Commu-nist-led C.GT Fede'ation who attended talk* at the
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  • 118 4 ST. THOMAS. Virgin Islands. Wed. (UPI) A Carlbalr DC-9 Jetliner with 103 persons aboard crashed through a fence at the end of a runway here while landing yesterday, struck a small bus and came to a halt In t gas station. The plane did
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  • 45 4 ROME. Wed. (Reuter) Italy* new minority government last night cleared its final parliamentary hurdle by winning a vote of confidence from the Senate. Mr. Mariano Rumor's Christian Democrat Cabinet obtained a 84-vote majority in the 322-seat Upper House after a two-day confidence debate.
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  • 65 4 ROROUANA, Bougainville, Solomon Islands A police patrol wends its way through the countryside near here recently en route to take up duty at Rorouana (left). At right, a native woman and a helmeted baton carrying policeman scuffle in a scene from the "Bare Top" battle between Bougainville Island women and
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  • 690 4 LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland, Wed. (Reuter) British troops were moved into the city outskirts here overnight as a fresh outburst of Protestant-Catholic rioting left at least 140 injured. An army spokesman said about 300 Infantrymen were convoyed to Sea Eagle Naval
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  • 138 4 BEIRUT, Wed. (Reuter) Mrs. Nancy Abu-Haider an American living in Beirut, said yesterday Israeli authorities carried out wilful destruction of property and a concerted policy of humiliating Arabs in the occupied Arab territories. Bhe was testifying before a special United Nations group, from Senegal. India and
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  • 27 4 BTADE. West Germany. Wed. (Reuter) An arsonist wno set abla2e five houses here turned out to be the local fire chief's 17-year-old son, police said
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  • 219 4 BUCHAREST. Wed (UPI) President Nicolae Ceausescu yesterday ended Rumania's 10th Communist Party Congress with resounding crv for unity among Socialist nations and in the world. "Our unanimity is living proof of the iron will and unitv of our partv and of socialism."
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  • 88 4 WASHINGTON. Wed. (Reuter) The Pentagon today launched an investigation into alleged thefts totalling millions of dollars at military clubs in the United States and overseas. An investigation of noncommissioned officers* clubs in South Vietnam, in progress since October last, was broadened t© include clubs run by
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  • 176 4 Trade Figures Vital To Future Of LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) A set of trade figures published today could have a major impact on sterling which fell to an Mstonc low on the London foreign exchange market yesterday in the backwash of the French devaluation. Britain's July overseas trade figures, out at
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  • 159 4 KHARTOUM Wed (Reuter) Six Ethiopian university students hijacked an Ethiopian air lines plane in flight and forced it to land at Khartoum Airport, the Government announced here yesterday. The students, joined by an Ethiopian civil servant, asked for political asvlum. informed sources sa.d The
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  • 44 4 AJACCIO, Corsica. Wed. 'Feuter) The highlight of France's "Napoleon Year", will be stazed here on Fridav when President Georges Pompidou visits this Corsipan city where the Emperor was horn 200 vears ago President Pompidou will make a speech in a City square
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  • 624 5 WASHINGTON, Wed. (I7PI) Columnist Jack Anderson said on Tuesday he had learned Sen. Edward Kennedy did not swim the 150 yards between Chappaquiddick Island and Martha's Vineyard the night his car plunged off a bridge and killed Mary Jo Kopechne. Anderson, in a copyrighted column for
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  • 205 5 WASHINGTON. Wed. (Reuter) The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday won its battle with the Defence Department over a secret "Defence of Thailand" document when Defence Secretary Melvin Laird said Senators could see it any time they wanted to. rir Earll€r Senator Frank Church
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  • 116 5 SAN CLEMENTE. California. Wed. (Reuter) President Nixon has rebuked Congress for being too ready to spend government money in a period of fiscal restraint Nixon in an unusuallv outspoken criticism of Congress, said that "appealing as this may be at the moment, it promises long term grief
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  • 308 5 VENICE. Calif., Wed. (UPI) William Lennon. S3, father of the singing Lennon Sisters, was shot to death on Tuesdav in an execution style slaying as he was leaving the golf range where he worked as a pro. The suspect, described as about 6-foot 2 inches tall,
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  • 320 5 WASHINGTON, Wed. (Reuter) Serious crime in the United States jumped by 17 per cent last year with women playing a bigger role than ever before, the Federal Bureau of Investigation reported today. There were almost 4.500.000 serious crimes in 1968. an increase of 17 per
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  • 87 5 BASS LAKE. Calif. Wed (UPI) Matake Fujimoto, 14. of Aomori. Japan, drowned on Monday while swimming in Bass Lake at this mountain resort in the Sierra Nevadas. Fujimoto had been visiting the United States as part of the Japanese International Friendship Tour. Fujimoto was swimming
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  • 67 5 WASHINGTON. Wed. (Reuter) The World Bank has announced an increase in its lending rate from 6.5 per cent to 7 per cent. The bank spokesman s ald It was forced to raise its interest rate because of increases in the cost of borrowing funds in world markets.
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  • 295 5 NEW YORK. Wed. (Reuter) New York Columnist Earl Wilson said today film director Roman Polanski had told friends he had a list of people he suspected murdered his wife, actress Sharon Tate, and four other people in Hollywood last week. In a
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  • 150 5 WASHINGTON. Wed rßeuter) —A Republican Congressman charged today that the United States has been involved in arms shipments to Pakistan since shortly after the 19fi5 Pakistan-India war despite assertions that a weapons embargo had been .m--posed Rep. Larry Coughlin of sa id the Unite! States
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  • 946 5 SPACE CENTER. Houston. Wed. (UPI) The quiet, shv man who stamped history's first footprints in the gray sands of the moon said Tuesday he found the lunar plains an extremely stark and strangely different place. But. for Apollo 11 commander Neil A. Armstrong, the alien
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  • 133 5 WASHINGTON Wed (Reuter> The US Senate voted today to curtail the Defence Departments financing of research into such subjects as The Decline m Paternalism among Peruvian ana Japanese Labourers'* and "'Militant Hindu Nationalism, the Early Phase." Bv a 49 to 44 vote, the Senate passed an
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  • 167 5 OTTAWA. Wed (UPI) Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau go* a view of what is expected to be the largest World Fair in history when the big red. white and blue Expo 70 caravan stopped briefly on Parliament Hill Tuesday morning Trudeau threaded his way through a light
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    • 153 5 This happens only once in 150 years: SINGAPORE HER PEOPLE colour photography contest As part of the joyous celebration of Singapore's 150 th Anniversary and the National Day, Eastern Sun and Behn, Meyer Co. Ltd. invite you to submit colour prints of subjects and events celebrating this sesquicentennial. Points are
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  • 507 6 IF there is one man who has the confidence of the majority of Malaysians it is undoubtedly their Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman. So it should be a time for rejoicing when he emerges from an eclipse, partly no doubt caused by an eye ailment, and begins
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  • 295 6 THE Minister for Education Mr. Ong Pang Boon's call to teachers on the need for a new generation is timely. The nation is rejoicing and is happy about the progress of this little island. Now is also the time to look ahead. Mr. Ong, speaking at the seminar on
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  • 551 6  -  By Ramesh C. Pande POONA, India, (UPI) "In the morning, it is as mild as mother's milk. But leave it in the sun for a couple of hours and you've got a man's drink." That is an expert's description of toddy, the poor man's milk, beer and
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  • 679 6  -  By ROBERT CRABBE TOKYO (UPI) The government is reaching for control of Japan's universities, where student war against the "establishment" makes campus turmoil in the U.S. look like a tea party. Japan has 377 four-year colleges and universities. About 30 per cent
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  • 150 6 SYDNEY, Australia: .Australian researcher* have developed a new water desalination machine which promises to make life somewhat easier and less costly for farmers in semi-arid areas Because of the low cost of the product water (about lA2 for 1.000 gallon* i it could also be economical to
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  • 25 6 The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. James Branch Cabell.
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  • 651 6  -  By Frank Mankiewicz and Tom Braden= NEW YORK Anatoly Kuznetsov, the Soviet novelist who defected to Britain on July 30, has described "the pain and frustration" suffered by authors in the Soviet Union who attempt to be true to their Ideals and consciences
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  • 945 6  -  By Hugh O'Neill Gemini News Service LONDON: Britain's plan to dismantle its quota system for cotton textiles in 1972 and institute a tariff against Commonwealth dutyfree imports has been interpreted as a major precedent in Commonwealth trading relations. It has also been described as an action against
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 596 7 i TRADING in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday quietened considerably as profit-taking and som# short selling continued to dominate most of the exchanges. Easier conditions prevailed right alter the opening bell. Share prices were gradually lowered and it was only towards
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    • 1122 7 TJt'SIXESS done in and reported to the trading rooms 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 51.84 (1) SI 83 (1); Ben SI.BB (1)- Borneo 5i.75 (1) 51.76 (10);
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    • 15 7 THE tin price fo r vesterday was $642.75 per cicul. up $0 50
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    • 269 7 THE following Is a berthing list released by the Port of Singapore Authority for August 14: DEPARTURE: Godo\vu s Vessels 1/2 SA. Morgenster 8/9 Euphrate 10/11 Benmacdhui 18 City of Johannesburg N.W. 4 Ever Precious (Barge i 35/36 Valentine 47 Nansei Maru ARRIVAL; Godowns Vessels 8/9 Lloyd
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    • 165 7 BANGKOK, Wed. Mr. Charles H. Johnson, a prominent woodworking machinery and furniture manufacturing expert, is installing equipment for the Furniture Manufacturing "Packaged Plant" exhibition to be held in Bangkok, August 19 29, Presented by the U S. Trade Centre, the Exhibition will
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    • 346 7 RUBBER: 8 2 3/8 Cts. September first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m., in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 82-3 8 cents per lb., down three e.ghths of a cent from the previous close. The tore of the market was uncertain. Erratic and easier conditions marked the morning's
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    • 82 7 MR. Eng Buck Keng, a senior sales representative with Swissair was recently selected by his company for a special course on cargo handling in Zurich. Along with counterparts from over 14 countries around the world, Mr. Eng was the first Singaporean to attend this course organised by
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    • 55 7 HONG KONG. Wed. (UPI) Money Quotations: HKS6O9S per U.S. dollar. HK$B ***** per U.S. dollar TT HK514.35 per pound sterling. HKS3OB 25 per tael of gold 94.5 Per cent fineness. HKSI6I.B per 10.000 Japanese yen HK5123.0 per 100 Philippine peso buyers. HK5124.0 per 100 Philippine pesos sellers. Philippine
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    • 123 7 LONDON Wed (Reuter) The market moved lower over a wide front yesterday. British funds cam# under persistent selling pressure throughout the day ahead of today's UK trade figures and following the Increased US bill rate. Equities met continued marking-down in an attempt to stave off
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    • 122 7 PAN American Airways, Singapore, recently awarded Ma h mood bin Abdullah with a 10-year service pin at a reception held recently in his honour. Mahmood joined Pan Am 10 years ago. He is the chauffeur to the station manager at Paya Lebar Airport. His boss.
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    • 123 7 XEW YORK, Wed. (UPI) Gold prices declined in moderately active trading yesterday on markets here and abroad. In London, gold remained unchanged at the morning fixing but slipped 10 cent® for a second fixing of US$4l.lO a troy ounce. In Zurich gold fell 20 cents to 41.00
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    • 102 7 TOKYO. Wed- (UPI) The number of registered colour television receivers at the end of June totalled 2.091,090 sets to exceed the 2 million mark for the first time, the Japan Broad casting Corporation (NHK) said yesterday. NHK said this figure was an increase
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    • 223 7 NEW YORK, Wed. (UPI) A step up in the fighting in Vietnam, a rise in short term lending rates and a late drop in the pound sterling weighed on stocks yesterday. Declines outnumbered advances by more than 2-to-l but trading remained light. Shortly before the close, the
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    • 678 7 AIMOAPOKI chance wid and officially llftco at bDAlOCM. •tort it*, other price* CH« CtOM Of INDUSTRIAL* Acmi Ben Co \0 Borneo Bbd Bou»tead Camel pijwuoa XBI C Sugar tnid Morale Cttemlral Co Cjele Carriage LIB;* Dunlop F i»melflng EAI 4»rfl» Lupor pulp N>an Flfzpatrlck* k N
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    • 39 7 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) Dow Jones closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday. 30 Industrials 812 96 20 Rails 196.73 15 Utilities 113 91 65 Stocks 275.35 40 Bonds 72.07 Commoditv Futures Index 139.59
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    • 94 7 THE noon price* •t u»e imp port ChlDM* FTdOUC-4 bchtoit ]«ifrau wm>— MTU f3 Pellet loronri Oil (FAR) Balk 48 00 Uocunui Oil troB) firuro I»«# 50 50 MUM Copra 10 SO MunioK U title Prpprr (FOR) 145 00 (FOB) 142-50 Iiri»iii Hperlil Hikes I'rpper «f O »(<% >1*
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    • 55 7 1 nt a n If in Prima) 1ft \D 72 ?nd Malayan XD 1 0? wmm 3rd 1 2* Ibe corn inc. l-Ot J11 The firing Fund l.AR 11« M. Im**t Fund J.23 ii<i 1U Hon* Konc I 5« I 2nd Honi Knns 1 A« I u< Merlins
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    • 83 7 LONDON. Wed. The Rubber market closed slightly steadier yesterday with spot 29 29-1/2 SETTLEMENT HOUSE Sept. 29 29-1/4 Oct. 29-1/8 29-3/8 Nov. and Oct/Dec. 29-1 /4 29-1/2 Jan/March 28-13/16 28-15/16 April/June 28-5/16 28-1/2 July/Sept 27-7/8 27-15/16 Oct'Dec. 27-1/2 27-11 .'l6 Jan/March 27-3/8 27-1/2 April' June
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    • 50 7 NEWS YORK. Wed. (UPI) Rubber Jutures closed 15 to 30 points lower yesterday on the New York Commodity Exchange. There were no sales. (Ask) (Bid) Sept. 31.25 Nov. 30.80 Jan. 30.50 March 30.00 May 29.75 July 29.50 Sept 29.35 Locally. No. 2 RSS was 303/8 cents per pound.
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    • 466 7 ARRIVALS. 8 00 a.m. MSA MLO29 Koala Lumpor. 615 a.m. LTA IT 1575 United State*. Papeete. Pacific. woo am >1 > A MLII 9 Koala Lumpur. 9 35 a.m. GAKLUA GA9B2 Jakarta. 1015 am. MSA MLI2I Koala Lumpur 1025 am. MSA MLOOS Penang, Inob. Koala Lompur, Malacca. 1215
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE ALL $5 ESSAY WINNERS
    • 507 8 THE venture of space conquest by both America and Russia should be fully supported and encouraged by one and all. The recent successful trip to moon by Apollo 11's three brave astronauts Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins should be applauded tremendously and envied. The 240,000
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    • 257 8 I think it is a good idea that the Government has started the queuing up campaign. I have heard from those taking buses that though they reach home later than usual yet they can board and alight the bus in safety. One of many advantages are
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    • 329 8 I THINK almost all of us. big or small have a good taste for comic strips. In a way, comic strips distract them from their studies as they like reading them. The children like comics because it Is a way of entertainment for them. They are
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    • Article, Illustration
      391 8 MUSEUMS are places where collections of objects are preserved and displayed. The obiects may be anything found in nature or made by man. There are museums devoted to art, science, history, industry, and technology But museums are no longer |ust storehouses for collections Today nearly all museums, large or
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    • 392 8 NOWADAYS, modern dances are being created all the time and the old dances are fast disappearing. Although these new modernised dances have little apparent art in them, they appeal to the highly-active young set. The old dances like the 'Rock *n' Roll.' The Twist and 'The Waltz'
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    • 304 8 WE often hear our teacher say. "Don't waste time, time is precious." because when time is lost it will never return. Th:s statement is true How time looks like, nobody can tell for we cannot see it or touch it. Thus time is priceless Time passes very
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    • 12 8 (MORE ESSAYS on man on the moon will be published next week).
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    • 186 8 NEW ESSAY CONTEST: RULES TO OBSERVE THE EASTERN SUN'S new essay contest for boys and girls of 14 and under appears in this page every Thursday. One of the objects of this contest Is to jncourage young boys and girls to express them P And what better way to do
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 92 8 AMY By Jack Tip pit "What you're frying to say is that it makes me jess handsome, right?"" DATELINE: DANGER! by John Saunders and AUen McWiiams AND WHEN LEE ROY STARTED THAT TRUCK, WEN DY.... PRESTO/... THE JOB WAS HIS/ > < AW, IT ISNT MUCH OP A JOB. DANNY/
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    • 139 9 NICOLE COHENDET or Nicky Gorski. as she is popularly known on the stage, is every photographer's dream model. Richly endowed by Nature (a 36-24-36 figure excitingly stretched along a 5-ft 8inch frame) she could easily put herself in any number of stunning poses. Our cameraman
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    • 492 9  -  By Sheilah Graham LONDON. A reporter is paid to reveal the facts. A secretary or press agent is paid to suppress the facts, or at the very least to be discreet. Recently Howard Strickling head of publicity at MGM in Hollywood for almost
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    • 567 9  -  H.C. Tan THREE people set out on a holiday last week and arrived In Singapore to And themselves quite involved with the 150 th anniversary c e 1 e brations of the founding of Singapore. The trio Miss
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    • 308 9 LONDON, wed. Mr. Colan Mac Arthur has been appointed to the new post of assistant managing director of Rank Precision Industries Limited, a division of the Rank Organisation. Mr. Mac Arthur, who is 49, has been with the Rank Organisation for 22 years, the
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
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    • 16 9 m TODAY and YOU.. Thursday, August 14, 1969. 50-55 59 72-7? 83-B8 FES 19 M*» .50
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    • 441 9 ORG A N I bATIQW CATHAY ***** IJTH 810 DAT! 11 am.. 130 400 6.S# A 9. 15 pm (NO INCREASE IN PRICES) S'pore Film Festival Picture "Those Daring Young Men In Their Jaunty Jalopies'' Tony Curtis. Technicolor. P'Vislon A Paramount Picture SfhMl: SI oo to any int at 11
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 250 10  -  By Big Ben RUSTIC, who scored a smart win last week, did a fluent workout on yielding going at Bukit Timah yesterday morning. With apprentice Rao astride Rustic clapped on the pace at the half mile to run the last 3f in 40
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    • 231 10 LONDON. Wed. lan McCafferty, the Scot who recently ran the fastest mi.e in Britain this year with 3:56.8 seconds at Reading, Berkshire, in Southern England, competes again at the distance for Scotland against Norway at the Highland Games in Edinburg on August 23. Alan Simpson,
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    • 1276 10 The Singapore Anniversary Cup: CL 1 Olv. 1 11 F. 530 Chai Kian 6y 9 06 Chens Stable Tulloh 110 Bellendalne 8y 9 06 Horse Sense Stable E Breuk 019 Castle Command 6y 90o HOUywqml Park Stable Aiiart 111 Joint Command 5y 8.10 Rnyai Syndicate
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    • 216 10 RICHMOND. Virginia. Wed. (Reuter) Nino Benvenuti's failure to defend his middleweight title will be brought before the World Boxing Association's executive committee for "discussion and action" on August 24 at Salt Lake City, according to the association. Benvenuti. beaten earlier this year by Dick
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    • 63 10 Combined Schools won the Pesta Sukan Netball knock-out tournament when they defeated the Crickets by 21 goals to 14 in the final at the Padar.g yesterday. K R Prabha. a member of the State team, spear-headed the victory by netting 15 goals. The other goals were scored by
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    • 431 10  -  By JEROME DE SILVA Thailand captured two more gold medals to bring their gold tallv to four on the third day of the Pesta Sukan Minggu Merdeka shootin? championships at the Mount Vernon range her e yesterday. Thailand's golds came from the individual and
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    • 75 10 LONDON. Wed. 'AFP)—The draw for the Davis Cup mterzone final, between Britain and Rumania, to be played on the Wimbledon number one court from tomorrow until Saturday, was announced here today. Thursday: M. Cox v I. Tiriac (Rumania), G Stillwell (GB) v I Nastase (Rumania >.
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    • 461 10 Sixteen more howlers from Thailand will be arriving todav to compete in the Singapore Ten Pin Bowling Championships at the Jackies Bowl. This brings the total of foreign competitors to 110. which according to the organisers, is a record for a major bowling event in
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    • 247 10 TWO quick goals In the second ha;f gave Singapore a 2-0 victory over Hong Kong the favourites, in the Women's Kootball Association of Singapore's Pesta Sukan international tournament a t the Jalan Besar Stadium, yesterday. With this victory. Singapore were the champions in the league basis.
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    • 337 10 HONG KONG. Wed. <AFP> —Malaysia and Singapore both failed to win a match during a bleak day for them in the team event of the Asian youth tennis championships continuing into the second day today. Both countries crashed to South Vietnam and the cracic Indonesian
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    • 563 10 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI Ferguson Jenkins pitched his sixth shutout of the season and his 18th complete game last night as the Chicago Cubs blanked the San Diego Padres 4-0. It was the 16th victory for Jenkins, who had lost three of his previous
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    • 546 10 LAWN TENNIS TWO seeded players were eliminated in the third round of the men's singles of the Singapore Lawn iennis Association's 1969 Open' grass court international championships held in conjunction with the Pesta aukan at the Padang yesterday. iney weie Ln bopaon, ;ne v~am joaian
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    • 207 11 LONDON. Wed (Reuter) Liverpool, one of the most successful British sides of the decade, scored a thrilling 3-2 victory over FA. Cup champions Manchester City last night. The Merseyside Club, who opened the season by crushing Chelsea 4-1, registered their second League win In four days,
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    • 158 11 Athletics LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) The United States achieved their expected male domination on the first day of their two-day athletics match here against Britain but the American women trailed by 37 points to 25. Surprise of the night was the defeat of Olympic 100 metres silver
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    • 179 11 LONDON. Wed. Dennis Neale, England's number one table tennis player, has wasted no time in accepting the Invitation to join the all-European team to play matches in Japan during September and October "I welcome this chance to keep in touch with the paying styles
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    • 40 11 PORT ELIZABETH. South Africa. Wed. (Reuter> The Australian Rugby Union tourist beat Central Universities by 26 points to eleven here yesterday. The Wallabies scored a goal tries and two dropped goals to a goal, try and a penalty.
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    • 454 11  -  Amateur By LITTLE NENE THE 10th Singapore Amateur Open Golf Championship starts this morning over the Par 36-36 72 SICC Thomson Links with 7R entries from Indonesia, Saigon, Malaysia and Singapore competing. Although Singapore wi 1 be represented by rot less than 65 competitors
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    • 103 11 TOM M (CLEAN, a 26-year-old commando in Britain's Special Air Service. rows into Ireland's Klncksod Bav in County Mayo to climax a fantastic 72 days of efTort during which he rowed the Atlantic alone. In his 20-foot Yorkshire dory named Super Silver he covered the 2.500-mile West-East
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    • 188 11 TOKYO. Wed (UPI> Nationals China's Chi Cheng, the on y Asian woman competitor to win a medal in the track and field events of the Olympic Games, will compete in a night athletic meet next Tuesday at the National Stadium. The 25-year-old Taiwanese athlete, who
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    • 57 11 MANILA. Wed. (AFP) A three-man team will represent the Philippines at the fifth Singapore Karting Prix to be held on Sunday at the 1.300yard Shenton Way kartway. The group composed of Roberto Luna, team skipper. Ramon Rodriguez and Nanding Villanueva. A cash prize equivalent to US$5OO
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    • 129 11 THE Maharajah of Kotah and Princess Bhuvaneshwari Kumarl will represent India in the 1969 Pesta Sukan Shooting Festival which u now in progress. Both the Maharajah and Princess Bhuvaneshwari are internationally known shooters. The Maharajah is a famous clav pigeon skee? shooter, whi'e the
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    • 67 11 NOTTINGHAM. England. Wed. (Reuter) England opener John Edrich. who scored 155 in the second cricket Test against New Zealand here, received the £lOO batting award for the match. Team-mate Phil Sharpe won the £5O second prize for his maiden Test century. England pacemen John Snow and
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    • 185 11 LONDON. Wed. Five *irls who have already represented Britain in full international competition are included in the United Kinrdom s sQuad to contest the junior (under 16) swimming championships of Europe in Vienna, Austria. on Aug. 15-17. The most notable of them is Diane Sutherland, a 14-year-old
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    • 509 11 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) John Mortimore and David Allen, former England slow howlers, spun Gloucestershire a step nearer the English County cricket championship title yesterday. They toppled Worcestershire to an innings and 57 runs defeat after plav had been delayed until late afternoon. Mortimore (five
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    • 103 11 Singapore President's XI will play against The Re«t in the 1969 Pesta Sukan football match at the Jalan Besar Stadium. at 7.00 p.m. tonight. Teams: President's XI; Kuah Chui Hoong: Sved Khalid. Freddy Chew Hussein Abdullah, Lee Teng Yee. Matthew Chin-. Osm;in: Baharoom. Majid Ariff.
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    • 93 11 PHILIPPINES thrashed Singapore 5-2 on the opening day of the 1969 Pesta Sukan triangular international tabletennis championships at the Khee Fatt School Hall. Cairnhill Rise, on Tuesday night. Results Uy Tian Liao lost to Sen Poh Leng 21-17. 12-21. 19-21; Reynalao Domingo bt. Tan Khoon Heng 21-10.
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 103 11 Pesta Sukan Diary Basketball: International Invitation championships, Gay World. 7 30 p m. Billiards: Snooker championships. SRC premises. 6.00 p m Bowling International champions. Jackles Bowl, Orchard. 8 00 a m Chess: Zonal championships. King Edward VII Hall. 6 30 p m. Football (Women): International tournament, Jalan Besar 4 30
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    • 1247 11 (CHANNEL 5) P.M Opening Announre. mrnt s in all Languages and Morning Star: 320 It's Happening in Singapore "English) 1 Repeat': 340 House and Home '\falav>: 355 A Piarv nf Events in Singapore This Week iMa--1 av( 358 Health in the Home 'Chinese 1 410 Housewives Matinee Shooting Star Pt.
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  • 197 12 SINGAPORE'S National Kidney Foundation Fund is to be the beneficiary of a special "Opera Night" now being organised by one of the State's outstanding music personalities. Lilian Choo, well-known singer, teacher, and director in local music circles will present her show at the
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  • 87 12 A police mobile patrol car gave chase two persons on a motor-cycle who were behaving in a rather suspicious way at the Delta Circus yesterday morning. When the police car signalled them to stop, the two quickly abandoned the motor-cycle and took off on their heels towards
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  • 23 12 There were a total of 55 road accidents of which four were serious during the past 24 hours in the Republic.
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  • 367 12 The son of a pillow, maker. Tan Hone How. 20, is this year's winner of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Associa. tion Technology Scholar, ship Fund Award. The scholarship is worth $l,OOO the first year. $l,lOO fh e second year and $1,250 for
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  • 287 12 Malaysia-Singapore Airlines has rationalised its domestic fares and rates structure and the new tariffs will apply as from Aug. 21. Under the new fares structure, the following fares will remain unchange Singapore-Kuala Lumpur; Singapore-Kota Kinabalu; Singapore Kuching; and Singapore-Brunei. Some of the increases of
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  • 220 12 A lawyer was fined $2OO by the Ninth Court Magistrate. Mr. E. C. Foenander yesterday after he pleaded guilty to a charge of not complying with a request made by the Income Tax Department. The Department had made "repeated requests since December 1965 for Cheng
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  • 84 12 Police are looking for the relatives and friends of an unidentified male Chinese who was found dead In the Phor Kark See Buddhist Temple at Bright Hill Drive at 3.30 p.m. on Tuesday. Police said the dead man was about 5* 8" and was about 35
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  • 190 12  -  By K. S. SIDHU AN American beauty queen with a string of titles including the current Miss Tourism. California, Miss Joan Cynthia Yalent, confessed that "much to the surprise of her friends" she has fallen in love with local fruits like the durians and ramhutan*. Coming
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  • 224 12 Shell Refining Company (F.0.M.) Berhad yesterday announced that the company would distribute an unchanged interim dividend of 7£ per cent to be paid on Sept. 30 to shareholders on record on Sept. In a press release issued today. the Chairman of Shell explained
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  • 74 12 The Government today announced that the ?150'commemorative gold co:ns to mark Singapore's 150 th anniversary will be made available to tourists :n limi'erj quantities through the;r hotels from today. The allotment to each hotel is on the basis of the number of rooms in each hotelThe
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  • 60 12 A middle-aged rran. Bah Kim Chong. was charged in the N:nth Magistral's Court yesterday with causing grievous hurt to another man. Bah wag accused of fracturing the rght thigh hone °f Phean Sal Chuan at Bah San Poh Road on Jan 26. He claimed trial and allowed bail,
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  • 179 12 Talented local pianist. Miss Toh Chee Hung, has won a much coveted Gold Medal Award the Walter MacFarren Prize for being the best in the Recital Diploma at the Royal Academy of Music. London. Miss Toh. who practices the piano for more than ten
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  • 112 12 THE Minister of State. Enche Rahim Ishak, is seen presenting a key of a 600 Fiat car to the 29-year-old, Mr. Huan Beng Seng (right) who won the first prize in the mammoth donation draw organised by the National Safety First CouncilLooking on is Mr.
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  • 168 12 Young Hiroko Suzuki had always aspired to make a break into the world of high fashion. Little did she realise that she was to soon become a part of it. not as a jewellery designer, which she is studying to be, but as the Queen
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  • 527 12 THE spotlight will be on the general practitioner when the second national medical convention opens at the University of Singapore's Medical Faculty buildings here this evening. The convention, to be declared "pen bv the Speaker of the Republic's Parliament. Mr. P. Coomaraswamv. will. In
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