Eastern Sun, 18 August 1969

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Microfilm: NL6091
Total Pages: 12
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    Lock icon Former Malay Extremist Regrets Erroneous Ways
    305 2 THE former leader of two secret Malay extremist organisations, which planned for the overthrow of the present Government through an armed revolution subsequently smashed In 1964, Abdul Ghani bin Hassan, has Issued a statement upon his' release expressing regret for past activities which threatened
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    Lock icon A Lesson To Litterbugs
    137 2 Litterbugs in Singapore should take heed that the throwing of a cigarette butt, pieces of paper, bus tickets or wrappers, can be an expensive business. Last Saturday, another 10 litterbugs were fined bv the Eighth Court Magistrate for these offences. The fines ranged from $2O to
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    Lock icon Parent-Teacher Associations For Selangor
    135 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. More than 100 school principals in Selangor today discussed the formation of ParentTeacher Associations in their schools. The principals were given draft consitutions for such associations and guidelines on their setting up. The Selangor branch of the National Union of Teachers assured them
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    Lock icon Exercise Happy Hunters To Feature Parachutists
    236 2 Members of the Gurkha Independent Parachute Company will carry out a parachute assault on the airstrip at the Kota Belud training area on Aug. 20 to launch the annual field exercise, codenamed Exercise Happy Hunters, of the 2nd Battalion 2nd Gurkha Rifles. Immediately after
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    Lock icon Peranakan Policy Outlined By Ong
    478 2 The President of the Psranakan Association of Singapore, Mr. T. W. One l»»t night declared that Its members had always been identified with every phase of progress and political advancement of Singapore. Mr. Ong, speaking at the association's second annual dinner, was giving an elaborate
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    Lock icon Holdup Man Arrested
    115 2 A National Service policeman helped to apprehend one of three youthful armed robbers at Crawford Street on Saturday night. Earlier, the three youths, one armed with a dagger, had held up a couple at the playground of Crawford Street and took away the gold chain of the
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    Lock icon Fire Destroys Shophouses
    97 2 A motor workshop and some shophouses along Scotts Road were gtitted bv fire In the early hours oi yesterday morning. During the hour long Are. which started just before 5 a.m.. a motor car and a motorcycle were also burned The shophouses included a bookshop, a provision
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    Lock icon Many Years Of Service Rewarded
    148 2 Singer Sewing Machine Company held a gala dinner at the Imperial Room over the weekend to honour it* long-service employees, one of them who had served more than 50 years. For his loyalty and longservice to the company. Mr. Ng Mah Peow, 67. who joined
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    Lock icon Statistics System Weaknesses Noted
    199 2 A Commission of Inquiry on Statistical Activities has found certain weaknesses in the existing system and has made recommendations for improvement in its Report to be presented to President Yusof this morning. The Commission set up in Msy. 1968. under Professor You Poh Seng. Director of
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    Lock icon Accidents Kill Two
    48 2 Two pedestrians were killed In separate accidents on Saturday, one by a motorcycle and another by a tar! In the first accident, an elderly woman. Cheong Chen* Seng. 60. died in hospital three hours after admission after being hit by a motorcycle at Keppei Road.
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      221 2 TODAY and YOU... Monday, August 18, 39. *32 c STAR GAZERS By CLAY IL POLLAN p H Your DeilrAdlvity CM* M According to tho Start. To developr message for Monday, 1T4&61J read words corresponding to numbers *7 77 p-lml ofyourZodiocU>irth*iga OCT. 25 NOV:JI 3- 6-T9-22A 14 29-32 V: 3 u
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      106 2 Time Tide High Tide (Today) Singapore Town: 1.18 a m (8 7 ft) 148 pm. (8.3 ft.) Naval Dockyard: 1.41 am (10.3 ft) 2.07 pm. (9 9ft Low Tide (Todoy) Singapore Town: 7.28 a m (1.6 ft.) 7.40pm. (1.9 ft.) Naval Dockyard: 7.24 a m (2.1 ft.) 738 p.m. (2
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  • Article
    Lock icon B52s Diverted From Laos To Pound Red Attacks In Vietnam
    495 3 SAIGON, Sun. (UPI) The United States has diverted all 852 bombers used over Laos to battlefields in South Vietnam where the Communists carried their offensive campaign into its fifth day yesterday reliable allied sources said. These sources said the U.S.
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    Lock icon 'CIA Asked Military To Kill Double Agent'
    445 3 SAIGON, Sun. (UPI) The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) advised military authorities to kill the Communist double agent in the Green Beret murder case, sources close to the case said. The sources said the killing was suggested by a senior CIA agent known by
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    Lock icon Red River Rampage
    77 3 HANOI, Sun. (AFP) Rising flood waters from the Red River have forced the evacuation of several thousand people living in the low lying areas of Hanoi over the past few days. The river began flooding on Wednesday night and the flood waters now stretched for a distance
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    Lock icon Indian Christians Want A Monopoly
    141 3 SIMLA, India. Sun. (Reuter) A newly-formed Indian Christian Political Party today demanded expulsion of all foreign missionaries from India. The National Christian Democratic Party was formed last month with the aim of liquidating what it calls foreign exploitation of the Indian Christian Community. Its first
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    Lock icon Strikes Hit At Export Crops
    152 3 CALCUTTA. Sun. (Reuter) About 200.000 tea plantation workers in West Bengal today prepared to go on indefinite strike from Monday, less than one week after a crippling strike in the jute industry had ended The strike over pay will affect 296 plantations, all contributing to
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    Lock icon Japan Fires Big Rocket Successfully
    117 3 UCHINOURA, Japan. Sun. (UPI) Japan Sunday successfully launched its biggest rocket MU 3D from this Space Centre in the southern Kyushu main island. The four-stage rocket which measures 23.6 metres and weighs 43.8 tons, Is a prototype of the MU 4S rocket to be used
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    Lock icon Red Camp Captured
    51 3 BANGKOK. Sun. (Reuter) Thai border patrol police have captured a Communist Jungle camp in Thailand's Haadyai district on the Malaysian border, Bangkok press reports said today. The guerrillas fled and dispersed into small bands in the Jungle when 200 policemen approached the camp last Friday, the reports
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    Lock icon Almost the entire residential area of Kamo City. Niigata Prefecture, Japan, was flooded after localised heavy rains, pounded Japan's seacoast prefectures, north of Tokyo, since last Friday. The rains washed away bridges and roads, and disrupted railroad tracks. – UPI Photo.
    42 3 Almost the entire residential area of Kamo City. Niigata Prefecture, Japan, w as flooded afte r localised heavy rains, pounded Japan's seacoast prefectures, north of Tokyo, since last Friday. The rains washed away bridges and roads, and disrupted railroad tracks. UPI Photo.
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    Lock icon Indira 'Rebelled' Says INC
    121 3 NEW DELHI. Bun. (Reuter) Thirty Congress members of Parliament today demanded disciplinary action against Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi for refusing to support the official candidate in yesterday's Presidential election. The M P.'s made their demand during a meeting with party president Mr. S Nijalingappa. Earlier
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    Lock icon Tibetan Issue
    74 3 NEW DELHI. Sun. (Reuter) A group of Indian Members of Parliament today decided to urge the government to raise the issue of Tibetan freedom in the United Nations The Executive Committee of the Parliamentary Group for Tibet, which has 94 members, said at a meeting that the government
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    Lock icon QUAKE OFF HONSHU
    55 3 SENDAI. San. Japan (UPI) A minor quake shook Pacific Coast of Hokkaido and parts of Northern Honshu main island of Japan this morning at 12.15 a.m. the Sendai weather observatory reported. The observatory located the epicenter about 62 miles undersea in the Pacific East of Hokkaido. No
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    Lock icon Students Riot Over Tough Campus Law
    149 3 TOKYO, Sun. (UPI) Heavy fighting broke out on the campus of Hiroshima University today the day Japan's tough new law aimed at quelling campus rebellion went into effect. Some 1.200 riot police battled the rampaging students with tear gas. The students fought from the
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    Lock icon They Shouted 'SUKARNO'
    194 3 JAKARTA. Sun. (UPD Once again, the name Sukarno rang out loud and clear at the Merdeka (Freedom) Palace and throughout this archipelago republic as Indonesia celebrated its 24th independence anniversary. But the man answers to that name, now 68 years old former President Sukarno was not on
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    Lock icon Solemn Ceremony Marks Indonesia's 24th I-Day
    325 3 JAKARTA, Sun. (Reuter) President Suharto today led a solemn ceremo ny at the Merdeka (Freedom) Palace to mark Indonesia's 24th independence anniversary. Unlike his predecessor ousted President Sukarno, General Suharto made no speech in today's ceremony in which the text of th e independence
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    Lock icon Suharto Criticises The Press
    170 3 JAKARTA. Sun. (Reuter) President Suharto has criticised Indonesian newspapers for abusing the freedom of the press. Addressing the nation ve»terday on the eve of Indonesia's 24th independence anniversary. President Suharto said there were many occasions when he considered press freedom had been abused and the press
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    Lock icon Changing Alliance
    97 3 TAIPEI. Sun. (AFP) An Overseas Chines* from Japan renounced all his t;es with the Chinese Communists and vowed to work for the cause of the Nationalist government yesterday. Tsai Shih Chin. 58. a wealthy businessman in Tokyo said at a press conference here yesterday that he had been
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    Lock icon 'New Man For A New Society'
    169 3 HONG KONG. Sun. (Reuter) A two-week workshop on Higher Education in Asia opens at Hong Kong's Chinese University tomorrow, attended by over 100 scholars and administrators from 22 Asian universities and colleges. The workshop, the first of its kind to be held in this
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    Lock icon Workshop On Education
    123 3 HONG KONG. Sun. (UPI) Governor Sir Trench will officially open the Asian workshop on higher education at the Chinese university here Monday, it was announced Sunday. Lectures will be delivered and seminars held during the two-week workshop which has "a new man for a new society" a
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      167 3 I (Finished colour prints in seconds.) ii 1 The first Polaroid Colour Pack Camera was sold in France in 1965 for $255. For the last 4 years we have looked for ways to make this camera for less money. We now have the Colorpack II for SlOO. You use it
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    Lock icon PORNOGRAPHY WILL BORE HEALTHY MINDS
    688 4  -  Ann Landers DEAR ANN: I need your cool, smart head to see me through this one. Yesterday I ran into a large collection of the filthiest pornography ever assembled in one place. There were several magazines, picture# of live people (not drawings), and advertisements for
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    Lock icon Hippie Municipal Govt. In California Possible
    351 4 SAND CITY, Calif. San. (Reuer) The speeches are made and the lines are drawn for an unusual election here on Tuesday that could result in the establishment of the first Hippie municipal govern, ment in the United States. On the surface, there ha s
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    Lock icon Phantoms To S. Korea
    95 4 WASHINGTON. Sun. (UPI) The first six of 18 F4 Phantom fighter planes granted under the military assistance programme will be delivered to tne Korean Air Force at Seoul on Aug. 25, the Pentagon announced yesterday. South Korea's Air Force now consists of 146 F-A6 fighters, which
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    Lock icon Psychos Guarding U.S. N-Arms Base
    336 4 Shades Of Dr. SAN FRANCISCO, Sun. (UPI) The Air Force has maintained at least three men with danrerous psychiatric problems to guard a super-secret nuclear weapons base 25 miles from San Francisco. The instability of the guards was revealed in the record of th« preliminary
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    Lock icon Russian And U.S. Col. In Strange Case
    126 4 WASHINGTON. Sun. (Reuter) U.S. Military and Stat* Department official* joined police today to investigate a midnight assault bv a gang of youths on a Soviet diplomat and a U.S. Air Force Colonel near a Washington park. A Pentagon spokesman said the investigation was
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    Lock icon Canada Looks For Ritual Murderers
    239 4 LOS ANGELES. Sun. (UPI) Canadian authorities have been asked to watch for four suspected narcotics violators, apparently in connection with the Benedict Canyon massacre in which actress Sharon Tate and four others were murdered. A spokesman for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Vancouver. British
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    Lock icon Festival Site Becomes Floating Garbage Heap
    255 4 WHITE LAKE. NY. (UPI) —M or® than 300,000 persons wandered about in a sea of mud, sickness and drug* Saturday at the Hippiestyle Woodstock Music and Art Fair. Staggered officials asked Gov Nelson A. Rockefeller to declare the festival site a disaster area. Thousands
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    Lock icon New Rules For Air Travel
    110 4 WASHINGTON. Sun. (UPI) The government has proposed new rules for air travel including suggestions that passengers keep their seatbelts fastened at all times and that food traya and carry-on baggage be secured during takeoffs and landings Transportation Secretary John A. Volpe announced the proposals Friday.
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    Lock icon Storm Havoc
    57 4 HAVANA. Bun. (Reuter) Twenty thousand people were homeless In Pinar Dei Rio province yesterday after hurricane Camllle roared across Cuba into the Gulf of Mexico last night. Packing winds of up to 100-mlle-an-hour Camllle Is now heading for the southern mainland of the United States which is expected
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    Lock icon Glittering Guest List To Fete Park
    213 4 SAN CLEMENTE, Calif., Sun. (UPI) President and Mrs. Nixon's state dinner In honour of South Korean President Chung Hee Park in San Francisco on Thursday will be one of the largest ever held. Glamour girl Zsa Zsa Gabor and Dr. S I. Hayakawa. controversial
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    Lock icon Home Town Honours Moon Men
    132 4 HOUSTON, Texas, Sun. (UPI) A quarter ©f a million cheering persons showered Apollo 11 astronauts Nell A. Armstrong Edwin E Aldrln Jr. and Mike Collins with ticker tape and "Moon Certificates" yesterday in a tumultous tribute in the spacemen s adopted home town. Apollo 11
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    Lock icon Murderer Of Lennon Not Yet Held
    102 4 LOS ANGELES. Sun. (UPI) Chet W. H Young, charged with the murder of the singing Lennon sisters' father, remained at large Sunday and police warned he was armed and extremely dangerous. Although police declined to confirm he was a former mental patient, the victim's
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    Lock icon Brazil Editor Arrested
    95 4 SAO PAULO. Brazil, Sun. (Router) Police today held a leading editor following publication in his newspaper of the text of a declaration by Brazil's most hunted guerrilla. Editor Erminio Sachetta was detained after hie evening newspaper Diario da Noite brought out an extra edition last night with
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    Lock icon Safe Landing
    33 4 BOSTON. Sun (UPI) A Northeast Airlines prop jet with 37 passengers aboard and a crew of three landed safely Saturday at Logan International Airport after overcoming problems with the landing gear.
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    Lock icon Mary Jo's Mother Wants Ted Kennedy To Testify
    498 4 BERKELEY HEIGHTS, NJ. (Sun. (UPI and Renter) The Higher of Mtry Jo Kopechne, the girl killed in an auto accident involving Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, said on Saturday the wants Kennedy to testify at an inquest into her dangbter autopsy on the
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    Lock icon 3 To Be Tried In Drug Case
    86 4 MONTREAL. Sun. fUPP Two men and a woman were to appear In court here yesterday after police discovered a hashish shipment with an estimated value of Uflsl2o,ooo in an air freight shipment from Afganlstan at Montreal International airport on Friday night. The three,
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    Lock icon Coed Murder
    69 4 ANN ARBOR. Mich. Sun. (UPI) Although a college student has been ordered to stand trial in the sex slaying of a coed, police have been, asked not to release any information that might link him with any of the similar slaying* of six other young women in the
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    Lock icon Hijacked Onassis Plane Returned By Albania
    269 5 ATHENS, Son. (Renter) Albanian authorities have agreed to allow the return of the passengers and the Olympic Airways plane hijacked to Albania yesterday, an Olympic Airways spokesman said here to-day. The plane, a Dakota DC-3, with 28 passengers and crew ©f three. was hijacked
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    Lock icon Ireland To Call UN Council On Crisis
    495 5 UNITED NATIONS, San. (Renter) Ireland plans to formally request an urgent meeting of the U.N. Security Council within the next two days to consider the situation in riot-torn Northern Ireland, Irish U.N. Ambassador Cornelius Cremin said yesterday. Ambassador Cremin said the request {or
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    Lock icon Pint-size Baby Sitter
    58 5 MOSCOW. Sun (UPI) The best news for mom since they invented dis?>sable paper diapers, he Russians call it an "electronic babysitter." The device, size of a cigarette box. and powered by batteries and placed in a baby's diaper, informs the mother with sound signals when diapers are
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    Lock icon Still Mad
    76 5 MOSCOW. Sun (UPI) The Soviet leaders, still annoyed with President Nixon's visit to Rumania, are to send only a second rank delegation to the 25th Anniversary celebrations of Rumania's Liberation on Aug. 23. For the second time this month, the Kremlin leading Troika Party Leader Brezhnev. Premier Kosygm
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    Lock icon 'Copter Lands In Football Field
    39 5 BORDEAUX, France. Sun. (Reuter) The referee blew his whistle and ordered all 22 footballers off the pitch here yesterday so that a helicopter could land to ferry a woman road crash victim to hospital.
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    Lock icon Did They Or Didn't They
    276 5 KLEIXE SCHWEIDEGG, Switzerland, Sun. (UPI) The whereabouts of six Japanese Alpinists who were believed to have conquered the Eiger in an historic climb through the north face of this "killer mountain" remained a mystery yesterday. But Swiss experts here were sure that the members of
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    Lock icon BLAIBERG IN HOSPITAL: 'Still Gravely III'
    242 5 CAPE TOWN, Sun. (Renter) Dr. Philip Blather* rallied slightly yesterday In his flght for survival in Cape Town's Groote Schuur Hospital, but the world's longest-surviving heart transplant patient was still gravely ill. Doctors, led by Professor Chris Barnard, were engaged in what was in
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    Lock icon Top Czech Men Meeting On Political Situation
    436 5 PRAGUE, Sun. (UPI and Reuter) Communist Party, Government and military leaders held an extra, ordinary meeting yesterday to discuss the political situation in the country. Prague Television said. The meeting, with Party First Secretary, Gustav Husak, in the chair, considered "a concrete course
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    Lock icon SELF-RELIANCE
    518 6 SELF-reliance, the key to individual success, was presented on a national basis by Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew at Saturday's National Day Rally. In an area where treaties, organisations. groupings, etc., have almost systematically floundered, when pax Britannica began to whimper towards its end after the bang of the
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    Lock icon TRAGEDY IN MANY ACTS
    329 6 THAT a young girl should drown as a result of an automobile accident is tragedy per se. That a young ambitious politician should lose his aspirations to be elected to the world's most powerful office became a necessary corollary of the tragedy. That the exhumation of
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    Lock icon For Okinawa, A New Life
    966 6  -  By Shota Ushio N A H A, Okinawa, (UPI) Their hearts say "Japan," but sometimes their pocketbooks whisper "America." The 972,000 Japanesespeaking people who live in Okinawa and the rest of the Ryukyu island chain feel sure American rule over them is coming to an
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    Lock icon Gemmill's Fountain
    705 6 I.oilers... SOMETIME recently you published my letter on the disappearance of Gemmill'* drinking fountain from Empress Place. It has been re-erected on the National Museum grounds, like the bronze bust presented in 1939 by W.G Stirling, being his idea of a typical prosperous and honest Chinese merchant, and
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    Lock icon The Lessons Of ABM
    653 6  -  By Frank Mankiewicz and Tom Braden WASHINGTON The excitement of the Senate vote on the ABM obscured an important lesson. It was that the capacity of the generals to overawe and dazzle the mind of civilian America is on the wane. No politician has liked to
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    Lock icon Moscow-Peking War Unlikely-PI Senator
    527 6  -  By SEN. BENIGNO S. AQUINO MANILA (UPI) The Sino Red-Soviet border incidents will continue to boil, but en ell-out open war it unlikely. They are not even, despite their warlike posturing*, on real collision course. Neither, I think, can want war. The Soviets, in the first
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    Lock icon MIGHT IS RIGHT
    445 6  -  By ALAN THOMAS MOSCOW, (Router) Iff you want to be sure off your new fflat in Moscow or Leningrad or some other large Soviet city, it helps iff you are an acrobat or a weightliffter. For cities with fast-develop-ment housing construction, it seems, are facing a problem
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    Lock icon TODAYS QUOTATION
    18 6 Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength. A.J. Qroain.
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
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      Lock icon Rush To Greatness
      303 7 Japan's Titans NEW YORK, Sun. (UPI) > Jtpin'i Ascent m one powe a ud Once a year, the mm circulation business monthly lists the 200 largest industrial corporations outside the United States and the 50 biggest non-Ameri-can commercial banks. Japan gained in both the industrial and financial
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      Lock icon Mitsubishi To Make Jet Engines
      130 7 TOKYO, Sun. (UPI) Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Co., Japan's fiant manufacturer and top exporter of executive airplanes, liners and tankers, machines as well as autos. is planning to produce powerful jet engines on a basis to technical tleup with Pratt Whitney of the United States or
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      Lock icon New 12-Inch Television
      60 7 TOKYO, sun. (UPl)—General Corporation, a Japanese maker of radios and televisions. put on the market Friday a new model 12-inch colour television set which is equipped with an ultra high frequency receiving device. Genertl Corp. said they put out the model to cope with the increasing demand
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      Lock icon 47 PER CENT RISE IN EXPORTS
      115 7 TAIPEI. Sun. (Reuter) Exports of processed goods from Taiwan in the first six months of this year totalled US$2l7 million a 47 per cent rise over the corresponding period of 1968. the Central News Agency reported today. Quoting the Ministry of Eco. nomic Affairs'
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      Lock icon PI To Bid For Site Of Crafts Centre
      273 7 MANILA. Sun. (UPI) The Philippines will bid for the site of the proposed Asian Handicrafts Centre during a 12-nation meeting in Singapore Aug. 20 to 23. Mrs. Pacita Madrigal Gontalez, administrator of the Philippine National Cottage Industries Development Authority, said the Philippines
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      Lock icon WOOL PRICE STEADY
      200 7 CANBERRA, Sun. (Reuter) —World prices for wool in the current financial year should hold up close to those of *****9 according to the Australian Bureau ol Agricultural Economics. In its Dublication, "Wool outlook." the bureau reported that it expected total world wool supplies for 1967-70 to increase
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      Lock icon US-Japanese Firm Linkup
      115 7 TOKYO. Sun. (UPI) Standard Radio Corp., a Japanese Arm producing radios and stereo amplifiers say* it hag concluded a contract with Marantz Co. of th e United states for a technical and sales tie-up. Under the contract the Japanese company will produce tuners and stereo amplifiers. jointly
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      Lock icon ASIAN ROUNDUP
      805 7  -  By JOSEPH MA HONG KONG, Sun. (UPI) The Port of Singapore Authority said lost wook U5554.6 million will bo spent over tho next five yoors on Singapore's port. Mora than half of tho expenditure is for a container terminal scheduled to be operational by 1971. In Washington, the
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      Lock icon Timberjack, New Log Extractor
      190 7 Mr. J.A. Harper, Area Manager of Timberjack Machines Limited, Woodstock, Ontario. Canada, one of the largest specialised timber extraction equipment manufacturers in the world announced during a visit to Singapore that hij company was pleased to appoint Messrs. Guthrie Waugh Berhad as exclusive franchise holder for
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      Lock icon Mitsubishi In Peru
      80 7 LIMA, Peru, Sun. (AFP> The Japanese company Mitsubishi has proposed a scheme to the Peruvian government for th« joint exploitation of mineral*, particularly copper. The offer wis made to Minister of Mines and Power General Jorge Fernandez by Mitsubishi's Peruvian subsidiary. An informed source said later that
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      Lock icon ALITALIA DIRECTOR TO TOUR FAR EAST
      106 7 THE Deputy Director General of ALITALIA Italian Airlines, Comandante Marcello Mainetti, will shortly be visiting Singapore whilst on a tour of the Far East and Australia. Comandante Mainetti. who was born in Naples in 1920, joined ALITALIA in 1950. He was for five years
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      Lock icon Japanese Trade Mission
      113 7 JAKARTA. Sun. (AFP) A 56-member private trade delegation will arrive here August 29 in a bid to bring about closer economic cooperation between Japan and Indonesia. Dr. Narahashi. who made this announcement, arrived here recently to pave the way for the mission. Dr. Narahashi said many Japanese
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      Lock icon Cautious Mart For Week
      939 7 The weekly market review TRADING in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore the past week was marked by uncertainties and an air of cautiousness especially after the buoyancy of the previous two weeks. The large amount of speculative buying and shortcove ring undoubtedly pushed the
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      Lock icon Britain- Japan: Sweets For Textiles Adjustments
      245 7 BritainJapan: Sweets For Textiles Adjustments TOKYO, Sun. (AFP) Britain has proposed to Japan that it will totally lilt its import restrictions on Japanese goods if Japan liberalises imports of cookies, whisky and other items from Britain, government sources reported. The British government has been controlling imports of 48 items mostly
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      Lock icon Olympus Co. To Float European Loan
      73 7 TOKYO. Sun. (UPI) Olympus Optical Co.. pioneers in the flelc of mini-cameras Olympus Pen" series*, announced yesterday that it will obtain 2.1 billion (B) yen (US $5 83 million) capital by floating 300.000 depcsitary shares in Europe. Japan s largest stock brokerage house. Nomura
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      Lock icon P.I. RUNNING OUT OF CAR STOCK FOR ASSEMBLY
      424 7 MANILA, Sun. (UPI) Most car assembly plants in the Philippines will have to close by the end of the year and early in 1970. the influential Manila Times reported today. The report, attributed to sources in the automotive industry. said the shut
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      413 7 aKRIVALS 8 00am MSA ML 028 Kuala Lumpur v oo am MSA MLII 9 Koala Lumpar 1016 am- MsA MUZ) Koala Lumpur. 10 25 a m MSA MLOOS Peoaoc. Ipoh, Koala Lumpur. Malacca. 1040 a.m. THAI TG4M Bangkok. 1245 p.m. PAN-AM PAB4I Salgoo. Goam. Honolulu. Kan Francisco I*4o
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    457 8 TOP chess players from all over the world are participating in the Pesta Sukan's Chess Tournament held at the Medical Faculty, Sunpix shows (in the forefront) two of the foreign players, Mr. Ivanov of the U.S.S.R. (right) and his opponent, Mr. A. Mushens from the United Kingdom.
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      461 9 A COMMUNITY comprises a variety of people, holding different beliefs and outlooks toward life, each having a different character and it is only natural that we wou.ld clash in our beliefs. And to continue in conflicts and disagreements only brings miseries and degradations in a community. Consequently.
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      428 9 IN our world, animals are of fundamental importance and are essential In our daily lives Durin* the afe of the early man they are found to be useful as beasts of burden. In later ages they were employed for other purposes. With the introduction
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      541 9 IN the East, families are often large consisting of many members in one family whilst in the West, there are fewer members in one family. This might be due to the more advance in education in the West and peoples' belief in family planning. In the
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      181 9 Everyday to walk or ploy, As you walk along-the way, Use the foot path if there is one, If by any chance there is none Walk closely on the right. And keep on coming cars in sight. When you cross a road or lane, Look
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      757 9 THE night was quilt. Not a sound was heard save the occasional barking of dogs from the distant place. The only flickering light came from a small, far off hut. Besides the candle light, there sat an old man, who in tears, was
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      422 9 When Mr Edison invented the cinematograph, people did not have any definite idea about it. They thought that it was merely a form of recreation, not knowing that it was going to be a great force in the world At the present moment most of the people
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      176 9 Essay writing: Rules to observe All entrants are requeued to observe the following rule*: 1. Each entrant must fill in hit/her own writing the entry form appended below in block letters. 2. No entry will be considered without the entry form properly filled up. 3. The entrant must attach his/her
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      73 9 "Hello, Roger. .How's the wothor up thtro?" DATELINE: DANGER! by John Saunders and Aldan Md/VSams W. ALL THE KID NEEDED WAS SOMETHING TO KEEP HIS MIND OFF THOSE DIRTY-NECK BUMS HE CALLED FRIENDS/ 8 n SB ft m m ym AT THAT NO NEED FOR CHATTER, MOMENT... LEGS/ WE'RE ENJOm*
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    212 10 HQNO KONG. Sun. (Reuter) Ken Fletcher has hung up his tennis racquet. Jhe Hong Kong-based Australian player, popular with tennis fans all over the world for his easy-going. flamboyant style on court, said here he will no longer play tennis for a living. •The next
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    109 10 DURBAN', Sim. (Reuter) The powerful Springboks encountered much stiffer resistance as they beat the touring Australian Wallabies 16-9 in the second Rugby Union Test here yesterday. The Wallabies were not the pushover they were in the First Test which the Springboks won 30-11 in Johannesburg a fortnight
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    119 10 NEW YORK. Sun. (Reuter) Results of major league baseball games last night: National League New York Mets 2, San Diego Padres 0 (Ist), New York Mets 2. San Diego 1 (2nd), Cincinnati Reds 5, Pittsburgh Pirates 2. Philadelphia Phillies 7, Houston Astros 0, St. Louis Cardinals 8,
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    120 10 LONDON. Sun. (UPI) British heavyweight Henry Cooper yesterday signed contracts for his Sept. 27 15-round light at Wembley Pool against B °x»ng Association .(WBA) champion Jimmy Ellis Though the British Boxing Board, affiliated to the World Boxing Council (WBC), refuse to recognise the fight as a
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    1947 10  -  By BIG BEN Likewise, with Ricky Kingston riding a welljudged race, won the $25,000 Anniversary Cup over llf at Bukit Timah yesterday. Handily placed he made a strong bid at the top of the straight and responding to Kingston's vigorous riding held off Norwellan's challenge to
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    227 10 LONDON. Sun. (Reuter) Rumania earned the right to meet the United States in the Davis Cup challenge round by completing a tense 3-2 victory over Britain in their inter-zone final at Wimbledon here yesterday. Ilie Nastase booked Rumania's passage for the challenge match with the U.S.
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    44 10 MANILA, Sun. (UPI) Filipino southpaw Bern abe Villacampo last night scored a fourth round technical knockout over Japanese flyweight Yasuo Narumi in a 12-round elimination fight. The Filipino fighter. No. 2 World Boxing Association (WBA) contender made a helpless opponent of Narumi.
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    49 10 LONDON. Sun. (Reuter) Results of Rugby League matches played yesterday were: St. Helens 27 Castleford 3. Lancashire Cup First Round Oldham 24 Swinton 28. Whitehaven 24 Barrow 10. Wigan 25 Salford 9. Yorkshire Cup Second Round Bat ley 20 Hull Kingston Rovers 36. York 15 Hull 22.
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    500 10 SOCCER LONDON, San. (Heater) Three clubs were 'last night locked together at the top of the English Soccer League First Division. The three Liverpool. Everton and Wolverhampton Wanderers all scored their third victory in eight days to maintain a 100 per cent record
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    292 10 English Division One Burnley 3, Sunderland 0. Chelsea 1. Ipswich 0 Coventry 1, Derby 1. Everton 2. Crystal 1. Man. United L Southamp ton 4. Newcastle 1, Man. Clty*G. Notts. Forest 1. Leds 4. Sheff. Wednesday 2. Wolves 3. Stoke 2. West Ham 1. Tottenham 0, Liverpool 2.
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    55 10 MOOR PARK. London. Sun. (Reuter) Bernard Gallache. a member of Scotland's World Cup team, won the £7.500 Wills Open golf tournament here yesterday by on« stroke from Ireland's Christie O'Connor. The 20-year-old Scot had a Anal round of 73 to hold off O'Connor's late challenge and return
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    369 10 LONDON, Sun. (Reuter) South African Barry Richards contributed a hefty innings of 155 to title-chasing Hampshire in the English County cricket championship yesterday. Richards, 24. from Durban dealt sternly with the Lancashire bowlers, advancing down the wicket to fast and slow bowlers alike before he was
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      45 10 BIG SWEEP Ist Prix*: No. *****6 $4,585 2nd Prize; No. *****0 $1,310 3rd Prize: No. *****9 655 Starters: ($l5O each) Nos:- *****4 *****1 *****0 *****7 *****9 *****5 *****8 *****1 *****7 *****7 *****3 Consolation: ($lOO each) Nos:*****4 *****9 *****4 *****0 *****8 *****4 *****9 *****0 *****8 *****3.
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    661 11  -  By R. NATHAN record-breaking performances by Singa--1 pore's high jump champion Nor Azahar and long jumper Lim Boot Hiang were the highlights on the final day of the three-day Singapore Amateur Athletic Association's annual open championships at the Farrer Park Athletic Centre, yesterday. Both the
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    147 11 SINGAPORE won the 30-lap inter-port race at the Singapore Karting Club's fifth Kart Prix at the Shenton Way yesterday. Albert Poon of Hong Kong captured the 60 laDs Kart Prix event. Second was Singapore's Philip Seow while Capt. E.R. Britzius of Vientiane was third. RESULTS: Class
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    72 11 MELBOURNE. Sun. (Reuter) Bookmaker Ron Thomas offered odds of five to four here yesterday that Australia's Lionel Rose will retain hi* world bantamweight boxing crown against Mexican Ruben Ollvares in Los Angeles next Saturday. But there was only one taker who bet four dollars £1 17s. 4d.
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    517 11  -  By TONY CHANDRAN Oy Srisaad. 29. of Thailand, posted 3204 points for 12 games (average 192) to clinch the women's Masters title in the first Singapore Tenpin Bowling Congress International Championships at the Jackie's Bowl yesterday. Srisaad. who was "runnerup last year in
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    141 11 The Thai champions. S. Champisri and his partner Net'r Gramatica captured the men's doubles title in the Singapore Lawn Tennis Association's 1969 open" grass court championships at the Padang yesterday. They defeated Felix Bautista and Anek Duang-Udon. also of Thailand, j n three 6 ets 6-1.
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    86 11 India again made a clean sweep when they won the team and Individual events in the clay pigeon (trap) shoot at the Singapore Gun Club Range yesterday. Randhlr Singh of India, with a score of 179 won the gold medical from his team-mate R K.
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    446 11  -  By LITTLE NINE Discarding last round jitters, John Halllday. a newcomer in the country, won the 1969 Singapore Amateur Open Golf Championship after a last round 77 for an aggregate 299, four strokes in front of runner-up K C. Choo whose last round rally almost
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    167 11 SYDNEY. Sun. (Reuter) Australia's Pam Kllborn broke the world record for the women's 200 metres hurdles here today in her first competitive attempt at the distance Misa Kilborn was timed at 26.6 seconds clipping 0.3 off the previous record set by a Russian athlete
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    424 11  -  By JEROME DE SILVA Singapore's Golden Girl Patricia Chan seta two more new Singapore International meet records at the flve-nation swimming meet which concluded at the Singapore Swimming Club yesterday. Patricia's new mark* were the 400 m freestyle and the 4xloom individual
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    174 11 DAYTON. <Ohio). Bun AFP t Americas Ray Floyd surged Into a fivestroke lead over Bouth African Gary Player In the third round of the Important Professional Golfers' Association (PGA) tournament here yesterday. He finished in a four-under-par 67. with a spectacular birdie at the last
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    158 11 PORT WORTH. Texas. Sun. <UPI) Top-seeded Rod Laver and third-seeded Ken Rosewall used their powerful serves yesterday to win semifinal matches In the U5522,500 Colonial National invitation tennis tournament. Laver defeated fourthseeded Tom Okker 2-6. 6-3, 6-2 and Rosewall upset second-seeded Tony Roche 7-5.
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    98 11 MOSCOW. Sun. (Reuter) American number two Julie Heldman won the women's singles at the Moscow international tennis tournament today after a three-set battle with her Wifhtman Cup teammate Peaches Bartkowicr. Mist Heldman won a hardhitting baseline duel 6—3, 2 8, 6 —2. Mis§ Bartkowicr. ranked seventh
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      52 11 PESTA SUKAN DIARY Billiards: Snooker championships, Aston Recreation Club. 7.00 pm. Chess: Zonal championships. Kins Edward VII Hall, 6.30 p.m Gymnastics: Singapore championships. SBA Hall. 2.00 p.m. Lawn Tenuis: Singapore open* championships. Paaang. 3.00 p.m. Swimming: Water-polo cham-P'.ons-hios. Chinese Swimming Club. Amber. Road. 8.00 a.m. Volleyball: International championships. Gay World,
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      1209 11 (CHANNEL S) P M 300 Opening Announcement* in all Language? and Morning Star: 3 20 Health In the Home (No. 23) (English>; 335 Be Our Guest (No 23) (Chinese*: 3.50 House and Home No. 6 (Tamil) (Repeat*: 4.05 A Diary of Events In Singapore "Hus Week (Tamil); 410 Scarlet Hill:
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    440 12 The people of Singapore will have to look after the defence and security arrangements of the country after the withdrawal of the British Armed Forces, Mr. Seah Mui Kok. M.P. for Bukit Ho Swee. said last night. Speaking at the dinner at the Bukit Ho
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    99 12 Queenstown Citizens' Consultative Committee has awarded $lOO scholarships to 15 needy secondary school students residing in Queenstown. Altogther a total of 60 students applied for these scholarships. The successful applicants were handed their awards by Mr. Lim Tian Song, chairman of the scholarship sub-commit-tee. recently. The winners
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    Lock icon THE MP FOR ULU PANDAN, Mr. Lee Teck Him took the salute at the march-past and parade of the school's cadet corps of Chinese High School on Saturday. At the ceremony, Mr. Lee stressed the need for youths to keep themselves fit so as to serve the nation better when they grow up. He also called on them to be loyal to their country.
    64 12 THE MP FOR ULU PANDAN, Mr. Lee Teck Him took the salute at the march-past and parade of the school's cadet corps of Chinese High School on Saturday. At the ceremony, Mr. Lee stressed the need for youths to keep themselves fit so as to serve the nation better when
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    108 12 The Postmaster General has issued a press release reminding depositors that thev have just 12 days left to claim the Postal Savings Bank Lucky Draw tickets. All savings banks depositors who had $5OO or more in their accounts throughout the qualifying period from May 1 to July
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    200 12 A missing full-grown leopard In town that ha« been one of the best kept secrets of the Police for the past one month. Until Saturday night, kampong folk and householders in the Paslr Panjang area have complained of some mysterious animal killing and eating their fowl.
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    124 12 An exhibition of British graphic art will open at British Council Gallery at Orchard Road here tomorrow morning. The ten-day display will put on public show some 60 works by 25 contemporary artists in Britain. Representing a spectrum of the most original achievements in contemporary British
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    402 12 Prime Minister Lee Kuan Tew, called on the two million people of this island-republic to lay their stress on calibre rather than quantity in a speech he made over the weekend. He was speaking at the opening of an exhibition depicting Singapore's progress in
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    438 12 Political opponents who branded the People's Action Party as opportunistic were hide-bound prisoners of their pre-conceived ideas and ideology. 80 declared Mr. Chua Slan Chin, a leading member of Singapore* ruling party and the Republic's Minister for Health. Mr. Chua commented thus at the prize-giving
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    495 12 Although the Republic of Singapore mav be a very young nation which is barely four years old and National Service was only introduced two years, it has made commendable progress compared with nations with much longer history and more natural resources. This was stated
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      154 12 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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      32 12 TOTO DRAW THE following numbers were drawn In yesterday Sunday Toto Draw:27 7 44 36 22. The additional number drawn was: 9 In the "three-circle draw", the numbers drawn were:36 35 22.
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