Eastern Sun, 23 August 1969

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  • 21 1 Eastern Sun SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1096 Saturday, 23 August 1969. MC(P) 0737 Prioa IS end
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  • 466 1 SAIGON, Fri. (UPI) Prime Minister Tron Van Huong resigned Friday in a dispute over the inclusion of politicians instead of public servants in the South Vietnamese cabinet. Huong, who earlier this year escaped an assassination attempt, quit after a five-week impasse over efforts to reshuffle
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  • 78 1 TOKYO. Fri. CReuter) Typhoon Cora with maximum winds of 100 miles per hour, battered the Southern Japanese islands of Kyushu and Shikoku killing one and injuring 87 people. Police said that in Kyushu 262 houses and 231 hectacres of farm land were damaged in the typhoon.
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  • 40 1 LONDON. Fri. (Reuter) —England were 174 for five in reply to the New Zealand total of 150 in the first innings when rain stopped play today, the second day of the cricket Test Match between the two countries.
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  • 273 1 WASHINGTON, Fri. (UP!) The State Department announced yesterday that the United States has ordered the expulsion of a member of the Cuban Mission to the United Nations on grounds involving "the securitv of the office of the President of the United States." I Third
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  • 33 1 AUSTRALIA'S APPLE QUEEN '69, Miss Jan Slattery gave three rosy apples to plucky 14-year-old schoolboy. Moorthy Krishnan, who returned last night from Adelaide after a successful "hole-in-the-heart" operation. (See story on Page 12.)
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  • 353 1 SAN FRANCISCO, Frl. (UPI) South Korean President Park Chung Hee believes the North Korean Com. munists are as "bellicose" as ever, and may be preparing "new disturbances and new threats." The Korean interjected a blunt warning to President Nixon last night into a series
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  • 97 1 NEW DELHI, Fri. (Reuter) A retired Indian civil service officer argued in the Delhi High Court today that Prime Minister Indira Gandhi should be removed from her post and said it would otherwise lead to the "emergence of a dictatorship." R. P. Kapur was asking the High Court
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  • 72 1 BRUNEI TOWN. Fri. (Reuter) Brunei has purchased several American Bell 205 helicopters for Its Royal Malay Regiment. an army spokesman said here today. Two of the Bell 205's the civilian version of Huey helicopters now used by the U.S. forces in Vietnam, are to be shipped
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  • 63 1 JERUSALEM. Fri. (Reuter) —lsraeli troops today fired volleys ove r the heads of hundreds of stone-throwing Arab demonstrators outside the ElAqsa Mosque which was damaged by fire yesterday. The Mosque is one of Islam's most sacred shrines and yesterday's fire which some Arabs allege was
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  • 300 1 BUCHAREST. Fri. (AFP) Rumania's Chief of State Nicolae Ceausescu today, in a carefully-balanced speech, heaped praise on the USSR for its role in the liberation of Rumania 25 years ago and at the same time reaffirmed the independent line followed by his country and
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  • 581 1 u#er on< UPI) Thailand has givtn the United 4« r2k i i i C V will soon start negotiations for the withdrawal of 48,000 U.S. troops based in the country. Thana t Kh°man told reporters today that the move verameJ?« flrh? aVain.Vr troo P» in
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  • 112 1 WASHINGTON, Fri. (Reuter) United States officials today declined immediate comment on a request by Thailand for talks soon on the withdrawal of the 48.000 American troops from Thai soiL The officials said as far as they knew the U.S. had not yet been
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  • 100 1 CAPE KENNEDY. Fri. {Renter) Poseidon, the U.S. Navy's latest missile, was launched on its 10th test flight from a land pad here last night. The Poseidon, capable of carrying multiple warheads, will replace the less powerful Polaris missiles in most of America's nuclear submarines during
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 256 2 The "Queens" yesterday paid homage to their "King." t The queens are none other than five luscious beauties who won national titles in their own countries to take part in the recent Miss Asia Quest. The "king" Is Mr. Runme Shaw, film magnate and
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  • 257 2 Institute Of International Affairs The Singapore Institute of International Affairs will organise a study tour to Indonesia in January, next year. The week-long tour will comprise 20 to 30 members and the tentative programme will include meetings with influential political leaders, cultural and commu-
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  • 497 2 THE overall picture of Singapore's economic growth cannot be complete without the important contributions of its rural economy which has in recent years provided a significant boost to Its national income. This was stated by Enche Sha'ari Tadin, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry for
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  • 139 2 BANGKOK. Fri. <UPI> The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Friday agreed that "concrete measures" should be taken so that the ASEAN member countries could be self-sufficient in their national and regional shipping lines, it was announced. The agreement was reached here following the end of
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  • 108 2 The Adult Education Board will hold a five-week course In production of hand-drawn batik textile at its headquarters. 126 Calrnhill Road, commencing Sept. 6. The course is designed for those who wish to learn the technique of hand-drawn batik. The class will be held every Saturday from 3
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  • 134 2 The chairman of the Singapore Turf Club, Mr. Runme Shaw yesterday handed over a cheque of $16,000 to the Master of King Edward Vn Hail of the Medical Faculty, University of Slnfapore. Prof. Khoo Oon Teik for the purchase of buses for student residents of the Hall
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  • 356 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Tunku Abdul Rahman today called on Malaysians to isolate the "bad elements" from their midst in order to maintain peace and solidarity In the country- Ml 4 The Malavsian Prime Minister made the call In reply to a loyalty pledge by leaders of
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  • 112 2 A shoe-maker, caught In the act of forcing open the back door of a coffee-shop in Geylang Road, was yesterday sentenced to 18 months' jail by the Fifth District Court. Judge. Enche Syed Alwi bin Syed Alsree Lim Let Teh. 26. had earlier pleaded guilty to
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  • 150 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri.— Th« Malaysian government today appointed a cabinet committee to look into the working of the Kuala Lumpur interna- tional airport at Subang. The committee, headed by Tun Tan Siew Sin. the Minister with Special Duties ®nd comprised the Minister of Works.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 93 2 Time Tide High Tide (Today) Singapore Town: 8.26 a.m. (6.1 ft.) 5.55 p.m. (7.4 ft.) Naval Dockyard: 801 a.m. (7.5 ft.) 5.26 p.m. (8.6 ft.) Low Tide (Today) Singapore Town; 0.02 *m. (1.8 ft.) 12.22 p.m. (5.3 ft.) Naval Dockyard: 12.50 p.m. (6.6 ft.) High Tide (Tomorrow) Singapore Town: 9.35
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  • 517 3 SAIGON, Fri. (Reuter) The fomily of the man they fear was the alleged victim of the Green Berets murder case yesterday appealed for intercession from the American Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and South Vietnam's Prime Minister, Tran Van Huong, when they presented
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  • 56 3 KARLSRUHE. Germany. Fri. (UPI) The West German Federal Prosecutor charged ll»e former electronics division chief of the American-owned Battelle Research Institute in Frankfurt yesterday with spying for the Soviet Un on. Th e indictment charged 63-year-old Josef Eitzenberger. an Austrian citizen, with committing treason for 10 vears
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  • 300 3 SAIGON. Fri. (Reuter and UPI) Ten South Vietnamese civilians were killed and 62 wounded when Vietcong gunners mortared the coastal town of Due Pho last night, the U.S. Command said to-day. The town. 100 miles southeast of Da Nang. was hit by about ten
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  • 279 3 TOKYO, Fri. (UPI) One of Japan's revolutionary industrial executives proposes that Tokyo become a 24-hour city with all offices, shops and factories on three daily shifts. Akio Marita, Vice-President of the Sony Corporation. says his plan will reduce traffic jams and increase production. The electronics executive says he
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  • 67 3 WASHINGTON. Fri. (UPI) Japanese Foreign Minister Kiichi Aichi will meet Secretary of State William P. Rogers in Washington Sept. 12. the State Department reported yesterday. The meeting is believed to be one of a series of high level discussions centered upon Okinawa and the other Ryuku Islands
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  • 247 3 HONG HONG. Fri. (UPI) What should be done with a girl who threatens suicide because she has been raped and now is three months pregnant? "It is time that the law on abortions were changed.'* one newspaper said. The unidentified girl sought the help of the Hong
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  • 54 3 WASHINGTON. Fri. (UPI) Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, the unsuccessful anti-war candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1968, has split up with his wife and moved into a Washington hotel. McCarthy was reported vacationing in Maine and unavailable for comment but the Sheraton Park hotel confirmed he has
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  • 105 3 HONG KONG, Fri (UPI) —A Hong Kong newspaper said to-day Italy will recognise China "before the end of this year,'* and Italian diplomats to be sent to Peking are being trained here. But the Italian Consulate General called the report In the British-owned China Mail "a
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  • 323 3 TOKYO, Fri. (UPI) Jacqueline Onassis will be divorced in four years and will marry for the third time, an Indian palmist-astrologer now visiting Tokyo has predicted. A staff writer of the English Language Mainichi Daily News. Shintaro Saito. reported to-day that Dadi Balsara. the 32-year-old
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  • 751 4 BEIRUT, Fri. (Reuter) Arab states, wh6se political disarray has gravely weakened them in the confrontation with IsrOel, were united todOy in outrage at the burning of Jerusalem's El-Adjsa Mosque, one of Jsldm's most holy shrines. Whether It was caused by Israeli
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  • 207 4 PRAGUE, Fri. <UPI> New York Times correspondent Paul Hofmann was expelled irom Czechoslovakia yesterday because of the Times "hostile attitude" toward this nation. Hofmann had been In Czechoslovakia since spring. He was the third Times correspondent who had either been expelled or asked to leave in
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  • 74 4 TAIPEI, Fri. (Reuter) The Taiwan Power Company is to ask the Asian Development Bank for a US$2O million loan for its hydro-electric power development programme along the Liwu Creek, about 50 miles southeast of Taipei, the Central News Agency reported yesterday. The loan
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  • 102 4 LONDON. Fri (Reuter) London bookmakers yesterday disproved the old English saying favoured by losing punters: "YtuH never see a bo«kie on a hike." One hundred of them pedalled through Central London behind a shapely blonde model on a racehorse to protest against increased taxes on betting When
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  • 100 4 SAARBRUECKEN. W Germany. Fri. (Reuter) Adolf Vo n Thadden. leader of West Germany's extreme rlghtwlng National Democratic Party, said here today he was confident his party would win seats tn the Bonn Parliament next month. Opening his election campaign. he told a press conference he
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  • 205 4 'Right To Keep Troops In Czechoslovakia' MOSCOW. Fri (UPl) —The Soviets declared yesterday they have a right to keep troops in Czechoslovakia a vear after the Warsaw Pact invasion of that country But a group of Moscow intellectuals disagreed denouncing the invasion as a 'tragic event." The Communist Central Committee
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  • 45 4 Sunderland. England. Fri. (UPI) —Trevor Worm a Id, 22. pleaded guilty in Court on Wednesday of practicing the Italian art of "bottom pinching" he had read about. However, th# court noted he experimented with the wrong bottom —that of off-duty policewoman Brenda Dunn.
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  • 57 4 BRITISH TROOP'S bn re gun faces crowd behind barbed wire in Albert Street. Falls Road area i n Belfast recently.It was here that four people died during riots between Catholic-Protestant factions. The British soldiers entered the city following a request by the Ulster Prime Minister, Major Chichester-Clark to Mr. James
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  • 42 4 A YOUTH (left) raises a clenched fist as thousands of Czechs move into Wenceslas Square at the stroke of noon on Aug. 21 i n a demonstration of protest on the first anniversary of the Soviet led invasion of Czechoslovakia. (I'PI picture)
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  • 390 4 PRAGUE. Fri. (Reuter) Three people were killed and IS Injured in clashes between police, troops and demonstrators in Brno during yesterday's anniversary of the Warsaw Pact invasion, the Communist Party's Presidium said today. According to announcement by the presidium four members of the militia
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  • 75 4 VATICAN CITY, Fri. (Reuter) Pope Paul has created new diocese in Indonesian West New Guinea and appointed an American missionary, Father Alfonso Augusto Sowada. as its first Bishop, the Vatican announced yesterday. The new Diocese of Agats covers territory caned out from the Archdiocese of Merauke.
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  • 33 4 CHICAGO. Fri. (UPI) Chicago police reported a new record was set early Thursday 54 hours without a murder in the city. The previous record was 48 hours set earlier this year.
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  • 187 4 BELFAST. Northern Ireland. Fri (UPD Plans for a visit to Northern Ireland bv British Home Secretary James Callaghan were announced yesterday u Bernadette Devlin fiery leader of Northern Ireland s Roman Catholics, began a fund raising mission in the Called States There was new ferment
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  • 151 4 LONDON, rn. (Reuter) Britain'* biggest firm of bookmakers said yesterday It was giving odds of 25 to one against a manned landing on Mars by July 20. 1972. An official of the William Hill Organisation said the firm stood to lose about
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  • 41 4 ARMAF, Portugal. Fri. (UPI)— The guests cheered and the town wai jubilant when Jorge Pascoal Pereira. and his sweetheart Maria Do Rosario were married and expressed hope for "many, many offspring." Jorge is 95 and Maria is 90.
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  • 122 4 LONDON. Fri. (R<*t*r) The pavement "shop" across the street from a busy London po.ice station was doing a brisk business in chemists' goods. But, a juvenile court heard yesterday, the goods were all stolen. And to top it off. the "shop" was run by a nine-year-old girl who
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  • 41 4 BATH. England. Fri (UPI) Amateur gardner John Mayor's new weedkiller worked fine until the rains came the police came, the firemen cam®, and the health department came. When water hit his w<=*M killer it gave off fumes cyanide gas.
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 243 4 TODAY an m n '<LL STAR GAZER'^ By CLAY R. POLLAN Your Doily Activity Guido vpT According to tho Start. <• To develop messoge for Soturdoy, 3r.33.47-s>, read words corresponding to numbers 58-60 82-85 of your Zodioc birth siga L" SCORPIO OCT ;3 1 M rode 31 Bicker 2 Entertaining
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  • 371 5 WASHINGTON, Fri. (UPI) Defence Secretary Melvin R. Laird on Thursday announced he was yielding to congressional pressure and reluctantly reducing the nation's armed forces by 100,000 men &nd spending by three billion dollars. He warned, "It is clear our defence readinesswill be weakened.*'
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  • 209 5 WLLYES BARRE, Pennsylvania, Fri. (Reuter) A Judge will hear arguments here on Monday on a motion seeking to bar an autopsy on Mary Jo Kopechne. who drowned last month in a Massachusetts car accident involving Sen. Edward Kennedy. County Judge Bernard Brom:nski has cancelled a scheduled
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  • 92 5 SAN FRANCISCO. Fri. (Reuter) Some 5.000 anti-war demonstrators using megaphones and carrying placards, jammed the square in front of the hotel where President Nixon entertained South Korean President Chung Hee Park at a state dinner yesterday. Large contingents of riot police were posted in and
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  • 272 5 SAN FRANCISCO. Fri. (UFI) Zsa Zsa Gabor and Shirley Temple Black shared the spotlight with military brass and politicians on Thursday at President and Mrs. Nixon's state dinner honouring South Korean President and Mrs. Park Chung Hee The 250-name guest list was heavily sprinkled with
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  • 129 5 LOS ANGELES. Fri (UPI) —Voityck Frokowsky, the man considered possibly the principal target in the slaughter of five persons at the estate of actress Sharon Tate, was experimenting with the hallucinogenic drug Mescaline at the time he was killed, a friend disclosed yesterday. Thomas Michael
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  • 215 5 LOS ANGELES. Frl. (UPI) A defence witness at the trial of two Chicago brothers accused of the murder of Ramon Novarro testified yesterday ne was told the younger brother killed Novarro because the silent film star made improper advances. Victor Nichols, a real estate Investor
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  • 65 5 TEHERAN. Fri. (Renter) Doctors in the Gulf Port of Khorramsahr have discovered a man with four kidneys. tfte evening newspaper Key ha n reported today. Mahmoud Vaiiri, a 24-year-old schoolteacher, aslo has his heart and spleen on the right side of his body, and no appendix.
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  • 58 5 DARIEN. Conn. Fri. (Reuter) Five peoole were killed and 31 injured in a head-on train crash here, a railway spokesman said yesterday. Three of the dead were crew men killed when a commuter train and an empty train collided on a single track last night. Squads of workers
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  • 136 5 MANILA. Fri. (UPI) President Nixon has invited Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos to visit the United States but Marcos has deferred all plans for foreign travels because of the local election campaign, official sources said today. The sources said Nixon extended the Invitation to Marcos
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  • 338 5 PASS CHRISTIAN. Mississippi, Fri. (UPI) Looters, black marketeers and staggering sanitation problems on Thursday plagued the survivors of Hurricane Camille which claimed still more victims as it finished its 1.00-mile journey across America. The toll of the strongest hurricane ever to strike the U.S. mainland climbed
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  • 38 5 ARSAW. Fri. (Reuter) Three Polish fishermen are in hospital with burns in the Baltic port of Gdansk after catching a container of German wartime poison gas in their nets, the Polish news agency PAP reported today.
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  • 33 5 RIO DE JANEIRO. TrL (Reuter) Two bombs exploded behind the Soviet Embassy here today damaging a wall in the back yard. There was no immediate indication of who made the attack.
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  • 499 6 CZECHOSLOVAKIA remembered this week the death of its short-lived programme of liberalization under former Communist Party Secretary Alexander Dubcek. The reformist himself barely escaped with his life from Russia after he was deposed, and is now consigned to limbo that special kind of limbo for fallen Communist leaders
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  • 236 6 USUALLY when a South Korean envoy speaks on security matters, his words have a ring of authority. South Korea had had the bitter experiences of war. a good deal of knowledge about the machinations of Communists and the true values of peace and prosperity. Recently, the South
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  • 1247 6  -  ®y Michael Wilson Michael Wilson, BSc CEng FBIS AFRAeS Assistant Technical Editor "Flight International" London ONCE upon o time organising a defence against the invader was quite simple. The people who lived on the border of the threatened country or ci.ty provided the early warning, while
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  • 642 6  -  By Frank Mankiewicz, Tom Braden WASHINGTON The Nixon Administration is doing its best to eliminate George Wallace of Alabama as a presidential contender in 1972 and has placed its resident Alabama expert, Postmaster General Winton "Red" Blount, in charge of the operation. Blount has been spending
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  • 434 6 WASHINGTON —A dwelling that looks like o conventional adobe ranch house with a Spanish-style red til* roof sits on the landscape of the small Rincon Indian Reservation north of San Diego, California. This is the house that NASA built. NASA (National Aeronautics and Space
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  • 832 6  -  By LAN TEMPLETON, Gemini Newt Service WELLINGTON: The Government, of Mr. Keith Holyoake has been under heavy pressure from New Zealanders disturbed by the misery of the Nigerian civil war. It has expressed its concern to the British Prime Minister Mr. Harold Wilson,
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  • 15 6 Compare your griefs with other men's and they will seem less. Spanish Proverb.
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 320 7  -  By OUR MARKET REPORTER CONDITIONS in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday field steady. Trading was quiet and generally a continuation of the previous trend. The market opened Armed and on shortcovering demand made marginal advances before some profit-taking towards the
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    • 903 7 T>USINESS done in and reported to the tradinf rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in brackets ill lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified: INDUSTRIALS Ben 1.84 (1) $1.85 C 2) 51.83 (2); Borneo Bhd. $1.74 (13); Camei Plywood
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    • 125 7 LONDON. Frl. (Reuter) The market moved higher yesterday. The numerous bid and special situation stocks prompted all-round Interest in equities. The provisional Industrial production figures for June published by the Department of Economic Affairs, which showed a resumption of an upward trend after two static months,
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    • 120 7 THE Association of Banks In Malaysia-Singapore yesterday made the following changes in its rates to merchants (rates are quoted to the equivalent of 100 units of foreign currency): SELLING TT. or O D ready: Deutsche Marks $77.9550; Holland Guilders $85.5100; Swiss Francs $71.8250; Belgian Francs $6.1400; French Francs
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    • 208 7 THE following is a berthing list issued by the Port of Singapore Authority for Saturdav. Aug 23:DEPARTURES Godowns Vessels 1/2 Telemon 3/4 Maron 8 9 Wami 15/16 Dolius 19 Sir Lancelot N.W.4 Giang Ana 31/32 Benavon 35/36 Has Maersk 38/39 Silver Pavilion (tanker) 42; 43 Nieobar 44
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    • 563 7 fPWO of the cabin crew of Whiskey Echo. the Boeing 707 destroyed by fire after an emergency landing at Heathrow on April 8 last year, have been awarded gallantry decorations by the Queen. Stewardete Barbara Jane Harrison, who died trying to save an elderly
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    • 283 7 September first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m.. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 78-1/8 cents per lb., down half a cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was quiet. The market fluctuated quietly around the 78 cents level during the
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    • 132 7 NEW YORK. Fri. (UPI) Price* closed narrowly mixed on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday in light trading. Near the final bell, the UPI market wide Indicator was up 0.14 per cent. Of the 1,546 issues traded. 650 moved ahead and 588 declined. Turnover amounted to
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    • 367 7 'PHE market this week has lost further ground followA ing the previous week s reaction Conditions have also been quieter as the market no\r attempts to And an equilibrium point after the rapid and erratic movements of recent weeks, state Holiday, Cutler, Bath Co. Ltd., yesterday.
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    • 55 7 HONG KONG. Fri. (UPI) Money Quotations: HK56.0925 per U.S dollar. HK56.1125 per U.S. Dollar TT. HKSI4 45 per pound sterling. HK5307.875 per taei of gold 94.5 per cent fineness. HK5162.3 per 10,000 Japanese yens. HK$ 120.0 per 100 Philippine pesos buyer*. HK5121.0 per 100 Philippines pesos sellers. Philippine
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    • 199 7 LONDON, Fit Five shipyard cranes are being supplied to Keppel Dockyard (Private) Ltd., of Singapore at a cost of nearly £200.000 by Stothert and Pitt Ltd., the British engineering company based at Bath in south-west England. The contract. secured through the companys agents, Guthrie Waugh
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    • 78 7 LONDON. Fri. (UPI) Rubber market closed quiet yesterday with spot 28. 28-1/2. SETTLEMENT HOUSE Sept. 28-1/8 28-3/8. Oct. Nov. and Oct./ Dec. 28-1/4 28-1/t. Jan./ March 27-1/2 27-3/4. April/June 27-1/8 27-3/8. July/Sept. 26-7/8 27. Oct./ Dec. 26-1/2 26-3/4. Jan /March 26-5/16 26-1/2. April/June 26-3/16 26-3/8 July
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    • 12 7 THE tin price for yesterday weres64l.62i per picul, up $2.12*.
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    • 625 7 SINGAPORE Stock Elchange •old and otber prices officially llMro ut tbc ClOM of bUklneM. INDUSTRIALS ACMA B S 1*7 1 79 Ben Co Borneo Rhd 1.73 185 1.75 Boustead 185 1 88 C- Mijtar 3.56 3 6ft Cold Morue Chemical Co 2 18 1.61 i 20
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    • 39 7 NEW YORK. Fri (UPI) Dow Jone< closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday. 30 Industrials 834 87 20 Rails 201.42 15 Utilities 115.83 €5 Stocks 282 48 40 Bonds 72.07 Commodity futures index 139.45.
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    • 54 7 BOMBAY. Frl. (Reuter) India will import 75.000 bales of cotton worth 230 million rupees (£12.800.000) from the United Arab Republic. The government announcement said allocation instructions for the cotton would be issued shortly. The total of 75,000 UAR. bales was equal to 135.000 bales oi
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    • 52 7 NEW YORK, Fri. (UPI> Rubber futures closed 10 to 50 points lower on 1 sales yesterday on the Ne w York Commodity Exchange. (Bid) (Ask) Sept. 30.75 Nov. 30.65 Jan (70) 30.40 Mar. 30.15 May 29.75 July 29.65 Sept. 29.40 Locally No. 2 RSS was 30 7/8 cents
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    • 95 7 THE noon price* at pore Chinese Prod tic* the StBf»» Exchange jesterday were >— Bl Seller p« Coconut Oil 48 75 (FO B.) Bnlfc Coronal Oil (FOB) Drum w 51 25 Mixed Copra Mantok White Pepper 30-50 147.50 (F.OB.) Sarawak Whit* Pepper (FOB) 145 00 Sarawak Special Black Pepper
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    • 62 7 (Manager*' Prlcea for Ang. ASIA UNIT TRUSTS K> Mai. Inmt. Fund 125 1 SS SINGAPOKF UNIT TRUSTS 1st Malayan XD 2.70 2nd Malayan XD 1 96 3rd Malayan 1.25 -mm The Com. Ind 101 111 The Saving Fund 1.08 1.18 Sterling Com. 5 6 H.K TRUST fTNDg 1st
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    • 384 7 ARRIVALS 500 am. MSA 029 K. Lumpur 900 am. MSA 119 K. Lumpur 935 am. MSA 529 Phnom-Penh 10.15 am. MSA 121 K. Lumpur 10.25 am. MSA 005 Penang. Ipoh. K. Lumpnr, Malacca 10.50 am. THAI TU423 Bangkok 12 30 pm. OAKI'DA GAHO6 Medan 1.10 p.m. MSA 451
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    • 62 8 HOLLYWOOD, Fri. (UPI) Bit player Tex Barnum withdrew from a role in "The Moonshine War" yesterday when the script called for him to strip naked in a roomful of women. Said a spokesman for the film. "We can get all the women we want to
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    • 74 8 DABNEY COLEMAN took up skiing for his role as an Olympic coach in Paramount Pictures' "The Downhill "Pacers," but he did not let his time on the slopes Interfere with his favourite sport. Each day CoJeman drove 75 mile? from the film's location in Kitzbuhel, Austria, to Munich
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    • 54 8 NEW YORK. Fri. Marilyn Stark, currently appearing in the nude revue. "Oh! Calcutta!". will make her Aim debut in Paramount Pictures' "A New Leaf." Miss Stark, formerly a strip tease artiste with the Follies Burlesk. will again be on view sans wardrobe in "A New Leaf'' she plays
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    • 578 8  - WHEN THE WEEKENDS ARE LONG LONELY Ann Landers DEAR Ann: I just came home from a wedding and I'm thoroughly disgusted. Please tell me if I am "overreacting" as my wife seems to think. What could have been a beautiful religious ceremony turned out to be a Hollywood spectacle. As
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    • 781 8  -  By Elizabeth Sherry ARE you worrying about your wrinkles? Well don't! Smile them away. Marlene Dietrich one of the oldest and most glamorous of stars does have a few wrinkles. She doesn't, however. have half as many as most 45 years old. Says Marlene: "I don't
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    • 69 8 LOS ANGELES Fri. (UPI) John Wayne has sued for US$lOB,OOO damages resulting to his 136-foot power yacht Wild Goose when It waa run aground on May 19 in San Diego harbour. Wayne said in the suit filed on Wednesday the accident happened when the boat was under
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    • 532 8 PART of the concert, "Opera Night" at the Victoria Theatre on Sept 3 will be devoted to excerpts from "The Mikado". one of Gilbert and Sullivan's most popular and successful operas. The scene is set In Japan, and though the story is
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    • 134 8 CELEBRATE SINGAPORE'S 150 th. ANNIVERSARY WITH sanp49 A CHANCE TO WIN TWO TOTO JACKPOTS A WEEK Ist. $90,000 (s7o,ooo*s2o£oo Bonus) TO WINNERS WITH 5 NUMBERS CORRECT 2nd. GROUP $20,000 TO WINNERS WITH 4 PLUS THF ADDITIONAL NUMBER CORRECT 3rd.GROUP $350 4th GROUP $l5 FREE FNTRY FOR 3 CIRCLES $5OO/Remember to
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    • 243 8 LIDO Phone ***** NOW SHOWING! 4 Show*! U a.m.. 2 30. A 9 p at. School Children: $l.OO to any seat at all shows during season Natalie Wood. Richard Beymer "WEST SIDE STORY" (DAt In Technicolor Panarision CAPITOL Phone 2975-■ NOW SHOWING No Ere* Li«t 11 a s.. 1.46. 4M,
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  • 1147 9 Britain's golfers are now figuring prominently in international golf, playing for the big money, prizes. Here Gordon Richardson, a golf writer who covers many of the leading tournaments in the world, discusses the rich, new place British golfers hav« found in the game.
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  • 787 9  -  By Vicente Maliwanag MANILA, Fri. (UPI) The Philippine! have developed a hiqhiy-rewarding joint venture with the United Mates in an unusual field: basketball. For the past two seasons, top Philippine teams have been importing towering players from American leagues to add glamour and height to local basketball,
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    • 126 9 By Jack TippS* I V/l HEY, THERE IT ISI That big oTfatwn li coming up. >1 with you two could m IH" DATELINE: DANGER! by John Saunders and Aldan McWfams THANK 3 FOR "THE LIFT, MR-TRCY-YOU BUYS SAVED ME rTW BUS FARE/jWTTI GLOBAL NEWS PAYS THE RENT ON THIS HEAP,
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    • 407 10 LONDON, Fri. (Reuter) Majid Jehangir, the young Pakistan Test batsman, scored a brilliant century at Swansea yesterday to put Glamorgan level with English County cricket championship leaders Gloucts- tershire. Majid helped Glamorgan pocket six batting bonus points as he hammered 122 in 175 minutes
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    • 214 10 CHESTNUT HILL. Massachusetts. Fri. (UPI) Two Australians. Mrs. Margaret Smith Court, the defending champion, and young Kerry Melville swept into the women's singles semi-finals of the US. national tennis championship yesterdav with straight set victories over two English girls. Mrs. Court, the No. 1
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    • 157 10 MANILA. Fri. <UPI) Japan completed a sweep of all but one of the Individual titles in the international students badminton championships in Manila last night. Bandid Jaiyen of Thailand spoiled Japan's bid for undisputed mastery in the tournament by defeating Shoichi Washio, 15-7, 15-4 to
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    • 372 10 LONDON. Fri. (Reuter) Out-of-form opener Geoff Boycott broke his run of failures as England made a sound start after New Zealand folded for 150 on the second dav of the Third Test here at The Oval today. Boycott, after three ducks in his last four Test
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    • 234 10 YORK, England, Frl. (Reuter) Yellow God raced to a two-lengths victory in the renowned Gimcrack Stakes for two-year-olds here yesterday and was immediately named co-favourite for next year's 2,000 Guineas classic. It was the second successive Gimcrack triumph for English owner Mr. David Robinson. who
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    • 259 10 SUTTON. Massachusetts. Fri (Reuter) American Tom Shaw, almost forgotten since capturing the Doral Open last March, took the first round •ead in the US$l5O,OOO Avco golf classic yesterday, firing a four-under-par 68 over the windswept Pleasant Valley Country Club course. Shaw. 26. has missed
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    • 54 10 LONDON, Fri. (Reuter) After extra time Southend United beat Brentford by 3 goals to two In an English Football League Cup first round second replay match last night. The score after 90 minutes was one-one. Southend United are now away to Shrewsbury Town in the second
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    • 56 10 BIRMINGHAM. England. Fri. (Reuter) Birmingham City, the English Second Division soccer club who have made a poor start to the new season, yesterday signed centre-for-ward Tony Hately from Coventry City. The fee is believed to be £60.000. Hately has now been with six clubs in six years,
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    • 516 10 NEW YORK. Fri. (Reuter) The Atlanta Braves moved closer to the top position in the National I eague's Western Division yesterday by trimming the Eastern Division leading Chicago Clubs 3-1. Jim Britton allowed onlv four hits and Hank Aaron slammed his 33rd
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    • 240 10 SWIFTS Athletes Association which h«v® dominated the Esso championships for the past ten years will face stiff competition from the other clubs at the two-day meet a t Farrer Park Athletic Centre beginning today at 2.00 p.m. REASON: A number of their top track and
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    • 597 10 LOS ANGELES Fri. (UPI) Mexican challenger Ruben O'.lvares was reported homesick and in a sullen mood yesterday on the eve of his fight with bantamweight champion Lionel Rose. Rose, risking his title for the fourth time, was his usual relaxed self and spend a quiet day
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    • 68 10 TOKYO. Fri. (Reuter) Mike Hai.wood of Britain and Lothar Motschenbacher of the United States will compete in the 1969 Japanese Grand Prix at Fuji raceway on October 10, the Japan Automobile Federation said today. Both men will drive Mc-Laren-Chevrolets in the 432 miles event. Total prize
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    • 287 10 FOREST HILLS. New York. Fri. (UPI) Rod Laver is keyine himself up for an all-out effort to score his second grand slam of the world's top tennis titles. "This is more Important tha n the first one," said rocket Rod. who swept the
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    • 107 10 BROOKLINE. Massachusetts, Fri. (AFP) Puerto Rican Charles Pasarell fought his way into the semi-finals of the U S. national tennis championships here yesterday with a surprise win over Clark Graebner. and thus increased his chances of being picked for the U.S. Davis Cup team. The 25-year-old Pasarell
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    • 105 10 PRAGUE. Frl. (AFP) Franco Donna of Italy set a new world small-bore rifle shooting record scoring 578 points out of a possible 600, at the European championships at Plzen yesterday. Beating the previous best, which had stood for four years, by four points. Donna headed
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    • 459 11 Malaysia's leg spinner Jagdev Singh took the first days honours at the threeday Test cricket match between Singapore and Malaysia at the Padang yesterday. Bowling brilliantly Jagdev highlighted the day*g play when he wrecked eight wickets for 57 runs In 31 overs, out of
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    • 245 11 Singapore Ist Inns: S Houghton b Jagdev Singh 37 R. Tessensohn b Ranjit Singh 8 Maurice de Vaz v C Shepherdson b Jagdev Singh 7 Reggie da Silva c R Hendroff b Jagdev Singh 6 J. Martens c M Shepherdson b Jagdev Singh 57 K Elloy c C Shepherdson
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    • 80 11 ACCRA, m (JUuWr) The European Athletic Commission and the Supreme Council for Sports in Africa (S.CS.A.) have agreed in principle to stage a n Afro-European athletics competition next year. The announcement was made today bv the Secretary General of the S.C.S.A.. Mr. J. C. Ganga. when aadressing African
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    • 110 11 ABOUT 900 competitor* including girls will tske part.in the Christian Brothers' Old Boys Association'! first annual bif walk competition, st St. Pstrick's School ground tomorrow st 6.30 a.m. The walk is open to present pupils of sll the six Christisn Brothers Schools, both primsry snd Secondary,
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    • 1309 11 (CHANNEL 5) PM. 100 Opening Announcements in all Languages and Shazzan; 1.25 World Tennis; 2 15 Gentle Ben (The Intruders >; 240 Inba Ner*m (National Day Edition (Repeat); 3.30 You're N T o Good; 4CO A B.C. Documentary (Custer to the Little Big Horn); 455 Hollywood Squares: 520 Phantoman (Island
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  • 227 12 A STRONG delegation of Thai journalists i s now in Singapore to take a sample of Instant Asia." They are guests of Malaysia-Singapore Airlines on the inaugural flight of the newly acquired Boeing 737 from Bangkok to Singapore. MSA has arranged a tight programme for the
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  • 523 12 HEART DISEASE A TOP KILLER Mass X-ray surveys in Singapore suggest that one out of every 200 persons has some sort of heart con- dition. Dr. C.C.S. Toh, senior lecturer at the Department of Clinical Medicine. University of Singapore, stated this when he spoke on "The Normal and Abnormal Heart
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  • 155 12 THE Minister of State. Pnme Minister's Office, Tuan Haji Ya'acob bin Mohamed, has been appointed as the Republic's Ambassador to the Philippines, a Foreign Affairs Ministry statement announced yesterday. Tuan Haji Ya'acob. 44, has been an active politician since 1945 and in 1959 stood for elections
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  • 60 12 VANDALS were at work again when two more coin boxes attached to public telephones were stolen at two postoffices in Paya Lebar and Jalan Kayu. The cost of each coin box is about $3O. Police again made an appeal yesterday to members of the public to dial 999
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  • 132 12 THE "jackpot prize'' for this Sunday's Toto Draw has been increased to $90,000 to winners with 5 numbers correct. The prizes for the second, third and fourth groups remain at $20,000 (with four plus one numbers correct), $350 (with four numbers correct) and $l5 (with three numbers
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  • 398 12 The Minister for Health. Mr. Chua Sian Chin, last night disclosed of plans to run the Government's pharmaceutical manufactory on a commercial basis. This means that the manufactory, the largest in Singapore, producing each year some $2-5 million worth of supplies to meet the
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  • 156 12 HONG KONG, Fri. (UPI) The second seminar of the Association of Southeast Asian Institutions of Higher Learning I ASAIHL) on university administration will be held in December in Hong Kong, it was announced Thursday The seminar will be held in conjunction with the
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  • 202 12 The internationally well-known London Philharmonic Orchestra will perform at the National Theatre in Singapore for two days in mid-September. The 88-man musical group, being brought here by the Donald Moore Entertainments in association with the British Council, will perform under the batons
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  • 231 12 All male citiiens of the Republic born between Jan. i and March 31, will have to report for National Service Registration at the Central Manpower Base, Kalian*, from Sept to Oct. 29, this year. A schedule has been prepared for the stipulated age group
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  • 231 12 "An apple a day keeps the doctor away" so the saying goeg and Singapore student. Moorthy Krishnan. 14. had a delightful surprise last night when he stepped off the plane after a successful "hole-in-the heart" operation in Australia, to be given three rosy apples
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  • 83 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Three armed youths held up three women in a house at Jalan Imbi yesterday and robbed them of $1,545 in cash and jewellery. A police spokesman said today Kok Wei Chee, a housewife. was chatting with two other friends when they were interrupted
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  • 83 12 MR. JAMES H. Gill arrives here tomorrow to take up the post of Assistant Commercial Secretary at the Canadian High Commissioner's Office. Born in London. Mr Gill, 28, graduated from the Waterloo Lutheran University Ontario with an honours degree in Business Administration, in 1968. This will
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  • 172 12 THE multi-million dollai entertainment complex in KaL lang Park, the Singapore Wonderland Amusement Park was officially declared opened yesterday by Datin Lee Chee Shan. Thousands were present at the opening ceremony and most of them were treated to a free ride in one of the numerous Wonderland's
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  • 151 12 Keppel Shipyard (PrivataV Ltd wall send a third team of engineers to Switzerland on Monday. Aug. 25, to take up a specialised course on the servicing and repairing of Sulzey marine diesel engines. They are Mr. Fong Swea Theng. foreman engineer; Mr. Long Sai Hai.
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