Eastern Sun, 27 August 1969

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    22 1 Eastern Sun SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1100 Wednesday* 27 August 1969. •fr MC(P) 0737 PHoa 19 cants
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    Lock icon ARABS SEND ROCKETS AT JERUSALEM CITY
    422 1 JERUSALEM, Tues. (UPI and Reuter) Arab guerrillas today launched their first rocket attack in more than two years against Jerusalem, firing three Soviet-made missiles that narrowly missed a hospital and a crowded hotel, Israeli military spokesman said. Authorities said two of the rockets landed
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    Lock icon Embassy Personnel Deported
    123 1 VIENTIANE. Tue» (UPI) Six North Vietnamese embassy personnel ordered to quit Laos for spying left this afternoon by air for Hanoi. Five 0 f them dropped their trousers in a gesture of contempt before boarding the International Control Commission plane for the North Vietnamese capital. The si?
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    Lock icon SCHOOLS AID CUT
    62 1 BRUNEI TOWN (Brunei). Tues, (AFP) All Chinese schools in oil-rich Brunei will not receive any financial assistance from the government as from the end of this year. This was announced today by the Director of Education Dato Malcolm Machinnes. Chinese schools here have been receiving assistance worth
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    Lock icon NEW GARUDA FLIGHT
    31 1 JAKARTA. Tues. (Reuter)— The Indonesian state airline Garuda will open a weekly Fokker flight between padang in West Sumatra and Singapore starting September 14. a spokesman said today.
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    Lock icon Test Result
    43 1 LONDON. Tues (Reuter) England brat New Zealand by eight wickets in the third and final cricket test here today to win the series 2-0 with one match drawn. Final scores: New Zealand 150 and 399 England 242 and 138 for two.
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    Lock icon POLITICS GONE TRIBAL IN LUSAKA CLAIM
    308 1 Vice President Quits Wear Tears' LUSAKA, Zambia, Tues. (UPI) Vice President Simon Kapwepwe announced yesterday he has resigned from office because the country faced "bloodshed" if he remained in power. He said he submitted his resignation to President Kenneth Kaunda Thursday and "I think
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    Lock icon Unruly In Court
    474 1 SEVEN JAILED SEVEN persons, including three women, seated in the public gallery of a Magistrate's Court were sentenced to two to three months' imprisonment when they defied a warning not to shout and clap in open court. The incident occurred when the trial of three men charged
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    Lock icon Japanese Chamber In Singapore
    257 1 THE Japanese business community in Singapore has set up its own Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The General Manager of Mitsui fir Co. Ltd., Singapore, Mr. S. Satow has been elected the Chamber's first president at the inaugural meeting held yesterday. The elected vice-presi-dents are:
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    Lock icon UNDP Chief For Malaysian Projects
    116 1 UNITED NATIONS. Tues. (UP I) Alexander Foster Campbell. 49. a national of New Zealand, has been appointed resident representative of the U.N. Development Programme in Malaysia, UNDP administrator Paul G. Hoffman announced yesterday. Ca*r*>bell hag development planning experience from the Colombo Plan when, on behalf
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    Lock icon ONLY ONE QUAD LEFT
    71 1 COPENHAGEN. Tues (UPI) Three of four Quadruplets died early today a* Gentofte Amtssygehus. a hospital bulletin said. The only surviving child of the four to whom Mrs. Ruth Ballsleve Oestergaard gave birth to on Monday night is a boy. The boy weighed three-pound nine-ounces. the smallest
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    Lock icon Imagine That...
    55 1 SAGGINALE. Italy, Tues. (UPI) A fisherman wandered beneath a Roman era stone bridge on the Sieve River in Central Italy, looked up. and saw a dynamite charge. He called police, who found more than 600 pounds of dynamite, apparently intended to blow up the bridge during the German
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    Lock icon Canadian Embassy Set Alight
    146 1 VIENNA. Tues. (UPI) At least two persons were killed and 12 injured when a shab-bily-dressed person set fire to the Canadian embassy premises here today. Eyewitnesses said a poorlydressed person, looking mentally disturbed, set fire to the embassy rooms with a Molotov cocktail. The Are spread
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    Lock icon US-Thai Forces Talks Next Week
    107 1 BANGKOK. Tues. (UPI) The United States and Thailand announced today they will open talk, next week an withdrawal of some of the 48.000 American fighting men in this country. The joint announcement made it clear that any reduction would be 'gradual'" and would be limited
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    Lock icon Culture Is A National Mirror
    110 2 THE success or failure of a country is reflected in the cultural heritage of its people. The richness of it shows the prosperity and progress of the country whilst the contrary shows a decadent situation has set in. The MP for Delta, Madam! Chan Choy
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    Lock icon 'Passage To India'
    390 2  -  Stage Challenge Overcome By H. C. TAN WHAT could be a greater challenge to a budding piay producer like Alexander Thomson, 19, than to produce a play adapted from E. M. Forster's famous novel "A Passage to India." A challenge because here Is where Alexander will have
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    Lock icon Inner Wheel Luncheon
    46 2 THE Inner Wheel Club will hold their National Dav luncheon meeting at their pres.dent. Mrs. Dorothy Hon's residence. this afternoon. The Hon. Secretary. Mrs. Jean Blyth said the speaker for the occasion will be Mr. G. G. Thomson, of the Foreign Affairs Ministry.
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    Lock icon 'Spirit Of The West'
    101 2 PERTH. Tues. (Reuter) The balloon "Spirit of the West" may be launched from Pearce. 200 miles North of here, on Thursday In a second attempt to become the first balloon to fly across Australia. Expedition leaner ilight Lieutenant Lee Jones and Crewman Mike Greentree are expecting
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    Lock icon The Mahesan Case: COURT HEARS OF 'SECRET DEAL' WITH LAND BROKER
    1939 2 KUALA LUMPUR, g Tues. The disc!csure of o "secret de°l" between the original c owners of the Sungei s Duo land in Penang and a broker came a$ on unexpected turn in the c trial of T. Mahesan, L
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    Lock icon Business Technique Tour Down Under
    114 2 Three Singapore business executives spent 46 dav» in Australia recently to study overseas trade-promotion technique developed by the Australian Government, in- dustry and commerce. They were Mr. A. Soh Leone Peng. Mr. Koh Kay Yew and Mr. H. Hassanbhai. The trade-promotion course arranged under th*
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      185 2 Tokyo Taipei USA If you're set on setting from point A to point B. there are few things more frustrating that M tiring stopovers. Thus why we try to keep our routes as straightforward as possible. Suppose you're going: to Tokyo. Our Monday flight from Singapore means a 40-minute connection
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    Lock icon PEKING'S BID TO CUT USSR HOLD OVER HANOI
    423 3 LONDON Tues. (UPI) Peking has offered Hanoi more arms and aid to undercut Soviet influence in North Vietnam, diplomatic reports said to-day. The offer was at the same time believed intended to pressure Hanoi into pursuing a hard line on a Vietnam
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    Lock icon Australia To Use Peaceful Period For Re-Equipping Her Defence
    190 3 CANBERRA. Tues. (Reuter) --Australia faces no early threat to its security and tne Government will use 3 strategic breathing space to re-equip its forces. Minister for Defence Allen Fairhall, said today. Fairhall. who will retire from Parliament this y ear was
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    Lock icon 34 HK Workers Food-Poisoned
    76 3 HONG KONG. Tues. (UPI) Thirty-four workers of a Kowloon dyeing factory were hospitalised for food-poisoning to-day after eating a dish of duck last night. A Government spokesman said the workers 27 men and seven women suffered from acute stomach-ache and voj mitting after they had *aten
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    Lock icon Indira's Triumph After Top Meeting
    260 3 NEW DELHI, Tues. (UPI) The Working Commit, tee of the Ruling Congress Party avoided a split in the organisation last night and ensured Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi of continued leadership. The highest executive body of the Party which has ruled India since Independence met
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    Lock icon Musical Ear Of Rice
    179 3 MADRAS Tues. (Reuter) Farming research experts have claimed they can increase the production of rice by up to 88 per cent by charming plants I with Hawaiian music. But Mrs. Satyavani Muthu. the Madras State Agriculture I Minister. s aid the e*P«rts had produced conflicting reports
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    Lock icon Indon Scandal Envoy Recalled
    102 3 DAR ES SALAAM. Tues (Reuter) —lndonesia's Ambassador to Tanzania, whose name has been linked with a gem smuggling and customs scandal, has been recalled by h:s Government for consultations. The envov. Mohammad Jasin. said in a statement vesterday he would leave for Jakarta tomorrow. the eve
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    Lock icon Thieu Influenced Nixon's Decision On Withdrawal
    378 3 WASHINGTON. Tues (I'PI) South Vietnam President Thieu apparently influenced President Nixon's decision to delay for at least two weeks the decision on further withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam. Informed sources here said 1 yesterday that Thieu urged against a withdrawal announcej ment by
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    Lock icon OLD SILK ROUTE RE-OPENS BETWEEN CHINA AND PAK
    438 3 RAWALPINDI, Tues. (UPI) Marco Polo would have felt right at home at the Caravanserai of Misgar yesterday, among the camels carrying trade goods of silk, carpets and jasmine tea. The caravan from China arrived at Misgar on Sunday, travelling the silk route
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    Lock icon EARLY RELEASE FOR GREY IN RED CHINA?
    264 3 HONG KONG, Tues. (UPI) The long and lonely detention of British journalist Anthony Grey by Red Chinese Authorities may be nearing an end. If all goes well, the Reuter"s news agency Peking Correspondent could be released by early October, if not slightly sooner.
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    Lock icon N. Koreans' Sneak Attack
    102 3 SEOUL. Tues. (UPl)—Three South Korean Armv soldiers were killed and five others wounded in an ambush by a group of North Korean intruders early Sunday in the central sector of the truce-front, the Defense Ministry said today. One of the Communist attackers was also killed in
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    Lock icon Papal Hint
    66 3 VATICAN CITY. Tues. (UPI) Pope Paul VI has received no official invitation to visit Japan and although he would like to visit "certain places or certain countries, he cannot go without such an invitation, the Vatican said today. Observers said the unusual Vatican statement appeared to be a
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    Lock icon VIETNAM WAR TOLL: 100 V-C Victims Of Bombing Raid Found
    390 3 SAIGON, Tues. (Reuter and UPI) South Vietnamese Infantry patrolling five miles south-east of the American Division troops found about 100 North Vietnamese and Vietcong bodies 18 miles west of the province capital of Tam Kv. a South Vietnamese military spokesman
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    Lock icon 1969 Magsaysay Award Winners
    483 3 MANILA. Tues. (UPI) The winners of this year's Ramon Magsaysay Awards have been announced. Their names will be added to Asia's annual roll of honour "in recognition of greatness of spirit shown in service to the people" the creed behind the Awards, which will be presented
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    Lock icon FATAL DRINK
    35 3 1 NUREMBERG West Germany. Tueg. (Reuter) A I youth collapsed and died here after drinking in one go a litre (one and half pint) bottle of schnapps for a bet, police said today.
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    Lock icon NASSER STARTS NEW MOSLEM ACTION AGAINST ISRAEL
    468 4 C'AIRO, Tues. (Reuter) President Nasser was reported today to have launched a dramatic new move for joint Moslem action against Israel over the Al Aqsa Mosque fire as Arab Foreign Ministers held further secret emergency talks here. The Egyptian leader's new; Initiative was
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    Lock icon Woman Who Slapped Kiesinger Has Her Sentence Reduced
    279 4 WEST BERLIN, Tues. (Reuter) A West Berlin court yesterday upheld the conviction of a woman who slapped Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger in the face, but reduced her 12-month jail sentence to a four-month suspended term. Frau Beate Klarsfeld, 30, German-born but married
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    Lock icon Bushfires Flare Up Near Nice
    202 4 CANNES, France, Tues. (UPI) Bushfires which ravaged a 60-mile front along the crowded south-east France vacation playground flared up again near Nice yesterday. But fire fighting officials said the outbreak of Mont Chauve (Bald Mountain) behind the resort city was not serious, and firemen and
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    Lock icon Catholics Reject British Guarantee
    275 4 BELFAST, Northern Ireland. Toes. (UPI) Roman Catholics in Londonderry's Bogside district refused yesterday to take down barricades thrown up to defend the area during Protestant-Catholic rioting. The Bogside residents rejected a British army offer to guarantee them safe conduct in tin lo remov.r" the barricades which
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    Lock icon Hard Labour For Hijacker
    115 4 CAIRO. Tuee (Reuter) An Egyptian doctor convicted of hijacking an Egyptian airliner to Saudi Arabia last week has been sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour for life, it was announced here today. A military court also sentenced his brother, another doctor, to seven years Imprisonment for
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    Lock icon Freedom For 3 German Youths
    64 4 BURGSTAAKEN West Germany. Tues. (Reuter) Three East German youths escaped to the Baltic Island of Fehmarn. West Germany, in a waterlogged rowing boat yesterday The youths, aged between 16 and 17. stole the boat at prerow. then half filled it with water to lower its
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    Lock icon Charles Offers Nation Half His Income
    241 4 LONDON, Tues. (Reuter) Prince Charles, Britain's Royal heir, yesterday offered the nation half of his yearly income and the government promptly accepted. Britain, beset by economic woes, will gain about £llO.OOO a year from the income he receives starting November 14 on his 21st
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    Lock icon Seabed Treaty: A Compromise
    77 4 GENEVA. Tues. fßeuter) The American delegation to the Geneva Disarmament conference confirmed yesterday that it is discussing a compromise with Russia on keeping weapons off the seabed. A spokesman for the delegation said it was studying ideas put forward b v the Soviet Union and was
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    Lock icon Thant On Hanging Of Israeli Spies
    83 4 UNITED NATIONS. New York. Tues. (Reuter) U.N Secretary-General U Thant yesterday expressed fear that the hanging of 15 alleged Israeli spies. Including two Jews would increase tension and danger in the Middle East. In a statement, the Secre-tary-General said he had learnt "with regret
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    Lock icon GALL, Switzerland, Tues. – East German Youth, Ralf Baldenweg, 27, shows how he hid his girl friend Friedi Line, 19, in the reconstructed gasoline tank of his Alvis Gabriolet through the iron curtain three years after their first meeting. Their escape from Plattensee, Hungary, to Graz, Australia, took nine days. They plan to get married shortly.
    55 4 GALL, Switzerland, Tues. East German Youth, Ralf Baldenweg, 27, shows how he hid his girl friend Friedi Line, 19, in the reconstructed gasoline tank of his Alvis Gabriolet through the iron curtain three years after their first meeting. Their escape from Plattensee, Hungary, to Graz, Australia, took nine days. They
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    Lock icon Another 15 Executed In Iraq For Spying
    253 4 BEIRUT. Tues. 'UPI> Iraq executed 15 persons cb*r"H with spying Israel and the American Central Agency (CIA) yesterday and repeated its pohcy of purging the country of all sp.es. Baghdad Radio said six of the alleged spies, members of the military, were executed
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    Lock icon Big Air, Sea Search For Missing Yacht
    100 4 CAGLIARI. Sardinia. Tues. (UPI) Authorities launched a massive air and sea search yesterday for a Gibraltar-re-gistered yacht reported sinking off the southern tip of Sardinia with eight persona on board. The search began at dawn when the vessel Shaib began broadcasting appeal® for
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    Lock icon A Power Struggle Within U.N.I.P.?
    296 4 LUSAKA. Tues. (Reuter)— President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia grappled with a major political crisis today after assuming emergency powers over the ruling party within hours 0 his VicePresident's resignation. The first of two shock announcements by the Central African country's leading figures came yesterday when
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    Lock icon Forest Fires
    48 4 SAN DIEGO. Calif.. (UPI) Firefighters gained full control on Monday of two major brush fires in southern California officials reported. The three major blazes in Riverside and San Diego counties charred more than 41.800 acres of valuable watershed and forcing the evacuation of some 650 persons.
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    Lock icon 'Black Magic' Student Passes Exam
    75 4 BIRMINGHAM England, Tues. (Reuter) An 18-year-old girl has passed her "O" (ordinary) level school examination after submitting a thesis on black magic. Jacqueline Batters, who was head girl of her school when she sat for the general studies exam, said she received strange gifts and
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    Lock icon Police Restore Order In Rome
    250 4 ROME. Tues (Reuter) Police restored order to Centra! Rome early today after a three-hour street battle with 7.000 neo-fascist youths demonstrating against the Russian military presence in Czechoslovakia. The flfbtinr left 17 notice, men injured one of them seriously. The battle started when the demonstrators
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    Lock icon Time Bomb Wrecks Israeli Co. In London
    250 4 LONDON. Tues. (UPI) K bomb explosion wrecked the London office of the Israeli Zim Navigation Company yesterday, police reported Police thev believed the explosion was caused by a time bomb placed under a carpet in the second floor office oa London's busy Regent
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    Lock icon Malawi Bans 'Lady C' Book
    69 4 BLAXTYRE, Tues. i Reuter) Malawi has banned D. H. Lawrence's novel, "Lady Chatterley's Lover." The book was one of eight novels listed as prohibited publications in a notice signed bv President Kamuzu Banda in the current issue of the government gazette The novel, which Lawrence
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    Lock icon Mary Jo Autopsy Decision Delayed
    326 5 WILKES-BARRE, Pennsylvania. Tues. (UPI) 7 ern County Court took under advice yesterday a petition the State of Massachusetts be denied an order to exhume and perform an autopsv on the body of Mary Jo Kopechne, killed when Sen. Edward M. Kennedy s auto plunged into
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    Lock icon Back From Death
    139 5 BAVTUMARIA. Calif.. Tues. (UPD Dr A 8 Missal] called the coraoner's office yesterday after examining Mrs. Cons-ance F. Bell. Mn. Bell, a 61-year-old widov. was pronounced dead by Er. MissalJ after he was callei by the woman's housekeep«r. But 40 minutes later as ;he was being carried
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    Lock icon MRS. BRUCE DEAD
    81 5 yrcn YORK. Tues. (Reuter) Mrs. Aiisa Mellon Bruce, one of the richest women in the vorld, died in hospital her* yesterday aged 68. Mr:. Bruce was the daughter of tl* late financier Andrew Mellon and the former wife of Davie K E. Bruc e a former Ambassador
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    Lock icon Sirhan's Lawyer 'Guilty'
    129 5 LOS ANGELES. Tues. (UPI) Grant B. Cooper, Defense Attorney for convicted assassin Strhan B. Sirhan, pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of contempt of court in connection with the unlawful possession of secret Grand Jury Transcripts in another trial The famed criminal attorney who failed to save
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    Lock icon Kennedy Need Not Have Said 'Guilty'
    221 5 BROCKTON, Mass. Tues. (UPI) Criminal Attorney F. Lee Bailey said on Monday Sen. Edward M. Kennedy is innocent of the charge of leaving the scene of his car accident in which Mary Jo Kopechne was killed. Kennedy apparently pleaded guilty to the charge "In
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    67 5 OTTAWA Tue s (Reuter) Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau said today he would continue his policy of mingling with protest groups despite a recent complaint that he struck a youth during a demonstration. He said in a statement telephoned from his Mediterranean holiday retreat he had a responsibility to meet
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    Lock icon Chevrolet To Make Minicar Models
    213 5 DETROIT, Tues. (UPI) Chevrolet's new minicar will yt powered by an aluminium overhead cam shaft four cvlinder engine, and will be available in a variety of nodels. the company's top official said yesterday. Jcnn Z Delorean. General Mot»rs Vice-President and Gemral Manager of Chevrolet Division,
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    Lock icon Lady In The Cockpit
    319 5 HOUSTON. Tues. (UPI) When Air East Airlines made Its inaugural flight from Houston to Austin, Texas, yesterday, the co-pilot wore a skirt. Jo Claire Welch, 30, of Houston, was the first woman pilot hired by a regularly scheduled domestic airline. The dark-haired Miss Welch, only hours
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    Lock icon V-N War End Won't Help Urban Relief
    223 5 SAN CLEMENTE. Calif. Tues. (UPI) President Nixon's top urban affairs spokesman said on Monday the end of the Vietnam war will produce little new money for non-military spending. Urban Affairs Advisor I Daniel P. Moynihan said a report given Nixon yesterday I during
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    Lock icon R.C. Priest Marries
    84 5 STOCKTON. Calif. Tues (Reuter) A priest who founded a Roman Catholic parish here married his secretary, a widow, in a Stockton Methodist Church yesterday. Father Adrian McKenna. 56. founded St. Bernadette's Parish 14 years agn and served as Its pastor until he applied to the Vatican for
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    Lock icon Negro To Judge Beauty Contest
    89 5 ATLANTIC CITY, N. J-. Tues. (UPI) A Negro was named a judge on Monday for the first time in the 48-year-old history of the Misa America Pageant. Dr. Zelma George, sociolo-gist-educator. was appointed to help choose the next Mlse America from among 50 all white
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    Lock icon Mail Boat Blaze Quenched By Crew
    283 5 PASSENGERS MIAMI, Fla.. Tues. (UPI) A Bahamas mail ship caught fire I*7o miles east of Miami on Monday afternoon and all 50 passengers jumped overboard before the crew brought the blaae under control, the Coast Guard reported. All the passengers were hauled safely back
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    Lock icon Mexico Rains
    58 5 MEXICO CITY. Tues (UPI) The Weather Bureau report, ed tome relief in sight yesterday for rain-drenched southern Mexico where floods have left at least 11 persons dead and 30.000 persons homeless Rivers and dams in the area remained at dangerously high levels on Monday, but the weatherman said
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    Lock icon FORD GAS TANKS NOT HAZARDOUS
    262 5 DETROIT. Tues. (UPI) The Ford Motor Co. o n Monday scoffed at charges by auto critic Ralph Nader that gas tanks on millions of Fords built In the last five years are hazardous. i A company spokesman dis-' counted Nader's complaint that a hazard exists
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    Lock icon Brother Charges Brother With Killing Novarro
    300 5 LOS ANGELES, Tues. (Reuter) A self-confessed male prostitute has accused his younger brother in court here of the brutal murder of Ramon Novarro, Aim idol of the silent screen. The actor was found bludgeoned to death at his Hollywood Hills home last October. Paul
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    Lock icon Gulf Coast Normal In About 4 Weeks
    361 5 GULFPORT. Mississippi. Tues. (LTl)—The Director of Federal Disaster Operations for Hurricane Camille predicted yesterday the Mississippi Golf Coast will -'almost be back to normal" in about a month but two years will be needed to heal the wounds. George Hastings of the Office
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    Lock icon Gulf Stream Explorers To New York
    150 5 NEW YORK. Tues (UPI)— After drifting 30 days in the Gulf Stream at a maximum depth of 1.800 feet, the scientific research submarine Ben Franklin will arrive in port today to receive the traditional "maiden voyage" New York harbour welcome. Bkippered by Dr. Jacques
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    Lock icon Tate House Caretaker Sues L.A.
    148 5 LOS ANGELES. Tues. (UPI) William Garretson, 20. caretaker at the house where actress Sharon Tate and four other persons were slain Aug. 8. sued the city of Los Angeles Monday for 1.250,000 do Jars for false arrest. Garretson was the only person alive there when
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    Lock icon Mysterious Arms Plane To Honduras
    183 5 MEXICO CITY, Tues. (UPI) Honduras complained Tuesday that the navy of El Salvador boarded and searched a West German ship bound for an Honduran port* Mexican airports were alerted to hold a plane said to have been stolen in Houston, Texas, and believed bound for
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    Lock icon Geologist Dead
    41 5 WOODS HOLE. Mass. Tuea. (UPI) Princeton University Prof. Harry H- Hess, world renowned geologist who was among the group of scientists who analysed lunar samples in Houston, died on Monday while attending a space science meeting. He was 63.
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    Lock icon Judge Frees Mama's Boy
    224 5 SAN FRANCISCO. Tues (Reuter) A Federal Judge today freed an 18-year-old California youth recently imprisoned for up to four years for obeying his mother's order* not to register for the military draft The freeing of Erik Whitehorn followed an unexpected turnabout in the case, one of
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    Lock icon Hurricane
    62 5 SAN CLEMENTE. Calif.. CUPI) President Nixon expressed "very great concern" on Monday over the fact that the Federal Government w«j not able to do a more exact forecasting job in determining the intensity and potential destruction of Hurricane Camille. Nixon met with Vice President Spiro T. Agnew at the
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    Lock icon TENSION IN MID-EAST
    680 6 THE partial burning down of El-Aqsa, reputedly the holiest of Moslem mosques, has only served to bring once more to the attention of the world the war that is being surrepticiously waged in the Middle East. At any other time one could have said that the Mosque
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    Lock icon FAMILY TIES
    171 6 IT WAS Mahatma Gandhi, once a big name in politics, who focussed on everyone's mind that relations between countries are like those that exist in a family. All the members of a family do not see eye to eye on many issues. Yet they stand united with the
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    Lock icon Clean Bill Of Health For Hong Kong
    1095 6  -  By Kee Fletcher HONG KONG: On the night of January 8, 1969, a 39-year-old transport clerk was wheeled into the fifth floor operating theatre of Hong Kong's Queen Mary Hospital. And while most the colony slept, Ng Hobun underwent one of the most
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    40 6 The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than in the pounding of an old piano, is what alone elves a meaning to our life on this unavailing star Logan Pearsall Smith.
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    Lock icon RAILROADS vs DIEHARDS
    439 6  -  Br DICK WEST WASHINGTON (UPI) If you have any sort of fair-mindedness about you at all, I'm sure you will agree that the American railroads have been exceptionally patient with their passengers. During the past 15 or 20 years, the railroads have tried just kabut everything they
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    Lock icon The Counters Go By Canoe, Mule And Helicopter
    546 6  -  By ERIC ROBINS Gemini News Service NAIROBI Were you born In "ndege" (1927, the vcar of the "bird~", meaning aeroplane)? "Njane Kanini" (In 1933 when safety razor blades first appeared in the African stores)? Or. maybe, during "Cuginl Hitira'* (between 1946 and
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    423 6  -  By DICK WEST WASHINGTON. (UPI) One of the nicer things that hat been happening to me in middle age is failing eyesight. I truly enjoy not being able to see as veil as I once did. In my youth, when I have 20-20 vision as certified by the U.S.
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      Lock icon Stock Market Maintains Quiet, Easier Trend
      362 7  -  By Our Market Reporter THE Stock Exchange yesterday maintained the prevailing quiet and easier conditions as there were no new incentive to warrant any change. Trading was mainly of a routine nature with a ctive dealings confined to selective industrials. Total turnover was about
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      286 7 SEPTEMBER first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 77-1 cents Per lb., down three quarters of a cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was quiet. Dull conditions reigned throuthe morning in a sagging n
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      116 7 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) The market began the second leg cf the account on a weak note. Lack of buying interest and persistent small selling pushed equities lower over a wide front. Turnover was small. Towards the close the FT index was 7.1 down at 377.7. The company
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      13 7 THE tin price for yesterday was $641.00 per picul. down $l.OO.
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      888 7 DUSINESS done in and reported to the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified: INDUSTRIALS ACMA $176 (1) $1.79 (1) $lBO (1); Borneo $1.74 (4>; C. Sugars $3.56 18)
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      238 7 THE following is a berthing list released by the Port of Singapore Authority for Aug. 27: DEPARTURE Godowns Vessels 3 4 Seme Lloyd 13 'l4 Perseus N.W. 4 Perils 24 Kinabalu 31/32 Prodromos Vita 35/36 Eastern Muse 42 43 Katwijk 44 Partizanskaya Slava 46 Utrecht ARRIVAL Godowng
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      143 7 mHE Singapore Rubber Brokers Association has supplied the followX ing information in respect of business transacted In SMR for tne week endlns 22nd August 1*69 41 cents premium traded. SMR 5 CV (HC) Sept. Pallets SMR 5 CV (HC) Oct Dec: Pallets 4< cents premium sellers. SMR
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      202 7 THE Scandinavian Airline# recorded an all round increase in its operations and revenue for June this year as compared to the same period in 1968. In a statement published yesterday the SAS announced that its traffic for June, 1969. was 15 per cent above that of
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      192 7 Air-India has finalised arrangements for a US$33 miL lion loan for Its third Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet scheduled for delivery in 1972. Of this. US$2O million will be from Export Import Bank of United States, anothe r US 510 million from Deutsche Bank, the
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      132 7 NEW YORK. Tues. (UPI) Gold prices were mostly lower in routine trading yesterday on markets here and abroad. In London, gold slipped 5 cents at the morning fixing and a n additional 5 cent s for a second fixing of 49.95 U.S. dol.ars per troy ounce. Gold
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      Lock icon U.K. Exports To China Top All-time Record
      178 7 LONDON, Tues. (Reuter) Britain's exports to China this year are an all-time record, and give Britain a trade advantage of nearly seven million sterling. It was announced here yesterday. For the first six months of the year they totalled £25,128,000 compared with only
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      172 7 NEW YORK. Tues. (UPI) Prices closed lower on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday after a sizeable runup last week. Trading was light. Most analysts felt the recent rally "simply tired in the absence of major news," as one of them phrased it Lucien
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      77 7 LONDON. Tues. (UPI) Rubber closed quiet with spot 28. 28-1/2. Settlement House Sept. 28-1 8 28-3/8. Oct. 28-3/16 28-7/16. Nov and Oct. Nov. 28-1/4 28-1/2. Jan./ March 27-7/16 27-9/16. April 'June 27-3/16 27-5/16. July/Sept. 26-15/16 27-1/8. Oct./ Dec. 26-5/8 26-13/16. Jan./ March 26-7/16 26-5/8. April/June 26-5/16
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      49 7 NEW YORK, Tues. (UPI) Rubber futures closed unchanged and untraded yesterday on the New York Commodity ExCh l?pt.' 31 00 31.00 Nov. 30.75 30.75 jan 30.50 3050 Mar. 3025 30.25 May 29.85 29.85 July 29.75 Sept. 29.60 29.60 Locally No. 2 RSS was 297/8 cents per pound.
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      167 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues Orders for more than $120,000 worth of locally manufactured products have been placed with a Arm here. The orders are for a range of Shanks sanitary ware and Crittall-Hope adjustable louvreg for windows Both these companies have factories in Petaling Jaya.
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      Lock icon K.L. Man Wins Scooter In Slogan Contest
      104 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Mr. Goh Chee Soong of Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur won the first prize of a motor scooter in the Lakerol slogan writing contest. The second prize of a refrigerator was won by Mr. Quah Keng Guan of Ipoh. Apart from the
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      37 7 NEW YORK, Tues. (UPI) Dow Jones closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday. 30 Industrial 831.44 20 Rails ***** 15 Utilltiei 115.99 65 Stocks 282.14 40 Bonds 72.00 Commodity futures index 140.49.
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      359 7 OSAKA, Tues. (UPI) The Hanshin Port Authority has announced the completion of its first containership pier in the Osaka South Port area. The announcement said the newly completed pier Is 273 metres in length and capable of berthing ships up to 25.000 dwt. The container yard
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      620 7 SINGAPORE change sold and officially listed a* I busineaa. BtOCS other Lbs etoi a* prtoM M ol INDUSTRIALS ACMA Ben A Co. Borneo Bhd Boustead Camel Plywood XBI C. sugar Cycle Carriage Chemical Co Cold Storage l>ev. Bank Dunlop 1.79 1.75 174 1.85 1.84 3 50
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      182 7 NEW DELHI. Tues. (Renter) Thailand will supply India with a further 25,000 metric tons of rice shortly. Thai Economic Affairs Minister Bunchana Atthakor said here yesterday. The shipment would bring the total of Thai rice sales to India to 100.000-tang, he told a press
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      92 7 THB noon prtees at thai pore CblneM Prodm Bsc jeitcrdv weras— -bant# SeUec Coeonnt Oil (F.O.B-) Bulk Coconut Oil (F O B Dram Mixed Copra SOJO Mantok White Pepper (F O B.) Sarawak WHlta Pepper (FOB.) Sarawak Special BlMI Pepper <foA) 96% \.L.W* uj.n.mu.t La m pons bpecial Blac*
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      59 7 (Managers' Price* for An*. s?> ASIA UNIT TRUSTS MtL Inmt. Fund 1U 1-SS SINGAPORE UNIT TRUSTS lit Malayan XD J-'J 2nd Malayan XD 198 3rd Malayan 1*5 The Com. Ind 1-01 The fiarlni Fund 108 Sterling Com 5 6 in MS 1st Hon* Kon* I-W 2nd Hone Kong
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      56 7 HONG KONG. Tues. (UPI) Money Quotations: HK56.0875 per U.S. dollajs* HKS6.II per U.S. dollar W HK514.45 per pound sterling HK5307.5 per tael of gold 94.5 per cent fineness. HK$ 162.1 per 10,000 Japanese yen HK5125.5 per 100 Philippine pesos buyers HKSI26 5 pe r 100 Philippine pesos sellers
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      403 7 ARRIVALS. 5 00am. MSA 029 K. Lumpur JiUiD HAS sktm ttangttuk, 1 <i>bkent. Copenba(Cß. 9 00 am. MSA 119 K. Lumpur 1010 a.m. OARDDA GASOO Jakarta. 1015 am. MSA 121 K Lumpur. 10 25 a.m. MSA 005 Penana, Ipoh. K Lumpur. Malacca. 10.SO a m. THAI TU4X3 Bangkok.
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      316 8 SYDNEY. Australia Singapore trainees are making good progress on trade courses in Australia under the Colombo Plan Twenty-five of them are undertaking apprenticeship courses in Sydney with QANTAS. the Australian Government's international airline. Six others are attached to private industry. Twelve of those with
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      213 8 U.S. ASTRONOMERS have detected X-rays coming from a recently discovered pulsar (pulsing star) in the Crab nebula, an immense gas cloud of the Milky Way galaxy. This Is the first time X-ray emissions have been linked with any of the mysterious pulsars, whose existence became known in late
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      679 8  -  By Paul P. Blackburn WASH I N G TON: When typhoons sweep the Asian lands and seas with their devastating fury, they bring suffering and financial loss to thousands of innocent victims today no less than throughout history. However, the free nations of East Asia
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      597 8  -  Date-line Br Ele and Walt Dulaney DEAR ELE: What do you do when you can't stand your home? My parents don't physicallv beat me but it's a beating of a different kind. My dad Is very high-strung. He makes life unbearable for me. He Is always ridiculing
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      Lock icon DREAMS OF DISTANT FUTURE
      170 8 COLOGNE. (DaD) We will live in cells roomy and bright-coloured if the future should turn out as predicted by Joe Cesare Colombo. 39, of Milan. Italy With the support of Bayer-Leverkusen (Federal Republic of Germany), the avant-gardictic designer was able to build his antifurniture for bed.
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      894 8 ALTHOUGH Britain's Royal Air Force has often "led the world" when It's come to advanced equipment and operational thinking;, the entry into R.A.F. service of the "Harrier" vertical take-off attack and reconnaissance jet this year represents perhaps one of the most dramatic strides forward
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      130 8 "How would you like to go find o good book to rcod 'til I'm through here?" DATELINE: DANGER! by John Saunders and AUen NkWiiams HOPE, BUT SOME. OF THE OTHERS ALMOST HAD THE BOSS CONVINCED yOU WERE GUILT/' B-t 7. X LET'S FACE IT, LEGS...IF THEV HELD A POPULARITY CONTEST
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    214 9 LORD thou has been our refuge: From one generation to another. So teach us to number our days: That we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. And the glorious majesty of the Lord be upon us: Prosper thou the work of our
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    823 9 OR WHERE SWORDS SWING FASTER —THAN SIX-GUNS— Hong kong, Tues. —John Wayne had better watch out: the east is out to outdraw the western. Asia's smash-hit "sword" films, bloodcurdling tales of feudal China where swords swing faster than sixguns, are branching out for a showdown with the
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    Lock icon What Are The Limits To A Grandparent's Right?
    568 9  -  Ann Landers DEAR Ann: Many things are changing in our Society, some for the better, some for the worse One of the most obvious changes is the lack of respect for authority. We see it everywhere Just last week, my wife and
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    87 9 NEW YORK. Tues—Barbra Streisand, back in Hollywood from her record-breaking engagement at the International Hotel in Las Vegas, has begun rehearsals for an additional musical number. "Go to Sleep." written by Alan J. Lerner and Burton Lane for Paramount Pictures' "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever"
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      218 9 Phone ***** aEEacacj cAPiTOL Phone 29/5" urc.iiD IUD A i I BEX: 11. 1.45. i. I M |J| SKT: 11. I.4ft, 4. |.M A Vl5 d B BOXY: I.4ft. 4Oft. IN J i.M !J k 1 Chlng Si Peter Chen Ho auVii'iS T CItUrMH?" «A SHAW PRODUCTION i Mandarin In
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      119 9 TODAY a Wednesday, August 27, 1969. 63-66- 7 3 /f TAURUS f&V AM 20 MAVJO 7f tr -By CLAY H POLLAN Yo vr Daily Activity Guido According lo th» Start. To dtvrlop messoge for Wednesdoy, nod words corresponding to numbers of your Zodioc birth sign. 'lt* 2YouV» 3 Corttvl 4
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    1257 10 CL 2 Dlv 1 6 F. 814 Com Dividend 003 Tudor Pirate 771 Air Marshal 411 Midas Gift 466 Film Star 622 Norvie 092 Baghdad 855 Dendrobiom 0 Royal Bourbon 723 Firecracker 161 Houston Ranger 841 Nasi Goreng 0 Crasy Horse 251 Donville Vb 106 Green
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    Lock icon Ever England Looks Fit
    191 10  -  By BIG BEN KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Last start winner Ever Fngland looked fighting fit when sent out for cantering exercise on the sand track. He was ridden by George Podmore. The ROing was heavy. Sejarah did a sparkling gallop over half a mile. Accompanied by Correct
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    Lock icon Six-Day Cycle Race In London
    165 10 LONDON. Tues Alf Engers. Britain's triple amateur cycling champion who rides on borrowed machines, will be meeting Holland's leading professional rider Peter Post during the Skol six-day race at the Empire Stadium, Wembley, London from Sept. 5-10. Post is the winner of 47 sixday races
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    199 10 LONDON, Tues. (Renter) England, with eight wickets left needed only ten more runs for victory over New Zealand when rain baited play half an hour before lunch in the final cricket Test at The Oval today. No further play was possible In the morning session, during
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    Lock icon Title Fight Next Month
    78 10 MANILA. Tues. (AFP) Negotiations are underway for a title bout here next month between Orient flyweight champion Takeshi Nakamura of Japan and the Philippines' Erbito Salavarria, boxing sour, ces said today. The sources said Filipino promoters hoped to stage the bout next Sept. 20 at the
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    Lock icon Asians Dominate Aussie B'ton Finals
    389 10 CANBERRA. Australia, Tues. Players from Asia won two titles and shared in a third in the 1969 Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Open Badminton Championships held in Canberra recently. For most Asians. Australian rules football, rugby league, cricket or even tennis are novelties. Badminton is one
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    Lock icon Promoter's Bid To Rematch Title Fight
    238 10 TOKYO, Tues. (Reuter) British boxing promoter Mike Barrett said here today he would explore the possibility of a rematch between Johnny Famechon of Australia and Masahiko Fighting Harada of Japan either in London or in Tokyo in December or neat January. Famechon defended his
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    31 10 MANILA, Tues. (AFP) The manager of Filipino world junior welterweight champion Pedro Adigue said today the $48,000 offer to Adique to fight Italy's Bruno Archari was "very low."
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    42 10 RUMSON. New Jersey. Tues. (UPI) Jim Rombeau of Studio City. California yesterday rallied to oust Jun Kuki of Japan 5-7, 6-0, 6-0 in the qualL fying round for the U.S. tennis championships, which starts tomorrow at Forest Hills, New York
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    111 10 EDINBURGH. Scotland, Tues. (Reuter) Thirty-three countries have so far entered for the 1970 Commonwealth Games to be held in Edinburgh next July, the organisers announced today. Jamaica, host nation for the 1966 Games, are the latest entry to be received. Jamaica expect to send a team
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    Lock icon Water-Skiing Championships
    118 10 LONDON. Tues. Three of Britain's world championship water ski team will be in Eng. land's lineup for the Northern European championships to be held at the Princes Club. Bedfont near London on August 30-31. They are Paul Adlington. Robin Beckett and lan Walker The fourth member of the
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    Lock icon PWD Capture T-T Title
    98 10 Public Works Department captured the Singapore Civil Service Association table- tennis championship when they beat Police 4-1 in the Anal at Tessensohn Road on Monday. Results single. (PWD names mentioned first): Yoke Sai bt Chia Koon Chua 17-21, 21-16. 21-15: Seah Teow Seng lost to Wang
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    370 10 LONDON, Tues. The second round of the English Football League Cup will be played on Sept 3 and one of the toughest matches will be between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Tottenham Hotspur. Spurs will be visiting Wolves' Molineux ground in the English Midlands and should have a
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    Lock icon Drinks Firm To Sponsor Table Tennis
    183 10 LONDON. Tues. The Coca Cola Company in Britain has given the English Table Tennis Association £35.000 to assist their efforts to produce title winners during the 1973 world championships to be held in London. There will be an immediate £5.000 for a pilot scheme
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    36 10 NORTH ADAMS, Massachusetts. Tues. (UPI) AI Romano, 148. of North Adams, the New England welterweight champion, scored a 10-round unanimous decision over Roy Williams. 148, of Reading. Pennsylvania last night in a non-title bout.
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    Lock icon Marathon Bowling On Aug. 30
    191 10 THE 40-game "Daybreaker" bowling marathon is just three days away. The gruelling test for Slrw gapore bowlers to live UJT to their "rugged society concept in this arm-tear-ing, back-breaking and energy-sapping will be held at Jackie's Bowl, Katong on Aug. 30 beginning at midnight. It
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    232 10 Sir. The National Championship. 1969, which has just been successfully completed lost a great deal of interest because this was the second year which the Thomas Cup squad who had been training intensively for about 18 months had not entered for tournament experience, and to show
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    92 10 Jasbir Singh of St. Michael's School won the Boys' Primary Junior section title at the Christian Brothers' Old Bov s Association Big Walk competition held at the St- Patrick'® School ground recently. Jasbir took one hour 17 minutes 36.0 second® to complete the 6i-mile route. Dav
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      Lock icon WBA Name Pruitt 'Fighter Of Month'
      595 11 SALT LAKE CITY. Utah, Tues. (UPI) Adolph Pruitt of Los Angeles was named "Fighter of the Month" in latest ratings released by the World Boxing Association (WBA). Pruitt was honoured for his technical knockout of Rene Barrientos of the Philippines. In a major change
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      Lock icon Chicago Cubs Lead Reduced To 4-1/2
      346 11 NEW TORK. Tues. (Reuter) The struggling Chicago Cubs, leaders in the National League's Eastern Division, had their lead cut to games over the idle New York Met* yesterday when the Cincinnati Reds nipped the Chicagoans 9-8. Two home runs by Tony Perez and one
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      92 11 LONDON, Tues. Leeds United have beaten the longest undefeated run in the English Football League'a history. By beating Nottingham 4-1 on Aug. 16 they broke the Firm Division record sequence of 30 games without defeat, aet up by Burnley in 1920-21. And with their one-goal draw
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      Lock icon Benvenuti Faces Strip Title Threat
      187 11 SALT LAKE CITY. Itah. Tues. (Reuter) The World Boxing Association (WBA) yesterday threatened to strip world middleweight champion Nino Benvenuti of Italy of his title unless he agreed by today to defend it. The warning was contained In a cable sent to Benvenuti's manager. Bruno
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      Lock icon King Bhumibol's Yachting Title
      71 11 BANGKOK. Tues. (Reuter) Thai Kin ff B'numibol Adulvadei has won the 1969 OK. binghy National championship title in a yachting competition held at Hua Hin in the Gulf of Thailand. Princess Übolrstsna. the King's 18-year-old daughter, who held the championship last year, was placed tnird. Both
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      63 11 WORCESTER. Enflsnd. Tuet. (Reuter) Tom Graveney. the 42-year-old England batsman. has confirmed that he would continue to Play for Worcestershire in County cricket next season, the County Club snnounced yesterday. Graveney said last week that he probably would go to Australia after Christmas to discuss a Queensland
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      Lock icon Sobers Misses Fastest Century By 3 Minutes
      421 11 LONDON. Tue». (Reuter) Gary Sobers, We»t Indian and Nottinghamshire skipper, failed by three minutes to hit the fastest century of the season in the English County cricket championship yesterday. Sobers, after looking certain to beat Richard Oilliatt's season-best mark of 101 minutes, finally
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      135 11 FOREST HILLS. New York. Tues (Reuten Britain'! Ann Jones. No. 1 seed for the U.S. Open women's tennis championships here, has been forced to withdraw because of an injured shoulder. Tournament director Owen Williams announced last night that Mrs. Jones, the reigning Wimbledon champion,
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      69 11 LONDON, toes. (Renter) Results of English Football Ltuue matches played last night were: Dlrialoa One West Ham United 1. Arsenal 1 Division Two Preston North End 3. Watford 0 Division Three Bsrrow 1. Orient 1 Stockport 1. Gillinfham 0 Division Four Colchester 2, Peterborough 1 Dsrlinfton 0.
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      25 11 LONDON. Tuea. (Reuter) Results of Rugby League matches played last night were: Featherstone Rover a 19 Halifax 16 Huns let 16 Huddersfield 5.
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      78 11 OSLO. TUM. (Reuter) The Norwegian Broadcasting Company said today they would boycott the European athletic* championship* in Attaeng next month. A atatement issued after a board meeting referred to a complaint against Greece over alleged breaches of the Human Rights Convention which the Scandinavian countries have
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