Eastern Sun, 24 September 1969

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  • 24 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY -fr Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1128 Wednesday, 24 September 1969. ft MC (P) 0737 Price 15 cento
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  • 381 1 Tunku's Little Book KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The charges against Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamed have been dropped because, said the Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, "it does not deserve so much public attention." The Tunku stated this tn his little book May 13 Before and After"
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  • 84 1 JERUSALEM. Tues (Reuter A five-member official commission of enquiry into last month'* Al-Aqsa Mosque fire today submitted its unanimous findings to Prime Minister Mr* Golda Meir. The commission included two Arabs the Christian mavor of Nazareth. Mr. Moussa Kteli. and a Moslem district judge. Mr. Nimr El-Bawari
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  • 30 1 BUENOS AIRES, Tues. Renter A 57-year old mason, Vincente Parrilla, mas charged with statutory rape today after police said they found him in bed with two 15-year-old girls.
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  • 402 1 fNTRACO —an international trading company Initiated by the Government, particularly to facilitate trade with East European countries will launch a fullscale trade offensive in ten countries around the world to win substantial markets for Singapore-made goods. The first round in the trade offensive will be to
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  • 281 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.— Two men were buried alive in a landslide at the construction site of a petrol station at Jalan University, Petaling Jaya this morning. Three other workers escaped unhurt. The two dead are identified as Kan Yew Mun, 19, and Mok Ah Peng, 30, both
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  • 835 1 'Meaningful Progress' MR. C.V. Devon Nair issued a strong warning yesterday to the "successor generation" that smugness and complacency could betray the future they will inherit. A J J A-1 Addressing the Lions Club, he said, "It may well prove to be the smugness
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  • 162 1 RABAT, Morocco. Tues. (UPI) Leaders of the world's 500 million Moslems have agreed to seat Hie Palestine guerrilla movement at their three-day summit meeting on the fate of Moslem holy places under Israeli control, th« Moroccan News Agency said today. The report could not
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 235 2 CHILDREN'S Day 1969 will be celebrated in Sinoapore on Thursday, Oct. 2. On that day, it will be a school holiday for all primary schools. The Ministry of Education has also planned an elaborate programme to organise activities on an islandwide scale to commemorate the
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  • 173 2 THE organisers of the "All-1 Star** show, to raise funds for the erection of an ultra-modern Kampong Glam Community Centre on the Golden Mile, yesterday received a cheque of $lO,OOO from Messrs Tan Chong and Sons Motor Company to sponsor the show. The "AO-Star** show
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  • 228 2 THE Blood Transfusion Service is making an uraent appeal to Hie public, particularly those in the "O" blood group, to come forward and make their donations because the reserve stocks in the Blood Bank has fallen to dan- gerously low levels. Because of the
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  • 173 2 THE regional export manager of Special Treatment Petroleum (STP) Corporation, Mr. Stanley N. Webb said he is very much impressed with the progress Singapore has made In its industrialisation programme. He described Singapore as a "bustling city, active and full of life." Mr. Webb was
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  • 203 2 A WOMAN employee of NAAFI, Chay Yong Soong, 41, was sentenced to one day's imprisonment and a fine of $2,000, in default three months' jail, for having taken 92 wrist-watches valued at $12,904.51 from her em- ployers. Chay. who oleaded guilty to the charges,
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  • 163 2 THE Singapore Police has declared "war" on the "jaga kereta" nuisance in Singapore. In a special statement issued by ASP G. Tolson yesterday, he urged the motoring public not to pay "jaga kereta" boys wno loiter in or around public roads or parking places for
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  • 132 2 The visiting Birmingham Chamber of Commerce to Singapore and Malaysia last year had a successful trip resulting in obtaining orders of nearly $1.7 million for British industries. This was discloaed by the I<ondon Press Service which quoted a report put out by the Chamber with regard to
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  • 125 2 TWO jobless men. after pleading guilty to a joint charge of armed robbery, was sentenced to three year*' imprisonment each, by the Second District Court Judge. Mr Donald Yeo Hock Chwee. Tar Boon Cheow, 22, and Wang Teck Joon. admitted that on June 15 this
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  • 139 2 A British Member of Parliament will turn a high-powered salesman during a three-day visit to Singapore beginning October 8. He is Mr. Michael Heseltine. ▼ice-chairman of the Haymarket Press Limited which publishes ten annuals and about twenty other magazines. Mr. Heseltine is coming out to
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  • 659 2 THE Singapore Telephone Board realised unprecedented progress and expansion in 1968-wirti a revenue-eaceeding-expenditure difference ot well over ten million i(| jH f9?oft fop 1968 published yesterday, the Telephone Board declared It wts anticipating still greater expansion in the years ahead. The report announced that 8.800
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  • 116 2 Singapore manufacturers are now taking part in the Import Fair "Partners For Progress" in Berlin. The Fair which opened on Sept. 19 will close on Sept. 28. This year's 7th Over- seas Import Fair, which is designed to bring Into contact exporters from developing countries
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  • 152 2 KFALA LUMPUR, Tue* Malaysia would do everything possible to work with her neighbours "and other nations here" to maintain peace and stability and to preserve the security of Southeast Asia, th* acting Prime Minister and Director of Operations. Tun \bdul Razak. said today. "Ag a small nation,
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  • 137 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Tuet The acting Prime Minister and Director of Operations. Tun Abdul Razak. will officially receive the l n Sabre jets, a gift from the Australian government. at the handing-over ceremony to be held at 9 30 a m. on October 1 at the
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 95 2 TIME ft TIDE High Tide (Today) High Tide (Tomorrow) Singapore Town: 10.22 a.m. Singapore Town- 10.48 ajn. (8.3 ft.), 9.47 p.m. (9.4 ft) (86 ft.), 10.32 p.m. (9.9 ft.) Naval Dockyard: 10.29 a.m. Naval Dockyard: 10.58 a.m. (10.0 ft.). 10.05 p.m. (10.5 ft.) (10.4 ft.), 10.50 p.m. (11.3 ft.). Low
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  • 324 3 MOSCOW, Tues. (UPl)—The official Soviet news agency Tass. last night resumed its anti-Chinese propaganda after a 12-day moratorium. The authoritative agency distributed its column, "Events in China." in which It criticised the Peking Regime for discontinuing the anti-Imperialist struggle and directing Its propaganda machine against
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  • 159 3 JAKARTA. Tues. (Reuter) •-The fate of former Indonesian Foreign Minister, Dr. Subandrio. will be decided by President Suharto who is now studying his appeal for clemency. a spokesman of the Supreme Court said to-day. Dr. Subandrio was sentenced to death by a military tribunal two
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  • 53 3 LONDON, Tues (UPI) Bntish Customs officials yesterday released the "black box" which may contain clues to a jet crash in The Philippines. a Philippines Airlines spokesman said. The recorder was a BAC-111 jet which crashed in the Philippines on Sept. 12. killing 47. Technicians should begin decode ng
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  • 396 3 UNITED NATIONS. Tues. (UPI and Reuter) —A "forgotten war" It raging within its borders, Laos told the United Nations yesterday. Addressing the General Assembly, Laotian delegate Phagna Khamphan Panya blamed North Vietnam and those who supported it tor the untold
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  • 290 3 UNITED NATIONS. Tues. (Reuter) The Philippines renewed its claim to Sabah in the U.N. General Assembly yesterday and encountered a sharp rejection by the Federation of Malaysia. Philippines Foreign Secretary Carlos Romulo Informed the world body that his Government was pledged to pursue
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  • 229 3 CANBERRA. Tues. (UPl)'—An attempt has been made to set fire to a building in Karachi in which the Australian Trade Commissioner to Pakistan has his office, Government sources disclosed to-day. The action is believed to have been reprisal against Michael Rohan, an Australian charged with
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  • 398 3 TOKYO, Tues. (Reuter) Heart transplant pioneer Professor Christian Barnard described to-day how a young girl with an acute liver disease had been kept alive for six weeks with the aid of a baboon. He told a luncheon given by the Foreign Correspondents Club
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  • 142 3 TOKYO. Tues (Reuter) Every precaution would be taken to ensure that Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon were kept well clear of any student violence during their two-day visit to Kyoto starting today, Japanese sources said last night. Kyoto police had studied a ll aspects of
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  • 125 3 WASHINGTON. Tues. (UPI) Dr Kandlah Kanagaratnam of Singapore ha* been appointed Director of the new Population Projects Department of the World Bank. It was announced yesterday. World Bank President Robert McNamara. in making the announcement, said the newly-established department "will seek to Identify
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  • 425 3 AHMEDABAD, India, Tues. (Reuter) —'More than 350 people have been killed in four days of soma of the worst Hindu-Moslam riots since the partition of India 22 years ago, according to unofficial figures here last night. No official figures were
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  • 414 3 WASHINGTON, Tues. (UPI and Reuter) A cap. tured roll of film led to the murder of a Vietnamese double aoent and the imprisonment of six Green Berets, a television newsman said last night. NBC correspondent Robert Goralski reported on the Huntley Brinkley news
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  • 212 4 LONDONDERRY N. Ireland. Tues. (Renter) A three-man public inquiry into Northern Ireland's civil disturbances opened here yesterday amid predictions of further trouble. Soldiers with rifles at the "ready guarded entrances to Derry's tiny courthouse as Sir Leslie Scarman. a London high court judge,
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  • 108 4 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) Plans to show two films by Beatle Lennon and his wife Toko Ono in London's Trafalgar Square have been turned down by authorities. An American film magazine was orranlsinf the "watch-in" and planned to make a collection in aid of a Biafra Fund.
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  • 463 4 RABAT, Morocco, Tues. (UPI) King Hassan II of Morocco yesterday opened the first worldwide Islamic summit conference with a call for unity behind the Arab struggle against Israel. Listening to him in the pink ceilinged room of the Rabat Hilton Hotel were kings, presidents, prime
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  • 331 4 LONDON, Tues. (UPI) Prime Minister Harold Wilton plans an extensive reshuffle of his government at the beginning of October, reliable political sources said yesterday. It will be the first since April 5. The sources said the new government team would be the one with which
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  • 77 4 MOSCOW. Tues- (Reuter) Two Soviet Polar explorers have completed a 42-day. 1.250mile voyage across the Arctic seas to the north of the Sov.et Union in their 20-foot sailing boat Penguin. Tftss News Agency reported yesterday Anatoli Yantselevich and Alexei Kasha sailed through storms and from Archangel.
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  • 158 4 PARIS. Tues. (UPI) —President Georges Pompidou said yesterday he would stay in office and fight back if France's current labour trouble grows into a crisis similar to the 1968 chaos "As Chief of State. I will not give in. I will not leave office I will make
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  • 77 4 CAIRO, TBM. (ITl)— Egypt Is losing faith in Big FOOT power efforts to develop a Middle East peace formula because of the "starkly pro-Israel stand" of the United States, an official spokesman said yesterday. Mounir Hafec expressed Egypt's rrowinjr pessimism toward the Bir Four
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  • 79 4 WASHINGTON. Tues (UFI) —The Stat# Department announced yesterday that Israeli Prime Minister Mrs. Golda Meir will confer with President Nixon on Thursday and Friday during an official visit to the United States. The department said Mrs. Meir would arrive in Philadelphia tomorrow where she will
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  • 131 4 LONDON. Tues fßeuter) Newspaper publishers yesterday threatened to close down Britain's national press In retaliation for harassment tactics by workers at several papers. After a meeting yesterday with the head of Britain** giant Trades Union Congress (TUC) the publishers agreed to defer a decision
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  • 246 5 NEW YORK, Tues. (Reuter) U.S. Secretary of Stat# William Rogers and West German Foreign Minister Willy Brandt yesterday agreed that Hie timo is ripe for a reasonable discussion with Hie Soviet Union on Hie divided city of Berlin. The United States, Britain and
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  • 158 5 NEW YORK. Tuea. (Renter) The U.S and Russia today appeared still no nearer agreement on when and where to start talks on slowin? down the nuclear arms race. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko had been expected to work out a date and Place for the
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  • 149 5 MONTCLAIR. NJ.. Tues. (UPI) Police disclosed yesterday a physicisn who pioneered in the X-ray treatment of cancer shot himself to death on Sunday after killing his wife and mongoloid son in what a suicide note called "mercy" killings Dr. J. Thompson Stevens, 79. was found dead
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  • 71 5 SANTIAGO, Chile, Tues (AFP) Two of Chile government ministers Monday categorically denied rumours that army officers had attempted a coup d'etat in Chile. National Defence Minister Gen. Tulio Marambio said allegations of a coup, made by Television journalists on Sunday night, were "without foundation Earlier. Interior Minister
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  • 205 5 WASHINGTON, Tues. (UPI) The U.S. Air Force will increase its order or 493 swingw:ng Fill fighter-bombers, an Air Force spokesman said Monday. He declined to sav how many more Fill's it proposed to buy. He admitted it had been possible for it to increase
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  • 99 5 WASHINGTON. Tues (Reuter> The Shah of wlH ma*e an official visit to Wash, ing ton on Oct 21 and 22, t he White House announced yesterday. The visit was arranged some time ago but no date had bee n set I he White House
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  • 108 5 TORONTO, Tues (UPI) The daughter of former Canadian External Affairs Minister Paul Martm. has postponed her marriage to a member of the L.S. Peace Corps serving In India to avoid submitting to *n American security check. Marv Ann Martin. 25. who is teaching French In India,
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  • 69 5 SAO PAULO. Brazil. Tues. /UPI) The Sunday edition o Estado de Sao Paulo was distributed only after government men deleted its lead editorial, referring to the political crisis, the newspapers executives said yesterday The censored editorial was the first to deal with current political developments in Brazil since the
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  • 234 5 MEXICO CITY, Tues. (Reuter) At least 27 passengers and five crew are now known to have died when a Mexican airliner crashed, slid into a lake and broke in two as it came in to land here last night. Rescue workers today uncovered more bodies
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  • 113 5 WASHINGTON. TUEA CR§Uter) F. 8.1. Director J Edgar Hoover reported the U.S. crime wave continued to soar— with rap«s and robberies up sharply—in the first six months of 1969. The head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation said in his half-yearly review that crimes of all types
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  • 115 5 WASHINGTON. Tue*. (Hauler) —United States Air Force. Marine and Navy strength will be reduced by 77.500 men U part of i move to aave 3.000 million dollars announced last month, the Defence Department said yesterday. In addition, the Navy will retire 22 vessels. including two
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  • 287 5 BACRAMENTO. Calif (UFD With Judge Earl Warren Jr. in a front-row seat. Carol Doda, the Go-Go dancer who started the topless craze, performed totally nude in a nightclub Monday for a municipal court jury. Defence Attorneys for two of ML&S Doda's fellow dancers called
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  • 34 5 WASHINGTON. Tues. (UFT) —The White House announced Monday the President will appoint Cristobal C. Duenas of Agana to an eight-year term as District Judge for Guam, succeeding Paul D. Shriver, who resigned.
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  • 617 6 ASIAN security is a much discussed subject it the present time and nobody seems _,ore interested in it than the Soviet Union. Almost every Asian leader has recently commented on the subject il only to say, like Adam Malik of Indonesia, that he would ike to know more
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  • 328 6 WE do not like to agree with the Israelis pri'f marily because they have flouted a United Nations resolution and continue to be in occupation of Arab territory. But when a man like Abba Eban. the Israeli Foreign Minister, talks sense in the midst of the perfunctory out-pourings
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  • 723 6  -  By OLIVER CARRUTHERS Gemini News Service LONDON: It is perhaps apt, at nobody has ever been able to decide whether the study of economics is an art or a science, that on Sept. 25 and 26 the Commonwealth Finance Ministers will
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  • 495 6  -  iy NICHOLAS MOORE KARACHI, (Router) Pakistan's military rulers, with their policy of social reform, are at odds with the handful of wealthy businessmen who monopolise the country's industry. The regime of Army Commander General A.M Yahya Khan is trying to narrow the potentially
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  • 16 6 Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerabif minds. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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  • 733 6  -  By JOSEPH ALSOP DANANG Either President Nixon is engaged in another of his elaborate cover plans, which have deceived everyone so often, or ••Vietnamization" is Just another word for concealed surrender to Hanoi. One must hope it is a cover plan. That is a bleakly
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  • 566 6 LONDON: Millions of people dream constantly of becoming rich overnight, either by a win on the football pools or by the will of a long-lost rich uncle. But what would the average man or woman do with untold wealth? Where would he want to live? What sort
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  • 162 6 UNIVERSITY PARK. Pensylvannia Tues (UPI) Two Penn State University English professors have uncovered a cache of hitherto unpublished and unknown works by tltt late Nobel-prize winning author Ernest Hemingway, including an incomplete novel on Nick Adams, his best-known short-story character. Philip Young, an expert on Hemingway
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 619 7 By Our Market Reporter THE Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore wai rather mixed in outlook at yesterday's close. No real trend emerged as routine profit-taking and lack of new incentives again arrested any probable rise. The lack of any real Incentive continues to allow
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    • 1051 7 BUSINESS 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 Acnu $lB3 (1) $1.90 (1); Ben $lB3 <s>: Borneo $1.79 <2> $1.78 <4 Camel
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    • 285 7 October first grade rubber buverg closed it 3 pm i n Singapore and Kuala Lumour yesterday at 74* cents per lb., up one quarter of a cent from the previous close The tone of the market was quiet. Level* continued to fluctuate quietly around 74 cents
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    • 256 7 The following is a berthing list released by the Port of Singapore Authority for Sept. 24: DEPARTURE Godowna Vessels 3/4 Srb'.ja 15/16 Kota Klnabalu 18 Bogota N.W. 1 Luna Marina N.W. 5 Riau II 24 Sabelan 25/26 Shavit 44 45 Orsov a 46 Vishva Maya 27' 28
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    • 386 7 WASHINGTON, Tues. (UPI) The International Monetary Fund (IMF» staff has estimated that 80 million dollars of gold tumbled out of private hoards during the first three months of 1969 while industrial and artistic uses of the precious metal showed an upward trend. A U.S.
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    • 63 7 HONG KONG. Tues. <UPI)— Money Quotations yesterday. HK $6,085 per U.S. do'.lar HK $6,100 per U.S. dollar TT. HK $14.51 per pound sterling. HK $308.00 per taei of sold 94 5 per cent fineness. HK $162.1pp r 10,000 Japanese Yen. HK $ll9 5 per 100 Philippines pesos buyers,
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    • 308 7 Mohawk Data Sciences Corporation is perhaps an unusual name for an important company in the electronic data processing field. However, they have absolutely nothing in common with the "Last of the Mohawk Indians." The name "Mohawk" was selected simply because the company has its origins
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    • 56 7 TOKYO. Tues. fUPI) Ma-ruben:-lida Co. and Yutani Heavy Industries will shortly set up a joint firm in Tokyo with France's Pocladn Co. to manufacture oil pressure equipment for digging machines. The joint fian called Po-cla-in-Yutani-Hydraulics Ltd. will sell its products not only on the Japanese market,
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    • 55 7 TOKYO. Tuee. (UPI) Japan Development and Construction Co. and Hitachi Ltd. announced yesterday the joint development of a new type of an under-water bulldozer The announcement said the 40 million yen (about US$lll,000) bulldozer is capable of cruising above water and also could be ueed in operation seven
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    • 184 7 NEW YORK, Tues. (UPI) The stock market moved up again yesterday but the gain* were small for the most part with most of the list restrained by the small trading volume and some unfavourable business news. There were a few gain* of 1 to more
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    • 103 7 TOKYO, Tuee (UPI) The Export-Import Bank of Japan and 13 other bank s extended yesterday a 2,834 million yen (about US$7,880,000) credit to Thailand to improve its national railways. The credit extension contract was signed in Tokyo between Tadashi Ishida. president of the Export-Import Bank and
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    • 61 7 06AKA. Tuee. (UPl)—Japan Catalytic Chemical Industry Co. will i«t up her* in October a new Arm to produce heat-resistant electric insulating synthetic resin jointly with Schenneetady Chemical* Inc. at the U.S. Local production of reein is expected to bring down the coat by 3o per cent The resin
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    • 13 7 THE tin price for yesterday wae $626.25 per picul. down $2.75.
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    • 137 7 LONDON, Tues. (Reuter) The market was very quiet yesterday with equities slightly easier over a wide front on lack of interest. Caution ahead of the West German election and the IMF meeting were the main restraining Influences. The Jewish Yom Klppur holiday also affected the
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    • 127 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 T.T. or O.D. ready: Deutsche Marks $77.7550: Holland Guilders $85.3450. Swiss Francs $71.7725; Belgian Franc* $6 1425; French Francs
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    • 40 7 NEW YORK. Tuet. (UPI) Dow Jone s closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday. 30 Industrials 831.77 20 Rails 200.11 15 Utilities ***** 85 Stockg ***** 40 Bonds 7158 Commodity future® index 141.18 off 0.06.
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    • 65 7 THE noon prion at the Singapore Chln'M rrodvea EKlunn were- >Mt Coconut Ofl (P.O.B) Drum M» Mixed Copra "7?.'dvr w r*~- "z;£ irsa.w VL.W l«t-S» Lamponr «peet«l Block Prpper (F.OB.) *1500 L -R5SS 88 i* A n lfS.Ort CoffM AP 1 (F-OJ Cote* AP t (T.O Coffee EK 1
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    • 60 7 NEw YORK. Tu«« Rubber future* cloeed UBchUMOd to 75 pointj on the York Commodity txrhinj* j«»t«rd*y. TVi* no si'es. (Pwl (CUM) Nov 2800B 85 A 28 00 Jazt 20 J5A 2890 M»r. 27.7SB 28.00A 27 7» May 27.90A 28 13 July 27.80A 28.05 6*pt. 27.65A 27-90 Loo *11
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE
    • 335 8  -  By DELOS SMITH NEW YORK, Tues. (UPI) One of Hie psychological scientists who try to understand human beings by experimenting with them is telling his fellows they're going about it in wrong ways. For that reason, in his view, much of their acquired knowledge is highly
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    • 273 8 WASHINGTON: A compact nuclear reactor with potential uses in space stations and on the moon Is being tested in the United States. The reactor reached its design power of 600 thermal kilowatts at 1,300 degrees F (697.4 degrees C) early in 1969. and will be operated
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    • 387 8 JAKARTA. (Reuter) Pop music has gained in popularity in Indonesia since the downfall of the Sukarno regime four year* ago and the country is now exporting pop singers to a growing market in Southeast Asia, writes Reuter correspondent Soeharjono. Malaysia and Singapore already have
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    • 503 8  -  By ALMUTH GENRICH DUSSELDORF (DaD) Super-thin go-go-girls in skin-tight, glittering pants ably shook their bodies in time to hot rhythms. It did not take long and the gay-moving show was transposed from the stage to the main floor. As in a trance, hundreds of
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    • 161 8 HANNOVER. (DaD) What can be seen In the original on the celling of the Sixtine Chapel In Rome was re-created nearly once a week on the street of a city in different countries: The creation of Adam Michelangelo painted the fresco in months of bard work,
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    • 181 8 MELBOURNE: Stamps commemorating the first England-Australia air flight will be Issued on 12th November. 1969 the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the historic flight by the brothers. Captain Ross Smith and Lieutenant Keith Smith, and Sergeant Mechanics W. H. Shiers and J M. Bennett. An unusual feature
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    • 439 8  -  Date-line By Ele, Walt Dulaney Dear Ele and Walt: I am a junior in high school and very shy. Almost everyday someone wants to borrow something from me. If it isn't a pencil, it'* my pen. I don't mind it once in a while but when it's
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 236 8 1. Who invented violin and in what year? 2 Do you know the melting point of copper? 3. In which country is river Elbe? 4 Who is Lapidist? 5 What is the meaning of the idiom: 'a pig in a poke' 6 What's German Silver? 7. Who are Nagas* 8
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    • 533 9  -  Ann Landers DEAR ANN: I 'm scared. Please help me. Is it possible to get hooked on diet pills? I've been taking them off and on for five years. The weight I wanted to lose is gone and there is no
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    • 505 9  -  S/#r#i/.i/i#/ lor S<' if... SHEILAH GRAHAM HOLLYWOOD. Tues.— Michael Calne and Minda Feliclano motored from London to Austria in h.s Rolls Royce—which he still hasn't learned to drive—where Michael is starring in "A Last Valley. To date, this romance has
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    • 752 9  -  By Gloria-mae "TTAD a good day at XX the office, dear?" the boy asked his girl What are you going to do when your boyfriend or husband (according to your disposition), stays at home all day arranging coffee mornings and having his hair done
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    • 232 9  -  By Msry Sue Miller rWAS til right for Atlas to carry a world of weight on his shoulders. but it's not for you. If you want to look as young as you are. SM to It that you are never burdened with a globule of fat
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    • 244 9 TODAY an Wednesday* Sept. 24, 1969. an: trr c*rrr* CANCIB JUHJI Ml juVM TAR GAZER**\ Sy CL4T*. MILAN—i JK :Y«urD*tfyAdMfyGwd* JK' According to fho Stort. a To devilop nnwog* for Wedrwdey, j. raod words corresponding to numb** of your Zodiac birth »lgn. 1 Good 31 And <1 Accurst* :ir,tvv: r^i
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    • 319 9 CM: A N I S A |0RCHARU-J?1b1 IIST BIG DAT! No fr« Uit: Show Starts: 1.46. ».U I SO o m "ICC" 8taru: 3.03. 6.S3 ft Ml pa Tickets On Sal* From 11J( a.m. Aomi.'.-ion Si SO 5»0 nil MOM /ICE STATION ZEBRA Vi HCPEK CINEBAMA Roct Hudson Jim 6-0»O
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    • 284 10  -  By BIG BEN T)EGAL MATE with Glynn Pretty astride did a smart sprint over 3f in 4l 2/5 on yielding going at Bukit Timah yesterday. Balcrest and Love and Joy (Rao) impressed in a half mile workout to run the last 3f in 38
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    • 96 10 LONDON. Tues (Reuter) Starting this season, the beaten semi-finalists in the English FA Soccer Cup competition will play off to decide third and fourth places, it was announced yesterday. This new fixture will be played on the evening before the Cup finaL and will replace the
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    • 255 10 LONDON, Tues. The British covered court championships at Queen's Club in London will combine with the traditional professional event at Wembley to form one open tournament in London from No. 17-22. Total prize money being offered is £20.000. Thirty-two men will play
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    • 260 10 By Eastern Knifht Giam Choo Kwee. 27. has been awarded the National Master title by the Singapore Chess Federation. Giam, who finished fourth in the recent Zonal championship Is the 4th National Master, the three others being Tan Lian Ann. Lim Kok Ann and Tan
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    • 156 10 STOKE, England, Tues. (Reuter) BrabiUan star Pele scored two brilliant goals to help the touring Santos Club to a 3-2 victory over English First Division side Stoke City in a friendly match here last night. Pele made his mark earlier on with two fine
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    • 78 10 THORPE BAY, England. Tues. (Reuter)—Denmark squared the "Little America's Cup" yachting series for the international Catamaran trophy with a decisive win over The British defender Focelot in the sixth race here yesterday. Opus 111. the Danish challenger. sailed round in three hours 22 minutes 54 seconds while Focelot
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    • 73 10 HONG KONG. Tues. (UPD —Japan defeated Macao 7-0 in the first regional hockey tournament here today. Hall time score was 2-0. The Japanese were far superior all through the game and fully deserved the victory. The Japanese now have six points from three games and thev need
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    • 225 10 BANGKOK, Tues. (AFP) The Sixth Asian Games organising committee. at their first inaugural meeting held here on Monday, decided to convene the games in Bangkok from Dec. 9 to 20, next year and include 14 events in the sports programme. The committee, chaired by Minister
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    • 90 10 HONG KONG. Tues. (UPI) Hong Kong held South Korea to a 2-2 draw in the flr*t regional hockey tournament here yesterday. Tranling by two goals to nil after 16 minutes. th« Hong Kong hockey players fought back to score two goals before the interval The match
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    • 35 10 SINGAPORE Police Force will hold their annual swim* ming meet at the Chinese Swimming Club Amber Road, at 2.15 p.m. today. Mr. P. Rajaratnam. Acting Commissioner of Police will give away the prizes.
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    • 584 10 MELBOURNE, Australia, Tues. Young Ray Rigby, the 20st. 71b. Australian shot putt champion and national superheavyweight weightlifting champion and record holder, has an unusual Job —trainee male nurse. A hulking weightlifting as a male nurse? "Nobody teases me about it these days," the genial 20-year-old
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    • 220 10 LONDON. Tues. Prince Philip. President of the British Commonwealth Games Federation, Is to be patron of the Third Commonwealth Paraplegic Games, which will be held in Edinburgh. Scotland. from July 26 to August 1 next year, immediately after the Commonwealth Games event. The organisers are hoping to
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    • 90 10 HONG KONG, Tues. (UPI) Unseeded Cambodian Taurf Luu won a surprise victory] over Philippine Davis Cup s l aW Alex Marcial in the ®ecc round of the Hon* Kong court men's single tenn* championships yesterday. In a marathon match that lasted more than two hours at the Hong
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    • 151 11 THIS is a welcome opportunity to extend greetings from the United Stated of America to the people of Singapore and to the contestants in the 17th annual World Cup and International Trophy golf matches. It was my privilege to help plan the 1955 matches and
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    • 200 11 LONDON, Tues. (Reuter) Sir Alf Ramsey, England's soccer manager, has selected a strong team to meet Wales in the Under-23 international at Bristol on Oct. 1 The team include several players who are likely to be on Sir Alf's short list for the World
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    • 153 11 CLEVELAND. Ohio, Tues. fTPI> The 1969 Davis Cup Challenge round, unique Wore It began because of the first appearance of a Rumanian team, has many more claims to rarity following the 5-0 victory of the United States team. The matches, emblematic of International tennis supremacy. ended on
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    • 134 11 LONDON. Tues (Reuter) Defending champion Gary Player of South Africa has been draw n against top Frenchman Jean Garaialde in the opening round of the eightman Piccadilly world match play golf tournament at Wentworth on Oct 9 Garaialde has been enjoying a highly successfu"
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    • 64 11 SYDNEY. TUM (Reuter) Top Australian jockey George Moore was today flned $lOO by the Australian Jockey Club Stewards "for improper and insulting behaviour". The charge arose from an incident between Moore who is well known on British and French racecourses and a steward at the Randwick race course
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    • 123 11 WITH Huee events still to go. Jackie Stewart (No. 20) the "Flying Scot' —'took the 1969 World Driving Championships when he won the Monxa Grand Prix in Italy. Leading for all but ten of the 68 laps, he averaged a record 146.95 miles per hour before a
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    • 510 11 NEW YORK. Tues (Reuter) Pitcher Tom Seaver allowed only four hits and became the biggest winner in the major leagues yesterday when the new Mets trimmed the St Louis Cardinals 3-1 and went five games ahead of Ihe Chicago Cubs in the National
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    • 168 11 LONDON. Tues Jimmy Revie. 22-year-old British featherweight champion. Is to meet the European champion. Torrmaso Galii of Italy, in a non-title bout at Bethnal Green, London on Oct. 2. The fight. which is over the featherweight limit, has a purse of £3.ooft and If
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    • 205 11 THE Singapore Tenpin Bowling Congress (STBC) will send a team of three women and six men to represent the Republic in the Fourth Asian Bowling championships to be held in Hong Kong from Dec. 2 to 7, The qualifying rounds for this competition
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    • 159 11 SIX teams have so far entered for the Singapore Teachers' Union Netball championships. at the Mav South School ground. Mav Road, from Sept 2" to Nov. 1. They are: Checkers. The Kats. Bukit Ho Swee. Balrannets. Beatty Seven and One rive o. The tournament l
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    • 73 11 Mr. Lee Kim Yew elected President of the Singapore Inland Country Club at their annual general meetlng held recently. The vice-presidents were: Mr N. Sutcliffe and Prof. Yeoh Ohim Seng Other officials: Mr. H. M Dyne* (captain), and Mr. Eric Owee (vice-captain). Committee: Messrs Cheong Thiam Stew. P.
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    • 60 11 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) Mike Smith the former England captain, will return to full time cricket next season. Smith. 36. who scored over 30.000 run® in first class cricket before retiring at the end of the 1967 season, will rejoin Warwickshire. Since his retirement Smith has made only
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    • 68 11 LOS ANGELES. Tues (UPI) Australians John Newcombe and Tony Roche, seeded second and third, scored easy flr«t round men's singles victories on Sunday in the $30,000 Pacific Southwest Open Tennis Championships. Newcombe. runner-up to world champion Rod Laver at Wimbledon, barely got warmed up In Subduing Francisco Gurman
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    • 79 11 Lut year's Joint cfttmpions. Singapore Combined Schools 'A' and Khatea Association will meet again in the 1969 Singapore Hockey Association Under-23 knockout tournament final at th» BCC Padang. on Oet. 1 (bully off 5-00 p.m.) The following will represent Combined School*: Jegfcthe.«an. Llm Ah Suan. Balakrishnan,
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    • 1348 11 (CHANNEL 5) PM. 300 Opening Announcements in all Languages and Houseuive? Matinee (Part 1 of a Mandarin film "Oh Boys! Oh Girls!; 330 Women's World (Chinese'. 400 A Diary of Events in Singapore This Week (Chinese); 405 Scarlet Hill (Double Corner"; 4.55 Close 5.50 Programme Summary in all Languages; 5.55
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  • 446 12 RAJA AT GANDHI FUNCTION THE doctrine of non-violence end converting it through mess mobilisation into a practical weepon for achieving concrete ends it Mehatma Gandhi's principel contribution on the world, Mr, S- Rejeretnam said yesterdey. The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Labour was speaking on the occasion
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  • 132 12 WASHINGTON. Tues. (UPI) President Nixon gave the go-head today for building an American Supersonic Transport (88T) capable of carrying up to 300 passenger* at speeds of 1.800 mile s an hour. The President told reporters he would ask Congress for about US$96 million in development fund«
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  • 117 12 A leading British confectioner, Mr. Maurice Matlow, will visit Singapore next month to study avenues of expanding the market for hi* products in the Republic. While in Singapore. Mr. Matlow who ig the joint managing director of a large British confectionery manufacturing group, will meet confectionery
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  • 52 12 FUKUOKA. Japan, Tues '(Reuter) Seven bodies were recovered today from a coal mine pit in which 12 miners were trapped following a cave-In yesterday near this southern Japanese city, police said. Two men were found dead and three others injured shortly after the cave-In which followed an
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  • 39 12 CAIRO, Tues. (Reuter) Commandos of the Arab Sinai Organisation last night fired Russian Katyusha rockets against Israeli front line positions and ammunition depots in Sinai, causing explosions and serious damage, according to a communique issued here today.
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  • 129 12 A British electroplating and chemical manufacturing company. having a market of several years' standing in Singapore. win send a representative here for a week-long sales-expansion campaign late next month. The firm is Cruickshanks Limited of Bnmingham which has been supplying acids and polishing materials
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  • 49 12 CANBERRA, Tues. (Reuter) Australian Prime Minister John Gorton has come under immediate fire for his election-eve statement to the House of Representatives tonight that Australia will accept the 24 Fill aircraft it has ordered from the United States subject to successful testing and with certain cost safeguards.
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  • 491 12 IN a festive mood accompanied by the bright, joyful staccato of fire-crac-kers, the Vice-President, Marketing, Hilton International, Mr. William F. Prigge, performed the "topping off ceremony" of the new Singapore Hilton West at Orchard Road. According to European traditions. the "topping off ceremony"
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  • 421 12  -  By Jerome de Silva EVERYONE at the Port Authority wharves yesterday morning just couldn't believe their eyes when they turned their heads and came face-to-face with "The Regimental Band of the Foot and Mouth Deserters." Take a look at the picture with this
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  • 602 12 A 13-year-old girl yesterday testified in Court how she saw her father using a changkol stick to beat her younger sister on the head. The girl, Ng Meng Choo. was testifying at a preliminary inquiry in which her father, Ng Ser Hai, a
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  • 69 12 BOMBAY Tueg ißeuter) A 25-year-old woma n wa« killed, six injured and 3o familae, were made homeless when a fourstorey block of flats collapsed here today. About 60 People were rescued from the debris. Police said one resident wa s not accounted for. Some residents were still asleep
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