Eastern Sun, 22 July 1966

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  • 29 1 EASTERN SUN INDEPENDENT ENGLISH NATIONAL DAILY ft E*ld- 1966. Vol. 1. No. 6. ft Singapore, Friday, July 22 1966. ft MC (P) 1942 ft KDN 2309 Price 13 CenU
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  • 36 1 SAIGON, Thurs. (UP I) Militant Buddhist leader Thich Tri Quang showed up at a cocktail party today on the 44th day of his anti-Government hunger strike. He did not take a drink.
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  • 345 1 SAIGON, Thurs. (AP) The Philippine Armed Forces Chief of Staff, General Ernesto Mata, said today he had reached a working agreement with Vietnamese authorities concerning deployment of Philippine engineers and security troops here. > "It seems to me that the projects which have been
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  • 545 1  -  Present cultural revolution is most profound of a socialist struggle in China By JOHN RODERICK XOKYO, Thurs. (AP) The Chinese Communist Party disclosed this week that the wide-ranging purge of writers, artists, cultural chiefs, party officials and mi- litary men has "just begun" Mao Txe-tung's disciples
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  • 149 1 JAKARTA, Thurs. (AP) Indonesia's Foreign Minister Adam Malik has accused Communist China of carrying out "arbitrary actions" against this republic. The Army newspaper, Berita Yudha, today quoted Mr. Malik as having made the charges in a meeting with *8 Indonesian students just returned from Communist China The
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  • 55 1 SINGAPORE, Thurs. (UPI) —Army Chief Lt. Gen. Suharto told newsmen today: "God willing, the Ampera Cabinet would be formed within the last week of this month," Radio Jakarta reported today. The broadcast, monitored in here, said the general made this statement after talks with President Sukarno at
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  • 222 1 JAKARTA, Thurs. (UPI) A new outbreak of frequent clashes between youth groups of the Nationalist Party (PNI) and Moslems Is sweeping Sentral Java and authorities have been unable to put down the disturbances, it was reported today. Informed sources said the clashes have been between the
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  • 405 1 JAKARTA, Thurs. (AP.)— The seventh man charged with involvement in the abortive coup attempt here last October 1 faces sentencing tomorrow. His six predecessors have all received death sentences. Gatot Sukrisno, a former air force major, is charged with ordering the execution of six top generals
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  • 32 1 MANILA. Thurs. (AP) The Foreign office was reported today to have defended the Philippine consulates in Singapore, Hong Kong and Kobe from charges of smuggling by president Ferdinand E. Marcos.
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  • 313 1 JAKARTA, Thurs. (AP) President Sukarno J has told Army strongman. Lieutenant General Suharto, he can become First Minister in the new Cabinet if he gives up his post of Army Chief, usually reliable sources said today. President Sukarno was reported to be angling
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  • 73 1 STOP PRESS KUALA LUMPUR, Thur*. The Prime Minister. Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra, has issued the following: The Yang di-Pert u a n Agong has been medically advised not to travel for at least one week from today. The three-day state visit of Their Majesties to Malacca, scheduled
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  • 349 2  -  by Wee Hock Chye TVTALACCA, Thurs. The Yang Di-Pertuan Agong the Raja Permaisuri Agong wil: be accorded a rousing welcome when they arrive in Malacca on Sunday morning to begin their three-day Stato visit. m The Chief Minister of Malacca. Enche Abdul Ghafar
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  • 84 2 PENANG, Thurs. —A gardener, Ammasai s/o Salamban, was fined $2OO i n the second Magistrate's Court today when he was found guilty of causing hurt to his wife, Ramie d/o Muthu, with a razor in their home in east Jelutong on June 26. The
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  • 237 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. —More than 78 artistes, representing Malaysia's loremost pop and musical groups from the various states, will take part in a nation-wide talentime contest at the Stadium Negara on July 30. The contest, jointly organised by the Junior Chamber of Commerce and
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  • 99 2 SINGAPORE, Thurs. A 16-week course on Russian lor beginners will be conducted by the Lembaga Gerakan Pelajaran Dewasa Adult Education Board every Monday and Wednesday or •very Tuesday and Thursday, at the Raffles Girls* Primary School. The fee for' the course, which will be conducted in English,
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  • 197 2  -  By JAMAL ALI KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. The Kelantan State Government would co-operate with the Central Government at all levels especially in rural development "if only the Central Government could 'bury' its political sentiments". This was disclooed by the Mentri Besar of
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  • 228 2 PENANG, Thurs. —Former strip-tease queen. Rose Chan, today accused the police authorities here of being most unfair to her because "they objected to my Chean Hoong Revue performing in the New World Park without even calling for a censor preview." Looking sad and gloomy. Rose told the
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  • 85 2 PENANG, Thurs.—A murder charge against Samy Nathan, 43, and K. Arumugam,s9, was today amended to one of culpable homicide not amounting to murder in the Magistrate's Court today. Both were alleged to have caused the death of MohdSerroff s/o Sarban, outside an Indian temple at Ayer Itam
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  • 146 2 IPOH, Thurs. The Traffic Police here will institute legal action against the syndicate, which operated a school bus, whose steering column broke while taking some 30 children to school last Monday. The driver ot the vehicle averted what otherwise might have been disaster by bringing
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  • 76 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Co-operation between Malaysia and Belgium in the fields of technology and culture holds a promising future. This was stressed by the Ambassador of Belgium to Malaysia Monsieur Frans Taelemans today in a broadcast message on the occasion of Belgium's National day. He said:
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  • 128 2 |7"UALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Experts will soon be sent to Eastern Malaysia to study the installation of television in Sabah and Sarawak, wries our staff reporter, Jamal Ali. This was disclosed to the Eastern Sun today by the Minister of Information, Inche Senu bin Abdul
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  • 32 2 MUAR, Thurs. The Johore Centre Chinese Teachers Association will hold a national language speech contest for its members and secondary and primary school pupils on July 23 at 10 a.m.
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  • 186 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. The Malaysian Government has treated well the Inccnesian prisoners captured in this country The Minister of Education, Enche Mohd. Khir Johari said this today when he opened the Day Training College food and fair held here. He said the Indonesian
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  • 342 2 SINGAPORE, Thurs. Eight out of 18 semi-finalisti were selected for the finals of the Euro-Asian Singing Contest the biggest one of its kind here at the Singapore NTUC's Confer* ence Hall last night. The contest which it highlighted by a $lO,OOO cash prize to the
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  • 123 2 IPOH, Thurs. Two persons lost their lives in two separate road accidents yesterday. A linesman of the Perak River Hydro Electric Co. Ltd., Abdul Manap bin Hajl Abdul Karim, 53, was killed instantaneously at the 4th mile Gopeng Road, after having been knocked down by a
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  • 125 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. -—Three girls taken in by the Bahagia Remand Home at Kampong Pandan here where they could be cared f or out of the home last Tuesday, sparking off a minor "manhunt". Two of the girls, Kuopu d/o Patumalay. 11. and Kamala d/o
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  • 117 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Malaysia aborigine rehabilitation centre here has gained the admiration of Dr. S.C. Jamir, parliamentary secretary to the Indian Ministry of External Affairs. Speaking to newsmen before leaving for Hong Kong after a two-day visit here, he said: "I am greatly
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  • 78 2 PENANG, Thurs. —A visitor from Klang, Miss Germaine Kemplay, found her jewellery missing after a swim in Tanjong Bungah yesterday. According to her, the Jewellery, worth $143, was placed inside a friend's car before she went swimming alone. Later, her friends drove the car to Leith
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  • 129 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. The Malaysian Chinese Association is to make representations to state authorities to expedite the issue of permanent land titles to settlers in new villages. An MCA spokesman told the Eastern Sun today. He disclosed that the MCA headquarters had advised all
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  • 65 2 IPOH, Thurs.—A farmer found his 15-year-old student son, Chon Chew Lixn in a distressed condition while vomiting In the bathroom of their house in Kampong Tringkap in the Cameron Highlands last night. The son was believed to have swallowed the whole contents of a bottle of
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  • 101 2 LUMPUR, Thurs. —The Arts Council of Malaysia will hold its 10th annual exhibition of works y young artists at the British Council Centre here from October 10 to 15. Malaysian artists aged 18 years and under are invited to submit up to two examples of their original
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  • 113 2 IPOH, Thurs —The Ipoh Municipal Council is waiting for the gree n light from the Federal Government to approve a $2 million loan for the construction of the Kinta Heights. This multi-storeyed skyscraper building with its site at Leech Street and Patrick Street and
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  • 47 2 B U K I T MERTAJAM, Thurs.—A grand rally to mark National Language Month will be held on July 29 at the public padang Aston Road here. More than 5,000 from government departments, clubs, associations, schools, political parties and the Ra'ayat are expected to attend.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 40 2 TIME AND TIDE Sedili Kechil 1.12 p.m. (B.2ft); Singapore 2.36 p.m. (8.0 ft): Port Dickson 9.21 a.m. (9.3 ft); 9.48 p.m. (B.6ft); Port Sw?ttenham 8.46 a.m. (14.7 ft); 8.50 p.m. (13.5 ft); Penang 2.30 p.m. (B.7ft); Kuantan 12.31 (9.3 ft).
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  • Local News
    • 169 3  -  By MUSCA SCULLY K' Thurs, Malaysia will have negotiations with 15 airlints for new air agreements within the next few months. The negotiations with them are expected to be completed by the end Qf the year. Some agreements will be revisions of
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    • 45 3 SINGAPORE, Thurs. The Science Society of the University of Singapore will hold its 10th biennial science and photographic exhibition at the university's campus at 10 a.m. tomorrow. It will be declared open by the Minister for Education, Mr. On e Pang Boon.
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    • 198 3 SINGAPORE, Thurs. Reu presentatives of the 15,000strong pirate taxis today urged the Government to stop the purge on them at least for the time being. This was stated by Mr. Eng Lam Ng, 30, spokesman for the delegation, who made this appeal through the
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    • 71 3 SINGAPORE, Thurs. (UPI). —Two British Members of Parliament, who recently visited Indonesia, have appealed to their government to postpone the re-construction of the gutted British Embassy Building in Jakarta and use the amount of £150,000 needed for the purpose to assisting Indonesia's economic rehabilitation instead,
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    • 116 3 One hundred and fifteen British companies were recently named as the first wmnera of the Queens Award to Industry. The award, which is to be made annually, is in recognition of I! JJ C {V" fvement in increasing exports, or in technological innovation or in
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    • 217 3 The Minister for Education, Mr. Ong Pang Boon will open the Faculty of Science Exhibition at the University of Singapore tomorrow at 10 a.m. All departments of the Science Faculty will contribute towards exhibition. However, of particular interest to the thousands of visitors
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    • 94 3 SINGAPORE, Thurs. (UPI) The Japanese Ambassador to Indonesia, Mr. Shizuo Saito this morning called on Foreign Minister Mr. Adam Malik and reported to him on the results of the Indonesian Creditor Countries Conference held in Tokyo recently, Radio Jakarta reported. The broadcast, monitored here, said the
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    • 70 3 SINGAPORE, Thurs. (UPI) Nine Japanese Doctors from the Kvodo University :ave arrived in Jakarta to onduct a two-month survey into giotre and leprosy diseases in Indonesia, Radio Jakarta reported today. The broadcast, monitored here, said the doctors would also exchange knowledge and experience in the field
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    • 206 3 SINGAPORE, Thurs. Singapore UM N O demanded an eariy approval for its amended constitution which was submitted to the Singapore Government s»x months ago. Tan Sri Syed Esa Almenoar, Secretary General of Singapore UMNO, said today that since there had been no definite reply
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    • 173 3 SINGAPORE, Thurs. Thirty beauties from all walks of life are out in quest for the "Welfare Ball Oueen" title, to be held at Raffles Hotel on Saturday at 8.30 p m Two of the entrants to this beauty contest are Miss Angelina Soh (left) and
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    • 1186 3 SEDITION TRIAL SINGAPORE, Thurs. Prolonged solitary confinement could lead to mental derangement ai a "I consider it a very cruel form of detention", said Dr. Lim Hock Siew, a political detainee and a Barisaa Sosialis leader at the 13th day hearing of a sedition
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    • 215 4  -  l Action will be taken against employers By Chan Kam Yau KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. THE Ministry of Labour is studying the possibility of introducing legislation to control the business hours of commercial firms, especially departmental store. Its Parliamentary Secretaiy, Mr. Lee San Choon,
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    • 181 4 MUAR, Thurs. Mr. Justice Ali bin Hassan today sentenced Man Kamit bin Ismail to two years' jail in the Muar High Court for raping a rubber tapper Lee Kim Yuen (22) at Chaah. On September 10 last year, Mr. Justice Ali postponed sentence on two
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    • 261 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. —A peaceful demonstration planned by university students here against the American bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong were foiled before it could get underway. However, a student delegation presented a petition to the United States Charge Moore, condemning the bombing. Earlier the students'
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    • 134 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Anne Willumsen, 19, daughter Mr. Kjeld Willumsen, Danish Ambassador in Malayjia, will leave for Copenhagen on Wednesday to further her studies. Anne, who is very interested in commercial and secretarial work is determined to specialise in these courses. "I
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    • 214 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Thuri. —The World Bank has approved a long $lll million to the National Electricity Board. This will finance the foreign exchange cost of a number of major projects to be undertaken by the Board to increase its generating and transmitting capacity. The loan,
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    • 57 4 SINGAPORE, Thurs. Pretty Miss Judith Ann Lockey, Australia's Miss Teenage, is here for a twoday stay. She is accompanied by her mother, Mrs Kathtrine Mary Lockey. Both of them gre here on her 14-day Oriental Tour through the courtesy of the Air New Zealand and Thai
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    • 185 4 Director robbed of $8000/loses car too If UALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Four masked men, one of them armed with a shotgi'n. yesterday held up a director of the Matsushita Co (Malaya) Ltd., at his home in the Batu Tiga Industrial site, three miles from here, and escaped with cash and goods
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    • 129 4 SINGAPORE. Thurs. A veil of mystery surrounds the close-door talks among three involved parties, the owners and charterers of the Taiwan coastal vessel. "Chung Ping', and high officials of the Trade Division, held at the Ministry of Finance this morning. From reliable sources, it is
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    • 121 4 TOHORE BAHRU, Thurs. J Lt. Soetikno, leader of the Indonesian airborne landing in Labis on Sept. 2. 1964, had a surprise visitor in his cell at the Johore Bahru prison todav He was visited by Mr. L. Pattiradjawane, Bangkok correspondent of the Indonesian official news agency,
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    • 253 4 T/"OTA BAHRU, Thurs. In Kota Bahru, The Minister of Social Welfare, Tuan Haji Abdul Hamid Khan urged leaders in Kelantan to bury their political sentiments so that the people would be able to share the prosperity of national development. The appeal was made during
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    • 422 4 SINGAPORE, Thurs. The Labour Ministry is now studying the points raised by the National Trades Union Congress relating to the draft of the Bill on overtime employment, which will be presented to Parliament. This follows the letter of July 15 by the secretarygeneral
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    • 34 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Joanna Cheung who arrived here today was a guest at a lunch given by her fans. In a Press interview she said she became a film star due to her curiosity.
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    • 230 4 ITUALA LUMPUR, Timrs. —A high-powered Malaysian Rubber Trade Mission is expected to visit Latin America shortly to establish and maintain closer contacts with manufacturers and importers there. The mission, the Eastern Sun understands, will probably be led by veteran rubber sales promoter Senator
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    • 79 4 JESSELTON, Thurs. (AP) Babah's Minister for Local Government, Dato Pang Tet Tshung, said today the Federal Government would give $1,500,000 for a lowcost housing scheme in Sandakan. The Minister, who returned from Kuala Lumpur after talks with officials of the Federal Ministry of Local Government and
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    • 50 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. —Thieves broke into a house at Jalan Pekililing here last night belonging to Madam Chin Yoke Yin, 65, and got away with $1,200. They gained entrance by breaking a window and used duplicate keys to open a safe, where Madam Chin, kept her savings.
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    • 160 4 Picture and Story by Choo Teck Mau MUAR. Thurs. The Johore Government is to implement a $2 million plan to attract tourists to North Johore. The plan envisages the construction of bungalows, changing-rooms, stalls and a car-park at Ayer Panas waterfalls, 25 mile s north of
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    • 102 5 SINGAPORE, Thurs. Mr. Jeswant Singh. 18. a student of Tunku Besar Secondary School In Tampin. Malaysia, left here by air for New Delhi to take up medical studies. Youngest In the family of two, Mr. Singh said: "I have always dreamt of becoming a doctor and
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    • 54 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Selangor Police yesterday raided a house in Jalan Haji Yusof and detained 17 persons, for playing "pakau". 14 were women. This is the tecond time in a week in which the place has been raided. A pack of cards and gambling chips were
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    • 236 5 JESSELTON, THURS. A sum of $125,000 from Federal funds is being spent °n the building of two veterinary hostels, one at Kepa\an in Jesselton and the other at the experimental breeding station at Seorang, Keningau. This was disclosed by the Action Assistant Director of Agriculture.
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    • 71 5 SINGAPORE, Thurs. SATA's "Donation Draw" will take J>lace on Saturday at 4 p.m. at the Royal Singapore Chest Clinic, Shenton Way. The first prize will be a Prince 1500 cc car; the second prize, a double return air-ticket to Hongkong by Cathay Pacific; and the third prize, a
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    • 33 5 MUA R Thursday A three-day scout leadership course for Chinese primary school teachers in Batu Pahat and Kluang will be held at the Batu Pahat Diamond Jubilee Park from August 10.
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    • 40 5 MUA R Thursday A social and dance in aid of the Teachers Regional Training Centre library fund will be held at the Muar Tanjong Club on July 23. The Stream Lads of Malacca will be in attendance.
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    • 30 5 MUAR, Tnursday The Johore Government has approved a total of $220,000 for the improvement of about 500 roads and laterite paths in various kampongs in the Muar district.
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    • 208 5 SINGAPORE, Thurs.— Eighty-five per cent of the students of the University of Singapore who went to the opinion poll yesterday, gave an overwhelming support to the resolution on autonomy and academic freedom passed by the Students' Council recently. Fifty-five per cent of the students went to
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    • 62 5 SINGAPORE, Thurs.—The unidentified body of a 45-year-old woman was recovered by the marine police at sea. off Queen Elizabeth Walk last night The dead woman is said to be slim built, five-feet in height, with long black hair and clad in a blue samfoo. Eye-witnesses are
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    • 55 5 SINGAPORE. Thurs.—An 11-year-old girl, Zainab binte A. Rahman, was killed on-the-spot in a road accident involving a lorry at Airport Road yesterday. Zainab who sustained severe head inujries, died instantly. Police appeal for eye-witnesses to the fatal accident to contact Inspector Savinder Singh, of Sepoy
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    • 181 5 SEREMBAN, Thurs. Children from the Sekolah Kebangsaan in the isolated Negri Sembilan Village of Chenah, had a good reason to be delighted when Major Brian Robinson, commander of "M" company, 42 Commando, presented six plastic balls to the school master, Enche Mohd. Zain. Major Robinson
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    • 148 5 IPOH, Thurs. The Mentri Besar, Dato Ahmad bin Said, will move a resolution at the Perak Legislative Assembly meeting on Wednesday, for a Government Trust Fund to be established as a loan to the Raja Perempuan. The loan free of interest is to be made
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    • 73 5 SINGAPORE, Thurs.—A man, Soh Kim Tah, was stabbed in the stomach by two snatch thieves while walking with his girl-friend at Market Street yesterday. The two men held up the couple at dagger point and stole a gold chain from his girl-friend after they had stabbed him
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    • 61 5 MUAR, Thurs. —Artists in Johore are invited to take part in a state-wide ART exhibition, sponsored by the Johore Bahru Junior Chamber of Commerce. It will be held at the Johore Bahru Diamond Jubilee Hall from August 18 to 21. from 10 a.m. The Johore Mentri
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    • 59 5 PENANG, Thurs. A total of 29 cases of pulmonary tuberculosis, nine fatal, was reported by the City Council's health statement for last month. Seven cases of chicken pox, five of diptheria and six of dysentry were also reported in the statement. There were 735 births in
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    • 72 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. The Minister of Commerce and Industry, Dr. Lim Swee Aun will make a two-day visit to Kluang and Johore Bahru on July 30. Dr. Lim who will be accompanied by officials of his Ministry will hold discussions with the various Chambers of Commerce
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    • 71 5 PENANG, Thurs. A Musical revue and campflre will be held in the hall of the Malayan Teachers' College at 8 p.m. next Wednesday. The Musical Revue will consist of popular numbers from broadway musicals (including Gilbert and Sullivan). Admission will be by programmes which can be obtained at
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    • 32 5 PENANG, Thurs. The Minister of Agriculture and Co-operatives, Tuan Haji Ghazali bin Jawi, will open the International Co-opera-tive day Celebration at 3 p.m. on Saturday at th« Westlands Primary School.
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    • 131 5 SINGAPORE. Thurs.— A charge nurse of General Hospital here, Mr. Khoo Peng Kiat, is doing post-graduate study for the General Tutor Dipploma at New South Wales College of Nursing in Sydney. He is on a Colombo Plan scholarship. Nurses from 11 countries are enrolled in
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    • 107 5 SINGAPORE. Thurs. Mr. Sunny Giam, of Kodak (Malaya) Limited, has been promoted to a managerial position in the company. He is head of Kodak's advertising and public relations in Singapore and Malaysia. His supervisory areas also Include Cambodia. South Vietnam, Laos and eventually Indonesia (after trade relations
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    • 55 5 IPOH, Thurs. Two piculs of tin ore mixed with Amang were stolen from a godown of Tuck Soon Tin in Kampar yesterday. The Manaeer of the Tin Mine, Mr. Wong Men Fan, 25, said the barbed wire fence at the mine had been cut. The tin
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    • 167 5 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Perhaps the only woman in the world to say that Agent 007 James Bond (Sean Connery) is not handsome is Hong Kong actress, Joanna Cheung Lai Chu. 23-yar-old Joanna, here for a stage appearance said: "I don't consider Mr. Bond
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    • 193 5 SINGAPORE, Thurs. Mr. Koh Hun Boon, aged 36, has been appointed a Director of S.H. Benson (Singapore) Ltd. and S.H. Benson (Malaya) Ltd., Kuala Lumpur, advertising and marketing consultants. His appointment was announced today by Mr. P. Morgan Harry, Managing Director of S.H. Benson Ltd.
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    • 61 5 SINGAPORE, Thurs. Police arrested five secret society thugs all fighters of the "404" SS 108 group in a dawn raid at Alexander Road today. Another fighter of the same group was detained by detectives from the Criminal Investigations Department at Alexander Road yesterday. All six men have
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    • 78 5 SINGAPORE, Thurs—The Eurasian Association will hold a social and dance at St. John Headquarters (top floor) in Bea h Road her® on Aug. 6 from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. to celebrate the first anniversary of the Republic's National Day. The function is open to members, their families
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    • 20 5 JESSELTON, Thurs. A Sabahan, Enche Salleh Sulong has taken up his appointment as the District Officer in Sandakan.
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 73 3 S pore dairy 9. a.m. to 5 p.m. National Library, Stamford Road: Paintings exhibition. 5.30 p.m. Shell Theatrette, Collyer Quay: Symposium on "Sydney Opera House", organised by Singapore Institute of Architects. 7.30 p.m. Free film shows by the Ministry of Culture at Tong Kang Pechah; Kg. Tengah Ponggol; Hwa Ming
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 704 5 What's on in today's Radio and Television TV MALAYSIA CHANNEL 5 Kuala Lumpur and Penang; 6 Ipoh and Malacca; 3 and 10 Johore Bahru; 4 Taiping; 7 Batu Pahat; 9 Kluang. PM. 3.00 OPENING ANNOUNCEMENT, Prog. Summary; 3.01 ORKES MALAM INI, A musical programme; 3.25 THE BIG MAC SHOW, Love's
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 190 6 MOSCOW, Thurs. (AP) The Soviet government issued a warning yesterday about what It called the danger to Soviet ships and crews from U.S. air rald3 on Haiphong. Izvestla, the newspaper that speaks for the government, said, "our government stands on guard for the life of
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    • 80 6 WASHINGTON, Thurs. President Johnson called yesterday for "around the clock" negotiations to end the 12-day-old airline strike which threatens to continue into August. At his nationally televised news conference, Mr. Johnson said "the time has come when a settlement is indicated the patience of the American people
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    • 92 6 KAMPALA, Uganda, Thurs. (AP) Formal letters of agreement for a one million pound US$2.B million loan from Japan were signed at Entebbe yesterday. The Japanese delegation was headed by Japanese Ambassador Toshio Urabe. A statement said the agreement followed last year's via P an of President Milton Obote
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    • 46 6 UNITED NATIONS, Thurs. .(AP) Thailand was reported yesterday to have accepted the latest U.N. proposal for easing its tensions with Cambodia. Charge d* Affaires Anand Panyarachun of the Thai delegation was said to have conveyed the acceptance to Secretary General u Thant.
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    • 75 6 NEW YORK. Thurs. (UPI) Rubber futures yesterday closed 15 to 25 points higher on the New York commodity exchange or. four contracts traded. Singapore values were higher as new speculative buying reversed an earlier downtrend on profit taking. London rubber finished lower. Sept. 24.00 24.40 Nov. 24.00
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    • 204 6 WASHINGTON, Thu r s. (AP) Edwin O. Reischauer. U.S. Ambassador to Japan began what the state department called "normal routine consultations" yesterday with Secretary of State Mr. Dean Rusk and his top officials. A.cjsuxiauei arrived on Tuesday night with no advance word of his
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    • 37 6 UNITED NATIONS, Thurs. (AP) Arturo Tolentino, President of the Philippine Senate, paid a courtesy call on Secretary General U Thant yesterday in the company of Ambassador Privado G. Jimenez, the Philippines' acting Permanent U.N. Representative.
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    • 33 6 Speaking to press is Mr. Daud, one of the Indonesian students who have recently been expelled from the Soviet Union in connection with current Indonesia's anti-Communist movement*
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    • 438 6 LBJ CALLS FOB TALKS WITH HANOI GOVT... VLTASHINGTON, Thurs. (LPI) President Johnson yesteiday called for a con- ference with the Hanoi government, under auspices of the International Red Cross, to head off the threatened trial of captured American fliers as war criminals in North
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    • 58 6 AMNAN, Jordan, Thurs. (AP) Sporadic fighting has recently taken place in Northern Iraq between Iraqi army patrols and Kurdish insurgents, Iraqi Defence Minister Shaker Mahhoud Shukry was quoted as saying yesterday. In an interview with Jerusalems Falastin newspaper. Shaker described the Kurds involved in the fighting as
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    • 76 6 BUENOS AIRES, Thurs (AP) Several thousand auto industry workers struck in Buenos Aires for 24 hours yesterday This was the first big strike launched since the strongman regime of President Juan C. Ongania took over with a military coup June 8. The strike was in support
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    • 87 6 TOKYO, Thurs. (AP) Two Japanese government officials left for Karachi yesterday to resume Japan-Pa-kistan air talks on Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flying to Tokyo via Communist China. The first round of talks were deadlocked in Tokyo last May. The officials are Naoshi Machida, Chief of
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    • 49 6 PARIS, Thurs. (AP) North Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh has written President Charles de Gaulle that his people are determined to fight "to the final victory,** it wag revealed yesterday. The letter also encouraged France to help re-establish peace under the Geneva accords.
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    • 62 6 BUENOS AIRES, Thurs. (AP) South African Foreign Minister Hugar Muller arrived in Argentina yesterday to start a four-day official vLsit. He was accompanied by his wife and aides. They arrived on a flight from Asuncion, Paraguay. Muller was scheduled to meet with Argentine Foreign Minister Nicanor Costa
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    • 137 6 GENEVA, Thurs. (AP) The establishment of Food Banks around the world to guard against famine was proposed yesterday by American anthropologist Dr. Margaret Mead. Dr. Mead, Curator of Ethnology at the American museum of Natural History, told the world conference on Church and Society that it is
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    • 40 6 LYMM, England, Thurs. (AP) Silva of Brazil had an x-ray yesterday and turned up with two broken ribs from his World Soccer Cup exercise, Brazilian officials reported. Pele's ribs were badly bruised but showed no fracture, they added.
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    • 186 6 WASHINGTON, Thurs. (AP) Vice-President, Hubert H. Humphrey in effect invited the Communist nation yesterday to join the West in fighting hunger. "It would be welcome news indeed if the Soviet Union and the nations of Eastern Europe were to join the FAQ (Food
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    • 144 6 TOKYO. Thurs. (AP) The City Assembly of Nagasaki, the World's second atom-bombed city, yesterday protested France's second explosion in the South Pacific. In a protest cabled to the French embassy here, the city assembly described as "truly regrettable" the current series of French nuclear tests in French
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    • 167 6 WASHINGTON, Thurs. (AP) West Germany will increase its technical assistance to the less-developed countries of the world, the Chief German delegate to the meeting of the Development Assistance Committee (PAC) said yesterday. While the industrialised nations have stepped up their efforts in the field of
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    • 33 6 SAIGON. Thurs. (AP) Admiral Horacio Rivero, U.S. Vice Chief of Naval Operations, departed by plane for Hong Kong today following a five-day inspection tour of U.S. Navy activities in Vietnam.
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    • 467 6 WASHINGTON, Than. problem of providing enough food to feed A the world's rapidly expanding number of people moves to centre stage next week In Washington at the annual meeting of the Development Assistance Committee (LCDAC), with the United States hoping to impart a
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    • 172 6 NEW YORK, Thurs. (AP) Actress Jayne Mansfield, who filed suit in California on Tuesday against her third husband, celabrated the occasion with a date with husband No. 2. Miss Mansfield, 32, was seen at Jillys, the restaurant run by a close friend of Frank
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    • 132 6 WASHINGTON, Thurl, (AP) The U.S. Maritime administration added seven more ships yesterday to its blacklist of Free World and Polish vessels which have called at North Vietnam ports since last June 25. This raised the total number of ships on the blacklist to 24 seven
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    • 84 6 WASHINGTON, Thur. (A P The National Aronautics and space administration said yesterday it plan to launch next month a spacecraft designed to orbit the moon closely enough to take pictured of the surveyor I now on the Lunar surface. The new craft, called Lunar Orbiter a. will photograph
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    • 52 6 BELFAST, Northern Ir<*land, Thurs. (AP) Reverend lan Paisley, Northern Ireland's fiery protestant leader, was jailed last night after refusing a pledge to keep the peace in this reli-giously-split capital. Paisley refused to post t bond to keep the peace for two years in a city torn by repeated
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    • 178 6 WASHINGTON, Thurs. (UPI). The army yesterday identified three men who were aboard a C 47 transport that crashed in a remote Jungle area of Malaysia in 1945. Wreckage of the plane was found recently. The army said it has no plan to
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    • 46 6 UNITED NATIONS, Thurs. (AP) India has ratified the 1965 Manila agreement to establish an Asian Development Bank, the U.N. legal office said yesterday. She is the sixth party to the agreement. The others are Nepal, Norway, Pakistan, the Philippines and Western Samoa.
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    • 414 7 APE KENNEDY, Florida, Thurs. (AP) Gemini 10 pilot Major Michael Collins cut short a dramatic cosmic escapade 247 miles about earth yesterday when his spaceship ran low on precious fuel trying to stay close to an old, powerless rocket. He spent less than half
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    • 183 7 NEW YORK. Thurs. (AP French showman Maurice Chevalier says the mature man who takes a young wife "can snatch some beautiful years of happiness" provided his health is good. Commenting yesterday on the recent marriages of Frank Sinatra, and Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas,
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    • 273 7 WASHINGTON, Thurs. (AP) Mr. Takeo Miki, Japan's Minister of International Trade and Industry, yesterday called on the countries of Southeast Asia to co-operate with each other on their development "despite the possible differences of political views". But the chief Japanese delegate to the ministerial
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    • 83 7 LONDON, Thurs. (AP) An anonymous calli to Scotland Yard that a bomb had been planted in Loir don's Central Criminal Court suspended business at the famed Old Bailey yesterday. Bewigged, crimson-robed judges suspended trials while police poured into the building. They searched all the courts, the
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    • 30 7 Gemini 10 astronaut Michael Collins checks his helmet and viser before blasting off into space with fellow astraunaut John W. Young at Cape Kennedy, Florida, last Monday.
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    • 75 7 WASHINGTON, Thurs. (UPI) The World Bank on Tuesday annouced a US$3 i million loan to the National Electricity Board of IVlala>sia. The loan **'ll be used to finance one 120,000 kilowatt thermal power station near Port Dickson and one at the southern end of the Malaya
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    • 88 7 NEW DELHI, Thurs. (AP) Peaceful demonstrations protesting against U.S. involvement in Vietnam were held in several Indian cities. Most were sponsored by the pro-Moscow wing of the Communist Party of India. About 1,000 demonstrators gathered in front of the U.S. Information Service in New Delhi and
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    • 32 7 UNITED NATIONS, Thurs. (UPI). Secretary General Thant yesterday expressed his "distress" about reports of disastrous floods in the Mongolian capital of Ulan Bator and offered U.N. help if required.
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    • 374 7 PAPEETE, Tahiti, Thurs. (UPI). France's independent nuclear deterrent a cornerstone of President Charles de Gaulle's foreign policy is now operational. A Mirage IV supersonic bomber launched the operational A-bomb which France exploded at its Pacific test site 800 miles southeast of Tahiti on
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    • 50 7 MOSCOW, Thurs. (AP)— The Soviet Union today denied that it co-operates with the United States in foreign policy against the interests of other Communist countries. Communist China frequently charges that it does. The Soviet Union has ignored these charges generally but recently started showing a new attitude.
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    • 304 7 NEW YORK, Thurs. (AP). The Duke of Windsor is quoted by an interviewer as saying he could have kept his throne in 1936 and still married his Duchess, had he chosen to be "a hypocrite." Interviewed by Clare Booth Luce in the current issue of
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    • 166 7 BONN, Thurs. (UPI) British unemployment will almost double as a result of economic restrictive measures announced in London yesterday. Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan predicted. "These actions probably mean there wll be unemployment of 1.6 to two percent, spread around the whole country", Mr Callaghan
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    • 210 7 WASHINGTON, Thurs. (UPI-.—President Johnson yesterday challenged Communist countries which have offered volunteers to North Vietnam to send their people instead to the battlefields of poverty, ignorance, disease and suffering. Mr. Johnson spoke on the White House south lawn to an estimated 3.000 young foreign
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    • 212 7 LONDON, Thurs. (AP) A top-level split in Britain's hardpressed Labour Government was reported last night. Mr. George Brown. De- puty Prime Minister to Prime Minister Harolr Wilson, was reported to have submitted his resignation in protest against Mr. Wilson's slashing deflation programme. There was
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    • 250 7 SAFFRON WALDEtf, Thurs. (UPI) —A court on Thursday ordered a war hero to stand trial on a charge of killing pop pirate radio chief as police investigated a break-in at the country cottage where the crime took place. Maj. Oliver Smedley, 54, a wartime parachutists
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    • 32 7 BOCHUM, German*, Thurs. (AP) Four Germans were sentenced to lile imprisonment yesterday for their part in the wartime murder of 1.700 Jews at the Nazi Neu Sandez death camp.
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    • 38 7 UNITED NATIONS, Thurs. (UPI) The Republic of China has given a special contribution of U.S. $5,000 to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestine refugees in the Near East, it was announced yesterday.
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    • 332 12 CLEVELAND, Ohio, Thurs. (UPI-AP) Numerous fires, looting and several arrests were reported last night in the violence-torn East Side area of Cleveland despite the presence of 2,000 National Guardsmen. Seven buildings or automobiles blazed in the area. The Fire Department reported it hau run
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    • 174 12 WASHNIGTON, Thurs. (AP)—The State Department has told U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas that it will approve his request for permission to travel to Communist China, officials said today. The permission was granted under newly liberalized State Department rules concerning travel by Americans
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    • 35 12 LIEUT. Paul W. Rea, a helicopter pilot with the lit U.S. Cavalry Division and other troopers inspect a Vietcong pack elephant shot during "Operation Henry Clay", about 250 miles north of Saigon,
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    • 152 12 JOHANNESBURG South Africa, Thurs. (AP). The South African Press Association (SAPA) reported today from Lusaka, Zambia, that Zambian Army and Air Force officers have beenrushed to Chavuma, a small Zambian town close to the Angolan border, following reports of bombing in the area by the Portuguese.
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    • 280 12 NEW YORK, Thurs. (AP) The fighting by South Koreans, Australians and New Zealanders in the Vietnam war is sometimes overlooked in the United States, but "hardly ever" by the Vietcong, says Time Magazine. The South Koreans have. In fact, been so effective that "captured
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    • 30 12 Granada television covering the North of England has arranged special foreign language television reports of the 1966 World Cup to be given by this team of pretty girls.
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    • 267 12 DA NANG, Vietnam, Thurs. (UPI) —Sometimes it helps when your passenger has some pull with the man upstairs. At least that's what Army Capt. Dehne McGinnis and his helicopter crew believe. Capt McGinnis' Huey helicopter was dispatched from Tra Bong Special Forces Camp
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    • 39 12 FORT WORTH, Texas, Thurs. (AP) —An Airliner with 38 persons abroad skidded to a halt in a shower of sparks on a foam covered runway at Carswell Air Force Base early today with a malfunctioning landing gear.
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    • 62 12 CANBERRA, Thurs. (UPI) The Australian Immigration Department said yesterday there was no indication of extensive smuggling of Chinese into Australia. The Department said only a few Chinese ship deserters had entered Australia in the past two years and 18 of these were deported. It
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    • 38 12 BUDAPEST. Thurs. (UPI) Tens of thousands of Hungarian youths are ready to go to Vietnam and fight as volunteers there," the First Secretary of the Hungarian young Communist League, Peter Vajo, told a mass rally yesterday.
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    • 337 12 pHICAGO, Illinois, Thurs. (AP) Richard Speck, 24 J accused of murder in the slaying butchering of eight student nurses, met witn his defence attorney for the first time yesterday and his first request was to see a clergyman. Public Defender Gerald W. Getty attorney,
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  • 445 8 ¥T seems to be quite a coincidence that the Minister of Social Welfare, Tuan Haji Abdul Hamid Khan, and the Mentri Besar of Kelantan, Dato Mohamed Asri, should both be saying yesterday that political sentiments should be buried for the sake of the people. This indicates that the
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  • 305 8 pOR over half a century, Malaysia has been depending on London and New York to buy her rubber. Only recently has she been looking around for new markets. At one time, for fear of ideological contamination she had refused to sell her rubber to Communist China
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  • Letters...
    • 626 8  -  S. G. Santhanam. J AM thankful to my news vendor for a copy of the first issue of Eastern Sun which came to me on a bright Sunday morning. The fact that this new Malaysian paper has made its appearance to give us more news,
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    • 153 8 YESTERDAY'S football match on the Selangor padang was marred by rough play which you so correctly reported in your paper today. This rough play and fight that resulted was very annoying. One might expect this to happen in less civilized countries but certainly not in Malaysia, worst
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    • 168 8  -  S. C. Lim J wish to congratulate the owners of the cinemas where attempts are being made to prohibit smoking in the auditoriums. Smoking is known to be harmful to health and smoke in the theatre reduces the enjoyment of a film. In the late shows when
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    • 83 8 Kelantan flood fund News in your paper of July 19 that the Minister tOr Welfare Services, Tuan HJ. Abdul Hamid Khan, has brought a 'Relief-bag of $4.5 million for those who suffered the KelantanTrengganu floods is very heartening Indeed. The 200.000 souls effected in the area can expect nothing better
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    • 199 8 T AST Saturday (16th July, 1966) morning at about 8.15 a.m., I noticed black, slimy •manure' dripping from a lorry while it was proceeding along East Coast Road towards the City. The lorry carried the markings 'Public Health Department* and the workers in the back portion of
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    • 185 8 A LLOW me to convey my heartiest congratulations to the Eastern Sun, the long awaited national newspaper for MalaysiaSingapore. In bringing out this independent national daily you have filled a need of thousands of readers for a truly Asian paper. At this juncture when the existence
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    • 97 8  -  T.T.W. T DROVE a woman, 1 mentally ill panting, obviously in great discomfort, the Woodbridge Hospital one evening. When I arrived, we had to wait for half an hour, the woman all the while panting to exhaustion. I was told that the doctor on duty was having
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  • 1460 8  -  By Cyrus R. Vance U. S. Deputy Secretary of Defence The war in Vietnam is a struggle the United States did not seek but one which it could not avoid. The United States is not in South Vietnam to secure resources. It docs
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    • 255 9 LONDON. Thurs. (UPI) A leading London bank yesterday foresaw many possible economic advantages to Malaysia with the end of Indonesian "confrontation." Barclays Bank Ltd., in a report by its economic intelligence department, said the settlement with Indonesia and the projected Southeast Asian co-opera-tion "could bring
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    • 83 9 SINGAPORE, Thurs. The Association of Banks In Malaysia made the following changes in its rates to merchants today: New York: buying T.T. 32-11/16; airmail, O.D. 82-13/16. 90 d/st. 33-5/16 credit bills, 33-7/16 trade bills. Canada: buying T.T. 3513: airmail, O.D. 35-1/4, 90 d/st. 35-13/16 credit bills, 35-7/8 trade
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    • 38 9 Thin film microcircuitc when the circuit is built up by depositing metallic,insulating or semiconductor layers on a highly polished substrate-are used in the manufacture of special components where dimensional accuracy is important for electrical effciency, such as computors.
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    • 365 9 Thurs. Singapore aims to bu» 4 d its tv, n f reedom type ships ol 13,600 tons ui *.f,ger, the cieputy general manager of Jurong Shioyud Ltd, Mr. Low Guan Onn disclosed He told Eastern Sun. "When we achieve this objective Singgapore can
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    • 66 9 CARACAS. Thurs. CAP) British-Dutch-owned Shell Oil Company of Venezuela yesterday denied charges by government party officials that the company Is "sponsoring a military coup." "For more than 50 years," Shell said in a communique, "the companies of the Shell group have adjusted their conduct to a strict obedience
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    • 226 9 SINGAPORE Thurs. Aug. first grade rubber f.o.b. buyers closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur to-day at 65] cents per lb. down 1| of a cent. The tone was quiet and slightly easier. R. A. S. and M. R. E. closing prices in cents per
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    • 75 9 SINGAPORE, Wed.—Chinese Produce Exchange, Singapore noon prices per picul yesterday: Coconut oil: bulk S4SJ selCopra: July/ Aug. UK/Continent: Unquoted. lers, drum $47 sellers. Pepper: Muntok white $195 sellers, Sarawak white sl92£ sellers, special Sarawak black $145 sellers, garbled Lampong black $147 J (N) sellers (all 96% NLW), ASTA $l6O
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    • 571 9 ARRIVALS SINGAPORE 8.20 am-: Mai 019 (from KL); 8.50 a.m.: Jal 712 (from Jakarta); 9.30 a.m.: Mai 121 (from KL); 10.55 a.m.: Mai 005 (from Penang, Ipoh, KL, Malacca); 11.05 a.m.: Mai 451 (from Kuching); 2.45 p.m.: Mai 043 (from Kota Bahru, KL); 3.30 p.m.: Mai 543 (from
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    • 67 9 HONO KONG. Thurs. (UPI) A large-scale Chinese export machinery and scientific Instrument* exhibition will be held in early August. I* *lll be a Joint effort of local dealers trading with Communist China. The opening date has not been set, but the exhibition will last about 15 days. The
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    • 176 9 SINGAPORE V rak <»)• Kln Yung (5), Genei Miru (8/8). Rajula (13/15), Iraouaddv (18). Sibigo (21/22), Meihohsan Maru (27/28), Simferopol (31/32), Bayernstein (35/36), Nissan Maru (41/ 41), Bankura (44), Kenyu Maru (46), Glenogle (J), Wladyslaw Broniewski (6/ 7), Sarodha (10/11), Atreus (15/16), East Sea (19), Kunak (23/24),
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    • 86 9 SINGAPORE Thurs. Afitr yesterday's tally in prices the Stock Exchirire to-day was slightly easier, although there was food bu>ing suoport at the lower levels. Turnover: 593,245 units (to the value of $1,071,480). Of these industrials totalled 439.720 units, properties 88,000, tins 41,525, dollar rubbers 23,000
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    • 202 9 Boustead (15.8 (2,000), $1.57 (1,000); CCM $1.55 (1,000), $1.54 (5;000), $1.53 (9,000), $1.52 (12,000); Cold Storage $2.91 (4.000), $2.90 (1,000); Eastern Smelting $2.50 (1,000), $2.49 (1,000), $2.47 (4,000), $2.46 (1,000), $2.45 (2,000), $2.44 (1,000); Fed. Disp. $2.07 (1,000), $2.C6 (1,000), $2.07 (2,000); Gammon. $2.25 (1,000), $2.23 (2,000). $2.22 (2,000);
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    • 38 9 City Dev. 37-J cts. (7.000), 37 cts. (13,000); Faber Union 51 cts. (1,000); Island Pen. 48J cts. (8,000), 49 cts. (3,000); K.L. Prop. 84-J cts. (11,000), 85 cts. (3.000); San Holdings 34-$ cts (17,000). 34 cts. (5,000):
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    • 65 9 Austral Amal. 24/- (1.000); Berjuntai 36 cts. (1.000); K. Lanjut 23/- (1,000), 22/10-4 (1,000); Kramat 13/1-4 (1,000); Lower Perak 23/4-1 (2.000), 23/6 (1,000) Malayan Tin 32/3 (1,000); Pahan* Con. 16/3 (1,000); Petaling $4.90 (1,000), $4.86 (2,000); Sel. Dredging $2.54 (3,000), $2.53 (3,000), $2.52 (16,000), $2.51 (4.000); Siamese 13/9 (1,000);
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    • 22 9 Ayer Hitam $1.20 (3,000); Batu Lintang $1.70 (4,000); Kluang ords. $1.78 (5,000); New Serendah $2.30 (1,000) Ulu Benut $1.56 (4,000).
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    • 132 9 JAKARTA. Thurs. (UPIV All conditions for the Japanese yen credit eoulvalent to U.S. $3O million have been worked out, and the credit expected to be realized shortly, official sources said yesterday. Indonesian Deputy Mini* ster for Trade and Cooperatives Ma J. Gen. Achmad Tlrtosudlro disclosed
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    • 218 9 B S Alex Bricks Ord. CD B M Trustee Boustead 1.58 C. T. S. Ords 55/- Chemical Co 1.51 1.52 Cold Storage Dunlop 2.44 2.46 E. Smelting 3.90 4.00 Esso Ords 3.00 3.02 Fed. Disp. CCR 2.07 Fitzpatricks 1.85 F N. Ords 3.62 3.64 Gammon 2.20 2.22 Georgetown 1.48
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    • 34 9 Central Prop 94 City Dev. 37 37* Faber Union 51 Island Hotel Island Pen 00 49 K. L. Prop 84* San Holdings 34 34* Sel. Prop S'pore Land 62 63* Town City 1.00
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    • 116 9 Ampat CCR 10/11 11/Aokam Austral Amal 24/1 i Austral Malay CD Ayer Hitam 24/6 25/Berjuntai 35/7$ 36/11 Chenderiang 20/Gopeng Hong Kong Idris Hyd 17/- Johan K'pong Kamunting 22/101 23/K'pong Lanjut Kamunting 20/1i 20/9 Kent Kesang Killinghall Kinta Kellas 35/Kramat 13/13/1 Kuala Kampar XCR 25/1* 26/4 Kuchai Larut 11/10* Lingui
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    • 32 9 PREFS DEBS C.T.S. Pref F. N. Pref Hume Pref. XD 4 1.62 M. Breweries Deb Robinson 1st Pref Robinson 2nd Pref S. Traction Pref U. E. Prof Esso Deb Shell Deb
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    • 68 9 Ayer Hitam 1.20 Bassett (50cts) 76 80 Batu Lintang 1.71 Bedford 1.44 Benta 1.40 1.42 Borelli (New) 2.30 Glenealy 1.64 Jeram Kuan tan 2.18 2.27 Kempas 1.97 2.05 Kepong Plant Kluang Ord 1.78 Kundong Tg. Pau 1.90 Kuala Sldim Mentakab New Scudai New Serendah 2.25 2.32 Parit Perak
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    • 58 9 Anglo-Asian Anglo Oriental 1/2 3/- B. Kawan Beradin B. Panjong Castlefield Consol Salak 2/7 Craigielea Djember Duff Dev 10/9 11/8 E. Asiatic 1/6 Gadek W Golden Hope Guthrie K. L. Kepong M Kulim London Asiatic Malakoff Malaya General a Malaysia Merlimau Pegoh Mt. Austin Petaling Rini Rub. Est.
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  • 578 10  -  Upon completion in 1970, it will provide new road to city... by Albert Johnson SINGAPORE, Thurs. The Minister for Law and National Development, Mr. E. W. Barker, will officially inaugurate the $5O million East Coast Reclamation project at 4 p.m. on Saturday. The
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  • 141 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs, The School Sports Council of Malaysia today received a grant of $15,000 from the Ministry of Culture and Sports for an additional donation of $6,500 was made by Nestle Products Ltd. for the organisation of the Malaysian schools Individual badminton championships.
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  • 93 10 SINGAPORE, Thurs.—The President of Singapore, Enche Yusof bin Ishak, praised the Y's Men's Club of Singapore for its "public spiritedness" in organising the film premiere "Many Poppins" in aid of the "Brain Research Fund'*. The film will be screened at a grand charity premiere at Cathay cinema on
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  • 187 10 'THE Bedok Reclamation project marks another milestone in the history of the development of Singapore. On completion an additional 2 sq. miles will be added to Singapore's area of 224 miles Reclamation was undertaken in view of Singapore's limited space area and the ever growing
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    • 18 10 CONGRATULATIONS and their contractors OHBAYASHI GUMI LTD. on the inauguration of their EAST COAST RECLAMATION PROJECT from vml
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    • 88 10 Proud to play a part in Singapore's E-X-P-A-N-S-l-O-N MOK COMPANY Builder, Civil Engineering, Electrical fir Machinery Installation, Marine Engineering Tank Cleaner and General Contractors. Sub-contractors to Messrs. Ohbayashi-gumi Ltd. ARE RESPONSIBLE AT THE EAST COAST RECLAMATION PROJECT FOR: I Civil Engineering and Building Works. P Fabrication and Erection of Super-structure
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  • 628 11 'Mary Poppins' bright new musical from Walt Disney SINGAPORE, THURS. TULIE Andrews, one of the brightest musical comedy stars of Broadway and ths London stage, makes her motion picture debut in the title role *»f Walt Disney's musical-fantasy, "Mary Poppins," fulfilling
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  • 379 11 THE original film mu&ical has long been one of Hollywood's most popular and successful forms of screen entertainment but, In recent years, this type of motion picture has become Increasingly rare. Now, Walt Disney Is bringing to the screen "Mary Poppins", a musical fantasy starring vivacious
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  • 69 11 HOLLYWOOD, Thurs. It was the primitive life for Steve McQueen, while he was on location for the film near Lone Pine, California. McQueen, who thrives on adventure, lived in a trailer parked side of a 6000-foot mountain, eighteen miles from the nearest main highwayy, and twenty
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  • 170 11 SINGAPORE, Thurs.Two of Hollywood's brightest person alitles, Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, are teamed for the first time In Walt Disney's new musical fantasy, "Mary Poppins". They prove a perfect combination of youth, vitality and talent. The lovely and versatile Miae Andrews, star of the Broadway
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  • 142 11 BELGRADE, Thurs. There is a very diflnite brotherly resemblance among the five children chosen to portray the two sons of Anthony Quinn and Vlrna kisi at various ages during the progression of "The 25th hour," and for a very good reason. The five youngsters are real
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  • 61 11 SINGAPORE. Thurs. Actress Jane Darwell, who had appeared In more than 200 films, considered her role in the Julie AndrewsDick Van Dyke the most unique of her entrie career. She is eighty-four yearsold and still going strong. She turned in another of her memorable screen portrayals as the
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  • 623 11 LAS VEGAS, Thurs. (UPI) singer Frank Sinatra and 21-year-old Mia Farrow, star of televisions "Peyton Place" were married last night In the home of Jack Entratter, President of the Sands Hotel. Entratter, a friend of Sinatra, flew to New York to
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  • 246 11 SINGAPORE, Thurs. TRWIN Kostal, who won an Oscar for the scoring of his first motion picture, "West Side Story", recently completed another momentous movie assignment, the supervision, arranging and conducting of the music for Walt Disney's sparkling new music-al-fantasy, "Mary Poppins." He was musical
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  • 261 14 In the West Germany ys Switzerland World Soccer cup match played at Hillsborough, England, recently Held, of Germany, (white shirt near goalmouth) turns away after scoring Germany's first goal. Swiss goalkeeper is on ground. Bulgarian player Ivan Vutzov is pictured heading the ball into his
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  • 220 14 WEMBLEY, LONDON THURS. ENGLAND 92,500 at Wembley see... To England fell the distinction of being the only country of the 16 group contestants to play their three qualifying games without conceding a goal. Roger Hunt scored twice, once in each half, to give them a comfortable victory
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  • 152 14 BIRMINGHAM, EngII land, Thurs. (UPI). West Germany beat Spain 2-1 in World Cup play here yesterday. They were tied 1-1 at half time. Emmerich (38th) and Seeler (82nd) scored for West Germany while Fuste (24th) got Spain's only goal. Argentina and West Germany qualified for the quarter
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  • 77 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. The Interstate under 23 cricket fixture between Selangor and Perak, scheduled to be played here this weekend has been postponed. This was disclosed oy the Secretary of the Malaysian Cricket Association, Mr. P. Selvanayagam. He said the postponement was due to most of the
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  • 146 14 DARLINGTON, England, Thurs. (UPI). —Daily routine returned to the North Korean soccer camp today as chief coach Myung Rye Hyun mustered his players for a ftve-mile trot to keep them happy. The incredible 1-0 defeat of Italy on Tuesday was the toast of the
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  • 67 14 SINGAPORE Thurs—Last year's big walk champion Sinvan bin Ekhsan has been suspended from participating in the Swift Athletic Association's 14th Annual Athletic Championships on Saturday and Sunday. The suspension was imposed following the discovery by the Swift Athletic Association of Sinvan's picture associated with an advertisement for
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  • 198 14 London, Thurs. (UPI). The draw for the quarter-finals of the 1966 World soccer championship after completion of group qualifying play: Wembley England vs Argentina. Sheffield —West Germany vs Uruguay. Liverpool Portugal vs North Korea. Sunderland Russia vs Hungary. All games will be played on Saturday, kickoff 3
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  • 153 14 ROME, Thurs. (UPI). —Parliament Members today joined a nationwide outcry over Italy's elimination from the World Cup and asked the Government to hit soccer players where it hurts—in the pocket. Fiscal measures and dras* tic curb on Italy's big money soccer market were among the
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  • 59 14 BERKELY, California, Thurs. (AP) Jim Ryun, 19-yeai-old college freshman, hits the tape to establish a new world mile record of 3 minutes, 51.3 seconds at the Ail-American track meet here recently. Mr. Ryun, thus becomes the first United States runner in 39
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  • 327 15 King opens MAA Penang, Thursday A $45,000 bitumen track at the City Stadium will be ready for the 3rd. Malaysian Amateur Athletic championships, to be held heie on Aug. 18 to 20. The chairman of the organising committee, Dato Ismail bin Jamil, said today
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  • 140 15 SAO PAULO, Brazil, Thurs. (UPI) Police yesterday reported at least 60 persons injured, some by gunfire, as an aftermath to Brazil's loss to Portugal In World Cup soccer competition. Several stores were looted and countless fights broke out. Many were injured by flying bottles.
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  • 397 15 By' Windsor Lad' PENAMG, THURS. SEA PIP. a bright Kedah Cup prospect on Sunday displayed striking form on the track this morning when he easilv reeled off half a mile in 52 1/5 sec* ind 3F in 38 4/5 in the company of Scarpa. The
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  • 92 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Thur*. Bowling, a rather new sport in Selangor is "catching on very well and the standard has improved tremendously". This was disclosed here today by Mr. George Chan, assistant manager of Shah's Bowling Alley. The sport will receive even greater impetus, now that the Selangor
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  • 102 15 "TRIUMPH" motorcycles took four out of the first five places in the 500-mile Grand Prix d'Erdurance at the famous Brands Hatch circuit Kent Southern England recently. A mere ten seconds gave Rex Butcher (pictured here) and h i s team-mate Dave Degens victoiy on their Triumph Bonneville 650
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  • 334 16 TOKYO, Thurs. (UPI) South Korea yesterday stopped issuing visas to Japanese businessmen and. tourists in retaliation against Japan's decision to allow the entry of North Korean engineers into the country for the purchase of a textile plant. The South Korean embassy in Tokyo said
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  • 94 16 Nurses m MANILA JULY 21 '(t PI) The bodies of twa Filipino nurses who were among the eight Chicago massacre victims were flown to Manila today for burial in their hometowns. A slight drizzle feil at the Manila international airport as the two caskets were lowered from
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  • 31 16 BOMBAY, Thurs. (UPI) Police yesterday thwarted the attempt of a Com-munist-sponsored anti-Am-erican procession to demonstrate in front of the United States Information Service < USIS) office in Bombay.
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  • 72 16 TOKYO, Thurs. (UPI) The Japanese government yesterday signed the agreement to provide South Korea with U559.76 million loans as part of its 10-year economic co-operation programme. The government announcement said the loans will be used for South Korea's second five year economic development plan and its land
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  • 339 16 MANILA Thurs. (UPI) President Ferdinand E. Marcos yesterday ordered a re-shuffle of the Philipine consulates in Kobe (Japan), Hong Kong and Singapore for failure to check what he called "technical smuggling" of goods into this country. Marcos issued the orders during a 2-1/
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  • 97 16 TAIPEH, Thurs. (AP) Nationalist China's Order of the Cloud and Banner has been awarded Brig. Gen. Thomas N. Wilson, outgoing chief of the air section of the U.S. Military Assistance Adwsory Group (MAAG) 'a Formosa. Gen. Wilson, also commander of the 327 th Air division
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  • 69 16 Indonesian Col. A 1 i Moertopo (left) talks with Attorney General Brig. Gen. Sugiharto after a special meeting of the Presidium of the Cabinet held on July 15 to discuss problems relating to the resumption of trade with Malaysia and especially Singapore. Col. Moertopo, who
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  • 143 16 Hong Kong hit by crisis HONG KONG, Thurs. (UPI) Measures taken by British Prime Minister Harold Wilson to strengthen the pound sterling may cause some difficulties to this colony's exports to the United Kingdom. The austerity measures will make people buy fewer and cheaper goods, a prominent businessman said. "Money
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  • 58 16 SAIGON, Thurs. (AP). A U.S. civil rights leader today began a tour of South Vietnam to "examin the needs and problems of the estimated 40,00 negroes serving here." He is Whitney Young, executive secretary of the National Urban League Project a civil rights organization concerned
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  • 41 16 TAIPEI. Thurs. (AP) Nationalist China has given technical assistance to 25 countries in Asia. Africa and Latin America, the ministry of economic affairs reported today It said 2.648 persons from those countries had received training in Formosa since 1954.
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  • 315 16 TOKYO. Thurs. (AP) Japanese Prime Minister Mr. Eisaku Sato said today that he would gladly play host to a Vietnam peace conference in Tokyo whenever time is ripe. Mr. Sato made the statement in the upper house budget committee during discussion on
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  • 81 16 'Wrong is right' BANGKOK. Thurs. (AP) Thailand's Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn has ordered the withdrawal of the "Jesse James" series from the Thai television. This was revealed today by public relations department director Lieut. General Krit Punnakan who said that the Prime Minister considers the "Jessie
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  • 110 16 TOKYO, Thurs. (AP) A Japanese correspondent in Peking leported that the Peking Evening News, one of two newspapers published by the Peking municipal Communist party, was closed down yesterday in conrccction with the current antt- party purge. The Evening News (Beijing Wanbao) and the
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  • 98 16 MANILA. Thurs. (UPI). —A dispute over three water buffaloes started a two-hour bloody battle between two feuding Filipino moslem groups involving more than 100 armed men from both sides, the Philippine news service reported today. Nine men were killed and two others were wounded during the
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  • 140 16 BANGKOK. Thurs. The standing committee of the Asian and Pacific Area Council (ASPAC) is scheduled to be held here on Aug. 19 at Ambassadorial level, it was reported today. The meetnig will be attended by diplomatic envoys in Bangkok of Nationalist China, Japan. South Korea, the
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  • 144 16 SAIGON, Thurs. (UPI) American aid mission spokesmen reported today that for the first time since devaluation of Vietnamese currency on June 1# the cost of living index in Saigon has taken a downward turn. Officials had been growing increasingly concerned over a booming wage price spiral
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  • 102 16 TOKYO, Thurs. (AP) A Japanese freighter sank in a collision with a foreign ship, believed to be a Panamanian freighter, off Shimoda, Southwest of Tokyo, this morning. All the 11 crewmen were rescued, the Maritime Safety Agency said. The Agency said the 15,526-ton Melide of Panamanian
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  • 36 16 TAIPH, Thurs, (AP) Twenty-four Chinese families consisting of 87 persons have left Formosa by sea for settlement in Brazil. The families, which arranged their immigration on an individual basts, included mechanics, carpenters and farmers.
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  • 70 16 TAIPEH, Thurs. (AP) Foimer Defence M*nister Kim Ch«»ng Yol, chairman of the RebuMic of Korea chapter of the Asian People's Anti-Communist league (APACAL), is paying a one-week visit to Formosa Kim, who arrived in Taipeh last night from Manila, called one Chinese nationalist Foreign Minister Wei Tao-Mii*k
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  • 66 16 MANILA Thus. (UPD About 20 heavily armed pirates looted houses and raped two women in a bold daylight raid on two coastal villages in the southern Phillippines last Sunday, according to police reports received here. The reports said the pirates fled with an estimated 20.000 pesos <
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  • 82 16 TAIPEH, Thurs. (AP) Cheng Tsu-Tung, 42, set new record in Formosa, but it brought him no honours. Instead, he landed in jail t<i await trial on charges of committing 195 thefts m nine months. Chinese nationalist police estimated the value of the hundreds of items Cheng allegedly stole
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  • 96 16 SAIGON, Thus. (UPI> Communist ground ftr® knocked two more American jet planes out of the air over North Vietnam yesterday and the crews of both are missing in action, an American military spokesman reported today. It was the second day U* a row that the United States
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