Eastern Sun, 24 July 1966

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  • 27 1 EASTERN SUN INDEPENDENT ENGLISH NATIONAL DAILY SUNDAY EDITION Estd. 1966. Vol. 1. No. 8. VV Singapore, Sunday, July 24 1966. MC(P) 1942 KDN 2309 Price 15 Cents
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  • 576 1 New Cabinet may be named today Those who accused Armed Forces of trying to topple Pres. Sukarno are Communists' JAKARTA, SAT. (UPI) MILITARY strongman Lt. Gen* Suharto declared yesterday that the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) is planning a comeback before the general elections promised for 1968
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  • 220 1 Gasoline—soaked monk dies SAIGON, Sat. (AP) A young Buddhist monk who was severely burned on Thursday when his gaso-line-soaked robes caught fire in a mysterious incident died last night in Saigon Municipal Hospital. Hospital authorities reported the death of Thich Hue Hong, 24, who was critically burned outside a Buddhist
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  • 21 1 JAKARTA, Sat. (AP) The Governor of South Sumatra has declared "hundreds of people" have died of Malaria in his area.
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  • 209 1 MANILA, Sat. (AFP) A Taal volcano, now on the 19th day of menacing fury, entered a new phase of peril as it heaved all day today whipping up tidal waves in the surrounding waters of Lake Taal. Reports reaching here said the shoreline waters
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  • 184 1 TOKYO, Sat. (UPI) A sudden thunder and rain storm last night disrupted railways service and caused considerable damage in Tokyo and the surrounding areas. Two persons were reported killed and four missing in Kofu, 70 miles west of Tokyo which was hit
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  • 125 1 JAKARTA, Sat. (AP).— Two top ranking Indonesian Generals will be given Foreign assignments. Foreign Minister Adam Malik announced. Mr. Malik told newsmen Major General Ibrahim Adjie, recently relieved Commander of the powerful Siliwangi Division, would be assigned abroad. Adjie was slated to be ambassador to
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  • 25 1 TAIPEI, Sat. (AP) —An American sailor listed as missing since Thursday was found drowned at the Southwest Formosa port of Kaohslung this morning.
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  • 44 1 TAIPEH, Sat. (AP). —The goal for exports of canned mushrooms from Formosa in 1967 was set today at 2.4 million cases, each weighing 24 pounds net. The Foreign Exchange and trade commission (FETC) said the exports would earn US$3O million.
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  • 205 1 TAIPEH, Sat. (AP)—Chinese Nationalist President Chiang Kai-Shek said today the Chinese Communists "are carrying out bloody purges to counter a struggle of unprecedented proportions —a struggle directed against Mao Tze-Tung and Communism." 'Participating in the struggle' he declared, 'ase intelectuals and the masses of the people
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  • 71 1 TOKYO, Sat. (UPI) Communist North Vietnam reported today that it shot down an unmanned reconnaissance plane and one jet fighter over Haiphong late on Friday, raising its claimed score for the day to eight American planes. The official North Vietnamese News Agency VNA said
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  • 296 1 KUCHING, Sarawak State, (UPI) The surrender terms offered to the Sarawak Communists who had taken up arms against the Malaysian Government and crossed the border into Indonesia. were "generous" the State's Chief Minister Tawi Sli told newsmen here today. The Chief Minister, who was speaking to
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  • 99 1 The court accepted evidence identifying Sukrisno as Commander of a volunteer training programme at Halim Air base near Djakarta where communist partisans prepared for the coup attempt. The court said the fact that he was still acting as commander of the volunteers as late as Oct.
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  • 31 1 TAIPEH, Sat. (AP) The Chinese Nationalist government is considering lifting the ban on the free buying and selling 6f gold in Formosa, the official central New Agency reported today.
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  • Local News
    • 188 2  -  By MUSA SCULLY LUMPUR, Sat. Two Malaysian envoys will 1X soon leave here to take up ambassadorial appointments in Manila and Canberra. They are Tan Sri Abdul Hamid Jumat and Inche Mohamed bin Baba. Tan Sri Abdul Hamid Jumat will leave for
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    • 113 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat,— Forty-five road accidents with two deaths and lour hospitalised were reported here yesterday. Describing it as "the word day (in the number of accidents)", puzzled traffic-police offered no explanation for the sudden increase The first victim of the day was an eight-year-old school
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    • 328 2  -  Buttons, bows return (Bj MAUREEN LEE KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. A small fashion show ended with a big hurray last Sunday. It was a collection of the latest wears; the materials ranged from Siamese silk to MARA batek. It was held at the rebin Haji Idris,
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    • 104 2 SINGAPORE, Sat. The Reverend Chiu Ban It, Fellow of St Augustine's College, Canterbury, in south-east England, has been appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury as Bishop of Singapore and Malaya. He succeeds the Right Reverend C. K. Salisbury, now General Secretary of the British Council of
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    • 200 2 They pr hundreds with living KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. They stand out like a chain of shacks under the sun, dirty and uninviting. But when night descends and myriad lights cover up the ugliness, they are, undoubtedly, the back-lane emporiums. To pinpoint their exact location is quite
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    • 85 2 KUCHING, Sarawak. Sat. (UPI) Sarawak would refuse to hold a referendum if Indonesia asked for and if the Malaysian Federal Government agreed to one being held, Sarawak's Chief Minister Penghulu Tawi Sli said today. The Chief Minister was speaking at a press conference on his return from
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    • 163 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Brains and not beauty will be the criterion in the judging of the fifth air hostess quest to be held at Surfers Paradise in Queensland. So far more than 12 airlines including Malaysian Airways have submitted their entries for the contest. According to
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    • 120 2 KOTA BAHRU, Sat. —ln Kelantan today another $638,000 of cash relief was paid to about 6,000 flood victims. The Minister of Welfare Services, Tuan Haji Abdul Hamid Khan, travelled to Tanah Merah, Machang and Ulu Kelantan districts to meet the people and distribute the money personally.
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    • 62 2 BUKIT MERTAJAM, Sat A Butterworth driver, Chanchal Singh (28) who thumped the counter of the Butterworth police station enquiry office several times and shouted "babi punya orang" was fined $25 at the Butterworth Magistrate's Court here today. Chanchal pleaded guilty to a charge of behaving
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    • 369 2  -  By MAUREEN LEE JTUALA LUMPUR, Sat. "The work of a research AV assistant is extremely interesting, and it offeri good prospects too," said Linda Wong, a research worker in the Rubber Research Institute here. Attached to the pathology department, Linda said that there is
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    • 42 2 SINGAPORE, Sat. Professor KG. Tregonning, head of the Department of History in the University of Singapore, will speak on "Riots of Singapore: 1819 to 1966" at a luncheon meeting of the Rotary Club of Singapore on Wednesday at Cathay Hotel.
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    • 80 2 MALACCA, Sat. Malacca police have mounted a statewide hunt for two confidence tricksters who pose as contractors. The police believe that they have netted several thousand dollars of goods in this town within their few days of operation. Their victims described them as "well-dressed and prosperous looking".
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    • 152 2 KALA LUMPUR. Sat. Although $218.76 million ha» been provided for develop* ment in the states of Sabah and Sarawak for 1964 and 1965, only 63 per cent of the total provision has been spent. The shortfalls in expenditure are attributed to: Lack of detailed
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    • 82 2 IPOH, Sat, Tho President of the Rotary Club. Mr* E.B. Carlos, will open at tn« Public Library here at 5 p.m. on Monday an unusual art exhibition sponsored by the Help Us Help You Club. All the Paintings on display were done on batek and
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    • 443 4  - Australia still growing Newsman I By Peter Loke SINGAPORE, Sat. Australia is getting more and more conscious of her role in Asia today. a his was stated by a wellknown Australian broadcaster and journalist, Mr. Peter Waltham, in a special interview with the Eastern Sun this morning. Mr. Waltham said
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    • 152 4 SINGAPORE, Sat. —The National Library will celebrate Beatrix Potter Centenary this month by regular story-telling sessions till Aug. childr en's section of the library. L Th »r child ren's section of the National Library has compiled an annotated list of all Potter's "Peter Rabbit" books. Beatrix
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    • 219 4 SINGAPORE, Sat. A sub-contractor and a goldsmith assistant were victims of two seperate armed robberies on the island yesterday afternoon. Two men armed with daggers held-up the shopassistant, Yong Wai Kong, and escaped with two brooches and an ounce of gold amounting to $3,300 at Owen
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    • 337 4 SINGAPORE, Sat. First class accommodation and choice food will be promised to tourists visiting Singapore when the $l5 million Hotel Malaysia is completed by September next year. This $l5 million project is yet another addition to a chain of hotels being built in Singapore.
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    • 81 4 SINGAPORE, Sat —The Singapore Malabar Muslim Jama-ath last night save a dinner in honour of two leading politicians from India Quaid-E-Millath Haji Mohamed Ismail Sahib and Abdul Samad Sahld, who are on a two-week-goodwill mission here. Both are members of the Indian Parliament. They said they were impressed
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    • 380 4 The silent ones make... SINGAPORE, Sat. University autonomy and academic freedom is currently being debated among the students. At the Union House over a cup of tea they will air their views but when it comes to speaking at the rallies very few will come
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    • 491 4  -  By Albert Johnson gINGAPORE, Sat. pie people, press and police ar« so closely interlinked that the removal of anv of these three cogs of our society would only throw th. proverbial spanner into the works The relationship is reciprocal with the press and police giving this harmony
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 63 4 TIME AND TIDE kuala lumpur, sat.— Pcnani 5.24 a.m. (7.2 ft.), ft) Port Swetf m 959 am <13.4 ft.), lOjJO p.m. (11.6 ft)., Port ?i i^ SOn 50 am 86 ft.), 11-15 p.m. (7.1 ft.)., Singapore 2.48 a.m. (8.6 ft), 3.52 p.m. (7.6 ft.)., Sedili Kechil 1.27 a.m. (6.5 ft),
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    • 317 4 SINGAPORE DIARY SINGAPORE DIARY (July 24-Sunday) 9 a.m. 5 p.m: National Library, Stamford Road Paintings exhibition (Mr. Tan Ping Chiang of Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts). 10 a.m. 6 p.m: Victoria Memorial Hall, Empress Place Paintings exhibition (The Society of Chinese Artists). 8.30 p.m: Victoria Theatre, Empress Place; "Violin Recital"
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 164 5 LONDON, Sat. (AFP). The Commonwealth Relations Office today denied as completely unfounded a press report that Britain was just about to conclude an agreement with the lan Smith regime on the constitutional future of Rhodesia The official denial, issued by the
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    • 51 5 COPENHAGEN, Sat. (AP) Hot sunny weather on Friday favoured a celebration of the United Arab Republic National Day in Copenhagen. Egyptian Ambassador, Taha Taha Fatheldin and Press Councillor Mohamed Abdel Razik el Batouti acted as hosts at a party at Hellerup a plush suburb of the Danish
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    • 137 5 UNITED NATIONS, New York, Sat. (AFP) United Nations Secretary General U Thant submitted today to Cambodia and Thailand the name of his proposed personal representative to watch the situation on the frontier between the two countries. U Thant's nominee, who will be Initially entrusted with a
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    • 237 5 WASHINGTON, Sat. (AFP) Escalation of the Vietnam war cost the United States over US$l,OOO mil. more in the fiscal year ending June 30 last than estimated only six months ago, according to figures released by the U. S. Budget bureau today. Total expenditure on
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    • 217 5 WASHINGTON, Sat. (AP). SECRETARY of State Mr. Dean Rusk yesterday told West German Ambassador Mr. Heinrich Knappstein that the U.S. administration is under strong pressure to reduce its troop commitments to Europe. Knappstein reported this to newsmen after a 40-mi-nute conference with Mr. Rusk.
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    • 117 5 pAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts. Sat (AP) Dr. PhUipp Fiank, 82. retired Lecturer on Physics and Mathematics at Harvard and a close friend of the late Albert Einstein, has died at his home. Dr. Frank succeeded Einstein as Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Prague in
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    • 37 5 Iranian Princess Ashraf (centre), twin sister of the Shah, is flanked by Dr. and Mrs Hans Filbinger, Home Minister of Baden Wurttemberg, West Germany as she visited the "Neue Schloss" at Stuttgart recently.
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    • 70 5 THE HAGUE, Sat. (AFP) —The Netherlands government today sent a strong protest to People's China against its decision to declare the Dutch Charge d'Affaires in Peking "Persona non grata'* and subsequently refusing him permission to leave the country. A Foreign ministry statement said there was no foundation whatsoever
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    • 108 5 BARMOUTH (North Wales), Sat. (AFP) At least 11 people including four children, were killed today when a pleasure boat sank near the north Wales holiday resort of Barmouth after being driven aground by strong currents. Some of the 40 holidaymakers on board
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    • 70 5 BONN, Sat. (AFP) President de Gaulle gave Chancellor Ludwig Erhard "important information" on the Soviet attitude towards the German during his tenhour visit to Bonn yesterday, West German government spokesman Karl Guenther von H&se stated today. The French President's visit also produced good results on the
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 167 5 IBM SYSTEM/360 to woik in Singapore's new SYSTEM/360 has been developed as a universal computer. Able to handle anything from small payroll to simulation of a thermonuclear explosion. Features formally treated separate functions havo been brought together into one well balanced system. It is one system in models; the largest,
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 800 7 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. P.M. 3.00 OPENING ANNOUNCEMENT, Prog. Summary; 3.01 NATIONAL LANGUAGE LESSON; 3.01 BAHASA KITA; 3.16 GREATEST FIGHTS. Barnay Ross vs
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  • 455 8 EARLIER this year, the Chief Minister of Sabah, Mr. Peter Lo, appealed to Malaysians to go to Sabah— the land of opportunity. It is under-populated and under-developed, but it has natural resources that would reward those who go there as pioneers to open up new fields of production.
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  • 301 8 VVHEN the co-operative movement started some 40 years ago, it was divided into urban and rural co-operative societies. The urban societies organised to aid the padi planters, were hamstrung by too much red tape. The urban thrift and loan societies became nothing more than moneylenders because their members borrowed
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  • 596 8 Flaming arrows slashed through the night sky from a nearby rice field. Their mission was to burn and destroy a hamlet occupied by more than 75 South Vietnamese families that had fled a Viet-Cong-ruled village in Binh Dinh province two years before. Just two hours before
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  • 1147 8 A successful aid programme must be a partnership process. Foreign aid is not something a donor does for or to a recipient; it is something to be done with a re* cipient. This is the reason for the increasingly strong emphasis in the U.S.
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  • 331 9 WASHINGTON, Sat. (AP) Senator J. W. Fulbright urged the U.S. Senate yesterday to consider what he called the Johnson Admi nistration's emerging Asian Doctrine without t>ie consent or even the knowledge of the Senate. 'One wonders whether anyone ever thought of asking the Asians
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  • 172 9 BEDFORD. Massachusetts, Sat. (AP) Masked, machine-gun carrying robbers held up the crew of a Brinks, Inc., armoured truck yesterday and escaped with US$l3l,OOO in cash. The armed quartet struck •s the three-man crew was d iivering the money to the Mitre Corp.. an electronics fiim, for
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  • 90 9 LONDON, Sat. (AFP) Hundreds of British animal lovers have written to the 8.8.C. to protest against a scheduled television programme which will show the death of a bull in a Spanish arena. Posters are being stuck up on the walls of the London under-ground railway, used
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  • 111 9 MOSCOW, Sat. (AP) The Foreign Minister of Mongolia has labelled an American offer of flood relief aid as "a hypocritical manoeuvre," the Soviet press reported yesterday. An offer of U5525,000 was made through an American diplomat in the United Nations. The United States does not
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  • 102 9 WASHINGTON, Sat. (AP) Senator Thomas J. Dodd, Democrat-Connecticut, yesterday accused North Vietnamese leaders of le gaJ skulduggery," in citing the Nuremberg trials as justifying their threats to try captive American airmen. Sen. Dodd, who served as one of the American prosecutors at Nuremberg, said
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  • 99 9 JAMESTOWN, Virginia. B »t. (AP) The British embassador to the United B'ates outlined yesterday the "blueprint for survival" for freedom and dignity as combination of economic and military assistance Jo "our less fortunate fellows." Only a combination of foreign aid and the type of <«itary distance being
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  • 279 9 VE W YORK, Sat. (AP) Former British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden has proposed neutralising an area in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia as a possible solution to the Vietnam conflict. "Our duty is to prepare plan providing international guarantees for the security of a neutral
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  • 123 9 UNITED NATIONS. Sat (AP) Israel filed a counter complaint with the U. N. Security Council yesterday accusing Syria of acts of aggression and incitment to war. The 15 nation council had already been called to meet at 3 p.m. on Monday on a complaint Syria filed on
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  • 72 9 PRAGUE, Sat. (AFP) A Slovak parachutist fell 9.000 feet when his parachute failed to open and escaped with only two broken angles, the Ceteka news agency reported yesterday. The lucky man, Mr. Vladimir Zamechnik. tried to open his emergency parachute at 2,000 feet, but he
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  • 35 9 AUSTIN, Texas Sat. (AP) Texas' first official trade mission will visit Australia and New Zealand in August, 1967, Governor John Connally announced yesterday. He said he hoped he might be able to go along.
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  • Finance
    • 579 9 SINGAPORE, Sat. It was a happy week for buyers of industrial who at last managed U) get some scrip at lower prices, say s Fraser and Company in their review of the share market. The general idea seemed to be that the increased U.K. bank
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    • 122 9 LONDON, Sat. (AP) American and French buyers yesterday helped push the pound up to its highest level in Ave weeks, signalling a slow revival of confidence in Britain's money. But uncertainties about Prime Minister Harold Wilson's ability to see his crash programme of deflation through still hung markets.
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    • 322 9 MELBOURNE. Sat. (AFP) The French-owned motor vehicle group Renault (Australia) Pty. Ltd. has bought the plant of the Melbourne Suburban Company which assemblies its vehicles here. Price of the deal for the 11.6 acre site, the buildings and plant was not disclosed, but the vendor company. Automotive and
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    • 162 9 SINGAPORE Benarmin (1/2), Centaur (3/4), Ngapara (5), Wladyslaw Broniewski (6/7), Celebes Maru (8/9), Sargodh a (10/11), Travestein (13/14), Atreus (15/16), Socrates (18), East Sea (19), Frederick Clover (21/22), Batu 25/26), Fuyo Maru (27/28), Antonio Regidor (29/30), Regna Bakke (33/34), Tsedek (35/36), Mikuni Maru (38/39), Nissan (40/41), Shosei Maru
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    • 81 9 SINGAPORE, Sat Tha Association of Banks in Malaysia made the following changes in its rate« to merchants to-day: New York: buying T.T. 32-11/16; airmail O.D. 3213/16, 90 d/st. 33-3/16 credit bills, 33-7/16 trade billa. Canada: buying T.T. 351/8; airmail, OJ>. 35-1/4, 90 d/st. 35-13/16 credit bills, 35-7/8 trade
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    • 13 9 BINOAPORE, Sat. Tht tin price to-day waa $631 per picul, down $l-1/4.
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  • STOCK EXCHANGE-MALAYSIA, S'PORE
    • 227 9 Alex Bricks Ord. CD B S B. M. Trustee Boustead 1.57 C. T. S. Ords 5.5/3 Chemical Co 1.54 Cold Storage XALL Dunlop 3 42 E. Smelting 3.96 Esso Ords 3.04 3 06 U D. Holdings 2 02 2.05 Fitzpatricks 1.72 1.75 F N. Ords 3.64 3.66 Gammon 2.21
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    • 33 9 Central Prop .98 City Dev. .38 Faber Union 51 Island Hotel .61 Island Pen 47* K. L. Prop 85 San Holdings 34 •34* Sel. Prop 1.32 S'pore Land .64 Town City 1.00
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    • 125 9 Ampat 10/1* 10/6 Aokam 3.52 Austral Amal. 24/1* Austral Malay CR 43/Ayer Hltam 24/4* Berjuntai Chenderiang Gopeng CD 39/6 Hong Kong Idrls Hyd. CD 17/U Johan K'pong Kamunting K'pong Lanjut XCR 23/4J Kamunting 20/14 Kent 9/2 Kesang 52 Killinghall 50/Kinta Kellas 35/3 Kramat 13/13/1* Kuala Kampar XCR 26/6 Kuchal
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    • 35 9 PREFS DEBS -i C.T.S. Pref m F. N. Pref Hume Pref. XD 1.62 1.70 M. Breweries Deb Robinson 1st Pref MM Robinson 2nd Pref S. Traction Pref U. E. Prof Esso Deb Shell Deb
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    • 77 9 Ayer Hitam 1.20 Bassett (50cts) 77 Batu Lintang ...a 1.65 1.70 Bedford 1.44 Benta XD 1.44 Boreill (New) 2.20 Glenealy 1.60 Jeram Kuan tan 2.18 2.30 Kempas 2.00 2.05 Kepong Plant 1.71 Kluang Ord >«••• 1.7 8 1.81 Kundong Tg. Pau 1.80 1.90 Kuala Sidim Mentakab CBI 2.26
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    • 58 9 Anglo-Asian i Anglo Oriental B. Kawan 3/3/2 Beradin B. Panjong Castlefleld Consol Salak 2/7 Craigielea 1/6 Djember Duff Dev 12/E. Asiatic 1/8 Gadek Golden Hope 5/3 Guthrie K. L. Kepong 2/31 2/6^ Kulim 1/9 London Asiatic Malakoff Malaya General Malaysia Merlimau Pegoh Mt. Austin Petaling Rini Rub. Est.
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  • POPPING AROUND
    • 411 10 SINGAPORE, Saturday. now rou P is currently cutting an LP THE QUESTS will be the first local group to produce an album. AND I hope this jump will earn them th e international status they deserve. CRISPIAN ST. PETERS must be the
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    • 310 10 SINGAPORE, Sat. Eric Tan, the bass guitarist of the Trailers, one of the up-and-coming pop groups here, says the Beatles' hair-cut is only a "gimmick." He added: "But what is. more important is their music which is .great. Great man, just great! Eric, who
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    • 240 10 SINGAPORE, Saturday. pjRILLIANT Singapore pianist, Yu Chun Yee, arrived here from London and gave a sonata recital at the Singapore Conference Hall recently. He thrilled his audience with an almost flawless penormance. Chun Yee received encore after encore after each item from the appreciative
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    • 202 10 II'" Probably the most accomplished group in Britain harmony wise. Unit 4 plus 2 have been responsible for bringing a fresh and original sound to pop music. The group was formed early in 1962 and was purely a vocal quarter. Brian Parker
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
    • 32 10 Is there anything you would like to know about your favourite pop star or group? If so, just drop a line to PLATTER PETE, c/o Eastern Sun, 23-B Cantonment Road, Singapore 2.
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    • 300 10 IMM SELLING LP's! Meet the Supreme* 606 Where did our love go 621 A bit o# Liverpool 623 Country, Western pope 625 More hits by the Supremes g; We remember Sam Cooke 629 The Supremes at the Copa 636 1 hear a Symphony 643 BILLY VAUGHN The golden Instrumental* *****
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  • THE NEW FILMS
    • 230 11 CULVER CITY California. At his office at the Metro-Goldwyn-M a ye r Studios, Cornelius Ryan author of "The Last Battle," made the following reply to statements by D. Kramlnov, Russian Government Propaganda Spokesman. In Pravda, as quoted In a Reuters despatch from Moscow. •"Now, having had
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    • 547 11 FROM^^HORU^^OYTOi FAME AND FORTUNE ..BUT LONDON, Sat. (AP). A CTOR Sean Connery, who started his entertainment career as a chorus boy, has said he is about to make a break from the role of James Bond which gave him
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    • 429 11  -  Reviewed Rosalie Chan CINGAPORE Sat. If you like entertain ment, then make a date to see "The Long Ships' starring Sydney Richard Widmark and Rosanna Schiaffi no when it opens at the Shaw theatres soon Set against the Viking
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    • 393 11 SINGAPORE, Sat. The versatile and talented British star, Glynis Johns, comes from a theatrical family that boasts four generations in the entertainment profession. The vivacious velvet-voiced doe-eyed blonde actress, currently starred with Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke and David Tomlinson in Walt Disney's sparkling
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    • 397 11  -  By TAI SING ONN THIS film has an all-male cast. You only have American dancer, Barrie Chase in a dream sequence. She flits on to the screen for barely a minute doing a pulsting belly dance and then is gone.
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    • 153 11 Thrills, spills, and an eye-ful of Ingrid... LUMPUR, Sat. —Miss McDonald does not have a farm. She has a revolver under her skirt. And she has a figure which is very easy on the eye. She knows a few karate chops too. In fact,
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 167 11 I&IULXCI ORGANISATION w"Hm ORCHARD Te,; 3 2 6 TODAY 4 SHOWS AT 9 a.m.. 12.45. 4.30 8-15 pm. DOCTOR ZHIVAGO" (•rraldine Chaplin Julie Christie 7'imm Panavision Metrocolor iAn M.O.M. Picture) ODEON I PALACE Tel. a 1-1 1 6 I Tei 4 75 7 8 NOW SHOWING! (NO FREE LIST) 11
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    • 244 11 I i I I 1 I SHAW GANISATION LIDO Phone ***** NOW SHOWING: 4 Shows Dally Note Time*: 11, t.30. A p.m. "Mad World" start* promtly at 11.20 a m.. 2.50, 6.17 »22 p.m. IB Yijil CAPITOL Phon»* ***** NOW SHOWING —No Free List 11, 1 JO. 4.00, «.45. 9.30
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  • WOMEN'S PAGE
    • 470 12  -  ROSALIE CHAN SINGAPORE, Sat. —Do we really want equality? To meet our male counterparts face-to-face, stripped of our womanly techniques? Do we really want to deem it right to decisively conduct #nd play an equal role at home with our •would-be' superiors? Note that
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    • 357 12 Kb ALA LUMPUR, Sat. Teaching Japanese to foreigners is no easy task, but Yuko Yamazaki, 23, thinks that patience and hard work bring home victory. Demure Yuko is with the Department of Chinese Studies at the University of Malaya. She is on assignment to Malaya
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    • 341 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. There are times when you find that your wardrobe is too drab, deprived of gaiety. Your favourite dress displeases you, and a whole string of faults follow. Maybe you need a change, for something gay, something crazy
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    • 339 12  -  (By ROSALIE CHAN SINGAPORE, Sat. How often have the newiy-wed Misses been caught with a discriminating pot of burnt rice in her hand and the apologetic look she wears doesn't exactly camouflage that red blush, which spells GUILT! But then, how many
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    • 103 12 Is the sari sinking? Indian women often have wondered as they clutched frantically at their flowing national garb, just to keep it up. Now, However, a serious discussion has been launched by designers and practical Indian women in New Delhi on whether the sari is sinking
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    • 102 12 SINGAPORE. Sat. No kidding but it was really the kiddies who stole the limelight from the 'oldies' in "Fashions Delight", presented by Joan Booty School of Modelling at the Cold Storage Supermarket this afternoon Late afternoon, shoppers and fashion enthusiasts jammed the supermart as
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    • 211 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. "Career life and farntfa life just don't mix at all," pointed out May Lee, 27 Lri managing director of the Raya International Tiuvel Agency here. "To be pleasant, charming and understanding are the other important qualifications in building up
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    • 160 12 SINGAPORE, Sat. Miss Vivienne Wee, 15, Singapore's top talented pianist, will give a piano recital at Victoria Theatre here tomorrow at 8.30 p.m. She will be accompanied by Mr. Wong Chong Chen on the violin. Vivienne Is the eldest daughter of Mr. and
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    • 221 13 INTENSIVE studies have been and are still being conducted on the problem of improving driving safety in Japan. One of the newest and claimed to be the safest device is an automatic handbrake dubbed "Handmatic" developed recently by the Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. The new
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    • 66 13 Japanese car manufacturers will be hard hit by the 10 per cent rise in Australian import duty on assembled passenger cars. The government has decided to raise the tariff if built-up vehicles in the past two-years to June 30, 1966 exceeded 7,5 per cent of total car
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    • 358 13 Art li— i. >. SINGAPORE, Sat. A world collection of Art is now on show at the Goodyear Hall. On exhibition are 60 paintings from 33 countries throughout the world—countries where Goodyear has plants or sales companies. The exhibit, called the Goodyear International Corporation Worldwide
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  • LAST DAY PENANG RACES
    • 463 14 Has weight advantage PENANG, Sat. SEA PIP is back to form and with a handy weight I am giving him a great chance to win the Kedah Cup for Class II performers over Bsf. at Penang this afternoon, concluding day of the Penang Turf Club's July
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    • 248 14 TRANSPORTATION, who has been in the numbers in his last four starts, should annex Race 6. After his stylish win over the Kuala Lumpur 6f last month Trans portation ran a gallant second to Chatsmoth over 7f on Sunday. He was putting in good work at
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    • 227 14 CHUBA CHUBA has struck a bright patch He is definitely on the upgrade and should follow up his first day's success and complete a double for the meeting and his third win off the reel. This Blue Booklet gelding romped home a comfortable five-length winner
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    • 130 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat.— Six members of the Malaysian SEAP Games boxing team will participate in this year's Armed Forces individual championship to be held at Stadium Negara from July 26 to 28 at 8 p.m. nightly. Due to the great response, elimination xounds were held to
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    • 262 14 MONA LISA should make amends. This Matrice mare was distressed by the heavy underfoot conditions on Sunday and finished fifth to Congratulations over the s£f trip. She fought for the lead witn Paling Baik and then weakened at the top of the straight. She
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    • 247 14 HATSMOTH improves with each outing and after her fluent win over 7f on the first day, I am giving her a great chance to complete a double foi the meet. This Chatsworih mare followed her last start win at Kuala Lumpur with a very convincing
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    • 225 14 EMIR STAR won so convincingly on the first day that he should complete a double for the meet. The 'Star" came from a long way back to clinch a head decision from Lighter over 7f in division two He was running on stoutly at the
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    • 201 14 Sir Ojam should not miss. Last Sunday, Sir Ojam was not disgraced when second to Scarpa over 7f he came from the rear bunch to finish a strong second he was half a length behind the winner. He was running on at the finish
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    • 134 14 Going: Good •WINDSOR LAD* 'GOLDEN SUN' 1 •SWEET SUE* Race 1 CHUBA CHUBA Triumphant Teknah CHUBA CHUBA Panchor G. Buccaneer CHUBA CHUBA Teknah G. Buccaneer Race 2 HIGH RULER Lovable Gunsmith HIGH RULER Pardon Splendid PARDON High Ruler Splendid Race 3 MONA LISA Streamlight Congratulations MONA LISA Streamlight Oisin
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    • 217 14 HIGH RULER was fancied by his connect ions to win on Sunday but could only finish fifth to Scarpa over It on the very heavy track That run should benefit him, and I am giving him a great chance to return to the
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    • 334 14 RIO DE JANEIRO, Sat. (AP). —Brazil's defeated World Cup soccer players can expect something very short of a warm welcome when they get home, probably this weekend. Their surprise elimination from the Cup games in Liverpool has left bitterness and disappointment in the hearts
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    • 106 14  -  By KHOO BOON CHOO J>ENANG, Sat. Over 70 &wimmers from the states of Selangor, Perak, Penang Sarawak and the Malaysian Armed Forces will view for honours in the fourth Malaysian swimming championships which will be held at the Penang Chinese Swimming Club here on July
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    • 1134 14 Race 1 Horses Class. 6,-Abt. 6 Furs. 2.00 pm. I 453 oTpih'ang f tee I 3 475 Flashing Rocket (Messrs. V. C. Bath and S 4 4 926 Gay Buccanner (Melody 8 05 a 5 213 Teknah (Melody Stable. Allan 9y 8 03 7 6 330 The Dairy
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  • 133 15 Brazilian goalkeeper Manga (on ground is weil beaten by this shot from Antonio Simoes (unseen) which registered Portugal's first goal in a recent World Cup game at Goodison Park, Liverpool. The match ended in a 3-1 victory for Portugal. Argentina's Ermindo Onega (right) lifts the
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  • 208 15 Singapore, Sat. More and More people, especially the youngsters here are taking a keen interest in cycling. Some 400 or more young cyclists throughout the republic are actively interested in this sport according to reliable sources. School boye in particular, seem to make up the majority
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  • 785 15  -  Commonwealth games begin on Aug. 4 By MAX LANGE SINGAPORE, Sat. Malaysia an d Singapore are all set for the eight British Empire and Commonwealth Games at Kingston beginning on August 4. The 21-member Singapore contingent, including five officials, will leave by air for Kingston
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  • 543 15  -  By Derrick Fernandez KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Goon Kok Ying, who started playing tennis some 40 years ago can still pack a powerful forehand drive today although he has passed his sixties. Today, Kok Ying, who has just completed his 60th year is still
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  • 90 15 ROME, Sat. (AP) The secretary of the European Boxing Union (EBU) angrily attacked the World Boxing Council on Friday, over its decision to put the World Welterweight Boxing title at stake between American's Curtis Cokes and Percy Manning. The £BU secretary, Mr. Pietro Pinl, said boxers outside the
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 59 15 K.L. Sports Diary KUALA LUMPUR CRICKET: (Stonor Shield Tournament). Club de Recrio Versus Selangor Club at Padang. ATHLETICS: Malaysian P.W.D. meet at Cheras. Penang Sports Diar:y Badminton: Public Services Inter-Department Badminton at P.C.G.H.S. at 9.00 a.m. Tennis: Penang Open Tennis Finals and prize-giv-ing at P.S.C. at 9.00 a.m. League Cricket:
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  • 336 16 CAIRO, Sat. (AFP) President Nasser announced last night that the United Arab Republic will refuse to take part in the September Arab summit con- /erence in Algiers. His decision looked like a blow to the Arab League's chances of taking any
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  • 104 16 HONG KONG, Sat. (AP) Two Thais yesterday began serving seven-year prison sentences following their conviction on drug offences. Both Thais are of Chinese ancestry and were sentenced on Thursday in court lor conspiring to deal in 47 pounds of morphine hydrochloride. Police said the
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  • 257 16 ADDIS ABABA, Sat. (AFP) Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie said yesterday that the world court judges had ruled in South Africa's favour over the South West Africa case on Monday for political rather than legal motives. Speaking at a press conference at his palace to
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  • 758 16 Reds in Philippines MANILA, Sat. (LPI) —A gunbattle ragged for more than three hours today between government troops and Communist Huk terrorists who ambushed and killed a town mayor and five others on Monday. First reports said seven Huks had surrendered. A constabulary spokesman said the
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  • 49 16 the creditor nations of Indonesia attended a prelimary meeting for u^ reditOT M,ion> at the Hote held pre,l<le<l bj Deputy Portion Minister. Mr.. Nobuhilco Ushlba was The "editor nations arc: Japan, the United States. Canada, Britain. Australia. New Zealand, France, West Germany, the Netherlands, and Italy.
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  • 91 16 TOKYO, Sat. (AFP) Japanese Ambassadors and other diplomats stationed in African nations will meet in Tokyo during Sept. 12-14 to discuss a wide range of problems relating to these countries, Foreign Ministry sources said yesterday. The Chinese representation issue at the next United Nations General
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  • 74 16 BANGKOK. Sat. Thai officials said today that Thailand is not purposely stockpiling tin. The officials made the statement in commenting to a London report that tin stocks in Thailand could depress the world market. The officials explained that the backlog in tin ore stocks mainly resulted from the
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    769 16  -  By James Kim Kim Ung-Yong of Seoul will be going to the United States this September to study under physics professor Allen D. Schneid at the University of of Michigan. He has a fluent command of English and German as well as his native Korean tongue. He
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  • 96 16 UNITED NATIONS. Sat. (AFP) Unofficial sources said last night that U.N. Secretary-General U Thant has submitted the name of Swedish Diplomat Karl De Ribbing to the governments of Thailand and Cambodia as his personal representative in those two countries. Mr. De Ribbing was assigned a mission
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  • 66 16 RANGOON, Burma. Sit (UPl).—The Burmese Re volutionary Government yesterday nationalized four ho«i es or asylums run by Christian missionaries for lepers, and placed them under the control of the Health Ministry for continued administration. according to an official announcement Two of the leper homes or asylums nationalized
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  • 187 16 HONG KONG, Sat. (UPIJ A marked increase n Hong Kong-Indonesia trade has been noted recently by trade sources. There has been an upward trend in Indonesia"! exports to this colony and purchases of cotton and sundry goods have risen sharply, the sources said Textile sources said
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  • 120 16 WASHINGTON, Sat. (AFP) Senator Fulbright, Democrat Senator for Arkansas, has angered the White House by launching a virulent attack yesterday on President Johnson for allegedly developing a new "Asian Doctrine" which he claimed was extremely dangerous for the United States. During a debate on the US foreign
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  • 61 16 SAIGON, Sat. (UPD Elements of an elite North Vietnamese division anr bushed troops from two marine companies today in exactly the same spot where another marine company was hit four days ago. As this fight raged, other marines participating "operation Hastings" T ncaf the border between Nor'n and
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