Eastern Sun, 6 September 1966

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  • 27 1 EASTERN SUN Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION Esld. 1966. Vol. 1. No. 51. Tuesday, September 6 1966. •fr MC (P) 1942 'fr KDN 2309 Price 15 rents
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  • 319 1 'Those corruption shoul JAKARTA, MON. (AFP) THE INDONESIAN Muslim youth organisation today demanded that President Sukarno and other persons involved in the corruption and sex scandal revealed by the trial here of former Central Bank Affairs Minister be tried by the court for subversion".
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  • 51 1 JAKARTA, Mon (AFP) Public Prosecutor Anas Jacub of the special court for subversion here today demanded death sentence for 52year old former Central Bank Affairs Minister, Jusuf Muda Dalam. The former playboy Minister was found guilty of subversion, the illegal purchase of firearms from Czechoslovakia, corruption and
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  • 103 1 JAKARTA. Mon. (AFP) President Sukarno last night threw eold water on popular expectations here by his unexpected disclosure that Indonesia w/>uld not re-enter the United Nations this month. The daily "Api Pantjasila" (Fire of Pantjasila) said it learned this from Information Minister Burhanuddin M. Diah
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  • 263 1 LONDON, Mon. (AP) Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore said today he considered the Vietnam conflict to be far graver than the Rhodesian rebellion. Mr. Lee made his state* ment to newsmen at London Airport on arrival to attend a conference of Commonwealth Prime
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  • 115 1 PENANG. Mon. An appeal to Xaverians to step forward bravely to lead the country was made by Rev. Brother Finian, Visitor of the Christian Brothers' Schools. He said this at a dinner in honour of Rev. Brother T. Michael. Asst. SuperiorGeneral, Asia, by old boys
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  • 92 1 LONDON, Mon. (AP) An 80-year-old husband married only 18 months demanded today that the Southward Borough Council put a double bed In his newly furnished apartment. The Council owns the apartment house. "How can we enjoy our married life in separate beds?" asked Mr. Leonard Jones. "It's
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  • 104 1 KI'ALA LUMPUR, Mon. Malaysian men have caught the eye of two Japanese stage dancers, who arrived here today for a three-day stage performances. Shapely Miss Yumi Hanabusa told Eastern Sun: "The men here are not shy. They are dashing". Her partner. Miss Yoshiko Kawamoto added: "I certainly
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  • 241 1 JAKARTA, Mon. (UPI) Indonesia's top guerrilla warfare expert. Gen. Abdul Harris Nasution, warned the nation early today that "everything is not as quiet as it seems." Addressing a meeting of leaders of Jakarta's militant student action front KAMI, Gen. Nasution said the Communist
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  • 390 1  -  Razak advises... Bv JAMAL ALI JITRA, Mon. The Alliance Government is determined and confident —of shaping Malaysia into a progressive and prosperous nation, the Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, declared today. To achieve this goal however, he said, a combined effort was needed by
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  • Local News
    • 143 2 TAIPING, Mon. The Posts of OSPC (Officer Huperintending Police Circle) have been abolished throughout the country with effect from Sept. 1, it is understood. The posts of OCPD formerly held by an officer of ASP rank has now been upgraded to the rank of DSP, at
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    • 182 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Aroused by the S.O.S. call of the beating of a kerosene tin, villagers In Jeram. about 50 miles from here, last night rushed out of their homes in full force and put to flight four men attempting to rob a shopkeeper.
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    • 95 2 PENANG, Mon. Travelling under "Operation understanding", two Australian delegates, JAYCEES John Betheras and Peter Rostron, will arrive here on Sept. 22. This was disclosed by the President of the Penang JAYCEES, Mr. Saw Hun Eng, today. He hoped this study tour tinder "Operation understanding" would
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    • 61 2 IPOH, Mon Fifteen acres of young rubber trees at Changkat, near Tapah were destroyed by fire over the weekend. A rural develop me nt officer, Enche Sulaiman bin Zakaria found the young rubber trees badly scorched when he visited the site today. The rubber trees were grown
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    • 25 2 MUAR, Mon. A new health centre costing $lOO,OOO has been completed at Labis, 68 miles north of here, under the rural development programme.
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    • 168 2 PENANG, Mon. The Penan? Free School Sesquicentenary Celebrations Committee is organising a grand re-union of Old Frees at a dinner to be held in the Penang Free School Hall, Green Lane, at 7.30 p.m. on Oct. 21. The dinner will be open to old pupils, irrespective
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    • 106 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. A Taxi-driver, Ibrahim bin Kasi, 30, was robbed of $6B at dagger point by three men whom he had taken as passengers to the Hokkien cemetery at Jalan Kerayong here, last Saturday. The men boarded his vehicle at Cecil Street and asked
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    • 141 2 PENANG. Mon Four robberies were reported to the police here over the weekend. A 20-year-old clerk, Lim Yew Fong, found his place ransacked when he returned to his house in Birch Road last Saturday night. Cash and property, totalling $628, were reported gjtolen. A postal clerk. A.
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    • 480 2 KUALA LUMPUR, MON. T'HE Minliter of Information and Broadcasting, A Enche Benu bin Abdul Rahman today spoke of the need of an independent nation like Malaysia to have "a literature of its own with its distinctive national characteristic and yet universal in its value."
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    • 262 2 PENANG, Mon. The 3rd biennal delegates' conference of the Railwaymen's Union of Malaya, which ended last night, called on the government to institute a public inquiry into the day-to-day management of the Railway Administration and the cause for the financial loss incurred by
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    • 46 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— The Minister of Commerce and Industry, Dr. Lim Swee Aun, will attend the Commonwealth Paliamentary Association meeting to be held in Canada this month. He will leave by air from the International Airport, Subang, at 9.45 a.m. on Wednesday.
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    • 37 2 MUA R, Mon. Sixteen members of the Bakri Youth Club and the UMNO Youths helped to build a new house for a poor man under the gotong royong system (self help) during the week-end.
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    • 292 2 IPOH, Mon. A rubber estate labourer, Muniandy s 'o Sadayan, 50, who has served four years' imprisonment at the Taiping jail on a charge of statutory rape on an eight-year-old firl, was served with a banishment order by the Minister of the Interior.
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    • 129 2 KIT ANT AN, Mon. A pro-tem committee of the proposed Pahang Contractors' Association was elected by building contractors from all districts of Pahang during a meeting at the Lo Pang Hong Building here. The office-bearers of the pro-tem committee were: Chairman: Dato Chew Kup, Vice-chairman:
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    • 114 2 KAJAXG. Mon. Tuan Haji Zakaria bin Haji Mohd laib, M.P. (Lan&at), was elected Chairman of th e Ulu Langat District Alliance Committee at its annual meeting here. Three vice-chairmen were also elected. They are Tuan Haji Mohd Nazir bin HJ. A. Jalil, Mr Lee Teck Su and
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    • 34 2 MUA R. Mon.—Mr. K. Arulnasalam. 31 a Field Officer with the District Information Department here, will shortly go on transfer to the Press Division of the Department of Information in Kuala Lumpur.
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    • 83 2 Housewife wins $150/prize IPOH. Mon.—Madam Mun Ling Tai of Ipoh one of the 20 winners of "Eastern Sun" Contest No. 4, was indeed very happy to learn of her good fortune. It was the first time that she had ever won a rontest. A housewife who had just become a
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    • 161 2 KUALA LI'MPL'R. Mon. The acting Minister of Education, Mr. Lee Siok Yew. said today that more incentives should be given to youths to help unearth talents. Mr. Lee said this when he opened the art competition for children of primary school (all races) at the A.I.A.
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    • 91 2 IPOH, Mon. Mr Justice Chang Min Tat in the High Court here today advised a rubber tapper, Vengidasamy s/o Kotiah J®> ivc UD hi habit of toddy drinking.' Vengidasamy had appealed against his conviction of voluntarily causing hurt to Paidaiyah s/o Gurugiah with a sickle at
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    • 30 2 MUA R, Mon. The Berom Local Council, 10 miles north of here has warned the hawkers in the area to renew their business licences early or face prosecution.
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    • 275 2 MUAR, Mon. The future of Madam Khoo Geo* Khim, 34, and her nine children is bleak unless he comes to her immediately. Her husband Tan Yen Leng died of tuberculosa last month in the Muar Hospital. He was a mason. In an interview
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    • 938 3 Company, Union come to settlement SINGAPORE, Mon. The lightning strike by 70 newsmen of the Straits Times in Singapore which lasted five days ended in a sea of smiles, handshakes and bear-hugs late this afternoon. While placards, posters, banners were ripped off a defeaning burst of
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    • 49 3 MUAR. Mon. Muar Detention Camp, Muar Soccer League champions, will travel to Johore Bahru on Sept. 8 to meet their counterparts in a charity football match in aid of the Malay Parents Association. The match will be played on the Seri Gelam ground at 5.15 p.m.
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    • 81 3 The Prime Minister of Singapore, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, arrived in New Delhi on Sept. 1, on a three-day State visit to India. He was received at Palam airport by the Prime Minister, Shrimati Indira Gandhi, Minister of External Affairs, Sardar Swaran Singh and other
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    • 131 3 SINGAPORE. Mon The Nautical Society of the Singapore Polytechnic will hold their second annual Neptune Nite Ball at Ocean Park Hotel this Saturday. The highlight of the night will be a Neptune Queen Contest, the winner of which will be given a return air ticket
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    • 233 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. Singapore is one of the most industrialised places in South-East Asia, where its people are hardworking and the Government's achievements commendable. This was the opinion of Dr. Rudolf Baumann, the Austrian Ambassador-design-ate here, when he met newsmen at the airport today. He will present
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    • 143 3 SINGAPORE, Mon The finals of the Bth annual inter-school debate and prize-giving ceremony will be held at the Chinese YMCA on Sept. 24, at 2.30 p.m. The debate is divided into two sections juniors (Secondary I and II) and seniors (Secondary 111 and IV). Two schools from
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    • 90 3 The newly-appointed High Commissioner for Singapore in New Zealand, Mr. Kenneth Michael Byrne (right), with the Governor-General of New Zealand, Sir Bernard Fergusson, and the Prime Minister, Mr. Keith Holvcake (left), at Government House, Wellington, recently. The first representative from Singapore to set up
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    • 214 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. Both Singapore and Indonesia will issue a joint agreement setting up the procedures to resume trade relations between the two countries before the end of this week. The Eastern Sun learnt of this exclusively from the leaders of the Singapore and
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    • 73 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. Five beauties appeared at a special Fashion Show which was held together with the Danish Food Fortnight at the Arundel Room, Goodwood Park Hotel, today. Highlights of the show, staged by "Veeree of Bangkok", were on Thai silks and cottons. The fashion parade,
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    • 196 3 SINGAPORE, Mon.—Political detainees at Chang! jail have "boycotted" the food rations supplied by the prison authorities. This allegation was made today by Dr. Lee Siew Choh, Chairman of the Barisan Sosialis. The boycott was attributed to the "stale and bad" condition of loodstuffs
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    • 135 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. The University of Singapore Drama Society will present "Judgment at Nuremberg" at the Cultural Centre on Sept. 22, 23 and 24 at 8.30 p.m. The play, based on the screen version shown in Singapore some years ago, deals with one episode in the famous Nuremberg
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    • 104 3 WARSAW, Mon. (AP) Polish police again intercepted a picture of the "Black Madonna of Czestochowa." a focal point of Catholic-Communist strife, and refused to the industrial city of Katowice the past weekend, priests said on Saturday night. They said the interception occurred while the holy painting
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    • 148 3 HONGKONG. Mon. (AFP) The three young Britons released by the Chinese authorities on Saturday after being detained for four days told the Press that they were well treated while held captive. They were intercepted by a junk carrying armed soldiers when they accidentally ran their speedboat into
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    • 219 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. About 40 islanders fought a lallang fire which threatened to ignite the multimillion dollar Esso oil installation storage tanks on the island of Pulo Sebarok about six miles from here. The fire which broke out at around 8 p.m. on Sunday
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    • SENATE IN SESSION
      • 445 4  -  By LIM THOW BOON KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. An appeal by the State Government and Chief Minister of Penang for conditional leave to appeal to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong against the Aug. 22 decision of the Lord President, Tan Sri Syed Sheh Barakbah, was dismissed by the
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      • 270 4  - Senators optimistic of future M strength By Ben D'Cunha KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Malaysian Senators today expressed optimism about the future strength of the Malaysian dollar with its conversion from ster- ling to gold. At the same time Finance Minister. Mr. Tan Siew Sin said that while Malaysian currency is hard
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      • 202 4 KL'ALA LUMPUR. Mon. —Three officers and 18 aircraft apprentices have been selected to undergo a further military training in the United Kingdom. They arc Flying Officer Lum Kum Fook, Pilot Officers David Thong Kim Chong and Phua Juay Chee; Aircraft Apprentices Mohd. Salim bin Abdullah, Abdul
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      • 47 4 MUAR. Mon. The Muar District Social Welfare Department last month contributed $250 to a family whose house was burned down by a fire at Lenga, 23 miles from here. This was disclosed by Enche Kamaruddin bin Ngah. the district social welfare officer here.
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      • 133 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mob. FIRST OF ITS KIND This modern music shell, built In Kuala Lumpur by acoustical exports, was the setting lor th« Cincinnati iTipphooj Orchestra s In- ternational tour performa nee to night in Stadium Negara. The outstanding American classical music aggregation with more than
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      • 791 4 KUALA LUMPUR, MON. "THE Finance Minister, Mr. Tan Siew Sin told the Upper House of Parliament today that talks between Singapore and Malaysia on a common currency were doomed to failure even before it had started although Malaysia was unaware of this
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      • 70 4 KUALA LUMPUR.Mon. Mrs, Julia Long:, describing her nightmarish experience during the Town House Hotel fire on Saturday morning in her hospital bed at the General Hospital here yesterday. Mrs. Long sustained baeft injuries when the bedshwt with which she was climbin? down from her third
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      • 451 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A Senator today calied for the establishment of an Asian Treaty Organisation for collective security and a united front to forestall Communist aggression. Dato Sir Clough Thuraisingham suggested the establishment of a "Pacific Treaty Organisationcomprising Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Thailand,
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    • 538 5 SINGAPORE, Mon. Students will stage a "peaceful procession" against encroachment on autonomy and academic freedom. The march will be held on premier Lee Kuan Yew's return from the Commonwealth prime Ministers' talks in london. It will be from the City UjII to
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    • 77 5 MUAR, Mon. A progress exhibition depicting progress made by the Johore State Government in the Rural Development Projects will be held at the Tanjong Gading Community Hall, four miles from here, on Sept. 27 at 9.30 a.m. It will be opened by the Mentri Besar of Johore,
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    • 36 5 MUAR, Mon. —The Parit Jawa Malaysian Chinese Association is launching a membership campaign to crive for new members. It is estimated that 3,000 Chinese in the area would enrol as members of the Association
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    • 27 5 TPOH, Mon. The Minister of Health, Enche Bahaman Samsudin, will open the Malayan Trained Nurses Union meeting at the Nurses' Hostel in Talplng on Thursday.
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    • 111 5 KUCHING, Mon Building projects in the First Division under the Development Plan, completed recently, total more than $229,000. They consist of four different projects, including conversions, extensions and construction of new government bungalows. Two of the biggest projects are in Kuching. These are: 9 EXTENSIONS to
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    • 35 5 MUAR, Mon.—A Co-opera-tive shop has been set up at Kampong Sialang in Tangkak, 16 miles north of here. This was disclosed by Enche Mohamed bin Mohamed Don. the Co-operative Officer here.
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    • 64 5 IPOH, Mon. A motor cyclist Lee Keong Kwok (19) was killed on the spot, and his pillion rider, Lau Kwok Beng, seriously injured when their motor cycle had a head-on collision with a car at the 49i milstone, Tambun Road on the main trunk road to Kuala Lumpur
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    • 98 5 SINGAPORE, Mon. Mr. Son Kim Kang, a building contractor, who won top honours in an Orchid Show held last year, received his awards from Puan Noor Aishah. wife of the Republic's President. Enche Yusof bin Ishak. The presentation was made at the annual dinner and
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    • 43 5 MUA R Mon. The Johore State St. John Ambulance Brigade Association annual delegates' conference which was to have been held in Pontian on Sept. 3 has been postponed to Sept. 17. The State branch gave no reasons for the postponement.
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    • 83 5 MUAR, Mon. The National Electricity Board here has announced that there would be no electricity supply on Sept. 9 between 6 a.m. and 7.00 p.m. in the following areas of Muar. Jalan Petri. Jalan Abdullah, Jalan Hassan. Jalan Bakri, Jalan Yahya, Jalan Suleiman, Jalan Meriam, Jalan Sayang.
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    • 36 5 MUAR. Mon.—The Malaysian Government is to spend a total of $200,000 on the construction of fifty low-cost houses at Pagoh, 42 miles north of here, under the First Malaysia Rural Development Programme.
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    • 21 5 MUAR. Mon—The Muar Coffee Merchants' Association celebrated its 36th anniversary with a dinner at its premises during the weekend.
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    • 282 5 CAMERON HIGHLANDS, Mon. People should not think that the encourage ment for a sound industrial growth should be the Government's re s p on s i bility only, said a leading Singapore banker-diplomat yesterday. He Is Mr. Lien Ying Chow, Singapore's High Commissioner
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    • 38 5 MUAR, Mon. —The Belembang branch of the Malaysian Chinese Association, 12 miles from here, has passed a resolution urging the Government to provide the residents in the area with a maternity home and a public phone.
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    • 112 5 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Adult Education Board will hold a prizegiving and certificate presentation ceremony for successful candidates in the German Language Examinations conducted by the Board. The course was conducted in association with the German Embassy here. The ceremony will be held on Sept.
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    • 38 5 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Military will carry out exercises at Colombo Camp, Ulu Pandan district on tomorrow between 8.30 a.m. and 1 p.m. Blanks and Pyrotechnics will be used. The public are advised not to be alarmed.
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    • 27 5 SINGAPORE. Mon.—There will be no water in Bukit Timah Road, between Queens Road and Duchess Road, on Sept. 8, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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    • 62 5 SINGAPORE. Mon.—Dr. A. Liang, a lecturer from the Singapore Polytechnic, will give a talk on "Currency and Banking" at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce Hall on Sept 15 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. The talk is sponsored by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce and the
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    • 20 5 SINGAPORE. Mon. There were 61 road accidents, out of which four were reported serious, during the last 24 hours.
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    • 110 5 SINGAPORE, Mon. A group of 44 Australian tourists on a tour of the Far East, will make a stopover in Singapore for a two-day sightseeing and shopping tour of Singapore. Receptionists from the Tourist Promotion Board will welcome them with orchid corsages when they arrive at
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    • 88 5 SINGAPORE. Mo n. Three mutual benefit organisations were recently deregistered by the Registrar of Mutual Benefit Organisations. This was announced in a recent Government Gazet notification. They were: The Persatuan Kebajikan Bersama Anak-Anak Nyalas Melaka Di-Singapure. of 442-10 Kampong Changi canceled with effect from Aug 26; the
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    • 68 5 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Director of Psychic and Spiritual Research Institute in New Delhi, Swami Nitya Chaitanya Yati, will give a talk on Science and Spirituality at Victoria Memorial Hall here on Wednesday at 6 p.m. He is also the Director of the Inter-Disciplinary Research Study in Yoga, of
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    • 54 5 SINGAPORE. Mon. It was announced recently In the Berita Bulanan, a monthly newsletter of the 12th Singapore Boys' Brigade Company, that the 12th Company has set a world record with their collection 01 $7,745 during B B. Week. The company is 300 strong and is based at the
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    • 28 5 NEW DELHI Singapore Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew, meets Indian President, Dr. S. Radjakrishnan, during his three-day visit to UPI Photo. UPI Photo.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 125 2 K. L. Diary National Zoo at Ulu Klang 9.30 a.m. to J p.m., Muzium Negara 10 a.m. to 6.30 p.m., Jalan Weld Swimming Pool 9.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m., 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., Life-Size Sculptures Exhibition At Chinese Assembly Hall 10 a.m. to
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    • 397 2 Why crack your head when you can tackle easier quiz like ours EASTERN SUN $3,000 Contest CONTEST NO. 6 Quiz for September 6, 1966. 1. Name the principal mineral in marbU. 2. What do the initials FAO stand for? 3. Who wrote "Ivanhoe"? ANSWER TO THE QUIZ FOR SEPT. 6
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 610 4 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 Babru; 4 Taiplng; 7 Batu Pabat; 9 Kluang. P.M. 5.45 Opening Annct; 5.50 News In The National Language; 5.55 National Songs; 6.00 News In Tamil; 8.10 The
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 59 5 TIME AND TIDE Penan*: 3.33 a.m. (7.6 ft), 3.45 p.m. (7ft). Port Swettenham: 8.04 a.m> (12.4 ft), 7.59 p.m. (11.6 ft). Port Dickson: 9.36 a.m. (8.3 ft), 9.36 p.m. (7.4 ft). Singapore: 1.59 a.m. (7.9 ft), 2.05 p.m. (8.2 ft). Scdili Kechil: 1.12 a.m. (6.6 ft), 12.49 p.m. (6.8 ft).
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    • 42 5 STORE DIARY 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Victoria Memorial Hall, Empress Place: Painting Exhibition. 7.30 p.m. Free film shows by the Ministry of Culture: Tuas Village; Cosmos Sports Club. Potong Pasir; Kampong Teck Gee, Cheng San Road; and Canberra Padang; Naval Base.
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 105 6 GERMAN girls may take off their clothes! This is the latest news on German lingerie market these days. Oh! dear what Eve once covered she might now show, and what she onct wore under her dress, might now be worn over it? The photo
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    • 265 6 NEW YORK, Mon. (UPI) A prominent New York psychologist contends that the methods used by American police to extract confessions from suspects is more effective than the brainswashing techniques of the Chinese Communists. In a controversial paper presented at the 74th
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    • 43 6 PARIS, Mon. (AFP) Raymond Oallimard, brother of the publisher Gaston Oallimard and himself a publisher, died at his home her e early today. He was S3. Agence France Presse erroneously reported earlier that Gaston Oallimard who Is 85. had died.
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    • 76 6 HONOLULU, Mon. (AFP) France will suspend its atomic tests until 1968 following completion of the current Pacific series General Jean Thiry, Director of the French Nuclear Programme, announced here today. General Thiry told a press conference that France's forthcoming nuclear test will be held next Saturday.
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    • 63 6 HANOI, Mon. (AFP) An American airman was captured today after parachuting from a U.S. aircraft shot down north of Hanoi, the North Vietnam news agency reported Three American aircrafts were shot down in "a populated area to the north of Hanoi", the agency claimed. The total of
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    • 267 6 NEW YORK, Mon. (UPI)— Communist Party USA headquarters here was damaged extensively early yesterday when a homemade bomb exploded. Police began an immediate investigation. The explosion rocked the entire neighbourhood in the heart of New York's garment district, shattering windows in a Serbian Eastern Orthodox
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    • 316 6 'TRIAL OF THE CENTURY' OPENS PARIS, Mon. (UPI) "FRANCE'S "trial of the century" opens here today a case of presumed murder without the body of the victim and with seven of the 13 accused out of reach of Trench justice. The hearine will
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    • 81 6 BONN. Mon. (AFP) Economics Minister, Kurt Schmuecker left here for Bucharest today with the hope of "normalising Ger-man-Rumanian relations". He said that in addition to his economic talks, he would outline West Germany's "peace policy". He would also sign a protocol to the trade agreement
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    • 51 6 EL PASO, Texas, Mon. —The Junior Chamber of Commerce at El Paso, Texas, has an unusual way of reminding motorists to take it easy this holiday week end. Anybody who is killed over the week end can get a free funeral providing he registers with the Jaycees
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    • 148 6 LONDON, Mon. (UPI). African delegates to the Commonwealth Prime Minister's Conference were seeking support today for a move to get the talks started immediately on crucial debate on Rhodesia. The conference opens here tomorrow under threats by some African leaders to quit the Commonwealth
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    • 131 6 EL PASO. Texas. Mon. <UPI)—Four persons were found murdered yesterday at an apartment house in north-east El Paso. Firemen discovered the bodies answering a fire call at the house. They found an elderly couple slashed to death. A soldier was found shot to death and
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    • 64 6 CARLISLE, England, Mon. French film star, Brigitte Bardot caused a stir at a hotel in Northern England. The Assistant Manager of the Hotel said Brigitte arrived shortly before midnight and ordered a special meal. Aftei two hours in the hotel she checked out, at first refusing
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    • 127 6 FARW E L L, Michigan, Mon. (AP). Police arrested a 27-year-old escaped mental patient yesterday who they said staged a three-day crime wave in Central Lower Michigan ranging from car theft to attempted murder. Russell Scheldenbrand was taken into custody after he was found asleep by
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    • 76 6 TOKYO. Mon. (UPI). Communist Chinese scientists have improved the Alkali soils in Sinkiang Province by sinking wells, the New China news agency said today. The agency, monitored in Tokyo, said that scientists discovered that in Sinkiang Province there are vast underground water resources although the iand itself
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    • 41 6 BOMBAY, Mon. (UPI) An Indian airlines corporation Caravelle jet airliner crashed into a hill nine miles outside Bombay yesterday killing all four crewmen abroad. An airline spokesman said the Diane was on a training flight and carried no passengers.
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    • 73 6 ISLAND Of Chiem See, Bavaria, Mon. King Bhumipol of Thailand and Queen Sirikit (both are escorted by Dr. Lippert, Secretary of State in the Bavarian Finance Ministry and his wife, as by horse-drawn carriage to visit a famous castle of the Bavarian King's during a tour
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    • 168 6 S ALSOM AGOIORE TERME. Italy, Mon. (AP) A lovely dark-haired Sicilian was elected Miss Italy 1966 last night at this Thermal Bath resort and promptly declared she has no movie career ambitions because she hasn't got the talent it takes. "I
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    • 94 6 SAIGON, Mon. f AFP) The Vietcong launched a mortar attack on the airstrip at the United States air base at An Khe last night inflicting "light" casualties and "moderate" damage, a U.B. spokesman said here today. During the 10-minute bombardment they lobbed about 40 shells Into the
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    • 69 6 LUSAKA. Zambia, Mon. (UPI) Economic Development Minister M. Sipalo yesterday warned 37.000 striking copper miners that the copper companies have been instructed to fire anyone who tries to extend the one-week walkout. Sipalo gave the warning of tougher measures in a radio broadcast repeated several times. He said
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    • 228 6 MOSCOW, Mon (UPI) A 19-year-old girl described as a ravishing beauty has been sentenced to five years in prison for "malicious hooliganism." She had been accused of "entertaining" foreigners. Svetlana Troflmova. former barfly at the "dollar" bars of hotel reserved
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    • 110 6 WARSAW, Mon. (UPI) Polish Communis; leader Wladyslaw Gomulka said yesterday the Vietnam war was endangering wcr.d peace. He also said Poland would increase its aid to the North Vietnamese. North Vietnamese. Addressing a meeting fl a Harvest Festival here. Mr. Gomulka said: "Poland, aa
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    • 167 6 LONDON, Mon. (AP) A London auction house says it has found a longlost painting by Rubens among a collection of art offered for sale by an 82-year-old great grandmother. It once changed hands for $1.40 as just another picture. An art expert said last
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    • 96 6 CHICAGO. Illinois, Mon. (AP) Eight youths were shot last night in an alley on the north side, police said. The victims were taken to a hospital where no report on their condition was available. Police said the assailant used a shotgun and all the injured
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    • 190 7 LONDON, Mon. The 15th meeting since the war of Commonwealth Heads of Government will be opened tomorrow at Marlborough House in London by British Prime Minister Mr. Harold Wilson, as leader of the host country's delegation. 11 comes eight months after the last meeting
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    • 99 7 LEAVENWORTH, Kansas. Mon. (AP) —The fifth annual art show and sale at the Federal Penitentiary yesterday drew an estimated crowd of 10,000 to 12,000, a record for the event. They paid a record total of $18,372 for about 1,000 of the 2.000 paintings displayed by
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    • 124 7 ENTEBBE, Mon. (AFP) Uganda will not join in »ny "dramatic measures" such as walking out of the Commonwealth over the Rhodesian question, Uganda President. Mr. Milton Obote said here yesterday before leaving for London to attend the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' conference. Accompanied by
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    • 127 7 BUDAPEST, Mon. (UPI).— A Hungarian Communist newspaper today called current events in China "not revolutionary violence but brutality." Hungarian central organ Nepczabadsag in an editorial on the "cultural revolution" by Red Guards and others in China said the entire Hungarian public has been reading
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    • 89 7 KINGSTON. Jamaica, Won. (AP) —Two men were killed and seven other wounded in a new wave of shootings in Kingston over the weekend. The death of one man Linval Russell, 26, was the fourth resulting from violent, political rivalry in the capital since
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    • 51 7 PAPEETE, Tahiti (UPI) France will detonate three nuclear devices in a series of tests this month, according to the Director of the French Nuclear Experiment Centre in he Pacific. One of the devices might be rhe most powerful France has detonated, Gen. Jean Tinry hinted
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    • 138 7 WASHINGTON, Mon. (UPI) —The Philippines is a potential Asian trouble spot, a Swiss journalist. Dr. Lor Nz Stucki, said today. "The Philippines is a potential trouble spot, with alarming social tensions and wide spread corruption, a case of sick feudalism." Dr. Stucki said in an
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    • 65 7 VENICE, Mon. (AFP) Gondolas the symbol of Venice were nowhere to be seen in this city's famous canals today, the Feast Day of the Gondoliers. The city's 300-odd Gondoliers are on a 24-hour strike for more money and as a protest against too many motorised launches. Thousands
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    • 102 7 BELIEVE it or not, this shapely beauty is a 47-year-old mother of two children. Often referred to as "Japans Liz Tavlor'\ Miss Yoko Kozakura, former actress, who looks half her age, claims she has discovered the secrets of eternal health and beauty. She attributes her beauty and
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    • 86 7 PLATSSBURGH, NEW YORK, Mon. (UPl)—Scientists at the Atomospheric Research Centre of the State University here today confirmed sighting of an unidentified flying object near Platssburgh last week. The object was described as bright, moving east to west in the sky, and making looping, hopping and figure eight
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    • 281 7 LANCASTER, Ohio, Mon. (/VP). President Johnson said here today the United States would fix a date for withdrawing its forces in South Vietnam if North Vietnam did the same. The President said U.S. troops in South Vietnam "will go home and
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    • 116 7 BOMBAY, Mon. (AFP) An Indian airlines Caravelle crashed almost immediately after taking off on a training flight from Santa Cruz airport here today. The plane, with its fourmember crew, lost contact with the ground and was reported missing until inquiries confirmed the crash. The twin-jet airliner
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    • 41 7 VALENCE. France, Mon. (UPI) —The Paris Montnellier train collided with a truck and another train at a level-crossing near Andancette north of here early today. First reports indicate at least three persons died and 15 were injured.
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    • 49 7 MONTPELLER. Vermont, Mon. (UPI) —Vermont was without railroad passenger service yesterday, the first time in 118 years. On Saturday, the Boston and Maine railroad discontinued its days trains between Springfield. Massachusetts and White River junction, Vermont. The trains represented the last passenger service to the state.
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    • 130 7 SYDNEY, Australia, Mon. —When the University of Melbourne's International Club recently staged a 12 days' programme in Melbourne, capital of the Australian State of Victoria, under the title of "Spotlight of the Orient" Malaysian and Singapore students were among the keenest supporters of the events. The
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    • 88 7 PORT SAID. Mon (APV The USS Stribbling and USS Jonas Ingraham of the sixth fleet leave this Mediterranean port today on their way to Greece after a warm and hospitable reception by the Egyptian authorities. The government's official Middle East News Accn-y yesterday
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    • 146 7 BERLIN, Mon. (AFP) The Central Committee of the East German Communist party today denounced the "Cultural Revolution" in China as a "mixture of Petit-Bourgeois nationalism, adventurism, racism and big-power chauvinism." This stinging attack, which appeared in the party newspaper Neues Deutschland. was the first o(Tic<al
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    • 98 7 MANILA. Mon. (AFP) Manila was largely flooded last night and this morning as heavy rains lashed the city and suburb, causing traffic knots and bottlenecks all over the metropolis, including the newlyopened underpass. Frantic city officials discovered to their dismay that the new underpass, built to
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    • 88 7 ANKARA. Mon (AFP) Total casualties in the earthquake in Eastern Anatolia a fortnight ago were 2.394 killed and 1.747 injured. it was officially announced here today. Making these figures public the Minister of Reconstruction and Housing said that damage to property in three districts, Mus, Erzurum
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    • 233 7 NEW BUFFALO, Michigan. Mon. (AP) The body of one of three Texas men, missing in apparent air crash, was found washed ashore yesterday near Lakeside, four miles northeast of this Lake Michigan community. It was positively identified by Central Air Rescue Command as
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    • 107 7 TOKYO. Mon. (AFP). The 2.360-ton nuclear-power-ed U.S. submarine "Sea Dragon" docked at Yokosuka, just south of Tokyo, this morning. This is the "Sea Dragon's" fourth visit in Japan. Another nuclear-powered U.S. submarine "Snook" is now in Sasebo, in Western Japan. This is the first time
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    • 32 7 BOGOTA, Columbia. Mon. (AP) A strong earthquake shook Bogota yesterday and police reported 15 persons injured. The quake caused considerable damage to buildings in workers' districts of the capital.
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    • 42 7 COPENHAGEN. Mon. (AFP) A delegation of the Japanese company K.D.D. and a Soviet communications ministry delegation arrived here today for talks on laying a new cable between Siberia and Japan. The cable service belongs to the northern telegraph company.
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    • 128 7 TOKYO. Mon. <AFP) The world's largest oil tanker, the Idemitsu Maru, 209.000 tons deadweight, was launched this morning at the Isogo yard of the Ishikawajima-Heavy industries in Yokohama. The tanker being built at a cost of $15,000,000 dwarfs the hitherto world's largest tanker, the Tokyo
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    • 54 7 LEIPZIG. Mon. (AFP). People's China today withdrew from the Leipzig Autumn Fair in what was believed to be a fit of Pique. Only a few hours after the fair opened, she closed her ?tand in the big hall of international books. The Chinese books were
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    • 177 7 ELIZABETH, New Jersey, Mon. (UPI). A 47-year-old World War II combat veteran has appealed to President Johnson to let him join the army and fight in Vietnam. John Kulesh contends, "as long as some people in this country can hold
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    • 84 7 ATLANTA. Georgia, Mon. (AP) Officials of a manufacturing company have solved the problem of tardy employees with trading stamps. They give away about 100,000 stamps a week as bonuses to the week as workmen who put in a full 40 hours. "It's cut our absentee rate
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    • 289 10 LONDON, Mon. (AFP) Recognition that it may be Britain's duty to use force to end the illegal regime in Rhodesia is called for by a Commonwealth officer at Labour Party headquarters, Mr. George Cunningham, in a Fabian pamphlet published in London yesterday.
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    • 66 10 BOULDER, Colorado, Mon. (AP) The most potent sun flare in nearly six years has wrought havoc with long range radio transmission throughout the world. The flare, an explosion on the sun that 6ends a stream of electro-magnetic particles through the earth's atmosphere, began on Friday. Physicists
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    • 372 10 LONDON. Mon. (UPD Robert Savage was a picture framer. One day in 1933 he bought a wagonload of old frames at an average price of about US$l.4O from a scrap dealer in York. A few of the frames had pictures in them. The scrap dealer
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    • 65 10 CHICAGO. Mon. (AP) More than 10 youths, ranging In age from three to 18, were sprayed with pellets from a shotgun last night following a teen-age gang altercation. Police were seeking two youths who allegedly fired into the group of teenagers and children. Officials at Illinois
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    • 36 10 CAIRO, UAR, Mon. (AP) Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad has sent a cable to U.N. SecretaryGeneral U Thant asking him to reconsider his deto Quit the world organisation, the Cairo £STW. Alahram tepor
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    • 179 10 BERLIN, Mon. (AP) East Germany charged Communist China yesterday with damaging the international Communist movement and giving encouragement to "American imperialism" in Vietnam. The East Germans also were indignant over the Chinese rejection of "beloved German composer" such as Ludwig von Beethoven and Johann Sebastian Bach.
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    • 58 10 JAKARTA, Mon. (AP) A powerful Moslem youth organization today rejected President Sukarno's statement that a nation needs heroes to become great. The KAMI student front said such a comment belongs to the "old order," a term used to describe the past regime. Pres. Sukarno declared last
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    • 31 10 The King of Thailand accompanied by Bavarian Prime Minister Alpons Goppel (second from right) and chief of the Boelkow-Company, inspecting a German research satellite 625-AI.—PANA Photo. PANA Photo.
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    • 52 10 Maori and European New Zealanders converged on Auckland from all parts recently to watch the match between the Maoris and the "Lions*' team of the British Isles. Picture shows a European girl and her Maori boy-friend accompanied by another Maori girl. N.Z. Information Service. N.Z.
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    • 302 10 LONDON, Mon. Prime Minister Harold Wilson today sought the backing of organised workers for his Labour Government's freeze of wages and prices. A grudging approval appeared likely. Mr. Wilson journeyed north to Blackpool to deliver his personal appeal for support to the annual meeting of
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    • 109 10 TOKYO, Mon. (AFP). All the influential Japanese newspapers have commented favourably on President de Gaulle's proposal for American commitment on withdrawal irom Vietnam. The economic journal, Nihon Keizai cieclared yesterday morning, President de Gaulle may be said to have "important farsighted strategic move" toward Vietnamese
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    • 68 10 CHICAGO, Mon. (UPI).— The Labour Day weekend traffic death soared past 400 last night and appeared headed toward an all but certain record. Americans were dying on the highways at a rate of more than seven an hour. The National Safety Council said the death toll
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    • 61 10 CARACAS. Mon. (UPI) Venezuela's Mines Minister has moved to reassure foreign oil companies operating here that the government will continue its step-by-step entrance into the US$l million a year domestic gasoline market. The minister. Mr. Manuel Perez Guerrero, acted on Saturday to put a damper
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    • 496 10  -  By COLIN FROST LONDON, Mon. (AP) Officials of the 22-nation Commonwealth conference today opened discussion on the agenda for 10-day talks threatening a major split between Britain and its lormer dependencies over Rhodesia. The conference proper open tomorrow with Prime Minister Wilson reported determined to
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    • 411 10 HAVANA, Mon. Prime Minister Fidel Castro has been a bestselling author in Cuban bookstores this summer sharing the number one spot in book saiei with two other Communist writers, Karl Marx and Frederich Engels. The Castro work is his oft-quoted "History Win Absolve Me" speech,
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    • 373 10 WASHINGTON, M on. (AP) Senator Thruston B. Morton assailed the Senate Democratic leadership today for "embarrassing" President Johnson by proposing a reduction in the U.S. troop commitment to Europe. Sen. Morton, who heads the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, took the lead in an attempt to force hearings
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    • 764 12  -  By Sister Thomas Abecket As told to L'PI MACAO, Mon. (UPD—It tvas early in the morning on Aug. 24. Three Red Guards, one of them a girl, came to our school and asked to see the Mother Superior. They talked to
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    • 85 12 NEW DELHI, Mon. (AP) India has banned a book by a British clergyman, the Rev. Michael Scott, on grounds it "Questions the territorial integrity and frontiers of India." The book, "The Nagas India's problem or the world's" was described as "erroneously endeavouring to prove that
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    • 711 12 TOKYO, Mon. The U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, Mr. William P. Bundy, has stated that the antiAmericanism exhibited by France's President Charles de Gaulle is "a fact of life". He was speaking on a "Meet the Press" session in Washington yesterday. Meanwhile, Peking has kept
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    • 157 12 CASTEL Gandolfo, Italy, Man. (UPI) Pope Paul VI yesterday deplored the decline of "The grand good ideas in the world" and the rise of "ideas that contain catastrophic potential." today we are not all serene because we see a decline of the grand good
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    • 186 12 MANILA. Mon. (UPI) Choice of a new Secretary General for the United Nations "may well have to be made from another neutral country," according to a Filipino statesman who has been suggested for the post. Carlos P. Romulo, former President of the UN General Assembly
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    • 224 12 BANGKOK, Mon. (AP) The standing committee of the Asian and Pacific Council (ASPAC) today met at the Thai Foreign Ministry to consider sub-commiU tees reports on various proposed projects. Thai Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman attended. ASP AC's other eight member countries Australia, Nationalist China, Japan, South
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    • 109 12 SAIGON, Mon. (UPI) U.S. spokesman have nounced the loss of a plant over North Vietnam today The Air Force reported it lost a two-man F4C Pha:* torn 40 miles North-Ncnh» west of Hanoi and two oneman FlO5 Thunderchiels. oni 10 miles North of the capral and
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  • 354 8 "HUE to an inadequate educational system during the colonial era, literature was considered the preoccupation of the highbrows. Even highbrows were few then. The lack of a rich literary heritage in Malaysia was keenly felt when Malay was made the National Language. Students of Malay have found very
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  • 339 8 'JHE Singapore Government's plan to set up a post-graduate Study and Research Institute of South-east Asian Affairs is welcome news. The people of this region know very little of one another. This ignorance is to be deplored. Now anyone wishing to study about South-east Asian countries will have
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  • Letters...
    • 443 8  -  T. H. M. Singapore WITH reference to an article in the Eastern Sun on 23rd. August 1966 under the heading 'S'pore labour force confronted by foursided pressure' I wish to point out that Mr. S. Haridas overlooks one major threat facing the trade union movement today.
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    • 183 8  -  P. S. RAMAN. Ag. Director of Broadcasting Singapore. WITH reference to the letter from Radio Listener you published on the 24th of this month, I think I should make the following points: 1 never said in my original letter that nonTamils are not considered part
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    • 89 8 RECENTLY. I witnessed a shocking incident at the Macpherson Housing Estate. A woman who was carrying a baby was walking along the pavement near a block of flats, when suddenly missiles in the form of empty tin cans came zooming downwards. They missed the baby by an inch.
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    • 240 8 I AM a member of the Board of Managers of one of the local schools. As a parent of our school-going children, I have during the past few weeks examined the issues which have begun to cause unrest among the 'gurus' of this country. If
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    • 138 8 It is with great interest that I read the letter written by Mr. T. H. Miranda which was published in the Eastern Sun on Aug. 24 under the heading, "Unnecessary comments from unionists." Apart from questioning the sincerity of certain NTUC leaders in opposing the Trade
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    • 73 8 I AM studying in Secondary Four of the Adult Education Board. Recently, there is a notice that students who sit for Final Form Examination must pay the fees of $3/-. Even my friend in the Secondary Three and Four Final Examination did not pay for it.
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    • 353 8 "TRUTH" is to be congratulated for giving us particulars of Heads of Catholic Schools throughout the country. Regarding the two Brothers, one Irish and one Canadian, Heads of Kuala Lumpur and Penang respectively, we must accept what "Truth" says, that is. they are naturalised Malaysian citizens.
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    • 149 8  -  DR. HO GUAN LIM. Dy. Director of Medical Services. (Hospitals), Singapore. I REFER to T.T.W.'s complaint appearing on the paper on 22nd July, 1966. It was kind of your correspondent to send a mental patient back to the Woodbridge Hospital. But he was only speculating when he stated
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    • 515 8  -  ARNOLD CHEW Klang. IT IS high time that the teachers of this country, especially those who have been writing to the press attacking each other just because they belong to different categories, wake up to the realisation that they belong to one profession and a
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    • 149 8 JOHORE Bahru is badly lacking in traffic control It has no traffic light system in spite of the heavy traffic flow in the town. It has no Zebra crossings at many important Jalans: The old market place is now a 'dead man's' land. Contractors are building
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    • 223 8  -  K. N. ACHARY Singapore. OUR health authorities launch a campaign to suppress the using of unhygienic empty milfc cans. These thrown away milk cans are heing used to a great degree as spitting bowls by many chronic patients. These are then thrown away along the fivefoot ways
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    • 50 8 WE read of fires caused by indiscriminate firing of crackers and burning joss sticks and joss papers very often, especially on festive occasions. These occurrences put countless people to great suffering and loss. When are we "homo sapiens" going to grow up? ANTI-BURNING Singapore
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    • 436 8  -  By Dr. Tran Van Do Minister of Foreign Affairs of South Vietnam The favourable development of the military and economic situation in Vietnam over the past year is a fact which impartial commentators frequently mention and which points up the movement toward a more stable
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  • Commercial and industrial
    • 451 9 SINGAPORE, Mon. The purpose of the Asian Development Bank shall be to foster economic growth and co-operation in the region of Asia and the Far East and to contribute to the acceleration of the process of economic development of the developing member countries in the region,
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    • 589 9 WAHINGTON, Mon. (AP) The International Monetary Fund said today a reduction of inflationary pressure in the United States would not onlv help the country balance its international accounts but would promote world price stability as well. It is 21st annual report, the IMF refrained
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    • 136 9 TOKYO. Mon—The Kobe Seikosho (Kobe Steel Works), manufacturer of the propeller for the 150,000DWT Tokyo Maru, has just completed the massive screw to be fitted to the world's largest ship, the 205,000DWT tanker, the Idemitsu Maru. now under construction. The screw, weighing a total of 38.2 tons,
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    • 79 9 Eight Malaysian bankers and businessmen, led by Dato Lee Chee Shan, managing director of Chung Khiaw Bank Ltd. arrived in Haadyai by car last week f or a two-day visit. The others were: Mr. Jackie T. J., Lee, sub. manager of Chung Khiaw Bank, Kuala Lumpur; Dr. Yap Pheng Geek,
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    • 316 9 SINGAPORE. Mon.—Sept. first grade rubber f.o.b. closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 60-3/4 cents per lb. down 1 c^nt. Opening quotations were marked down fractionally on London advices and later, after a quiet period, the market eased further as a greater number of
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    • 420 9 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Stock Exchange opened quiet in all sections with prices generally unchanged on Saturday's close. Gammon maintained their 15% dividend which was apparently a trifle disappointing as it closed at $2.04. Properties also were unchanged. Tins again had buyers at low levels and were a
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    • 42 9 TOKYO, Mon. (Kyodo) The Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Ishikawasima-Hari-ma Heavy Industries are expected to sign formal contracts around September 10 in New York for the construction of six 276,000-dead-weight-ton tankers for the National Bulk Carriers Inc. of the United States.
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    • 12 9 SINGAPORE. Mon—The tin price to-day was $606-i per picul, unchanged.
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    • 160 9 SINGAPORE The following ships are expected to be in port today:— Godowns Vessels 3/4 Lycaon 5 Rajah 6/7 State of Kucht 13/14 Calchas 15/18 Pyrrhus 18 Benvrackle 19 Sir Lancelot 23/24 Asia Breeze 27/28 Louisa 29/30 Rajula 38/39 Murrayeverett 40/41 Van Heemskerk 44 Fairstar 47 Utrecht The following
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE-MALAYSIA, S'PORE
      • 222 9 B S Boustead 1.53 1.54 C.T.S. Ords 47/6 Chemical Co 1.43 1.44 Cola Storage 2.85 2.90 Dunlop 2.39 2.42 E. Smelting 4.00 4.04 Esso Ords 2.96 2.97 United Holdings CCH 1.85 1.88 F N. Ords 3.60 3.62 Gammon CD 2.03 2.04 G. E. Life 62.50 Guinness 2.27 2.28 Hume
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      • 106 9 Aokam 3.70 Austral Amal. CD 23/44 23/9 Austral Malay CDXR 32/6 Ayer Hitam 21/4* Berjuntal 32/4* 33/Gopeng CD Hong Kong 33/6 31/- Idris Hyd. XD 13/15/6 K'pong Lanjut 23/7 J Kamuntlng 18/9 19/6 Killinghall 43/Kramat 12/3 Kuala Kampar 24/9 Kuchal 1.97 Larut 11/3 12/Lower Perak 23/23/6 Malayan Tin 27/27/9
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      • 53 9 Ayer Hitam 1.20 Bassett (50cts) 78 Batu Lintang 1.70 1.75 Benta 1.40 Borelli (New) 2.15 2.25 Kempas 1.92 Kepong Plant 2.00 Kluang Ord 1.74 Mentakab 1.60 New Scudai 4.10 4.50 New Serendah 2.32 2.33 Sel. Coconut 3.00 Sungei Bagan 1.56 1.60 Sungei Tukang 1.05 Temerloh XD 2.00 2.18
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      • 42 9 Anglo-Asian XD 1/1 Anglo Oriental 3/3 Bk S'bawang XD 5/3 5/7, Cicely 2/5 2/7 Consol Salak 2/5 Craigielea 1/5 Guthrie XD 24/6 K. L. Kepong 2/1* 2/2£ Kulim 1/7 1/8 Malaya General 2/5 Merlimau Pegoh. 2/Petaling 3/5 Strs Rubber l/i
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      • 28 9 First Malayan 2.19 2.29 Second Malayan 1.55 1.65 Third Malayan 1.13 1.24 Malaysian Commerce .89 1.00 Mai. Savings Fund XD 1.30 1.40 Sterling Commodity 3/10 4/5
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    • AIR MOVEMENTS – SINGAPORE, KUALA LUMPUR
      • 160 9 TIME: AIRLINE FROM 8.20 a.m. MAL 019 Kuala Lumpur. 9.30 a.m. MAL 121 Kuala Lumpur. 10.30 a.m. ML 451 Kuching. 10.30 a.m. QF 742 London. Rome. Cairo, Karachi, Calcutta, Bangkok. 10.55 a.m. MAL 005 Penang, Ipoh, Kuala Lumpur. Malacca. 2.45 p.m. MAL 045 Kota Bahru. Kuantan, Kuala
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      • 187 9 TIME: AIRLINES: TO 7.00 a.m. ML 034 Malacca. Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh, Penang. Alor Star, K. Bahru. 7.00 a.m. BA 789 K. Lumpur. Colombo, Bombay, Cairo, London. 7.15 a.m. ML 452 Kuching. 7.31 a.m. ML 122 Kuala Lumpur. 8.00 a.m. Thai 402 Bangkok, Hongkong, Taipei, Tokyo 8.00 a.m.
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      • 139 9 TIME AIRLINES FROM 7.45 ajn. BOAC (BA 789) Singapore. 8.15 a.m. MAL (ML 122) Singapore. 8.25 a.m. MAL (ML 034) Singapore, Malacca. 9.15 a.m. MAL (ML 005) Penang, Ipoh. 9.40 a.m. Cathay (CX 574) Singapore. 10.05 ajn. MAL (ML 042) Singapore. 12.30 p.m. MAL (ML 512)
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      • 137 9 TIME AIRLINES TO 7.15 a.m. MAL (ML 019) Singapore. 8.25 a.m. BOAC (BA 789) Colombo, Bombay, Cairo, London. 8.45 a.m. MAL (ML 122) Ipoh, Penang, Alor Star, Kota Bahru. 8.30 a.m. MAL (ML 005) Malacca, Singapore. 10.05 a.m. Cathay (CX 574) Bangkok, Taipeh, Osaka. Tokyo. 10.20
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    • 119 9 SINGAPORE, Mon. Singapore Chinese Product Exchange noon prices today were: Previous Today's Sellers Sellers Coconut oil (FOB) Bulk Aug 43.25 Coconut oil (FOB) Drums Aug 45.25 Sugar (Java) ex-godown. 25.50 Nutmegs 110s 475.00 475.00 Nutmegs B W 250.00 Garbled Lampong Black Pepper (FOB) 140.00n Pepper Black Special Sarawak (FOB)
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  • THE NEW FILMS
    • 179 11  -  By TAI SING ONN KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Mary McCarthy's runaway best-selling nove I "THE GROUP" of eight Vassar girls of the class of '33 (1933, that is,) comes alive on the screen. A Charles K. Feldman presentation released through United Artists, "The
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    • 105 11 Odds are when a woman says, "Hit me," she takes a big chance. And when baby needs a new pair of shoes, she had better go out and buy them. This is the advice of Mitchell Ehein, no marriage or baby consultant, merely a gambler. "Women are more
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    • 690 11 once the international epicentre for espionage, no longer flies the cloak-and-dag-ger banner but Hollywood prefers to believe otherwise. Hollywood's preference, however,, is solely for the sake of romance and comedy. Producer Robert Arthur, in an effort to combine the excitement of suspense, the hilarity of
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    • 96 11 JEAN Simmons and James Garner yell for Lady Luck to be on their side in a high -poweree dice game in which thousands of dollars change hands within seconds in "Woman Without A Face." Other participants in the game are Nichelle Nichols (left), Rafael Campos
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    • 299 11 HOLLYWOOD, Mon. Most actors limit their political activities to camoaiening for a presidential candidate and let H go at that. Not Robert Vaughn, super-hero of "The man from U.N.C.L.E." series. Vaughn takes his politics seriously and all the year round. He is particularly involved with international relations
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  • 31 13 The start of the 250 c.c. race. Riders are seen pushing their machine to start off.
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  • 307 13 SINGAPORE, Mon. The M-ming Glow Tennis Club u ill hold their championship finals on Sept. 11 parting at 8.30 a.m. at the 6:ngapore Civil Services Association. Albert Tan who has been selected for the Asian Games training squad will be defending three titles; the
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  • 44 13 CAMPIONE TIT ALIA, Italy, Mon. (UPI) Italy's Ermanno Marchisio yesterday won the world 900-kilo-gram inboard motorboat racing championship for the fifth straight year. Marchisio's winning time for the three heats on the waters of Lake Lugano was 37 minutes, 47.6 seconds.
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  • 777 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— The full results of the first national shooting championships of Malaysia, 1966 and the third selection trial for the fifth Asian Games in Bangkok in December, held at the national shooting range, Kuaia Lumpur on Aug. 27, 28, 3i. and Sept. 3 4
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  • 284 13 IPOH, Mon. India, Indonesia and Japan will be in the 34th Perak Open Badminton championships to be held at the St. John Ambulance Association hall from Sept. 20 to 22. Indonesia will be represented by a team of six player* comprising four men and
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  • 482 13 BUDAPEST, Mon. Two powerful Russians forced past world record holder Uaston Roelants of Belgium on the final stretch of a thrilling 3,000 metres steeplechase at the European Games on Saturday. The 29-year-old Belgian policeman, after opening up a big lead over the last 1,000
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  • 107 13 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Thai-State Railway won the fifth annual interrailway fames, against the Malaysian Railway, which concluded here thi« evening, with the Thai football team beating the Malaysian Railway 5-3. At half time, the score was 1-1. Scorers for Thailand were Oabron (1), Kumron
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  • 366 13 SINGAPORE, Mon.—With Singapore's top walkers engaged in the Esso Trophy meet yesterday, newcomers took top honours in the Swift Athletes Association's open 12 miles road walk held here yesterday. Promising Thirumal, who is unattached, shot straight into the lead from the start at the
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  • 37 13 PENANG, Mon. The Pensng Open Badminton Championships will start on Friday, Sept.. 23, and conclude on Sunday, Sept. 25. Entries are now invited and will close at 12 noon on Wednesday, Sept. 14.
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  • 407 13 SINGAPORE/ Mon. Swift men hove done it again! For the eighth year in succession Swift Athlete Association have won the men's Esso Inter-club athletic championship 1966! At the conclusion of a two days meet at Farrer Park yesterday. Swift (Men) with a total of 141
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  • 222 13 SINGAPORE, Mon. The final of the Ram competition held last night at Eric's Hoboy Centre was one of the most exciting ever in the short history of slot car racing in Singapore. It was the first Ram competition held in the Far East. During the
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  • 328 13 SINGAPORE, Mon. Michael Boon and Nellie Cheong emerged winners in their respective sections in the Sansui Bowling Tournament held at Jackie's Bowl, Orchard Road here yesterday. Altogether 12 men and 12 women took part in the eight-game series finals which lasted Just over two
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  • 564 14  -  BY LOW TEO PING SINGAPORE, Mon. Two wore bowlers from Australia, making a total of six Australian bowlers will take part in the Singapore Ten-pin Bowling Congress' 1966 Singapore National Bowling Championships, which begins on Friday. The two Australian bowlers are Ashley Meaney from Adelaide
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  • 389 14  -  By JOHN CLARKE SINGAPORE, Mon. A touch of local flavour will be added to the coming Tourist Week to portray Singapore in truer perspective to the visitor. Preparations are under way for local sporting bodies to demonstrate local sports among others during
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  • 90 14 MAIROBI. Mon. (AFP) World 3,000 metres record holder Kipchoge Keino, along with other top Kenyan athletes, are to take part in the Welsh Games at Cardiff on Sept. 10. The others are six-miler Neftall Temu, who beat the Australian Ron Clarke in the Kingston
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  • 61 14 TEHRAN, Mon. (UPI) Australia's Ken Fletcher and Bob Hewitt defeated South Africa's Roger and Frew McMillan 6-3, 2-6, 9-7 in the men's doubles semifinals of the 'international tennis tournament here. In the other semi-final Britain's Roger Taylor and Australia's R. Carmichael defeated Japan's Khojl Watanabe and
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  • 302 14 BUDAPEST. Mon. (UPI). A Japanese proposal that world championships in track and field be staged will be one of the major points up for discussion when the International Amateur Athletic Federation (lAAF) opens its annual congress here today. The Japanese first tabled the
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  • 108 14 TOKYO, Mon. (AFP) Japan will host an international bowling tourney next December to be held in Tokyo and Osaka, the Japan Bowling Council has announced. The tourney will be participated in by Australia, Hong Kong Nationalist China, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and Japan.
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  • 215 14 MONZAN, Italy, Mon. (UPI). Ludovico Scarfiotti in a Ferrari won the 37th Grand Prix of Italy automobile race yesterday, scoring the first all-Italian victory in the national classic since 1952. Britain's Mike Parkes, Scarfiotti's stable mate, made it one-two for Ferrari and Denis Hulme of New
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  • 147 14 FOREST HILLS, New York. Mon (UPI) Australia's Roy Emerson and Tony Roche and Cliff Richey of Dallas, idle two days because of rain, hope to get back in action today in the U.S. tennis singles championships. Their second-round matches late on Saturday were washed out
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  • 99 14 HONG KONG, Mon. (AP) A touring Korean soccer XI beat a combined Chinese team 2 1 last night. The fast tackling Koreans, who finished fourth in the recent Merdeka tournament In Kuala Lumpur, led 2 0 after the first half. Rightwing Lee YoungKeum ooened
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  • 66 14 ANKARA, Mon. (UPI). Thirty persons were injured, nine seriously, when part of the wooden stands at a 40-year-old soccer stadium, collapsed, police said Sunday. Of the nine hurt, one was in critical condition, police said. The collapse came during a game between two local soccer
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  • 122 14 KUALA LUMPUA, Mon. Thumbs up Lee Han Seng, in his Lotus 22 Brabham, being garlanded with th« victor's laurel by Datin Salmah Harun, wife of Selangor Mentri Besar. —EASTERN SUN Pix. EASTERN SUN Pix. KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. H. Hasegawa. Yamaha ace rider, receives the handsome Rothman's Challen?®
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  • 1155 15 HORSES CLASS 4 DIV. 4—5% FURS. 000 Waterfine 7y 9.00 (M.W. Anthonisz) E. Donnelly 5.4 Bllafull 7y 9.00 (T.H. Teo Kongsi) Rodgers 591 Mvopic »y 8.12 (Sander Syndicate) Osman §08 Judith Anton II 4y 8.12 (Jennifer Stable) Sullivan 0 Dear Carlo 4v 8.12 (Jewel
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  • 380 15 Trainers refuse to risk charges on firm track Credit Balance III heads (RY WINDSOR LAD) IPOH, Mon. Star Pindi, a newcomer under Rinus van Breukelen, returned the best time this morning when he skipped over three furlongs in 40-3/5 sees., striding out freely all the
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  • 140 15 Following arc Third Day's weights (3 Races): Horses CI. I Div. 1 5* F. Str. straight. SULTAN'S GOLD VASE Credit Balance II 10.02 Kokoru 3.08 Silver Crown 8.11 Top Honour 8.11 Napoleon Solo 8.10 Lord Jim 8.09 My Carlo 8.00 Hyrego 8.00 Pizarro II 7.12 Golden Oriole 7.12
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  • 88 15 CAMBRIDGE. Massachusetts. Mon. (UPI). The Washington Rugby, Football Club downed Boston, 19-8. in a pre-season exhibition yesterday despite the loss of a player. The visitors established a 6-3 margin by the half and increased it later even though they played with only 14 of the normal
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  • 472 15 FRANKFURT, Germany, Mon (AP) Karl Mildenberger says he will be the fastest opponent Cassius Clay ever has met when he tries to win the champicf/s world heavyweight crown here on Saturday. But if Mildenberger is placing all his hope on speed, the title will remain
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  • 105 15 IPOH, Mon. A Joint celebration with a dinner party at the Golden Jubilee Restaurant on Saturday night was held by the Perak Basket-ball Association. Volleyball Association and the Table Tennis Association. The celebration was held as an encouragement to the players in the games to give their
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  • 692 15  -  By JOHN KAM KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The two-day fifth Tunku Abdul Rahman Circuit races at the new temporary site at Sunfei Renggam over the week-end was a feast of thrills and excitement True it was all good, clean fun considering that there were no bad
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  • 85 15 KUALA L'JMPUR, The leading players who participated in the recentlycompleted Malaysian Open Lawn Tennis Championships in Ipoh will give exhibition matches at tne Selangor Club here tomorrow and Wednesday at 4.30 p.m. The programme is as follows: TUESDAY: Singles: (One set) Jes« Hernandez (Philippines) vs.
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  • 152 15 NEW YORK Mon. (AFP) Rocky Marciano is ready to go back into the ring for a crack at the world heavyweight title held by Cassius Clay, according to reports circulating in boxing circles here. Marciano. now 43. retired as unbeaten champion and was famed
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  • 415 15 IPOH, Mon. Apprentice rider Velayutham, who rode Colonel Whatnot II in Race Five yesterday, the first dav of the Perak Turf Club's Sultan's Gold Vase Meeting;, was suspended by the Stipendiary Steward for two months for earless and dangerous riding. The following is the
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  • 125 15 BUDAPEST, Mon: (AP).— Michael Jazy won his second European title on Sunday night and said he would retire from track and field by the end of this year. The great Frenchman edged his old rival Harald Norpoth of West Germany to win the 5.000 metres
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  • 69 15 PERTH. Mon. (AFP) The English hockey team ended Its Australian and New Zealand tour yesterday with a one-all draw with a West Australian team in Perth. On top throughout, the English team was unlucky not to win. West Australia drawing level in the last five minutes.
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  • 629 16 MORE VIOLENCE IN CHINA JAKARTA, Mon. (I'PI) Indonesia's anti-Communist Student Front '(KAMI) has denounced Communist Chinese "red guards", the official news agency Antara said yesterday. The front has issued a resolution urging the government to exert its pressure through normal diplomatic channels to put "an end
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  • 310 16 SI AG AN AT LARGE MANILA, Mon. (l T PI). About 1.000 followers, including women and children, of a Filipino outlaw and self-proclaimed mystic have surrendered after military operations were launched against their mountain stronghold over the weekend. However, their 27-year-old white-robed leader who claims
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  • 227 16 DA NANG, South Vietnam. Mon. (AP). A t T .S. Navv Admiral denied today that a brawl involving some 100 sailors at the Navy Club last month was racial, but some sailors said racial tension caused the fight. Rear Admiral Thomas R. Weschler, commander of
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  • 935 16 SAIGON, Mon. Tension mounts as South Vietnam nears September 11 the day the populace of this war-torn nation goes to th e polls to elect a representative government. Americans troops have been ordered off the streets to avoid any incidents that might
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  • 270 16 NEW DELHI* Mon. (AP) The Prime Ministers of India and Singapore expressed their "great concern to the world in general and South-east Asia in particular arising from prolongation of the Vietnam conflict." yesterday. This was contained in a joint communique
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  • 76 16 MACAO. Mon. (AFP) Seven franciscan nuns, expelled from China earlier this week, arrived here for a rest, yesterday. Eight nuns were expelled from the Sacred Heart Convent in Peking but one of them died aftei their arrival in Hongkong on last Wednesday. The nuns iold the
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  • 93 16 BANGKOK, Mon. fAP> Thailand's northeasteS town of Nongkhai reported to be flooded b? water from the Mekont river and cut off from afl surface transportation! yesterday. Press reports reaching here said American hell, copters from the nearby Udorn airbase are help;™ in rescue operations. The reports
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  • 69 16 MANILA. Mon. (UPI) Armed men flred on a succession of six passenger buses traveling along i highway to Manila on Sunday night. Nine passen. gers were wounded and two of them later died in a hospital. Four of the buses be*, longed to the strike-bound La
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  • 119 16 YOKOSUKA. Japan, Mon. (AP> The U.S. Navy nuclear powered submarine Seadragon docked today at the American naval base In Yokosuka while several hundred protesting leftists demonstrated outside the base. Police guarding the base arrested three students for snake-dancing, an act prohibited because it obstructs traffic. Yokosuka
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  • 55 16 NEW DELHI. Mon. (AP) Prime Minister Indira Gandhi told parliament a "brain drain" had affected India's highly-regarded Atomic Energy Commission. She said some senior AEC scientists had gone abroad but none were "at the top level." Many of India's better educated persons go abroad where
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  • 23 16 SAIGON, Mon. (AP) A U.S. Army Caribou transport plane crashed into a Vietnamese village yesterday afternoon, a U.S. spokesman announced.
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