Eastern Sun, 7 September 1966

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  • 26 1 EASTERN SUN Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION iir Esld. 1966. Vol. 1. No. 52. Wednesday, September 7 1966. MC (P) 1942 K.DN 2309 Priee 15 cents
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  • 360 1 IyL'ALA LUMPUR, The Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, today called for closer co-operation between Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur, especially In defence matters. "Such co-operation," he said, "is especially necessary because Communist elements are still determined to destroy our two nations."
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  • 86 1 JAKARTA, Tues. (AFP) An Indonesian woman has found a diamond weighing nearly thirty carats, in a diamond pit at Twempaka. near Bandjarmasin, south Borneo, ANTARA reported today. The jewel was found some 200 yards away from the pit where an even bigger diamond was discovered and
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  • 70 1 CAPE TOWN. South Africa, Tues. (AP) Premier Hendrik Verwoerd died today of stab wounds inflicted on him in Parliament by an unknown assailant wearing the uniform of a parliamentary messenger, the South African Presi. Association (SAPA) reported. The leader of the House of Assembly. Cabinet
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  • 116 1 JAKARTA. Tues. (AFP)— Fifteen people were drowned and three others were reported missing when a ship carrying 97 people sank 600 yards off the coast of Jakarta's Tandjung Priok harbour last weekend. Antara reported today A spokesman for the port authority said that the cause of the
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  • 312 1 LONDON. Tues (AFP) About one hundred placardwaving demonstrators lines the road outside Marlborough House today before the start of the Commonwealth conference. The demonstrators, forming a single line along the pavement under the watchful eyes of police on the other side of the road were demonstrating
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  • 120 1 JOHORE BAHRU, Tues. Two thousand and one hundred people were made homeless here today when their homes were razed to the ground by bulldozers on orders from the Johore Government. Bulldozers began rolling into Jalan Larkin and Jalan Tengku Aziza at 10 a.m. Minutes later,
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  • 132 1  -  By A. Johnson. SINGAPORL Tues. The wife of the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Mrs. S. Raj a re* nam. helped the police to capture two youthful burglars who are believed to have stolen cameras and watches worth more than $lOO,OOO. Mrs. Rajaretnam spotted a youth loitering near
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  • 82 1 BANGKOK, Tues. (AFP) The Mekong River floods have claimed 70 dead and made more than 60.000 people homeless in the northern Thai province of Nongkhai, according to official estimates today. Report? reaching here said the 11-day old floods, caused by unrelenting monsoon rains, have already destroyed
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  • 596 1 The date: Sept. 18 JAKARTA, TUES. (AP) INDONESIA'S powerful student forces will launch o major drive toward the end of this month to completely oust President Sukarno from the country, reliable sources said. The students, relatively quiet for the past month, plan to pick
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  • Local News
    • 365 2 IPOH, Tues. The Free Press of Indonesia is now pla\in£ a vital role in propagating for the restoration of cordial relationship between Indonesia and Malaysia, with special emphasis on barter trade. This was stated by Mr. J Sirie of the Ministry of Information
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    • 455 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. About 60 workers at the Federal Metal Printing Factory in Petaling Jaya here this morning staged a lightning strike in protest against the management's non-recognition of their union and the dismissal of four of the workers for union activities. The workers, most
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    • 52 2 PENANG, Tues. —A young *hop assistant, Aung Kim Chya. told the Sessions Court here today how his girl friend and himself were assaulted and robbed near Duke Street on April 10. Koay Cheng Seong, who was found guilty of robbing Aung was sentenced to 18
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    • 584 2 KOTA BHARU, Tues. More than 50,000 people welcomed and cheered the Yang di-Pertuan Agong and the Raja Permaisuri Agong on their arrival in Kelantan today to begin their three-day State visit to Kelantan. Thousands of people, including flag-waving school children were out before sun rise
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    • 346 2 MALACCA, Tues. The High Court here was told that a former Malacca Magistrate Ramanatha Iyer left the country without obtaining release from any Court after he had been subpoenaed as a witness. Hakim Singh Gill, assistant registrar here said that Mr. Ramanatha Iyer was served
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    • 256 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The sixth Joint conference between the State Railway of Thailand and the Malayan Railway was held here yesterday to discuss matters of common interest affecting both railway organisations. Amongst the agreements reached at the confer- ence were:— BOTH Railway Administrations agreed
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    • 238 2 TAIPING, Tues. The Merdeka Memorial Library envisaged some eight years ago by the then chairman of the Town Council, Mr. Saw Huat Lye, a young M.C.S. officer, will become a reality soon. It is expected to be opened to the public by the end of
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    • 135 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Malaysia's cottage industry products are now attracting the attention of overseas buyers, a MARA spokesman said today. He disclosed that inquiries for straw products like bags and mats and woodcarvings had been received from the United States, Switzerland and France. The bulk of
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    • 146 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Four men boldly walked into a house at 8i mile, Kapar Road in the Klang district at 8.30 o.m. yesterday and robbed the owner of $750 in cash and $1,350 worth of watches, rings, and gold chains. The men, one
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    • 252 2  -  By HOO BAN KHEE KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. It was an enchanting evening at Stadium Negara last night when the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra put up a twohour performance. It was a masterful performance. a rare brilliance in concert. A special $3,000 music
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    • 158 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Tu* The Ministry of Commerce and Industry with the assistance of the action committee on tariff has now made another review and "is satisfied that there is sufficient fi Qur meet the needs of the country up to Nov. 1966 well as to build
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    • 1140 3 CORONER RETURNS MURDER SUICIDE VERDICT DRAMATIC DEATHS IN TIONG BAHRU RECALLED SINGAPORE, Tues. A jealous woman shot her Inspector lover and killed herself two days a fter his woman penfriend from Seremban had come down to Singapore. a Coroner's Court v as told today.
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    • 116 3 SINGAPORE, Tucs. Mr. Andrew H. Zecha, acting Head of the Department of Business Administration in the University of Singapore, will leave soon for Rotterdam, Holland, to attend the 14th International Management Cor/ress. The theme of the Congress is "Management and Growth". Organised by the International
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    • 123 3 MALACCA, Tues. The Kuala Linggi fishing village scheme here, launched by the State government five years ago. has not achieved the progress expected of it. The three years of Indonesian confrontation has been given by the Chief Minister, Inche Abdul Ghafar bin Baba. as the principal reason
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    • 136 3 Sister Alice Wee, 25, of Swettenham Road, Singapore, an Australian-trained nurse, won the Miss Singapore-Malaysia quest from 18 entrants at the Malaysia Independence day celebration in Melbourne. Miss Wee, a nurse at the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne has been in Australia for five years. Last year in her
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    • 592 3 SINGAPORE, Tues. A verdict of suicide was returned at the end of an inquiry today into the death of former Cadet Assistant Superintendent of Police, Amarendra Chatterji. ASP Chatterji. 31, was found dead with an unconscious girl, Lee Siew Eng. 23, a teacher, in
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    • 145 3 Dr. (Miss) Tang-Thi-Trinh, world renowned lady acupuncturist, flew into Singapore from Saigon last week on a tour of South-East Asia to help organise an acupuncturist Society for this region as she is the South-East Asia representative for the International Society of Acupuncturists in Paris. She
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    • 298 4 MUAR Tues The Malaysian Government is to lmDlement'a $2 million plan to convert Serom a local council area, ten miles north of here into an up-to-date Malaysian town. spokesman for the Serom Local Council said that all the 26 rural projects were to be carried
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    • 70 4 BRUNEI TOWN, 'Tues. (AFP) J.R.H. Burns, a former Malaysian police officer, has taken over from Dato A.J.W. Slater as Brunei's new Commissioner of Police. Mr. Burns 50, served briefly in Brunei soon after the Decemoer 1962 rebellion as Deputy Commissioner stationed at Kuala Belait. Mr. Burns
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    • 215 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Telecommunications Department has issued a warning that it is an offence for telephone subscribers to make unauthorised alterations and additions to their telephone equipment, particularly the use of special type telephone instruments such as ioudspeaking telephones and
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    • 68 4 BRUNEI TOWN. Tues. (AFP) The Gtdoof power station was commissioned this week, exactly two years after the government had approved the $l6 million-dollar statewide electrification programme. A big Ruston three-M. W. Diesel engine sprang into life this week following days of final preparations by
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    • 79 4 BRUNEI TOWN. Tues. (AFP) The drive to collect big sums of outstanding land rent is progressing satisfactorily. Last month, the Commissioner of Land B.C. Cartland said that owners of 2,428 pieces of land in the Brunei-Muara district owed the land office $23,210 in arrears
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    • 71 4 JESSELTON. Tues. The 7th Battalion Royal Malay Regiment will stage a variety show at the Jesselton community centre tomorrow and Thursday. Proceeds will go to the building fund of a Musi.~n religious school in Tawau. An interesting programme has been drawn up which includes comic sketches, feats
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    • 186 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Malayan Association of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries is offerinf four correspon dence course scholarships to prepare deserving Malaysians for the intermediate examination of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries, London. This offer is in accordance with one of the association's primary objects
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    • 366 4 JOHORE BAHRU. Tues. The Governor of Bank Negara, Malaysia, Tan Sri Ismail bin Mohamed All said yesterday that locallyincorporated banks had been largely responsible for the expansion of banking services in the country in recent years. Tan Sri Ismail was speaking at the
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    • 317 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. —Esso's Medical Insurance Plan the first of its kind to be introduced in Malaya scored another "first" with the distribution of dividend in the form of a waiver on premium payments by the employees under the plan. The waiver of
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    • 56 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. A 14-year-old boy, K. Krishnan. will be flown to the Royal Children's hospital in Melbourne tomorrow for a major heart operation. His passage and expenses are being paid by the Centra! Welfare Council here, and the Royal Children's Hospital has undertaken to
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    • 197 4 Taiping, Tues. Five hundred residents of a Chinese settlement in Kamunting four miles from here are in a dilemma because the town council has disconnected three stand pipes the main source of water supply for the area. Today a six-man delegation including the town councillor
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    • 78 4 JESSELTON. Tue s The State Mara officer, Tuan Haji Munjl said MARA has reached its target figure for recruitment of local MARA officers. There are now six locally recruited MARA officers in the state. Three MARA officers have now returned to Jesselton after a short
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    • 41 4 MUAR, Tues. The final of the Muar District Talentime Contest, organised by the Bandar Maharanl 'A' branch of the UMNO Youths here, will be held at the Diamond Jubilee Hall, Sultan Ibrahim, here on Sept. 16 at 7.45 pjn.
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    • 77 4 PENANG, Tues. A grroup of 14 students and two teachers from Geelong Grammar School, Victoria, Australia, paid a courtesy call on the Chief Minister, Penang, Tan Sri Wong Pow Nee at the State Operations Room recently. The group was accompanied by President of Rotary Club, Penang, Mr. William Ng Jit
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    • 200 4 BRUNEI Town, Tues. (AFP) If the Brunei Government accepts the recommendations of the consulting engineers, Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick and partners, Brunei will have an airport that could reach international standard. The consultants are understood to have recommended the extension of present airport at Berakas to enable
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    • 119 4 KAJANG, Tues. Both the Kajang and Dengkil branches of the Malayan Indian Congress are going all out to assist the Indian community in Ulu Langat district to obtain citizenship papers. The two branches have set up temporary offices in the U.M.N.O. Building here to
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    • 61 4 DA NANG, S. Vietnam, Tues. Corpsman tensely holds the life-saving plasma bottle cord, as a Marine who had been shot by a Communist sniper receives a field transfusion during Operation Allegheny S/26 The Marines were fired upon in their command post area, and killed nine of the snipers in a
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    • 343 5  -  By Peter Loke SINGAPORE, TUESDAY PREPARATIONS are being made to speed up the establishment of the Garuda 1 Indonesian Airways office at the "posh" multi-million-dollar Wisma House in Orchard Road here. The Eastern Sun learnt from authoritative sources that Garuda
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    • 214 5 SINGAPORE, Tues. Work has begun on the second phase of the Jurong Industrial Estate's sewerage scheme, costing some $2,600,000. This is an extension to the existing facilities in Jurong to keep pace with the rapid industrial development in the area. It is also part of
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    • 174 5 SINGAPORE, Tues. An 18-year-old youth, jjm Joo Hiang, died at the General Hospital here after he was attackfd by 20 gangsters, a short distance from the Beach Road Police Station today. Lim was on his way to work together with a friend. Ong Way Soon, when they were
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    • 51 5 SINGAPORE, Tues. Singapore's Foreign Minister, Mr. S. Rajaratnam (above), is greeted by the Indian Minister for External Affairs. Shri Swaran Singh, when the two leaders met in New Delhi recently. Mr. Rajaratnam accompanied the Republic s Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, during the latter's first State visit to India
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    • 240 5 SINGAPORE, Tues. A big reshuffle in the British Far East Command was announced here today. The head of all British lorces in the Far East, Air Chief Marshal, Sir John Grandy, have been promoted to Chief of Air Staff. Sir John will take
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    • 135 5 SINGAPORE, Tues. The Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Labour, Mr. Pang Tee Pow, has been appointed as the new Chairman of the Central Provident Fund Board. Mr. Pang replaces Mr. K M. Byrne, who is now the Singapore's High Commissioner to New Zealand. Mr. Pang Is
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    • 38 5 SINGAPORE. Tues. In our today's issue Page 5, the heading "Varsity students to stage march against academic freedom" is incorrect. The heading should be "Varsity students to stage march for academic freedom." The error is regretted.
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    • 142 5 MUAR, Tues. Part-time lecturers ok the Regional Teachers' Training Centres in Johore have hit out at the Ministry of Education's "lec-ture-flrst-pay-later" policy. In an interview with the Eastern Sun, a lecturer said: "Up to this moment, we have not been given an allowance dating
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    • 117 5 SINGAPORE, Tues. The Singapore and Norwegian Governments will sign a Double Taxation Agreement on Friday at 10 a.m. in the Ministry of Finance's Confere nee Room here. This was announced In an official statement today. This agreement will do away with double taxation and will prevent fiscal
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    • 45 5 SINGAPORE. Tues. The Acting Permanent Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister's Office, Mr. Wong Keng San. has been appointed Chairman of the Omnibus Services Licensing Authority. Mr. Wong is the former Registrar of Vehicles. He "Was also the Commissioner lor National Registration.
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    • 401 5  -  By ENG AH PAT SINGAPORE, Tues. A quiet and unassuming attractive member of the Singapore "secret service" Miss Lim Hsui Mei, today confounded spectators with the "high commendation" she received at a police presentation parade. Miss Lim, 24. is an administrative officer In
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    • 77 5 SINGAPORE. Tues. —Th# Singapore Manual and Mercantile Workers Union will hold a dinner in honour of Mr. Joseph Tan Meng Kwang, the Union's acting secretary on Sept. 24 at th« Trade Union House. Mr Joseph Tan who has been an active trade union leader, was awarded the "Public
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    • 163 5 SINGAPORE, Tues. Leaders of the Peninsula Malays Union will meet the President of the Republic, Enche Yusof bin Ishak, to discuss certain issues of the Muslim Law, which was passed by Parliament recently. In a press statement today, the union's Secretary, Enche Abdul
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 537 2 Why crack your head when you can tackle easier quiz like ours EASTERN SUN $3,000 Contest 1. 2. 3. CONTEST NO. 6 Quiz for September 7, 1966. What it myopia? What name is given to a measure of weight for gold and precious stones? Name the largest island in the
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    • 43 5 TIME AND TIDE Penang: 4.65 a.m. (7.2 ft.); 4.24 p.m. (6.5 ft). Port Swettenham: 8.23 a.m. (11.8 ft.); 9.30 p.m. (10.9 ft). Port Dickson: 10.11 am. (7.7 ft.); 10.05 p.m. (6.8 ft.). Singapore: 2.36 p.m. (8.0 ft.). Sedili Kechil: 1.10 p.m. (6.6 ft.).
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    • 51 5 I f 1 1 i 1 DIARY 7.30 p.m. Free film showf by the Ministry of Culture: Jalan Kuala Simpang Village; Changi Tamil School, Wing Loong Road; Kampong Lorong Koo Chye- and Fu Hwa School, Jurong Road, 154 m.s. 6.45 p.m. Sri Ramakrishna Temple. Bartley Road: Special prayers. AH are
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 280 6 LONDON, Tues. (UPI) pRIME Minister, Mr. Harold Wilson, in a last minute attempt to reduce tension over Rhodesia at the Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference opening today, yesterday offered to step down as conference chairman when Rhodesia is discussed. He
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    • 118 6 LEXINGTON, Kentucky, Tues. (AP) A 22-year-old student nurse, who had planned to study at the Frontier Nursing Service in Eastern Kentucky's Hills, died of injuries received in a traffic accident. She was Lora Jean Schlosser. who died in a Lexington Hospital on Sunday evening. State
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    • 78 6 KHARTOUM, Sudan, (UPI). Communist China has extended an informal Invitation to Sudanese President, Ismail El Azhari to attend China's National Day celebrations in Peking, it was disclosed yesterday. Foreign Minister, Ibrahim El Mufti said the President had indicated acceptance, although an official invitation has not yet
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    • 38 6 DJIBOUTI, French Somaliland, Toes (AP) Injured Somali Africans await an ambulance in a Djibouti square recently after French troops cleared m crowd awaiting the arrival of President Charles de Gaulle when violence erupted.
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    • 197 6 ATLANTIC CITY New Jersey, Tues. (AP) She is 19 years old, has 35-24-35 Inches measurements staked on a 123pound, 5-feet-6 frame and has brown hair and blue tyes. She can draw a whistle of appreciation from any man. That is the composite picture
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    • 108 6 TOKYO, Tues. (AFP) Typhoon Cora (No. 18) struck Miyakojima, in the Southern Ryukyus, West of Taiwan, with a record fury of 85.3 meters per second this afternoon. Considerable casualties and damage are feared but all telegraphic and telephone communications with the island have been cut off
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    • 23 6 LONDON, Tues. (UPI)— Malaysian Prime Minister, Tengku Abdul Rahman arrived here last night to attend the Commonwealth Conference starting today.
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    • 115 6 Ihis is the first picture of earth as seen from the vicinity of the moon. The picture was received from Lunar Orbiter at US-Spanish Robledo de Chavela Tracking Space Station. Just to the left Is the earth seen as though the picture was taken from
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    • 46 6 CHICAGO. Illinois, Tues (AFP) Chicago police sought two youths today believed to be gunmen who wounded 11 youngsters with carbine fire here last night. None of those shot, ranging from three to 17 years of age, were seriously hurt, police said today.
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    • 151 6 'SAIGON, Tues. (/FP) A regiment of South Korean troops about 5,000 men in all disembarked at the Port of Nha Trang today bringing the number of South Koreans operating in South Vietnam up to more than 25,000. This new regiment belongs to the
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    • 168 6 ATLANTA, Georgia. Tues. (AP). —Some 267 of Atlanta's 500 striking firemen have been suspended from their jobs, Five Chief C.H. Hildebrand announced yesterday. More will be suspended, the Chief said in a news conference at City Hall. "We are mailing notices now to all those who
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    • 52 6 CAIRO. Tues. (UPl).—The Siipreme State Security Court yesterday sentenced 35 members of the Moslem brotherhood to prison terms ranging from three years to life for active participation or complicity in a plot to assassinate U.A.R. President Gamal Abdel Nasser and overthrow the government. Eleven other defendant#
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    • 144 6 LONDON, Tues. (AFP) The London Times in an editorial yesterday urges the British government to retain as many Gurkhas as possible in the Far East. "The Foreign Exchange burden of keeping Gurkhas is as small to Britain as the benefits are large to the slender
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    • 59 6 LONDON, Tues. (AP) Air Marshal Sir John Grandy will become Royal Air Force Chief of Staff on April 1, 1967, the Defence Ministry announced yesterday. He will succeed Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Elworthy. The ministry gave no explanation for the change or Sir Charles'
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    • 20 6 BRUSSELS, Tues. (UPI). The Belgian government yesterday lifted its four-month-old freeze on prices originally imposed to check inflation.
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    • 208 6 BULAWAYO, Rhodesia, Tues (AP) The Anglican Bishop of Matebeleland (Province of Rhodesia) the Right Rev. Kenneth Skelton, last night accused the Rhodesian government of making contact between black and white people virtually impossible through censorship and control of free speech and discussion. Addressing the 14th session
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    • 242 6 OTTAWA, (AP) The Canadian press reposed last night increasing concern in Ottawa over thi American bombing of North Vietnam. The news agency quoted "military authorities" as saying the government believes the bombing is only driving the Communists away from the negotiating table.
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    • 146 6 CHICAGO, Tues. (UPI).— A car full of teen-agers rushine home from a beach party smashed into another auto near Clearwater, Florida, kiiiing seven and leaving three others injured. In Coldwater, Michigan, eight persons were killed when a car carrying five teen-agers collided with another
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    • 67 6 NAIROBI, Tues. (UPI).— Danish Foreign Minister, Per Haekkerup yesterday disagreed with French President Charles de Gaulle's call for an American withdrawal from Vietnam. He told a news conference here the solution of the Vietnam problem "does not lie in a unilateral withdrawal by either side." The only answer
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    • 56 6 NEW YORK, Tues. (UPI) The New York Times today criticised President Johnson lor "negative thinking" in his answer to French President Charles de Gaulle's peace proposals. "The President s negativism was no surprise," the Times said editorially. It added, however, "sophisticated diplomacy could have turned his (General de
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    • 141 6 CUMMINS PRISON FARM, Arkansas, Tues. (APi Tear gas and gunshots fired into the air broke up a sitdown strike by 144 convicti at Cummins State Prison Farm yesterday. Clarence Thornbrough, executive Aide to Governor Orval Faubus, announced the action Prison Superintendent O.E. Bishop
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    • 112 6 LJUBLJANA, Yugoslavia, Tues. (UPI). Miss Suzannt Worsdell of Bexlev Heath, Kent, England, died suddenly late yesterday at Ljubljana Hospital and brought the death toll in Thursday's Britannia plane crash to 97. Doctors at the hospital sa:d that Miss Worsdell, who had been listed among those
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    • 86 6 HAMPTON. Virginia, Tues. (UPI) Lunar Orbiter continues to transmit pictures of the moon to American monitors on earth. Scientists said yesterday the U.S. probe should finish sending its Lunar pictures, taken last month, sometime next week. So far, the 850-pound craft has sent back nearly 90
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    • 162 7 NEW YORK, Tues. (AP) Hundreds of police holding rifles and bullet-vests s'tcrmed a 21-storey luxury apartment building on Kew York's east side yesterday hoping to trap two jewel thieves who were surprised in the act. However, the burglars escaped after holding the residents who
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    • 103 7 MICHIGAN CITY, Indiapa. Tues. (UPI) John Mitchell, inmate-actor, in the Indiana State Prisons travelling "crime does not pay" ikit. proved his theatrical ebility once again early yesterday. Returning by bus to the prison from a performance at Goshen, Indiana, Mitchell, ♦2, asked the driver to
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    • 26 7 WASHINGTON. Tues. (AP) President Johnson returned to the White House early today after spending labour day on a speechmaking tour through Michigan and Ohio.
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    • 49 7 SAIGON Tues. The U.S. former Vice President RICHARD M. (left) talks with Gen. WILLIAM G WES his of toe Military Assistance Command in Vietnam recently. Mr. Nj* 0 c «?«2t last year been "Great Improvement" in the Vietnam situation since his visit last )ear. UPI Photo.
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    • 303 7 MENASHA. Wis. Tues. (UPI) —Lynda Bird Johnson, older daughter of the President, returned to Washington yesterday after spending the holiday weekend here with a friend and his family. Miss Johnson, 22, had been staying with Army Capt. Michael Phenner, 28, and his
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    • 324 7 ROME, Tues. (AP) AN Italian writer says it is possible that Benito Mussolini committed suicide after his capture by Communist partisans in 1945. The theory runs counter to virtually all histories, which state that the Fascist dictator was executed by machine
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    • 69 7 TOKYO. Tues. (AP).—Two U.S. planes were shot down over North Vietnam yesterday, Hanoi's official Vietnam news agency (VNA) said. VNA, in a broadcast monitored here, also said two U.S. aircraft —one FlO5 and one AD6 were downed on Sept. 3 in Ha Tinh province. The
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    • 228 7 FREDERICK, Maryland, Tues. (AP) Two pilots r were injured, neither seriously, when their midget planes collided yesterday while competing in the Washington National Air Races at the Frederick A race official said one pilot. Arnold C. Quarton, 42, of Sonara.
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    • 60 7 TAIPEH, Tues. (AFP) A German drama troupe named "Die Brucke" arrived here yesterday in the course of its round-the-world performance tour. The troupe will play "Buergen Schippel" a comedy written by Carl Serivem on Thursday evening. The performance here is jointly sponsored by the Sino-German cultural
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    • 239 7 VENICE. Italy, Tues. (AP) Critics warmly praised the German film "Abscheid Von Gestern" (Girl Without A History) yesterday at the 27th Venice Film Festival, which sunk deeper into controversy. They said Director Alexander Kluge's film about a young girl who rebels against society could
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    • 70 7 WILLIAMSBURG, Virginia. Tues. (UPI) Gen. Ne Win. Chairman of the Revolutionary Council of Burma, is scheduled to stop over in this 17th century colonial capital tomorrow before a White House visit. He will land from Burma at Langley Air Force Base in Hampton and be
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    • 64 7 MOSCOW, Tues. (UPI) The battered central Asian city of Tashkent was rocked again yesterday by an earthquake. The Soviet news agency TASS reported no casualties from the shcok, the latest, in a series to follow the April 26 quake which killec. at least 10 persons and injured
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    • 33 7 STOCKHOLM. Tues. (UPI) A unit of the Swedish U.N. battalion on Cyprus yesterday was alerted and moved near the suburb of Larnaca on the Southeastern Coast, it was learned here yesterday.
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    • 110 7 ACCRA, Ghana, Tues. (UPI) —Ghana has notified the Soviet Union, Communist China and eight East European nations she wants to renegotiate trade agreements signed by ousted President Kwame Nkrumah, it was announced yesterday. Reasons for renegotiating the agreements were not disclosed, but the announcement came
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    • 144 7 LJUBLJANA, Tues. Mr. Richard Marsh, British Minister of Power, currently holidaying in Yugoslavia, visits Miss Mary Lambley one of the survivors of the recent plane crash as she lies in hospital bed. The Britannia Airlines turbo-prop airliner crashed on final approach to Ljubljana airport, killing 92
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    • 167 7 PARIS. Tues. (UPI) United States Defence Secretary Mr. Robert S. McNamara called on China's leaders today to "listen and understand" that American military action in Vietnam poses no threat to them. In an interview with the Business Weekly Enterprise (SIC) he
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    • 67 7 CAIRO, Tues. (AP) President Nasser of the United Arab Republic has accepted an invitation from Mrs. Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, to pay an official visit to India next month, it was announced here today. The visit will start after President Naiser attends a "little
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    • 51 7 SEEATTLE Washington, Tues. (AP) —A seaman suffering from an eye injury was evacuated from the Russian motor vessel Volchanks off the Washington coast yesr terday and flown to Seattle by the U.S. Coast Guard for treatment. The Coast Guard identified the injured man as Sadyrin Gennadiy, an electric
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    • 164 7 CHICAGO, Tues. (UPI) The labour day weekend became the bloodiest in the nation's motoring history on Sunday night, breaking the record of 575 traffic deaths set a year ago. For the fourth time this year, a holiday weekend traffic toll established a new record.
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    • 173 7 SEATTLE, Washington, Tues. (AP) Idaho logger, Herman Carl Schreib may be allowed to live out his life with a bullet in his brain, a spokesman for King County Hospital said yesterday. "The doctors are running a series of tests to determine whether to remove the
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    • 69 7 PORT VILA. New Hebrides, Tues. (AP) —President Charles de Gaulle of France arrived in the New Hebrides from New Caledonia this morning on a one-day official visit. He reached Port Vila, capital of this group of 80 islands in the South Pacific, after a 110-minute
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    • 46 7 ATLANTA, Tues. (UPI)— The first serious fire since 500 fireman went on strike three das ago swept a twostorey brick partment house yesterday injuring one person. Twelve others escaped unharmed. Only four rank-and-file firemen were seen in the crew battling the blaze.
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    • 146 7 NEW YORK, Tues. (AP) Eliahu Ben-Morin, writer on Middle Eastern Affairs and a Zionist leader. died yesterday in Mount Sinai hospital. He was 64. He helped doctor Abba Hillel Silver, Chairman of the Zionist Emergency Council, present to the United Nations the Zionist
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    • 127 7 BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Tues. (AP) Student groups yesterday called a nationwide University strike tomorrow in protest against government intervention at nine state Universities. Scattered student violence broke out recently as the Universities inched toward normal operation. The Universities were reopened three weeks after the military
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    • 82 7 SAIGON, Tues. (UPI) Thirteen American physicians arrived in Vietnam yesterday to help relieve the shortage of doctors throughout the country under a U.S. sponsored volunteer programme. The doctors will spend two months working in Vietnamese Hospitals. Two more doctors are scheduled to arrive in Saigon later
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    • 355 10 SAIGON, Tucs. (AFP) SOUTH Vietnam's Foreign Minister, Dr. Tran Van Do, said today that all necessary steps would be taken "including the invasion of North Vietnam" to stop infiltration from the north. Dr. Do said the government considered the situation in the demilitarised
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    • 88 10 SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, Tues. (AP) President Joaquin Balaguer yesterday announced that former General Elias Wessin Y Wessin has been named alternate ambassador and military advisor of the Dominican Republic delegation to the United Nations. In a radio speech, Mr. Balaguer also declared that Commodore Francisco Rivera
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    • 208 10 IPOH, Tues. Mr. Justice Chans Min Tat was told of a 'mysterious flying missile' which hit the driver of a motor car, thereby causing a road fatality at the 42nd milestone in Teluk Anson. The driver of the car, Goh Koo was acquitted and
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    • 52 10 VIENNA, Tues. (UPI) The night watchman at the Vienna University Library has been arrested for stealing books from the library. The unidentified watchman, who had over 2,000 SIX at his h °me told he was a book lover. the volumes dealt IlJ 1 J? te i grai mathematics
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    • 56 10 Indonesian army strongman Gen. Suharto (left) presides over a meeting of Indonesian military and civilian leaders held in Jakarta recently. Nearly 1 50 leaders of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Police, and civil administration from various local regions,attended the conference. Sitting on the right is Deputy Premier in charge of
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    • 48 10 JAKARTA, Tues. Indonesian militant students with their flags and banners storm up hillside to the Indonesia's Parliament to protest against President Sukarno's Independence Day speech while an armoured car guards along fence of the Parliament building recently. United Press International Photo. United Press International Photo.
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    • 151 10 IPOH, Tues. Judges and Magistrates should be able to expect correct guidance and submission on the law from members of the bar, commented Mr. Justice Chang Min Tat in the High Court today. Justice Chang said this when he allowed the appeal of the DPP, Inche Idris
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    • 24 10 BELGRADE, Tues. (UPI) King Olav V of Norway arrived here for a six-day official visit and talks with President Josip Broz Tito.
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    • 129 10 MONROE, Michigan, Tues. (AP) A fisherman. going to the aid of a drowning man on Sunday hooked the swimmer's big toe with his fishing tackle and reeled him to safety. A second swimmer was drowned. Hazen B. Harrison. 21, was reeled to safety from a lagoon
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    • 196 10 LAKELAND, New Jersey, Tues. (UPI) A man and boy forced their way into the Camden County juvenile shelter here v*ith a shotgun early yesterday and fled with a 15-year-old girl prisoner. Police later arrested the girl's aunt, Evelyn Nagel, 57, of Runnemeade. New Jersey, on charges
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    • 202 10 GENOA, Italy, Tues. (AP) A man known as Tarzan' for his notorious agility as a housebreaker was arrested last night and accused of stealing 300 million lire US$4BO,OOO (MSI.4 mil.) worth of jewellery from Genoa's upper class in less than a year. Police said that
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    • 643 10  -  By Otto Mons, By Otto Mons, a Swiss journalist and author. SIXTEEN years have passed since Stalin established the Warsaw Pact as a counter-force to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). Each of the East European countries that came under Soviet influence after World War II
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    • 290 10 MANILA, Tues. (UPI) The Philippine today launched a full scale investigation of corrupts in high places and special precautions are beinf taken to literally prevent innocent bystanders fro® being caught in a crossfire. Rep. Floro Crisologo (Nacionalista) set the scene for the anticipated fireworks last week
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    • 43 10 ANDANCETTE. Fr £*S Tues. (UPI) The PM Briancon Express collilo with a truck at guarded crossing y* ste 'jL» Then a freight tram pWJJ ed into the wreckage. persons, including truck's two occupants killed and at least !•>£ jured In the double '<&***
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  • 380 8 so-called great proletariat cultural revolution now in progress in Communist China is aimed at destroying culture in its entirety education, arts, science, religion, ancestral worship The Red Guards are being used to reduce the Chinese intellectuals to the lowest human denominator. Maoism reveals itself as an attempt
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  • 361 8 gINCE August 9, 1965 the Malaysian Government has adopted measures aimed at cutting all the old ties from Singapore. Many people on both sides of the Causeway have failed to note the significance and implications of these measures and of official statements. Singapore Government leaders have, during
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  • 1040 8 "INSIDE INDONESIA" with Musa Scully, our staff reporter who has just returned from a ten-day tour of the Republic. He and a group of Malaysian journalists were guests of the Indonesian government for the recent Indonesia's Independence Day celebrations. This is the fourth of a
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  • Commercial and industrial
    • 246 9 SINGAPORE, Tues. An influential financial source today welcomed the agreement establising the Asian Development Bank. A copy of this agreement was recently placed before the Singapore Parliament by the Minister for Finance Mr. Lim Kim San. It is to-date the most tangible form of regional
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    • 98 9 SINGAPORE, Tues. The Association of Banks in Malaysia made the following changes in its rates to merchants todav: VEW YORK: Buying T.T. 82-5/8; Airmail O.D. 32-3/4; 00 d/st. 33-1/4 credit bills; 53-3/8 trade bills. CANADA: Buying T.T. 351/8; Airmail OJD. 35-1/4: 90 d/st. 35-13/16 credit bills; 85-7/8 trade
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    • 16 9 SINGAPORE, Tues, The tin price for today was $606-1/8 per picul, down 75 cents.
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    • 91 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Business organisations and associations in Malaysia have been invited to participate in the International Conference on Farm Machinery and Equipment to be held in Manila from Dec. 12 to 14. The Agricultural Machinery Distributors Association Incorporation (A.M.D.A.) has extended the invitation through
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    • 72 9 NEW YORK, Tues. (AP) Trans World Airlines announced that it had purchased 28 Boeing Jet Airliners fo r nearly 410 million U.S. dollars recently. Charles C. Tillinghast Jr., TWA President, said the purchase includes 12 OSJTgeneration giant 747S and eight "stretched" Trijet 7275. The order is
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    • 130 9 SINGAPORE, Tues. Singapore and Malaysia investors can now get more Information about public limited companies which are listed on the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore. The first valuable Handtook of Malaysian and Singapore companies on the Official List will be produced by the
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    • 303 9 SINGAPORE, Tues Sept. first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur to-day at 60-1 cents per lb. down half cent. The tone was quiet. Xhe downward movement continued during the morning on lower than expected London advices and pressure of Sept. tendering.
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    • 113 9 It's just P O LONDON, Tues. (UPI) P. and O. Orient Lines is changing its title and from October will be known simply as P. and O. The move marks the full integration of the two fleets following the merger in 1960 of Orient Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. with P.
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    • 157 9 SINGAPORE, The following ships are expected to be in port today:— Godwons Vessels 1/2 Hammonia 3/4 Lycaon 5 Sandra 6/7 Golden Wonder 8/9 Mirto 10/11 Jesenice 13/14 Calchas 15/16 Ardpatrick 18 Levernbauk 21/22 Empire Gannet 19 U.S. Tourist 23/24 Maxwell Brander 25/26 Van Neck 29/30 Rajula 31/32 Dolius
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    • 514 9 SINGAPORE, Tues. The call by a leading trade body here for preservation of the present one currency system had no effect on the Stock Exchange to-day. In another day of dull trading, the main feature was the continued slide in Gammons, following yesterday's dividend anr.ouncement (15
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    • STOCK EXCHANGE-MALAYSIA, S'PORE
      • 210 9 B S Boustead 1.52 Chemical Co 1.43 1.44 Cola Storage 2.86 2.90 Dunlop 2.40 E. Smelting 4.00 4.04 Esso Ords 2.96 2.97 United Holdings CCR 1.86 1.87 F-& N. Ords 3.60 3.62 Gammon CD 1.98 2.00 G. E. Life 62.50 Guinness 2.27 2.28 Hume Pref 1 52 Hotel S'pura
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      • 47 9 Aokam 3.70 Austral Amal. CD 23/7* 23/10J Austral Malay CDXR 32/6 Ayer Hitam 21/4* 21/9 Berjuntal 32/7* 33/GoDene 33/6 Hong Kong 31/- Idris Hyd. 14/6 15/6 K'pong Lanjut 23/9 24/1* Kamunting 18/9 19/6 Kramat 11/10* Kuala Kampar 24/10* 25/3 Kuchai 2.00 Larut 12/Llngul 2.00 2.10 Mil
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      • 40 9 Central Prop 82 .85 City Dev. 35 .35* Faber Union 50 .55 Island Hotel 56 Island Pen 45 .47 K L. Prop 86 .88 San Holdings 30 .30* Sel. Prop 1.25 1.30 S'pore Land 58* .61 Town City 82
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      • 52 9 Bassett (50cts) 77* .84* Batu Lintang 1.70 1.75 Benta 1.40 Borelli (New) 2.15 Kempas 1.92 1.98 Kepong Plant 2.00 New Scudai 4.10 4.50 New Serendah 2.30 2.31 Riverview 2/5 Sel. Coconut 2.80 3.00 Sungei Bagan 1.56 Suneei Tukane 1.05 Temerloh XD 2.00 2.10 Ulu Benut 1.50 1.65 United
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      • 48 9 Anglo-Asian XD Anglo Oriental 3/3/3 B. Kawan XD 5/3 Bk S'bawang XD 5/4 5/7 Cicely 2/5 2/7 Consol Salak 2/5 Craigielea 1/5 E. Asiatic 1/5* 1/7* Guthrie K. L. Kepong 2/1* 2/3 Kulim 1/7 1/8 Malaya General 2/5 Merlimau Pegoh 2/- Petaling 3/5 Strs Rubber i/i*
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      • 28 9 First Malayan 2.18 2.28 Second Malayan 1.54 1.64 Third Malayan 1.13 1.24 Malaysian Commerce 89 1.00 Mai. Savings Fund XD 1.30 1.40 Sterling Commodity 3/11 4/6
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    • AIR MOVEMENTS – SINGAPORE, KUALA LUMPUR
      • 183 9 TIME AIRLINE FROM 8 30 a.m. MAL 019 Kuala Lumpur. 8 50 a.m. JAL 712 Jakarta. 9.30 a.m MAL 121 Kuala Lumpur. 9.30 a.m. Thai 404 Jakarta. 10.55 a.m. MAL 005 Penang, Ipoh, Kuala Lumpur, Malacca. Kuching. 10.30 a.m. MAL 451 11.45 a.m. Air Viet 648 Saigon,
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      • 144 9 TIME AIRLINE TO 7.15 a.m. MAL 452 Kuching. 7.31 a.m. MAL 122 Kuala Lumpur. 8.30 a.m. MAL 616 Kuala Lumpur, Hongkong. Bangkok. Hongkong, Taipeh. Osaka, Tokyo. 9 00 a.m. CX 572 9.00 a.m. MAL 044 K. Lumpur, Kuantan, K. Bahru. i0.15 a.m. MAL 456 Kuching. Jesselton. 11.05
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      • 144 9 TIME AIRLINE FROM 8.15 a.m. MAL (ML 122) Singapore. 8.25 a.m. MAL (ML 032) Penang, Malacca. 9.15 a.m. MAL (ML 005) Penang. Ipoh. 9.15 a.m. MAL (ML 616) Singapore. 10.05 a.m. MAL (ML 044) Singapore. 10.30 a.m. Air Vietnam 4 <VN 648) Saigon. 10.55 a.m. Thai
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      • 136 9 TIME AIRLINE TO 7.15 a.m. MAL (ML 019) Singapore. 8.45 a.m. MAL (ML 121/456) Singapore, Kuching, Jesselton. 8.40 a.m. MAL (ML 032) Ipoh, Penang. Kota Bahru. 9.30 a.m. MAL (ML 005) Malacca, Singapore. 9.50 a.m. MAL (ML 616) Hongkong. 10.20 a.m. MAL (ML 044) Kuantan, Kota
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    • 124 9 SINGAPORE, Tues. Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange noon prices today were: Previous Today's Sellers Sellers Coconut oil (FOB) Bulk Aug 44.00 Coconut oil (FOB) Drums Aug 45.50 Sugar (Java) ex-godown.. 25.50 Nutmegs 110s 475.00 Nutmegs B W 250.00 Garbled Lampong Black Pepper (FOB) 140.00n 137.50 Pepper Black Special Sarawak (FOB)
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  • 239 11 T \IPEH, Tues. (UPI) A CCC-130 giant transport of the American Air force was reported missing since today and was feared lost, a spokesman c the U.S. Taipeh Air «tation said. The spokesman said the plane, carrying five crewmeir.bers and three passengers, was supposed to
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  • 181 11 SAIGON, Tues. (UPI) Vietcong terrorists blew up a Bouth Vietnamese election information centre today in a daring daylight attack on the edge of Saigon. U.S. spokesman said no one was killed or injured when the cement-walled, tile-roofed building shattered with a roar at Siesta time
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  • 752 11 SAIGON, Tues. The Republic of Vietnam has invited between 30 and 40 countries to send observers to its Conftituent Assembly elections scheduled to be held throughout the country on September 11th. This invitation was sent ®n August 6th in a letter from Foreign Minister
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  • 316 11 SAIGON, Tues. (AP) A fresh surge in the allied troop buildup is scheduled this month and will bring at least 33,000 more fighting men to the side of the South Vietnamese. The arrival of large contingents of American, Korean and Filipino soldiers will swell
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  • 317 11 SAIGON, Tues. (AP) Carrier-launched U.S. planes attacked three freight trains in North Vietnam yesterday and pilots reported knocking out 34 boxcars and damaging 38 more. The Navy fighter-bombers struck In wave after wave on the trains in the area of Nam Dinh. a large marshalling
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  • 750 11 TOKYO, Tues. (AP) Tokyo, the world's most populous city, is growing in a new direction upward. Skyscrapers are beginning to change the profile of the giant metropolis. There was a time when a law banned buildings more than 31 metres (102feet) tall. But
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  • 77 11 TOKYO. Tues. (AP) Agriculture and Forestry Minister Ralzo Matsuno said today this years rice crop Is expected to become the highest on rc **d the present good weather continues. Mr. Matsuno told a< regular cabinet meeting that the outlook as of ®ggkj for this year was 13,034,000
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  • 61 11 SEOUL, Tues. (AP) General Kim Kc-Won assumed his new post as South Korean Army Chief of Staff in a change of command ceremony here this morning. He succeeded General Kim Yong-Bae, who retired from active service during the ceremony. The outgoing Army chief had resigned in connection with
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  • 106 11 MANILA, Tues. (UPI).— Phnippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos warned smugglers today against playing around with the law while he's away. Pres. Marcos disclosed that big-time smugglers had started offering bribes to ranking military and police officers to close their eyes to smuggling activities during his threeweek absence starting
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  • 153 11 NEW DELHI, India, Tues. (AP) About 3,000 Delhi University students stormed off the campus yesterday, burned a city bus, stoned firemen and assaulted a group of Indian journalists. Truckloads of armed Police rushed to the scene and held the students in check and slowly dispersed them.
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  • 116 11 JAKARTA, Tues. <AP).— Indonesia's top General warned the Communist Party may attempt a comeback this month. General Abdul Haris Nasution. Chairman of Congress, told a student gathering here yesterday the situation in Indonesia was not as calm as it looked. The four-star General, who
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  • 779 12  -  By Peter Boog Tiivrnnv Tues (AP) Burma's General Ne Win. R who Uave' thls week for official visits to the United States and Japan, s e n "leaders most respected but least known leaders. The lack of publicity about the 52-year-old professional soldier
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  • 153 12 CAPE KENNEDY, Tues. (UPI) —Navy friends Charles (Pete) Conrad and Richard F. Gordon sot a holiday on Monday before they 50 back to work preparing for their three-day Gemini 11 space mission scheduled Friday. The two astronauts flew to Houston, Texas, headquarters for the manned spaceflight
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  • 57 12 MOSCOW, Tnes.— More than 4,000 delegates from 43 countries attended the 18th International Pyschologists' Congress at the Kremlin Congress Palace of Moscow. This was the first time that representatives from Singapore, Zambia, Uruguay and Cuba addressed the mammoth gathering. Photo by V. Che red instev shows
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  • 302 12 pAM NE VILLAGE, Vietnam, Tues. (UPI) Thirteen months ago American Marines, tired of taking daily casualties inside their own lines, put Cam Ne Village to the torch. The cameras of an American Television Network captured the scene as Marines used cigarette lighters to set fire
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  • 309 12 CALCUTTA, Tues. (AP)— Step into a dusty little shop in any Indian town and you can quickly get a cheap pair of spectacles-—and perhaps a blinding case of Trachoma or Glaucoma. Government statistics reveal that of India's 495 million people, 4.3 million are blind-an estimated quarter
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  • 899 12 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. r valuable work of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines in raising the quality and quantity of rice consumed by countless millions in Asia, including Malaysia, j| described in detail in a recent issue of the magazine Saturday Rpvi Plc%
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  • 175 12 STUTTGART, Tun (DaD) A large German automobile firm re. cently carried out safety tests in public that were witnessed by German and foreign journalists. Accidents were simulated to take place "in real life*' A car driving at a speed of 67.5 km. hit a standini car.
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  • 377 14 FOREST HILLS, New York, Tues. (AP). Kerry Melville and Owen Davidson, a couple of overlooked Australians, shook up the seedings in the United States tennis championships yesterday and an unheralded Texan, Sherwood Stewart, came close to adding fourthseeded Tony Roche of Australia to
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  • 118 14 FRANKFURT, Germany, Tues. (UPI) Cassius Clay's sparring partners went all out yesterday to flatten the champion in his hardest workout so far for his Sept. 10 title fight against Karl Mildenbergeer of Germany. "Nobody can say we are not concerned about this fight," trainer Angelo Dundee
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  • 100 14 KINGSTON, Ontario, Tues. (AP) International grand master Larry Evans, 34, of New York won the Canadian Open Chess Championship yesterday by beating Laszlo Witt of Montreal in the final round of the 10-round Swiss style tournament Evans finished with nine points, one-half more than two
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  • 108 14 LONDON, Tues. (UPI).— Results of yesterday's English county cricket matches: HASTINGS Kent v Surrey (knockout competition) Surrey beat Kent by 16 runs. Surrey 122 (45.2 overs) dye 4 for 21, Luckhurts 3 for 23 Kent 106 (47.2 overs) Arnold 3 for 12 Willett 3 for 27.
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  • 253 14 KIEL, Tues. Th e 1972 Olympic Games will be held in Munich (Federal Republic of Germany). But even now, six years before the Games begin, the first pre-Olympic contest is being fought. The contest has been going on for several months and the
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  • 117 14 LONDON, Tues. (AFP) Bookmakers face a big pay-out over jockey Lester Piggott's five winners at Warwick yesterday. One leading firm's liability was over £50.000 in the trade room, and another said that they would pay out "in excess of 100,000". A spokesman for a third
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  • 208 14 FOREST HILLS. New York. Tues (UPI) "I had nothing to lose so I just kept hitting." said jubilant, 19-year-old Kerry Melville of Melbourne, Australia, after downing Wimbledon champion Billie Jean King of Long Beach. California, in the second round of the U.S. tennis championships, 6-4.
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  • 108 14 DOUGLAS, Isle of Man, Tues. (UPI) Mist and rain cut visibility to 15 to 20 yards in places during practice for next week's Grand Prix motorcycle races continued on the Isle of Man T.T. course last night. Conditions were so bad on the
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  • 122 14 DARLINGTON, South Carolina, Tues. (UPI) Veteran driver Darel Dieringer won the 17th annual southern 500 stock car race yesterday in a nip-and-tuck duel with young Richard Petty. Petty's blue Plymouth was faster than Dieringers black and red mercury Comet most of the race but
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  • 71 14 BERLIN, Tues (AP) An official of the world weightlifting championships said today 29 nations have entered in the competition, set for Oct. 16-23 in East Berlin. Those entered are: United States, Italy, Luxemburg, Denmark, Norway. Mexico, Hungary, England, Bulgaria, Sweden, France, Switzerland, Canada, Turkey,
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  • 40 14 SHREVEPORT, Louisiana, Tues. (AP) Top-seeded Robert Brien of Sydney, Australia, won the men's singles title in the Louisiana open' tennis tournament yesterday. Brien, a student at Mississippi State University, defeated Gordon Traylor of Shreveport 6—o, 6—4.
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  • 125 14 LONDON, Tues. (AFP) Australian jockey Garnet Bougoure is injured and will be unable to ride Crisp and Even in the St. Leger tomorrow. He broke a shoulder bone and fractured his ribs in the Grove Park Nursery at Warwick yesterday when his mount. Chance
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  • 96 14 NEW YORK. Tues. (UPI) "King" Pele scored once and assisted on another goal yesterday in leading Santos of Brazil to a 4-1 victory over Inter of Milan before a record crowd of 41,598 at Yankee Stadium. The game, billed as "the unofficial club soccer championship of
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  • 81 14 LONDON, Tues. (AP) Results of last night's English soccer league are: Division One Aston Vilia 0 Southampton Blackpool 1 Liverpool 2 Division Two Millwall 1 Conventry 0 Division Three Darlington 1 Swansea 0 Leyton Orient 0 Torquay 0 Peterborough 2 Gillingham Mansfield 2 Oldham 4 Division Four
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  • 144 14 LISBON, Tues. (AP) Sir Stanley Rous of Britain, president of the International Soccer Federation (FIFA) said yesterday he was sure a satisfactory arrangement could be found for the inclusion of more African and Asian teams in the World Cup tournament. "This is
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  • 123 14 Lee Han Seng who won the Formula Libre event for cars (75 laps over 158 miles) receiving thi challenge trophy from Datin Salmah Harun, wife of the Selangor Mentri Besar. Steve Holland, from Hong Kong, receiving the trophy for third prize tor the Formula libri event for cars
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  • 876 16 80,000 by January —health director LOMBOK Island, Indonesia, Tues. (AP) More than 6,000 people starved to death this year on this small island lying beside lush Bali. The death toll could hit 80,000 by January unless tons of rice are shipped in immediately. Doctor Arbain
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  • 198 16 MANILA, Tues. (UPI) Malaysia has pledged to help the Philippines fight smuggling but believes the basic problem "is trade, not smuggling," according to a report published here today. "My government would like very much to help President Marcos solve the problem of smuggling
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  • 193 16 MANILA Tues. (UPI) President Ferdinand E. Marcos threatened today to use his emergency powers against crooked merchants who are hoarding rice, resulting in soaring rice prices. The government's rice and corn agency reported that the high prices particularly in the provinces, were the work
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  • 140 16 MANILA. Tues. (AP> —Manila's police chief has thrown a forty-man cordon around the House of Congress to prevent a "possible bloodbath" between armed bodvgaurds of two feuding congressmen. Brigadier General Ricardo Papa told newsmen last night that he had also considered having the cars of the congressmen
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  • 22 16 PRINCE Norodon Sihanouk, the Cambodian head of State doing manual work with the Royal Khmer Socialist Youth.
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  • 584 16 HONG KONG, Tues. (UPI) Troops of the Red Chinese Army have been alerted to prevent the spread of violence by China's Red Guard movement, according to a Peking Radio report heard here today. The broadcast disclosed that military units throughout the country had held
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  • 167 16 DETROIT. Tues. (UPI) President Johnson, in an apparent reply to French President Charles de Gaulle, said yesterday he would set a timetable for removal of troops from Vietnam at any time the Communists draw up a schedule to halt infiltration. He told a labour day audience
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