Eastern Sun, 27 December 1966

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  • 25 1 EASTERN SUN Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION Estd. 1966. Vol. t No. 161 Tuesday, December 27 1966. ☆MC (P) 1942 KDN 2309 Price 15 cents
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  • 354 1 SAIGON, Mon. (I PI) Bombs, bullets and boomIrr artillery barrages blasted the blood-smeared 48h■ ommunist-violated C hristmas ceasefire into history early today. American troops moved back to ji:ncle battlegrounds alert for new Vieteong strongpoints military intelligence said was set up during the
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  • 242 1 WASHINGTON. Mo n. (UPI) —Australia's Prime Minister Harold Holt said today the United States military effort in Vietnam "gives heart to all of South-east Asia", and contributes to the security of Australia. The Prime Minister, in an interview i n the magazine "U.S.
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    663 1 JAKARTA, MO\DAY: <UPI) THE special military tribunal sentenced former Indonesian Air Force Commander Dhani to death for his role in last years abortive communist-backed coup late Saturday night. THE presiding judge announced the verdict' after finding Dhani guilty of assisting and conspiring with subversive elements to overthrow
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  • 248 1 CHICAGO. Mon. A wintry white blanket of snow covered the east, upper mid-west and parts of the south on Christmas Day. Record low temperatures spread from Missouri to North Carolina. Two persons froze to death in Pennsylvania. The Chr'stmas Eve snowstorm that buffeted the
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  • 83 1 PEORIA. Arizona. Mon.— Raphael Apodaca has lost 250 pounds in eight months, and he ate a big Christmas dinner in celebration. Authorities at Maricopa County Ho>pital in Phoenix, whore Apodaca has been under treatment, allowed him to go home for the holiday.
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  • 83 1 MANILA Mon. Philippines immigration authorities today held two Chinese suspected of being illegal immigrants shortly after their arrival from Hong Kong. The two were identified as David Coo, 2fi and Daniel Coo. 25. According to Immigration Officer Lamberto Almeda. the two presented themselves as brothers and said they
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  • 40 1 AMRITSAR, Punjabi Suba, Mon. An emissary from Premier Indira Gandhi arrived here today with a lastminute compromise proposal expected to induce Sikh leader. Sant Fateh Singh, and his followers to renounce their decision to burn themselves to death.
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  • 449 1 DANANG. Vietnam, Mon. (I PI) The official death 101 l in the Vietnam war's worst air disaster soared to 111 today as grim-faced U.S. Marines dug more broken bodies from tlie charred village of Binh Thai. The dead included 107 Vietnamese villagers and
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  • 60 1 SAIGON. Mon. (UPI) Communists violated the 48hour Christmas ceasefire more than 120 times. American spokesman, still calling violations "incidents.'' said there were slightly more than 80 reported aganst American and free world forces. Vietnamese ipokesmen reported 42 more This compared with 84 violations dunne last year's
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  • 391 2 Remaining rated unions urged to comply with the law SINGAPORE, Mon. The Singapore Nationol Trades Union Congress today made known its view that strike action by the remaining affiliated unions of the Public Daily-Rated Employees Unions Federation would be a wasted and negative effort.
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  • 323 2 SINGAPORE, Mon. The President of the Public Daily-Rated Employees' Union Federation, >lr. K. Suppiah, today lashed out at the Government for breaking the existing labour laws. He remarked: "If the Government can flout the existing laws then It can expect that the unions to follow
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  • 146 2 SINGAPORE, Mon. Mr. Jack Oei Tjong If, son of the late Mr. Oei Tiong Ham. unveiled a plaque on Thursday, Dec. 22, ocmmemorating his father's donation of $150,000 for the building of a hall in the former Raffles College. The University of Singapore now
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  • 84 2 SINGAPORE Mon An a:r services agreement between Singapore and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan was signed on Dec. 22. this year. The agreement was reached following negotiations from Dec 19 between delegations of the two countries. The Pakistan delegation was headed by Mr. F. M.
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  • 746 2 SINGAPORE, Mon. The I 'diversity of Singapore has played an important role in implementing the Government's policies to give equal treatment to the four main streams of education and to achieve the objective of building a multi-cultural society. The Development Officer of the University of
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  • 153 2 SINGAPORE, Mon. A three-year Collective Agreement was signed last Tuesday between Dunlop Malayan Industries Limited on account of the Tvre, Sales and Administrative Divisions and the National Union of Employees in Companies Manufacturing Rubber Products. This is the result of a series of negotiations over several
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  • 199 2 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Singapore Public DailyRated Market and Hawkers Workers' Union declared today that it will not join in the strike on Dec. 30 as planned by the 13 Unions affiliated to the Public Daily-Rated Employee! Unions' Federation. The Federation, the parent tx>dy. which
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  • 50 2 SINGAPORK. Mon. —Lionel Hampton and his group are due to arn\e here tomorrow afternoon The President of the Musicians t'n on of Singapore will award Lionel Hampton and members of his group with honorary mem-ber.-hip This is the first to be given to any mternatisnal artistes.
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  • 286 2 SINGAPORE. Mon. Robert Vaughn, of the man from l .N C.L.E. fame, was given a rousing welcome bv hundreds of screaming and tearing teen-agers when he arrived tonight for a two-day visit. The I"TA French Airline plane carrying aughn. better known to T.V. and screen
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    • 711 2 YOUR r fe r i E-^JLx. t I I wm IH iSO CHANNEL 5 Kuala Lumpur and Pulau Plnanr; 6 Ipoh and Melaka; 3 TO Johore Bahru; 4 Tatping: 7 Ba(u Pahat: 9 Kluanc (Singapore viewers, please twitch to channel 3 for T.V. Malaysia programmes). P.M. 5.45 OPENING ANNCT Pros.
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  • 524 3  -  170 TEXT STORES GUTTED ON XMAS By Martin Lim SINGAPORE, Mon. Neatly $1 million worth of textile goods were destroyed when fire broke out at 11 o clock last night inside People's Park. The fire gutted about 170 textile stores. Charred bales of cloth
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  • 153 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. A Royal Air Force Squadron shield will be presented to the people of Kampong Pahang, Pulau Tekong. off Singapore, on Dec. 28, to mark their two-year friendship with the RAF per- i sonnel. The two years of friendship between No. 26 Squadron of
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  • 118 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. A three-week Land Rover engine training course was recently conducted at Champion Motors (M) Ltd. in Kuala Lumpur. The course, which commenced on Dec. 1, was conducted by Mr. J. Joss, technical representative from the Rover Company, Solihull. England. Those attending the course
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  • 560 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Singapore Fish Merchants Association today sent a letter to the Burmese Government to expedite the release of 29 of its members believed to have been detained by the Burmese naval authorities. The letter was sent by its President, Mr. Phee
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  • 94 3 KAMPAR. Mon. Two thugs robbed a girl of her gold chain and locket and pedalled away on her bicycle in a hold-up here at week-end. Lee Yong, 20, a labourer of the Tong Ming Tin Mine, Kampar. had just left her home at Mambang
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  • 129 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. Alitalia Airlines recently announced that it had placed an order with Boeing for the purchase of four Jumbo Jets B 747. Each aircraft has a capacity of 50 first class and 450 economy class seats, while the all-cargo version can carry 90 tons
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  • 122 3 SINGAPORE, Mon: —The International Folk Dance Club of the Chinese YMCA here will hold a social gathering on Sunday, Jan. 1. next year, at 8 J? 111 its auditorium, 16 South Pier, to celebrate the Christmas /New Year season. Programmes for the evening will be
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  • 332 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. An international Russian Grand Master of Chess, Mr. Averbakh Yuri, 44, is expected to be in Singapore to meet local chess enthusiasts after the Chinese New Year. He caught local officials of the Singapore Chess Federation by surprise when
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  • 80 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. Qantas operations will reach Its normal level by Jan. 14. next year, except for one Kangaroo route service and the Mexico City terminator. The Company's time table services will be operating at that time and the build-up of its services following the end of the
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  • 248 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Indian High Commissioner in Singapore, Mr. Surendra Sinh Alirajpur, has called upon Sikhs who are Singapore citizens to devote their energies to the building up of Singapore as a modern welfare State. Mr. Surendra was speaking during a meeting with a
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    • 55 3 SINGAPORE DIARY 7.30 p.m. Victoria Theatre. Empress Place: "A Night of Children's Plays". 8 p.m. National Theatre, Tank Road: Lionel Hampton Show, organised by the Singstar Associates Ltd. 7.30 p.m. Free film shows by the Ministry of Culture: Changi Village Market Open Space; Kampong Goh Soon, Sembawang; Marsilling English School;
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  • 2074 4  -  By TAI 5 INCONN Kuala Lumpur, Monday "NO MAN is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main." That was written by John Donne over three centuries ago. And Malaysia has found out in
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 644 5 BEVERLY HILLS. California, Mon. (AP) —Yuletide f; ed the home of actress jayne Mansfield yesterday—is "her 6-year-old son Zoltan returned home from a month's stay in a hospital after being mauled by a lion. •It's the niost beautiful Christmas a mother could have." Miss Mansfield said as
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    • 217 5 BANGKOK, Mon. (AFP) Communist guerillas hare stepped up their activities in the northeast provinces of Thailand in the past week after a comparative lull early this month, Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn de- clared today. Mr. Kittikachorn told a press conference that five Communists
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    • 299 5 JAKARTA, Mon. (AFP)—The Indonesian "KAMI" "Students Action Front today described the President as "The great leader of the old order" who had failed so far to mobilise forces for his struggle against the new order. The students expected the President to apply a "sly
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    • 57 5 TEHERAN. Mon. (AFP)— Pakistani Foreign Minister Mr. Sharif Ud Din Pirzada has started talks here —belived to be on economic cooperation with Iranian Premier Amir Abbas Hovia, it was learned today. Political sources said they began meetings yesterday, morning and were discussing co-operation between the two nations as
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    • 226 5 NEW DELHI, Mob. (AP Except for Japan, most countries of Asia have not yet emancipated their women, the International Union of Family Organisations was told at its convention here. Mrs. Yamamoto Sugi. of the Japan Family Life Problems Research Association. told the group,
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    • 88 5 LOS ANGELES. Mon. (AP) Legendary gambler Nicholas Andrea "Nick the Greek" Dandolos, known as the King of the High Rollers, died last night, a hospital spokesman said. He succumbed at Mt. Sinai Hospital shortly before midnight of complications which followed a heart attack suffered on Dec.
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    • 155 5 TOKYO. Mon. (UPI).— Four American women arrived in Hanoi to inspect damage by American air raids against the North Vietnamese capital and were "shocked" by what they saw. North Vietnam's official news agency "VNA" reported today. VNA's broadcast, monitored in Tokyo, said the four
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    • 93 5 CHICAGO, Illinois, Mon. (AP) The final day of the United States 78-hour Christmas holiday traffic death count opened today with fatalities running 20 per cent behind last Christmas, and the National Safety Council said it was a hopeful sign. The toll stood at 417 early in the morning.
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    • 94 5 JAKARTA, Mon. Arif Rachman (top photo), leader of the Student Action Front, leads singing of patriotic song at the anti-Sukarno demonstration here recently. About 300 students attended the rally as first student rally since bloody Oct. 3rd demonstration when several students injured by bayonette wielding troops from
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    • 196 5 NEW YORK. Mon. (UPI) The New York Times today thought the Russians might attempt a manned landing on the moon by next Nov. 7 —the fiftieth anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. It reached its reasoning in editorial comment on the soft moon landing of Luna
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    • 36 5 TOKYO, Mon. <AP)—The book of "Quotations of Mao Tse Tung", translated into Japanese, has made the best seller list in Japan. It is currently eighth on the list of the top 10.
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    • 147 5 CAIRO, UAR. Mon. (AP) Ex-king Saud of Saudi Arabia has pledged his support to policies of Egyptian President Nasser. In two interviews published in Cairo newspapers today, his first since he arrived here a week ago. Saud described Pres. Nasser as an "honest, sincere man
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    • 127 5 SEOUL, Mon. (AP) South Korea's cabinet was reshuffled today as a result of resignations by several ministers who plan to run in the national assembly elections scheduled next year. Premier Chung 11-Kwon took over concurrently the post of Foreign Minister vacated by Mr. Lee TongWon who
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    • 54 5 ORAN. Algeria. Mon. (AFP) —Hundreds of young people demonstrated against the Vietnam war last night outside the U.S. Consulate here. They shouted "Peace in Vietnam" and "Johnson Assassin** after attending a meeting to mark the sixth anniversary of the founding of the South Vietnam "National Liberation Front" (political
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    • 502 6 Vietnam speech embarrasses US, Vatican, VATICAN City, Mon. (AFP) Vatican officials declined to comment on Cardinal Spellman's fighting sermon on Vietnam, but it was clear that it had embarrassed the Vatican. Preaching to American servicemen at a Christmas mass in Saigon, Cardinal Spellman, archbishop of
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    • 116 6 WILLIAMS. California. Mon. (UPI) Seven members of a City Judge's family were apparently killed when a Christmas Eve Are burned their remote 20-room home to the ground. Five bodies were found yesterday. Two other members of the family were missing. A search for their
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    • 47 6 ISTANBUL, Mon. (AP) Military relief teams rushed into flood stricken coastal areas of Turkey yesterday in the wake of torrential rains. Hardest hit was the Antalya region on Turkey's Mediterranean coast where reports said 87 dwellings had collapsed because of floods and high winds.
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    • 322 6 NEW YORK. Mon. (VPI). Newsweek said yesterday that the United States mission in Saigon "is putting quiet pressure on the Saigon government to offer official posts to ranking Vietcong defectors. Newsweek said this in the "inside story" section of its periscope column. The
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    • 99 6 NEW YORK, Mon. (UPI) British prime minister Harold Wilson plans to mend some Commonwealth fences in this winter of his discontent," Newsweek said yesterday. The weekly magazine, in its periscope column, said Mr. Wilson is worried "Because his recent shipboard bargainings with Rhodesia's lan Smith
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    • 60 6 MANILA. Mon. (UPI). At least nine persons were killed and 28 others wounded in scattered violent incidents in Manila and nearby provinces on Christmas eve and Christmas day. according to police reports. Five of the fatalities were reported in this city alone, including a Manila policeman who was
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    • 232 6 SYDNEY. Mon (Ap, How many is a mil. lion? What does a million |ook like? In match stick*, a million is a pile 3 ft. high and ft. across at the base. How lon& would it take you to count a million matches? Perhaps 10
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    • 236 6 WASHINGTON. Mob (AP). Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt, yesterday reaffirmed his endorsement of both continued defence of South Vietnam and increased trade with Co®* munist China. Australia is firmly engaged in both sending military to South Vietnam, and selling wheat anc c ne. non-militarv
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    • 196 6 JERUSALEM. Israel. Mon. (I'PI). Israel today hinted at possible retaliatory action to news of U.S. military aid to neighbouring Jordan. Foreign Minister Mr. Abba Eban told a cabinet session such arms ship, ments could upset the delirate balance of power In the Middle East.
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    • 103 6 JOHANNESBURG, South Africa. Mon. (UPI). —South Africa will refuse to recognise any Rhodesian Republic declared by Premier lan Smith, the pro-govern-ment Sunday newspaper Die Beeld said yesterday. A front-page story quoted high government circles as saying declaration of a republic "could make
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    • 117 6 BOGOTA. Colombia. Mon. (AP) Search planes yesterday failed to find any trace of a passenger plane of Colombia's Aviance Airline that disappeared on a flight over mountainous countryside on Christmas eve with 26 passengers and three crew members on board. Officials said they feared the twin-engine
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    • 321 6 LONDON Mon. (AFP) and (ITI) —Britain had a bad Christmas day for road accidents. Provisional fl cures showed a total of 43 deaths against 23 last year, and 431 serious hurt against 388. In Chicago The 1966 Christmas weekend traffic 1 toll, running almost 20 per
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    • 64 6 SANTIAGO. Mon. (AFP) Hospital staff began work in Chile again yesterday after 26 days on strike. The government pledged it would not act against strikers. It also promised to pav staff while they were on strike, and to "adjust" salaries from next July 1 onwards. The Army
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    • 417 7 NEW YORK, Mon. (AFP and UPI) President Johnson, in a statement' to the M a g a x i n e "Newsweek", revealed what happened over the presidential plane just after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. His account differs radically from the version
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    • 290 7 W \SHINOTOV. M on. IPI United States officials yesterday described the transfer of land from Kuropean to African farmers as "foremost among Kenya's agricultural opportunities and problems." 7 >: comment was publishe a report on Kenya by US. Department of A" ture. It said the
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    • 72 7 MOSCOW. Mon. (I'Pl). Vladivostok television addicts today got the first regular Sunday programmes beamed via satellite from Moscow. News, a circus feature and a nature programme, will h* transmitted for three and a half hours via Molniya-one, the Russian Early Bird satellite. transmissions began
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    • 52 7 MIDDLETOWN, Connecticut. Mon. (AP). William Manchester, author of "The Death of a President.** was hospitalized early today. His wife. Julia, said Mr. Manchester had a high fever. The 44-year-old author was taken to Middlesex Memorial Hospital in an ambulance on the advice of his physician, Dr. F.
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    • 127 7 MELBOURNE. Australia. Mon. (AP). The leader of Australia's Federal Opposition. Mr. Arthur A. Calwell. mounted pressure today against the planned visit to Australia of South Vietnam's Premier Kv amid speculation the visit might be called off. Australia's Prime Minister Harold Holt announced last
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    • 217 7 WASHINGTON, M on. (UPI) The Washington Post commented editorially yesterday under the heading "Pity the British" in part as follows: "Logic is about to set its heavy foot on the madcap British monetary system, and Englishmen will need all the sympathy an<i understanding they can get.
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    • 52 7 MANILA. Mon (UPIV Ambassador Benito M. Bautista. veteran Philippine diplomat and member of the Foreign Office staff in charge of the Philippine territorial claim on Sabah. died today of a heart attack. Before his death. Mr. Bautista. 59. had been slated to be the new Philippine Ambassador
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    • 141 7 TOP right photo shows the first all-German airliner. the VFW-614, which has been developed by the Flugtechnische Werke in Bremen. The VFW-614 will carrv 30-40 passengers and cruises at 475 mph. Bottom right photo shows the American experimental HL-10 craft. wingless and wheelless
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    • 240 7 SAIGON. Mon. (I'PI). Vietnamese Buddhist leader Yen. Thich Tam Chau has called for a determined effort to unite all the Buddhist sects and associations in the country, the semi-official Vietnam press said today. Speaking at gathering of several thousand Buddhists Tam Chau. chairman of the
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    • 121 7 WASHINGTON, Mon. (I'PI) When a policeman grabs you by the back of the belt, it just may be "socially necessary" to tell about it in a string of four-letter oaths. That's the view expressed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in a
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    • 62 7 HAMBURG. Mon (AFP) A Christmas joker last night alerted Hamburg police by anonymously phoning that the central station was about to blow up. He even told them the locker number where he had placed a bomb. Experts were called and with infinite care, the locker door
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    • 182 7 PARIS, Mon. (AFP)—In 19*>7 there will be progress in Nigeria, volcanic eruptions in Japan, religious strife in India, worsening financial difficulties for Britain, no peace in Vietnam and a stronger people's China according to predictions made yesterday by four well known French astrologers. The predictions, printed In
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    • 61 7 TOKYO, Mon. (AP) Rites were held this month at the Shinobazu lake in Tokyo to pray for the souls of the hundreds of thousands of turtles killed during the year for turtle soup. A priest chanted prayers and incense was burned in the presence of several hundreds
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    • 451 7 Stealing Russian bear, dinosaur eggs: MOSCOW. Mon. Boyish pranks committed by Americans in this or any other foreign country can have and often do bring tragic consequences. The moral was again pointed up by the sad story of Buel Ray Wortham. 25. who has drawn a
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    • 133 7 LONDON. Mon. (AFP) Queen Elizabeth ll's Christmas message to the country and Commonwealth this year was a "Woman to woman" talk and made no allusion to politics. In her seventh annual message, broadcast by radio and televise throughout the realm. Queen Elizabeth spoke of the
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 197 6 F&OM REYKJAVIK ICaANP TO SOOTH AMERiCA.THE THRUSH ORGANIZATION WAS IN STRANGE, MYSTERIOUS ACTION/ SOMETHING OF WORLP-SHAKING PROPORTIONS WAS ABOUT TO BREAK.' BUT WHAT WAS THIS TOP 6ECRET? WHO, HOW AKO WHERE WOUIP THEY STRIKE? THESE WERE THE VITAL QUESTIONS ALEXANDER WAVERLV SOUGHT TO ANSWER AS HE LAUNCWEP... 4 \m Scant
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  • 449 8 CERTAIN emerging countries of South-east Asia had tried to get rid of foreign retailers before their own people had learnt how to handle the retail trade. In one country foreign retailers were prohibited from carrying on a variety of retail businesses. The retailers' reaction was to close their
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  • 383 8 MALAYSIAN students, who went abroad on their own to study, should not bring disappointment upon themselves by expecting jobs to be waiting for them on their return after graduation. The Government is not obliged to employ them even if they hold honours degrees. Employment of graduates and
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  • 721 8  -  BY: KENNETH L.WHITING Saigon, Man. (AP) POLITICAL op t i mists here forecasts free elections in South Vietnam sometime in 1967 for a civilian government to replace military rule. It could happen, but experienced observers believe instead that some sort of marriage
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  • 773 8  -  By: Richard A. Garver Republic of Somalia, strategically located on both the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean, is lade up of the former Italian UN Somalia Trusteeship and the former British Somaliland Protectorate. Since its independence six years ago, the Republic has
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSRTRIAL
    • 1548 9 SINGAPORE. Moa. 4 8 IM6 to now finishing we find that It hu not been such a bad year at all. It started with a period of mild optimism which accelerated after the Chemiral Company issue. n t* l B en thusiasm had
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    • 357 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. Mr. R.L.T. Bickers who manages the export interests of the Progress Floor Treatments division of Rerkitt Colman (Overseas) Ltd.. in the United Kingdom, recently visited Singapore and West Malaysia on an observation tour and to in\rstigate the possibility of local manufacture of
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    • 53 9 BUENOS AIRES. Mon. (AFP) Argentina has reduced import duties on imported industrial raw materials by 15 per cent, it was announced today. Further five per cent reductions will take place in March. June and September, bringing the total reduction to 30 per cent by the end of
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    • 312 9 SINGAPORE, Mon —Two new high-performance, ultra-lightweight actuators are announced by the Electrical Equipment Division of the Plessey Dynamics Group. Known as the Mole and Cub-mole, they are designed to operate aircraft fuel cocks and valves, and for similar applications. The Mole actuator ha s a
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    • 43 9 SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, Mon. The number of new motor vehicles registered in Australia in October was 31,415 which was 1584 more than in October 1965, according to Statistician's figures Issued on November 16. Highest on record is 39,881 In August 1965.
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    • 109 9 WASHINGTON, Mon. (UPI). —The United States has agreed to sell the Philippines U5520,137,000 worth of agricultural commodities under a long term, dollar repayment agreement, the Agriculture Department has announced. The agreement covers about two million bushels of corn or grain sorghum, about 8,000 bale*
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    • 240 9 WASHINGTON, M on. (UPI) Wages in Japan have risen more than twice as fast as they have in the United States since 1953. Labour Secretary Mr. W. Willard Wirtz said today. Mr. Wirtz released a joint study undertaken by the Japanese and U.S. countries.
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    • 90 9 STOCKHOLM. Mon. An order worth over Kr. 7 million (£487.000. $1,*****0) for air-conditioning equipment for the largest administrative building in the new business district North in Hamburg has been obtained by Svenska Flaktfabriken (SF), Stockholm. The contract, received in collaboration with the German
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    • 197 9 LONDON, Mon. (UPI) —Top British industrialists have warned the nation that entry to the Common Market would bring higher food prices and renewed pressure on the pound. But in a report recently, they said Britain should Join the six as soon as
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    • 67 9 DETROIT. Mon. (UPI) Chrysler Corp. announced yesterday one-week shutdown of four American and one Canadian assembly plants during January to "balance production with demand." The company said a total of about 17.900 workers would be involved in layoffs staggered through the month. The shutdowns will result
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    • 98 9 STOCKHOLM. Mon. Scandinavian Airlines' service to South America, one of the company's oldest intercontinental routes, marked Its 20th anniversary on Nov. 30. On 3.496 scheduled flights BAB has flown 115,400 passengers 2.055 tons of cargo and 2.114 tons of mail on
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    • 123 9 LONDON. Mon. The name Triumph has long figured prominently in North American rally plus competition events and over the past few years the various TR models have recorded an impressive list of competition successes indeed this year three TR4As carried off the team prize in the gruelling
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    • 817 9 ARRIVALS IN SINGAPORE from Kuala Lumpur. Time 8.35 a.m. Airline MAL 019 Time 9.30 a.m. Airline MAL 121 from Kuala Lumpur. Time 10.30 a.m. Airline MAL 431 from Kuching. Time 10.55 a.m. Airline MAL 005 from Penang, Ipoh. Kuala Lumpur. Malacca. Time 12.55 p.m. Airline Thai
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  • 247 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Turkey, Booze, and all the delicacies that go with a hearty Christmas meal are all very well for everyone except some of the varsity students. Some of the students j of the fifth residential hostel at the University of Malaya not
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  • Article, Illustration
    37 10 t'se screw top glass jar? to storr rice. brown sugar, cornstarch. and everything else that romes in easily tipped-over boxes. Spills ill be fewer, measuring easier, and amounts on hand are always plain to see.
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  • 226 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. —Qantas. Australia's international airline, will buy 10 new large jet airliners as part of a major re-equ pment programme costing more than 5A81.000.000 The a.rline will also sell its 13 older and smaller 104passenger Boeing 70T-1388 jets. The "buy and sell"
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  • 43 10 KAM PAR Mon. A labourer. M. Kanriair, 27. was found dead in a bus at the bus terminal here today. A tin mining worker of Ayer Kuning village. Kandalr boarder the bus from Tapah. He left two children and a wife.
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  • 102 10 undergoing a 10 week e National Electricity Board of the States of Malaya, Mr. Chan Kai Foo, is Chan lavs he is mTnv th? UI Se a L the Austra, n u Administrative Staff College, near Melbourne. Mr. Malavsia. He Is th! co^r. se WI P™ve
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  • 77 10 PENANG. Mon. A convent school teacher. Miss Monina Vergara, was married to Mr. Ambrose Felix, of the Rubber Research Institute in Sungei Bulob here this morning. The wedding took place at the Cathedral of the Assumption in Farguhar. A large gathering of friends and relatives attended
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  • 67 10 PEN'ANG. Mon The end of confrontation and the resumption of diplomatic and economic relations with Indonesia will enable the country to prosper in trade and make further progress in its national development plans. This was said by the Chief Minister. Tan Sri Wong Pow Nee. at the
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  • 319 10 KUALA LUMPER. Mon. —Malaysian students were among overseas students in Perth who took the opportunity of meeting the Premier of Western Australia, Mr. David Brand, recently. This was when Mr. Brand, as patron of the Australian-Asian Association of Western Australia, attended an informal
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  • 63 10 KUALA HJMPI'R. Mon. The Foreign Minister of Swtierland. Mr. Willy Spuehler. arrived here today for a two-day visit. He was accompanied by Mr. Richard Aman. the Swiss Ambassador to Thailand who is also accredited to Malaysia. They were met at the airport by Enche
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  • 53 10 KAMPAR. Mon. The Perak State Government is building a $B,OOO Sikh tem-ple-cum-school at Tronoh Tin Mine, six miles from here. The project, listed under the First Malaysia Plan, is expected to be completed in February. It is on a two-acre site and will replace the existing one
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  • 63 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon Fifty-four babies, with an equal number of boys and girls, were born in Kuala Lumpur here on Christmas day. Of these, five boys were born in Assunta Hospital, seven boys an<j four girls were born in the Chinese Maternity Hospital here. Thirty-eight babies were
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  • 207 10 PENANG. Mon. The Chief Minister, Tan Sri Won? Pow Nee, has commended the people here for behaving very well during the Festival of Penang recently. Thanking them for their part in the festival, he said that without their support, the celebrations would not be
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  • 132 10 KAMPAR. Mon. Three suspects were picked up today by the Police after a Rang cla-h in which a mason was wounded seriously. The incident occurred at about 11 a.m. in New Wah Loong Village, near here. The mason, Ng Kam Choon, 31. was working
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  • 40 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— The Sultanah of Kedah, Tunku Bahaiyah, today arrived in the Federal capital for a three-day private visit to be with her mother, Puan Besar Tengku Khursiah. The Sultanah was accompanied by her Lady-in-wait-ing.
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  • 304 10 KUALA LUMPI'R, Mon. Four newly graduated Malaysian doctors received their degrees at a graduation ceremony at the University of Melbourne, Australia. on Dec. 17. They are Dr. Hee Tien Lai. of 97-5 Jalan Rahmat. Batu Pahat, Johore; Dr. Voon Siang King, of 35 Jalan
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  • 522 11 L KI Mon. The Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, said 'Merry Christmas' to all Malaysian celebrating the festival. In his message, the Tunku said: "Malaysia is a country which provides for a happy relationship between people of different races and religions. ••Let our
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  • 185 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Australian exporters of manufactured goods are worried about proposed increases in shipping charges to Singapore and Malaysian porta. The exporters have asked the Australian Government to ensure that freight rates cn Australian exports are not increased. The action follows an announcement
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  • 388 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Five organisations, three Malavsian and two Australian, combined to brine 14-vear-old Normah Sulaiman from Sungai Tong, Kuala Trengganu, to Melbourne for a delicate heart operation. The international combined effort was rewarded when she successfully underwent the operation in mid-December. She
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  • 553 11 PORT SWETTENHAM, Mon. Minutes after the "Floating University" has been cleared by Port Customs here after "hitting; the shore" early this morning. 420 American students, mainly girls, set out in separate groups to make various studies of Malaysia. These "Praeticamps" as they are called
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  • 80 11 MUAR, Mon. Mr. Yee Kim Kam. J.P. has been reelected for the 15th term President of the Muar Chinese Chamber of Commerce at the annual general meeting held here recently. The others elected to hold office for two years were Vice-Presi-dents: Mr. Lim Chan Chor, Mr. Wong
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  • 57 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Democratic Action Party will hold a mass rally at 8 p.m. tomorrow at Suleiman Court Padang. Key speakers will includ the party chairman. Dr. Chen Man Hin, and secretary general Mr. C. V. Devan Nair. The rally is for the DAP candidate Mr. Khoo
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  • 121 11 haMPAR. Mon. Police have appealed to the public to be doubly alert as Hari Raja Pu&sa and Chinese New Year are approaching. ASP D.F. Sundra Raj. OCPD of Karrpar. addressed the appeal. especially bankers and tin miners in remote areas. He said Kampar had enjoyed
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  • 76 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. —The Minister of Lands and Mines, Malaysia, Enche Abdul Rahman bin Ya'kub, who is the Patron of the Children's Christmas Cheer Fund 1966 distributed toys and eats to about 80 children at the Selangor Children's Home, Jalan Cheras yesterday. He also donated $100 to the Children's Home.
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  • 432 11 TAIPING, Mon. —A journalist turned fortune teller-cum-healer, Tan Kok Hoong, 38. was sentenced to six month jail by the Magistrate Enche Shaid Daud bin Haji Ismail, for using: criminal force on a 21-year-old housewife. I The offence was alleged to have taken
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  • 75 11 IPOH, Mon. Two motor cycles were reported stolen on Christmas Day. A motor cycle, belonging to Chew Gu. was stolen outside a coffee shop in Clarke Street at 8 o'clock last night. Chew had gone into the coffee »hop for his dinner. The motor cycle was valued
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  • 133 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A study of Malaysia and other neighbouring countries of Australia will be undertaken soon by a Conference of Australian Youth Leaders. The conference, known as the Third Australian Assembly of youth, will be sponsored by the National Youth Council of Australia.
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  • 120 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— Another man. who heads the list of Singapore's It most "wanted men" was arrested by police on Saturday at the United Gardens, sth Mile, Klang Road. He surrendered after a dramatic lj-hour tear-gas charge at a multi-storey flat at 3.30 p.m. on Saturday.
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  • 167 11 PENANG. Mon.— Twenty-year-old Miss Tan Be* Sim, of En* Aun Tong Tiger Medical Hall, was crowned "Miss Industrial and Trade Fair" by Mrs. Chan Siew Teong, wife of the chairman of the Fair Committee, before a crowd of more than 20.000 on Saturday night.
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  • 32 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. A well-known Qari. Enche Farid Ahmad, of New Delhi, will represent India at the International Koran Reading Competition. He will arrive at Subang Airport tomorrow.
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  • 23 11 SINGAPORE. Mon. Thieves yesterday afternoon broke into a house at Race Course Road and took away cash $7,000 and jewellery $7,700
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  • 59 11 IPOH. Mon. The Democratic Action Party. Ipoh branch, has been established at No. 170. (Ist floor), Jaian Pasir Puteh. The branch officials are: Chairman: Mr. Lim Cho Hock, Vice-chairman: Enche Sulong bin Mat Serah. Hon. Secretary: Mr. Lee Lam Thye. Hon. Treasurer: Mr. Lee Chow Beng.
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  • 34 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Mr. G. S Gill has been elected president of the Selangor Indian Chamber of Commerce. Other officials: Vice president. Mr. secretary, Mr. J.M. Patei. treasurer. Mr M. Govindasamy.
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  • 206 11 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Secretary-General of the League of Red Cross Societies, Mr. Henrik Beer, praised the Singapore Red Cross for speedy action in sending the powdered milk and tinned fish to disaster victims in Indonesia. The order for powdered milk and tinned fish was
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  • 129 11 SINGAPORE, Mon. During the past two weeks the Far East Fleet Mail Office at Singapore Naval Base despatched more than 700,000 letters and parcels—three times the number handled last year. On the incoming side the office is handling an average of 20 bags of mail from London
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  • 119 11 TAIPING. Mon. A cattle disease has broken out in various areas in the district of which a number of animals are claimed to have died. Several cattle owners claim that some of their ani- mals have died and that many are ill. They are not able
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    • 563 12 THE number of pirate taxis in Singapore is increasing tremendously everyday. It was estimated that in 1965 there were about seven thousand people earning their living by driving pirate taxis while ten years ago those were only five thousand. The figure goes on rising year
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    • 151 12 THERE are many new secondary schools in Singapore and they are usually co-educational schools. Co-education should be introduced in secondary schools, because it is good for the pupils' upbringing. Co-education is good for boys and girls for when they grow up they would not feel shy to
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    • 165 12 ONE of the funniest persons I have ever met was an old lady who is my neighbour. She is short and fat and rather clumsy. She behaves strangely when she is lonely. Last Sunday. I visited her at the hospital as she was very sick. I
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    • 577 12 DISCIPLINE plays a very vital part in our everyday life. The word discipline to children and young may sound unpleasant because it suggests something they hate doing or because they are prevented from doing something they eagerly desire to do. This is very common among the teens.
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    • 374 12 I lip in this smelly drain, sail and dejected, feeling most uncomfortable. It is such a smelly and dirty place, so unlike some of the Place* I have known. Fate has certainly not treated me kindly. I suppose I have to tell some one about myself
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    • 351 12 THIS phrase "No time to stand and stare" possesses a hidden meaning. Its implications to our dailv life really means no time for relaxation. Relaxation though it is essential for a healthy body, is not always a part of every person's life. The reason
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    • 254 12 CLIMATE is just like a friend. As we all know there are good friends and bad friends who either lead us up to the road of success or down the road of ruinousness and debasement. Well, it is the same with climate. By experience, it seems
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    • 342 12 I CAN still remember when I had to metaphorically eat my hat. How humiliating it was! It all began one sunny morning. As the morning sun peeped through the curtAins. I dressed and was within the school gate by eight. The first period was chemistry. Chemistry had
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    • 333 12 THE ability to excite and to amuse oneself or one's companions is perhaps on* of the most important assets in the present worldly conditions. A rood humorist is a good entertainer and is wellliked by many. As such we can win friends by our speech. When
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    • 708 13 IT WAS nearly fire o'clock in the evening when I nearly finished my homework. I had the desire to carry on and complete the work but something in my mind seemed to induce me not to do so. looked out of the window in
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    • 510 13 baby elephant was standing beside a brook, quenching his thirst with the invitingly cool water when all of a sudden, he felt a net cast over him. Realising that he was trapped, he charged with all his might and mam to free himself, but in vain
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    • 515 13 IT WAS a cool afternoon. A soft breeze rustled among trees unseen. The birdies resting on the forks of the trees chirped and tuned sweet melodies, filling the atmosphere with gaiety and cheer. A few other "more energetic" birdies hopped from stem
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    • 480 13 IT was about twelve o'clock at night. My friend and I were returning home after a feast. Everywhere, it was silent. The place we were travelling was very dark. It was very difficult for us to walk. As we were walking into a lonely lane, we
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    • 200 13 SINGE the very beginning of civilization superstition has prevailed in the minds of men. Among the Chinese especially, there are all kinds of superstition. It has always been believed that during the Chinese New Year, no member of a family must sweep the floor, because it
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  • 2325 14 ROME, Mon. Only a few months ago the Targa Florio celebrated its sixtieth birthday and its fiftieth race (fiftieth, because of lapses due to the two world wars and to other circumstances). Only the Five Hundred Miles of Indianapolis has reached the number
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  • 213 14 SEOUL, Mon. (AP) The four-notion Orient Boxing Federation announced that Thailand was unanimously elected as president of the federation for 1967 to succeed South Korea. The announcement said that the decision was made on Friday during the opening day session of its annual convention
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  • 180 14 MANILA. Mon. (AFP) The newspaper "Manila Times," the Philippines biggest daily, today named amateur boxer Rodolfo Arpon and woman discus thrower Josephine De La Vina as the most outstanding Filipino athletes during 1966. Arpon and De La Vina were the only Filipino gold
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  • 52 14 BANGKOK, Mon. The visiting Malaysian Rugby Union team was beaten eight points to ten by the Thai inter-university champions Chulalongkorn in a scrappy game here on Friday. Chula scored two goals against Malaysians' single goal and penalty. The Malaysians will make two more appearances during their
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  • 157 14 KAMPAR. Mon. Eight States have entered for the annual Malayan Chinese Football Association Cup inter-state soccer competition. The preliminary round will be played on Dec. 31 and Jan. 1. The final will be played on Feb. 4. In the North zone. Penang
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  • 265 14 SINGAPORE. Mon En. ehe Abu Bakar Pawanchee, President of the Football sociation of Singapore, sa.d the efforts of the Association would one day place Singapore in the van of football in South East Asia. He said this in a statement thanking all the
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  • 2884 15  -  Golden captures P. &0. Cup By Windsor Lad PENANG, Mon. Triangle Stable's Malapin, well ridden by Johnny Nelson, scored a splendid win when he took the Governor's Cup over 81 f at Penang yesterday afternoon, opening day of the Penang Turf Club's X'mas New Yeor meeting.
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  • 311 15  -  By WINDSOR LAD PENANG. Mon S xtecn horses will contest the Penang Gold Cup to be run over 10 furs, at Penang on Sunday the last of the season's classics. Grenadier heads the weights with 9.13 uhile Malapin. winner of the Governor's Cud. 8 4
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  • 265 15 NAGOV.i Japan. Mon. (I'PI) Jose Meriel of Mexico todav resumed training after a day s rest for his 15-round challenge against world bantamweight champion Fighting Harada on Jan. 3. His manager, Lupe Sanchez, continued to be confident that Medel will wrest the title from Harada
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  • 166 15 MANILA. Mon. (AFP) Rene Barrientos, considered here as a likely successor to world junior lightweight champion Flash Elorde. has been named "Filipino Boxer of The Year." it was announced. Ranked No. 3 challenger to Elorde. Barrientos thus became the first recipient of the new "Pancho
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  • 100 16 Graham Hill (left) and Jim Clark, two world champions, are seen recently smiling and shaking hands now that they will be driving in the same team. These former racing rivals will he in the Lotus Grand Prix team in 1967 and they will certainly be the strongest
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  • 310 16 SEREMBAN. Mon Maiaysia s new International hockey umpire 40-year-old Mr. John Kanagaratnam from Negri Sembilan. said the standard of umpiring in Malaysia was well ahead of other countries. This, he observed at the Asian Games in Bangkok where he also had the honour of umpiring
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  • 454 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. A gigantic athletic festival the first Asian Amateur Athletic Championship is to be organised by the Malaysian Amateur Athletic Union sometime next year. Leading athletes from all over Asia are expected to participate in the meet. This is
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  • 105 16 JAKARTA. Mon. (UPI).— The Medal of Merit in the cultural tield was awarded by Indonesian Cabinet Chairman Gen. Suharto to the winners of gold medals in the recent fifth Asian Games In Bangkok and the "games of the Newly Emerging Forces" (GANEFO) in
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  • 292 16 BANGKOK. Mon. (AFP) R.ng Magazine's go'd championship belt will be offered to the winner ol the world flyweight title bout scheduled to take place here between Walter McGowan ot England and Thailand's Chartchai Chionoi on December 30, Nat Fleischer, editor of the
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  • 507 16 MELBOURNE, Mon. (UPI) Australia defeated India in two Davis Cup Singles matches in straight sets here today. Fred Stolle took the first match from Ramanathan Krishnan 6-3, 6-2, 6-4. while teammate Roy Emerson beat Jaidip Mukerjea 7-5, 6-4, 6-2. Stolle had an easy time
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  • 29 16 LONDON, Mon (UPI) Saturday's league football results: FIRST DIVISION Chelsea 1 Liverpool 2. Newcastle 1 Leeds 2. SECOND DIVISION Preston 2 Bury 2. Wolverhampton 5 Derby 3.
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  • 681 16 PENANG, Mon. The best ways of running the pre-Olympic group tournament was discussed hv re. presentatives from 14 nations at a meeting of the Asian Football Confederation held in Bangkok re. eentiy. This was stated by the secretary of the A.F.C., Mr.
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  • 247 16 SINGAPORE. Mon. -s* langor Sikhs won the annuai "Gurdwara Cup*' hockey tournament on a goal average. They took the cup from Singapore Sikhs. Se angor Sikhs warmer in the tournament with 30 goals in their favour. Singapore Sikhs scored or y 25. Third were
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  • 93 16 GLASGOW. Scot'and. Mon. (UPI) Saturaaj > League Football Results. FIRST DIVISION Aberdeen 1 Celtic 1 A Clyde vs. Ranker? P os'poneDundee 0 Airdrie 1 Hibernian 2 St. J' one Kilmarnock 1 Hears (Abandoned after 7° Parlick v s Dundee Unites Postpones St. Mirren 3 Ayr Stirling vs
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  • 125 16 NEWMARKET. ENGLAND Mon. (UPI). Australian George Moore will ride as stable jockey for Noei less next season in st cession to champion Les-« Piggott, it was confirmed cn Saturday. Murless said: "I shall going to California on Monday and shall be away for a
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  • 377 16 PENANG, Mon. Two well-known amateur soccer teams, one from the United Kingdom and the other from West Germany will be touring Asian countries before the Olympics to b« staged in Mexico. They are the Middlesex Wanderers, world's most famous amateur team, consisting of players
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  • 36 16 BELFAST. NORTHERN IRELAND, Mon. (UPI).— Saturday's Irish league football results: Ards 3 Portadown 3. Ballymena 2 Linfield 4. Crusaders 1 Coleraine 6. Derry vs Cliftonville postponed. Distillery 2 Glentoran 4. Glenavon Ift Bangor 0.
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