Eastern Sun, 28 December 1966

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  • 24 1 EASTERN SUN Independen National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION Estd. 1966. Vol. 1 No. 162 Wednesday, December 28 1966. MC(P) 1942 KDN 2309 Price 15 cents
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  • 533 1 30/000 soldiers on Merdeka Palace today to warn Pres. Sukarno JAKARTA, TUES. (AFP) SOME 40 MILITARY battalions, comprising more than 30,000 men, will stage a show of force here t vast Merdeka Square in front of President Sukarno's Palace, it was authoritatively learned here today. THE "Parade",
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  • 400 1 SAIGON, Tues. Communist troops charging against 105 mm cannon lowers and firing at point-blank range broke into an American artillery position today and blasted two of the guns with grenades and satchel charaes before beina hurled back in savaae hand-to-hand fighting. The American defenders.
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  • 82 1 ROBERT VAUGHN, the winner of the Eastern Sun 1966 official poll award for the "Most Popular T.V. Artiste" in the Republic of Singapore and Malaysia. Picture shows Robert Vaughn holding the plaque which has been presented to him by Merrily Aw, the President of the "U.N.C.L.E." Fan
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  • 41 1 NEW YORK. Tues. Systematic American bombing has destroyed *he homes of 12.464 persons, killing 89 persons and wounding 405. at Nam Dinh 60 miles (100 kilometres* south of Hanoi, the New York Times reported from Hanoi today.
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  • 124 1 TAIPING, Tues. The situation is still tense here following clashes on three consecutive nights involving two rival Army units and a number of civilians. Ten persons werp admitted to hospital with injuries On the critically ill list are two civilians. Wong Kee Seng 16. a hawker,
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
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    • 92 1 What's new in fashion for 1967? See TAILOR CHOW New exciting ideas in knitted ties, shirt*, suits, cuff-links, etc. just unpacked! AMD MIS MM I WlAt 37, JOHN LITTLE'S TOUHIST I SHOPPING CENTRE, RAFFLES PLACE. SINGAPORE-J. TEL ***** mm. The sleek fast back 850 Coupe, designed by one of Italy's
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  • 1154 2 Solo thrills his fans in S'pore... SINGAPORE, Tues. For a television and screen idol as popular as Robert Vaughn what does he look for in a girl? '"Humour and intelligence comes first.. .prior to appearance and. of course, there must be serenity." said Vaughn, better
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  • 356 3 SINGAPORE, Tues. The Prime Minister, Mr. lee Kuan lew, said today that the time had eome to reassess the content and objectives of Singapore's education and to re-formulate its policies and methods. He said that if what had been done in the
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  • 104 3 SINGAPORE, Tues. A Malay couple was killed when their motor-cycle collided with a car, which coming from the opposite direction, at the 15£ m s., Jurong Road. Both Rashid bin Aman, 34, and Yena binte Wahari, 34, died on the spot. Earlier on the car
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  • 256 3 SINGAPORE, Tues. The Ministry of Health today regretted that the Press statement issued by the Public Daily-Rated Employees' Unions Federation on Dec. 23, alleged that the "emergency cleansing workers are supplied with free uniforms, boots and transport to and from their place of work'* is untrue.
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  • 99 3 Times Trading Shipyard celebrates SINGAPORE. Tues. The management of Times Trading and Shipyard Ltd. last night threw a grand annual dinner at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce Auditorium. More than 300 members of the staff and prominent members of the ship-build-ing industry were present at the dinner. Eastern Sun picture
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  • 57 3 SINGAPORE. Tue?. A social dance and fellowship party, will be held on Saturday at the Chinese YMCA Auditorium. South Pier, at 8 p.m. The dance, organised by the Chinese YMCA. will be compered by Mr. Colin Choo, a staff member of Radio TV Singapura, and will
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  • 210 3 SINGAPORE, Tucs. The Chairman of Singapore UMNO, Enche Ahmad bin Haji Taff, today welcomed the pledge made by the Deputy Prime Minister, Dr. Toh Chin Chye, that Singapore should co-operate economically with Malaysia. "After all Singapore Is within the Malaysian region," Enche Ahmad
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  • 36 3 SINGAPORE. Tues. A special ceremony will be held at the Phor Kark See Temple off Thomson Road on Jan. 4 at 10 a.m. to commemorate the late Ven. Chuan Toh, founder of the temple.
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  • 306 3 SINGAPORE, Tues. The impending strike by public daily-rated workers will be called off. In a letter to the NTTC today, the President of the Public Daily-Rated Employees Unions' Federation, Mr. K. Suppiah. said that the Federation had decided to abide with the decision and stand
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  • 165 3 SINGAPORE, Tues. The Singapore Tourist Association is now extending its "promote domestic tourism'* campaign for another year, due to good response from the Malaysian and Singapore travelling public. The first aim of the Association is to persuade Malaysians and Singaporeans to see and know their own
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 555 3 B SK wr 3$ V•v fc f. *e 1 /A* II jj 11 A) i m *VI Jp<te J —V f v» I JK WHEAT FLOUR IS In human daily livelihood, there are four main problems, viz., clothing, food, shelter and transportation, among these the most important one is food,
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  • 2667 4  -  By JOHN KAM SINGAPORE, TUESDAY. NINETEEN Sixty Six marked the first full year of postseparation Singapore a year of all-round achievement, of increases in trade, of rapid industrialisation and a greater awareness of the need to "surge forward". It was a fruitful year
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  • 166 4 SINGAPORE. Tues. The Singapore Family Planning: and Population Board of the Ministrv 01 Health will hold a nine-day exhibition at the > lc toria Memorial Hall, beginning from Jan. 12- The exhibition will be opened by the First Lady of the Republic. Puan Noor Aishah. at
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  • 21 4 MUAR, Tues. Police have discovered a car stolen over the weekend at the 10th Mile. Muar-Bakri Trunk Road.
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  • 139 4 KUALA LUMPLR. Tue* More than 200.000 Christmas greeting cards were despatched on each of the four davs before X'mas fro™ tr!P Federal capital to Indonesia during the festive season. Mr. Donald Madrigal. puty Assistant Controller o* Posts, disclosed this today. This was the
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 17 4 ABU 50*5. BOKT AfPfEUATE AMVMW6 MtttTC Ofk AKTiQUC. r u M tAU M >/ S^~ a m r
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    • 58 4 S'pore Diary 7.30 p.m. Victoria Theatre. Empress Place: "A Nigh' o. Children's Play." 8 p.m. National Theatie. Tank Road: Lionel Hampton Show. 8 p.m. Cultural Centre. Canning Rise: "Colour Bar stage play. 7.30 p.m. Free film by the Ministry of Cu ture. Kampong Somerville Esta e. Farrer Road. Min Cnon?
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 622 5 VATICAN CITY, Tues (AP) J Pope Paul VI was reported yesterday to be •deeply saddened" by the resumption of fighting in Vietnam after the two-day Christmas truce. On Dec. 8. the Pope had srged that the year-end truce arranged in Vietnam be extended into negotiations to end
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    • 730 5 A MRITSA R Tues. (AP) Sikh leader Sant Fateh Singh and six a it isc, ples yesterday abandoned plans to burn themselves to acorn after Prime Minister Mrs, Indira Gandhi personally agreed to act as a mediator in studying their complaints. Angry cries of
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    • 225 5 MOSCOW. Tues. (AP) The unmanned Soviet spaceship Luna 13 is working well and sending back more pictures of the moon's surface, the official Soviet news agency Tass reported last night. The announcement carried by Tass broke a 24hour silence on Luna 13, which soft-landed on
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    • 412 5 TOKYO. Tues. (UPI) Premier Eisaku Sato will dissolve the Lower House of the Diet (Parliament) today to call general elections early next year in a bid to settle a long-smouldering political crisis in Japan. The election Mr. Sato's first test at the polls since he became premier
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    • 141 5 IIffANILA. Tues. (UPI) Post Christmas typhoon Pamela walloped the Central Philippines today with 82 mile per hour peak winds and threatened other areas, including: Manila, with a stormy yearend pounding. Pamela grew into a fullblown howler within 24 hours after forming as a tropical depression in
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    • 295 5 SAIGOX, Tues. (AP) American evangelist Billy Graham said today he is pessimistic about an early end to the war in Vietnam. "It Is a complicated, confusing and frustrating war." Dr. Graham said. "I don't see an early end to It." Dr. Graham met with
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    • 47 5 Honolulu. Tues. <ap> A Filipinio who has lived in Hawaii for nearly 20 years left on Sunday to be reunited with his wife in the Philippines yesterday. Mr. John D. Calantoc had been separated from his wife. Mercedes, since shortly after their marriage in 1947.
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    • 40 5 ROME, Tues. (AP) Italian dockworkers began a 48-hour strike today to back up demands for higher pay and improved working conditions. Communist and nonCommunist unions representing 35,000 workers seek renewal of a contract that expired over a year ago.
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    • 68 5 AMERICUS. Georgia. Tues. <AP>—Three Louisiana men awaiting trial for assaulting a policeman in Cordele escaped the Sumter County Jail early yesterday by using a hacksaw blade to saw through the bars. A statewide search was launched for Ivey Lee Humphries. 37, and Wiley Singletary, 58. and John
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    • 246 5 MIAMI, no. Tues. <AP) Recently created shock troops described by exiles as similar to China's Red Guards are reported on the move in Cuba. The units, officially called Youth Technical Brigades (OBTJ). reportedly have the dual role of serving as technicians in industries and on
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    • 87 5 WASHINGTON, Tues (AP) Senator Wayne Morse said last night that President Johnson will be discredited If he continues to escalate the war in Vietnam. "I'd like to have him remain a great President," said the Oregon Democrat on the Mutual Broadcasting System's "Capital Assignment" programme,
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    • 415 6 NEW YORK, Tues. AFP Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy has left for a week's holiday in the West Indies with her children pendina the recovery of Mr. William Manchester, author of the book "Death of a President." Mr. Manchester is reported ill with pneumonia. Both
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    • 156 6 BIRMINGHAM. Alabama. Tues. (UPI) Two teenaged brothers and their companion, preparing for a camping trip, were found brutally slain in a forest outside Birmingham yesterday and police charged a 25-vear-old man with the killings. Sheriff C P (Red) Walker of Shelby County said the youths.
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    • 49 6 TAIPEI. Tues (UPI> Nationalist China Is consider ng breaking relations with Portugal because officials in tht Portuguese enclave of Macao recently turned seven Nationalists agents over to the Reds. Officials sources said a strong protest has been filed with the Portugese government over the incident.
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    • 194 6 WASHINGTON. Tues. (AP>—A Slate Department official hat said that high-speed electronic computers may play increasingly key roles in helping forge future foreign policy and perhaps training diplomats. Howard E. Ball. Director of the State Department's centre for international systems research said computers are already among
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    • 60 6 TAIPEI: Yu Chin-Hal. 75. made It a habit to swim for one hour everyday in all seasons In Green Lake near Taipei since he was 18 His family became worried when Yu failed to return home after his daily swim on Christmas morning. They found his body on
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    • 149 6 BONN. Tues. (AFP) West Germany will consult with Japan. India. Sweden and other nuclear—capable countries about measures being studied by the United States and the USSR to halt the proliferation of nuclear weapons, sources close to the government said yesterday. Bonn is
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    • 38 6 THIS photo purports to show a scene on the outskirts of Haiphong after a recent raid by U.S. bombers and was released and captioned by a communist source UPI photo. UPI photo.
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    • 169 6 MILAN. Italy, Tue s (AFP) The European conference of anarchist youth, meeting here, yesterday vowed to blow up Ave Spanish properties in Europe if five Spanish anarchists are sentenced to more than three years each in prison The young anarchists, from all over Europe, ended their
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    • 69 6 BAIGON. Tues. (UPl> A general dockworkers strike yesterday paralyzed the Baigon port where vital war supplies are unloaded for American flghters in the field Squads with knives and clubs roamed the docks to make sure Vietnamese stevedores followed orders. Vietnamese labour leaders ordered the port closed
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    • 474 6 WASHINGTON. Tuea (UPI) An International relief cmmittee was formed yesterday to speed emergency food aid to famine-stricken India. "What world governments are doing is too little, too late in the present situation." said the World Food and Population Crisis Committee in announcing
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    • 145 6 WASHINGTON. T u e s (UPI > Porpoises don't really talk, a University of Wisconsin zoologist reported yesterday. Prof. Donald W. Waller told the 113 th annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science that much has been said about the animals apparent
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    • 193 6 LONDON. Tues (AFP) Will the number of British prison escapees in 1966 reach the fantastic total of 600? Inmates seemed determined to do the "six ton" today after three more men escaped. This time from Leyhill "open" (unguarded) prison near Bristol, bringing the actual
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    • 322 6 DETROIT. Michigan Tiies (AP) Rarh Mctamant 25, looked 0 2 her window into the f ro yard Christmas morni n She saw two four-bv eight foot sheets plasterboard hinged J gether to form a hu»i greeting card On it Don Fox. asked her to be
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    • 228 6 WASHINGTON, T u e s. (AP) U.S. Air Force scientists yesterday reported a growing peril from birds colliding with military and commercial aircraft. They said damage to Air Force planes alone amounts to about US$lO m. yearly. 'Bird-aircraft collisions are far more common than the
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    • 85 6 JAKARTA. Tues. AFP) The Australian ambassador to Jakarta. Mr. Loved a? and Mr. Murray, a repr»* sentative of the Austra»:*J "Naspro" pharmaceuv company, had ta'.ks her during the weekend w Indonesia's Public "f a Minister Professor G. Si» a bessy on the return of Jakarta Naspro
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    • 688 7 Kosygin at Bosporus JORDAN, Tues. UPI Militant Arab nationalism has pledged to regain Palestine" while the giant Western IPC has agreed to pay full oil royalties to Iraq although their pipeline passing through Syria has been shut down by the Syrian govt, to enforce its
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    • 107 7 ST. LOUIS. MISSOURI. Tues. (AP). Dr. Kurt Von Sehuschnigg. former Chancellor of Austria, said yesterday he plans to retire from teaching in January and return to Austria. Von Schuschnigg. who was imprisoned by Hitler when the Nazis marched into Austria in 1938. has been a
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    • 31 7 OUAGADOUGOU. UPPER VOLT A, Tues (AFP)—Former Upper Volta President Maurice Yameojfo slashed his left wrist and his throat in a suicide bid yesterday, a reliable source said here today.
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    • 281 7 BONN, Germany. Tues. (XP) Chancellor Kurt Oore Kiesineer yesterday railed for a rethinking of the coals <*t the Atlantic alliance and appealed to West Germany's allies to take this country's financial plight into account. He said drastic measures trili be needed to balance West Germany's
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    • 32 7 DOGOTA. Colombia. Tues. <AP) Search planes c w over a vast area of Colombia again yesterday but reported no trace of a Colombian airliner which last Saturday 29 persons aboard.
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    • 42 7 ANKARA, Turkey, Tues. Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin, right, being received by Turkish President Cevdet Sunoy, centre, at Cankaya Palace in Ankara. Turkish Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel is at left. Mr. Kosygin leaves Turkey today. AP photo. AP photo.
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    • 116 7 RABAT. Morocco. Tues. (UPI) Morocco's young King Hassan has denounced miniskirts, it was reported yesterday. In a sermon on Islamic faith and morality, the 37-year old monarch and Moroccan religious leader told a Ramadan religious meeting on Sunday night that "God and the prophet forbid the Moslem
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    • 168 7 Patriarch calls for ChristianMoslem unity ISTANBUL. Turkey. Tues. (AP> Ecumenical patriarch Athenagoras J. lakovos. spiritual leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church, expressed the conviction that "further development of reciprocal respect and love among Moslems and Christians" would help establish "goodwill and peace in the world." The patriarch's statement was in
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    • 355 7 PARIS. Tues. (t'PI) French newspapers led by the Communist Party organ L'Humanite yesterday attacked Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York for allegedly saying in Vietnam there was no solution other than victory for the U.S. Crying out that Spellman was "a fascist in the
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    • 89 7 'We are not amused.. CARACAS. Tues (UPI) Civil Aviation authorities revealed yesterday a French pilot was "detained" last Thursday for flying under the span of the newly-built Rio Orinoce Bridge here. The pilot was identified as Francis Pierre Gent. Official sources have not revealed whether formal charges have been filed,
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    • 141 7 NEW WESTMINSTER. British Columbia. Tues. (AP) A prison guard and his young son, severely injured in a pre-Christmas boobytrap explosion, were recovering slowly in a hospital yesterday while police intensified a search for the person who sent the parcel. Frank Newton, 42. had both
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    • 522 7 BRISBANE, Tues. (AP) After four years work, researchers have isolated the toxin of one of the world's greatest marine killers, the sea wasp, and reached the stage where an antidote probably could be developed only to find that such an antidote would be
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    • 133 7 LUBUMBASHI. Con go, Tues. (AP) The newlyappointed head of the Belgian Copper Company Union Miniere in the Congo has reportedly assured the local Military chief of the full cooperation of all the Company's personnel and asked its 2,400 European members to work as before.
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    • 224 7 NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, Tues. (AP). A military affairs writer said yesterday some Navy ships are being stripped of personnel to the point where it would be impossible to quickly raise them to a wartime complement. Jack Kestler of the Norfolk Ledger-Star said the Navy's personnel shortage
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    • 136 7 WASHINGTON, Tues. (AP) —The average cost of educating a child in American public schools rose 8 per cent during the last year, according to a survey released last night. "School Management", a magazine for school administrators, will report in its January issue that the average school
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 251 5 Your at Here lies not my 300 taels of silver long ago. Farmer Chang San had saved up a small fortune of 300 "taels" of silver arid wor socn in a dilemma as how to conceal it. After much fruitless thought, he follow ed the age-old idea of burying it
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 133 6 FROM REYKJAVIK ICELANP TO SOUTH AMERICA,THE THRUM ORGANIZATION WAS IN STRANGE. MYSTERIOUS ACTION/ SOMETHING OF WORLP-SHAKIN© PROPORTIONS WAS ABOUT TO BREAK.' BUT WHAT WAS THIS TOP SECRET? WHO, HOW ANP WHERE WOULP THEV STRIKE? THESE WERE THE VITAL QUESTIONS ALEXANDER WAVERLY SOUGHT TO ANSWER AS WE LAUNCHER.. SUPPfcAJLX SOU) CATAPULT*
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  • 413 8 THE right policy for Singapore to follow is to maintain friendly relations and trade with Malaysia. This was what Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister, Dr. Toh Chin Chye, told the members of a PAP branch last Monday. He said Singapore must continue to cooperate with Malaysia despite the
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  • 308 8 T>RESIDENT Lyndon Johnson toured the countries of the South Pacific and Southeast Asia as more an election campaign than a peace-finding tour. President Sukarno used to fly off to lands afar when things became intolerable at home. Now the Premier of South Vietnam, General Nguyen Cao Ky, is
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  • 2221 8  -  SIGNIFICANCE OF CRACKERS By: Prof. Thani Nayagam, Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Malaya. The following is the text of a speech by Professor Nayagam at a recent meeting of the Kuala Lumpur Rotary Club. THE next thirty days or so usher in four or five
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 186 8 I3fcr Henry B. Rothblatt (Author, "Handbook of Evidence For Criminal Trials") was not interested in seeing her bridey groom, Dan, upon her arrival in this country. All Cleo cared about was entering the United States. Cleo's sister had arranged for Dan to marry Cleo. Four years after this marriage, deportation
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSRTRIAL
    • 523 9  -  By JOSEPH W. GRIGG T OMXSN Tues. (UP[) Britain's unemployment total is still climbing inexorably, though less swiftly than two months ago. the Governn*ent has disclosed. But all indications were that it might risi? to well over 600,000 permanently or temporily unemployed early in 1967.
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    • 216 9 WASHINGTOI. Tue s f A p> —United »tates businessmen are moe optimistic about the ecnomy next vear than the were three "months ago. a business magazine rported last night. A survey by "Nation's Bsiness. the monthly marine published by the U3- Chamber of Commerce, ays. however,
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    • 139 9 STOCKHOLM, 'ues. Scandinavian Air-nes will cut cargo tranportation t:me between S&ndinavia and New York to eight n:ght-t;me hour? when the non-stop jet 'Sky-Freigh-ter" service goes into operation on 22, SAS announcer last week. The servic will be operated with an all-cargo DC-8F jet traer scheduled for
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    • 50 9 SYTTCY. AUSTRALIA, Tues. Basis steel production t The Broken Hill Propriety Co. Ltd. was at record levels in October folloing the slowing down of Agust and September. Proaction was 535,924 ingots compared with 497,700 in September. 473,480 in Aufst and the previous recor oX 501,928 in July.
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    • 128 9 THIS motorist in Britain is seen using the world's first direct 24-hours, twoway, VHF car radio link between a motoring organisation and its individual members on the road. Brita'n's Automobile Association (A.A.) has initiated its "Linkline Service" particularly for busy executives and
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    • 300 9 SINGAPORE. Tues. January first grade rubber buyers f.o.b. closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 59| rents per lb., down i cent from previous close. The tone was very quiet. After a few early exchanges at around final levels before the holiday
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    • 100 9 SINGAPORE, Tues. The following ships are expected to be in port today:Godowns Vessels 1/2 Centaur 3/4 Waitaki 5 Golden Phoenix 6/7 Ellen Bakke 8 9 Chastine Maersk 10/11 Menetheus 13/14 Yamagata Maru 15/16 Aso Maru 18 Benlarig 19 Leoville 21/22 Empire Gannet 25/26 Anton Senskow 27/28 Kvosho Maru
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    • 846 9 ARRIVALS IN SINGAPORE Time 6.05 a.m. Airline ML 029 from Kuala Lumpur. Time 8.35 a.m. Airline MAL 019 from Kuala Lumpur. Time 8.50 a.m. Airline JAL 712 from Jakarta. Time 9.30 a.m. Airline MAL 121 from Kuala Lumpur. Time 10.30 a.m. Airline MAL 451 from K
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    • 194 9 MANILA. Tues. (AFP) Manila Mayor, Mr. Antonio Villegas has announced plans to set up a special retailers fund to fill up any possible "business vacuum" resulting from his rampaging crackdown on foreign establishments engaged in retail trade in the city. Such a vacuum
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    • 555 9 SINGAPORE, T u e s. After closing two day s for the festive season, the Stock Exchange resumed business today with a fairly active condition. Prices were steady in the morning but firm towards the close with buying centred mainly on leading industrials. Chemical
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    • 32 9 SYDNEY. AUSTRALIA. Tues. The chairman of the Wheat Board, Dr. A.R. Callaghan, and announced the sale of 250,000 tons of wheat (9,300,000 bushels) worth more than $14,000,000 to Pakistan.
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    • 119 9 CALCUTTA. Tues. (AFP) More than six million people in Calcutta will go without rice today because stocks have run out. Wheat will be issued by state ration shops instead. Bengal Chief Minister, Mr. P. C. Sen has stated that rice supplies are unlikely to improve
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    • 81 9 KUWAIT, Tues. (AFP) The oil rich state of Kuwait pledged its full support for the Iraqi government in its present dispute with the Iraq Petroleum Company in a communique issued here. The communique said the dispute had rapidly turned into a crisis which was threatening the resources
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    • 461 9 INDUSTRIAL B. 8. BouMead CD 1.57 l.,»J! Central Sugar* ('D 1.22 1.23 Chemical Co l.tl 1.64 Colli storage CD.., 3.08 3.10 Dunlop \K 'i.'iO 2.4ll K. suit/It inc 4.02 4.U1 K««M> ordi> 3.06 .1.08 ktvi prrf 1 .(Hi 1.07 lit/.Patricks 1.45 1.55 r. Orel<k. .1.40 3.41 (.•amnion
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    • 49 9 (Manager? pricr») a 8. Hr«l M.il.onn 2.13 Second Malayan 1.51 l.fll Third \lala>an 1.0? 1U MuUiv«i:m Commeree Xl>... .83 JH Mai. I'und 1.i8 1.34 Stprlln* Commodity 3'# 4/4 F1r»f Hons Konc I. on 1.0.1* Seconil lions Kong .70 •M* Malavsinn lnve«.tinrnt Innd .90 1.00 (♦Hong Konjj Currency)
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    • 121 9 *»I\T« VPORF-. Tur«. «»nsapore f hlnrs.e rrotinrr Fichange noon price* toda> were. Buyers seJIerw Coeuntit oil (FOB) Bulk •la.ss Commit oil FOB i l»rum« 4'i.IJ LOUM» Copra Mlveri lK»r. Jan27.75 Sugar (Jma) exjroriou n ••4 .-in Nutmeg* 110* IMS oft Not meg* R i H 23.YOO (2;irhle<l I.Mmpotig Black
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    • 127 9 STOCKHOLM. Tues.—One of the biggest kraft paper machines in the world, witu a capacity of over 100,000 tons a year and a working width of 6.4 m, is to be built by Karlstads Mekaruska (KMW) for the Uddeholm company's new sack paper mill at Skoghall on
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  • 610 10  -  By Chan Kam Yau KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. While most Christians and friends were having a rollicking time during the Christmas season, thieves and robbers in Selangor, too, were having the time of their lives breaking in houses and robbing people at dagger
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  • 58 10 MALACCA. Tues. An 18-year-old youth was today charged in the Sessions Court for illegal possession of a hand grenade. The accused. Lim Boh Soon. was allegedly found with a hand grenade in the Capitol Hotel on Nov. 11. Lim claimed trial and was granted $2,000
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  • 151 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Twelve officers of the Royal Malaysian Air Force have been selected to attend courses in the United Kingdom. They are Squadron Leaders Mansor bin Hashim and Ahmad Shah bin Hashim; Pilot Officers Yee Yoke Sun, Lam Shai Keong. Tong Kim Chong.
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  • Article, Illustration
    68 10 Seeing double? Oh, no. But these look alikes' happen to bp American actor Robert Vaughn and Mike Ellery of Rediffusion, Singapore. The occasion? At the cocktail party held in honour of the visiting film star. The place: Hibiscus Room, Cathay Hotel. The time: 6.30 p.m. Mr. Vaughn had
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  • 117 10 SINGAPORE, Tues. Singaporeans seem to be m °re interested in travel- Un* now than ever before. Proved U alaya hav pro\ea to be extremal v Popular especially MnojJj th e younger generation. Photo shows a group of them visiting the Federation with Malaysian Cultural and Entertainment Tours
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  • 69 10 Four Malaysians graduated as doctors from the University of Melbourne, in the Australian State of Victoria, recently. Dr. Hee Tien Lai (right), of 97-5 Jalan Rahmat, Batu Pahat, Johore, pictured with Australian friends after his recent graduation as a doctor from the University of Melbourne. His
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  • 116 10 MALACCA. Tues The Central Government has reverted to the State here the land formerly used by the Marine Department by the side of the Tan Rim Sent bridge. The State Government in turn is helping out the Municipal Council with this land for use by hawkers.
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  • 61 10 PEN AN G, Tues. Thieves broke into the house of an accountant at Lim Lean Teng Mansions. Farqhuar Street, and stole cash and and jewellery amounting to $1,200 on Christmas Day. Anthony Michael Peter Lever Said that when he returned home with his mother at 11.30 p.m. on
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  • 369 10 SINGAPORE, Tues. Lionel Hampton, better known as "King of the Vibes", and members of his group arrived here today for a two-day performance at the National Theatrt, on Dec. 27 and 28. They will appear together with the Four Amigos, another
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  • 86 10 TANGKAK. Johore. Tues. Rev. Father Lionel Cordeiro. 68. oarfch priest of St. Matthew's Chcirch here, passed away today peacefully after a short illness, at the Mount Alvernia Hospital, Singapore. In October he underwent a major operation in the same hospital. Rev. Father Lionel Cordeiro. who staved
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  • 148 10 SINGAPORE, Tues. The ETV studios arc- almost complete; equipment has been arriving from a number of different countries and television sets are 4 being installed in Singapore secondary schools. Educational television will being on Jan. 30. 1967: The editorial %of the Singapore ETV Services Magazine disclosed
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  • 31 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Selangor Police recovered two pistols and 10 rounds of ammunition during the week-end. This brings the tally of pistols recovered during the year to 20.
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  • 35 10 SINGAPORE, lues. The Siglap Branch of t\he People's Action Party will celebrate its seventh anniversary with a dinner at the Mun Yeun Restaurant in Upper East Coast Road on Thursday at 7.30 p.m.
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  • 237 10 MALACCA, Tues Though the br on barter trade has beert lifted sine* Dec. 16. only A handful of Indonesians frtyi Sumatra have put into th port here Three more bfys arrived yesterday from different parts of Sumatra with rubber and rattan. Though wa; a
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  • 103 10 SINGAPORE. Tues. Aa ex-motor mechanic. Koh lee Tee. 18, today told a mafistrate's court that he rsne from a poor family and hd to steal to support his famjy He said this before the Second Criminal Di;trict Judge. Mr. N. A. D'Roano, when he pleaded
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  • 71 10 MUAR. \r ues. Enche Omar bin Ifeji Xoh. chairman of the Vkluar District Rural Devekpment Committee, yestefcay presented allowances toilling $5OO. to 17 members olthe local tenant registratifci team. M'Jkim Parit nine miles from here. Each memblr received from $25 to s4oi The Muar Ditirict
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 64 10 a COURTROOM A V Kerry B. Rothbltt (Author, Handbook of »itfene« tor Criminal Trial") NO. "This alie* had a sham marriage v4th an American citizens and this did not create bona fide husband-wife relationship," the CourtWld. "She entered the United States by frauq or misrepresentation. |he therefore cannot cl«ra the
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  • EASTERN SUN FEATURE
    • 1327 12  -  MIND BEHIND THE MONSTER By COLETTE O'HARE OOBERT Louis Stevenson's story was laughingly dedicated by the author to Mr. Byles the butcher, since he said it was this gentleman's mounting bills which drove him to write the story in Bournemouth, Britain, in
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    • 679 12  -  ALL ABOUT PETS By J. J. McCoy IyHEN ducklings or goslings pop out of their eggs, the first moving object they see is usually their mother. And they naturally follow her. But if they see another living object first—whether it be another bird,
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    • 813 12  -  Dr. Walter Theimer gERLIN, Tues. The chemistry and physics of solid bodies increasingly reveal important processes going on inside pieces of matter, which went unnoticed in earlier times. Thus some matter is transported in the interior of metals. Irons atoms may migrate to the surface
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  • 1293 13  -  This is the second of three orticles on Britain's Royal Family by Her Majesty's former first footman, Patrick Taylor. Patrick Taylor. NEW YORK, Tucs. As soon as the Queen Mother moved out of Buckingham Palace to make way for the
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    • 620 13 TV an I TODAY IS-* i >: jfe4BwKOHi fe-*, ii.. A..A. PROGRAMME SUMMARY in all Languages BELAJAR-LAH BAHASA KEBANGSAAN ATOM ANT" Diana Sore. BRANDED" Fill No Cud For Me Part II Chinese Subtitles. CANTONESE OPERA Damsel Well Met NEWS AND NEWSREEL in Chinese. "MY FAVOURITE MARTIAN" The Pill •ADVENTURE Black
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  • 373 14 Tells of makers' interested only in personal SINGAPORE, Tues. The President 0 f the Football Association of Singapore, Tua n Hj. Abu Bakar bin Pawanchee, has warned or "mischief makers" who are only interested in personal glory and not in the future of soccer in
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  • 96 14 BANGKOK, Tues. (AFP) The visiting Malaysian Rugby Union team defeated a Bangkok XV by 12 points (two tries and two penalty goals) to six (two penalty goals) at the National Stadium here on Monday. The Malaysians played a different brand of Rugby yesterday compared to their
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  • 105 14 PARIS. Tues. (AFP Bobby Charlton, star pla*t? of Manchester I nited and England's World Cup winning eleven was voted Europe's top 1966 footballer bT football journalists from European countriesThe ballot, organised by the French weekly FranceFootball", gave Charlton a one vote edge over Portugal's Eusebio. who
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  • 212 14 MIAMI BEACH. Florida. Tues. (AP) Patrick Proisy of France destroyed the U.S. hopes of winning the 18-and-under boys title in the Orange Bowl Junior Tennis Championships on Monday with a smashing victory over U.S. titleholder Steven Avoyer. Proisy. unseeded, defeated the fourth-seeded Avoyer,
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  • 237 14 ARCADIA. California, Tues. (UPI) Santa Anita opened its rich 55-day winter race meeting on Monday less than 10 hours after an early-morning settlement had been reached with unionists on the verge of a strike against all California race tracks Thousands of racing fans were waiting
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  • 229 14 ADELAIDE. Tues. (AFP) South Australian cricket captain Les Favell became the highest scorer in first class cricket for his State when he hit 104 against Queensland in their Sheffield Shield cricket match at the Oval here on Monday. Favell who resumed at 90
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  • 83 14 BANGKOK, Tues. (AP)— British world flyweight champion Walter McGowan said he was satisfied that the usually hot and humid tropical weather in Bangkok was cooler on Tuesday. He told reporters he will now train earlier in the evenings in preparation for his title bout against Thailand's
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  • 115 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues The Malaysian Chinese Football Association inter-State competition 1967 will kick off with a match between Selangor Chinese and Perak Chinese on Sunday, at the T.P.C.A. ground at 5.10 p.m. The Perak Chinese Football Federation has named 18 p'.ayers for centralised training at the Stadium
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  • 39 14 RAVENNA. Italy, Tues. (AP) Enrico Barlati on Monday became the Italian lightweight boxing champion by defeating titleholder Pietro Ziino by disqualification in the seventh round of a 10-round bout. Barlati weighed 59.7 kilograms and Ziino 59.5.
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    • 295 14 TENDER NOTICES THE SARAWAK ELECTRICITY SUPPLY CORPORATION KUCHING TENDER NOTICE TENDERS from approved J.K.R. Registered Class 'C and above contractors will be received by the General Manager of the Sarawak Electricity Supply Corporation at the Head Office of Sesco in Kuching. up to noon on Monday, January 23rd, 1967 for:
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  • 1954 15  -  Improving Moomba the main threat The going is GOOD By Windsor Lad PENANG, Wed.—Our Hero looks a good each way proposition in the SJF. for Class Three Division One (race 8) horses at Penang this afternoon, second day of the Xmas-New Year Meeting. Our Hero, who
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  • 26 15 niynsoßlad: Film Studio V Cinrtna N Our Hero GO LP EM Sl'\: Mnnniha Raytone H. Commissioner l/JE/JVE: Son of Sol Precious Jade Presentation
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  • 445 15 PENANG. Tues. Following is the Stipendiary Steward's report for the first day> races. Going yielding for 3 races, then good RACE ONE: Moviegoer 111 (app. Nawari) lost ground just after the start through hanging in. Johore (Subramaniam > returned bleeding from the mouth through biting his
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  • 185 15 WINDSOR LAD GOLDEN SUN ADELINE Race 1. P. KNIFE Tototak Son Of Sol DULAS RIVER Son of Sol l.adv General SON OF SOL Ringrit Pay Roll Race I BEST WIN Movie Goer III Lcgrisrika LEGISRIKA Anjjel Pay Dav MOVIEGOER III Angel Best W in Race 3 DARMAL Speed Boat
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  • 143 15 MANILA. Tues. (AFP).— The clamour here for a "sweeping revamp" of the Phi lppine amateur sports system rose still higher today. In a lengthy article, the influential newspaper, "Manila Times" this morning called on President Ferdinand Marcos to intervene in the "sDorts" by instituting urgent
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  • 107 15 SINGAPORE. Tues. The Singapore Turf Club's January Meeting 1067 will be held over four days, Jan. 21, 23, 28 and 29. There will bp two runs for each division of Classes 1, 3 and 4 horses. Class 1 horses will go over 6f. or 7f. first run
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  • 95 15 MEXICO CITY. Tues (AP)—Vicente Saldivar of Mexico, world featherweight boxing champion, plans to step up his training this week for his Jan. 29 rematch with Japan's Mitsunori Seki. Seki is due in Mexico City for training on Tuesday. Saldivar hopes to knock out Seki, passed
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  • 2020 15 Race l: Horses Clasa 4 Div. 5 Abt. 7 Furs. 1.00 PJ4. i. 774 Dulas River flv 9 00 Shindig Kongsl Wheeler Nazodi 8 3. £>06 Zndtaqur 8v POO Soon Lee Stume Paul 3 603 4. 044 Son of Sol Ringgit 4v 4y lOv 3.13 8 13
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  • 624 16 Krishnan and down Newcombe and Roche to k Cup hopes MELBOURNE, Tucs. (AFP) India kept the Davis Cup challenge round alive when on Kooyong's centre court today Ramanathan Krishnan and Jaidheep Mukerjea, the underdogs, turned on brikliant tennis to beat the world ranked Australian
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  • 232 16 BAKERSFIELD. Calforilia, Tmi IFF) United St-itrs' No 1 tennis pl.orr Dennis Ralston confirmed on .Monday night's announcement that he had signed a professional contract. This had been announced in the afternoon by Wallace Dill. President of the International Professional Tennis Association. "I've thought about it for
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  • 111 16 BUENOS AIRES. Tues. (UPP Argentine junior lightweight boxer Vicente Dorado has contracted to fight Jaoan's Hirioshi Kobayashi in Tokyo. It was reported on Monday. The tabloid newspaper Cronica said the bout would be held on Feb. 27. with the winner probably meeting world champion Flash Elorde
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  • 998 16 LONDON, Tucs, AFP. Recovering from the shock of their European Cup defeat by Ajax of Amsterdam, Liverpool yesterday comp I e t e d a Christmas "double" over Chelsea and went to the top of the English First Division, where they finished up last season. As
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  • 228 16 MANILA. Tues (t'PI) The Philippine Games and Amusement Board said today the New State Athletic Commission acted within its rights in retiring Gabriel (Flash) Klorde but said the decision is not automatically binding here. GAB Chairman Justiniano Montano Jr. said New York
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  • 334 16 JOHANNESBURG. Tues. (AFP) Neither side had established a clear-cut mastery by the end of the third day's play in the first cricket Test between Australia and South Africa, before a crowd of 311,077 at the Wanderers Ground here yesterday. In scorching weather,
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  • 95 16 LONDON. Tues. <AFP* Fielding 13 internationals, the Australian touring team scored their second holiday win when they defeated the Combined Services 15-6 before a 6.000 crowd at Twickenham here yesterday They won by two penalty goals and three tries to one penalty goal and one try. and
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  • 115 16 KUALA LUMPUR Tues.Selangor Club Tigers. P.ay. ing a crucial game in tr.e Milsum Trophy League, -eat Serdang Agricultura C-liege in a hard fought game :y three points (try) *o n;l a: the padang here this evenrg. The points for Tigers caxe just before half-time through
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