Eastern Sun, 11 February 1967

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  • 26 1 EASTERN SUN Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION Estd. 1966. Vol. 1 No. 202 Saturday, February 11 1967. ☆MC (P) 2251 -fr KDN 2660 Price 15 cents
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  • 732 1 Army is given top role in current power struggle in Red China HONG KONG, FRI. (UPI) THE COMMUNIST organ today approval on n for China's power struggle, which give the ing role in provision ments to be throughout the provincial regions. At the same time, the party
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  • 143 1 LONDON, Fri. (Reuter) Blonde woman pilot Sheila Scott, who made a record-shattering solo flight round the world last year, said last night thinking of making the same trip again th® other way round. r The attractive 38-year-old said her plan would tc *o u-e the same
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  • 389 1 TOKYO, Fri. Documents relating to Communist Chinese atomic research have been stolen from the State Council Office, a Peking newspaper revealed yesterday. Japanese correspondents in Peking relayed the reported thefts of Chinese atomic secrets. The Peking newspaper "Revolutionary Worker" said public security officers led
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  • 49 1 LATEST: KUALA LUMPUR. Frt. Twelve shophouses went up in flames this afternoon in Sitiawan. News reached the Federal Capital shortly after the Are broke out, but every effort to contact either the police or the fire brigade authorities in Sitiawan or Lumut, drew a blank.
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  • 49 1 MONTGOMERY. Alabama. Fri. Everyone was evacuated from the State Capitol here yesterday while State troopers searched for almost four hours for a bomb. The bomb hoax. In a telephone call from New York, coincided with a false fire alarm which sent fire engines screaming to the CapltoL
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  • 473 1 JAKARTA, Fri. Highly informed Indonesian military and Government sources said today Army strongman General Suharto is still "dead set" against President Sukarno leaving Indonesia before he is removed from office and tried for treason. Top echelon military sources told United Press International that any
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  • 361 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. There is a great need for Malaysians to understand one another and to respect one another's way of life, Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman said in his Chinese New Year message. •It is only In this manTlP that we can
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  • 207 3 PENANG. Fri. The chairman of the Rediffusion Workers' Union, Penang. Mr. Khoo Teng Leng, save away 200 packets of ang pow" and sweets to the children of the strikers at the ifctket line in Khaw Sim Bee Road. There were smiles on the [aces of
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  • 111 3 BRUNEI Town, Fri.(AFP) —Mohammed Haji Manggol, 42, a top Brunei rebel leader who was named "Foreign Minister" in Azahari s rebel cabinet, has written to his relatives here that he wanted to return to Brunei, it was leared here today. Mohammed, a former Brunei school teacher,
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  • 169 3 KAMPAR, Fri. Chan Kam Yuen, 14, whose mother was killed by her father recently came home on Wednesday for a reunion dinner with her seren brothers and sisters at Sungei Durian, Tanjong Dullang. They were joined by their aunt, Madam Thean
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  • 73 3 PARIT, Fri. The Minister of Agriculture and Co* operatives Tuan Haji Mohd Ghazali bin Jawi urged the rural people here to "play a big role" in the co-opera-tive society to improve their standard of living. He was speaking to news men after the opening of the general
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  • 77 3 IPOH, Fri. The Chief of the General Staff Lt. General Tan Sri Abdul Hamid bin Bidin paid a visit to the Second Infantry Brigade here yesterday. He was met on arrival by the Commanding Officer. Brigiader Mohd. Sani bin Abdul Ghaffar. He visited the 4th Batta
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  • 142 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The Tariff Advisory Board has announced that the transcripts of the oral and written evidence submitted at the public inquiries on several commodities are now available. Copies of the evidence can be purchased at th« Board's office, 6th floor, Hwa-Li Building,
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  • EASTERN SUN FEATURE
    • 1158 4 THE F ROM his modern, luxury penthouse in Singapore to his office was no more than a few hundred yards, and Tom Chang, an up-and-coming rubber broker, invariably walked there and back each day. But one morning in 1956, at he stepped out
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    • 1384 4 rwas decided that Rudolf Bialek was a menace to the East German state, and plans were laid to arrange for his disappearance. Bialek had thought it fit to question the orders of the Communist regime. His sudden expulsion from the party he had served loyally
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    • 1316 4  -  By PAUL BENDIGO rPHE evening breeze sweeping in from the distant, high sierras made the late evening pleasantly cool after the hot afternoon sun. Lucia Hernanos was waiting for her husband to return from his work on a fruit farm. Finally, she decided to walk part of
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 753 5 By Richard I. Stone JAKARTA, Fri. UPI) Indonesia's Parliament late on Thursday night limited President Sukarno's days as President to less than one month by unanimously adopting a resolution urging Congress to meet in special session in "March at the latest" to dismiss Sukarno from
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    • 451 5 WASHINGTON. Fri. (UPI) The t nited States will not end the bombing of North letnam in exchange for a mere "possibility' of ta ks Communists continue their invasion' of the South. This statement of U.S. policy bv Secretary of S'ate Dean
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    • 97 5 NEW YORK. Fri. (Reuter) -About 200,000 windows are broken each year in schools here and yesterday the city decided to do something about it. Eugene E. Hult, Executive Director of the Office School Buildings, said that hardened glass A "new weapon" will be used in a
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    • 64 5 SAIGON, Fri. —A total-of "significant incidents" p taken place since the -f T ceasefire began two s ago, a U.S. military E P< announced here today. A U.S. company which suffer! casualties described as Moderate" last Wednesday n the first day of the ceasire was returning to base,
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    • 91 5 Over 3,000 toys including this six-lane miniature racing circuit where model cars can reach 40 miles per hour are on display at a new London toy show- room claimed to be the biggest in the world. Other exhibits —spread over an area of some
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    • 324 5 MANILA, Fri. (UPI) Jayne Mansfield may not be the world's most punctual person but by her own declaration, she may yet prove to be the smartest girl in show business. The sexy Hollywood actress vigorously denied at a news conference here today that she
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    • 89 5 NEW YORK. Fri. (Reuter)—ls the new Chinese New Year 4665 to be called the year of the goat, the year of the sheen, the year of the ram, or the year of the lamb. It is none of these and all of them at the same
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    • 293 5 LONDON, Frl. (UPI) Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin wind up their formal talks today, apparently deadlocked on Vietnam. They were holding a fourth and last full meeting with their delegations at Mr. Wilson's No. 10 Downing Street residence this morning (1030
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    • 285 5 PARIS, Fri. (Reuter). Police today questioned a 33-year-old man suspected of murdering a Paris model and attacking scores of lone women in the suburbs of the city. Police said the man. Claude Buffet, had admitted both the murder and robbing with violence some 60 women.
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    • 104 5 NEW YORK, Fri. —(Heuter) —The Topless tussle has burst out again In NewYork. Lawyers for the Crystal Room nightspot which introduced bare-bosomed waitresses to the city recently, go to court today to try to halt a new move to "cover ud or close down." The order was issued
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    • 155 5 SAIGON, Fri. (Reuter). South Vietnamese Premier Ngugen Cao Ky said today the defeats suffered by the Vietcong last year would "force them forever to abandon their illusions of invasion and military victories," the official Vietnam Press Agency reported. In a lunar New Year message
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    • 103 5 Million loot in gems cash HOLLYWOOD, Florida, Frl. (Reuter) Three gunmen wearing nylonstocking masks snatched an estimated million dollars in gems and cash from the plush Ocean Spa Motel here yesterday. An insurance company said insured losses were around US$5OO,OOO. But the motel management estimated total losses as one million
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    • 172 5 TOKYO, Frl. (Reuter) The English language. Japan Times, today praises Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi for her courage and determination after a cowardly attack. In an editorial on India's approaching elections, the newspaper says: "There has been growing concern over the increasing violence displayed between rival
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    • 99 5 HOLLYWOOD, Frf (AP) Actor Burt Ward, who plays Robin in the "Batman" television aperies, wa« divorced by his wife, Bonney Lou, on grounds of mental cruelty. He was inattentive, compared me with other women and told me he was sorry he married me." Mrs. Ward, 20, testified
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    • 116 5 BOGOTA. Fri. (AFP) The death toll rose to 84 today, with an estimated 300 earthquate which shock central and Southern Colombia for 42 seconds on Thursday. The Department of Huila about 200 KMS. Southwest of the capital was the hardest hit, with 60 deaths already
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    • 60 5 MELBOURNE, Fri. (Reuter)—Dame Ann McEwen, wife of Australia's Deouty Premier and Country Party leader John McEwen, died at the Melbourne home early today. Dame Ann daughter of a well-known Victoria horsebreeder, married Mr. McEwen in 1921. She was created D.B.E. a year ago in recognition of
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    • 494 6 LONDON, Fri. (UPI). Britain's Prince Philip lashed out in defence of hU role as "merchant prince" lugging British exports when he travels abroad. He also attacked the "I'm all right, Jack" attitude in British industry In such spectacular style that he knocked visiting Soviet
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    • 195 6 BALTIMORE, Maryland, Fri. (UPI) The snowcovered roof of a Roman Catholic church collapsed yesterday during a Lenten service attended by about 100 worshippers, most of them children. No one was killed although several persons were trapped in the rubble of the St. Rose of Lima Church
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    • 138 6 NEW DELHI, Fri.- The General Election campaign here is really hotting up The Congress Party has devoted much of the campaign to huge billboards, showing Premier Mrs. Gandhi (pictured) with inverted hands, appealing to peo- ple to vote for Congress. On the right hand side of the poster is painted
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    • 261 6 TOKYO, Fri. (AP).— Prime Minister Elsaku Sato and his foreign policy makers reaffirmed yesterday the Japanese Government plans to step up economic assistance to South-East Asia. They agreed to study effects of assistance Japan has extended to the region in the past in an attempt
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    • 239 6 CANBERRA. Fri. (UPI) Australia's new opposition Labour Party Leader Gough Whitlam came out strongly yesterday in support of the United States role in Asian and Pacific affairs. At the same time he refused to affirm Labour policy of withdrawing Australian troops from Vietnam which
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    • 181 6 MANILA, Fri. (UPI) Hollywood actress Jayne Mansfield, on a whirlwind tour of Asian entertainment spots, last night described oriental men as "lovely and beautiful." Miss Mansfield, wearing a baby-pink miniskirt, arrived in Manila from Bangkok and started a mild riot at the airport among newsmen and
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    • 111 6 JAKARTA. Fri. (AFP) About 200 members of President Sukarno's "Tjakrabirawa" bodyguard regiment will be tried by a military court here midApril for their part in kidnapping and murdering Lieutenant General Achmad Yani, Army Commander-in-Chief. during the 1965 abortive communist coup. The Tjakrabirawa
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    • 104 6 WASHINGTON, Fri. (AP) The Atomic Energy Commission said yesterday it has issued a license for the export of a small quantity of radioisotopes to Hungary. The license wa s issued to Packard Instrument Company, Inc., for the export of 3.5 microcurie s of Tritium and 3.5
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    • 65 6 SOUTHWELL. England, Fri. Reuter A catholic priest ha 8 iisued a list of teenage pop-talk for parents who want to understand their children Among phrases printed in his Parig bulletin are: A chat-up—first words with a young lady. Crash the hash —to hand out cigarettes. Pop-pop machine
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    • 139 6 BRUNEI Town. Fri. (UPI) Britain has offered the services of Gurkha engineers to cut access roads in Brunei's rural road-building programme, the first phase of which is under way in Temburong. according to local newspaper reports. The reports said the 76 Gurkha Independent Field Squadron
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    • 60 6 LISBON. Fri (AP) A Portuguese military communique iiiued yesterday said rebels in Angola suffered "heavy losses, including dead, wounded and prisoners" between Jan. 27 and Feb. 4. The communique, which gave no figures, said that among those killed wag a terrorist leader. The communique said Portuguese casualties
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    • 200 6 BOGOTA, Colombia, Fri. (L T PI). A killer earth, quake spread death, destruction and panic thiough 9 wide area of central Colombia yesterday. Interior Minister Ismael Pastrana Borrero said at least 61 persons were killed and more than 200 others injured. Hundreds of victims were treated
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    • 105 6 NORTHAMPTON, England, Fri. (Reuter) Scientist Walter Siddall was cleared of shoplifting yesterday after the principal of his college told a court he was "the absent-minded professor of fiction come to life." Sixty-year-old Dr. Siddall. head of the Science Department at Northampton College of Technology, denied stealing a tin
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    • 173 6 WASHINGTON. Fri. (TJPI> President Johnson recommended an 812 million dollar economic aid programme for the nations of South-East and Eastern Al a with 05 per cent of the total aimed at blocking Communist aggression. The President said $550 million of the amount would go to
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    • 66 6 WASHINGTON. Fri. (AP) Heavy snow wamingi were posted out here last night as president and Mrs. Johnson scheduled a norma! state dinner in honour of visiting King of Hassan II of Morocco. The White House was ai* ready blanketed with a foot of snow from a storm earlier
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    • 117 6 WHAT THE I DOING IN THE BELOW FREEZING WEATHER IN COPENHAGEN Of course! dear, I am going to the carnival. That is what the Danish actress Lisbeth Lindenberg is doing, she is on her way to the Marquis de Sade's carnival with snow flakes falling
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    • 47 7 NEAR MONG PASS, South Vietnam, Fri. A tiny Vietnamese refugee follows a Republic of Korean Soldier across a paddy field during the evacuation of over 600 refugees from Mong Pass to Song Cau, south of Qui Nohn recently. ROK soldiers help out in the movement of them.
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    • 279 7 MANILA. Fri. (AFP) A ranking Filipino ratholic Bishop warned of the possibility of a peasants revolt in the Philippines unless conditions in the country's rural area were improved. Manila newspapers said Maring Gaviola, Secretary General of the Catholic Welfare Organisation (CWO> issued the warning during
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    • 92 7 LONDON. Fri. (AP) A live chicken sent as food in a cage with a snow leopard from Amsterdam to London today, survived the journey uneaten. But it was then destroyed to comply with regulations. The chictoen was discovered by a girl assistant at London airport animal hostel
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    • 75 7 KISLOVODSK Soviet Union. Fri. (Reuter) A huge eagle crashed into an Ilyushin 18 airliner approaching the resort city of Mineralny Vody in the Northern Caucasus the Soviet new agency Tass said yesterday. The pilot saw on one side a flock of eagles one of whom
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    • 872 7 LONDON, Fri. (Reuter). Britain feels herself being locked out of the European Common Mart while the unity project inside Europe surges ahead. Bonn is changing her attitude of one of "enthusiastic welcome" for Britain in Europe more towards the cold "Non" of
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    • 119 7 LONDON. Fri. Reuter Window Cleaner Silwyn Roberts decided the faults on his 18-month-old car called for drastic action. So he drove it 200 miles back to the Ford Motor Company's British headquarters, blocked the main entrance and threatened to burn it on the spot unless it
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    • 158 7 SALISBURY. Fri. (Reuter) Rhodesia announced last night it is abolishing all Commonwealth preferences in effect pulling out of the Commonwealth trading club. Finance Minister John Wrathall told parliament that automatic preferences, and particularly Commonwealth preferences, would be ended from midnight yesterday. Instead a single customs tariff
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    • 97 7 LONDON Fri. (AFP) Admiral Takaichi Itaya, chief of the Maritime Staff of the Japanese Defence Agency, went by Hovercraft to visit a radar factory in the Isle of Wight, a few miles from the South Coast of England on Wednesday. The Admiral, who is in Britain
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    • 200 7 UNITED NATIONS. Fri. (AP) Ambassador John W.S. Malecela of Tanzania said yesterday the U.N. Security Council should seriously consider meeting in Africa this year to consider the many African problems especially Rhodesia". The 15-nation council which normally meets at U.N. headquarters is expected to start a new
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    • 81 7 LONDON, Fri. (AFP) Britain is to hand over command of the Simons Town Naval Base to South Africa on April 12. a British Defence Ministry Communique said yesterdayThe move will give South Africa a larger share in the responsibility for the defence of this South
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    • 87 7 LONDON, Fri. Soviet Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin (left) is greeted by British Prime Minister Harold Wilson as he arrived at Heathrow (London) Airport on Monday at the start of an eight-day visit. Behind Mr. Wilson is British Foreign Secretary George Brown. The Soviet Premier's special plane was diverted from Gatwick
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    • 316 7 TOKYO. Fri. (t'PI) Indonesian President Sukarno is expected to arrive in Tokyo early next week for a "visit to Japan," a newspaper report said today. The Tokyo Shimbun newspaper quoted government sources as saying that President Sukarno will fly into Tokyo by a special Indonesian
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    • 85 7 LA HABRA. California, Fri. (Reuter) Three children suffocated yesterday after they climbed into a refrigerator and became trapped. Police said the children, two girls, aged three and four, ana a boy, five, were reported missing yesterday morning by Mrs. Shirley Meeks, the mother of the boy.
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    • 88 7 CHICAGO, Fri. (Reute'A record 52,500 r died in traffic acciden the United States in 196< more drivers drove more cars more miles than anyother year in the nation's history. Those figures were reported by t 'onal Safety Council i. report on traffic i. s, fatalities and
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    • 210 7 LONDON. Fri. (UPI) A legal battle began in the High Court yesterday over wnat is sherry. Three companies selling wines produced in Britain, Cyprus, South Africa and Australia asked High Court Judge Geoffrey Cross to rule that they could continue to call their wines "Sherry". Their
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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  • 872 8 mHE Alliance Government's policy of achievA ing unity through diversity has not been fully realised after ten years of independence. That is why it is necessary to launch Solidarity Week again this year despite the end of confrontation. In this as in other multi-racial societies in South-east
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  • 2961 8 SAIGON, FRIDAY EVERY peace move made since 1965 ended with a flat rebuttal from Peking and Hanoi. One question still remains in dispute and that is how to induce or force the Hanoi leaders to talk peace. For six months now, with the "cultural" turmoil spreading throughout
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSRTRIAL
    • 228 9 SINGAPORE. Fri. On January 22 next, a DC-9 f; sht simulator will take t "the air for the first time a d simultaneously make f ;r st real flight aboard a pC-8 freighter of KLM. T-e complicated apparatus ind f r >r Madrid,
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    • 185 9 LONDON. Fri. (UPI) A sales executive of the Ford Motor Company predicted that sales of imported cars in the United States would reach 700,000 units in 1967 "and perhaps million before 1975.** Imported car sales in the United States rose to 650,000 last year.
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    • 82 9 SINGAPORE. Fri. The Cunard Steamship Co. Ltd.'s cruise liner "Caronia" <35,000 tons) will call at S ngapore on Mar. 20 on a one-day stopover. Commanded by Capt. W.J. Law, she will visit 15 coun'nes. and call on 20 ports during her 30,977-mile world cruise which began
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    • 48 9 NEW YORK, Fri. (UPI)— Ruuber futures closed unchanged and untraded yesterday. Mar. '67 21.05 21.75 May 21.25 22.00 July 21.35 22.05 Sept. 21.35 22.05 Nov. 21.35 22.05 Jan. 21.35 22.05 Mar. 21.35 22.05 Spot No. 1 RSS remained unchanged at 21-1/2 cents per pound, nominal.
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    • 305 9 NEW YORK, Fri. (AP). The National Maritime Union (NMU), perpetual critic of shippers using foreign flag vessels, protested against transfer of foreign ships to American registry to exploit the Vietnam crisis." NMU President, Mr. Joseph Curran expressed his displeasure in a telegram to Secretary
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    • 78 9 STOCKHOLM, Prl. A 100-kilometre (60-mile) road in Iraq is to be designed by Viak AB, Stockholm, consulting engineers, under a recent contract with the Iraqi Department of Roads and Bridges. The road is to be built in a desert and mountain region some 150 kilometres
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    • 54 9 BUDAPEST, Fri. A contract has been signed between FIAT and the Hungarian Government on agency "Moguert" for the delivery before the end of 1970 of 10,000 cars (mainly "850"'s "850 coupes" and "2300" 's) as well as the supply of technical assistance, a repair and spare parts centre
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    • 111 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. Mr. Chow Futt Seng, 34, Instrument Engineer of Mecomb (M) Ltd., Petaling Jaya, left recently for six weeks advanced training on the operation, repair, installation and maintenance of Medical Instruments at Hewlett Packard Inc., Palo Alto, California and also at the Sanborn Division
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    • 327 9 LONDON, Fri. An integrating weld monitor is claimed by its British makers to be capable of maintaining weld quality within pre-determined limits which are adjustable from five to 50 per cent. If these limits are exceeded, the monitor automatically shuts down the equipment. The
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    • 198 9 STOCKHOLM, Fri. —The large Swedish forest products and steel company Uddeholms AB is at present investing over Kr. 130 million (£9,000,000; $26,000,000) in its Skoghallsverken division on Lake Vanern. Kr 25 million have been earmarked for the chemical plant and Kr. 17 million for
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    • 141 9 STOCKHOLM, Fri. The Bwedish East Asia Company and the Norwegian Wilh. Wilhelmsen are to co-ordinate their sailings to the Far East from October this year under the name of SEACO-Wilhelm-sen Line. Eighteen of the two shipping lines' largest and most modern vessels with a total
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    • 73 9 NEW YORK. Fri. (AP) Charles C. Tillinghast, President of Trans World Airlines, and Mr. Conrad N. Hilton, Chairman of Hilton International Co., said they have reached an agreement in principal on a merger Plan. Hilton operates hotels around the world. TWA ranks second to United Air Lines
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    • 74 9 HOUSTON, Texas. Fri. (Reuter) An advanced business jet aircraft tnat could fly from New York to London non-stop has been proposed by PAN-American World Airways. Mr. James B. Taylor, Vice President of the firm's business jets told the Houston Aviation Advisory Council yesterday that PAN-AM is inviting
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    • 141 9 NEW YORK, Fri. (UPI) Heavy profUtafcing yesterday erased an early advance on the New York Stock Exchange. Selective buying limited the setback. After a slightly higher opening, buying expanded for the first two hours. Selling pressure mounted shortly afterward and continued until the close. Wall
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    • 110 9 NEW YORK, Fri. (API The Stock Market closed higher yesterday resuming the uptrend after a oneday Interruption. The market was up a little on balance from the start. Some of the more volatile issues withstood further profit taking. The trend toward easier money was emphasised
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    • 76 9 LONDON, Fri. (AP) Congestion and handling delays of cargo in the port of Bangkok have forced the Far Eastern Freight Conference to impose a 15 per cent surcharge on all shipments from and to Bangkok, effective March 6, the Conference said yesterday. This surcharge will be added
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    • 224 9 SINGAPORE, Fri. A new handbook on airport buildings and aprons has been published by the International Air Transport Association. Entitled "Airport Terminals", it replaces lATA's previous manual issued In 1962 It is intended to assist airport and government control authorities, architects, designers, and airlines In planning
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    • 204 9 LONDON, Fri. (UPI) A new high level bid to break the deadlock on the price the state-owned gas industry will pay for north sea natural gas supplies reached no decision yesterdav but another meeting will be arranged "shortly." The Chairman-elect of Shell transport and Trading
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    • 26 9 LONDON. Fri. (UPI) Rubber market opened quiet with No. 1 RSS Spot 18-1/16 18-3/16. No. 1 RSS CIF basis ports Feb. 17-9/16 17-11/16.
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    • 26 9 STOCKHOLM, Fri. (UPI) A Swedish industrial exhibition planned to be shown in Peking this spring probably will be cancelled, it was learned here today.
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    • 145 9 WASHINGTON, Fri. (Reuter) —The State Department announced today that Soviet negotiators had agreed temporarily to restrict Russian Ashing activities off the United States Pacific Coast and reduce King crab fishing in the Eastern Bering sea. The agreement, worked out during three-week
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    • 145 9 TOKYO, Fri. (AFP) Japan's automobile exports increased 31.7 per cent in 1966 over 1965 to a total of 255.734 units, the Japan Automative Industrial Association announced. The export volume correspondend to 11.2 per cent of the total annual automobile output of 2,286,000 units in 1966.
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    • 194 9 STOCKHOLM, Fri. Hungary's most modern particle board factory, producing over 30,000 cu.m. of high-grade board a year, has recently gone into operation, report Fjellmans Mek. Verkstads AB, Mariestad, Sweden, who designed the plant and supplied most of the mechanical equipment. The contract was worth
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    • 904 9 ARRIVALS IN SINGAPORE Time 12.05 p.m. Airline MSA 029 from Ruala Lumpur. Time 8.35 a.m. Airline MSA 019 from Ruala Lumpur. Time 9.30 a.m. Airline MSA 121 from Ruala Lumpur. Time 10.30 a.m. Airline MSA 451 from Ruchlng. Time 10.55 a.m. Airline MSA 005 from Penang,
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  • 345 11 SINGAPORE. Frl. A powerful new insecticide which has been developed in Britian may prove to be extremely useful in Singapore, Malaysia and other tropical countries. The new insecticide with far-reaching possibilities has been developed at Britain's Rothamsted experimental station with the backing of the
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  • 131 11 SINGAPORE. Frl. Mr. Tasuku Kakuma. a senior executive of the Bridgestone Tire Co. Ltd.. International Operations Department, has arrived in Singapore for a weeks business trip. Mr. Kakuma Is holding discussions with The East Asiatic Co. Ltd., agents for Bridgestone motor-cycles. Mr. Kakuma will be conducting
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  • 135 11 SINGAPORE. Fri. The total number of road accidents in Singapore for the month of January. 1967, was 2,411, a decrease of 411 accidents as compared with the corresponding month in 1966 when there were 2822 road accidents. There were 16 fatal accident cases for the month
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  • 136 11 SINGAPORE, Fri. —"I e e 1 J us t a bri e her wedding day," glowed Mrs. Nellie Tam. wife of Mr. Tam Tuan Yan, who celebrated theii' wedding anniversary on Monday at the Pentecost Methodist Church in Koon Seng Road. The couple who celebrated
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  • 252 11 SINGAPORE, Fri. Chinese New Year in Singapore was ushered in and greeted with a big BANG. Associations, organisations, business houses, and some private homes let off fire-crackers, some by the cases to usher in the Year of the Goat. Picture above captured
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  • 71 11 SINGAPORE. Frl. The Supreme Patriarch of the Thai Buddhist Order Wat Makutkasatriyararm and a flve-member party arrived in Singapore for a one-day stopover today. The Supreme Patriarch and his party are on their way to Colombo, Ceylon. They will return to Singapore on Sunday. At the airport'
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  • 243 11 SINGAPORE, Fri. The Acting Chairman of the Spastic Children's Association of Singapore, Dr. Tan Kwang Hoh said that with the completion of the new building, the association would take in more children for training and rehabilitation. Dr. Tan said the Association still negotiating with the
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  • 76 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Frl. An elaborate ceremony will be held at the Police Depot, Jalan Gurney, on Feb. 15 to mark the official presentation of vehicles, rifles and workshop equipment to the Royal Malaysia Police by the Australian Government. The ceremony will commence at 9 am. on
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  • 308 11  -  By K. S. SIDHU SINGAPORE, Fri. The age old preference for tall,, dark and handsome men does not apply to some 25 show girls from Formosa who are now in Singapore. These girls are on the look-out for men who have "better" qualities. And most
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  • 61 11 SINGAPORE, Fri. The Postal Services Department has announced that owing to the postponement of the Second Afro-Asian Housing Congress the commemorative postage stamps and First Day Covers will not now be placed on sale on March 11 and Feb. 11 respectively. The new dates for the release of these
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  • 173 11 SINGAPORE, Fri. The Royal Air Force (Malaya) are looking for young men to fill vacanc'es in aircraft engineering and administrative trades, a Far East Air Force spokesman announced today. A recruiting team will visit Singapore during the period march 6 to 9. and vacancies exist
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  • 147 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Eighteen students from Malaysia left for New Zealand to Join the 1967 course in the teaching of English as a second language at the English Language Institute of the victoria University of Wellington. The awards for the course were made under New
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  • 139 14 At the age of ten years, Martin Hunter is already prepared to compete against yachtsmen very much his senior in the races at the Singapore Naval Base Sailing Club. He is the son of Lieutenant Commander John Hunter. Vice Commodore of the club and a member of the
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  • 121 14 TOKYO. Fri. (UPI) A students world free wrestling tournament will be held in nearby Chiba City, July 14-16, it was announced last night by Ichiro Hatta, president of the Japan Amateur Wrestling Association. Sixteen countries including Russia, Yugoslavia. Turkey, Bulgaria, Rumania, Hungary, Great Britain,
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  • 124 14 TOKYO, Fri. (UPI) Asian Games champion Miss Noriko Takagi left today by a Japan Airlines plane to participate in the Malaysian international badminton tournament from Feb. 15-18 in Kuala Lumpur. Miss Takagi, a teacher at the Tokai Women's University, was also captain of the
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  • 346 14 SEREMBAN, Fri. Negri Sembilan Cricket Association's Invitation XI will include two players from Malacca for this weekend's match against Selangor. The match will be played on the N.S. padang here on Sunday commencing at 10.30 a.m. The Negri selectors are are trying
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  • 113 14 HOUSTON, Texas, Fri. (UPI) Cassius Clay's draft status was in the hands of the Houston Selective Service Appeal Board yesterday. The heavyweight champion's draft records were transferred from Louisville, Kentucky, officials at the Houston Board said. The Houston Board has not yet taken any
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  • 157 14 PHOENIX, Arizona, Fri. (UPI) The first round of the 72-hole U.S. $70,000 Phoenix Open ended in a traffic jam yesterday. Three golfers. Ken Still, Jack Rule and Dean Refram tied first place with five under par scores of 66. Refram, winner of this year's Southern
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  • 298 14 SYDNEY Fri. (REUTER) John Bennett, a 19-year-old swim, mer who is regularly beaten in practice by young girls has suddenly emerge as one of Australia's major hopes for 1968 Olympic games gold medals. In the recent New South Wales championships in Sydney, Bennett a
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  • 207 14 SEREMBAN, Fri. Seventeenth Division/Malaya District are holding their individual boxing championships here on February 14, 15 and 17. The preliminary rounds and semi-flnals will be held in Rasah Camp on Feb. 14 and 15 while the finals will be held in the N.S.C.R.C. Indoor
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  • 158 14 MANILA. Fri. (AFP) A member of the Philippine Lower House on Wednesday called on world junior lightweight boxing champion Flash Elorde to "hang up his gloves'* and told him he would be doing a service to sports if he quit now. In a Press statement,
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  • 139 14 NEW YORK, Fri. (UPI) World lightweight champion Carlos Ortiz of Puerto Rico and New York has signed to box Willie Ludwick of South Africa in Johannesburg on March 18 for the South African version of the world welterweight title, boxing agent Dewey Fragetta said. Curtis
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  • 274 14 SEREMBAN, Fri. The Negri Sembilon clubs' closed tennis championships will commence here next week from Monday afternoon on the club courts. The response for the tournament has been very encouraging from the men's section. The ladies events, however have been
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  • 199 14 SYDNEY, Fri. (Reuter) It would be the greatest travesty in Test cricket history if Australia drew their current series in Souih Africa, the Sydney Sun said in an editorial today. With one match remaining, Australia trail 1-2 after rain yesterday rescued them from
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  • 499 16 TOKYO, Fri. (UPI) The annual Far East Golf Circuit with more than a US$lOO,OOO In prize money Is of tremendous appeal to professional golfers in Asia. It is particularly so to professionals in Japan where there is only a small number of tournaments
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  • 34 16 SINGAPORE, Fri. Television Singapura will telecast a repeat programme o. tne world heavy weight championship fight between Cassius Clay and Ernie Terrell tomorrow, at 7.15 p.m. on Channel 8.
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  • 67 16 KEMPTON PARK. Surrey, Fri. The end of a beautiful friendship between top jockev Willie Robinson and his mount "Roi Bren." They parted company at the open ditch during the Royal Mail Handicap Steeple Chase run at Kempton Park racecourse on February 4 afternoon. Seen on
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  • 328 16 LONDON, Fri. (AFP) Commenting on the consequences of apartheid on sport in South Africa, The Times said today in an editorial: "Disappointing as cancellation of the M.C.C. tour would be. the D'Oliveira affair could come to have a wider significance. It could focus
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  • 212 16 PHILADELPHI, Pennsylvania, Fri. (A). Ernie Terrell was operated on yesterday for an injury of the left eyeball which his surgeon said caused double vision from the time It was incurred In Monday's heavyweight title fight against Cassius Claw Terrell claimed after the 15-round
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  • 125 16 PENANG, Fri —The president of the Penang Chinese Swimming Club, Mr. Saw Choo Theng, last night urged five honoured members of the club to spur on to greater efforts for the service of the people of Penang. The five members were recently given
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  • 60 16 IPOH, Fri. —The Swiss National soccer squad preparing for the 1968 Olympics competition will play a game in Ipoh tomorrow at the stadium Perak. Kick off at 8.00 p.m. Entrance for the game is $l. The second group of Swiss footballers will also
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  • 220 16 NEW DELHI, Fri. (AP) The influential Times of India has taken exception to the explanation offered by Ring Magazine for not naming Cassius Clay as "fighter of the year". In editorial page comment, the newspaper said Ring Magazine "has put forward specious arguments to
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  • 795 16  -  By Percy Joseph KUALA LUMPUR/ Fri. The Football Association of Malay, sia despite its many difficulties "in the past" had been able to assist in the development and betterment of the game at all levels. From now onwards, the intention of the
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  • 251 16 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri —M. S. Manium. from the National Electricity Board will lead the Malaysian Government team against the Indian Cricket Club, here on Feb. 25 at 5 p m. The match will he played on the Kilat Club and will be continued
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  • 88 16 BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, Fri. (AFP). —Karl Minor, the 18-year-old Australian centre-forward for the British soccer team West Ham United has been signed by the Baltimore Bays of the United States professional soccer league, it was announced last night. Clive Toye, general manager of the
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  • 213 16 SAN JUAN. Puerto Rico. Fri> (A P) A US$9O,OOO offer was cabled to Jersey Jones. world champion Dick Tiger's manager, to meet Puerto Rican Jose (Chegui) Torres at Bithorn Stadium on April 29. The announcement was made yesterday by Jolin Vanos after a
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  • 111 16 MALACCA, Fri. Malacca Amateur c Association will hold thei. 19th annual general mee *ng at the Bandar Hilir Eng.i?" School on Feb. 20. Mr. Chin Yik Keun to -l Eastern Sun that the annual report and statement of a counU will be forwarded to
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    • 60 16 TIME AND TIDE Penang: 1.34 a.m. (8.1 ft.); 2.13 p.m. (7 ft.) Port Swettenham: 7.06 am. (14.6 ft); 7.31 p.m. (15.3 ft.) Port Dickson: 7.55 a.m. (8.6 ft.); 8.04 p.m. (8.9 ft.) Smsapore: 12.43 a.m. (84 ft.); 11.51 a.m. (9.7 ft.) bediii licchil: 10.12 a.m. (6.6 ft.); 11.54 p.m. (7.9
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