Eastern Sun, 3 April 1967

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  • 28 1 Eastern Sun Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION tsr Estd. 1966. Vol. 1 No. 252 Monday. 3 April 1967. it MC (P) 2251 -h KDN 2660 Price 15 cents
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  • 587 1  -  -By- MICHAEL LITTLE JOHNS SECRETARY-GENERAL U THANT appealed to the today to apply a unilateral ceasefire in the Vietnam war. "The United States, with power and wealth unprecedented in human history, is in a position to take this initiative," he said in a written statement issued to
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  • 160 1 JAKARTA, Sun. (AP) Congress Chairman General Abdul Haris Nasution did not decline when asked by a student if he would agree to becoming a President if elected, the official news agency ANTARA reported today. Gen. Nasution said. "Wait and see. This question is not
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  • Article, Illustration
    74 1 T.S. Air Force B-52 stratoforts flying miles above their targets unload tons of bombs on Communist strongholds and heavily foTtified positions, softening them up for friendly ground troops. The B-52s have increased the number of their daily raids, hitting as many as six Communist targets in a single
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  • 234 1  -  By TAI SING ONN. KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Teachers today heaped praise on the "Eastern Sun for its fair, unbiased reporting of the "mini-strikes" by the National Union of Teachers. A Tanjong Malim teacher writes in to say, "The Eastern Sun has been reporting facts about the
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  • 158 1 Big parade against Liu Shao Chi PEKING, Sun. (Reuter) Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators marched through Peking's streets today chanting "down with Liu Shao-Chi" in the biggest demonstration yet against China's Head of State. Parading under tall Red flags and bearing huge coloured portraits of Communist Party Chairman Mao-Tse-Tung, workers.
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  • 68 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. The following is a statement by Dato Nik Daud. Secretary to the Ministry of Home Affairs. Malaysia. "I am to state that the former Inspector-General of Police. Malaysia, did not discuss with the Permanent Secretary of the Singapore Ministry of the Interior and
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  • 37 1 BANGKOK. Sun. (Reuter> Malaysian Chinese Communists in southern Thailand have killed a defector as a warning to rubber plantation workers who are being forced to supply the Communists with food and money, reports reaching her*
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  • 73 1 TAMPIN, Sun. The Minister of Information and Broadcasting and acting Minister of Education, Enche Senu bin Abdul Rahman, said the dignity of teachers was affected by the action of the NUT members. For the sake of the students, the nation as well as the teaching profession,
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  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 514 2  -  TFif/i o/i/z/ fitfo more Byt Khoo Boon Choo MORE than three months have elapsed since the Miss Malaysia-I nt e r national contest and today, the winner, sweetsmiling 20-year-old Miss Majorie Rongsank of Penang has still not received her trophy. Strangely, the handsome trophy, donated
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    • 1241 2  -  By: Lim Thow Boon Kuala Lumpur, Sun. ITUALA LUMU PUR, Sun. A final 'show* down' between the National Union of Teachers and the Ministry of Education seems inevitable. NUT wants to talk, but the Ministry refused yesterday. Instead, it told NUT to prepare submissions to
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    • 404 2 TAN AH RATA, Sun—The search for missing Bangkok silk magnate. Jim Thompson 61, swung into its eight day today and the result wm a heartbreaking: blank. Aborigine "bounty" hunters a $15,000 reward has been offered by the Bangkok Silk Company to anyone finding Mr. Thompson
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    • 38 2 IPOH, Sun. Twenty-year-old Miss Merle Partridge, a secretary, wag last night elected "Miss Rotary Queen" here. Runners-up were Miss Rosa Chan, and Miss Rachel Balasingam, both 22. The contest was organised by the Ipoh Rotary dub.
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    • 2167 3  -  The man behind the strike NUT's '4 just claims': Housing Medical attention Equal pay Parity for DTC teachers By: CHAN RAM YAU Kuala Lumpur, Sun THE present strike by teachers is, to say the least, unprecedented. As far as one can remember, this is
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    • 587 4 SINGAPORE, Sun. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour, Mr. Sia Kah Hui, will give away certificates to participants of "Training Within Industry for Supervisors" courses at the Cultural Centre, tomorrow. These basic courses were held over the last two years. Seventy
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    • 146 4 SINGAPORE, Sun. A 12-year-old youth was killed in a road accident at Farrer Road yesterday. He died on the spot. He was Hui Liew Guan of Lorong Tamok who was involved in a collision with a mili- tary motor-cycle. Police said he sustained head injuries.
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    • 100 4 SINGAPORE. Sun. Mr. Lim Chong Keat was reelected President of the Singapore Institute of Architects at its annual general meeting held recently. Others who were elected to office and the council for 1967-1968 are: Vice-President, Mr. C.A.V. Chew; Hon. Secretary, Mr. Ho Pak Toe; Hon.
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    • 94 4 SINGAPORE, Sun. The Registrar of Companies, Mr. A. W. Ghows today gave notice in the Government Gazette to ten companies that unless cause was shown to the contrary, they woulci be struck off from the Register of Companies and be dissolved. The companies are:
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    • 42 4 SINGAPORE, Sun. Six hundred and twenty-five victims of the Jalan Besar fire yesterday received $25 each and other gifts. Mr. Chan Chee Seng. Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Social Affairs, distributed the cash and donations
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    • 67 4 PENANG, Sun. A diesel engine from a concrete mixer, costing $2,000 was stolen from a construction site in Udini Road here, late last night. The watchman, Taliman Slnnavaram, told police, that he and his friend were sleeping in a shed at the construction site, when four masked
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    • 122 4 SINGAPORE, Sun. The National Safety First Council of Singapore will hold an "industrial safety first seminar" at the Mobil Oil Refinery in Jurong on April 7. The seminar will discuss the various problems related to industrial safety and determine how best to promote safety first consciousness
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    • 345 4 SINGAPORE, Sun. A globe-girdling cyclist from Colombia, South America, who had covered 36,000 miles arrived in Singapore today and was full of praise for the "excellent' highways of Malaysia. He is muscular and welltanned Marco Antonia Navas. 38. who left his home town on Feb.
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    • 187 4 KUALA LUMPUR Sun. Mr. Tan Seng Siar. who was recently elected a World Vice President of Junior Chamber International, will leave here on April 14 for a two-month tour of his assigned countries in the Caribbean. He is expected to visit Bhamas, Bermuda.
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    • 163 4 SINGAPORE, Sun. One of four Chinese youths, who allegedly took part in an "illegal procession" this morning, was arrested following an attack on a Police Sergeant in which sticks were used. The incident happened in the outskirts of the City at about 9.25
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    • 108 4 SINGAPORE, Sun. Singapore citizens who possess the experience and knowledge of playing In a band can now apply for a job with the Special Constabulary Band (Volunteer Police) of the Singapore Police Force. Those who wish to apply for the Job must be 18 years of age
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    • 94 4 SINGAPORE, Sun. —The Minister for Culture and Social Affairs, Enche Othman bin Wok appointed 12 persons to serve on the National Theatre Trust with effect from yesterday, April 1, for the next six years. They are: Mr. Fong Sip Chee (Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry
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    • 198 4 SINGAPORE, Sun. The President, Enche Yusof bin Ishak, today urged all citizens, irrespective of race, religion and creed, to pool together their resources and ability to help their fellowmen. He was speaking at the 16th annual first-aid competition of the St. John Ambulance Brigade
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    • 61 4 IPOH, Sun. Three men, armed with daggers, yesterday held up a sundry shop proprietor and his wife In their shop and robbed them of $340 in cash and jewellery. Mrs. Yap Gaik Choo was going through the day's takings in the shop in Kampong Boyan when
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    • 197 4 SINGAPORE, Sun. The International Civil Aviation Organisation plans to establish in Singapore a regional training centre in carta* graphy for South-east Asia. This was stated by a Singapore Department of Civil Aviation officer, Mr. Ang Teck Chia who is at present in Australia for
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    • 36 4 Mr. H. F. Harrison (left), officer in charge of the area approach control centra at the $A40,000,000 international airport under construction at Tullamanr.t Melbourne, shows Mr. Ang a chart of the airport for the radar console.
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    • 126 11 SINGAPORE, Sun. The Public Utilities Board has published its 1967 estimates for capital expenditure which will amount to more than $90.1 million. This total covers expenditure in the Electricity. Gat and Water Departments. The estimated total capita' expenditure for the Service Department and
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    • 469 11 SINGAPORE, Sun. "4711" Eou dt Cologne one of the longest established cologne manufacturers in the world will celebrate her 175 anniversary this year. The company's Far East general representative, Mr. Gunter Kieinsimon. flew into Singapore over the weekend to introduce a new
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    • 40 11 binoaPOrl;, Sun. The Singapore Government has awarded a $360,000 Contract to Messrs ChUa Pong Sil Building Contractor for the construction of four TypS "C 3" standard factory buildings in Section 10, Jalan Kerja. of the Jufl&ng Industrial Complex.
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    • 42 11 SINGAPORE. Sua the Minister for Labdur, Mr. Jek Yeun Thong, has appointed, under the Central Provident Fund Ordinance, Enche Aziz Karim to be a member of the CPF Board for a further three years with effect frOm February, 1967.
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    • 169 11 SINGAPORE, Sun. Sweet and lovely, 19-year-old, Anaela Attias was last night crowned "Miss Singapore International 1967" when she beot 11 other finalists. Angela, a model by profession. will be Singapore's contestant-delegate to the world famous International Beauty Pageant at Long Beach. California. U.S.A. Elegant
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    • 117 11 PENaNG, Sun. —Carrying placards and shouting slogans in Church Street here yesterday were employees of the Malayan Press, who staged their first day of strike ifl protest against the "tfcijuSt management of the press". The 24 strikers, who are members of the "National Union of Employees
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    • 57 11 SINGAPO&E, Sun. the Singapore FaiAily Planning arid Papulation Board will hold a family planning lecture/demonstration in Chinese on Monday at the Institute of Health, Outram Road, Singapore. A fllrii show will be included. These lectures/deirtoristratioris will be held regularly every Mdriday 6f the week, except public
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    • 229 11 SINGAPORE, Sun. A young Singapore student, Kam Kok Foo, 19, of Geylang hot won the Alexander and Elisabeth Raff Memo* rial Prize for Medicine af the University of Queensland. Kok Foo, a brilliant stu dent, scored high distinct ions in chemistry, medical botany,
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    • 285 11 SINGAPORE, Sun. lt is a pleasure to go shopping, especially when you do know where to buy what, simply by following the Eastern Sun shopping guide. Do you know that there is always something new at Metro Ltd.? Take a look at the new stock
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    • 127 11 SINGAPORE. Sun The staff of the Port of Singapore Authority (Tanjong Pagar Division M. E. Drivers) have donated a total Of $53 for the National Dlsaiter Fund (Malaysia) through the Eastern Sun. The donations cime from N. Mohamed Yusoff, M. Lingappati, Attahludeen. S. Veenaiyah,
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 151 5 o l IN C Y Massachusetts, Sun. (AP) Bandits hijacked an armoured truck outside a shopp ng centre last night and got away with loot estimated at between $300,000 and $1 million. Quincy Police said the haul was more than $500,000 and police in
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    • 50 5 HELSINKI. Sun. fßeuter Finland's biggest rug measuring 9 metres k 4.5 metres 'about 29-1/2 feet x nearly 15 feet) Is bein? sent to the Finnish pavilion at Expo '67 the World's Fair opening In Montreal on April 28. It was designed by Uhra Simbers-Ehrstrom.
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    • 160 5 MOSCOW, Bun. (AP) Oleg A. Troyanovsky, 47, once a top translator and assistant to former Premier Nikita 8. Khrushchev, has been appointed Soviet ambassador to Japan, Tass said yesterday. Troyanovsky accompanied Mr. Khrushchev on visits to Britain, the United States, Indonesia. France Austria.
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    • 377 5 WASHINGTON, Sun. (UPI) AMERICANS for Democratic Action (ADA) called yesterday for "an immediate and unconditional" halt in the bombing of North Vietnam. At its annual convention, the ADA also urged unreserved acceptance of the peace proposals of United Nations Secretary
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    • 146 5 NEW DELHI. Sun. (UPI) Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi toured starva-tion-stricken Bihar state yesterday. Officials told her children were being deprived of both education and food because of the drought crisis. They said the children stayed at home because parents could not pay the fees in
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    • 56 5 BOMBAY. India, Sun. (AP> Two persons were killed and 14 others injured when about 100 raiders attacked a village in Andhra Pradesh state, police said yesterday. Armed with axes, spears, cycle-chains and sticks, the gangsters looted five hours in the village of Upperpalll in the Warangal district.
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    • 120 5 ALBANY. New York, Sun. (AP) Waitresses would be banned from working topless in New York state, under provisions of a measure that gained final legislative approval yesterday. The Bill, which passed both the state senate and the assembly, was sent to Governor Nelson A. Rockfeller
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    • 52 5 NEW DELHI, Sun. (AFP) India's Foreign Minister, Mohammed Ali Chagla will visit Geneva towards the end of the month to discuss the proposed nuclear nonproliferation treaty with other nations at the Geneva disarmament talks. En route to Geneva. Mr. Chagla will pay good-will visits to Kuwait
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    • 58 5 HONG KONG, Sun. (Reuter) —Hong Kong saw a crime increase last year. Police figures showed there were 21.430 serious crime cases, an increase of 1.423 or 7.1 per cent as compared with 20.007 cases in 1965. The Kowloon riots last April produced 946 cases ranging
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    • 187 5 MILAN. Italy, Sun. (AP) The Italian wife of U.S. auto magnate Henry Ford II has been sued by an elderly Yugoslav singer on a charge of Insulting her. The singer, Terka Skok, claims she met Maria Cristina Vett-ore, now Mrs. Ford, when the latter was a
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    • 65 5 This is an artist's concept of the Lunar Landing Training Vehicle to be built under contract by Bell Aerosystems Co., for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to provide three vehicle which the astronauts will use to practise simulated landings on the moon. The vehicles will be
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    • 299 5 Williamstown, West Virginia, Sun. (UPI) Police in five states searched yesterday for four dangerous convicts who had terrorises 14 members of a family including seven children. The fugitives kidnapped a 25-year-old member of the family but later released him unharmed. The convicts, three
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    • 72 5 HONG KONG, Sun. (Reuter) Hong Kong factories are providing employment for more people, according to the Labour Department. Factory workers at the end of last December totalled 424,155, an Increase of 16,325 as compared with the figure recorded at the end of September, 1966. The
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    • 169 5 DALLAS. Texas, Sun. (AP) It's back to school tomorrow for Frankie Hayes, the fullfaced 9-year-old who made medical history in a complete recovery from leukemia. The lad, son of a Dallas factory representative was the first human to receive a revolutionary treatment. His
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    • 88 5 TOKYO. Sun. (UPI) Indonesian Foreign Minister Mr. Adam Malik flew into Tokyo last night to attend the general meeting of the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE), opening here tomorrow for a five day session. Mr. Maiik while here is
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    • 50 5 WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Sun. (Reuter) F1 v e-y e a r-old Lawrence Graham Smith of Hamilton died by a 1.000-to-one chance after being stung by a bee. He was the victim of an allergy as rare as that which causes death from penicillin or anti-tetanus injections.
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    • 177 5 CHICAGO, Illinois, Sun. (AP) Carrie Stephens, 8, object of an intensive search since she disappeared from her Northside neighbourhood recently, was found apparently unharmed today in an apartment about a mile from. home. A one-armed man. police said, was found with the girl in the
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    • 134 5 DURBAN, South Africa, Sun. Reuter) A scheme for getting drunken drivers and their cars safely home is being studied by the National Driving Schools Association. The idea is to form twoman teams to help motorists who have had too much to drink. One member of
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    • 56 5 WARSAW, Poland, Sun. (AP) Eight persons were killed and three Injured when a minibus collided with a train yesterday at an unguarded crossing at Bielawy, near Bydgoszcz, Northern Poland, the Polish press agency reported. The report said 12 people were aboard the minibus which was
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    • 410 6 US to ship 3 million tons more to India JOHNSON CITY, Texas, Sun. (UPI) President Johnson slfned Into law yesterday a resolution to provide three million additional tons of emergency food grain for India. The shipment will cost up to US$l9O million, depending on the purchase
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    • 356 6 ,TOKYO, Sun. (UPI) The most pressing Job of AsJ*'t rice bowl nations U to All that bowl, the United Nations sponsored Economic Commission tor Asia and the Far East (ECAFE) was told today. An ECAFE survey pointed out that "Asia's agriculture was failing in
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    • 120 6 CALCUTTA Sun. (AFP) Starving Hindus in drought-s tri k en Bihar State were eating cows, a practice forbidden by their religion, according to a B har government official touring with Prime Minister Mrs Indira Gandhi in the distressed areas. The ofttc'al said that lowcaste Hindus
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    • 169 6 TOKYO, Sun. (UPI) A prodigal son returns tomorrow to the family of Asian nations which was assured Just yesterday that another pouting member has decided against running away from home. Indonesia, now firmly under the administrative control of acting President Oen. Suharto, will be attending a
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    • 58 6 NEW DELHI, Sun. (Router) India is to try using television to teach farmers better techniques of argiculture. Bo far. India has only a small television service in the Delhi area. But now sets are to be installed in 80 villages round the capital and special programmes
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    • 326 6 Anti-US mob in Italu FLORENCE, Italy, Sun. (UPI) Vice President Humbert H. Humphrey arrived in Florence last night fresh from talks with Pope Paul VI on Vietnam peace efforts and ran into a barrage of eggs and violent anti-American demonstrations. Mr. Humphrey's car was pelted with
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    • 383 6 What's up Down Under? SYpNfcY, Sua. (Renter). Overseas tourists will soon be able to aee Australian home-life from the inside. Introducing visitors and students to Australia on a person-to-person basis is the aim of the International Centre Foundation, a recent-ly-launched registered cooperative. The
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    • 174 6 Geneva Switzerland, Sun. <UPI) Top Kennedy Round negotiators broke eff their talks yesterday after falling to reach agreement on a tariff cutting package. Arrangements were made to meet again next Wednesday. Highly-placed officials said everything would depend on a meeting in BfuSb on April 10
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    • 78 6 SYDNEY, Sun Renter— Many New South Wales couples are flying to Brisbane to get "Instant divorces" and so beat the backlog in the Sydney courtsIn Queensland, there is almost no delay in undefended divorce hearings, but in New South Wales the average waiting time at present
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    • 163 6 ADEN. Son. (CFI) The worst rainstorm in memory swept Aden yesterday. Though isolated violence waa reported in the colony, the torrential downpour dampened preliminaries to the hotel reception planned by nationalist jrotip* for the arrival of A threeman United Nation* mission today. Crowds at Crater
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    • 61 6 BUENOS AIRES, BUtt. (Router) Police here Who arrested seven mill have charged them with stealing a houie. The gang they say. carried off the roof, fttrnituro and all fittings, leaving only the wails. The owner of the house explained that the robbery took place in the
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    • 31 6 BIGGEST EGG IX TH? WORLD??? SHOWN above t a drive-in restaurant recently opened at Barn*, veld, the Netherlands, famed for its egg centre in Netherlands. PANA PANA Photo.
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    • 451 6 CHICAGO. Sun (UPI) John D. (Jay) Rockefeller H and Sharon Lee Percy, two children of great wealth and high politics, were married yesterday in "The wedding of the year." Sorrow shadowed the ceremonies. The mother of tie bride's step-mother died of an apparent
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    • 93 7 HARJATI. divorced number four wife of Indonesian former president Sukarno, watches her marriage certificate during an UPI exclusive interview here. The 26-year-old East Javanese beautv is planning to write a book exposing her private life with Sukarno. Harjati. who married Sukarno when she was
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    • 112 7 MANILA, Sun. ((AFP) Philippine President Marcos yesterday sacked a municipal judge described as being: "too amorous." B-side being found guilty of habitual drunkenness, the disgraced judge was also known to have kissed another man's wife. The judge was the fifth dismissed by Pres. Marcos in the
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    • 44 7 CARACAS, Venezuela, Sun. AFP)—A mother of 16 children gave birth to a child *'ith four arms, legs and two of male genitals at Imana, near here, on Saturday. The rhild died two and a half hours after birth.
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    • 173 7 WASHINGTON, Sun (AP) FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover has characterised the off-broad way play "Macßird" as "a satirical piece of trash" and scored organisers of campus fil-thy-speech movements. The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation said "Macßird" authoress Barbara Gar son and others are
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    • 52 7 SYDNEY, Sun. Reuter The first 100 troops of Australia's new Vietnam Task Force left Sydney by air today for South Vietnam. The 4,500-strong Australian force in Vietnam is to be completely relieved during the next few weeks by units which include a high proportion of
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    • 384 7 The JFK case COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sun. (AP) Gordon Novel wanted in New Orleans in connection with the probe on President John F. Kennedy's assassination, was arrested yesterday in suburban Gahanna. Gahanna Mayor Paul van Auken said Novel, 29-year-old former New Orleans night club operator, was
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    • 190 7 BEIRUT, Sun. (UPI) The Western-owned Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC) has agreed to increase oil royalties to Lebanon by about 50 per cent. It was announced yesterday. A pact, similar to the one signed last month between the IPC and Syria, is to be signed todjy, the National
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    • 53 7 CALAIS, Sun. (Reuter) Flotsam was believed to have detonated a floating World War II mine which exploded in the English Channel yesterday halnvay between Calais and Dover. French and British lifeboats rushed to the scene after the explosion, but a fruitless night-long search indicated no
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    • 98 7 WEST BERLIN, Sun. (Reuter) —A freedom-lov-ing racoon is now the pet of a West Berlin family after having twice escaped from the city's *OO. When recaptured for the second time, it was regarded by the *OO authorities as a security risk and offered for sale. The family
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    • 164 7 PARIS, Sun. (UPl)—The French cabinet resigned yesterday after its setback in the recent National Assembly election. President Charles de Gaulle accepted the resignation at yesterday's last cabinet meeting of the outgoing legislature. The newly elected 482-seat National Assembly (Lower House) meets tomorrow. The joint resignation
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    • 56 7 Citizens of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, are watching with curious eyes a youth who is writing Chinese characters on the wall, wondering if Chinese Red Guards wallposters are apnearing in Amsterdam. But this is a public ty for American film "The Sand Pebbles" on the occasion of
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    • 279 7 BANGKOK, Sun. (Reuter) Thailand will renew its request to the United States for the supply of surface-to-air guided missiles when the ministerial council of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organisation (SEATO) meets in Washington, Deputy Defence Minister, Air Chief Marshal Dawee Chullasapya, told reporters. Thailand wants the
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    • 31 7 BOMBAY Sun. (Reuter) Rescue workers digging through the ruins of a collapsed building here today found four more bodies, bringing the toll in the disaster to nine.
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    • 133 7 DARWIN, Australia, Sun. (Reuter) A French airline pilot rescued with his wife from a sinking rafi said today Mozart and Bach had kept them sane during two months "starving in style" on a lonely island Captain Henri Bourdens, 44, told his story in a
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    • 92 7 MANILA, Sun. (Reuter) A Catholic Bishop, the Msgr Mariano Gaviola, at a press conference in Laguna Province, a few miles South of here, predicted an agrarian uprising within ten years if the lot of farmers is not improved. Bishop Gaviola is one of the Catholic hierarchy attending
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    • 115 7 BANGKOK, Sun. (Reuter) The Defence Communications Agency (D.C.A.) of the Thai government yesterday opened a model earth station for overseas communications via communications satellites at Siracha, 78 miles South East of Bangkok. The station will handle 10 Hawaii-Bangkok channels of military telegrams and telex messages.
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    • 75 7 ESTILL, South Carolina, Sun. (UPI) —Marion R. Lawton, a decorated veteran of the Bataan death March in the early days of World War 11, leaves South Carolina on Wednesday to retrace part of the infamous march on the Pacific Isle. A Major under Gen. "Skinny" Wainwright when
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    • 248 7 OSAKA, Japan, San. (UPI) An express commuter train slammed into a stalled gravel truck last night killing five passengers, among them a 10 year old girl, and injuring 205 others. Six of the Injured were reported to be in serious condition.
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    • 406 7 WASHINGTON, Sun. The U.B. Army Is believed to be grooming much-decorated Gen Sfeighton W. Abrams Jr.', Vice Chief of Staff, as a possible replacement for Gen. William C. Westmoreland as U.S. Commander in Vietnam. A top level command resume could bring Gen Westmoreland
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 677 5 CHANNEL 5 Kuala Lumpur and Pnlau Pinanr; 6 Ipoh and Melaka: 3 10 Johore Bahrn; 4 Talpin?: 7 Batu Pahat: 9 Kiuang. (Singapore viewers, please switch to channel 3 for T.V. Malaysia programmes). P M 5J5 OPENING ANNCT Prog. Summary. 5.50 NEWS OUTLINES in the National Language. 5.55 NATIONAL SONGS.
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  • 389 8 JN the teachers' struggle with the Government for the settling of four issues, thousands of pupils suffer in the process. Unfortunately, the authorities give the impression that the settlement can wait. It is high time that Government changes its attitude, otherwise the nation's educational system may
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  • 385 8 'pHE current heat wave has set people to thinking about shade trees along our streets and highways. Progress has caused the cutting down not only of shade trees but also of huge areas of jungle. The big towns are getting hotter because tall buildings have taken the places
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  • 3836 8  -  By: M. C. SCHUBERT (Mrs.) A talk to members of the Malaysian Institute of Management Kuala Lumpur T'HE study of management in all its aspects is, of course, a primary object, if not the chief raison d'etre of the Malaysian Institute of Management. Being
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 923 9 SINGAPORE, SUNDAY THF St«ck Market has lost ground during the week but more active conditions we rt seen and volume was improved. During the first three davs of he week, practically mojt shares in the industrial section showed a d -wnwarc movement exth| "Blue
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    • 148 9 Capetown, Sun. (Reuter) A 12-member Taiwan trade delegation had talks here today with South Africa's Minister of Economic Affairs Jan Haak and Secretary for Commerce and Industries H. R. Kotzenberg. r Delegation leader T. P. Wu told reporters afterwards, however, that they had not discussed
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    • 108 9 TOKYO, Fri. (AFP) An informal agreement has been reached to export 17.000 tons of steel bridge materials, valued at 55.880.000 to the Philippines from Japan, an industrial source reported today. The export will constitute part of the 10th annual programme of Japan's war reparations to
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    • 159 9 HONG KONG, Sun. (Reuter) The Philippines was prepared to buy rice from China if the quality and price offered were right, Mr. M. D. Goyena, Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Philippine Rice and Corn Administration said in a newspaper interview here today.
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    • 119 9 NEW YORK. Sat. <AP).— The Stock market entered Its third day of tnndless irregularity early yesterday. Trading was moderately active. Fractional gains and losses were the general rule. Plus signs outnumbered minuses but, once again, the averages were a little lower because of softness in some of
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    • 164 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. A German architect whose special topic of research is "The Future of the City", Mr. Helmut Borcherdt, will acquaint himself with Malaysian architecture during his three days in Kuala Lumpur from Monday. He is on an extensive tour through several Asian countries
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    • 92 9 BANGKOK. Sun. (AFP) The Thai Cabinet has approved an outlay of 360 million bhats (about $lB million) for the Thai Maritime Navigation Company to acquire ireighters for a merchant fleet route to Europe, and possibly America, it was disclosed here over the weekend. A spokesman for
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    • 970 9 AIR MOVEMENTS S'PORE, K. LUMPUR ARRIVALS IN SINGAPORE Time 12.05 a.m. Airline MSA 029 from K.L. Time 8.35 a.m. Airline ML 019 from Kuala Lumpur. Time 9.30 a.m. Airline ML 121 from Kuala Lompur. Time in.3o a.m. Airline ML 451 from Kuchinf. Time 10.55 a.m. Airline ML 005 from Penan*.
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