Eastern Sun, 7 December 1967

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  • 27 1 Eastern Sun Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION -> l ,tH. 1966. Vol. 2 No. 493 Thursday, 7 December 1967. ft MC(P) 2251 ’fr KDN 2660 Price 15 cents
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  • 469 1  -  REVELATION: Intruders were waiting for businessman to return home By Khoo Boon Choo pENANG, Wed. —An attempt to kidnap a wealthy merchant, Mr. Neoh Choo Ec, was made yesterday by armed robbers, who are believed to have been watching his movements for some time. This was stated
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  • 112 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Admiral Ulysses S. Grant Sharp. Jr.. Com-mander-in-Chief of United States Armed Forces in the Pacific Region, will arrive here tomorrow for a two-dav goodwill visit to the Malaysian capital. Admiral Sharp, who assumed his present command on July 1, 1964, visited
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  • 360 1 MONTEVIDEO. Wed (Reuter)—Uruguay's President Oscar Gestido, who challenged one of his former ministers to a duel last month, died early today after a heart attackGeneral Gestido. 66. took office as the head of an 11-man Cabinet last March 1 for a five-year
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  • 289 1 HONG KONG, Wed. (UPI). A strike called today by 20,000 Communist students appeared to have failed, according to first reports. But terrorism continued, and a bomb was hurled in a police station. A Government spokesman said that at least one of
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  • 41 1 VESOUL, France. Wed. Reuter) A policeman's bulging wallet saved him from certain death here vesterday when it deflected a bullet fired at point blank range by a wanted mar. The polic '.i n was only slightly wounded
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  • 84 1 SINGAPORE. Wed A motor-cyclist. Vickramage B. Gregory Fernando, 28, died today —two days after his machine skidded at the junction of Fidelo Road and Jalan Khairuddin on Monday He received serious head injuries and died yesterday morning at the General Hospital Those who have seen the
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  • 187 1 SINGAPORE, H’ed. The 24-year-old victim of a sex attack yesterday has been identified as Ang Chee of .Malabar Street, a Woodbridge patient who had run away from the hospital. Ang Chee, a mother of a four-month old baby, was reported to have
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  • 210 1 1/ U ALA LUMPUR, Wed. The doors ore now opened to businessmen and industrialists in Malaysia and other countries to invest in Indonesia. Antara the Indonesian national news agency —said this today in launching its first commercial bulletin in Malaysia. Antara said
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  • 69 1 SINGAPORE. Wed.—The Ministry of Finance announced this morning that with immediate effect the Accountant-General is prepared to sell at 32.5573 d to the Singapore dollar sterling forward on three months. This is in addition to sales of spot sterling which have been going on for some
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  • 66 1 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico. (Wea. (ite-uter) —Seven persons were killed and six others critically injured when a taxi, carrying 12 passengers went out of control and plunged over a 1,000-foot cliff. The accident, which occurred yesterday near the town of Penuelas, was the island's worst
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  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 427 2 TT'UALA LUMPUR, Wed. The 'Cabinet today confirmed the agreement between Malaysia and the Soviet Union on the composition of the staff of the diplomatic missions in each respective country. This was disclosed today by the Deputy Premier, Tun Abdul Razak, after the
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    • 138 2 MALACCA, Wed. The marketing “ordeal” of housewives here has been made. After the recent 30 cent increase in the price of meat, the Erice of vegetables ere has doubled. Sellers attribute the increase to the wet season which is reckoned to have damaged farms extensively. Cooking
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    • 271 2 KUALA LUMPUR Wed Two hundred and twenty employees of the Klang and Port Swettenham Omnibus Company Limited will go on strike on Dec. 19, if the management refuses to meet their claims tor annual bonus and restoration of pay-cuts made recently. The workers who are
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    • 180 2 RUALA LUMPUR. Wed A student on the eve of his departure for oversea studies was today bound over for three years on two charges of kidnapping and robbery. Soon Chan Han. 20. described as “a regular blood donor.” had earlier pleaded guilty to both charges
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    • 93 2 IPOH. Wed A total of $1,400 in fine? was Imposed on eight ehandu addicts by the acting president of the Sessions Court here, Enche Zuklfli bln Mahmood, today. They were Wong Poh Weng. 39, Lim Sim See. 49 Wong Kim Keong, 51. Chan Kwal. 70.
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    • 40 2 ALOR STAR. Wed. Enche Kamaluddin bin Ibrahim Ali, 29. assistant district manager of the National Electricity Board here will be transfered to Kuala Lumpur on Jan. 1. He has been promoted as an electriclal engineer at headquarters office
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    • 244 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Bongo-plaving mambo dancer. Raymond Kari Kari. a lucky showman His family wife Ethel, daughters Jasmine. 16, Martina 9, and son Jason. 7. enjoy travelling so much that he has little to worry about h i s globe-trotting career oaus-.ng him any domestic problems.
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    • 96 2 Exhibition of private papers of Tun Tan Cheng Lock at National Archives 9 am. to 1 p.m. Works of prominent Malaysian artists by Peninsular Art Society at 41, Jaian Raja Muda„ 9 am. to 8 p.m. Exhibition of tapestries from France at Samat Art Gallery 9 a m.
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    • 216 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Kuala Lumpur District Goodwill Committee met here today at the Selangor Council Chamber to plan measures to be taken in time of civil unrest In the State. Enche Osman Khairuddin bin Mohamed Som, the Kuala Lumpur District
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    • 308 2 RMAF pilot awarded Green Endorsement' for saving lives of man his dog KUALA Ll’MPl R, Wed. A Royal Malaysian Air Force Pilot. Pilot Officer Mustaffa hin Zakaria. 22. has been awarded the “Green Endorsement” by the Central Flying School of the British Royal Air Force for saving the life of
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    • 38 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Yang dl-Pertuan Agong has sent a congratulatory message to the President of Finland on its Independence Day. The Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman has also sent a similar message.
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    • 117 3 SINGAPORE. Wed. New Zealand's National Librarian and former Director of the New Zealand Library Service, Mr. G T Alley, will arrive here tomorrow for a short visit. Mr. Alley will be in touch with persons associated with library work, and will also visit the National
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    • 79 3 SINGAPORE. We d The Chief Steward of a Japanese oil tanker. Xishikawa Seitaro, 43 was today charged in the Ninth Magistrate's Court with the murder of the ship’s First Engineer, Eiji Kinoshita, 25. Seitaro is alleged to have committed the offence on board the tanker
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    • 221 3 Meeting to normalise S’poreIndon shipping SINGAPORE. Wed Singapore and Indonesian shippers have begun a threeday meeting to iron out several issues to normalise shipping between the two countries. This is the first joint committee meeting to be held here following the signing of the interim rate and share agreements between
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    • 488 3 OINGAPORE, Wed. The first batch of coins to be airlifted for the Singapore Currency Board arrived in Singapore from London last night. These coins, weighing about 30 tons, consisted of about five million pieces of the new 20-cent and 50-cent Singapore coins.
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    • 308 3 SINGAPORE, Wed. A Greek entertainer and his attractive German wife are now in Singapore to perform an unusual act for Singapore nightclub-goers. Billed as “The Taki Haris Show”, the couple perform each night a 25minute “Python Act” to the startling delight of local audiences.
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    • 139 3 9 a.m. 6 p.m. Painting Exhibition at National Library, Stamford Road. 5-30 p.m. Tea party of Commonwealth Society, at the Singapore Cricket Club. Esplanade. Mr F.H. Choudhury, the Pakistan Trade Commissioner, will be the guest speaker 7.30 p.m. Free film shows by Ministry of Culture, at Ho Seng
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    • 197 3 SINGAPORE, Wed. The newly-elected General Secretary of the Singapore Telephone Board Employees’ I’nion, Mr. Philip Chong, today described the protest lodged hv the former pro-tem committee as “groundless and absurd”. The former pro-tem committee. led by Mr. G. Kandasamy. had protested
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    • 48 3 SINGAPORE. WedThieves broke into the house of Sim Hua Khim, 30, a sales representative, and escaped with $125 and jewellery worth $l,OOO yesterday. Sim of Norfolk Road, was at work when the thieves gained entry into the house by breaking the back door.
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    • 235 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The flood situation has almost returned to normal. Most evacuees In various areas of Perak and Kelantan had returned to their homes. A survey of the devastation caused by the floods In Upper Perak revealed that some rubber estates and other
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    • 390 4 SINGAPORE. W ed. The Housing and Developing Board is experimenting a project into the marginal area between low-cost housing and the rehousing of the middle-income group families now occupying low-cost public housing. The project is being carried out in Henderson Crescent where 472 units
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    • 51 4 MALACCA, Wed. Five men, one armed with a pistol and another with a dagger, tonight held up two shop assistants at Kampong Pantai here and got away w’ith $2OO. The incident happened at 7 p.m. Mr. Chong Chau, proprietor of the provision shop, was out at that
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    • 492 4 Situation improved further, says Tun JTUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, said today the security situation in the north was returning to normal. "The situation has improved further on Penang Island and Kedah except a few areas," he told newsmen after
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    • 130 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Asian Parliamentary Association has agreed to establish an Asian Development Study Centre to carry out planning for developing countries. This decision was reached by nine member countries of the association at its annual meeting in Bangkok, recently. This was
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    • 30 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed Two men. believed to have assaulted a taxi driver and robbed him of $45 and his taxi on Monday, were arrested by the police yesterday.
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    • 102 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed, A notorious gang the Sap Sam Fah Tong (13 Flowers Gang) believed to be responsible for a spate of armed robberies in the Pudu area for the past 10 months has been smashed Seven of their members were arrested when police raided a house
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    • 114 4 In this Eastern Sun picture. the Italian Deputy Minister for Foreign Trade. Senator Mario Vetrone(with sunglasses) is seen speaking to Mr. S. D. Esposti who is in charge of an automatic candy machine at the Italian Engineering Exhibition in Sbenton Way in Singapore. Mr. Vetrone who
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    • 189 4 SINGAPORE. Wed. The China Society of Singapore in collaboration with the Society of Chinese Artists will be sponsoring an exhibition of the latest paintings of the world renowned Chinese master, Chang Daichien, soonThe 31 scrolls to be exhibited represent the recent works
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    • 328 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The wages of estate workers are not responsible for the high cost of production experienced by some rubber estates, Mr. P. P. Narayanan, general secretary of the National Union of Plantation Workers, told the Industrial Court
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    • 89 4 SINGAPORE. Wed With the introduction of the PABX system, the telephone numbers of Government departments in Fullerton Building will be changed from Saturday to 7612 The affected department® are: Accountant-General’s Office (including Central Pay Office); Audit Department; Deputy Prime Minister’s Office; Economic Development Division; Economic
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    • 185 4 SINGAPORE. Wed. The President of the Republic. Enche Yusof bin Lshak. will be reminded of his old school days at Raffles Institution when he attends “Christmas Sensation”. a multi-cuicural stage show on Dec. 22 at the National Theatre. The show is being ganised by the
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    • 64 4 SINGAPORE. Wed. Four cars were involved in this accident in Coannaught Drive opposite the Padang on the side of the Esplanade in which this one turned turtle (.as seen in the Eastern Sun photo). Another car was flung across the nearby drain. Fortunately no one was seriously
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    • 27 4 MUAR. Wed.—The Muar District Social Welfare Committee last month distributed a total of $2,853 to 83 poor and needy school children in the district
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    • 389 10  -  LOCAL POPULATION AND INVESTORS WELCOME IT By JOHN KAM SINGAPORE, Wed. Singaporeans from all walks of life, especially businessmen and intending investors, today welcomed the "continuation" budget presented by the Minister for Finance, Dr. Goh Keng Swee, to Parliament yesterday. Though tne man-in-ihe-»treet wa6 particularly relieved
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    • 1132 10  -  By PETER LORE SINGAPORE. Wed Four more accused persons in the trial of 261 Barisan Sosialis members and supporters were today convicted for contempt of court by the emergency Fourth Court Magistrate, Mr. Donald Yeo Hock Chwee. AH the four
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    • 307 10 SINGAPORE. Wed. Hongkong' sexy “James Bond Girl” has one aim in her acting career to act opposite the “original” James Bond Sean Connery. Captivating and modest Miss Soo Tsing hopes this dream of her will soon matenaluse at least within the next
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    • 313 10 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Singapore General Printing Workers’ Union will revise and amend its constitution at its general meeting on Dec. 23 to replace its limited “Welfare Fund” with an enlarged “Mutual A i d Fund”. In a statement, the General Affairs Secretary, Mr. Ng
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    • 69 10 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Minister for Culture and Social Affairs, Enche Othmon Wok, was among other VIPs who attended a reception lost night on the occasion of the birthday of the King of Thailand. The Minister (left) proposes a toast to the King of Thailand while
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    • 63 10 IPOH Wed The Mentrl Besar, Dato Ahmad bin Said, will open the invitation photographic exhibition by Hong Kong experts at the Perak Photographic Research Society at Osborne Street here on Friday. Dec. 15. at 5 p.m. The occasion also coincided with the Third Perak Art Photography
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    • 170 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Charmlnf Mrs. Keiko Kumagai. wife of the First Secretary of the Japanese Embassy here, will be returning to Tokyo on Tuesday with her husband. Mr. Naohiro. for their home leave before he takes up a similar post in
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    • 156 11 MALACCA. Wed. The Malacca Branch of the Malayan Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis has sent out thousands of attractive, coloured greeting seals to firms and members of the public in a fundraising campaign Dato Tan Cheng Swee. the Branch Chairman, appeals to the public to make
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    • 55 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed Police have detained f6ur youths In a pre-dawn Swoop on a hotel In Jalan Campbell here last night. A Fiat 850. believed to be a stolen car. was also found nearby Police believed that the four youths were Involved In a series of offences, including
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    • 282 11 TPOH, Wed. The Mentri Besar, Dato Ahmad bin Said, 1 last night defended the Government's action in imposing the curfew in the Krian District. Dato Ahmad was speaking at the Perak Koran read* ing competition and called on all the people to strengthen
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    • 112 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed The Secretary-Genera! of the Democratic Action Party. Mr Goh Hock Guan. today said its Central Executive Committee called on all its branches and members to serve on goodwill committees in their respective areas to help restore mutual confidence and trust among the various
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    • 210 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed MARA will continue to recruit foreign lecturers and Instructors for its institute of technology. The MARA Institute of Technology in future would have a set of international lecturers and instructors to give young Bumiputras technical and professional training. sa d
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    • 180 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The newly completed YMCA building at Jalan Brickfields here is already in operation. The total cost of the building restaurant, fixtures, furniture and games facilities is about $600,000 towards which cum the Ministry of National and Rural Development gave a
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    • 165 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed The National Mosque, the National Monument, Subang International Airport, the Houses of Parliament. the National Museum, the Railway Station and the harmonious multi-racial society of Malaysia at work and play have been featured prominently in a riot of colours painted by talented amateurs for
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    • 126 11 IPOH. Wed. Mrs. Irene Carlos wife of the retired Municipal engineer Mr. Edwin B Carlos, died a' Our Lady’s Hospital in Chung Thy© Phin Road here this morning She was 56 Mrs. Carlos during her stay in Ipch for the past seven years played an
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    • 66 11 MUAR. Wed. Smallholders in the Muar district had. since January this year, been given a total of $6,127, 347 as allowance under the various replanting scheme Disclosing this in a monthly report issue'* today. the Assistant Replanting Officer. Mr Bock Lee Jan. said 188 acres of
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    • 99 11 WHAT a party for 150 women, including the Tunku Ampuan Besar of Selangor and the wife of the Japanese Ambassador to Malaysia, Mrs. Taisaku Kojima. The kitchen and the diapers were all forgotten when the members of the Ikehana International. Kuala Lumpur Chapter, met at a Christmas Lunch party at
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    • 370 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. “It s intimidation”, cried Dr. Chen Man Hin. the Chairman of the Democratic Action Party. Dr. Chen was commenting on the recent announcement by the Ministry of Education that teachers are liable to be sacked if found dabbling in politics next year
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    • 71 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Three car thieves were caught redhanded in Brickfields here last night, a police spokesman said today. “One of them was behind the wheel while two others were standing guard when the police found them.” he said. The car. a Morris Minor, belongs to
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    • 237 11 PENANG, Wed A youth, H S. Abdul Majeed, denied in the First Magistrate's Court today he was arrested on Nov. 24, for trespassing into a house but said that he was arrested three days earlier. He made the denial after pleading guilty to trespassing into
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 622 5 BONN. Wed. (Reuter) Defence Minister Gerhard Schroeder has insisted West Germany must keep its nuclear weapon delivery systems despite severe cuts in planned military spending under the government's four-year austerity programme. The Minister was writing in the newsletter of his Christian Democratic Party on the
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    • 141 5 MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin Wed. (UPI) Stanley J. Mironski, 50, plans to have his one-month-old marriage annulled so he can marry the same woman again. Mironski filed papers on Monday asking that his Polish family, including his Polish wife, be declared legally dead so he can many without
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    • 26 5 Mr. Roy Jenkins Britain’s new Chancellor of the Exchequer speak to newsmen after he swapped jobs with Mr. James Callaghan. UPI Photo.
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    • 167 5 LOS ANGELLS, Wed (CPI) Small doses of Los Angeles smog, or air pollution, actually may have an emotional effect akin to a mild tranquilliser, according to a study. Dr. E. J. Malmstrom. research fellow at the University of California at Los Angeles Brain
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    • 36 5 JAKARTA. Wed. (Reuter) The Indonesian Attorney General's Office today announced that imports of Chinese language publications into the country had been suspended. The announcement said the decision was taken on feeuntr grounds.
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    • 351 5 Rebuff from Saigon for VC-and-UN stand SAIGON, Wed- (UPI) In a policy split with the United States the South Vietnamese government has declared its opposition to Vietcong participation in a United Nations debate on the war. A Foreign Ministry communique released to the foreign press here
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    • 438 5 BANGKOK. Wed (UPI) Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman strongly protested a dispatch commenting on Thailand's current campaign against the U.S. press in a conversation with UPI correspondent Kim Willenson on Monday. Mr. Khoman summoned Willenson to a conference at the Foreign Office to register the
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    • 34 5 (1) '(Thais fear) US press campaign... similar to one that preceded ousting of Ngo Dinh Diem regime (2) 'Thais...genuinely alarmed...that American pullout would leave them high and dry (to face)... insurgency’.
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    • 75 5 MANILA. Wed. (UPI) A U.S Embassy spokesman in Manila today denied charges that American military bases in the Philippines are being used for commercial flight purposes The spokesman was commenting on a published report that the Philippines had protested the 'irregular’’ use of the bases. He said
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    • 70 5 PARIS. Wed (.Reuter) A leading Paris advertising firm is pioneering the oneman. do-it-yourself business cocktail party, designed to save French executives time and nerves in the Christmas season. Acceptance of the firm’s invitations brings by return of post a parcel containing enough drink, cigarettes and food
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    • 76 5 UNITED NATIONS. Wed. (UPI) A young man lumped the fence onto the United Nations grounds last night and set fire to himself, apparently with gasoline. He was rushed to Bellevue Hospital Bystanders said the man jumped the fence at the north end of the United Nations
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    • 262 5 SAIGON, Wed (UPI) A U.S. Marine combat patro) raided the demilitarized zone of Vietnam yesterday, one of the rare times a sizeable American Force has entered the buffer zone since a battalion was ambushed there last summer. Moving as stealthily as jungle guerrillas, stripped of heavy
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    • 95 5 PARIS. Wed. (UPI) French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville said yesterday it was “desirable” that Britain join the Common Market as a full member. His remarks in an interview with French journalists published today appeared to attenuate somewhat the firm “no” to full British membership issued
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    • 114 6 HOLLYWOOD Wee (Reuter Eurasian actress France Nuyen. will marry television star Rober* Cu.p in Beverley Hills on Saturday. tee couple revealed today Miss Nuyen. who was tom in Marseille and whose father was Chinese, met Cu-p a year a go when sne took
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    • 223 6 NEW YORK. Wed. (Reuter) An American Military Affairs specialist say s m a book published here tedav that the Vietcong despite heavy losses. haVe still not necessarily lost the initiative or the war in South Vietnam. Dr. George C Tanham. writing in
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    • 75 6 WASHINGTON Wei (Reuter) Congressmen agreed last night on compromise legislation to help the nation’s poor an important part of President Johnson's ‘Great society" programme The President had asked for 52.900 m this year The Senate authorised $2.3b0 m but the economy minded House slashed
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    • 105 6 PLYMOUTH, England. Wed. (UPI) A Church of England court has ruled that a widow may net place a photograph of her dead husband on his tombstone Mrs. Nadine Baker. 31. said she wanted to put a tiny photo of her husband at his grave to remind her
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    • 71 6 MANILA. Wed. (Reuter) Philippine troops have launched a massive offensive against a l"-man HUK terrorist band believed to be operating in the swamps of Candaba north of Manila Philippine policemen and soldiers led by Brigadier General Emilio Zerrudo had last Monday killed a HUK commander and five
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    • 152 6 NEW YORK. Wed Reuter. Columnist Sheiiah Graham reports that M:a Farrow plans to give up her film career to patch up her marital rift with Frank Sinatra. Writing in *he New York Post. Miss Graham said the couple, who announced a trial separation last
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    • 77 6 LOUV AIN, Belgium. Wed (Reuter) A calf called Rebecca which was given a new heart on Oct 5 died here at the weekend Louvain University surgeons said death was due to a gastro-intestinal infection The new heart, transplanted from another calf, had worked well since the
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    • 386 6 lI’ASHINGTON. Wed. (UPI) China has equipped Its two largest submarines with launchers for nuclear missiles, it was learned todav. Sources disclos'd the D.S. Navy has solid evidence that three vertical launching tubes capable of hurling missiles 380 mile; have been placed aboard each of the
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    • 127 6 CALCUTTA. Wed (Reuter) Rioting students attacked police with bricks, firecrackers and home-made bombs here in fresh protests at the ousting of the leftist united front government in West Bengal state two weeks agoOther demonstrators set two buses on fire At one point in yesterday’s disturbances students
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    • 105 6 Anti-draft war NEW YORK Wed (UP!) Police carted 264 demonstrators away from an induction centre vesterdav on the second day of Stop the draft week" protests Protesters stormed police barricades in an attempt to rout Dow Chemical Co. recruiters from the University of lowa campus
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    • 240 6 CARACAS. T enezueia. Wed (UPI* Former dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez. on tna. for allegedly embezzling more than $l3 million during ms 10 years m power yesterday lashed out against 'he United States and the Kennedy family among others. Jimenez, who :.ed Venezue.a in 1953 and
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    • 269 6 UNITED NATIONS. New York. Wed (Reuter) Britain urged the United Nations today to avoid hasty, premature judgments on the status of Fiji British delegate Evan Luard said the General Assembly should not adopt another resolution this year calling on Britain to set
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    • 71 6 FRANKFURT. West Germany. Wed Reuter) Four fat leeches will be seat into orbit around the earth next spring to test the affects of one-year's weightlessness on living things West Germany's first biological research satellite will be launched in the United States Scientists here said leeches are well
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    • 280 6 WASHINGTON. Wed. Re iter -Pres dent Johnson today expre. sed relief that the war cloud over Cyprus had been removed bu* said basic problems had to be resolved to prevent a new threat to peace in the Eastern Mediterranean The President called
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    • 28 6 CAPETOWN Louis Washkanskv after history-making heart operation He was reported making satisfactory progress sipping soup, eating a soft-boil egg and trading quips with his nurses.
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    • 92 6 NEW YORK Wed. < Reuter) An orthodox Greek service believed to be the first ever held in a Roman Catholic Church was conduetd m St Patrick's Cathedral here today in memory of the ’.a*e Cardinal Francis Spellman Archbishop laxovos. spiritual leader of more than three million Greek
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    • 152 6 JERUSALEM Wed 'Reuter) Israeli Foreign M.mster Aooa Loan said today that the increased mutary activity of the Soviet Union in the Middle East would not frighten Israel into sacrificing her security. Speaking to the Knesset (Parliament), Mr. Eban accused u.e Soviet Union of having
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    • 180 6 GENEVA Wed Reuter) The World Federation of United Nations Associations tonight announced a new proposal aimed at bringing peace to Vietnam. It called for a set date to end the war an end of the bombing of the north on the same day.
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    • 86 6 JAKARTA. Wed (Reu*er) The Commanders in Chief of the Four Indonesian Armed Forces as well as Justice Minister. Dr Umar Senrvadji. have promised full backing to a new anticorruption drive initiated by acting President General Suharto, it was announced here today. The statement, issued
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    • 57 6 MADRID. Wed. (Reuter) Police ;eeps today scattered a crowd of about 3 000 singing student demonstrators a$ *hey attempted to stage a protest march on the rector's office at Madrid University. Students linked arms and began marching towards the office when the ;eeps roared up from behind and
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    • 327 6 WELLINGTON, Wei (Reuter) The Appeal Court today upheld an appeal by the publishers of the New Zealand Herald against a Supreme Court ruling on a libel dams brought by former Defer;* Minister Mr. Dean Eyre A similar appeal by the New Zealand Press Association wa3 dismissed
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    • 77 6 ABA Si afr a. Wed (Reuter) Nigerian planes blew up an oil tank in a raid on Port Harcourt. according to reports reaching here from the big oil centre. The giant Shell-BP oil refinery la died in Port Harcourt. but the messages reaching here did
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    • 67 6 COUNCIL BLUFFS, ImxU. Wed. (Reuter) —The manager of a popular Supper Club and his bodyguard—an offduty policeman —were found shot dead in the club office here today in w'nat police said appeared to be a gangland killing The victims were identified as 51-year-o'.d Paul Rayer. the
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    • 68 6 JAKARTA, Wed (UPD Security officers in East Java have arrested 18 persons for bombings and other “acts of terrorism" earlier this year, it was reported today. The army-backed newspaper ‘Daily New-s" reported’that investigation showed that the terrorist actions were aimed at obstructing Gen. Suharto's administration Several" members
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    • 651 7 Mixed-up deserte’ s Better home NEITHER HAWK NOR DOVE JACKSONVILLE, Florida. Wed. (UPI) Richard Bailey, one of four American sailors who deserted to Russia. wrote to his parents three months before he jumped ship that he had doubts about the morality of U.S. participation in the Vietnam war. “I would
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    • 390 7 BANK CHIEF BLASTS LBJ WASHINGTON, Wed. (Reuter) A reported charge by the head of the U.S. Central Bank that President Johnson had been irresponsible in discussing a budget deficit astonished political observers here today but drew a cold “no comment” from the White House. There
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    • 75 7 NEW YORK. Wed. (Reuter) Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman was taken ill yesterday and last night's performance of a play here in which she is currently appearing was cancelled. Officials at Broadhurst Theatre where the play. Eugene O’Neill’s “More stately mansions”, recently opened. said Miss Bergman was
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    • 73 7 MOSCOW. Wed. (Reu’er) Soviet scientists on an ice floe have passed within two kilometres (1.2 miles) the North Pole and are now 1 drifting towards Greenland pushed by strong southerly winds, according to radio messages reported here today The ice floe, named “North Pole 15”. took
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    • 116 7 NEWS IN THE AIR -I SYDNEY. Wed. (Reuter) A —Sydney customs authorities have accepted a neworal customs declaration for all passengers arriving in Australia by air, the assistant collector of customs, Mr G. J. Gallagher, announced here today. Mr Gallagher aid that after a six
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    • 144 7 O WASHINGTON Wed L (Reuter) The U.S Civil Aeronautics Board today fined the West German Airline Lufthansa 575.900 the largest amount ever for violations of the Aviation Act. The board said Lufthansa agreed to the penalty after admitting more than 75 separate violations involving rebates to US.
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    • 87 7 WALLOPS ISLAND. Virginia. Wed. (Reuter) —Two white rats rocketed 85 miles up into space yesterday to help test the force of gravity needed bv biological organisms in space travel. Instruments recorded the rats' movements as their spacecraft burned out and two arms extended from its sides
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    • 198 7 LONDON, Wed (Reuter) Miss World, 21-year-old Peruvian model Madeleine Hartog-Bel will join American comedian Boh Hope for a Christmas tour to Vietnam to entertain U.S. troops, it was announc- ed here today. Mecca Promotions, organisers of the Mlse World contest, said she
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    • 532 7 IMF chief on the ‘SDR’ NEW YORK Wed The creation of new world monetary reserves within the International Monetary Fund (IMF) should aid developing countries in maintaining their economies on an even keel, says Pierre-Paul Schweitzer IMF managing director. Mr. Schweitzer made the
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    • 316 7 ‘BLAST OF CENTURY PUNTA ARENAS, Chile, Wed. (Reuter) British, Argentine and Chilean meteorologists and technicians evacuated their bases on the Island of Deception today as they fled from the most violent volcanic eruption in the Antarctic this century. British and Chilean bases were reported almost
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    • 139 7 IN Rio de Janeiro. A Brazilian professor warned here that unless the world's air pollution problem was solved by the year 2000 the polar Ice caps might melt and submerge great cities. Professor Alceo Magnanini, administrator of the Tijuca National Park near here, warned last
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  • 489 8 THE main problem of Singapore is too many people. In his budget speech, the Singapore Minister of Finance, Dr. Goh Keng Swee, gave a realistic analysis of the economic position of the Republic which was shorn of the fleece of political propaganda. Many Singaporeans
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  • 293 8 THE Malaysian Trades Union Congress will be asked by the Malayan Technical Services Union, one of its affiliates, when it holds its three-day annual delegates’ conference in Kuala Lumpur from Dec. 15, to urge the Government to introduce legislation to control prices of at least 12 essential commodities.
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  • 1073 8  -  By Richard Lambert TYURING the latter part of July this year the British Interplanetary Society held an officially sponsored international summer school at Cambridge on the subject of biology in space. Among scientists attending from many countries were Prof. Drozdowicz of Warsaw Agricultural
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  • 244 8  -  By Henry B. Rothblatt "Handbook of Evidence For Criminal Trials") SEVEN years after his divorce, Vito died and his ex-wife, Marilyn, sued his estate for a million dollars. “Marilyn can’t do this. She signed an agreement before getting her divorce that all claims were settled,” Arnold, the
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  • 848 8  -  By: Anirudha Gupta NATIONALISM in India today is being fostered by the politicians, the press, radio and other means of mass communication. In fact, the air has become so thick with nationalistic propaganda that not even the casual visitor to India can fail to notice it.
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    • 43 8 Easteen Sun Independent National Newspaper THURSDAY. DECEMBER 7, 1967 L 3-B. Cantonment Road. Singapore 2. Telephone: *****/7 Penang Office Ipoh Office 39. lalan Sultan. Kua>a Lumpur. Malaysia. Telephone: ***** 6 8. Leith Street. Tel: ***** 77. Brewster Road. Tel: ***** Cable Address: AWNEWS
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 269 9 CINGAPORE, Wed A net profit of £13.2 million was made by BOAC during the first six months of the current financial year, a drop of £3.4 million on the similar period last year, the airline announced today. During the
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    • 340 9 By .Annibale Petrelli, Italian Institute for Foreign Trade SINGAPORE, Wed. The image of Italy as a traditional exporter of agricultural produce dates back to such a remote age that it is difficult to determine historically with some accuracy the beginning of this kind of
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    • 138 9 LONDON, Wed. (UPI) A sudden flurry of late buying transformed the standing of the pound on foreign exchange markets yesterday from weakness to a position of comparative strength. The dramatic turnround came late in the afternoon. A sagging pound had hit its lowest level since
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    • 297 9 Rubber down cent SINGAPORE. Wed December first grade rubber f.o.b. buyers closed at 5 u.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur todav at 48-5 8 cents per lb., down one eighth of a cent from previous close. The tone was quiet. A very quiet market ruled all morning at last night's
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    • 28 9 LONDON, Wed. (UPI) Tin w’as steady with 465 tons. Spot buyers 1.357 sellers 1,358 business 1,357. 3months buyers 1.359 sellers 1,359-1/2 business 1,359, 1,357. Settlement 1,358.
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    • 531 9 SINGAPORE. Wed. Four new Instamatic movie cameras, offering home movie-makers unmatched compactness, ease of operation and economy, are being introduced by Kodak to supplement its current cartridge-loading super 8 line. Identified as the Ml 2. Ml 4. Ml 6 and MIS. the new slim,
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    • 123 9 WASHINGTON, Wed. (UPI) Net sales of US. monetary gold to foreign countries during the third quarter of 1967 amounted to approximately 553 million, the Treasury announced today. Net gold sales for the first three quarters now total $5.1 million The first two quarters almost
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    • 88 9 LONDON. Wed. (UPI) Rubber market closed steady with spot 16-1/2 17-1/2 nominal. Settlement House: Jan 16-5/8 16-13/16 Feb 16-13/16 17 March 17 17-3/16 April/June 16-13/16 17 July Sept 17-3/8 17-7/16 Oct/Dec 17-3/4 17-13/16 Jan March 18 18-1/8 April/June 18-1/8 18-5/16 July/Sept 18-1/4 18-7/16 nom seller Oct/Dec 18-3/8
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    • 54 9 LONDON. Wed (UPI) A £44 million $105.6 million contract for open cast coal site operation in Australia was announced today by Richard Costain Ltd., the Civil Engineering and Construction Contracting group The contract awarded by the Electricity Commission of New South Wales came through the company’s Australian
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    • 38 9 WASHINGTON. Wed. (Reuter) —The sale of five long tons of grade ‘C’ tin at $1.52 per lb to Philipp Brothers today’s only sale was made by General Services Administration. Philipp will specify delivery from storage.
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    • 14 9 SINGAPORE. Wed.—The tin price for today was $587.12} per picul, up $1.625.
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    • 877 9 SINGAPORE. Wed Prices were generally better in the industrial section on the Stock Exchange today. Trading was a little more active than yesterday with the volume of business expanding to 940,500 units. Better improvement, however. was shown in those particular industrials which incorporated in
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    • 83 9 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Association of Banks fn Malaysia today made the following changes in its rates to merchants: New York: Buying T.T. 32-15/16; Airmail O.D. 331/16; 90 d/st. 33-9/16 credit bills. 33-7/8 trade bills. Canada: Buving T.T 359/16; Airmail O.D. 35-11/16; 90 d/st. 36-5/16 credit bills, 36-3/8 trade
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    • 102 9 BANGKOK, Wed. (UPI) Thailand has still not decided how much rice it will export next year. Economics Minister Sunthom Hongladarom reported Mr. Sunthom. who is scheduled to leave shortly to become Thailand's ambassador in London, said the decision would be made only after this
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    • 464 9 SINOAPOKK—Muck Exchange old and offer prices officially iKfed at the close of business. INDUSTRIALS Ben A Co 1.97 Boustead 1.62 1 64 *»ugar 2.15 Chemical Co 1.43 1.45 t old storage 4.12 4.18 Dunlop 2.28 2.30 L. smelting \D 4.60 LA 1 2.24 2.30 Esso Ords 2.94 2.96
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    • 52 9 (Managers’ Prices) Flrsf Malayan 245 2 54 Second Malayan 1.76 1.85 Third Malayan 1.11 1.2# The Commerce St Industry Fond XD .00 <10 The Sayings Fund 1.41 150 Malayan Investment tund 1» 1.05 1.15 First Hongkong .80 85* second H'kong XD .55 .59* S’ng Commodity 4/1 4/8 (•Hong
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    • 106 9 SINGAPORE. Wed. The noon prices at the Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange today are > Buyer Seller Coconut Oil (FOB.) Bulk 61.50 Coconut Oil (FOB.) Drums 64.00 Loose Copra Mixed Nov /Dec 35.50 Muntok White Pepper (F. 0.8.) 96% N.L.W 125.00 Sarawak White Pepper (F. 0.8.) 96% N.L.W 122.50 Sarawak
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    • 200 9 SINGAPORE, Wed The following ships are expected to be in port today:Godowns Vessels 1/2 Sea Sage 3/4 Tonsberg 5 State of Andhra 6/7 Joseph Lykes 8/9 Vienne 10/11 Tjiliwong 13/14 Glenfinlas 15/16 Sumatra 18 Fembrook 19 Mombasa Maru 21/22 Yamaki Maru 23/24 Rajah Brooke 27/28 Brofjord 31/32
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    • 35 11 One whisky is valued T* *OMI kVMtn I*o UMf* l «(H9S6 h Blended Scotch A 1 isr.rt^ rd *WTt KOISf *2U»» tat tor 1 "WUIIISI GOVtB more than any other The Whisky is White Horse
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE ALL $5 ESSAY WINNERS
    • 259 12 ON 31st. August. 1967, Malaysia celebrated her Tenth Merdeka Anniversary. There was great rejoicing throughout the country to mark this great day. I would like to describe to you how we celebrated this auspicious day. My hometown, Batu Pahat, held its celebration on the 2nd.
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    • 238 12 AN ambition is something that people desire to be. when they grow up. If someone does not have an ambition, he will be like a ship drifting ainruessly In a deep blue sea. He will never lead a happy life at all times. Nowdays people
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    • 202 12 LAST week, all my brothers and sisters and my parents went to visit a town nearby. I was the only one at home. In the morning. I saw all of them get into the car and drove off. I knew it would be dull; I had
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    • 378 12 ONE night I was strolling in my garden, when I heard the shrill sound of my neighbour’s baby. Ite cries made me think of my past, present and my future. My mother told me that I first saw daylight on the starry night of March, 27th
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    • 272 12 IT was mid-night when I came out from the theatre. I was not very tired so I decided to walk home. On the way home, a storm broke out. The wind blew fiercely against my face and the thunder clapped loudly above the sky which was
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    • 282 12 JN the vicinity of my house, there is a medium Chinese tea-house. Every morning a great multitude of people such as workers, students come to visit this tea-house. It is rather convenient to provide with a three-dollar-a-day worker and it is quite economical too They
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    • 265 12 IT was on Friday that this incident happened The rain water flooded over many parts of Singapore. The worst parts were Bukit Timah Road. Dunearn Road and Thomson Road. When the school was informed, the Senior Assistant immediately dismissed the pupils. We were advised to stay
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    • 244 12 LAST night, my friends and I went to the Odeon Cinema to see an English film. We bought five tickets and went in just before the show began- It ended about eleven-thirty. It was very dark in the streets and the silence was broken only by the
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    • 361 12 AS we crowded round our grandmother, we demand a story from her. It was at night and grandmother paid us a visit for a few days. She thought for a while and said that she would tell us a story which she hoped would
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    • 180 12 MANY people love to welcome a circus because it is a pleasure to see animals that come along with them and see the people do all kinds of tricks. A few years ago a circus party came to town. I was very lucky to
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    • 209 12 THERE are various games, for example netball, badminton, basketball, hockey, football, tennis, golf and cricket. Games help us to develop the team spirit and to cooperate with one other. Games also help to build up leadership. The leader is the captain of the team and his
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    • 313 12 SUNDAY is a day of rest. Most people do not work on Sunday. The public places are always busy. On Sunday, I usually get up early in the morning and go out for a walk. On returning from my walk. I have my breaktast, take
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    • 139 12 THE sun set gently behind the mountains far far away in the west. The night was transformed in the gloomy darkness. The beautiful world wai completely in silence. The charming moon slowly rose up from the valley. The silvery light of the moon made everything looked
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    • 163 12 NEW ESSAY CONTEST FOR THOSE WHO ARE 14 AND UNDER THE EASTERN SUN’S new essay writing contest for boys and girls of 14 and under appears in this page every Thursday. One of the objects of this contest is to encourage young boys and girls to express themselves properly. And
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  • Eastern Sun special
    • 872 13  -  By RICHARD PARIS PRESCRIBED as one of the most extensive, beautiful and moving architectural ensembles in the world, Angkor Wat consists of 600 monuments ranging from massive moated cities to petite and fragile temples covering an area of 60 square miles. It is in Cambodia.
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    • 636 13 Q: What j s your opinion of radioactive iodine to cure an over-active thyroid? My doctor has recommended this method instead of surgery. A: This method can be used in suitable cases, and has been used a great many times with success I don't
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    • 1227 13  - DRINK ENOUGH WATER by H.L. Herschensohn, M.D. "TyfY doctor insists that I do not drink enough water every day. I am rarely thirsty and I think that if I needed water I would become thirsty, wouldn't I?" My theory is that the body knows what is best for itself." The
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    • 45 13 Genuine X mas Tree Bring your children. Let them tee the genuine X’mas Tree (12ft. tall) flown in by air from the famous pine forest in Germany. Tree now on display at C. K. TANG (S) LTD. 310. Orchard Road. Singapore, 9. Tel. *****/9. *****.
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  • 695 14 TOKYO, Wed. (UPI). Lope Sarreal of Manila, who has been in the fight business for 40 years, says the Japanese Government should be very happy the 15-round world junior lightweight title match on Dec. 14 in Tokyo will be between two Japanese fighters.
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  • 189 14 CARDIFF. Wed (Reuter) Colin Meads, the New Zealand All-Blacks’ forward sent* off in the Rugby Union International against Scotland on Saturday, has been suspended for the next two matches of the tour. The suspension, imposed by a committee of three appointed by the International Rugby Union
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  • 142 14 MUAR. Wed. Although the Muar district soccer tournament is to be suspended because of the fasting month the Muar Detention Camp are already sure of bringing off a grand soccer treble. The Muar Detention Camp, winners of the District soccer league for the past two
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  • 77 14 LIEUTENANT Colonel A.A.G. Anderson, (left) President of the British Army’s Warren Golf Club, receiving the Singapore Golf Association League championship cup from Chief Justice Wee Chong Jin, President of the SGA. at a ceremony at the Island Club, on Sunday. The Warren Club won the championship
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  • 229 14 MALACCA. Wed The nations ace fencer. Mr Ronnie Theseira. who left here recently for Paris for a seven-month advanced fencing tuition, ha? returned home after a threeweek stay In the French capital. Ronnie. Interviewed by Sunsport. said his premature return was In the best Interests
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  • 56 14 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) Ron Jones, from Chicago, was knocked out in the second round by Britain's Alan Rudkin in a scheduled ten-round bantamweight fight at the Albert Hall here last nightRudkin, the former British and Commonwealth bantamweight champion, flattened Jones with a right to the chin after
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  • 36 14 TOKYO. Wed. (Reuter) Moscow's Central Army Club team scored their first victory in Japan yesterday, beating Japan’s All Stars 3-1 at Hiroshima, Western Japan, in the second of six international soccer matches in Japan.
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  • 110 14 All the holders are defending their titles in the English national Badminton championships to be held. first time, at the Hull and East Riding Sports Club in Hull on Friday and Saturday. Roger Mills, holder of men's singles, is expected to meet a fellow Surrey player. Colin
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  • 221 14 BRISBANE. Wed. (Reuter) Spain’s win over South Africa in the Davis Cup inter-zone final in Johannesburg on Monday will make the challenge round harder to “sell” to the Australian public, according to the President of the Australian Lawn Tennis Association. Bill Edwards.
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  • 119 14 SINGAPORE. Wed. Twenty-five players have been selected for centralise training to pick a team to represent Singapore in the MRU Under-23 Cup Final against Perak, the North Zone representative. at Kuala Lumpur on Jan. 6. They are: Buang Daim. Tav Boon Seng. Joe Ee. Hock Wai
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  • 47 14 LONDON, Wed (Reuter) Results of English football league matches played last night were: FOOTBALL LEAGUE CUP QUARTER-FINAL REPLAY Arsenal 2 Burnley 1 Winners play Huddersfield or Fulham in the semi-finals. DIVISION TWO Bristol City 0 Norwich City 2 Cardiff City 2 Millwali 2
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  • 103 14 LONDON. Wed (Reuter) Roger Taylor. Britain's number one tennis player, is expected to turn professional in the new year. This was given today as the reason for his cancelling a trip to South Africa. Yesterday, it was stated that he had called off the tour because
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  • 152 14 BANGKOK. Wed. (UPI) World flyweight champion Chartchai Chionoi of Thailand will meet European bantamweight champion Mimoum Ben Ali of Spain for the Thai boxer’s first bantamweight fight here on Saturday. Chartchai's trainers were confident today that the disputed world flyweight champion would knock out Ali
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  • 162 14 PALM BEACH GARDENS, Florida. Wed. (UPI) Jack Nicklaus was crowned champion PGA money winner yesterday with official earnings of U *****.998 and unofficial golf course income of U 5522,568 for a grand total of U *****,566. Arnold Palmer is second with U *****,065, missing
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  • 108 14 IPOH. Wed. The Madra3 State basketball team will play against the Perak State team in an exhibition basketball game at the Yuk Choy Primary School courts in Hugh Low Street here at 8 pm. tomorrow. The Madras team are ranked fifth in international basketball in
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  • 23 14 LONDON. Wed (Reuter)" Leigh beat Wigan by ten points to two in a Rugby League floodlit Cup semifinal match last night.
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  • Sun Sport
    • 620 15 YORK, Wed. (Reuter). Eastern Nigeria's Dick Tiger, world light-heavy-weight champion, tonight was named "fighter of the month" by Ring Magazine, with Jimmy Ellis a very close second. The 38-year-old Tiger, who seems to improve with age, successfully defended his title against Roger
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    • 96 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed The 29-member Malaysian basketball team to the SEAP Games left here for Bangkok today. The team was led by the President of the Amateur Basketball Association, Mr. Khaw Kai Boh. who is also the Minister of Local Government and Housing. He said
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    • 378 15  -  By Spectator LONDON. Wed. Saturday sees the first round proper of the Football Association Cup in England. This is the most popular soccer competition of the year because every side in the country has a chance, however remote, of tackling one of the
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    • 67 15 SINGAPORE. Wed The Nav Bharat Club of Hong Kong will make a hockey tour Of West. Malaysia and Singapore this month. They will play Khalsa Youth XI on Dec 28 and on the following dav they will play against the Khalsa Association Division One team. On Dec
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    • 20 15 LIMA, Wed. (UPI) Dynamo of Russia beat Alianza of Lima 1-0 in a soccer game here last night.
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    • 88 15 RIO DE JANEIRO. Wed (UPI) Bangu Football Club said today they had agreed to play three exhibition games in Tokyo in June, 1968. Bangu won the Carioca football championship in 1966 and are runner-up to Botafoga for leadership in the present championship. "Bangu expects to have a number
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    • 93 15 Double defence from Arsenal as goalkeeper Furnell punches the hall from the head of Armstrong, his own outside-left, during the drawn football match (0-0) against West Ham recently at Highbury, North London. Just too late to get to the hall is Hurst (left) West Ham’s
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    • 1460 15 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Happy Bowlers are in a leading position in the International M.xed League now being bowled at Jackie's Orchard. Out of the las; 52 games bowled, the team lost one and it looks like they will be the winners. The
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    • 121 15 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) Johnny Pritchett, the British middleweight boxing champion, moved closer to the world rankings with a decisive tenround points victory over Chicago’s Wilbert McClure at the Albert Hall here last night. Pritrhett, stretching his unbeaten run to 29 fights, was adjudged winner by
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    • 328 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed Following are results of the the third day individual badminton championships of the Selangor Combined Schools Sports Council held at the Selangor Badminton Hall today: BOYS DOUBLES UNDER-20 Ramanth and John Lee bt Seng Mun and Wai Kah 15 —B. 15 —6 J.
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    • 31 15 KLANG. Wed Thft fourth annual Youth Basketball Championship arranged bv the Johore State Basketball Association will be he’d at Kluang Chinese Association Basketball ground on Saturday at 7-30 p.m.
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    • 1341 16 Horses Class 4s Div. 2—9 F. 15 Yds. 000 Able Lady 3v 900 Ace Stable 000 Philadelphia 5y 8 12 China Stable Teh 097 Priority 11 5y 8 08 Sepuloh Untong St Osman 994 Kakamion 6y 807 Gera Stable E B kelen 666 IVatania
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    • 389 16  -  By WINDSOR LAD SINGAPORE, Wed. Scottish General (Frank White), who made a promising debut on Sunday when fourth to Loyal Scholar over 6f, showed improved form on the track this morning when he easily skipped over 3f in 38 sec. The going was soft. Lord
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    • 75 16 TOKYO. Wed (Reuter) The Japan Table Tennis Association said today they would send a four-man team to India next January for 10 matches with local players They said the team would tour major Indian cities including Calcutta. New Delhi, Bombay and Madras for four weeks.
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    • 36 16 MOUNT GAM BIER, South Australia, Wed (Reuter) The touring Indian cricket team beat a South Australian Country XI by 96 runs in a one-day match here today. Scores: Indians 206; Country XI 110
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    • 436 16  -  By ALBERT JOHNSON SINGAPORE, Wed. The Minister for Social Affairs and leader of the Republic's contingent to Bangkok, Enche Othman bin Wok, today welcomed the idea of ASEAN Games (Association of South East Asian Nations) replacing the present SEAP Games. He said this In answer
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    • 274 16 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mr Woon Wah Siang. ha.' Deen elected Chairman of the special committee of the Footoali Association of Singapore. The special five-man committee, appointed lasi monm, will worn out a iong-ierm piogramme tor better,
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    • 80 16 HOUSTON, Texas. Wed. (Reuter) Boxer Cassius Clay is to become a father for the first time. The deposed world heavyweight champion and his wife Belinda. 18. are expecting their first child, according to an affidavit filed by Clay's attorneys in the District Court here. It
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    • 135 16 BANGKOK. Wed (Reuter) Malaysians, were trailing in the South-east Asia Peninsular (SEAP) Games swimming meet with Thai swimmers yesterday. Ong Mei L:n m the 50 metres butterfly (women) and Yab Ba Ycng in the 10 0 metres breaststroke (men) were placed second while Leong Wei Tat in
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    • 102 16 LISBON, Wed (Reuter) Benfica maintained their lead from Porto on goal average at the top of the Portuguese first division last night when they beat Cuf 3-1 in a league match Benfica, who led 1-0 at half-time. dominated the match, which was postponed on Sunday, because of
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    • 1131 16 THE STEWARDS CUP Horses Cl. 1 s Div. 1— 9 F. 6c 15 Yds. 138 November Sun 7y 9 00 MC Stable R. B kelen 751 Brigand 5y 8.13 L.K. Ng 411 Melody Road 5y 8.12 Chukeli Stable R. B kelen 264 Kebir 7y
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    • 61 15 TIME AND TIDE Penang: 3.20 a.m. (7.4 ft), 5.07 p.m. (5.8 ft.) Port Swettenham: 8.59 a.m. (13.4 ft.), 9.42 p.m. (14.0 ft.) Port Dickson: 1005 a.m. (7.5 ft.), 10.22 p.m (7.7 ft.) Singapore: 325 a.m. (8.0 ft.). 2.03 p.m. (9.2 ft.) Sedili Kechil: 2.10 a m (8.6 ft.). 12.20 pm.
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