Eastern Sun, 18 December 1967

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  • 25 1 Eastern Sun Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION Estd. 1966. Vol. 2 No. 504 Monday, 18 December 1967. MC(P) 2251 -fr KDN 2660 Price 15 cents
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  • 495 1 Australian Prime Minister missing while swimming in waters near his holiday home PORTSEA, Victoria, Sun. (Reuter) AVAST search by more than 1,000 men, aircraft and ships was called off here tonight for Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt, missing feared drowned while swimming his favourite relaxation. Navy divers
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  • 226 1 A THENS, Sun. (Reuter). Greeks have been taken by surprise by the news from the military regime that the country will soon hove a new Constitution reaffirming it as a crowned democracy. An announcement yesterday that a new draft Constitution would be ready next Saturday
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  • 160 1 SAIGON. Sun. (CPI) American warplanes battled Communist MiG's over North Vietnam's capital and flew through swarms of surface-to-air missiles to bomb key rail yards, bridges and a MIG field near Hanoi and Haiphong, military spokesmen reported today. Flying the most missions In a month, the
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  • 81 1 SYDNEY, Sun. (Reuter) Federal Opposition leader Gough Whitlam tonight postponed his South-East Asian tour because of the disappearance of Prime Minister Harold Holt. The Federal parliamentary Labour leader was to have left Sydney by air tomorrow on a six-week visit to Vietnam. India. Pakistan. Malaysia.
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  • 84 1 MELBOURNE. Sun (Reuter) The former Prime Minister. Sir Robert Mcnzies. tonight described Mr. Holt's disappearance as a “terrible tragedy and a very great loss to Australia." Sir Robert said: “One is reluctant to despair but it is only realistic to think there is very little hope
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  • 330 1  -  B y R. V. LINGAM SINGAPORE, Sun. The crew of six men on board a Royal Air Force Beverly transport aircraft, missing since Friday afternoon, were found dead near the scene of the wrecked aircraft at Mersing, Johore. The plane, from No.
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  • 45 1 KI’AI.A LI'MPCR. Sun Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman tonight expressed “shock'' at the disappearance of his “good friend," Mr. Harold Holt, under very tragic circumstances. The Tunku said he shared the sorrow with the Holt family and the Australian people.
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  • 23 1 COTNOIT. Dahomey. Sun. (Reuter) Young officers of the Dahomey Army have overthrown the Government of President Cristophe Soglo. Cotonou Radio announced today.
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  • 23 1 PARIS. Sun. (Reuter) A three-year-old girl escaped unhurt when she fell into a canvas awning from a fourth-storey window here yesterday.
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  • 149 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. More than 3.400 people in Johore had evacuated to higher ground because of floods. Latest reports said 1.200 people in Kota Tinggi had left their homes. In the Kulai area. 1.300 people had evacuated. In the Kluang District, more than 700 people
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  • 149 1 KEMAMAN. Sun. To meet the rising cost in education the Government has to increase the school fees, said Enche Shariff Ahmad, the Political Secretary to the Ministry of Education. Speaking here today at the presentation ceremony of cheques, he added that the increase in school
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  • 191 1 Dentists will tell you how more teeth are lost from gum troubles than from any other cause. In fact, gum troubles attack 4 out of 5 people. Certain danger signs are gums which are sore or tender to touch, or gums that
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  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 419 2 Alliance backbencher describes their plight JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. The budget session of the Johore Legislative Assembly today heard about the "plight of the seven Assemblymen due to departmental inaction." Relating an incident yesterday, the Alliance backbencher for Pontian Dalam. E n c h e Abdullah Suddln said:
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    • 300 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Mr. Goh Hock Guan, Chairman of the Democratic Action Party, today called on the Government to "sincerely exert itself" to bring all the peoples closer together, to build a more permanent united nation. In a statement, he said: "Unless
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    • 72 2 JESSELTON. Sun. The Sabah State Railway earned more than 52.084.000 during the first nine months of 1967. For the same period, the railways carried 334.000 passengers and 56.600 tons of goods. This was stated by a spokesman for the Ministry of Communications and Works
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    • 94 2 JESSELTON. Sun The Ministry of Local Governinent has given special grant* totalling $330,000 to the Jesselton. Sandakan. Tawau and Labuan Town Boards.— A spokesman for the Ministry said the money would be used by the Town Boards to provide services to the public for which
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    • 68 2 JESSELTON. Sun. Sabah will have the highest number of pilgrims to Mecca next year Nearly 400 pilgrims, including a number of women and children, will leave for Jeddah by M. S. Anchun next month The Pilgrim Officer in Sabah Enche Abdul Hamid Egoh. who is also
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    • 89 2 JESSELTON. Sun. The Federal Ministry of National and Rural Development Is to spend about $200,000 next year on adult education in Sabah. Disclosing this, the State Adult Education Organiser, Enche Abdul Rahman bin Barnawl, said 150 classes woqld be opened next year to meet
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    • 111 2 PENANG. Sun. The long suffering public can only greet with considerable cynicism the latest assurances given by the Minister of Education that the Alliance Government will review the recently announced decision to increase school fees when the economic condition of the country improves. This
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    • 105 2 THREE Malaysian soldiers with 60 years service between them were presented with long service and good conduct medals at Terendak Camp. Malacca re- cently. They are (from left) Corporal Ahmad bin Ahad. aged 42, Corporal Jaafar bin Baba, 37, and Driver l’asin bin M<L 2mm 44. The men, who are
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    • 38 2 A general scene of Kota Tinggi town where the flood level is rising. Pix by J. Soh. THE Mentri Besar, Dato Haji Othman Mohamed Sa'at (in bush jacket) directing rescue operation. Pix by John Soh.
      Pix by J. Soh.; — Pix by John Soh.  -  38 words
    • 364 2 SINGAPORE. Sun The Minister for Health. Mr. Y’ong Nytik Lin. today urged the Singapore Red Cross Society to adopt the blood hank and recruit more regular blood donors. He was speaking at the opening of first residential leadership training course for voluntary aid detachments
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    • 86 2 SINGAPORE. Sun. The following congratulatory message was received by the President. Enche Yusof bin Ishak from H E. Nicolae Ceausescu. President of the State Council of the Socialist Republic of Roumania. Bucharest. "On the occasion of your re-election in the nigh function of President of
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    • 66 2 JESSELTON. Sun. The $760,000 new Lahad Datu wharf at Tanjong Ipal will be completed towards the end of next year and ships up to ten thousand tons will be able to come alongside. A spokesman for the Ministry of Communications and Works said the new wharf, measuring 200
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    • 71 2 SINGAPORE. Sun. The Singapore Polytechnic Students’ Union will hold a Variety Show Poly X mas '67 at the National Theatre tomorrow at 8 p.m. The show will be attended by the Minuter of State for Education. Enche A. Rahim Ishak. and hLs wife. The
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    • 299 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Sua, —The University of Malaya Medical Centre now has a staff of 1,236. Eventually, it will be more than 2.000, according to an information bulletin just released by the centre. The bulletin says that considering the aeute world-wide shortage of medical teachers, the staff
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    • 489 3 SINGAPORE, Sunday THE Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Social Affairs, Mr. Chan Chee Seng, yesterday hit out at directors and managers of some firms who only paid "lip service" to the nation. These firms, he said, would find ways and means of
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    • 373 3 Mr. Lim. who was speaking at the annual birdsinging contest at Cairnhill Community Centre, added that very few people were aware how sweetly a bird could sing. Mr. Lim said that he was pleased to see that there were people still interested In birds and
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    • 62 3 SINGAPORE. Sun. A 16-vear-old girl. Lian Kwei Eng. fell to her death from the ninth floor of the Selegie House flats last night Lian. of Kampong Sembilan. Malacca. possessed a Malaysian identity card. Police have called for relatives and friends of Lian to report
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    • 77 3 SINGAPORE, sun. —Singapore will be represented at the Bth Australian Jamboree to be held in Brisbane from Dec. 28 to Jan. 6. The contingent leader of Singapore’s team. Mr Kwek Teng Khoon, and another scout. Steven Reutens left by air for Australia today. Four other
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    • 276 3 SINGAPORE, Sun. Radio and TV Singapura is organising a second cooking competition as part of the ~E at-More-Wheat, campaign initiated by the Deputy Prime Minister, Dr. Toh Chin Chye. The second competition is being organised because of the terrific response to the
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    • 221 3 SINGAPORE. Sun. A visiting traffic police officer from Ceylon is impressed with Singapore’s traffic system which he has described as amongst the best in this part of the world He is Assistant Superintendent of Police Mahesa Selvaratnam. of the Ceylon Police Force
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    • 196 3 SINGAPORE. Sun. The Taman Jurong Children's Xmas Party Committee held a successful Children's X mas Party at the Taman Jurong Union Premises recently. Despite persistent shower throughout the day. a good crowd of more than 1.000 children braved the rain to attend
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    • 55 3 SINGAPORE. Sun. A motor-cyclist who crashed into a stationary bus at 4 m.s., Bukit Tlmah yesterday, died shortly after admission to the General Hospital. He was Koh Ah Lek, 25. of Jurong Road. There were 106 road accidents, of which six were serious, during the past
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    • 135 3 SINGAPORE. Sun. Mr. Lim Choon Kong. 27, a sub-accountant and officer-in-charge of the Overseas Chinese Banking Corporation Ltd.’s mobile bank, has won two prizes from the City Commemoration Prize Fund awarded bv the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce. He won the first prize on the
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    • 105 3 Tourist shop robbed of 4,800 SINGAPORE. Sun Three armed robbers held up two employees of a tourist shop in the Cathay Building ana escaped with foreign and local currency worth $4,800 last night. Enche Noor Mohamed bin Abdullah Majeed. 52, who was closing the shop at 9.05 pm. yesterday after
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    • 78 3 SINGAPORE. Sun. There will be no delivery of correspondence or parcels on Christmas Day Monday, Dec. 25. Hours for business at the General Post Office on that day will be from 9 a m. to noon while other post offices will be open from
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    • 351 4  -  $600,000 worth of goods lost HUNDREDS FERRIED TO RELIEF CENTRES by K.G. Tharan KOTA TINGGI, Sun. The rapidly rising flood level heightened the havoc here today, causing untold sufferings to the town's ten thousand people. They are completely cut off from outside world. Military and
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    • 192 4 BAGUIO Philippines. Sun. (UPI) Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak and Philippine Foreign Secretary Narciso Ramos played golf and discussed technical co-operation today. Razak arrived here on Friday on a four-day goodwill visit that emphasises what Ramos likes to call ‘‘sport shirt diplomacy.” Today’s
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    • 55 4 The groom is the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Mick Broadfoot. of Australia. The bride. Miss Patricia Bidelia Tsae Shya. is the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
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    • 308 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The Moloysion Indian Congress was today told to work harder to ensure a better future for the Indian community in the country. This call came from the Minister of Works. Posts. and Telecommunications, Tun VT. Sambanthan. who Is also
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    • 359 4 Politics: It's like putting sugar in blachan KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The Malaysian Trades Union Congress will consider giving full support to any politician who subscribed to the union's manifesto. However, it reiterated its stand that it would not align itself wi’h
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    • 115 4 KUALA. LUMPUR. Sun. The Royal Malaysian Navy's first new frigate. K. D. Hang Jebat. will be launched tomorrow at the ship building yard of Yarrow and Co., Limited, Glasgow, Scotland. The launching ceremony will be performed by Puan Sri Norhimah. wife of the new Malaysian
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    • 152 4 JOHORE BAHRU, Sun An active trade unionist, Mr. K. Raman, announced his resignation from the Labour Party of Malaya here today. A former Johore Bahru Town Councillor. Mr. Raman was the organising secretary of the party’s Johore Divisional Headquarters until yesterday. In his letter of resignation
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    • 314 10 SINGAPORE, Sun. Singapore's Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan O Yew, said here today that it was important for Singapore to build up its multi-racial society. Mr. Lee. who was speaking at the centenary celebrations of Thong Chai Medical institution in Wayang
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    • 359 10 SINGAPORE, Sun. There are very few places in Singapore that can provide delicious food with good singing end music. But this is what- the newly-renovated and extended Flamingo Nite-Club and Restaurant at the Great World Park will provide It will be officially opened by Mr.
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    • 75 10 SINGAPORE. Sun. The New Tanjong Inn Nite-Club and Restaurant was offiriallv opened yesterday by a popular Filipino family group of performers, the Keynettes. They are from left: Janette, Baby. Lois (cutting ribbon), John and Rose, who will be appearing twice nightly at the club till
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    • 212 10 Beach-cleaning campaign: SINGAPORE, Sun. It was a totally different occasion altogether for o picnic. Not for a swim, not merely to enjoy the fresh air, but for a better reoson cleaning up the beach. So about 100 members of the Singapore Tourist Association most
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    • 135 10 SINGAPORE. Sun Singer Sewing Machine Company last night threw a grand party at Tai Tong Restaurant. Gay World, for its staff member? from Singapore and Malaysia, to celebrate Christnjas and the New Year In welcoming all the guests to the dinner and
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    • 76 10 9 a m 430 p.m. Exhibition of Traditional and Modern Maori Art at the National Museum. Stamford Road. Ppm. 5 p.m Famous Ancient and Modern Chinese Calligraphy and Drawing Exhibition at National Library. Stamford Road. 730 p.m. Free film shows by Ministry of Culture at Tho Mong School
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    • 300 10 SINGAPORE. Sun. The hnrnist-pianist combination of Barrv Tuckwell and Margaret Kitchin performed here on Dec 13 was a “rare treat" for musiclovers here. The performance at Singapore Conference Hall was very rewarding and strikingly delightful. The British Council-sponsored performance, presented by Singapore maestro. Goh Soon
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    • 280 11  -  Daring pre-dawn holdup By Robert Kuan Ipoh, Sunday. gunmen hijacked a bus carrying a group of 40 schoolchildren who were on their way to Singapore for their Christmas vacation early this morning. The daring pre-dawn ambush occurred at the 3rd milestone Tapah Road
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    • 231 11 ITU ALA LUMPUR, Sun. Traders were today told there was no justification for increasing prices of consumer goods on the slightest excuse. This, according to the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Dr. Lim Swee Aun, was because In Malaysia there was no currency control
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    • 57 11 IPOH. Sun. Nine curfew breakers were arrested in Knan district' during the past 24 hours a senior police spokesman here announced today. One person was also detained under the Prevention of Crime Ordinance. No incident was reported in the district, where the Curfew hours remain the 65me
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    • 21 11 PENANG, Sun The Tens ng Goodwill Relief Fund Committee received another SI 1.238 yesterday, bringing the total to (*****0.
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    • 124 11 PENANG. Sun. A 19-year-old visitor from Kedah. Tan Chan Lim. was stabbed by an armed robber along Rangoon Road here last night. Lim was walking along the road when two thugs, appeared, one of them held him while the other punched him. When he resisted, he
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    • 67 11 A group of Chinese language newspaper Journalists see how a newspage is transmitted from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur via facsimile at the Eastern Sun Printing Factory in Petaling Jaya on Thursday night. Thev are among 18 journalists seven from Sarawak, five from Sabah and six from *he States of Malaya
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    • 40 11 f’FOH Puan Raha wife of fhe Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, being greeted by Philippines President Ferdinand E. Marcos. Behind Toh Puan Raha is the Philippines First Lady, Mrs. Imelda Marcos. UPI Photo.
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    • 55 11 IPOH. Sun. A sundry shop keeper. Chin Ah Lak, 17. of Kampong Bercham New Village was drowned in the Kinta River at Tanjong Rambutan yesterday. He had gone for a swim with four others when he slipped from a rock and fell into the rapids. His body was
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    • 142 11 Kuala lumpur. sun Malaysia’s International Tourist Year 1967 campaign will be formally closed by Dr. Lim Swee Aun, Minister of Commerce and Industry. at a ceremony here tomorrow. It will be attended by representatives of Federal departments. State governments. statutory bodies, travel trade organisations.
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    • 52 11 KAMP A R. Sun. A mining labourer. Liew Kwan. 21. was killed when the motor cycle he was riding collided with a lorry at the 27-1/4 mile Ipoh-Telok Anson Road here last night. The pillion rider. Wong Sun Sah, 20. was seriously injured. He was admitted to the
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    • 34 11 PENANG. Sun. Thieves broke into the house of a teacher. Hamzah bin Ibrahim. in Tanjong Tokong Road, and got away with $1,105 in television set, records. typewriters, camera, table-fan and other articles
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    • 516 11 Muar. sun. subbranches of the Muar District Goodwill Committee are being formed throughout the Muar District. Leading the drive are community and political leaders, town and local councillors, kampong chiefs and representatives from the various voluntary organisations and clubs. The aim of the committee is to
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    • 107 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. The University of Malaya Students’ Union boycotted the reception for the visiting 535 American students given by the Minister of Local Government and Housing, Mr Khaw Kai Boh. at the University here tonight. The boycott is in protest against what the Union termed
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    • 95 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Fourteen countries, including Malaysia wnll take part in the International Koran Reading Competition to be held on Wednesday night at Stadium Merdeka. They are Indonesia. Brunei. South Vietnam, Cambodia. Thailand, The Philippines. Ceylon. India. Pakistan. Maldive Islands. Somalia.
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    • Article, Illustration
      77 11 Mr. Bobby Tan Guan Teong, attached to the State Secretariat, Penang as Housing Manager, helping his bride, Miss Catherine Ng Lee Yen, a dental nurse, to cut the wedding cake at a reception held at Chusan Hotel, Tanjong Bungah, Penang, recently. The bridegroom is the eldest son of
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 519 5 To resuscitate Great Britain NEW YORK. Sun. (Reuter). Britain would greatly increase her world influence and boost her economy by withdrawing from the Far East, asserting her independence of the United States and concentrating her efforts on leadership in Europe, according to a member of the U.S.
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    • 81 5 BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS. Sun (Reuter) Australia's third guidedmlsslle destroyer, the Ame-rican-built HM A S Brisbane was commissioned yesterday. About 300 guests, including Australian Ambassador John Waller, braved icy winds to attend the ceremony in Boston naval shipyard. The Australian white ensign was hoisted to mark the commissioning.
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    • 65 5 TAIPEI. Sun. (Reuter) Snow was reported yesterday atop Mount Hohuan (7.600 feet above sea level), a rare phenamenon in subtropical Taiwan. Reports reaching here the east coast described this phenomenon as the first in the past 20 years Snow began to fall at one of the
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    • 74 5 Photo shown: The recipient* seen standing before the presentation of the awards, (left to right) Hans A. Bsthe. t'SA. physics: Manfred Eigen of Germany, chemistry Ronald Norrtsh and George Porter from England, chemistry; Regnar
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    • 130 5 ATHENS. Sun. (Reuter) Greek Foreign Minister Panayotis Pipinelis and the nation's primate. Archbishop lernnimos. arrived here last night from Rome understood to be bringing hack King Constantine's conditions for his possible return to Greece. The two men refused to say whether they had been trying
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    • 109 5 BANGKOK. Sun (Reuter) Comedian Bob Hope arrived here today at the head of a 71-member troupe for a 14-dav Christmas season tour of military bases in Thailand and South Vietnam to entertain American troops He told reporters on arrival "This is my fourth trip here,
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    • 51 5 ADELAIDE. Sun. (Reuter) The main party of the third battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment sailed from Adelaide for South Vietnam yesterday on the troop carrier “H.M.A.S. Sydney". The 500 men of the battalion will bring the number of Australian troops in South Vietnam to about
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    • 240 5 CAPE TOWN. Sun. (Reuter). .Mr. Louis Washkansky. the 55-year-old grocer who is the world's first heart transplant patient, has suddenly developed mild pneumonia in his left lung but the hospital is not worried. "We think it is not very serious'’ Dr. C. Venter, one of
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    • 114 5 ARLINGTON. Virginia. Sun (Reuter) John Patler was jailed for 20 years here early yesterday after being convicted of killing U.S Nazi leader George Lincoln Rockwell. The jury of 10 men and two women took three hours and 40 minutes to decide that Patler shot Rockwell as
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    • 411 5 POINT PLEASANT. West Virginia. Sun. (UPI).— Divers braved icy waters and swift currents last night in an around-the-clock search for bodies, cars and trucks flung to the bottom of the rain-swollen Ohio River when a steel suspension bridge collapsed. The search
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    • 96 5 NEW DELHI. Sun. (Reuter) The Lower House of parliament yesterday approved by 205 votes to 41 the Indian government's controversial language bill after eight days of heated and emotional debate. The bill, which has arou> ed much opposition in proHindi northern States because it retains English as
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    • 25 6 KANAUGA, Ohio Wrecked vehicles lie amidst twisted wreckage of bridge which collapsed during rush hour on Friday killing at least 80 persons. r .—t'PI radiophoto.
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    • 367 6 I KEPT WORLD FROM N-BEAST’ WASHINGTON, Sun. (Reuter) US Secretary of State Dean Rusk said today his most important single accomplishment was the fact that nuclear war had been averted in the alnost seven years he had Deen In office. "If anyone doesn’t understand that, he’s a fool,” Mr Rusk
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    • 62 6 LONDON. Sun <Re U ter) The slipper into which Cinderella slid her tiny foot was made not of glass but fur. the Sunday Times reported here today. The newspaper said French philologist* maintained that when the French folk tale was translated into English in 1729 the word ‘Van.”
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    • 336 6 WEST PALM BEACH. Florida. Sun. (UPI).— Rubber fortune heir Russell Firestone Jr. has been granted a divorce from his third wife, May Alice, because neither “has shown the least susceptibility to domestica- tion.” Judge James R. Knott used *hose words on Friday to
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    • 202 6 World’ s first electronic horse race LONDON. Sun (Reuter) Thousands of British punters and millions of television viewers took part yesterday in a unique sporting event the world's first electronic horse race. It was run on a London University computer and. as might be expected, the going was good. None
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    • 144 6 Holt: Famous for CANBERRA. Sun. (Reuter) Australian Prime Minister Harold Edward Holt, who was presumed drowned today near Melbourne. was a former lawyer who waited several years in the wings before the chance of leadership came his way In 1966 when Sir Robert Menzies retired
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    • Article, Illustration
      42 6 WASHINGTON. Sun (rPl)—The flve-cent stamp Joined the nickel beer in economic oblivion yesterday as President Johnson signed into law a U. 5.5900 m postal rate Increase. He also approved pay raises for 5-5 million Federal military and civilian employees.
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    • 102 6 A total of 50 trainees from 3 continents are currently learning techniques of plastics application and processing in Industry and Trade in the “South German Plastics Centre” in Wurzburg. One of them is Juan Kladt-Sobrino from Mexico. 21 The knowledge worked out and compiled in the South German Plastics Centre
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    • 290 6 SAIGON, Sun. (Reuter). North Vietnamese soldiers have killed 22 and wounded 52 American cavalrymen in a two-day battle on the central coastal plain some 300 miles northwest of Saigon. A U.S. military spokesman here said some 104 North Vietnamese had been
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    • 328 6 WELLINGTON, New Zealand. Sun. (Reuter).— Sir Edmund Hillary’s recent eight-man Antarctic expedition successfully achieved its main aim of making the first ascent of formidable 11,754-foot Mount Herschel. Now back in New Zealand. Sir Edmund, who with Sherpa Tensing first reached the summit of Mount
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    • 190 6 ‘Holt missing’ LONDON. Sun (Reuter) Prime Minister Harold Wilson was shocked and greatly distressed to bear that Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt was feared drowned while skindiving today. Mr. Wilson’s press secretary said the Prime Minister, who is spending the weekend at his country home near London, was
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    • 377 6 WASHINGTON. Sun (Reuter). President Johnson's programme of economic and military aid to the poorer non-Communist world took an unprecedented battering from Congress this year before being reduced to its lowest ever level In chop after chop at overseas assistance plans. Congress whittled down
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    • 329 6 LONDON, Sun. (Reuter). Mankind has lost the battle to feed itself and hundreds of millions of people will starve to death sometime between 1970 and 1985. arcording to an American biologist. Dr. Paul Ehrlich, of the Biological Sciences Department at Stanford University, California, wrote in this
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    • 716 7 For the sixth time... W ASHI!\GTOX, Sun. (Reuter) The United States for at least the sixth time since Britain devalued sterling reaffirmed today that it tcould not deral ue the U.S. dollar. Official said they hoped the joints formal statement by the U.S. treasury and
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    • 181 7 SYDNEY, Sun (Renter) Anyone who beats or dusts a carpet or flies a kite in a street or public place is liable to be fined under laws which have never been repealed fn the Australian State of New South Wales. Now the New South Wales law
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    • 83 7 NEW YORK. Sun. <UPI> Princess Maria Beatrice ol Savoy arrived in New York last night by Jetliner from Nice. France, and refused to talk to reporters as she hurried through customs. As she left Nice, she said that reports she has broken her controversial engagement
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    • 59 7 BILOXL Mississippi. Sun. (Reuter) The bulletriddled body of 65-year-old Harry Bennett, a bir time gambler, was found in front of his luxury apartment at Biloxi yesterday. Police said Bennett, who was under Federal i ndictment on gambling conspiracy charges, was apparently trying to reach his front
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    • 268 7 WASHINGTON. Sun. (Reuter) Russian observer* may be asked to attend an Anglo-American arms control exercise in Britain next summer. The exercise, first of it* kind, is intended to test whether “clandestine" troop movements can be checked by international inspectors and electronic eavesdropping devices. British
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    • 116 7 HONG KONG. Sun. (UPI) The wife of one of the colony's most prominent Chinese businessmen. Sir Sik-Nm Chau, died here this morning Ladv Chau died at 7:05 thi:t morning at Queen Mary Hospital. Her husband is currently the chairman of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council
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    • 33 7 LONDON Anthony Blishen. First Secretary of British Mission in Peking, with wife Sarah and kids Janes and Catherine arriving at airport here. He is the first diplomas allowed out since August. UPI radiophoto.
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    • 300 7 Spies-for-book deal’ offer by Philby LONDON. Sun. (Reuter). Double agent Kim Philbv offered not to publish a book exposing Western secret operations if Britain exchanged two Soviet spies, the Sunday Times claimed today. The newspaper said Phllby had told one of Its reporters he wanted spies Peter and Helen Kroger,
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    • 193 7 Not so bon fire NEW YORK. Bun (UPI) —An 11-alarm fire devoured millions of Christmas parcels and other mall at a blocksize Manhattan post office yesterday and continued to smolder beneath soggy debris plied to a depth of 12 feet. The worst building fire In two
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    • 59 7 JAKARTA. Sun (Reu’er) Seven people died after eating poisonous mushrooms in Tjibiana village in West Java province, according to reports reaching here today. Five children and two women died in vomitiing convulsions after a boy found the mushrooms in the woods and brought them home to his family.
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    • 205 7 NEW YORK, Sun. (Reuter). —Don t .iump out of the bath to answer the telephone, lady an automatic eye might be watching you. Bell Telephone unveiled their latest “see-who-you-are-talking-to” picturephone here this week, and from now on American husbands are going to have to put
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    • 135 7 HONIARA. British, Solomon Islands. Sun. (Reuter) Tidal waves and hurri-cane-force winds are reported to have wiped out an entire village and killed at least three people in the primitive Ontong Java atolls 400 miles north of here. Food and clothing are being rushed by government vessel
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    • 114 7 JAKARTA Sun. (Reuter) Indonesia’s Acting President General Buharto. has guaranteed the religious freedom of Chinese people In Indonesia but order them to confine their worship to their family circle. In a decree published here today. General Suharto said religion and customs centred on mainland Chinese traditions should
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    • 106 7 PRETORIA. Sun. (Reuter) Passengers became hysterical and threatened to jump from a train near here when a young man in the carriage pulled out a threefoot long snake and began to play with it. When the ticket-col-lector suggested that he put the snake hack into
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    • 108 7 EL PASO, Texas, Sun. (UPI) A greyhound bus carrying US. servicemen from Ft. Bliss. Texas, home for the Christmas holidays overturned on an ice-cover-ed road in the desolate Guadalupe mountain area yesterday, injuring 30 to 40 persons, many of them seriously. The accident was
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    • 213 7 JAKARTA. Sun. (Reuter) A civil rase involving deposed President Sukarno is scheduled to come up before a Spenal District Court here next Thursday. Indonesia's Antara new agency reported yesterday. The agency said the court would hear a suit filed several months ago by 22 people whose
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  • 855 8 THE basic problem that faces every new nation is the conflict between old and new Ideas. Political leaders, who led their countries to independence during the last two decades, tend to assume that independence is a magic wand that automatically wafts away the old order. But
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  • 1376 8  -  By I. Hisham Albakri A paper presented at the recent Commonwealth Architects Association seminar in Singapore. ■RECENTLY t h e Parliament in Malaysia passed three parallel legislations for the protection of professional titles by registration The Architects Act The Engineers Act The Surveyors Act The
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    • 390 8 VIfITH reference to your Editorial on 6th December 1967, how true and right you yOurself were, when you wrote that what Malaysia needs from men like myself were not words alone but deeds, and being advantageously placed as President-elect of the Malayan Medical Association
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    • 153 8 TF building factories in 1 Singapore for Hong Kong industrialists is feasible, surely the Singapore Government can put up those multi-million dollar hotel buildings and office blocks at the Golden Mile in Beach Road instead of waiting for private enterprise to take the initiative. Left
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    • 439 8 'THE recent 25 per cent x overall increment of annual rental value on most buildings in Sg. Patani has drawn strong protest from the public and the commercial houses. They claim that it is not opportune at this moment to effect such an increase as
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    • 372 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.—The Malaysian Minister of Commerce and Industry, Dr. Lim Swee Aun, has called on Malay and nonMalay contractors to have greater co-opera-tion and understanding. “This was necessary for the progress of the country.” he said at the inaugural meeting of the
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    • 156 9 JAKARTA, Sun. (Reuter) Indonesia's rice production this year was expected to fall about 20 per cent below target but still represented an increase of over two per cent of production last year, a year-end report of the Agriculture Ministry said yesterday. The target was set
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    • 137 9 CATHAY PACIFIC AIRWAYS issued FIRST FLIGHT COVERS to inaugurate their services between HONG KONG. TAIPEI and OKINAWA recently. A keen philatelist, Master Chew Keng Eng. was the first collector to call at C P A. Singapore town office for the covers. Only eleven
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    • 32 9 JAKARTA. Sun. (UPI) Several foreign companies are expected to start the exploitation of lumber in East Borneo in joint enterprises w ith the Indonesian government Perhutani Forestry Development Company.
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    • 297 9 WASHINGTON, Sun. (Reuter). President Johnson yesterday ordered International tariff reductions Into effect in the Tnited States on Jan. 1 and called for firmness in opposing demands for “shortsighted” trade protectionism. He predicted that such demands would be made in this country and aboard as he issued
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    • 1242 9  -  By Colin Mann CYDNfcY. Sun. The electron microscope hums discreetly as it goes about its work of looking Into the heart of steel in the testing laboratory at the Australian Iron Steel Pty. Ltd. works. Port Kembla. New South Wales. Its low
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    • 121 9 STOCKHOLM. Sun. Mr. Yngve Wessman. General Sales Manager, Region Sweden, has been appointed Scandinavian Airlines' VicePresident Sales. Mr. Wessman. 48. has been active in aviation for 21 years. He Joined the Swedish Airline ABA. one of the parent companies of SAS. in 1946 and has
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    • 243 9 UONG KONG, Sun. (UPI). The Com- munist disturbances here have seriously affected the colony's essential import-export trade, statistics released by the Government revealed yesterday. The Government said that from January to November this year, exports had grown by 12.3 per cent as compared to
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    • 121 9 HONG KONG. Sun. (UPI) The price of gold reached its highest point here since the outbreak of the mid-East war, it was reported yesterday. Last June 6 the price rose to 299.5 Hong Kong per tael. Yesterday, it reached HK $299, higher by HK53.25
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  • Students' Page—All $10 Essay Winners
    • 402 12 EVERYBODY must have been through a period of unforgetable childhood days. Some may have a sad one. and some happy ones. When they think of it. they wish that they would never grow old. I had a happy childhood. It made me feel delightful when
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    • 288 12 IN a busy and industrial city like Singapore, parks provide relaxation for people. These people need rest. They have to refresh and ease their minds. The best way to get a good rest is to relax in the parks. Not only the surrounding is quiet,
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    • 328 12 The people who gamble endlessly IN this present age, men and women the world over can be seen gambling in various places. Some people gamble as a means of past-time while others think it is a good game without realising the consequences. The people who gamble endlessly are foolish people.
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    • 392 12 WHAT Is Money? Money, in itself, has no value. But. money has a claim to value, that is with money we can buy the things we desire. Money becomes a root of evil. How is it, you may ask? Let me tell you. Does
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    • 331 12 TELEVISION, which Is the most favourite pasttime of many people today was invented by J.L. Baird in the early 20th century. Today television has gained popularity among men. women and children all over the world. The westerners were the first to watch television but now people
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    • 222 12 IF the government were to lay emphasis on a national policy of industrialisation, rural development for the betterment of rural communities will be neglected Their livelihood will suffer as a result. This country is primarily agricultural and the cultivation of crops depends, to a large
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      285 12 A8 the world's population increases yearly, more and more food has to be produced In order to feed the growing population. If food, however, becomes insufficient, starvation will become a dangerous problem. The governments of most countries have long since realised this and are doing everything to
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    • 238 12 TAIPING is the town where I live. It Is In the of Larut and Matang in the state of Perak. This town is well known for Its Lakes. Maxwell's Hill and the zoo. The Lake Gardens Is situated at the foot of Maxwell's Hill. There
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    • 1051 13 'TWO tchofors hi the Australian National University have begun to edit the papers of George Ernest ("Chinese") Morrison probably the world's greatest authority on contemporary China when he died in 1920. Morrison was an Australian and a doctor of medicine when he arrived
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    • 2517 13  -  By Joseph G. Molner, M.D. Q: Can a person suffer withdrawal symptoms when suddenly stopping tranquillisers after taking them for some time? A: Your letter (greatly condensed here) sounded pretty close to frantic. Yes, sometimes and in some individuals there can be withdrawal symptoms (jitters and
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 248 14 BANGKOK, Sun. (UPI). Thai King Bhumibol Aduljadej last night declared the Fourth South East Asian Peninsular Games closed with a plea for the competing athletes to work for world peace. The King himself was a participant in the seven-dav games
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    • 180 14 LONDON. Sun. (UPI> Arctic Sunset won the two and one half mile MasseyFerguson Gold Cup steeplechase today exactly six seconds. That’s how long it took the giant Atlas computer at London University to figure out the winner of an elaborately programmed electronic race set up
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    • 133 14 SYDNEY. Sun. < Reuter) Spanish Davis Cup ace Manuel Santana yesterday said that his team’s chances of defeating Australia in the challenge round later this month were “about as good as in Sydney in 1965.” Santana was speaking at a press conference at
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    • 56 14 ADELAIDE. Sun. < Reuter) Americans Biilie-Jean King and Rosemary Casals proved themselves vastly superior to their Australian opponents in the women's doubles final at Memorial Drive here todav. Mrs. King and Miss Casals defeated Kerry Melville and Karen Krantzke 6—2. 6—4 The American pair were bustling
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    • 253 14 BIRMINGHAM, Alabama. Sun. (UPI) —A move to open the Wimbledon tennis tournament to amateurs and pros alike may clash head on with the first organised big money tour for pro tennis players. That’s the view of Mr. Leslie Longshore. President of the Southern
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    • 24 14 KAMPAR. Sun The Kampar Invitation beat Singapore Jolly Club 6-1 in a friendly soccer game played at the' Towm Padang here yesterday.
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    • 90 14 ROME. Sun. (UPI) World middle weight champion Emile Griffith beat Italy’s Remo Golfarini by knocking him out in the sixth round of a non-title bout at the Palace of Sports last night Griffith weighed 157 Dounds and Golfarini 161. The Virgin Islands-born boxer knocked down the Italian
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    • 171 14 BANGKOK. Sun. (UPI)— Host country Thailand hauled a rich harvest of 77 Gold medals at the conclusion of the six-nation Fourth South East Asian Peninsular Games here last night. Thailand also romped away with 49 silver and 43 bronze medals for a total haul of
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    • 164 14 MUAR. Sun. All Is set for the Fourth National Table Tennis Tournament to be held In Kluang from Dec. 21 to 28 Sponsored by the Johore State Table Tennis Association, all matches will be played at the Diamond Jubilee Hall in Kluang. All states In
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    • 163 14 HOLLYWOOD. Sun (UPI) —The world of boxing yesterday mourned the death of Frank Moran, 80. who fought both Jack Johnson and Jess Willard in title bouts and then turned to a career in motion pictures. Moran died on Thursday night at his home in Hollywood
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    • 101 14 BERNE. Switzerland. Sun. (UPI) Italy’s Fernando Atzori retained his European flyweight title last night by knocking out Fritz Chervet of Switzerland in the 14th round. Chervet was knocked down in the second, seventh and 12th rounds as he went down to his first professional defeat. Atzori
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      461 15 Wok pays tribute to Spore’s contingent SINGAPORE, Sun. A "Victory Parade" will be staged in appreciation of the Republic's achievements in the recent SEAP Games in Bangkok. Singapore were second to Thailand in the overall medal standings. "This is 0 fitting tribute to their achievements which were unexpected,"
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    • 166 15  -  By R.D. SELVA BANGKOK. Sun. “It w3s a big disappointment in badminton for Malaysians in the SEAP Games,” said Enrhe Abdul Ghani Khadim. the team manager. He told Sunsport last night: “I am not happy with our performances I am disappointed with Cheng
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    • 169 15 BANGKOK Sun The 10year plan for the formation of an Asian Rugby Football Cr on is still kept in abeyance, reports R D. Selva Representatives from Malaysia Thailand. Singapore and Hong Kong agreed at a meetlne convened here on Friday that ‘he; meet again at
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    • 124 15 SYDNEY, Sun (Reuter) Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and British round-the-world solo woman flier Sheila Scott will be invited to compete in a ASSO 000 Pacific air race next October. The race, from San Francisco to Port MacQuarie. New South Wales, is being organised by the
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    • 62 15 TOKYO. Sun. (UPI) Dukla. a Czechoslovak first division football club, today outplayed and defeated Japan's national soccer team 2 —o before 30 000 spectators at the National Stadium. The Czechs, who had played a i_i tie with All-Japan last Wednesday at the Nishigvoku Stadium in Kyoto,
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    • 281 15 SINGAPORE, Sun. The first batch of the Republic's contingent to the SEAP Games returned here this afternoon to a warm welcome at the Paya Lebar Airport. Headine the large party of officials, relatives and well-wishers was Enche Othman Wok. Minister for Social Affairs, who
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    • 121 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Johnny Kim tonight won the men’s Masters’ event of the third Malaysian Tenpin Bowling Congress championship, beating team-mate Y. K. Seng by a mere 19 pins Johnny scored 3.114 pins compared to Y. K. Seng's 3.095. Both were sponsored by Ming Ming Shoe
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    • 142 15 BOSTON. Sun. (UPI) Carl Yastrzemskl of the Boston Red Sox became the seventh player In American League history to win the triple crown and led the league in three other batting departments this year in one of baseball's greatest Individual performances. Official figures released
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    • 106 15 SYDNEY. Sun (Reuter) Former Wimbledon champion Manuel Santana, of Spain, said today that he was in favour of Open tennis tournaments but he had no intention of turning professional. Santana said he would like to play professionals in an Open Wimbledon, but added: "I am
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    • 74 15 LONDON Sun (Reuter) The ban on horse racing in England becausp of the foot and mouth epidemic will not be lifted until the new year, it was officially announced. It had been hoped that racing. last held on November 25. would be resumed
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    • 301 15  -  Dr. Ganeshan kept awake till 3 a.m.’ By M. T. LINGAM BANGKOK, Sun. —The Malaysian contingent have already begun their “post mortem” of the Fourth SEAP Games performances here. Several unpleasant incidents at Bangkok are definitely bound to give plenty
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    • 256 15 ADELAIDE. Sun. (Reuter) Wimbledon champion John Newcombe today won the men’s singles title at the South Australian lawn tennis championships. He defeated fellow Australian Tony Roche 6-4, 6-3. 3-6. 11-9, in a tensely fought final dominated by brilliant serving from both men. Each
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    • 128 15 ZURICH. SWITZERLAND, Sun. (Reuter) Sir Stanley Rous, President of the International Football Federation (FIFA), welcomed today the proposed merger of the American National Professional Soccer League (NPSLi and the United States Soccer Association He said he would recommend that FIFA members accord provisional recognition to all members
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    • 194 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. The Minister of Local Government and Housing. Mr Khaw Kai Boh. returned from the South East Asian Peninsular Games in Bangkok today satisfied with the overall performances of Malaysian athlete* at the meet. However, he was quick to point out some of the
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  • 596 16 Denis Law celebrates return with a goal LONDON, Sun. (Reuter) Manchester United, strengthened by the return of Scottish International Denis Law after a six-weeks suspension, consolidated their position at the top of the English First Division with a resounding 3-1 win against Everton before 60,736 spectators
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  • 2164 16 RESULTS TABLES ENGLISH ONE Chelsea 0 WBA 3 Sheffield W 4 W’est Ham U 1 Coventry C- 5 Liverpool 1 Burnlev M*Chester C. 1 1 Southampton Stoke City Sunderland 0 0 2 Newcastle U Arsenal Leeds U. 0 1 2 M'chester U. 3 Everton 1 Spurs 0 Leicester C. 1
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  • 179 16 BRITISH tennis star Christine Truman gets a kiss from her bridegroom, company director and rugby player, Mr. Gerald Janes, after their wedding recently at the church of St. Mary the Virgin. Loughton, Essex, near London. Big crowds outside the church overflowed into the road and police
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  • 147 16 133, 000PressCentre for Mexico Olympics MEXICO CITY. Sun. (Reuter).—The Public Works .Ministry has announced the award of a tender for the construction of a four million pesos (£133.000) press centre for next October's Olvmpic Games here. The successful bid was submitted by a local firm Construe tones Uroanas Mexico. D
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  • 184 16 MANILA. Sun. (UPI) A Philippine sports official has asked the Oriental Boxmg Federation 'OBF> to strip world Junior welter-weight champion Paul Fuji of Hawaii of his Orient Junior Welterweight crown. Justimano Montano. Games and Amusements Board chairman and Philippine representative to the OBF. cited
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  • 91 16 TOKYO. Sun. (UPI) A picked team of 16 Japanese high school wrestlers will leave Tokyo on Jan. 6 for a series of matches with American teams, the Japan Amateur Wrestling Association announced yesterday. The team will be led by Yukifusa Sakai, of the Omuta Mlnaml High School in
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  • 165 16 T ONDON, Sun. (Reuter) Sven Andersen Li (Denmark) needed only 25 minutes to retain his London open badminton singles title when he beat the London-based Singapore player, Lee Kin Tot 15*8, 15*11 at Crystal Palace here yesterday. Andersen, a 21-year-old and second
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  • 108 16 TAIPING. Sun—Disciplinary action has been taken against five players in the Taiping and District Football League. Mr Ong Hong Kong, secretary of the TDAFA disclosed yesterday. They are Hamzah Hakim. Haris Hasan. Mahadzir Abdullah of Thenavan Youths and Boev Ya Chong and Ho Nhee Kiat of
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  • 181 16 LAUSANNE. Switzerland. Sun. (Reuter).— Signor Girorgio De Stafani. Italian President of of the International Lawn Tennis Federation (I.L. T.F.) last night denied that Britain would he suspended from the Federation from Jan. 1. He told Reuter: “I do not have the power to
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  • 546 16 LONDON. Sun. (Reuter). Neath rained revenge for their Sept. 6 defeat when they heat Cardiff by two goals and two tries’ to a penalty goal and a try in their match at Neath in today's Rugby Union pro- gramme. The clubs were ordered to play the
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    • 64 16 TIME AND TIDE Penang: 12.51 a.m. (8.3 ft.), 1.29 p.m. (6.7 ft.) Port Swettenham: 6.30 a.m. (14.7 ft.), 7.10 pm. (14.3 ft.) Port Dickson: 7.22 am. (8.9 ft), 7.32 p m. (7.8 ft.) Singapore: 12.16 a.m. (8.3 ft.), 10-57 p.m. (9.5 ft.) Sedili Kechil: 8.55 a m. (6.8 ft.), 11.59
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