Eastern Sun, 27 December 1967

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  • 25 1 Eastern Sun Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION fr Estd. 1966. Vol. 2 No. 512 Wednesday, 27 December 1967. MC(P) 2251 KDN 2660 Price 15 cents
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  • 459 1 Incident-marred 24-hour truce ends: 91 trucks in convoy of 300 destroyed SAIGON TUES. (UPI) T .S. warplanes streaked into North Vietnam just minutes after the incident-marred 24-hour truce ended and bombarded streams of trucks headed south with war supplies, military spokesmen disclosed. Alerted by reconnaissance flights
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  • 971 1  -  By KHOO BOON CHOO PENANG. Tues. Mr. Lim Rean Slew M.P. and Vice-Chairman of the Labour Party of Malaya, today said his future actions would depend on whether his proposals for the re-organisation of the Labour Party would be accepted. Mr. Lim said
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  • 79 1 BOMBAY', Tues. (Reuter) Earth tremors continued to rock Western India today, 16 days after a devastating earthquake destroyed the town of Koyna Xagar, 156 miles southeast of here, and killed nearly 20ft people. Poona observatory recorded 27 tremors, almost all of them minor, in
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  • 66 1 ROME. Tues. (Reuter) King Constantine's return to his throne in Greece appeared imminent today following talks here with Air Marshal Haralabos Potamianos the latest emissary from the military backed Athens Government. Before leaving for Athens yesterday the Air Marshal said he was a hundred per cent certain"
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  • 170 1 ’MOSCOW, Tues (Reuter) Troops and civilian rescue workers today scoured the remains of a six-storey block of flats shattered by an explosion here last night. Unofficial estimates put the death toll at between 12 and 20. Bystanders said the wrecked section of the block had
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  • 203 1  -  By L. D. BAPTIST PENANG, Tues. The Chief Police Officer, Enche Salleh bin Abdul Rahman, today warned the public against confidence tricksters who were going round telling "a pack of lies” to people whose relatives have been detained by the police. “These confidence tricksters or
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  • 42 1 JACKSONVILLE. Florida. Tues. (Reuter) About 300 families were back at home here today after fire fighters in rubber suits and gas masks neutralised a pall of dangerous chlorine gas which leaked from a burning chemical plant over th® week-end.
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 427 2  - Rose— devoted social worker in tragic death By K. SIDHU SINGAPORE. Tues. Singapore lost one of the country’s most fervent social workers. Mrs. Rose Minnie sister of the former Chief Minister of Singapore. Dato David Marshall in a tragic motor accident at Tarnpines Road on Christmas Day. The car Mrs.
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    • 209 2 PENANG. Tues. The Chief Minister, Tan Sri Wong Pnw Nee, today disclosed his New Year resolution was to lay more emphasis on communal harmony. goodwill. understanding and tolerance Tan Sri Wong said the Government would also Intensify development projects to provide employment for the people
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    • 127 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues A ceremony to enshrine Buddha relics in a statue at the Buddhist temple at Jalan Berhaia will be held on Sunday at 10 a m. The open-air altar with Buddha statue under the shelter of the two Bodhi trees of the temple
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    • 395 2 'National Service will enable them to develop leadership qualities' SINGAPORE, Tues. The first batch of students from institutions of higher learning will report at the Central Manpower Base at Kallang tomorrow for registration for Nation- al Service. This Is in line with the announcement made by the
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    • 184 2 SINGAPORE. Tues. A 37-year-old mother. Hoong Moy Moy. was today fined SBOO in default six months' jail by the Second District Court for offering a $lO bribe to Police Constable Abu Bakar bin Ibrahim as an inducement not to arrest her son for assisting
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    • 71 2 I POH, Tues. The Perak Hokkien Association here celebrated its 70th anniversary last night with an annual re-unlon dinner. The President. Dato Peh Seng Koon. in his speech, hoped that the price of rubber and tin would improve in the coming year. Despite the present low
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    • 125 2 SINGAPORE. Tues A ‘‘Carnival Idilfitri" will be held at the Geylang Serai Vocational School grounds which will be opened by Enche Ghazali Ismail Political Secretary, Ministry of Cultture on Jan. 3. The carnival is organised by the principal and staff of the Geylang Serai Vocational School in conjunction
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    • 159 2 PENANG. Tues. Religion could play an important role in uniting the people in this country and also the world. This was said by the Prime Minister. Tunku Abdul Rahman at the State Koran Reading competition prize-giving ceremony he'd at the City Stadium here last night.
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    • 214 2 PENANG, Tues. Penang's Koran readers, Haji Saidin bin Abdul Rahman and Che Rodziah binte Abdul Rahman who won the national championships at the Koran reading contest in Kuala Lumpur last week were given a rousing welcome home by the people here when they
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    • 68 2 SINGAPORE, Tues. There will be no water or poor pressure in the follow’ing areas from 9 am. to 5 p.m. on Thursday. Dec. 28. Pierce Drive House Nos. 2, 4. 6 and 7; Pierce Road House Nos 8. 8A 10. 108 and 12A/D; Holland Park House Nos.
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    • 172 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues The Royal Malaysian Air Force will have new uniforms next year. The changes embodied us the revised dress regulations of the Malaysian Armed Forces will affect the working/working out dress (No. 2 dress) and the operational/ training dress (No. 3 dress). The daily
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    • 345 3 S'PORE CANNOT EXIST WITHOUT GOOD RELATIONS -SAYS DR. TOH SINGAPORE, Tues. The Deputy Prime Minister, Dr. Toh Chin Chye, strongly emphasised that Singapore must co-operate with Malaysia even though the latter's policies were different from the Republic's. He pointed out that Singapore could not exist as an
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    • 114 3 SINGAPORE. Tues. Sin Kee Heon. 28, was yesterday charged in the Ninth Magistrate’s Court with possession of two lots of raw opium valued at $26,000. Sin. who claimed trial. Is alleged to have in his possession 90 lbs of raw opium valued at $ll,OOO
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    • 47 3 .V r 0,(1 socialist friends, discussed matters of common interest for more than an hour and a half.
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    • 453 3 SINGAPORE. Tues After a month of fasting the Malays and other Muslims in the Republic will be celebrating Hari Raya Puasa next week. The sighting of the rr.oon will take place on the night of Dec. 31 and if it is not sighted
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    • 38 3 SINGAPORE. Tue*. A journalist, Mr. F Enery of the London Times, will be the guest speaker at the Rotary Club of Singapore District 330 luncheon meeting tomorrow. He will speak on “the events of the year”.
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    • 47 3 SINGAPORE. Tuei Mr Fong Sip Chee. Parliamentary Secretary to the Mintetcy of Culture, will cqSen tSie sixth Singapore and Malaysia Students' organised by the Polytechnic Photographic Society at the Polytechnic Exhibition Hall on Saturday at 4 p m. Mrs Fong will gave away the prizes.
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    • 103 3 SINGAPORE. Tues—The Police Secretary. Mr Loke Foo Yee, today disclosed that the Christmas holidays had been “free’’ of any serious robberies and thefts "There were no robberies but only one theft,” said Mr Loke. "This Is most encouraging." Mr. Loke told a press conference this
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    • 215 3 SINGAPORE. Tues. A new series of 10 lectures on ‘Employment Problems and Prospects” is being organised by the Joint Committee for Radio Courses The course, commencing on Feb. 16. will be held on Fridays from 8.00 p.m. to 900 pm. at ’he Radio Singapura auditorium in
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    • 88 3 SINGAPORE Tues A 39-year-old German. Stephen Karl Heinz Heinrich Fritz was yesterday charged in the Ninth Magistrate's Court with smuggling 34 gold bars Into Singapore. The gold weighing 74 97 lbs were valued at $134,000. Heinrich Is alleged to have committed the offence inside
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    • 84 3 SINGAPORE. Tues. The written examinations of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music will be held on March 2. 1963. Seventh Day Adventist candidates will sit for their exams on March 1. Entry forms are available at the Ministry of Education and entries
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    • 221 3 Sat Mcet Dr Donte *be man *ho have insured his eyes for "One M.11.0n Dollars and his voice also for this staggering sum with the famous Lloyds of London. On the glittering stage around the world, Dr. Dante is well-known as the "millionaire hypnotist. For the
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    • 116 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The Tang di-Pertuan Agong will be broadcasting a special Hari Raya message to the nation on the first day of Hari Raya Puasa. The broadcast can be heard at 10.30 am. over all the language services followed immediately by translations In
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    • 100 4 PENANG. Tues. A 55-year-old religious teacher from Cairo, Sheikh Mustaffah Ismail, reported the loss of his 52.800 wrist-watch from his room at the E. and O Hotel here yesterday He said he arrived together with the Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, whom he accompanied that
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    • 174 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— The Parliamentary Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister, Mr. Michael Chen, who is also an M.P said there was a possibility of the poultry farmers and orchid growers (whose farms and nurseries were raided by the demolition squad from Ulu Langat District
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    • 27 4 THE King presented the cup to Enche M.S.A Zachariah the leader of Penang Koran readers. Penang became the over-all champion of the national level Koran reading competition.
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    • 219 4 PENANG, Tues. A teenaged girl here today alleged she was raped by a man who invited her out for a drive in his car on Christmas eve. The girl told the police that the man, who lived in her area,
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    • 81 4 RAUB. Tues. Twentyfive teachers of the Mahmud Secondary School here had a bleak Christmas. They were to have received their December pay last Thursday but the pay packet has yet to come this morning. With Hari Raya Puasa a week away, the Muslim
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    • 631 4 JESSELTON, Tues. The price of essential commodities in Sabah have risen as much as 35 per cent since November, 1966. This was reported here by the United Nations Adviser in the Sabah Department of Statistics, Sabah, Mr. R Prasad, at the meeting convened
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    • 126 4 MORE than 100 delegates attended an international symposium on hydrological forecasting held recently in Queensland, Australia. The symposium was organised by the World ■Meteorological Organisa- tion. the United Nations Educational. Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), and Australia's Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology. Its theme was shortterm forecasting of river floods with
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    • 427 4 Repentant ceremony for 98: KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The pardon given to the 98 members of the "Army of the Holy War" by the Sultan of Kedah was a spiritual forgiveness sought by Moslem subjects from their Ruler in order to unburden their conscience. It was not a
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    • 155 4 PENANG, Tues. Two people were injured during a fracas outside the Malayan Chinese Association premises in Malay Street on Dec. 23. The leader of the M C A. Youth, Mr. Chan Siew Yuen, told the police they were holding a social get-together
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    • 206 4 Pix shows two BATA quality testers who completed the first leg of their journey when they arrived at the Klane factory at Bata Shoe Company during the weekend after walking from Singapore a distance of 280 miles in eight days. Looking tired but cheerful, they were met at the gate
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous

  • Boutique
    • 522 5 THE fashion fun and games begin with what are referred to as one's "leisure hours.*’ Apparently. the phrase means any time you think you don't have to wear a suit or coat costume Obviously, that includes a lot of 'time, not all of it
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    • 219 5  -  by Mary Sue Miller IT’S going to he a beautiful year Gazing ahead we see lovelies makr the moist of their natural selves. An observer will need sharp eyes to detect fakery when it exists. An Increased selection of ultra sheer, translucent foundations will come on the
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    • 112 5 Elisa Daggs, the designer who specialises in paper clothes, thinks that they are perfect for resort going. Their light weight reduces the packing problem, they can often be thrown away before returning home, and their brightly casual air is right for the sun spots. She offers a whole
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    • 173 5 Princess Margaret attended a colourful Commonwealth fashion show held at Marlborough House, London. England, with the title “The Commonwealth in Time and Season.” Ag the title suggests all Commonwealth countries represented showed dresses that would be worn during December in their home country, mid-summer in Australia.
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    • Article, Illustration
      123 5 LEFT: Feminity and elegance is the essence of this two-piece suit with the long jacket look. The interest of the long Jacket is the U-shaped front which is inseted with narrow tiers of lace of the same colour (preferably white) as the piping around the neck line; edges
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    • Article, Illustration
      380 5 NESCAFE MARSHMALLOWS Ingredients: 2 tablespoons gelatine water. .1 tablespoons powdered NESCAFE lb. caster sugar, icing sugar, cornflour Method: Line a square 8 x 1{ inch pan with greaseproof paper. Grease paper. Combine 2 tablespoons cornflour with 2 tab’.espoons icing sugar. Dredge base and sides of pan with cornflour-sugar mixture.
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 2653 6 NATIONAL R-3000 with 6 bands and 16 transistors/diodes RADIO Wednesday DECEMBER 27 AM. TIMEX-TIME 600 GOOD MORNING 6.01 MORNING PRELUDE 7.00 THE NEWS 7.10 BREAKFAST BULLETIN A programme that include? interviews and news of current activities in Singapore. 7.20 UP AND ABOUT 8.00 THE NEWS 8.10 UP AND ABOUT 900
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 574 7 HONG KONG. Tues. (UPI) Intelligence sources here said they believe Communist China's latest nuclear test was a missile-borne device that presages more spectacular missile developments in China dur- ing the coming year. The Christmas eve explosion of C h i n a’s seventh
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    • 135 7 Rapproachment? PARIS Tues. (UPI) Foreign Minister Tran Van Do of South Vietnam headed for Pans today amid speculation he might meet a North Vietnamese representative. •In Saigon, a Foreign Ministry spokesman confirmed he had left for Paris, but denied that any such talks were on
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    • 209 7 TAIPEI. Tues. (Reuter) Russia, rather than the free world, will be the one most seriously threatened by China's nuclear capability. according to a senior adviser here of President Chiang Kai-Shek. Tao-Hsi-Sheng. who is also a well-known commentator. was commenting last night on China's recent nuclear
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    • 93 7 SAIGON. Tues. (URI) Senator Collin McKellar, Australia’s Minister for Repatriation. left Vietnam today after a five-day Christmas visit to Australian troops i n the field saying “There is no doubt the war i s being won.” Mr. McKellar, who is on his second trip to Vietnam, said
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    • 28 7 A howitzer barrel In Bear Kat Is covered on December 24 in preparation for the X mas truce- UPI radio- photo.
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    • 370 7 ITS THE BUDGET WASHINGTON. Tues. (I'PI) I’ S. sources said yesterday foreign aid to India may be cut by l .S S--100m or more in the coming fiscal year as a result of smaller U.S. foreign aid appropriations. The proiected range for aid
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    • 84 7 TOKYO. Tues (UPI) One of Asia's elder revolutionaries has sent birthday wishes for a long life to another. North Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh. a senior 77 himself, sent greetings today to Communist Chinese Chairman Man Tse-Tung in honor of his 74th birthday. The
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    • 132 7 TOKYO. Tues. (Reuter) A treaty on the establishment of a centre to promote fisheries in Southeast Asia will be signed this week in Bangkok, the Japanese Foreign Ministry announced here today. The establishment of the centre was proposed at the first ministerial meeting for the
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    • 70 7 MIDDLESBROUGH. England. Tues. (UPI) An outbreak of gastro enteritis which swept Northeast England. killing nine babies, just before the Christmas holidays was still unchecked today. Twenty-six babies were reported suffering from the disease in two Middlesbrough hospitals, including five listed as seriously ill. Two babies were
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    • 82 7 SAIGON. Tues. (UPI> The Christmas truce brought a brief lull to Vietnam's battlefields yesterday but 33 incidents marred the ceasefire during Its first 12 hours. US officials reported In violations of their promise to hold their fire. Communist forces attacked Marine positions In the northern provinces and
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    • 104 7 LONDON. Tues (Reuter) The 17.543-ton British tanker Esso Canterbury was taken in tow last night while drifting powerless off the west coast of Scotland, a Navy spokesman said here. The tanker would be towed to Belfast. Northern Ireland, the spokesman added. The Esso Canterbury, carrying oil from
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    • 181 7 LANSING. Michigan, Tues. (UPI) Philip Rosewarne and his familv are sound sleepers until there comes a tapping at their door. When the car of Earl N. Casler Jr.. careened across a lawn, smashed through Rosewame's garage. struck the Rosewarne auto and drove it through the wall into Rosewarne's
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    • 178 7 BORI'P, Denmark. Tues. (UPI) A small group of Danes listened for a midnight message from “Orthon, the supreme cosmic being,” on Christmas eve and stayed close to a fallout shelter of lead, timbers and earth. The group believes "Orthon,” speaking through the medium of a taxi driver named
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    • 285 7 SUNNYVALE, California. Tues. (UPI) A nude voung man swinging a four-foot sword was shot and killed by police on Christmas dav in Sunnyvale Street as he attacked an officer. Daniel Bruce Brown, 19. of Sunnyvale, was hit by four bullets in the upper torso
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    • 63 7 TAIPEI. Tues. (UPI* On Christmas eve Lu KeeFu. 39. suffered the same fate as four of his relatives did earlier this year. He was run over by a train at a rail crossing. Police said he was the fourth Lu to die in rail accidents wuthin seven months,
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    • 263 7 WASHINGTON. Tues (UP!) Dr. Christian Barnard. the South African physician who performed the world's first heart transplant surgery, said yesterday that questions of race or colour did not influence his choice of patients Asked on a special nationwide telecast (CBS Face
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    • 279 7 X 'mas tangle at Manila airport MANILA. Tues. (UPI> Officials began an investigation today into reports some air traffic controllers stayed off the job for 14 hours on Christmas day, restricting the flow of flight information from Manila International Airport. An airport spokesman said the Manila control tower continued to
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    • 69 7 WARSAW, Tues. (UPI).— Police have arrested three Polish Catholics for helping to build an unauthorised chapel in Wolkowyja. church sources said today. Five others were fired from their jobs for helping and eight more, including a priest, were ordered to appear before police on charges of illegally
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    • 238 10 SAIGON, Tues. (ReuterV t?.S. fighter-bombers swung back into action immediately the 24-hour truce ended yesterday evening and caught a seven-mile North Vietnamese supply convoy heading south, an American spokesman said today. The Jets dive-bombed the 150 truck convoy a* it snaked
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    • 183 10 AIKAWA. Niigata Prefecture. Tues (Kyodo) The Mitsubishi Metal Mining Co. will send 30 engineers to Sado Island in the Japan Sea. in January to prospect for gold. The project will cost 70 million yen (about C *****.000). This was announced today by a spokesman
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    • 111 10 The shaft of the peacock feather must he split six to eight times before it can he used for an exceptionally fine leather embroidery Peacock feather embroidery is a nearly extinct art in Germany and calls for a great deal of dexterity. Siegfried Stecher is probably the
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    • 134 10 TOKYO, Tues. (Reuter). Japanese scientists in Niigata on the northern Japan Sea coast today detected particles which they believed to have been caused by last Sunday's Chinese nuclear explosion. Professor Hiroshi Sunaga of the Public Hygiene Group of the Niigata University Medical Department said six
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    • 93 10 DALAT. Vietnam. Tues. (UPI) Gov George Romney of Michigan flew into this mountain resort today to present a U 5535.000 cneque which the dhi dren of Michigan paid for In pennies, to Prelect Concern, a private group that operates a hospital near here Mr Romney, the only
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    • 160 10 JAKARTA. Tues. (Reuter) The big Indonesian Moslem Scholars Party. NU, today voiced its support for Acting President General Suharto's move to protect the Nationalist Party founded by deposed President Sukarno In a statement published by the party's official organ. Duta Masjarakat, (Envoy of Society), NU said
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    • 208 10 Hiroshima Tues. (Kyodo) The Hiroshima atom bombing hospital registered «2 deaths among its Inpatients during the first 11 months of this year. Seven more than during the whole of last vear. although it had less oui-patients and less new in-patients, according to the hospital. The
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    • 76 10 MANILA. Tues (Reuter)' President Marcos has called the council of leaders to a meeting here next Thursday to discuss the future of the Philippines role in the Vietnam war. according to the Presidential Palace. The President had first made known his plan to convene
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    • EASTERN SUN U.N.C.L.E. FAN CLUB NEWS
      • 519 10 IN the early !900's Colonel Red! was chief of espionage for the Austro-Hungarian empire. His rise to that post was rapid. His superiors knew Redl as a brilliant organiser and master of spy technique. After years of extraordinary service. Redl was raised even higher in rank, and
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      • 351 10 ALL member* who ui*h to have their name* published in this column, please write vour name, address, section and number, age. sex. hobbies and interest* on a piece of paper and sent it to: PenPals Column. Fa«t«*rn Sun t.VC.L.E. Fan Club. 23 R. Cantonment Road. Singapore. 2. Agent
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      • Article, Illustration
        703 10 Come in nil agents. This Christmas teas the happiest Christmas for me. First of all, the greetings sent to us by Robert Vaughn, Leo G. Carroll and David MrCaUum (which for a minute I thought was not coming). I do hope all of you saw it in
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  • 427 8 SINCE the countries of South-east Asia gained their independence, their leaders have been exhorting them to uproot old ideas from their minds £nd plant new ones in their place. That It is not easy to change people’s ways and thought# is underlined by their leaders’ constant harping
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  • 333 8 fpHE recent racial disturbances in the country 1 now remain nothing more than a nightmare and one which should be got over quickly on Malaysia's long painful road to meaningful nationhood. It was a blot on Malaysia's achievements during a decade of independence during w’hich the country
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  • LETTERS...
    • 77 8 The Hari Raya and Chinese New Year festivals will soon be with us and thousands of humble citizens will be purchasing small gold ornaments. I learn that goldsmiths have increased the price of gold by as much as 15%, making “devaluation” the excuse. Would the Childsmith’s
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    • 149 8 I REFER to the letter from “Minority" which appeared In the Eastern Sun of 5th December. 1967. stating that his daughter was “shocked" over a Ministry of Health circular relating to a certain scholarship award Surely this state of “shock” must have been artificially contrived as she could
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    • 242 8 \|ALE Singapore citizens I*l in institutions of higher learning are required to register for National Service. Why exclude the females there? After all. the State spends an equal amount on each of them. Ls it because a rugged society does not mean rugged females? Or perhaps.
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  • 264 8  -  By Henry B. Rothblatt (Author, "Handbook of Evidence For Criminal Trials") MILLARD was charged and convicted of the murder of a 9-year-old girl. The child had died as a result of a brutal sexual attack. Millard appealed his conviction. “My trial was unfair and my constitutional rights
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  • 699 8  -  By Stuart Griffin through dumping tactics. Japan now leads the world in shipbuilding, is third in automobile and steel output and ranks high in the production of cameras, electronic goods, textiles, cement, machinery and machine tocls. The reasons lie in hi~h-class imported raw materials, plus
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  • 676 8  -  By Hope R. Stevens lITTHOUT (joubt, it has been clearly shown how the colonialist and white minority governments of southern Africa continue to be strengthened and hardened for conflict by the trade, aid and investments that flow from other states and territories. While
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    • 43 8 Eastehn Sun Independent National Newspaper WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1967 23~8. Cantonment Road. Singapore 2. ToiooN'-’r *****/7 Pena” *7 fiee Ipoh Otticr S 9, lalan Sultan, Kuala Lumpur, Malayiia, Telephone: *****/6 8, Leith Street, Tel: ***** 77, Brewtter Road, Tel: ***** Cable Address: AWNEWS
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 572 9 FOR rears our analyses of the drawbacks of the Gold-Exchange Standard have foreseen, though not provoked, the evenis which we have all just witnessed with dismay. We do not draw any satisfaction from our foresightedness, but we shall not give up our efforts to bring others
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    • 570 9 Present monetary system unsuitable and hinders development of world economy. 1) The international monetary system is out of order. a) Size of the deficits: the two great reserve currency countries, the United States and Great Britain, have suffered or accepted an utterlv abnormal deficit position. During the last ten years,
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    • 63 9 of long term capital, to bring about a deficit in their own balances of current payments by applying the appropriate economic policies to that end This argument calls for two remarks: consistent with monetary good order France has corrected, not without difficulty. the domestic effects of a
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    • 986 9  -  By Leroy Pope NEW YORK, Tues. (UPI). For the first time since 1933, Americans are being forced to consider raising the price of gold. There was no indication, however, of any official support for such a move in Washington. The war In
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    • 372 9 GENEVA. Tues. (Reuter) United Nations experts here have railed for an end to tariff and non-tariff obstacles to trade in natural and semi-processed aatural rubber. The experts, meeting under the auspices of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD),
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    • 49 9 SINGAPORE. Fit. (Managers’ Prices) First Malatan 2.39 Second Mala) an 1.72 Third Malayan 1.08 The Commerce Industry Fund XD .88 .97 The Savings Fund (ex-lssue) .91 First Hongkong .80 i no .85 Second H kong XD .53 .59 Malayan Investment Fund 1.00 1.10 Sterling Commodity 4/3 4/10
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    • 106 9 SINGAPORE. Tues. The noon prices at the Singapore Chinese Produce Exebange today are >- Buyer seller Coconut Oil IF.OB.I Bulk 59.75 Coconut oil (FOB Drums 62.25 Loose Copra Mixed Muntok White Pepper (F.O.B.) 96% N.L W Sarawak White Pepper (F.O.B.) 967c N.L. ft Sarawak Special Black Pepper (F.O.B.) 96
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    • 647 9 SINGAPORE. Tues. Industrials were better on the Stock Exchange when trading resumed this morning after the Christmas holiday. However, during the day 22 counters had gains of half to 10 cents, while four were easier and nine unchanged Pan (M) Cement commanded the highest turnover
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    • 491 9 SINGAPORE—Stock fciihint? old and offer prices official!.' listed at the close of business. INDISTRUI.S Hen A To r ZO 2 22 Hou-tcad 1 .(52 < sugar 2 1! Chemical Co. 1 48 1 49 Cold Morale CI> 3 96 4 on Dunlop 2.25 1 smelting 4 30 4
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    • 64 9 TAIPEI. Tues. (Reuter) Taiwan will participate in six international trade fairs in the first half of 1968 to promote trade relations with other nations, the ministry of economic affairs announced yesterday. The ministry said the fairs at which Taiwan would be represented would be held in
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    • 286 11 2 •r TMoSE KNOW WHO BUY Wednesday DECEMBER 27 PM. TIMEX-TIME 6.45 OPENING ANNCT. Prog. Summary 5.48 NEWS OUTLINES IN THE NATIONAL LANGUAGE 553 ANNOUNCEMENT For Commencing and Breaking of Fast {.M NEWS IN TAMIL 610 WORLD ROUND-UP A newsreel coverage of recent world events narrated i n Mandarin. 635
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    • 296 11 Channel 5 Kuala Lumpur and V Pulau Pinang 6 Ipoh and Malaka /tO Johore and Singapore 4 Taiping f 7 Batu Pahat Ji k 9 Kluang /JB 4 Countdown for Paula 416 LOVE RANGER 70ft NEWS IN ENGLISH *.lO SPORTS PARADE A coverage of sports news, views and interviews The
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    • 426 11 Wednesday DECEMBER 27 PM TIMEX-TIME 5.55 PROG SIMMARY in the National Language, Chinese. Tamil and English. 6.05 BF.LAJAR LAH BXHASA KEBANGSAAN Our dally lesson in the National Language 6.10 THE ROAD RUNNER SHOW A cartoon series. 6.35 MY THREE SONS "The Chorus” Fred Mac Murray plays the role of a
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    • 604 11 c SINGAPURA 940 ESPIONAGE “Light Of A Friendly Star" They are the hdden enemies, soldiers without, uniform, variously known as spies, secret agents, saboteurs, undercover men and women, and the*e are their stories 10.40 RUN FOR YOUR LIFE “Baby. The World's On Fire' High adventure and drama that follow in
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    • 42 11 JANUARY 1 PM. TIMEX-TIME 650 PROG SUMMARY in the National Language. Chinese. Tamil and English 655 BELAJAR-LAH BAHASA KF.BANGSAAN Our daily lesson in the National Language (Repeat Broadcast! 700 NEWS in Tamil 7.15 TAMIL VARIETYSHOW A variety of songs, music and dance
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    • 72 11 Produced by M P Saamy ■7.50 HOGAN’S HEROES "The Prince From The Phone Company” A situation comedy series based on the hilarious antics of a group of prisoners of war in a German concentration camp. 820 NEWS in the National Language 835 IT S HAPPENING IN SINGAPORE A series on
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    • 234 11 8.40 RICHES OF THE WORLD 9.00 NEWS AND NEWSREELS in English. 9.25 12 O’CLOCK HIGH "R X For A Sick Bird,” High adventure in the skies based on the Second World War. 10.20 ROVING REPORT 'Ghana: The Search For Democracy Sikkim: India Wards Off Chinese Threat/ The Mood In Israel”.
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  • 50 12 Richard Bradford as McGill in "Somebody Loses, Somebody Wins, trails a missing violinist to Dresden and meets an old love, played by Jacqueline Pearce, in the hotel by accident or is it
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  • 138 12 SINGAPORE, Tues. Television Singapura will telecast the 6th Quarter-Final of the RTS Talentime '67 on Thursday, December 28, over Channel 5. There will be a repeat telecast on Sunday, December 31. The contestants: 1. Ru<h Cornet 2. Selamat Sasman 3. R Chandran 4 A min
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  • 345 12 Kuala lumpur. Tues. Saturday’s “Date” She's Ulla Stromstedt, will make her debut over Television Malaysia on 6 168 as a regular in MGMTV's “Flipper” half-hour series. A three-month search for a new feminine personality as a regular in MGMTV's popular “Flipper” series ended when executive
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    • 2009 12 Va 4.40 CHINESE MATINEE Part 1 of a Teochew film •‘The Story Of Splashed Water”. 5.45 PROG. SUMMARY in the National Language Chinese, Tamil and English 5.55 SARINADE A potpurri of Malay evergreen songs 4.40 PARDON THE EXPRESSION “Brain Drain” 1.10 MUSIC FOR THE HOME A programme for the more
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    • 892 13  -  -An interviewwith David Kelly People who love to feel their flesh creep and hearts miss a beat, have made Alfred Hitchcock a happy and wealthy man. Hitchcock admits he gets a kick out of his work. And when he isn't working
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    • 229 13 GANISATIOM D O Phone ***** NOW SHOWING! 11 am., 1.45, 4.00. 9.30 9.15 Bldney Poitier Rod Steieer IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT” Color By DeLuxe (United Artists) CAPITOL Phone ***** NOW SHOWING! I Shows: Note Revised Time* 19.30, 1.15. 4.99. 9.45. 939 Paul Newman "COOL HAND LI KE" Panavision
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    • 234 13 CATHAY ***** now showing: 11 am. I SO. 4.00. 0.30 A 9.50 u rn. Wait Disney* "BAMBI” In Color Plus! Walt Disney’* Featurette: "Flash. The Teen-ace Otter” Color ORCHARD-***** 13th BIG DAT! Daily 4 Shows! 11 am. 9.15. 5.45. 5.45 o m. Adm: $1.50. $2 50 A $4.00 Cash Bookings
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  • Sun Sport
    • 484 14 NEW YORK, Tues. (UPI). Seven world record holders, including sprinters Tommie Smith and Jim Hines, and middle distance star Jim Ryun, on Saturday were named to the 47-member 1967 all-America track and field team selected by the Amateur Athletic Union. David A.
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    • 311 14 TOKYO. Tues. (UPI) The Mitsubishi Heavy industries Company's soccer team came back strongly yesterday after a scoreless first half and defeated the professional Dallas Tornado squad 2-1 before 10.009 spectators at the National Stadium. It was the first time that a single Japanese
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    • 82 14 MALACCA. Tues. The No. 3 Squadron Royal Corps of Transport kept their unbeaten record intact with an easy 5-0 win over 6th Light Regiment RA ‘B' in the Commonwealth Forces league hockey championships at the Terendak Camp ground. The Squadron team was a far
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    • 148 14 SINGAPORE, Tues. The 1968 Singapore Open Golf Championship Committee was appointed by the Singapore Golf Association last October. The Committee comprises Messrs. CAV Hutson (Chairman). H Knaggs (Hon. Secretary). B S. Soin (Hon. Treasurer). W.W Gawne. G. Seow. D. Read. Cheong Thiam Slew, Mrs. A Gilson and Messrs J.DC. Flannagan.
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    • 280 14 SYDNEY. Tues. (Reuter) Confusion caused by a misplaced rounding buoy marred the start of the annual Sydney to Hobart 630 miles yachting classic which started here today. The confusion caused by the missing buoy changed the whole complexion of the race. Instead
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    • 245 14 ATLANTA, Tues. (UPI). An attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) yesterday said he has asked a Federal Court to overturn the conviction of former world heavyweight boxing champion Cassius Clay for refusing to be inducted into the army. Charles Morgan.
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    • 56 14 HONG KONG. T u e 8. (UPI). West Germany's national amateur soccer team meet Hong Kong on Jan. 10 in one of six matches on an Asian tour, it was reported The 18-man travelling team Is also scheduled to play national teams in Burma.
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    • 152 14 SYDNEY. Tues. (Reuter) The French schooner “Pen Duick III.” a favourite for line honours in this year's Sydney-Hobart yacht race. was beaten into fourth place for line honours in the 48 kilometres middle harbour yacht club race here. The schooner, skippered by Eric Tabarly.
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    • 74 14 BRISBANE (Australia) Tues (Reuter). Students demonstrating against the Spanish Government were escorted from the Frew Park Stadium during the Austra-lia-Spain Davis Cup challenge round tennis match here today. As police dragged two students out of the stands they showered the crowd with leaflets bearing slogans such
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    • 159 14 MIAMI BEACH. Tues. (UPI) Saturday's results in the annual Orange Bowl international junior tennis championships: Boys 18 and under singles (second round* Pavel Hutka of Czechoslovakia defeated Erasmo Sanhueza of Chile 6-0. 6-1; Allan McDonald of Australia defeated Federico Deal of Uruguay 6-1. 6-2; Tom Dahl
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    • 647 14  -  By Leslie Nakashima TOKYO, Tues. (UPI). Sports editors of Japan's leading newspapers and news agencies were so shocked by the resolution of a group of U.S. Negro athletes to boycott the 1968 Olympic Games that they selected it as one
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    • 1018 15 PENANG. Tues. Following are weights for third dav, of the Penang Turf Club X mas New Year meeting on Saturday. Dee. 30:Third day CLASS 1 Div. 1— about "f. Lord Susses 9.04 King's Knight 9.03 Balhoimen Boy 9 63 Spruce 8.09 Half
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    • 2154 15  -  By WINDSOR LAD PENANG, Tues. KING'S KNIGHT, winner of the Sultan's Gold Vase, put up a brilliant display when he triumphed in the P. and O. Cup over sif in record breaking time of 1 min. 05-1/5 secs., here yesterday afternoon. Brilliantly ridden by Jockey
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    • 552 15 PENANG. Tues. Following is the Stipendiary Steward’s report for first day’s races here: RACE 1: About a furlong from the finish Btikil Bendrra (app. P K. Leong) drifted in under pressure and inconvenienced Asian Pride (Shaari). During the race Indication (Kang) suffered a heeding attack. He
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    • 250 15 BANGKOK. Tues. (UPI) World flyweight champion Chartchai Chionoi. six pounds over his fighting weight, leaves for Mexico on Jan. 6 for his title bout with challenger Efren Torres on Jan. 21. Sources in Chartchai's camp said they did not anticipate that
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    • 83 15 broken hand CARCASSONNE (France). Tues. (Rfutir)--Ren Lynch. Australian second row forward suffered a broken hand when Australia were beaten 10-3 by Franc# in their stormy rufby league Second Test here on Sunday. Lynch will not play in any of the four remaining tour matches and the Australians
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    • 338 16  -  By Albert Johnson SINGAPORE, Tues. Mr. Ted Hanlon, vice-president of FlHC—the controlling body of weightlifting and physical culture— has said the international federation had no intention to monopolise or control bodybuilding activities. Mr. Hanlon described bodybuilding as a hobby which was not recognised as
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    • 385 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. A Players XV beat the Referees XV by 16 points (two goals, two tries) to 15 (three penalties. two tries) in an annual rugby match piayed at the padang here this evening. The Referees XV. who had won the series
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    • 483 16  -  By M. T. LINGAM KI'ALA LUMPUR. Tues. Speculations that the Malaysian Hockey Federation will not be sending a team to take part in the forthcoming pre-Olympic Lahore hockey tournament have considerably soared during the weekend. The MHF selectors were to
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    • 253 16 Spain in almost impossible position coach BRISBANE. Tues. (UPI) Spanish team coach Jaime Bartroli admitted after today's double defeat at the hands of Australia that hi s Davies Cuppers face an a. most impossible situation. “Things now are very difficult for us.” he said after Manuel Santana and Manuel Orantes
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    • 54 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. A Selangor Sikhs hockey XI beat the visiting Nav Bharat Club of Hong Kong 3-1 in a friendly match on the padang here this evening. Scorers were Gurucharan Singh (34th). and Kuldip Singh <47th. 60th* for Selangor Sikhs, while centreforward Bishen netted the only
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    • 411 16 ADELAIDE. Tues (Reuter) Centuries by Bob Simpson and Bob Cowper gave Australia a powerful grip on the first cricket Test against India at the Adelaide Oval today. Australia, holding a 28run first innings lead, finished the third day with a second
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    • 437 16 BRISBANE, Tues. (Reuter).— Australia took a 2-0 lead over Spain after the first two singles matches in their Davis Cup lawn tennis challenge round tie here today. Roy Emerson Deat Manuel Santana 6-4. 6-1, 6-1 in the first clash and Wimbledon champion
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    • 153 16 MALACCA. Tues. Displaying better sneed and combination the 28th Ordnance Field Park edgpd NAAFI. Services 3-2 to qualify for the quarterfinals of the 23th Commonwealth Infantry Brigade knock-out soccer competition at the Terendak Camp ground Centre-forward Ramsden proved to be the winner for
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    • 112 16 BRISBANE. Tues. (Reuter) Mr. Bill Edwards, president of the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia, said here today the LTAA had conducted an inquiry into Press reports that Australia’s three Davis Cup players. Roy Emerson. John Newcombe and Tony Roche, would turn professional
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    • 251 16 \LLOW me to thank you for the fearless account of the Malaysian tragedy at the SEAP Games. Let us call a spade hv its own name and admit that, in the light of performance by neighbouring countries, we are bedraggled, bickering moh in the field
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