Eastern Sun, 2 February 1968

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  • Title Section
    Lock icon Masthead
    22 1 Eastern Sun Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION Estd. 1966. Vol. 2 No. 546 Friday, 2 February 1968. MC(P) 0050 Price 15 cents
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon LBJ’s move for more war funds
    383 1 WASHINGTON, Thurs. (Reuter). President Johnson put North Vietnam and the Vietcong guerillas on notice today that the United States was prepared to meet their stepped up offensive with whatever new mea- sures **r» needed The White House left open the prospect that additional war
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  • Article
    Lock icon Prices down
    35 1 JAKARTA. Thurs. ttTPI) Prices of nine of the most basic commodities in Jakarta here besan to decline after an unprecedented high during the past week, the Indonesian Bureau of Statistics said I today.
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    Lock icon SEVERAL CITIES, TOWNS IN V’CONG GRIP
    774 1 SOUTH VIETNAM: Fighting continues: Heavy civilian casualties SAIGON, Thurs. {Reuter) T ARGE forces of Vietcong and North Vietnamese troops appeared to be in control of large sections of several major cities and towns in South Vietnam today. Meanwhile, in Saigon, barbed wire barricades have
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    Lock icon The costly seawater
    62 1 WASHINGTON. Thurs. (Reuter) The United States paid an Italian pharmaceutical firm U 5524,000 for plain old seawater thinking it was a medical product it could use in Viet- nam. a Congressional inquiry was told here yesterday. Packaged under the name of Bioceane,” it was supposed to be
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    Lock icon Communications cut between S’pore — Saigon
    91 1 Communications cut between S’pore Saigon Communications between Singapore and battle-rav-aged Saigon were cut today (Thursday) and Hong Kong reported telegraphic contacts were working very poorly. Commercial airline flights from Singapore, Hong Kong and Bangkok have been suspended into Saigon's Tan Son Nhut Airport, scene of one of the main battles
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    Lock icon S. Vietnamese planes bomb Saigon to dislodge Vietcong
    215 1 SAIGON, Thurs. (Reuter) Saigon rocked to the blast of bombs today as South Vietnamese planes bombed their own capital to dislodge five Vietcongr battalions crippling life in the city. Clouds of smoke and dust hung over the capital as planes dived and
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    Lock icon STOP GUM TROUBLES THAT CAUSE LOSS OF TEETH
    181 1 If your gums are sore and tender to the touch, or bleed a little when you brush them watch out. These are certain signs of dangerous gum trouble which can loosen teeth, so that they have to be pulled out. Kolynos Dental
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  • NEWS
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      Lock icon Developing nations must mobilise their resources—Watanabe
      175 2 MANILA, Thurs. (UPI). Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Takeshi Watanabe said today the developing nations must mobilise their own economic resources to the fullest extent at this time of "static and even declining aid flows to Asia." Speaking before the Manila Rotary Club. Watanabe
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      Lock icon Soldier killed in copter crash
      66 2 SINGAPORE. Thurs. Corporal Christopher Galloway was killed when a Scout helicopter of 11 Flight Aratv Air Corps crashed on Tuesday (Jan 30) in primary jungle near Grik. ten miles from Butterworth. West Malaysia. during an exercise. The pilot and another passenger escaped with slight injuries.
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      Lock icon Search on for French submarine
      167 2 TOULON, France, Thurs. (UPI) A team of 5.000 men in ships, helicopters and planes searched today for the French submarine Minerve although it appeared the crew was dead. At the other end of the Mediterranean. four nations quit the search of the Israeli submarine Dakar,
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      Lock icon U.S. show of force
      69 2 TOKYO. Thurs (Reuter) A third United States aircraft carrier has joined the Task Force cruising off the east coast of Korea in a show of force after the Pueblo incident, a Tokyo newspaper reported today. The Asahi said some of its staff flying over the sea
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      Lock icon ‘Rebel’ MPs suspended
      52 2 LONDON, Thurs. (Reuter) Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s Labour Party here decided to suspend 24 '•rebel" Members of Parliament from attending party meetings for a month. The decision does not affect Mr. Wilson's House of Commons majority because the MPs involved retain all their rights in the Lower
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      Lock icon BROADCAST TO CHINA
      61 2 BANGKOK Thurs «Reuter)—The Fourth Assembly of the East Asia Christian Conference today announced that it would start beaming regular broadcast to China from its shortwave transmitter in the Philippines. The announcement was jnade following a meeting of the Directorate of the South East Asia Radio Voice Station
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      Lock icon CHINA'S 450th WARNING
      66 2 TOKYO. Thurs. (UPI) Communist China today said two US airplanes intruded into its territorial air space yesterday A new China News Agency broadcast monitored here said the incidents occurred over Hainan Island and Kwantung Province in the area of North Vietnam It said the Chinese Foreign Ministry
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      Lock icon No I-Day joy
      28 2 KUALA LUMPUR Thurs The Ceylon High Commission in Malaysia will not hold this year, the usual Independence Day reception on Sunday as an austerity measure.
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      Lock icon • LLOYD Mark Bucher, Captain of the intelligence ship of US Navy “Pueblo” is shown writing his confession. The Pueblo was captured by a North Korean patrol boat on Jan. 23 off North Korean sea coast.
      37 2 LLOYD Mark Bucher, Captain of the intelligence ship of US Navy “Pueblo” is shown writing his confession. The Pueblo was captured by a North Korean patrol boat on Jan. 23 off North Korean sea coast. PANA photo.
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      Lock icon No Indon mediation
      64 2 JAKARTA. Thurs (Reu‘er) North Korea "has not ana will not ask the Indonesian Government to mediate" ir. its dispute with the Uni*ed States over the seizure of the American intelligence snip Pueolo. North Korea's Air.nassador here. Pak Wang Sup. said today. He was speaking to reporters after
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      Lock icon KL to hold regional seminar on development
      267 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. The Regional seminar on development to be held here from Feb. 4 to 14. will be attended bv representatives from Thailand. Indonesia, the Philippines, South Vietnam and Malaysia. Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia will be sending four representatives each, while
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      Lock icon 'Pueblo': Council members await reply
      146 2 UNITED NATIONS. Thurs (Reuter) Afro-Asian members of the Security Council awaited a reply today from the United States and Russia to their ofler to fly to Geneva to discuss with North Korean representatives the release of the American intelligence ship Pueblo. Retiring Couneil President Agha
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      Lock icon Thant: Developed and developing nations must work closer
      198 2 UNITED NATIONS, Thurs (Reuter) Secre-tary-General U Thant today stressed the need for industrialised and developing nations to work together for a global strategy of economic development. In a message to the second UN. Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) which opened today
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      Lock icon Algeria takes over best fortified base
      91 2 MER-EL-KEBIR Algeria. Thurs. (UPI) —Algeria took over the best fortified naval base on the Southern shore of the mediterranean today and western nations worried about increased Soviet influence in the area. “Our country is now liberated totally and unchangeably,” Radio Algiers said after the
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      Lock icon NS Bar Committee office bearers
      59 2 SEREMBAN. Thurs. Dato Balwant Singh was reelected chairman of the N S. Bar Committee here yesterday. Others elected are:' Mr. Edgar Joseph Jr,. Mr. P. S. Maniam. Mr. Atma Singh Gill and Mr. Lee Boon Peng. Dato Balwant Singh and Mr Stanley Ponniah are Negri’s
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      Lock icon Express delivery service for Sarawak
      245 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs —.The Ministry of Works, Posts and Telecommunications, Malaysia, has announced the express delivery service wiil be extended to post offices in Sarawak with effect from today at Bau, Senan. Lundu. Simar.ggang. Betong, Saratok, Sarikei, Binatang. Mukah, Kanowit, Kapit, Bintulu. Baram. Lutong Limbang
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      Lock icon Rotary Club’s scholars
      60 2 SEREMBAN. Thurs—Tan Wai Chee of King George V School who obtained the best Form 111 results in Negri Sembilan has been awarded a Rotary promotion scholarship Three other students, Su Li Shee. Kmv Cheong. both of Chan Wa School, and Wah Ah Kuan of the Anglo Chinese
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      Lock icon VC attacks may last few more days —Westmoreland
      223 2 SAIGON, Thurs. (UPI). The U.S. Military Commander in South Vietnam predicted today that the Vietcong could keep up their terrorism attacks throughout the country three or four more days. Gen. William C. Westmoreland said the attacks are part of a “treacherous and
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      Lock icon 600,000 South Koreans ready says Park
      127 2 SEOUL. Thurs. (UPI) President Park Chung H?e warned today that South Korea cannot indefinitely look Idly on communist provocations "I address this solemn warning to (North Korean Premier) Kim 11-Sung, Park said in an impromptu speech at a ground-break-ing ceremony for a superhighway “I
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      Lock icon Call for closer European unity
      89 2 ROME, Thurs. (Reuter) West German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger and Italian Premier Aldo Moro said today their countries must work even closer for European unity and the Atlanta Alliance They made the call in official speeches before getting down to the first round of two-day
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      Lock icon Atom pact agreement
      86 2 TOKYO Thurs (Reuter) Britain and Japan agreed today to conclude a 30-year atomic energy agreement, covering the interchange of materials and Information, the Japanese Foreign Ministry announced The agreement, to be signed here soon, will succeed a 10-year agreement which expires this December. The pact provides for
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      Lock icon Death for poisoned pie' woman
      92 2 KASTAMONU, Northern Turkey. Thurs. (Reuter) A Turkish woman sent her husband a poisoned pie. But, a court was told yesterday, the husband was away from his office. His porter ate the pie and died in agony Three months later, the woman tried again and this
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      Lock icon Premeditated raids—Bunker
      79 2 Premeditated raids —Bunker MANILA. Thurs. (UPI) Ellsworth Bunker, the U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam. has said the Vietcong attack on the American Embassy in Saigon “obviously failed" because the terrorists were unable to penetrate the main office Miidiag. In a statement on Wednesday and released here today hy the U-S.
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      Lock icon MCA branch newspapers
      44 2 MUAR. Thurs The Muar MCA branch has just published the first edition of its own newspapers. The newspapers in English, Chinese and Malay are to be distributed to members of the branch and members of th« public. They are published quarterly.
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      Lock icon Serdang Bahru: Several held
      112 2  -  By Ben D'Cunha KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. Police have arrested several gangsters in Serdang Bahru Village where the Chairman of the Antigangsters Goodwill Association, Mr. Yuen Bwee Kong was attacked The Chief Police Officer. Selangor. Tuan Haji Darus said; “Quite a number of arrests were made following
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      Lock icon Petrovsky's yes to heart transplants
      57 2 Petrovsky 's yes to heart transplants MOSCOW. Thurs (UPI) Soviet Health Minister Boris Petrovsky gave approval today for heart transplants in Soviet hospitals but only in extreme emergencies. Petrovsky said should be carried out only when the patient is "clinically dead” or obviously dying, and when all attempts to save
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  • LOCAL NEWS
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      Lock icon Singapore Festival ’68 continues to draw large attendance
      275 3 SINGAPORE. Thurs. The Singapore Festival ’6B continues to draw a large attendance each night during the Chinese New Year holidays. Hundreds of persons have visited the exhibition site since its official opening on January 20. More than 75 leading business and industrial
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      Lock icon Three parties involved for final success of Singapore’s industrialisation’
      181 3 SINGAPORE, Thurs. The final success of Singapore's industrialisation can only be achieved when workers, managers and the Government come to the full realisation that success ultimately boils down to obtaining a favourable relationship between production and the cost of production. This
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      Lock icon Tragic news from London
      99 3  -  By K. S. SIDHU SINGAPORE. Thurs. A Sikh businessman today received news from London that his son was burnt to death in his flat. The businessman, who declined to disclose his name, said that he received the cable only this afternoon. He said that the charred
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      Lock icon Pact for establishment of S'pore-Soviet Shipping Agency signed
      464 3 S 2 MILLION JOINT VENTURE SINGAPORE, Thurs. An agreement was signed today at the Soviet Trade Mission in Singapore for the establishment of the first shipping company Singapore-Soviet Shipping Agency under a joint venture basis. The partners in this S 2 million
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      Lock icon Hasluck’s visit: ‘New significance’
      358 3  -  By H.M.S. Sutan SIXG.APORE. Thurs The Australian External .Affairs Minister. Mr Paul Haslurk is due here tomorrow on the first leg of his tour of the region He will later visit Malaysia. Indonesia and New Zealand. The overall aim of Mr. Haslurk’s tour is to make
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      Lock icon High Court hearing: Motion for order of mandamus
      112 3 SINGAPORE. Thurs. Hearing of a motion for an order of mandamus against the Third Traffic Magistrate’s Court and the Magistrate himself will be held before Mr. Justice Buttrose in the High Cout tomorrow. A lawyer, Mr. Allan Yau. will move the court
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      Lock icon CPO reminds policemen: Be polite in dealing with public
      255 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. The Selangor Chief Police Officer. Haji Arif bin Darus today reminded the police to be polite and efficient in dealing with the public. He said good relations between police and public was vital to preserve law and order
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      Lock icon P & O charity lottery
      68 4 P O charity lottery KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. P and O Lines have offered a flrst-clasj round voyage for two persons from Penang to Hong Kong by S S “Cathay" or S S “Chltral" as the first prize In a lottery organised In aid of two charities in Penang The lottery
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      Lock icon K.L. DIARY
      73 4 TODAY: “Four exhibitions from four countries" at National Art Gallery 10 a m to 630 pm. WORKS of Prominent Malaysian artists by Peninsular Art Society at 41. Jalan Raja Muda 9 a m. to 6 o.m JALAN Weld Swimming Pool 9.00 am.tol2 30 p.m. 2 p.m to 5
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      Lock icon Gambling raids: 13 arrested
      73 4 IPOH, Thurs A crackdown on gambling by the police during the Chinese New Year season on the outskirts of the town here resulted in 13 arrests. The raids by the police were made in Tambun. Ampang Bahru. Bercham New Village. Gunong Apat and Menglembu. The 13
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      Lock icon 35 workers go free for staging ‘big walk’
      195 4 KAJANG, Thurs. Thirty-five workers of the Bukit Asahan Estate in Malacca and the Triang Estate in Pahang were today acquitted and discharged in the Magistrate's Court here this morning on a charge of taking part in an illegal procession. They were among
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      Lock icon Murder: A $2,000 reward
      70 4 SEREMBAN. Thurs. A reward of $2,000 has been offered by the Negri Sembilan Police for Information leading to the arrest of those responsible for the murder of Jorah Singh s/o Bishen Singh of Bahau. Jorah Singh. 26. was shot dead while asleep at hi* home at
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      Lock icon Musical evening
      36 4 SEREMBAN. Thurs. The Seremban Bagutharivu Dramatic Society will hold a musical evening at the Seremban Youth Club on Saturday at 6 30 p.m. The function will be preceded by a dinner for invited guests
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      Lock icon More powers for Sessions Court urged
      551 4  -  C.J.: LEAVE HIGH COURT TO DEAL WITH CIVIL CASES... By Ben D'Cunha KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. The Chief Justice, Tan Sri Azmi bin Mohamed advocated an increase of the civil and criminal jurisdiction of the Sessions Court to reduce the pressure of work in the
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      Lock icon Tunku treats golfers to roasted lamb
      216 4 ALOR STAR, Thurs. The Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman last night entertained over 80 golfers to buffet dinner ot "Merdeka House" here. Among the guests at the reception were the Sultan of Kedah, the Tunku Bendahara, the Mentri Besot, Syed Ahmad Shahabuddin, the Minister
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      Lock icon Engineering courses for 6 Malaysians
      125 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. Six Malaysians left for West Germany yesterday for six-year courses in er.g neer:ng studies. They had been awarded scholarships by the Carlduisberg Society of West Germany. The scholarship wmners were Abdul Aziz bin Abdul of Selangor. Ibrahim bin Abu Bakar of Johore.
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      Lock icon ‘Pakow’: 113 charged
      41 4 ‘Pakow’ 113 charged KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs A total of 113 people were today charged in the 7th Magistrate's Court with playing “pakow" during the Chinese New Year Eighty-six of them pleaded guilty and were fined $l5 each. The rest claimed trial.
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      Lock icon No serious crimes in Ipoh
      62 4 IPOH. Thurs. Strong preventive measure, taken by the police during the festive season resulted in no seriou* crimes being reported over the past 48 hours. A senior police spokesman said today that only a few cases of petty thefts were reported. He said that no
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      Lock icon Beaten to death
      47 4 SEREMBAN. Thurs. A 67-year-old man Wong Yoon Soo. of Temiang Road, died from head injuries at the Genera! Hospital here yesterday. He was earlier held up by three youths who beat him up before robbing him of a wrist watch and a gold ring.
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      Lock icon On transfer
      26 4 MUAR. Thurs. Enche Abdul Malik bin Mohamed Salleh. the magistrate for Johore North (Muar. Tangkak and Segamat) will go on transfer to Pahang today.
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      Lock icon Man remanded for armed robberies
      118 4 PENANG. Thurs. —Twenty-three-year-old Foong Mon Meng alias Fong Hoon Loon, alleged to be involved in a series of robberies, was remanded in custody on the application of the prosecution in the First Magistrate’s Court today. The court was told the investigations into the case were
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      Lock icon No licences: 4 fined
      42 4 KAMPAR, Thurs. Four businessmen today pleaded guilty for possessing 1,638 lbs. of fire-crackers without licences. The four people were Low Choon Chong who was fined $2OO. Loh Wer.g. $l5O. Wong Mum Kooi. $3OO, and Ng How Hoi $3OO.
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      Lock icon Special to U.N.C.L.E. ‘agents’
      61 4 CPECLAL ANNOUNP CEMENT: To all EASTERN SUN UNCLE. FAN CLUB MEMBERS. Members are invited to see “Karate Killers” and “Helicopter Invaders” whichever is currently showing at their local theatre at a special concession by courtesy of M-G-M and Cathay Organisation. Members must show their membership and
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      Lock icon US envoy to speak at first Asian Seminar
      189 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Former US Ambassador to Malaysia, Mr. Charles Baldwin, will be one of the speakers at the Central Virginia Asian Affairs Study, the first international seminar to be sponsored by an entire community which opened yesterday. Sponsored by the friends
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      Lock icon Malay writers’ officials
      70 4 MUAR. Thurs.—The Muar District Officer. Enche Ibrahim bin Abdul Majid, who is also the President of the Muar Town Council, has been elected a patron of the Muar Malay Writers’ Group. Other office-bearers of the group are: President Enche Mohammed Salleh bin Kasim; secretary Enche Mahadi bin
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      Lock icon In search of a beauty queen
      163 4 SEREMBAN Thurs. The Seremban Jaycees will be presenting the Miss N e g r i-Malaysia International Beauty Contest and Dance on Saturday at the Town Hall here. Last year the Jaycees provided 20 scholarships for needy pupils in the different language mediums. “The number
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      Lock icon Exam results of IBA, Australia
      260 10 SINGAPORE, Thurs. The following ore the examination results of the Institute of Business Administration, Australia held in October-November last year: ASSOCIATES Mr. Tan Boon Chian*. Mr. Wong Keng Sam Mr. Chan Slk Kwan LICENTIATE Mr. Patrick Loh Kah Pang SALES PROMOTION AND ADVERTISING: Pang Boon
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      Lock icon Officials of S’pore Kerala Association
      115 10 SINGAPORE. Thurs. Mr. V. Surendranath has been elected the new president of Singapore Kerala Association at its annual general meeting recently. The other office-bearers are:Mr. K P Balan Nalr (vice-president); Mr. N. V Dharan (general secretary): Mr. P Abdul Faizi (asst, secretary); Mr LF Lloyd
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      Lock icon MP to find out residents' needs
      74 10 SINGAPORE Thurs. The MP for Thomson, Mr. Ang Nam Piau. and his branch executive committee members will visit Thomson Constituency from tomorrow to Feb 12 to meet local residents and discuss problems arising out of their needs and grievances. Mr. Ang. in a brief
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      Lock icon Picnic at Ponggol
      28 10 SINGAPORE Thurs Kampong Tengah Community Centre in Sembawang Constituency will held a picnic at Ponggol holiday camp on Sunday from 9 am to 5 pm.
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      Lock icon No-water area
      34 10 SINGAPORE. Thun There will be no water or poor pressure at Jalan Mariam tomorrow from 9 am to 5 pm This Is to enab’e connections to be made to a water main.
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      Lock icon MSA engineers leave for training in America
      131 10 SINGAPORE Thurs. The first six engineers of Malaysia-Singapore Airlines have left for Seattle. United States, for a five-week training course at Boeing Company there. After completion of their course four of the six engineers will con- tinue their training at Qantas Airways in
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      Lock icon Ban on import of certain types of fire-crackers contemplated
      495 10 SINGAPORE, Thurs. Singapore Government will take possible action to ban the import of certain types of fire-crackers which are believed to have coused 34 fires all over the island during the Chinese New Year holidays. This was disclosed here today by
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      Lock icon S’PORE DIARY
      87 10 S’ PORE DIARY 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Painting Exhibition at Victoria Memorial Hail Empress Place. 6 p.m. Singapore Festival '6B at Gay World Stadium. Geylang 7.30 p.m. Free film shows by the Ministry of Culture at Marsihng English School Firemen's Quarters (Naval Base). Sah Pah Siam basketball court (Nee Soon Road)
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      Lock icon Rioting: Three men, a woman acquitted
      161 10 SINGAPORE, Thurs. Three men ond a woman were today acquitted and discharged without their defence being called by the Second District Court on a charge of rioting that took place two years ago. The woman is Lim K m Choo. and the three men
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      Lock icon BRASS BAND PERFORMANCES
      92 10 SINGAPORE. Thurs The programme of public performances by the School Brass Bands in the Republic is scheduled as follows: Sunday. Feb 4. 5.30 6.30 p.m. at Elizabeth Walk. Montfort Secondary School Band. Sunday. Feb. 25. 5.30 6.30 p.m. at Macft.tchie Park. A n g 1 o-Chinese Secondary
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      Lock icon Australia, NZ can help S’pore Whitlam
      291 10 Australia, NZ can help S pore Whitlam SINGAPORE, Thurs. Australia and New Zealand could co-operate to help Singapore economically as well as in matters of security after the British withdrawal in 1971. This was the view of the leader of the Australian Opposition. Mr EG. Whitlam. when he spoke to
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      Lock icon Accident: Pedestrian (84) dies in hospital
      99 10 SINGAPORE Thurs. An 34-year-old pedestrian. Siah Ek Jin. who was involved in a road accident this morning. died several hours later in the General Hospital. Siah of Kim Cheang Street, was reported to be crossing the road at the time of the accident. Another
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      Lock icon No-electricity areas
      60 10 SINGAPORE Thurs.— The Public Utilities Board will have to interrupt electricity supplies in the following areas from 8.30 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Feb. 6. Changi Road between Lorong Melayu and Jalan Sayang and the adjoining lorongs. Jalan Kembangan; Lengkong Tiga; Jalan Lapang; Pachitan Satu up to Pachitan
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      Lock icon OVA’s reunion buffet
      39 10 SINGAPORE. Thurs. The Old Victorians’ Association will hold a reunion buffet for all former students of Victoria School on Feb 24. For more details, please write to Mr Liew Meow Koon. 49-B. Norfolk Estate Singapore 8.
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      Lock icon NZ’s Defence Minister for defence talks
      248 11 NZ’ s Defence Minister for defence talks Ta UALA LUMPUR, Thurs.—New Zealand's Defence Minister, Mr. David Thomson, will arrive here on Feb. 27 for talks with the Malaysian Government on future defence arrangements between the two countries following the British decision to pull-out from fnis region. This was disclosed here
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      Lock icon Neurosurgical unit for KL General Hospital
      170 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. A neurosurgical uni* nesting S 4 75 million would soon be set up within the complex of the new General Hospital here. The uni? to be called the Neuropsychiatnc Institute will provide 250 beds for the patients. The Permanent Secretary to
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      Lock icon 2 Army men for overseas course
      100 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs An Arrr.v Officer a ■*.'4 a '’"t Commissioned Officer have been selected to attend overseas courses in India end United Kingdom. They are Second Lieutenant Mustarta Kamal b.n Mat Jaral from Military Po'ice. Ministry of Defence and Corporal Daud bin Md.
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      Lock icon Tun Tan holds ‘open house’
      63 11 TN Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, the Minister, of Finance, Tun Tan Siew Sin and other Chinese Ministers held "open house" to celebrate the Lunar New Year. The Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak bin Hussein, Cabinet Ministers and members of the diplomatic corps called at
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      Lock icon Fire causes $120,000 damage
      202 11 ?£K£* VG About $120,000 damage was caused when fire broke out in two wholesale dealers' firms In Prangin Road, opposite the Prangin Market, in the early hours of this morning. It Is believed that fire broke out In Messrs. Glm Heang and Co., and then spread
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      Lock icon Technical awards by Rotary Club
      172 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. The Kuala Lumpur Rotary Club has invited applications from young men between the ages of 21 and 35 who must be Malaysian citizens. for a 12 months’ technical training award at an appropriate oversea'* trainini institution. The award will cover travel. educational
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      Lock icon General's visit
      46 11 TEMERLOH. Thurs The Chief of the General Start, L‘-General Tan Sr 2 Abdul Hamid bin Bidin. will make an official visit to *he headquarters of the 4th Malaysian Infantry Brigade, Temerl-'h Gar.iscn and the 12« h Infantry Battalion of the Territorial Army on Monday.
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      52 11 It was a day of sight-seeing for the all-Japanese mermaids and underwater ballet troupe who began their four-day performance at Stadium Negara on Tuesday. Four of the mermaids are pictured at the Memorial Gardens, Kuala Lumpur. Eastern Sun pix. by SIEW KIM MING. Eastern Sun pix. by SIEW
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      Lock icon King and Queen for charity premiere of Tun ku's film
      351 11 Kuala Lumpur. Thurs. The Yana dl-Pertuan Agong and the Raja Permatsurl Agong will attend the Gala Charity Premiere of the Prime Minister. Tunku Abdul Rahman's tllm “Raja Berstong’. to be hela at the Capitol Theatre, here at 9.30 p m
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      66 11 MUAR. Thurs. The Johore State Veterinary Department will hold 10 training courses for farmers from all districts to provide them with the latest farming know how’’ this year All the training courses will be held at the Ayer Hitam Farmers’ Training School, near here. Each course
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      32 11 $19,000 face-lift’ MUAR Thurs The Johore State .Local- Government has approved a grant of $19,000 for the “face-lift” of several rural development projects in the. Cha'ab District.' miles from here, this year
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      Lock icon Malacca police campaign on thugs pays off
      396 11 MALACCA. Thurs. The police campaign against thugs before" "the holidays was in a large measure responsible for the absence of major crimes during the Chinese New Year. There were only three reports of thefts- involving two motorcycles and three typewriters. Police have detained
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      139 11 Teenage gang active in Seremban SEREMBAN. Thurs. A teenage gang operating at the Seremban -Bus Station in Lemon Street has been actively harassing passengers. They pick their victims particularly- those who use the public lavatory which is aaajacent to the bus station. In the last three days, a number of
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      27 11 IPOH. Thurs A motor cyclist. Hon You Mei, 22, was killed in a collision with a taxi at the 30J milestone. Ipoh-Butterworth trunk road yesterday.
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      Lock icon Working Committee appoints draft for proposed Hindu Marriage Bill
      212 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. The Malaysia Hindu Sangam Central Council has appointed a working committee to prepare a draft of the proposed Hindu Marriage Bill and to put up report for consideration of the Sacgam The members of this working committee are
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      32 11 SEREMBAN, ThursThieves got away with two tape recorders, a wrist watch and jewellery valued at $720 from the home of Mr. Lai Loke Keong of Jalan Tembak here last night.
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      565 5 ‘TOO FAST FOR SAFETY’ WASHINGTON, Thurs. (UPI). President Johnson told Congress yesterday that the U.S. economic is moving "Too fast for safety." He appealed to labour and management to join in a major effort to put the brake on in- flation. In his annual
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      107 5 LONDON. Thurs. <CPI> A four penny pale blue stamp issued in Western Australia in 1854 with an inverted swan was auctioned at Harmer's yesterday for Cl.loo. T same stamp was sold at armer's a 53 ior Cll5 and again in 1948 for 300. 1 •> stamp,
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      Lock icon Cunards sell two ships to Italians
      105 5 LONDON. Thurs <UPI). —The Cunard line has sold the passenger liners Carinthia <21.947 tons* and Sylvania <22.017 tons) to associates. of the Sitmar Line of Genoa for an undisclosed price A Cunard spokesman said yesterday. He said the ships will be renamed Fairland and
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      Lock icon DANANG, S. Vietnam — One of the U.S. marine corps jet fighter-bombers which was destroyed during Vietcong rocket attack on U.S. airbase.
      23 5 DANANG, S. Vietnam One of the U.S. marine corps jet figh-ter-bombers which was destroyed during Vietcong rocket attack on U.S. airbase. UPI radiophoto.
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      335 5 Hoover s plea for rule of Law WASHINGTON. Thurs. (I'PI) Some dissident groups and individuals ‘Are creating such a smokescreen of harassment and imimidal on that enforcement of the law is becoming an overwhelming burden for many agencies,” Federal Bureau of investigation director J. Edgar Hoover said
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      151 5 TOKYO Thurs (UPI) A Belgian woman was arrested at Tokyo international airport last night when she was found carrying U 5546,666 worth of gold sheets unde r her mini-skirt customs officials announced today. The airport customs office identified her as Miss Robyns Marcelle Rechelle. 31.
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      203 5 .MANILA. Thurs. (Reuter) Taal volcano today was covered with ash-laden clouds rising to a height of 2.000 feet as it continued to erupt. The volcano island which lies in the middle of Lake Taal some 45 miles south cf Manila began erupting yesterday The volcanology commission
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      Lock icon 'Israel determind to keep normal civilian life in occupied land'
      429 5 UNITED NATIONS. (UPI) Israel declared yesterday that it is determined to insure "Normal civilian life and eeonomir development free from the threat of violence and bloodshed" in the territories occupied in last June's war. Israeli ambassador Joseph Tekoah made the
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      304 5 TOKYO. Thurs. (Reuter) Japanese newspapers today said the U.S. carrier Yorktown has joined the task group led by the giant nuclear-powered Enterprise in the Japan Sea apparently in preparation for any eventuallity concerning the seizure last week of the intelligence vessel Pueblo
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      Lock icon 'UK pullout a grave blow to the US'
      236 5 HONG KONG. Thurs. (Reuter) China said today that it was the United States who most regretted Britain's military withdrawal from East of Suez and her dec s'on to pull out cf her Singapore bases bv 1971. I Radio Peking quoted an article
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      61 5 ROME Thurs. (Reuter) Italian Parliament's antiMafia commission has charged the secret criminal organisation with exploiting the recent Sicilian earthquake by buying victims’ properly and livestock at low prices Reports from Sicily said the Mafia were buying quake devastated land. lending money to refugees at 30 to 40
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      Lock icon More Britons apply to emigrate to Australia
      109 5 LONDON. Thurs. (UPI) A spokesman for the Australian immigration department reports a sharp increase during the past eight weeks of Britons applying to emigrate to Australia. The spokesman 6aid more than 24,000 applied. This was an increase of about 27 per cent over
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      101 5 1943 wreck in Israelite Bay PERTH. Australia Thurs. (UPI) Jan Beers, a charter airplane pilot of Kalgoorie, reported yesterday that he sighted a wrecked submarine on Tuesday Beers said the wreck was lying about tw'o miles off Israelite Bay. Beers said he and two government surveyors in the aircraft saw
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      Lock icon SAIGON — The body of a Vietcong suspect is draped from government building by South Vietnamese soldiers yesterday during Communist attack on the Allied installations. Communist forces launched large-scale offensives throughout South Vietnam and sent hundreds of troops into the capital of Saigon.
      45 5 SAIGON The body of a Vietcong suspect is draped from government building by South Vietnamese soldiers yesterday during Communist attack on the Allied installations. Communist forces launched large-scale offensives throughout South Vietnam and sent hundreds of troops into the capital of Saigon. UPI re diophoto.
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      Lock icon Jet plane causes extensive power failures
      159 6 CHICAGO. Thurs. (UPI) A Trans World Airlines Convair 880 Jet airliner with 36 persons aboard clipped high tension wires while attempting to land in fog at O'Hare International Airport last night, causing extensive power failures in northwest suburbs. Parts of the aircraft fell to
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      Lock icon 2 youths to die for murder of two schoolboys
      169 6 CHICAGO. Thurs 'Reu:er) Two teenagers have been sentenced to die in the electric chair for the murder of two schoolboys who refused to join a young gang. William Cannon. 19. and Lawrence Cochran. 18, were sentenced here last night by Judge
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      90 6 WASHINGTON. Thuri. (UPI> President Johnson today was to present the medal of honour, America's highest award for valour, to an Air Force pilot who braved fierce Communist flak to clear the way for other planes to knock out a steel mill complex In North Vietnam.
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      Lock icon VIOLATION
      36 6 OOVERNORB Island New York. Thurs. (UPI) Russian vessels are still violating a two-month old Ashing treaty with the United States which placed offlimits an area along the New Jersey Coast, the Coast Guard said yesterday.
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      Lock icon HEALTH MINISTER RESIGNS
      121 6 COLOMBO. Thurs (UPI) KeaUh Mr. Harrv Jayawardena. under fire for alleged failure to stem a malaria epidemic claiming victims in many parts, ol Ceylon.' resigned yesterday. Mr Jayawardena. who also is Secretary of tha United National Party which ii 'he largest faction -in .Premier Dudley Senanayake's coalition
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      Lock icon Transmitter seized
      71 6 JAKARTA'. Thura. (UPI) Police in Bandung. West Java have seized a clandestine Communist radio transmitter used for broadcasts to Chinese communist terrorists in West Borneo, it was reoortjed today. The Armed Forces bulletin Said the transmitter was located in a hotel room in Bandung and owned by an
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      Lock icon Senator Moss: VC attacks on major cities a surprise
      467 6 TTONG KONG, Thurs. (Reuter) United States Senator Frank E. H-Moss, who flew in from South Vietnam last night said the Vietcong attacks on major cities and towns in the country came as a sur- prise to the American military leaders there.
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      Lock icon 124 held for defying ban on public assembly
      120 6 CALCUTTA. Thurs. (UPI) A chain of bomb bursts on Calcutta's esplanade yesterday, break a weeklong period of relative peace m thia western Indian metropolis. The bomb?, reported to have been thrown from a passing Jeep. Injured four persons. including two policemen watching
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      119 6 WICK. Scotland. Thurs. (Reuter) Faint distress signals from an area off Iceland where a British trawler disappeared six days ago with 29 men on board were picked up during the night. Four British trawlers fishing in Atlantic waters heard the brief distress message coming from the
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      Lock icon Council probes 'Pueblo' crisis
      63 6 MR. Arthur Goldberg. US Ambassador to the' United Nations uses a nub to explain the position Of USS Pueblo when it was captured by a North Korean boat during a meeting bf the United Nations Security Council neid on Friday in New York to take up
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      96 6 JAKARTA. Thurs. (UPI) Prospective bridegrooms in Banten district, west of here, will find It difficult to win a bride unless be can provide her with a late model transistor radio. The student daily Kami" said a growing tradition among the Banten population requires that a
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      Lock icon Pound investment abroad is relaxed
      172 6 LONDON. Thurs. (UPI) The treasury today eased Ms strict controls on British investment overseas The government has changed the rules to enable firms to exploit the better trading chances offered by the pound s devaluation, but there is no general relaxation of the stringent rules
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      Lock icon Ban polygamy call by women
      136 6 ABIDJAN, ivory Coast. Thurs. ißeuten Guinea's women called today for a ban on polygamy —r "Unless there are special reasons established by the competent medical authorities." They did not specify what the special reasons could be. But they said that men who want more than
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      Lock icon SHIP'S VISIT CANCELLED
      57 6 PERTH. W. Australia Thurs. < Reuter >—The scheduled visit here today of the American communications ship Annapolis has been cancelled because of a change in operational plans, a U.S. Consulate spokesman said. The ship —a converted World War II aircraft carrier with fOO crew, was on Its
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      Lock icon 1968 spring collection
      30 6 A gorgeous evening dress with a hat resembling a peacock Is one of famed French designer Jacques tsterel collection for 1968 Spring Fashion recently presented in Paris.
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      Lock icon US in no position to protect SEA
      194 6 HONG KONG Thurs. (tTPD Communist. China said today the .United States is "toothless*’ and Is in no position to protect Southeast Asia after British troop withdrawal. The Peking People’s Dally, official organ of the Chinese Communist Party, also charged that Australia and New
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      Lock icon Priest, nun excommunicated
      142 6 OSSINING. NEW YORK. Thurs. (UPI) A priest and nun who married after being expelled from Guatemala have been excommunicated automatically from the Catholic Church, a spokesman for the Maryknoll Order said yesterday. The marriage of the Rev Thomas R. Melville, 37, and siner Marian Peter, 38. was
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      Lock icon Communist spies arrested by CIA
      289 6 SEOUL. Thurs. (UPI) The South Korean Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has rounded up a total of 32 Communist North Korean spies in South Korea, it was announced today. The CIA said the Communist'spies were arrested on Jan. 24. the day after the North Korean seizure
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      Lock icon Best foreign actor named
      80 6 BARCELONA. SPAIN Thurs. fUPI) Japanese fl'm star Toshiro Mifune was named the best foreign actor of the year yesterday by readers of the movie magazine “Fotogramas Mifune outpolled Italian dramatic star Anna Msgnani. who was second. The award carried the presentation of the ”Balnt Juan Bosco"
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      Lock icon Quads for poor Filipino couple
      122 6 MANILA. Thurs. (UPIV Quadruplets, all boys, were born yesterday to a poor Filipino couple who are already supporting sevens chldren. The father. Eplfanlo Qultalig. 37, who earns six pesos (about US$l.5O > a day as a part-time bulldozer operator in a logging firm, appealed to
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      Lock icon 232 Vietcong killed, 38 captured
      79 6 SEOUL, Thurs. (UPI) South Korean troops fighting in Vietnam killed -a. total of 232 Vietcong and captured 38 others In batr Ue s of the pavSt two days, the Dafencs Ministry announced today Four South Korean soldiers were killed and -23 Others wounded in the
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      Lock icon No request for meeting
      47 6 SEOUL. Thurs. (UPI) 4 The United Nations Command has not received any Communist request for a meeting of the Korean Military Commission, a spokesman dor the Command said today. The Commission .meets at the truce village of Panmunjom when either side calls one,
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      Lock icon SAIGON RAIDS EXPOSED 'WISHFUL THINKING'
      491 7 MELBOURNE, Thurs. (Reuter) The picture of o gradual withering of Vieteong activity in South Vietnam has been "exposed os an exercise in wish fulfilment" the Melbourne Age said in an editorial today. Confident assurances that the Vieteong has shot its bolt and the war in
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      Lock icon Planning on global scale needed
      321 7 U THANT TO UNCTAD-11 UNITED NATIONS, New York. Thurs (Reuter) Secretarr General U Thant today stressed the need for industrialised and developing nations to work together for a global strategy of economic development. In a message to the second U.N. Conference on Trade and Development
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      Lock icon 'A SHOW OF STRENGTH'
      228 7 LONDON. Thurs (LTI) East European diplomats w’th connections in Hanoi said today that three major motives lie behind the latest Communist attacks in Vietnam: Notice that the Viet--cong is “everywhere'' in Vietnam, and that it can operate In the very heart of American-con-trolled territory. A demonstration
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      Lock icon 'Seawolf' damaged hitting seabed
      159 7 GROTON' Connecticut, Thurs. (UPI i The damaged nuclear submarine USS Seawolf was being escorted back to her home port at the Gorton New London Navy Base yesterdav after hitting the ocean floor In the Atlantic 150 miles Southeast of Boston. Navy spokesmen said the Seawolf. the
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      Lock icon Big floods in E. Java
      127 7 JAKARTA. Thurs (Reuter). More than 120 people are reported dead or missing In the wake of two big floods In East Java province. Indonesia's Antara News Agency reported today. The agency said about 100 people were dead or missing in the Malang area after floodwaters
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      Lock icon '23 Reds killed in Borneo fighting'
      167 7 JAKARTA. Thurs. (Reuter) Indonesian troops killed 23 Communist guerillas in a fierce jungle battle in the Sepang area of West Borneo on January 21. it was announced here today. Brigadier Genera] Wltono. West Borneo Military commander now visiting Jakarta told reporters that a guerilla
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      Lock icon NASA blamed for accident
      131 7 WASHINGTON. Thurs. (Reuter).—A senate committee has accused the US. Space Administration of “On-er-confidence and complacency'’ in its report on last year's Apollo moonship fire in which three astronauts died The Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Spac° Sciences declared last night: "No single person bears all the
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      Lock icon Pilot lands crippled plane after 150 miles
      109 7 INDIANAPOLIS. Thurs. (Reuter) An American pilot nursed a crippled airliner carrying people tor 150 mile? to a n emergency landing here today after smashing into a power line. The Convair 88 airliner on a flight from San Francisco, was coming in to land
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      Lock icon 8-sq-mile Nauru ‘won’t apply to join UN’
      227 7 NAURU South-West Pacific. Thurs (Reuter) Head Chief Hammer Deroburt 46. became head of ftate of newest and smallest Independent country in the world yesterday. Nauru, rich in phosphates but covering an area of only eight square miles, will not apply for membership of
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      Lock icon German N-ship on tests
      116 7 KIEL. West Germany. Thurs (UPI) Europe's first nuclear-powered merchant ship was starting its sea trials today, moving West Germany up another notch in the race to harness atomic energy. The 15.000-ton Otto Hahn was expected to make a cold run of five hours, using conventional engines
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      Lock icon French quit Algerian base
      302 7 New fears for NATO <rER«-EL-KEBIR. Algeria. Thurs (UPT) The French Navy last night pulled out of this heavilyfortified Naval Base, stirring fears that the Mediterranean is increasingly becoming a Soviet Naval Base. Mers-el-Kebir has been the last Western outpost on the southern shore of the Mediterranean.
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      Lock icon • Penguin chicks get low view of the world from under the "hood" provided by their porents.
      18 7 Penguin chicks get low view of the world from under the "hood" provided by their porents. TASS photo.
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      Lock icon DA charges FBI suppressed evidence on Kennedy slaying
      330 7 NEW YORK. Thurs (LTI) New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison said last night the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had surpressed evidence that would show Jack Ruby had a rifle and was near the assassination site in Dallas an hour before President
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      Lock icon Dead GI’s wives can become US citizens
      127 7 WASHINGTON. Thurs. (UPI). A house Judiciary subcommittee yesterday approved a bill which would give alien w'dows of U S servicemen killed In Vietnam the same chance to become a citizen that they would have had their husbands lived Rep Michael A Felghan. Democrat-Ohio,
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      Lock icon FLOODS: 100 FEARED DEAD
      101 7 JAKARTA. Thurs. (UPI) More than 100 persons were dead or missing after floods swept a mountain district last week in the Malang area Southwest of Surabaja. East Java, according to reports reaching Jakarta. Local authorities told the official news agency Antara that more than 20.000 acres
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      Lock icon First American Cardinal in Curia
      160 7 NEW YORK Thurs. (UPI) The first American Cardinal to assume a leadership post in the Vatican says he prefers to call the changes that brought him to the office two weeks ago "readjustments” instead of reforms. Francis Cardinal Brennan was named prefect of the Sacred
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      Lock icon 'Heart-valve woman' lived 10 days
      128 7 JOHANNESBURG. Thurs. (UPIj A 33-year-old mother of five died yesterday only 10 days after receiving a double heart valve in a transplant operation. A brief communique from a Johannesburg nursing home said Mrs. Hilda White succumbed during the day. Her condition had deteriorated sharply over
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      Lock icon Crime among the Kiwis
      60 7 BUNEDIN. New Zealand. Thurs. (Reuter) The rise in the number of young people in prison and borstal (young offenders) institutions in New Zealand is worrying police and social workers. Mr. Ralph Hanan. Minister of Justice, said recently that in 1966 more than 1,100 or 28 per
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    Lock icon THE CRACKER MENACE
    404 8 A YEAR ago during the Chinese New Year season, we appealed to the Government to restrict cracker firing to certain hours on days when certain religious observances were carried out by the Chinese during the first fortnight of their New Year celebrations. Such restrictions are necessary because
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    291 8 WITH a population of between 50.000 and 60.000 and scores of factories, Petaling Jaya was until yesterday in need of adequate police protection. Robberies and burglaries were rampant in that area and certain sections wer* controlled by secret society gangsters. Hundreds of houses have no telephones because
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    2237 8 YOU are now about to begin an interesting course which has been specially designed to give you a proper understanding of your role and expectations as Executive Officers. Being Executive Officers, you have just joined the ranks of the first line supervisors. namely one of the
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      Lock icon The Ismail peace plan unrealistic
      267 8 TUN (Dr.) Ismail's con* cern for our peace and security and that of Southeast Asia is highly appreciated. He wanted all the big powers to observe and guarantee this region's neutrality, all Southeast Asian powers to enter into non aggression pacts and co-existence agreement. It
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      Lock icon Unity call hailed
      147 8 THE part of Enche Ahmad Hj. Taff’s speech at the Pasir Panjang Hari Raya celebration calling for Singapore and Malaysia to work closely deserves endorsement. Geographically, Singapore is an extension of Malaya and when Singapore was a colony and Malaya a protectorate there was no physical nor
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    281 8  -  By Henry B. Rothblatt (Author; "Handbook of Evidence For Criminal Trials") TfAUDE could not take the nagging of her husband. Jack, any longer. So Maude left Jack and their 16-year-old daughter to get a new job in another state. Jack sued and got a divorce. Then Jack
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      Lock icon Japanese trade team to renew trade agreement
      405 9 r TOKYO, Thurs. (UPI) A Japanese trade mission is scheduled to leave for A Peking tomorrow in an effort to retain an agreement that has kept a limited but steady volume of trade between China and Japanese businessmen. The mission will try to
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      Lock icon STOCK MARKET GOES INTO A SLIDE
      228 9 NEW YORK. Thurs. (UPI) The Stock Market went Into a slide yesterday. Selling took the lead almost from the opening and picked up momentum throughout the day. Analysts had expected such a trend, noting the softening glamour Issues due to trader disinterest and no
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      Lock icon Indon govt. to promote foreign investments
      97 9 JAKARTA. Thurs (UPP The Indonesian Government hopes to promote foreign Investments through bilateral agreements with other countries as a guarantee against political risks, the Foreign Office said. The Indonesian government has already signed Investment guarantee agreements with the United States and Denmark, and expects
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      Lock icon NEW YORK RUBBER
      49 9 NEW YORK. Thurs. <UPI) Rubber futures closed unchanged and untraded. March 17.30 May 17.55 17 90 July 17 65 18.00 Sept 17.65 18.00 Nov 1800 1840 Jan 18 00 18.40 Feb 18.00 18 40 The spot No. 1 RSS steady at 171 cent* per pound, nominal.
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      Lock icon Rubber market quiet
      104 9 LONDON, Thurs (Reuter> London rubber market closed quiet with spot 16-1 2 16-3 4 SETTLEMENT HOUSE March 16-5 8 16-3/4 April 16-13'16 17 May and April June 17-1 16 17-3/16 July Sept 17-1 2 17-5 8 Oct Dec 17-7/8 18 Jan March 18-1 8 18-1/4 Arnll June
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      316 9 SINGAPORE. Thurs February first grade rubber f.o.b buyers closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 46 cents per lb, down one and oneeighth cents from previous close. The tone was quiet. Despite political considerations, the market fell some three quarters of a
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      Lock icon Producers allout onslaught
      73 9 OSAKA. Thurs (Kyodo) Producers of synthetic detergent are going all out to counter the impending onslaught of foreian capital in their line of business. Tactics being studied at present are mainly for promotion of sa es. including the readjustment of channels of distribution and the offering of
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      Lock icon Tin price
      17 9 SINGAPORE. Thurs. The tin price for today was $562 37J per picul. up $6 75.
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      Lock icon Sharp drop in US supply of gold
      196 9 WASHINGTON Thurs. (UPI> The US. Supply of gold dropped by $9OO million In December as a result of Increased purchases overseas according to the Federal Reserve. The gold drain leaves the nation with a total supply worth $12,066 billion nearly $l2 billion less
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      Lock icon Merchants turn to S'pore, KL for trade
      136 9 BRUNEI TOWN. Thurs. (UPI) Brunei's ‘once bitten twice shy merchants'’ are shunning from Hong Kong and turning to Singapore and Kuala Lumpur for trade, business circles reported today. They said the reason is that many of them recently have had a raw deal
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      Lock icon Talks on new air pact
      125 9 TOKYO. Thurs. (UPI) Scandinavian and Japanese officials met yesterday hoping to conclude a new air agreement affecting Japan Air Lines and Scandinavian Airlines System. The talks, continued from a conference in Stockholm last year, opened on Tuesday. A Foreign Ministry official said the Scandinavians today
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      Lock icon Faster growth of colour TV follows merger
      182 9 LONDON. Thurs. (Reuter) Faster growth of colour television in Britain is expected to fellow a 310-mil-lion ster ing merger between two of the largest television companies. Thom Electrical Industries. a 158-million Sterling Electrical giant, is absorbing radio rentals. Britain's largest television retal company,
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      Lock icon International contractors for port project
      117 9 BRUNEI TOWN. Thurs. (UPI) Some 20 international contractors have been invited by the Brunei government fOf the first phase of the M 540 million (US$ 13.3 million) Muara port project. It involves dredging an access canal through Pelompong Spit. Millions of cubic feet of bed
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      Lock icon PROFITS DECLINE FOR G.M.
      106 9 DETROIT. Thurs. (UPI) General Motors Corp. profits fell by $166 million during 1967, its second consecutive year of profits decline. the world’s largest manufacturer announced yesterday. GM said its profits for 1967 amounted to $1,627,000. 000 (B) down 9 per cent from the 1966 figure of
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      37 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. The Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak bin Hussein, declared open the Safeguards (M) Sendirian Rerhad at MARA Building, Kuala Lumpur, on Sunday. Picture show s Tun Razak addressing the gathering.
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      115 9 SINGAPORE. Thurs. The Association of Banks in Malaysia today made the following changes in Its rates to merchants: New York: Buying T.T. 32-15 16. Airmail OD. 33-1 16: 90 d st. 33-9 16 credit bills; 33-7'B trade bills. Canada: Buying T.T. 35-13 16: Airmail OD. 35-15 16 90
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      173 9 LONDON, Thurs (UPI) Australian Mines and South African Gold Mines provided the higher sections of an otherwise Lower stock market yesterday. Profit taking pared earlier gains from both leading and second string industrials but there were signs of a rally near
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      52 9 BUENOS AIRES Thurs. ((JPI) The Foreign Commerce Ministry said on Tuesday trade missions will depart soon to try to promote sales of meat to Japan and wheat to South Africa. Under-Secretary Jorge Gaston Valente said other missions might go later to other countries in Asia
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      165 9 IPOH, Thurs.—The goal in producing 7,000 tons or more for last year was now closer to realisation with the Department of Mines announcing the figures in the production of tin in concentrates for November. This was stated by a spokesman of the tin industry today, when
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      47 9 (Manager* 1 Price*) Flr«t Malayan XD 2 37 Seronrt Malayan XD 1 70 Third Malayan The Commerce IndiiMrv »i 100 The 9a\in* Industry <>4 1 03 F1r«t Honekong _80 .85« Pwond Hongkong .5.5 -19* Malayan In\e«tm?nt fund 1.00 Sterling Commodity 4/2 4/9 <* Hon* Kong Currency)
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      182 9 SINGAPORE. Thurs. The following ships are expected in port today:Godowns Vessels 1/2 President Adams 3/4 Chitral 5 Philippine Sampaguita 6/7 Awobasan Mara 8/9 Fernside 10/11 Thorsorient 13/14 Benvalla 15/16 Maron 18 Machoan 19 Zuikei Maru 21/22 Empire Kittiwake 23/24 Raiah Brooke 29/30 Congo Maru 31/32 I. Yung
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      1443 10 yow TV and RADIO today TV MALAYSIA CHANNEL 5 KUALA LUMPUR and Pulau Pinang: S fpoh and Melaka; 3 A 10 Johore Bahru: I Taiping; 7 Batu Pahat: 9 Kluang. PM. 300 Opening Annct. Prog. Summary. 3.01 Antara Dua Irama. 325 Paul Terry Cartoon “Adventure in Africa”; 3.30 Pow Wow
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      625 12  -  -CLIM HHHIS week the pasting in Vietnam after the “Pueblo’’ in Korea, after violence at home after the dangerous inflation binge in the economy and after the resurrection of the administration’s “Credibility gap”, arising from these incidents singly and collectively, has all the sound and
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      433 12 BUTTER GLUT In many parts of Europe there is a glut of butter. In Switzerland, the Government has been obliged on several occasions to increase its subsidy so that butter can be sold on the market at completely unrealistic prices. Mr.
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      Lock icon If US is rumbled, the whole world tumbles
      1001 12  -  By PHIL NEWSOM NEW YORK, Thurs. (UPI). The United States enters 1968 with the great decisions facing it in Vietnam, the war on poverty at home and the defence of the dollar complicated by the emotions of on election year. Other great
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      Lock icon ‘Warned for 10 years’
      98 12 PARIS, Thurs. (Reu'ert —French Foreign Minis’er Maurice Cnuve de >7 ville blamed sterling ?fd the dollar last night fir current international monetary problems. Addressing a club dinner here, he defended his government against accusations that it precipitated the difficulties. “No on p has any interest in
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      99 12 WASHINGTON. Thurs The Uni’ed States revealed yesterday that it lost just over $1.009 Million <€4.m> of gold in vir’ually all of it in «neeula'ive gold buying sprees that followed Bri'ain’s devaluation of sterling. In its latest monthly hull? in the Federal Reserve Board said
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      Lock icon Mauritius: A dear teacher
      518 12 A SWISS COMMENTS Although British troops have been called from Singapore, the riots in Mauritius should not be seen as a reason to delay independence, due on March 12th. It will be remembered that British troops were also called in to restore order in Tanzania and
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      Lock icon COLOGNE (DaD) — From the fall of 1968 on, Bonn and Cologne will have a large joint airport.
      140 12 COLOGNE (DaD) From the fall of 1968 on, Bonn and Cologne will have a large joint airport. It will make the dream of every hurried traveller come true: He will be able to drive directly up to the plane. Wrv i; in long lines at individual coun- ter will belong
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      Lock icon PERSIAN GULF ‘A FLEDGLING THRUST OUT’
      551 12  -  By Ian Tickie When at the end of 1967 British forces left Aden, it could be argued and it was indeed so argued by the British Labour Government that it was time for them to go. It had by that time appeared that South
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      Lock icon Burmese Reds spread their bases
      436 13  -  By THAUNG MYINE Reuter. OURMESE Communists are spreading their bases and activities throughout the country and winning over minority rebel groups, according to Peking Radio broadcasts heard in Bangkok recently. A commentarv In the Burmese language by the New Ohlna News Agency, monitored In Bangkok,
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      Lock icon Elser’s attempt to kill Hitler
      1484 13  -  By ROBERT JACKSON (IPF). KILL HITLER IN the eorly hours of Nov. 12, 1939, Georg Elser admitted to his Gestapo interrogators that he had planted the bomb which had been intended to kill Adolf Hitler. To chief Investigator Franz-Josef Huber, he explained in detail how
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      Lock icon Ferocious pop fans in some parts of Britain
      522 13  -  By LEONARD SANTORELLI Reuter. WHEN the pop singer writhes and twists on the stage don't laugh he may be docking a bottle. For pop fan? are so ferocious in some parts of Britain that one well-known singer says he eoes on stage
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      Lock icon Australia's more friendly attitude towards its Asian neighbours
      719 13  -  By KEITH SMITH Reuter. USTRALIA'S more friendly attitude towards its Asian neighbours is showing through not only in politico! policies but in the number of Asians admitted as migrants to this big but underpopulated continent. The changes are mainly the result of
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      264 13 isiiah organisation O O Phone ***** I 8* t !>•' Patrick O'Neal A- Ira FirMrnbrri ‘'MATCHLESS” Color 'UAI OPENS TOMORROW Jawi Garner Jafton Retards A* Robert F T n HOIR Or THE GIN" (CAI Co.or by DeLusa At Panavition Tomorrow M r*:tr THE RAINBOW Mandarin :n Co>r CAPITOL PWe *****
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      333 13 ORCHARD-***** Tndae* 11 am 1 1 f.fg r 1 r MOM J THE MERCENARIES*' Rod Taylor PVtaion Color ODEON VOW SHOWING 11 am.. 1 30. 4 0«». 6 30 9.30 p m FOX* “TONY ROME*' In Color Frank Sinatra Panavislon Odeon Orchard Palace <th MIDNIGHT TOMORROW! TIAVII WITH A SWORD
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      473 14 Spurs edge United during extra time LONDON, Thurs. (Reuter) A goal by Scottish international Jimmy Robertson in the 13th minute of extra time gove Cup-holders Tottenham Hotspur a 1-0 victory over league champions Manchester United in an explosive English Football Association Cup third-round replay here last night.
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      328 14 TOKYO. Thurs (UPI) Kuniaki Shibata. No. 3 Japan ese featherweight, knocked out Philippine bantamweight ch a m pion Tiny Palacio at one minute, 51 seconds of the fifth round last night in a scheduled 10-round non-title match at Korekuen Hall. Undefeated Shibata scored his
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      352 14 Softball side will do well Fox SINGAPORE. Thurs-—Mr. Dick Fox. president of the Singapore Softball Association said he was confident that the Republic's first national softball team would acquit itself well in the First Asian Men’s Softball Championships to be held in Manila from Feb. 3 to 12. Speaking to
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      80 14 PERTH, Australia. Thurs. (Reuter) ,Mrs. Margaret Court, who won the Wimbledon lawn tennis title as Margaret Smith, will decide within 10 days whether to turn professional. Last night she discussed an order of 50.000 Australian dollars (23.330 sterling) to join a professional women's troupe
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      403 14 IOC to decide South Africa's future tomorrow GRENOBLE. (France) Thurs. (UPI) South Africa's future participation in the Olympic Games probably will be decided here on Saturday during the plenary session of the International Olympic Com- mittee (IOC). Delegates will discuss the Kil inan Commission Report on South
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      129 14 KINGSTON. (Jamaica), Thurs. (Reuter) M.C.C-vice-captain Fred Titmus, whose knee injury forced him to drop out of the fourday cricket match against Jamaica which started here yesterday, should be fit to play within a week. A local specialist, who Xrayed the injury
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      Lock icon Charing Cross sparkles
      247 15  -  He does 392/5 sec. for 3f. with plenty in hand By ADELINE SINGAPORE, Thurs. Charing Cross revealed sparkling form this morning when he galloped 3f in 39-2/5 with plenty in hand. On this workout he should be a good bet on Saturday. The going was Arm and
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      1312 15 Race l: Horses Class 5, Div. 4 t Furs. 2.S0 P.M. (FOR LOCAL RIDERS ONLY) 1 2 080 009 Set rp Chinese Treasure 4y 5v 9 00 8 13 Dp Stable Mr. a- Mrs E A Clark Leong Nair s 206 Blntang Smgapura 5v 8 12 Singapore
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      80 15 SINGAPORE Thurs The German Swimming Association have Invited the Singapore Amateur Swimming Association to participate In the national indoor swimmine championships to be held in Bonn from April 26-28 this year. Mr Woon Sul Kut, hon. secretary of SASA told Sunsport: "The Invitation will be du-cussed
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      Lock icon Kiwis are tipped to win rugby final
      270 15 MALACCA Thurs. The First Battalion. Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment are tipped to retain the championship title when they meet Bth Battalion. Royal Australian Regiment In the 17th Division Malaya District (Commonwealth Forces* open inter-unit knock-out rugby final at the Terendak Camp ground
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      Lock icon • CANNON FIRE with Harbridge astride is seen being led in by Mr. Wong Siew Leng after winning the second race last Saturday — the first day of the Singapore Turf Club January — February meet.
      33 15 CANNON FIRE with Harbridge astride is seen being led in by Mr. Wong Siew Leng after winning the second race last Saturday the first day of the Singapore Turf Club January February meet.
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      1737 15 Race 1: Horses Class 2, Div. l 1% Miles. 2.00 P.M. 1. 617 Cassini Park 4v 900 Roval Syndicate Paul Bougoure 4 2. 521 Lord Timothy 6v 8 13 Malaysian Stable Su'livan 3 306 Niagara S.V 8 12 Special Stable RS B'kelen 4 734 Flying Glory 6y
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      Lock icon THE BIG 'BOYCOTT'
      354 16  -  31 soccer clubs will shun today’s ‘meeting’ By Albert Johnson SINGAPORE, Thurs. Soccer officials representing about 31 affiliated clubs to the Football Association of Singapore will "boycott" the special affiliates soccer "meeting" to be held at the SCFA clubhouse here to- morrow. Sunsport reliably understands that the
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      Lock icon Kok Ann adds another half-point to his tally
      274 16 MANILA. Thurs (Reuter). Dr. Lim Kok Ann of Singapore added a half-point to his overall score in the Meralco (Manila Electric Company) national open chess tournament here when he drew one of his two previously-adjourn-ed games last night. He drew his first
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      211 16 SYDNEY. Thurs. (Reuter) Australian cricketer Bobby Simpson. ended the last of his 52 Test matches on a triumphant note at the Sydney Cricket Ground yesterday. In a bare half-hour this morning, Simpson speit doom for a desperate Indian team taking the wickets of
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      27 16 SINGAPORE. Thurs. The Public Swimmlns: Club will hold Us annual general meeting, attheYan Kit Swimming Pool canteen, Yan Kit Road, on February 9. at 6 p.m.
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      Lock icon Ambitious plan to promote wrestling
      171 16 SINGAPORE. Thurs. The Singapore Amateur Wrestling Association have drawn up ambitious plans to promote wrestling on a big scale in the Republic. Mr. E.O. Thompson, hon. secretary of SAWA said the training committee have mapped out a booster plan to popularise and promote wrestling in
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      Lock icon • THE new world feather-weight boxing champion, Britain's Howard Winstone (left), in a close-up tussle at the Royal Albert Hall, London, with Mitsunori Seki, of Japan whom he defeated in their recent title contest for the vacant world championship
      83 16 THE new world feather-weight boxing champion, Britain's Howard Winstone (left), in a close-up tussle at the Royal Albert Hall, London, with Mitsunori Seki, of Japan whom he defeated in their recent title contest for the vacant world championship A deep, inch-long cut over Seki's right eye brought the fight to
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      Lock icon 260 horses entered for Tunku’s Gold Cup meeting
      1060 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. A total of 260 horses class one 39, class four 139 and class six 82 has entered for the Selangor Turf Club's Tunku Gold Cup meeting beginning on Feb. 11. The entries: CLASS 1 Ist run 2nd run 9F
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      Lock icon Entries invited for Negri shuttle tourney
      100 16 SEREMBAN. Thurs. Entries for the inter teams badminton competition of the Negri Sembilan Badminton Association have been invited The senior inter-team competition for the Lee Sam Shield comprise 3 singles and 2 doubles. For the Malek Cup it will be decided on 5 singles.
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      Lock icon Harimau cross country will be jointly organised
      158 16 SEREMBAN.' Thurs. The annual Harimau cross country meet this year will be organised jointly by Day Training Centre. Seremban. and the Harimau Sports Club. The meet will be held on Feb. 24 commencing from the D.T.C. at Sikamat Road from 4 15 p.m.
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      Lock icon Call to cagers: Enter championships
      93 16 MUAR. Thurs. The Batu Pahat district branch of the Johore State Basketball Association this morning called on local men and women basketball teams to take part in the Batu Pahat basketball Championships this year. The championships will be held at the Batu Pahat Chinese Recreation
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      Lock icon Basketball clash among youths
      36 16 MUAR. Thurs. The Fourth Malaysian Youth Basketball championships will be held in Johore Bahru on April 15. It is being organised by the Johore Bahru branch of the Johore State Basketball Association.
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      Lock icon ‘Mr. Olympia’ gets invitation to participate in S’pore
      262 16 ‘Mr. Olympia gets invitation to participate in S’pore SINGAPORE, Thurs. Larry Scott, Canada's world bodybuilding champion has been invited to participate in the 1968 "Mr. Asia bodybuilding contest to be staged in the island-Republic in July this year. Scott, who won the “Mr. Olympia” title in the muscle contest held
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      Lock icon Call for an international range for local shooters
      177 16 SINGAPORE. Thurs. Mr. Koh Bock Thye. manager of the Republic's shooting team to the 4th SEAP Games held In Bangkok last year has said Singapore should build an international range to provide adequate training facilities for local shooters. In his SEAP Games
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      Lock icon SASA officials elected
      66 16 SINGAPORE. Thurs. Mr Tan Kay Hai. has been re-elected as president of the Singapore Amateur Swimming Association at the annual general meeting held recently. Other office-bearers elected were: Vice-Presidents: Mr. K. E. Meyer: Dr. Chan Ah Kow. Mr. L. Chee. Hon Secretary:- Mr. Woon Sul Kut. Hon
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      41 16 MUAR. Thurs. The general meeting of the Johore State Secondary Schools’ Sports Council will be held at the Batu Pahat High School hall on Feb. 10 New office-bearers for this year will also be elected at the meeting.
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      585 16 KINGSTON (Jamaica) Thurs. (Reuter) The MCC gave their worst batting display of the tour when they were shot out for 135 in. just over four hours on the first day of their four-day match here today. At the close Jamaica were 40
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      139 14 Classified Ad. DEATH 20 Words $lO/- Minimum MR. SNG PENG SIANG. father of Johnny, Tommy and Sunny, passed away peacefully on Ist February. 1968 at 78-G Tanglin Halt Road, Singapore. TENDER NOTICES TENDER TENDERS are invited by the Chief Supplies Officer. Central Supplies Office, Karriang Kerbau, Singapore 8 for the
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