Eastern Sun, 14 February 1968

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  • 22 1 Eastern Sun Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION Estd. 1966. Vol. 2 No. 557 Wednesday, 14 February 1968. MC(P) 0050 Price 15 cents
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  • 498 1 Vietnam: ‘Every other option is worse than what we are doing’ yY’ASHINGTON, Tues. (Reuter) Hanoi was on notice today that President Johnson does not intend to soften his terms for ending the bombing of North Vietnam and opening talks for a political settlement of the
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  • 547 1  - 'Offensive in cities is Viets' greatest error By CHAN KAM YAU KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. A South Vietnomese Government officer here today claimed the Vietcong made the greatest military mistake of their lives when they carried out their offensive in the cities. He is Mr. Hoang Dinh Luong from the Ministry
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  • 269 1 KUANTAN, Tues. The Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, has stated the construction of a major port in the east coast of West Malaysia has been shelved for the time being. He said this at the State development briefing here today.
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  • 282 1 MELBOIRN E. Tues. (Reuter) Malaysia and Singapore had indicated a wish for a continuing Australian military presence, the Prime Minister. Mr. John Gorton, said tonight. Australia felt, subject to its own capacity and judgment that the wishes of Malaysia an<i Singapore must weigh
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  • 140 1 SYDNEY. Tues (Reiater) The Australian GovernorGeneral. Lord Casey, and Lady Casey were involved in an air drama over Sydney today. The Royal Australian Air Force VIP Viscount in which they were travelling from Canberra to Sydney touched down with all Sydney airport's emergency services standing
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  • 238 1  -  By MAUREEN LEE KUALA LUMPUR, Tues The Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, today described a statement by the British Premier Mr Harold Wilson made in Washington yesterday as being "not as callous as it seems.” The statement, made in a televised interview, was: “Britain
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  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 579 2 OINGAPORE, Tues. Three University graduates and a technician-unionist are four more new candidates which the People's Action Party will field in the forthcoming gen- eral elections. The graduates are Mr. Ona Soo Chuan and Mr. Chng Jit Koon, both from Nanyang University
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    • 288 2 SINGAPORE. Tuea. A new fully air-conditioned Singapore hotel which will be less than ten minutes drive from Singapore Airport and ten minutes from the centre of the City, will be opened in May this year. It is situated at the junction of Tanjong
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    • 209 2 SINGAPORE. Tues A panel of four Judges have chosen 40 recipes from a total of 911 sent to Radio and Television Singapura The persons whose recipes were chosen will give a cooking demonstration and compete for the handsome cash prizes totalling over $3,000The demonstration
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    • 124 2 SINGAPORE, Tues. Mr. Robert Phun. cabin crew supervisor, and Mr. Cyril Teo. a check steward, both employed by MSA. have just left for London for a five-week intensive Boeing 707 conversion course in the BOAC Training School for Cabin Crew. Mr Phun and Mr.
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    • 285 2 BINOAPORF TJes Thu Singapore Malay National Organisation has reached an “understanding” with its former partners m the "Alliance” and certain Independent candidates in contesting the forthcoming general elections. Confirming this today a spokesman for the SMNO said the party would defnitely field seven to ten candidates
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    • 46 2 SINGAPORE. Tues. About 60 military personnel will take part in a threeday exercise beginning tomorrow to Feb. 16 in an area south of Chua Chu Kang Road. 15 milestone. They will use blanks and thunder flashes The public are advised not to be alarmed
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    • 232 2 SINGAPORE. Tues. The Deputy Prime Minister has declared new regulations restricting the display of posters for elections. The order, cited as the Singapore Parliament Elections 'Posters and Banners) Regulations. 1968. rules that the Returning Officer shall, for any election, determine the number of
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    • 104 2 SINGAPORE. Tues The Chinese Chamber of Commerce todav collected a further $161,000 for the National Defence Fund. Todav* donation came from Shaw Brothers' Ltd. ($100,000'; Khong Guan Flour Milling Ltd ($6.000>; Setron Ltd i $5,000) and from the Singapore General Rice Importers Association. $50,000 The donations
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    • 70 2 SINGAPORE. Tues. The Singapore Music Teachers’ Association will hold Its seventh Students’ Workshop. an informal recital by piano, violin, cello and singing pupils at the Cultural Centre Theatre on Saturday at 7 p m. The aim of the Workshop is to provide music students the
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    • 564 3 SINGAPOREANS MUST STAND ON THEIR OWN FEET BRITISH PULL-OUT SINGAPORE, Tues. The accelerated British withdrawal from Singapore may be a blessing in disguise for the people will then have to work harder and learn to stand on their own feet sooner. Professor J. C. Daruvala, an
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    • 99 3 Hundreds of devotees of deity Lord Subramania carried “Kavadis" on Monday to celebrate Thaipusam. The first person to leave the gates of the Perumal Temple in Serangoon Road (starting point) was at 7 am. Then at intervals of 10 to 15 minutes, hundreds of other devotees joined the three-mile procession
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    • 512 3 SINGAPORE. Tues. Famous British author. Dennis Wheatley, now in Singapore on a short visit, today spoke his mind on the thrills of writing a thriller. Creator of the versatile se ret agent Roger Brooks, Mr. Wheatley who has also written several non-fietion
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    • 59 3 SINGAPORE. Tues. The Permanent Board of the Congress for Malay and Culture will present a variety show in conjunction with the Singapore Festival ’6B at the Gay World Stadium tomorrow at 8 p.m. Highlight of the show will be the “Kebaya Queen Contest” which is open to
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    • 98 3 6 p m.:- Singapore Festival ’BB at Gay World Stadium, Geylang. 7.30 p.m.:- Free film shows by the Ministry of Culture at Kampong Eng Ann (Farrer Road). Jalan Tiga Ratus Temple, Kampong Lorong Koo Chye and Church Ground (Stephen Lee Road). 8.15 p.m.:- Talk on “The Commonwealth in
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    • 84 3 SINGAPORE Tues. An air services agreement between Singapore and Thailand was initialled on Feb. 2. following negotiations between delegations of the two countries in Bangkok. The Thai delegation was headed by Dr. S. Chandrangsu. Vice-Chairman of the Civil Aviation Board. Mr. Wong Keng Sam. Acting
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    • 105 3 SINGAPORE. Tues Brigadier (The Hon.) Mary MacKenzie Anderson. Director of the Women’s Royal Army Corps, will be visiting members of the WRAC later this month during a threeweek tour. Now visiting WRAC personnel in Hong Kong. Brigadier Anderson is scheduled to pay calls at
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    • 66 3 SINGAPORE. Tues. Mr. Percy Livingstone, the Vice-President of Twentieth Century Fox International Corp and also the Manag-ing-Director for the United Kingdom, arrived here today for a brief visit from Bangkok. The main purpose of his visit Is to meet all the executives of
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    • 110 3 SINGAPORE, Tues “Miss Australia 1968” Miss Helen Newton. 21, will arrive here on Sunday, for a four-day visit part of her prize in winning the title. Miss Newton, a Brisbane school teacher, will be accompanied by her chaperone, Mrs. Flin. A keen
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    • 22 3 SINGAPORE. Tues. There were 80 road accidents of which one was serious during the past 24 hours in the Republic.
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    • 210 3 SINGAPORE, Tues. Singapore will be a centre of dispute if it becomes a military outpost for anyone after the British withdrawal in 1971. This was stated last night by the Deputy Prime Minister, Dr. Toh Cnin Chye when he
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    • 80 3 SINGAPORE. Tues. The History Association of Singapore will hold a talk on •‘The Commonwealth in South-east Asia Prospects of a Defence Pact” at the New Lecture Theatre No. 3, University of Singapore tomorrow at 8.15 p.m. The speaker will be Professor J.D.B, Miller
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    • 579 4  -  Parliamentary round-up by Lim Thow Boon and Musa Scully KUALA LUMPUR, Tues.—The Malaysia Transport Study Group is now studying the feasibility of establishing a port at Lumut, the Minister of Transport, Tan Sri Sardon bin Haji Jubir, told the Dewan
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    • 594 4 There’s shortage of doctors Minister KUALA LUMPUR, Tues —The Minister of Health, Enche Bahaman Shamsuddin this evening admitted in the Dewan Ra'ayat thct there was still a shortage of doctors, dentists and pharmacists in the country. He said in moving the estimates tor the Health Ministry that the Government was
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    • 455 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. An Alliance backbencher today urged the Government to help civilian victims in the Vietnam war. Enche Ahmad Arshad (Muar Utara) expressed sorrow over the civilian casualties in South Vietnam and said the Government should send them financial, material aids as
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    • 169 4 PENANG. Tues. The Chief Minister. Tan Sri Wong Pnw Nee. today urged the people not to be alarmed by the present drought now being experienced in Penang. He said the position was not very serious as there was no shortage of water at the
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    • 96 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues.— The Partai Rakyat Malaya today deplored the statement made by the Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak bin Hussein recently that many ex-detainees in Pahang were now trying to create trouble in many kampongs The Secretary-General of the party, Enche Omar
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    • 877 4 Pensioners... They can’t even afford to feed their family with grass KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The plight of pensioners and taxidrivers were brought before the Dewan Ra'ayat today by several members. The Alliance Member for Kuala Kangsar, Dato (Dr.) Haji Megat Khas urged the Government to
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    • 342 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues Twelve opposition MP's from five political parties todav protested to the Speaker of the Dewan Ra'ayat. Dato CM. Yusof. that they were not given an opportunity to speak on important issues in *he current session of the House. The 12 MPs were
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    • 157 4  -  By Wee Hock Chye MALACCA. Tues Malacca will host the Second Malavsian Scouts Jamboree in 1970. Though the jamboree is still two years away, a publicity campaign will be launched shortly to woo scouts in countries in Asia, including Australia and New Zealand, to
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    • 93 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues Malaysia exports her canned pineapples to more than 60 countries, the Assistant Minister of Finance. Dr. Ng Kam Poh. told the Dewan Ra’ayat today. He was replying to an oral question from Enche Ahmad bin Arshad (All. Muar Utara). The main buyers,
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    • 30 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Four youths were detained at Batu Caves yesterday by the police in connection with attempted extortion of $24 from a schoolboy, G Selvanadan. 17.
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    • 23 4 PENANG. Tues. The fourth pilgrim ship. “Anshun" left Swet'eni-am p—here this afternoon with 700 people on its voyage to Mecca.
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    • 22 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues.— The Jalan Maran/Jeramut Bridge will be closed to traffic from Feb. 19 to Feb. 29 for repairs.
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    • 680 10  -  B y Chan Kam Yau KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. —The Government must provide an effective machinery to complement the people's desire for change and advancement. This is extremely vital; otherwise their desires and aspirations will generate into a situation of frustration
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    • 129 10 PENANG. Tues The Malaysian Chinese Associations no” to the move by Chinese educationists to set up a Chinese University in this country is a Chinese New Year "slap” for all Chinese in Malaysia. This was stated by the Chairman of the United Democratic Party.
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    • 222 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues Two farmers (who were convicted in the Sessions Court for extorhng money from a man by threatening to molest his girl fnend) today had their appeals against conviction quashed by the High Court here Their sentences, however, were reduced from a year’s lail
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    • 30 10 THE Sultan of Perak Is seen unveiling the plague commemorating the opening of Malaysia's largest hydro-electric scheme at Cameron Highlands recently. Standing beside him is his consort, the Raja Perempuan.
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    • 679 10 SINGAPORE, Tues. A lawyer, Mr. M. B. Brash was the first witness to testify at the opening day of the hearing into the disputed will of a wealthy Singapore businessman, Wong Ying Sieng, who died here more than ten years ago.
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    • 45 10 The Yang di-Pertuan A gong on Friday afternoon attended prayers at the Royal Malaysian Air Force Base mosque, at Kuala Lumpur. Picture shows the King about to enter the mosoue. On his left is the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Commodore Sulaiman bin Sujak.
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    • 74 10 SINGAPORE. Tues. A public auction will be conducted on Feb. 21., at 10 a.m. at the Public Works Department Workshop, Kallang, for the sale of a number of used and confiscated motor vehicles of different classes and makes. These items can be inspected at the
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    • 90 10 MUAR Tues. Miss Lim Pek Eng of Segamat captured the women's section title of the Johore State Mancann singing compet tion. organised by the Ten Aik Recording Company m Kluang The men s championship title was won by Mr Lin Kwan of Muar Runners up
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    • 101 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues Malaysian Government will give $30,000 from her national defence fund to buy vaccine for the South Vietnamese refugees. This was announced f oday by the Prime Minister. Tunku Abdul Rahman after opening the annual conference of Governors of Central Banks of South-east
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    • 67 10 MALACCA. Tues Malacca police are not discounting the possibility of murder in -he recent finding of the body of a baby on Bukit China Hill in town. The body was in a highly decomposed state when an outstation soldier visiting the hill stumbled across
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    • 43 10 SINGAPORE. Tues. —The Singapore National Academy of Science will hold a public lecture on "Problems of Commercial Engineering Research” in the New Lecture Theatre No. 4 at the University of Singapore tomorrow at 8.15 p.m The lecturer is Dr. R.W. Ansley
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    • 29 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues The Dewan Raayat today passed estimates totalling S4Ol 4 million for the Ministry of Education and $125 3 million for the Ministry of Finance.
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    • 93 10 "Four exhibition from four countries' at National Art Gallery 10 a.m to 630 pm Tushar Kantil Paul exhibition on "Australia Through Malaysian Eyes" at Samat Art Gallery 9 a.m to 6 p m Works of prominent Malaysian artists by Peninsular Art Gallery at 41 Jalan Raja Muda. 9
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    • 201 10 Developing nations can’t live in isolation -Tunku KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, today said developing countries cotild not live in isolation but had to be inter-dependent for progress ond development. The developing countries, the Tunku was referring to, were those in the South-east Asian region. “Unless
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    • 91 10 SLIM RIVER Tues Two lorry drivers and an attendant were killed in a road accident at the main IpohKuala Lumpur Trunk Road, three miles from here, last night. The dead are identified as Lee Im Huat. 50, of Sitiawan. Poon Swee Lek. 29. of Tanjong
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    • 177 10 PENANG. Tues. The Chief Police Officer. Enche Salleh bin Abdul Rahman, said today the incident in Machang Bubor, Bukit Mertajam. resulted from a gambling issue and not a racfel conflict. He said four people responsible for assaulting several others have been arrested and would
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    • 49 10 IPOH. Tues.— The firing of two lone strings of firecracker* heralded the official opening of the new building of the Perak Yungting Association in Jalan All Pitchay here today. Perak’s well-known tin miner and Barrister-at-Law, Tan Sn Dr. Foo Yin Chiew. declared the new building open.
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    • 266 11 "DARIT BUNTAR, Tues. The highlight of the Solidarity Week in Krian District wiH be a rally at the town padang here tomorrow morning at which 5,000 people, including school-children and government servants, will teke part. The ceremony will start at
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    • 45 11 MUAR. Tues. Mr. Lee Tor Long has been elected chairman of the Jementah Youth Club. Other office-bearers:-Vice-chsirman. Mr. Lau Choon Siew. Treasurer. Mr. Yew Mok Ker. Secretary. Mr. Pang K:ang Hwa; Vicesecretary, Mr. Teo Liao Heng A seven-member sub-com-mittee was also elected.
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    • 106 11 THE Air Services Agreement between Malaysia and Indonesia was initialled last Friday bv the leaders of the Malaysian and Indonesian delegations at a simple ceremony held at the Ministry of T ransport in Kuala Lumpur The Minister of Transport. Malavsia. Tan Sri Sardon bin Haji
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    • 140 11 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Ten committee members of the Selangor Chinese Muslim Association led by its president Mr. Kaseim Choo left here today for Mecca on a pilgrimage This was the first batch of Chinese Muslims from the association to go on a pilgrimage sponsored
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    • 59 11 MUAR. Tues. The Johore State Veterinary Department will hold a 27-day farmers' training course at the Ayer Hi tarn Farmers’ School, near here, from March 2. Farmers from all districts in the Johore State will, among other things, be given lectures on animal-rearing techniques, the formation
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    • 30 11 MUAR. Tues. The Chamek Local Council has appealed to the Johore Sta'e Local Government for a grant of $22,320 for the construction of eight rural projects this year-
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    • 92 11 'Kavadi hero in trance a typical scene at the foot of Batu Caves in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday night of a Hmdu devotee in a trance bearing a 'kavadi" to the temple He was among 600 devotees who fulfilled vows by bearing kavadis through the streets of the Capital to
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    • 535 11  -  By: K.G Tharan JOHORE. BAHRU, Tues. The seafront “House of Hope" has offerad to enlist the Kuala Lumpur’s mute cowherd. N. Nagalingam, 26. to brighten his future and exploit his artistic talents. The "House of Hope’’ is a one classroom .school
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    • 74 11 PENANG, Tues. Defence counsel in a murder case. Mr. Goh Eng Kee. applied for a postponement, when the doctor who attended to his client, Lam Khoo Siew. whom he claimed to be insane, could not be contacted Lam was alleged to have murdered Govinda Raju. at Jalan
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    • 94 11 KAJANG. Tues. The Social Welfare Department here will distribute money to parents in the Kajang area who have applied for school books aid.- Arrangements have been made to distribute the cash to parents or guarddiana on Ihursdajr at Kajang Hall. The department has seat
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    • 1516 2 Y0UR TV and TV MALAYSIA CHANNEL 5 KUALA LUMPUR and Pulau Pinang; 6 Ipnh and Melaka; 3 10 Johore Bahru: 1 Taiping; 7 Batu Pahat; 0 Kluang. P.M. 5 43 Opening Annet. Prog. Summary; 5.50 News Outlines in the National Languages; 5.55 National Songs; 6 00 News in Tamil; 6.10
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 281 5 LONDON. Tues (UPI) The British Liberal Party railed on the United States today to end the Vietnam war and “Get out of Vietnam." In a booklet outlining its Vietnam policy, the Liberal Party said “The Americans are fared with a rhoice-either to
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    • 528 5 SAIGON, Tues. (I PI) American Marines today staged an amphibious assault across the Perfume River in Hue to cut off supply and escape routes tor Communist troops still clinging to the old walled citv. The battle wearing Marines used assault boats to
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    • 163 5 LONDON. Tues (UPI) The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust will sponsor an all-female expedition to the Antarctic later this year, it was announced today. Trust chairman Lord Cormer said the expedition would be the first all-female one to the Antarctic. It will be held by Mrs
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    • 67 5 SANTA FE. New Mexico, Tues (t'FI) The house chaplain for the current session of the New Mexico legislature does a little heavenly lobbying in his opening prayers. Dr. Bruce H. Rolstad brought chuckles from the gallery on Saturday with this prayer “Our father, we know you have humour
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    • 28 5 CAIRO Tues (CPI) Owners of an Egyptian have originally named Israel have changed the name to Jihad (holy war), the Cairo newspaper A1 Abram reported.
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    • 289 5 NEW YORK. Tues .UPI) Retired Lt Gen. James M Gavin, who was Army chief of plans when the French lost Vietnam in 1954, said yesterday that top Pentagon leaders advocated invading North Vietnam at that time but decided instead to back the new Diem government
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    • 79 5 HOLLYWOOD. Tues. fUPI i Singer Frank Sinatra was confined to his room yesterday at the Fontainbleau Hotel, in Miami Beach. Florida after doctors diagnosed that he was suffering from virus pneumonia, a spokesman here reported. Sinatra s Miami physician Dr. Ralph Robbins said the singer’s condition was
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    • 60 5 Topless men MILWACKEE. AVis. Tues. (CPl)—The advertisements read: “Dancing girls topless revue.” Hordes of students turned out for the Student Cnion sponsored affair at the University of AV i s c o n s i n Milwaukee branch. The eager patrons found the sign to he truthful, but... the dancing
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    • 356 5 NEW YORK. Tues. (Reuter) North Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap is using the same tactics in his current offensive in South Vietnam that he used successfully against the French in the battle of Dien Bien Phu. according to the latest
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    • 130 5 Fleet Street veteran dies 83 BRIGHTON. England. Tues iUPI) Horace W Sanders, doyen of Fleet Street journalists and one of the founders of the National Union of Journalists. died at Brighton on Sunday. He was 83. Sanders got his taste lor journalism running copy to the printers for his lather,
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    • 74 5 LONDON. Tues. (UPI) The British island colony of Seychelles wants integration with Britain rather than independence, a Seychelles government spoKesman said today. James Mancham. leader of the majority Seychelles Democratic Party, said the Indian Ocean colony feared independence. ’The average man realizes he cannot enjoy
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    • 114 5 BERWICK. Pennsylvania. Tues. (UPI) Nick Adams, star of television and movies, was buried yesterday in a cemetery atop a hillside in Briar Creek where he attended school as a boy. Adams. 36, star of the TV’ series "The Rebel” and an oscar nominee for his performance
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    • 69 5 WEI.I.ESBOURNE. England. Tues. (UPI) British onions in the future will he given an artificial sun tan by a new warm air technique because housewives seem to prefer the bronzed look of foreign onions to the greenish-white skins of the home-grown variety. A spokesman at the national vegetable
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    • 179 5 SEOUL. Tues (UPI) President Park Chung Hee of South Korea yesterdayasked the United States for a firm guarantee that it would "Take an eye for an eye" in the event of further North Korean raids into the South, according to South Korean sources. The
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    • 101 5 CALCUTTA. India. Tues. (UPI) Maharanl Hope Namgyal of the mountain kingdom of Sikkim, once a shy American socialite, gave birth last night to her second child, a girl, in a Calcutta nursing home The 28-year-old Queen s subjects in her 2.748-square mile kingdom in
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    • 54 5 STOCKHOLM Sweden, Tues (UPI) Dr 80-Ebbe Loefberg in a letter warned people with heart trouble and high blood pressure against watching television broadcasts of the hockey competition at the Winter Olympics. “I know cases where men with heart disease have died watching a thrilling hockey game on
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    • 48 5 ALENCON. France, Tues. (UPI) A new high school in nearby Gace has teachers desks with solid black boards in front to hide the schoalmarm’s legs. School authorities decided against the usual four-legged type of desks because most of the teachers are women wearing mini-skirts.
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    • 719 5 Britain: The Welfare State LONDON. Tues (I PI) Br.lons are reluctantly having to face up to the unpayable prospect of at least two more years of belt-tightening and hard times. That is the gloomy outlook the Labour Government now is offering them in the wake
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    • 228 6 MILWAUKEE. Wisconsin. Tues. (UPI) The Rev. James Groppl. vowing he will “continue to agitate” for civil rights, was fined US$5OO and placed on probation for two years for resisting arrest during a violent open housing demonstration last summer. The .controversial White Roman Catholic priest, adviser to
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    • 82 6 JAKARTA. Tues (UPI) -—A Philippine survey vessel, the Congi” has arrived in East Borneo to start actual operations in the framework of an Indonesran-Fili-pmo joint venture Fishery Agreement, it was reported yesterday. The agreement closed between the Indonesian government and the Philippine “Fineon” company
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    • 147 6 MANILA. Tues (UPI) A Philippine Folk Dance troupe, whose departure for a tour abroad was reported snarled in government red tape, will finally be able to fulfil engagements in Australia, the United States and Europe President Ferdinand E. Marcos said
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    • 68 6 KARACHI. Tues. (Reuteri Students here staged a peaceful demonstration again.-) what they called "American Aggression in Vietnam." Demonstrators who belong to the Powerful National Students Federation and the Pakistani Branch of the Afro-Aslan Solidarity Committee marched yesterday in batches of three because of a government ban
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    • 202 6 CEOUL, Tues. (UPI). The United Notions Command (UNC) said today it will hold an open meeting tomorrow ot Panmunjom with North Korea to discuss Communist aggression in South Korea. The UNC requested the meeting to discuss Communist violations in and
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    • 101 6 SAIGON*. Tues (Reuter)— The South Vietnamese government today banned Air France from South Vietnam’s Air Space, a government communique announced According to a spokesman at the Transportation and Communication. MinistryAir France operates a regular service to Cambodia and China, and the ban was
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    • 123 6 JAKARTA. Tues (UPI) The Jakarta newspaper “Nusantara" demanded today that the Indonesian government expel the Vietcong representation in Jakarta for ailegedly haring compromised Indonesia's neutrality. The newspaper. In an editorial accused the “Na- tionai Liberation Front of South Vietnam" of embarrassing the Indonesian government by
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    • 56 6 PARIS. Tues. High in the sky is the latest of the French-built jet fighter-bomber, the Mirage 5 manufactured bv the Marcel Dassault. This multi-mission, polyvalent fighter is able te reach Mach 2 and more, is equipped by two thirty mm guns and carries fourteen bombs and
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    • 147 6 UNITED NATIONS. Tues. (UPI) South Vietnam s Ambassador to the United Nations has said if the United States withdraw from the Vietnam war It would be reneging on its own ideals and delivering hundreds of millions of people to
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    • 83 6 SEOUL. Tues 'UPI) The United States and Communist North Korea may hold another round of secret negotiations at Panmunjem prior to an open meeting tomorrow of the Korean Panmunjom Military Armistice Commission. It was reported today. The Chosun Ilbo. one of the nation's leading newspapers.
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    • 58 6 FORT MORESBY. Papa*. Tues. (Reuter) There were still to reports of damage today from Bougainville Island rocked yesterday by Papua New Guinea's biggest earthquake since 1963 The quake spread tremors at least >OO miles, but the worst effects would have been felt by Bougainville's sparsely populated
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    • 83 6 SEOUL Tues (UPI).— Two small firelights broke out along the Korean Demilitarised Zone during the night, the Unitea Nations Command (UNC) said today. Both incidents took place on the western front sector guarded by the US. Second Division. The military spokesman said one incident
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    • 107 6 MANILA. Tues. (LTD Mrs. Luis Moreno Salcedo, wife of the Philippines Am-ba-saoor to Sou'h Vietnam, and 74 other Filipinos were scheduled to arrive here today from Saigon aboard a Pan American Airways plane The Foreign Office said Ambassador Moreno, in a telegram reporting the flight, did not
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    • 105 6 ROME. Tues. (Reuter) Italy's hospital doctors began a three-day strike today to get back wages owed them by improverished semi-state health insurance firms. Chaos threatens the country's 2,000 hospitals. The doctors say they will treat only emergency and serious cases. Soldiers are expected to be
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    • 84 6 JAKARTA Tues. 'UPI) Central Java Courts of Justice, in special marathon sessions last month, disposed of more than 7,000 cases, piled up during the past years, it was reported yesterday. Acting President Gen Suharto last year ordered the attorney general to speed up the
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    • 361 7 PARIS Tues. (UPI) French newspapers Testerday accused President Charles de Gaulle of grandiose 16th century dreams of power and schemes for opposing the United States around the globe. The editorial charges were the latest in a storm of criticism stemming from the visit
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    • 126 7 ATHENS, Tues (Reuter) The thief could hardly believe his eyes. There in a deserted street in the middle of the night was a car packed with suitcases, its doors open, its engine running and its owner half way up a high wall. An Athens court was
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    • 123 7 TOKYO. Tues OTPI> North Korea claimed today that 10 US soldiers were "wiped out’* when they crossed the military demarcation line and attacked a Communist post shortly after midnight. The Communist claim, broadcast by the Korean Central News Agency <KCNA). did not say however
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    • 65 7 SPRINGFIELD. Illinois. Tues (Reuter) Senator Charles Percy ruled himself cut today as a Republican presidential or vice-presiden-tial candidate in any foreseeable circumstances in 1968 The 48-year-old Illinois Senator, who had been widely regarded as a likely "Dark Horse" candidate as Illinois' favourite son at the
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    • 82 7 MOSCOW. Tues Reuter* A soviet geologist has said that Moscow may be sitting on one of the world's biggest gold mines, although prospecting Is still at an early stage. Dr Valadimlr Pervago said recently that If preliminary indications prove correct, deposits of the metal could rival
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    • 108 7 Envoy Vance's 2 hr talks in ROK SEOLT,. Tues (Reuter) United States Presidential Envoy Cyrus R. Vance talked with Prime Minister 11-Kwon Chung for two hours and 30 minutes today in his continuing effort to iron out differences between Washington and Seoul on how to meet North Korean provocations. Public
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    • 56 7 The biggest battle of th» Vietnam war still appears to be the Khe Sanh area, where two North Vietnamese
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    • 214 7 ‘Self-criticism: The way to party unity fIONG KONG Tues. (Reuter) Peking People’s dailv said todav the Maoists have not achieved unity due to “insufficient self-criticism.” A commentator In the Chinese Communist Party organ. Jen La-Hsin, said "prolonged schism'* still existed in "some areas and units” Although a long period had
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    • 114 7 RAWALPINDI. Tues fßeuter) Kuwaiti Minister of State Yoo?sef AlSayed Hashem Al-Rifai today proposed the formation of a Vatican-type Moslem organisation to supervise the affairs of the Islamic world. He told the International Islamic Conference, now in Its third day such an organisation could also uncover and
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    • 141 7 WASHINGTON. Tues. (UPI) An informed congressional source said yesterday that an American emissary had gone to Hanoi late last month to explore North Vie'nam's iterms for peace talks The source said that the emissary's trip to Hanoi was undertaken at the request of President
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    • 135 7 TOKYO. Tues (Reuter) The Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade and Industry Mr J. McEwen arrived In Tokyo today for talks with Japanese government leaders. Mr. McEwen Is on his way home from New Delhi where he represented Australia at the opening
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    • 74 7 SAIGON. Tues. 'Reuter) Government troops and police are to conduct a house-to-house search in the five secure areas of the capital In three days time In an effort to uncover Vietcong arms caches and hidden weapons. The chlel of the National Police General Nguyen Ngoc
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    • 59 7 MANILA Tues (Reuter) Some 100 people were rendered homeless after a fire yesterday of still undetermined origin destroyed 10 business establishments and 30 houses In Caloocan City, Just north of Manila. Police said damage to property was estimated at 1.5 million pesos < about £150.000
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    • 165 7 NEW YORK. Tues (UPI) The last time a mayor of New York City and a Governor of the S*ate had a showdown over sanitation Issues, blood ran In the city streets and the National Guard finally had to enforce order. The year
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    • 372 7 IO C i? W J ues TI) Russia s ruling Troika told visiting t’.V Secretary General l Thant vesterday that America must unconditionally stop bombing North Vietnam to get peace talks started. Soviet sources said. The Soviet leaders were
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    • 284 7 NEW YORK Tues (UPI) Police in maior cities throughout America are drawing battle plans and buying tanks, guns and debilitating gas to fight a "Second civil war’’ against Negro rioters this summer, a magazine said today. The preparations based
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    • 277 7 PARIS Tues < Reuter i Aspiring Juvenile Dr. Christian Barnards will soon be able to perform their own “Heart transplant operations” on a cardboard patient. The “cheerful surgeon” set is one of thousands of tors now f»n display here in the seventh international toy exhibition
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    • 56 7 CALCUTTA. Tues (Reuter) Three children were killed and two others, including a year-old baby, injured when a bomb exploded in a house at Nabagram near Calcutta yesterday, police said today. The children picked up the bomb from a street and struck it with an iron
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    • 20 7 WAR cloud rises over Hue citadel, In the hands of the VC when Vietnamese plane bombed it. Radio photo. UPI
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    • 1307 6 UNDERGROUND HERO NE w WESTERN PUBLISHING COMPANY INC IlfHEN talk turn* to the subject of female spies, the average reader will ususlly think of some exotic secret agent like the noto-rious-IVIata Han. But one of the most famous of modern secret operatives was a quiet, retiring British nurse whose gallant
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  • 429 8 THE public have been awaiting the publication of a comprehensive and standard Malay dictionary. The revitalising of the Malay language makes the coinage of thousands of new words essential. Malays and non-Malays need an authoritative dictionary to guide them in the usage of new words and expressions. The
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  • 249 8 TF the ten-day third regional seminar on A development which concluded in Kuala Lumpur yesterday had not achieved anything else and this would be far from the truth the closing address by the Chief Secretary to the Malaysian Government, Tunku Tan Sri Mohamed bin Tunku Besar Burhanuddin, should deserve
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  • 995 8  -  France remains prepared to accept a controlled general disarmament By Chow Chingtao ■pOLLO W ING the changing of foreign policy in accordance with General de Gaulle's independent and sovereign conception, a new French national defence policy has been officially proclaimed by Armed Forces Minister Pierre Messmer.
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  • 238 8  -  By Henry B. Rothblatt "Handbook of Evidence For Criminal Trials") lITHEN Alice Injured her hand in her kitchen, she drove to Goodcare Hospital for emergency treatment. When she arrived at the hospital, she slipped and fell and required even more treatment. Result: she sued the hospital. “Alice
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  • 270 8 HONG KONG. Tues (Reuter) Hong Kong ha s decided to introduce educational television to all schools in the colony in September next year, according to a Government announcement today The service will include school and public affair programmes supplied free of charge by
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    • 672 8 r |'HE attention of the Ministry of Transport has been drawn to the speech by Mr. B.C Engel, Chairman of the States of Malaya Chamber of Commerce, Penang, in which he states the Port of Penang might be facing a troubled future. He
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    • 208 8 THIS letter is of interest to nature lovers and historians. In the April 1967 issue of the National Geographic Magazine, page 563, is a photograph in natural colour, of a saddle-shaped or backed carapace. It is a sub-species of Tetsudo elephantopus a land tortoise having long
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    • 42 8 Eastern Sun Independent Nat tonal Newspaper WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 14. 1968 23-8. Cantonment Road, Singapore 2. Telephone: *****/7 Penang Office Ipoh Office 39. |alan Saltan. Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia. Telephone: *****/6 8. Leith Street. Tel: ***** 77. Brewster Road. Tel: ***** Cable Address: AWNEWS
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 55 9 SINGAPORE. Tues. Mr. Michael On? Swee Lee has. been promoted recently to* Account Executive by LPE Singapore Limited. Mr. Ong. a Singapore citizen, is an old boy of the Anglo-Chinese School and had studied engineering aJt the Singapore Polytechnic prior to his joining LPE as an executive
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    • 164 9 SINGAPORE Tues. Mexico City's four mem stadiums for the forthcoming 1968 Olympic Games are'to be equipped with the latlest Philips sound systems. This was announced today by Mr. R. Bom. Managing Director of Philips (S) Etd. Mr. Bom said that PlhSips Eindhoven had won
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    • 161 9 STOCKHOLM. Tues., The output of Sweden's chemical industry increased in volume by close on 9 per cent, in 1967. to a value of about 4 500 million ($1,100,000,000). according to Mr. Erik Braadt, head of the Association of) Swedish Chemical Industries The rate of increase Is higher
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    • 74 9 TOKYO, Tueis. (Reuter) Japan's Hitachi Limited today it had received orders ffrom Malaysia and Singaprgre for watthour meters worth a total of $60,000. Tho orders piaced bv the National Electricity Board of Malaysia and the Public Utilities Board jof Singapore called for exports of about 50.000
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    • 179 9 LONDON. Tues BS A. Motor Cycles Ltd., of Birmingham, in the English Midlands, Europe's largest manufacturer of motor cycles, is to mount an intensive sales promotion drive in Far Eastern countries, taking in Singapore. It is being launched by Mr Peter Glover, the Company's
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    • 200 9 SINGAPORE. Tues Mr. Y.C. Tan. Sales Manager responsible for the Company's marketing operations In Malaysia and Singapore, is on tour to the Parent Company In Melbourne to study the latest methods of sales promotion and marketing of carpets and the highly specialised technique of
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    • 116 9 LONDON. Tues (Reuter) Britain had a visible trade deficit last year of 561 million sterling, the biggest in 16 years, the Board of Trade announced today. Nearly three fifths of the deficit 330 million sterling occurred in the last quarter of 1967. when exports were
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    • 94 9 TOKYO. Tues <UPI) One of Japan’s leading spinning companies has begun talks for a business tie-up with Toa Spinning and Weaving Company in Taiwan, Nihon Keizai Shimbun said today. The Japanese firm is Nichibo Co Ltd., the negotiations are being conducted through the
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    • 289 9 Rubber down cent SINGAPORE. Tues February first grade rubber f.o.b. buyers closed at 5 pm. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 43-5/8 cents per lb., down oneeighth of a cent from previous close. The tone was quiet. After an unchanged opening. '.he market eased initiaLy on some trade and
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    • 67 9 JAKARTA, Tues. (UPI) A new 400-room hotel will be built in Jakarta by Mr. Noboru Goto, President of the Tokyo Hilton Hotel and owner of the Tokyo Hotel in Japan, it was reported today. Mr. Goto’s secretary. Tanaka, told the “Api Pantjasila” newspaper that the
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    • 47 9 SINGAPORE. Tues. After ten days of suspension. Air Vietnam has resumed its regular flights SaigonSingapore as from 10 Feb. The first flight, by Boeing 727. carried to Saigon almost one hundred passengers a"d also the first donations for victims and refugees in Vietnam.
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    • 996 9 SINGAPORE. Tues The industrial section of the Stock Exchange today was described as firm with rises exceeding falls The section was supported by both investment and speculative buying and some new peak levels reached in certain counters Selected counters came in for more in'erest
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    • 95 9 SINGAPORE. Tues The Association of Banks in Malaysia today made the following changes in its rate* to merchants: New York: Buying T.T. 32-15/16. Airmail OD. 331/16. 90 d/St. 33-9/16 credit bills; 33-5 trade bills. Canada: Buying T.T 3513/16; Airmail O D 35-15/16; 90 d/st. 36-| credit bills; 3611/16
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    • 25 9 HONG KONG. Tues. (UPI) Money Quotations: HK56,050 6.***** per US dollar for cash HKSI4 5 per pound sterling HK5282.875 per tael gold.
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    • 16 9 SINGAPORE. Tues.— The tin price for today was $559 per picul, up 50 cents.
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    • 172 9 SINGAPORE. Tues. Top level comment from Garuda Indicates that utmost priority has been given to all aspects of Garuda Service. On April 5, Garuda will open up a new weekly Service to Frankfurt The present Ball and Medan flights will be Improved, and from March 31
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    • 524 9 MMiAFOKK—htocfc l«iiantr old and offer price* officially luted ar the close of business. INDUSTRIALS Ben A Co 2.49 2.50 BnuMead 1 65 i -ngar 2 44 2 46 i hemit al Co. 1.45 1 46 Cold storage 4 00 4 02 Dunlop 2 68 2.69 L 'melting
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    • 48 9 (ManarW Prices) Fir«t Mnla'an XD 2 3R second Malayan XD 1 71 Third Malayan 1.71 The Commerce Industry .91 1 00 The Saving Incli|i.tr» .95 1 04 Hr*t Hongkong •SO •S5» Serond Hongkong .55 Malayan Imfsimfnt Fund 1.05 1.15 Sterling Commodity 4/2 4/9 Hong Kong Currency)
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    • 112 9 slNGXPORE. Tnf*. The noun prices at the Singapore C Produce Fxrhange today are > Buyer Seile* Coeimut Oil (FOB) Bulk IVnnui Oil 61.00 (F.O.B.) Drums Loom- onra Mined 63.50 F Mar 36 50 Mu ill ok White ivpper (F.O.B.) 96% N.I..W 135 00 Sarawak While Pepper <1 OB.) N
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    • 197 9 SINGAPORE. Tues. The following ships are expected to be in port today Gndowns Vessels 1 2 Hampton Mam 3 7 4 Iyo Mam 5 Shoryu Mam 6 7 Golden Spring 8 8 Lloyd Bakke 10 11 Kapitan Vislobokov 13 14 Tantalus 15 16 Peisander 18 Almkerk 19
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  • Eastern Sun Special
    • 940 12 Put it out of mind and remember YOU'LL never develop a good memory, unless you learn to forget. It's no use trying to remember everything. If something doesn't really excite your attention and interest, then discard it forget it As a consequence, your memory for the things that really interest
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    • 579 12  -  By THAUNG MYINE THE Thai Government has evacuated families of Meo tribesmen from 10 villages in the remote, rugged Mae Sod District on the Burmese border to prevent them from falling into the hands of Com- munists. Thai Prime Minister, Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn. told
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    • 1030 12  -  THE WORLD'S STRANGEST ANIMAL STORIES By ROSS MILES IN 1926 the world went crazy about a little fox terrier who helped to make history. Terrier Titina became the first dog ever to cross the North Pole by air. Her route to
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    • 465 12  -  By J.T CLARKE 'J'HE tiny village of Aur in India's east Punjab will this month mark the fourth anniversary of the death of one of its greatest benefactors, Kapoor Singh Saddoo, who lived for 50 years in British Columbia. Kapoor Singh
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    • 739 12  - WHAT DO PEOPLE WANT OUT OF LIFE By ALAN HART lt may seem an obvious question but psychologists and sociologists are finding that it has some strange answers. SCIENTISTS have been probing the dreams and ambitions of thousands of people. Working for leading colleges and research foundations in the United
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  • 262 13 IEIRO-Goldwyn-M a y e r i’l has began shooting three of it s most important properties for 1968. All three motion pictures started shooting in as many countries in January. Fi ming has begun in Rome on "The Shoes of The Fisherman.'* the screen
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  • 341 13 VEW YORK. Tues. Three-time Academv Award winner Fred Zinnemann will direct Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s screen adaptation of Andre Malraux's modem classic. “Man's Fate.” it was announced recently by MGM President Robert H O Brien. Zinremann has signed Han Suyir. to wTite the screenplay for the
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  • 99 13 PRODUCER Josef Shsftel watched director Ken Ann a kin staging a scene for MGM’s corned y-adventure. “The Biggest Bundle of Them All”, in which Vittorio De Sica. Raquel Welch and Robert Wagner place a tank across railroad tracks to stop a train carrying $5,000,000 in platinum. •‘You do
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  • 474 13  -  By: Sheilah Graham Hollywood. Tues. (NANA) Warren Beatty's recent trip to London was to visit Julie Christie and to pop over to Paris to attend the premiere of his “Bonnie and Clyde The smash hit is building more and more momentum, but not as much
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  • 660 13  -  By Charles Chan KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Death is a gnsjy business but that's what Ernie Shaw and his wife, Neva, dabble in for a living Ernie lives to kill or kills to live while Neva "dies" twice a night to live. Neva has
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  • 203 13 COLUMBIA Pictures has good reason to be proud of its 1967 bcxofEce showings, according to figure? in a recent issue of the Variety. Four Columbia pictures wound up among the top ten moneymaker? of last year, twice as many as any other company
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    • 226 13 fSHAW ORGANISATION LAST shows: 11 a m.. 1.45. 4.00 »V «.15 p m only THE BOLD OSES" m Co or Mandarin »-th Eng h Bubtitlea TOVTOHT a•") r m PRrMIERE R.chard Harris. Franco Nero Vaaesia Reajra e CAMELOI 70MM Pans :on Technicolor rr-m Warner Bros-" Art SEASON FROM TOMORROW Daily
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    • 270 13 ODEON ***** LAST day: 11 m.. 1.30. 1.00. AS© A* 0.80 p m ‘TRAVEL WITH A SWORD Betty Loh Ti. Mand Scope-Color with English «fc China** Subtitle* ODEON A PALACE OPENS TOMORROW' “SAVAGE PAMPAS'* insert In Co ORCHARDI PALACE ***** I *****0 NOW SHOW ING: II LAST DAY! 1.30. 4
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  • Sun Sport
    • 624 14 KINGSTON, (Jamaica), Tues. (UPI). Riot squads armed with tear gas, rifles, batons and shields were called out at Sabina Pork, Kingston, Jamaica, yesterday afternoon when the Second Test match between England and West Indies was interrupted by a shower of bottles hurled on to
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    • 29 14 AMERICAN golf pro Paul Harney who will visit Malaysia on Feb. 19-26 under the auspices of the U.S. Department of State Cultural Exchange programme-
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    • 555 14 SYDNEY. Australia. Tues. (UPI) Australian Bobby Dunlop last night won the vacant light-heavyweight championship of the British Empire when he stopped Irishman Young McCormack in the seventh round of a bruising fight at Sydney Stadium Roferee Vic Patrick stopped the contest two minutes 24
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    • 550 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Following is the stipe's report on Saturdav's race:— First Dav. Saturday, Feb. 10. State of track: good. Race 1; Chanaya Bulan (app Rahwi) and Blue Venus (Soaidi) were slow to the two furlongs Emir Star (app. Cheam) had to be checked when
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    • 136 14 KINGSTON. (Jamaica), Tues. (Reuter) England cricket tour manager Leslie Ames announced last night that the M.C.C. had rejected a West Indian offer to play an extra 75 minutes in the Second Test match here on Tuesday to compensate for time lost in yesterday's spectator riot.
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    • 282 15 SINGAPORE, Tues. Jack Brabham, the world motor racing champion has turned down an invitation by the Singapore Motor Club to compete in the 1968 Singapore Grand Prix to be held in April. The veteran speed ace who made a brief
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    • 535 15 6EREMBAN. Tues. How far will Enche Shaar: bln Harun “the toast of Negri Soccer" today, succeed In his blueprint to re establish the lost prestige of the State soccer In 1968? Enche Shaari. who was re-elected unanimously to head NSFA. recently has
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    • 86 15 German Indoor Handball Champions VFL Gummersbach who won the title last year in Dortmund with a 17:13 victory over Dukla Prague. In the first European Cup match of the year, the French Champions US Marseilles were the guests of the team from the west of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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    • 622 15 Royal Meadow II heads weights in Tunku ’s Gold Cup KUALA I.UMPUR Tups. Royal Meadow 11. who scored a great double at Bukit Timah last month, heads the weights in the Tunku's Gold Cup with 9.04 to he run over ten furlonts on Sunday, the Fourth Day of the Selangor
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    • 170 15  -  By WINDSOR LAD KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Lovely Day, with apprentice Rafi astride, clocked the fastest time of the day when he easily disposed off 3f in 38 sec., finishing nicely on fhe bit. Lovely Day is in striking form and bears watching on Saturday. The
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    • 83 15 SINGAPORE. Tues. Enche Zainal Abidin was elected president of the Singapore Malay Hockey Association for the year 1968 1969 at its general meeting held yesterday at the Singapore Football Malay Association’s premises In Balestier Road here Others elected were vicepresident. Enche Saharl Sulaiman. secretary. Enche
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    • 37 15 SINGAPORE. Tues. Singapore Bank Employees’ Union will meet Air Ministry Local Staff Union in the final of the National Trades Union Congress soccer tournament tc be played a* the padang tomorrow. Kick. -off (5.15 pun).
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    • 38 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues.— The Malaysian Armed Forces will meet the Negri Sembilan Malavs in a Sultan's Gold Cup soccer tie at the Armed Forces Stadium on Feb. 18 Kick-off will b« at 500 p.m.
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    • 1239 15 Horses Class 4s Div. 2—9 Furs. noj Philadelphia 5v 9 00 China Stable ~Teh 451 Midas Touch 4v 9 00 Income Kongsi Allan 660 Rcplarc 5v 8 12 L A- W Kongsi West 080 Noble C hoice 7y 808 Noble Stable Leong 800
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    • 328 16  -  By Albert Johnson SINGAPORE, Tues. The Singapore Under-23 squad which almost pulled off a giant killing feat against Selangor in the FAM Cup competition will go into intensive training in preparation tor the Malaysia Cup to be held sometime in March/April. The
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    • 228 16 MUAR. Tues. The Johore State Open Badminton Championships have Infused fresh enthusiasm among both the “old timers” and the “budding players” in all the districts. To be sponsored by the Johore State Malays Badminton Association which became alive again after being defunct for nine
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    • 74 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues Selangor cricketer and hockey player, Mohamed Sidek bin Othman has been selected to captain the Kilat Club cricket team in the Stonor Shield competition this year. Kilat Club, who won the Stonor Shield for the sixth successive time last year, have also
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    • 229 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. With the Malaysian Open championships still four weeks to go. the Royal Selangor Golf Club Course Is receiving the best of attention for the big tournament. The secretary of the association. Mr. Edmond Yong said the greens were being properly trimmed
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    • 368 16 SINGAPORE. Tues. A total number of 57 teams, Including 26 girls teams, will participate in the City District Sports Council’s eighth annual cross-coun-try race, to be held at the Macßitchie Reservoir, tomorrow. at 2 30 p.m. Twenty Schools In the District have entered In teams
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    • 110 16 In two days, teams from the American School, from a Canadian school in Soest. from German secondary schools in Bad Godesberg and Bonn and a schoolboys'
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    • 133 16 MELBOURNE. Tues. (Reuter) Speed is expected to be a big factor in the fight between empire featherweight champion Johnny Famechon and Japanese Iseo Ichihara at Festival Hall in Melbourne on Friday night. Ichihara said in Melbourne last night that he had more
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    • 337 16  -  By HARI CHAND LCMPIR. Tues. It Is the opinion of most hockey plavers. and officials including fans that a manager for the Malaysian hockev team to the Mexico games wouid be made early and not left to the last minute. This question of
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    • 177 16 MALACCA. Tues Kelene Theseira (13) the youngest and only woman competitor tied with Gan Lian Tiong for first placing in the annual Malacca Open Men's Novices foil fencing championships held here. However. Kelene was placed second only after a count of hits. Kelene.
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    • 39 16 PONTIAN. Tues. —ln a keenly contested football friendly played at the Town Padang here the Pontian MIC Youths edged their Tebrau counterparts 3-2. The scorers for the winners were J Johar <2) and N. Gunasegaran.
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    • 636 16 TOKYO, Tues. (UPI) In 16-year-old Kazuko Sawamatsu. Japan has the makings of a world women's tennis champion. She has already carved her name in the niches of Japanese tennis history by becoming the youngest women's singles champion. She achieved this feat last
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    • 252 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Malaysia's leading sports club. Kilat Club left for Bangkok for a series of games against the Roval Bangkok Sports Club. The 50-member team will be led by the General Manager of National Electricity Board. Raja Zainal bin Raja Sulaiman who is
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    • 58 16 TIME AND TIDE Penan*: 12.44 a.m. (8.0 ft.), 1.25 pm. (7 0 ft.) Port Swettenham: 5.58 am. (14.9 ft.), 6.31 p m. (15.5 ft.) Port Dickson: 6.57 am. (8.8 ft), 7.08 pm. (8.6 ft.) Singapore: 10.40 a.m. (9.5 ft.) Sedili Kechil: 8.36 am. (6.5 ft.). 11.05 pm. (8.1 ft) Kuantan:
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