Eastern Sun, 3 March 1968

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  • 24 1 Eastern Sun Independent National Daily ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦A# SINGAPORE EDITION Estd. 1966. Vol. 2 No. 575 Sunday, 3 March 1968. MC (P) 0050 Price 15 cents
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  • 204 1 SINGAPORE, Sat. Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence, Tun Abdul Razak, arrives here on Monday for official follow-up defence talks with the Republic leaders. Tun Razak who will be here for two days will meet Prime Minister. Mr. Lee
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  • 56 1 ROME. Sat. (Reuter) Stu tents of Rome University. where about 150 professors are demanding the d smissal of the rector for alleged mismanagement, prepared today to rene w their demonstrations for university reform. Yesterday 197 peoole were iniured and 228 arrested in a bloody
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  • Article, Illustration
    269 1 Tun: British can’t help us much gYDNEY, Sat. (Reuter) Britain would not be able to do much to help Malaysia after British troops withdrew in 1971, the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Abdul Razak said in an interview broadcast here tonight. Tun Razak was speaking on the
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  • 157 1 -naa) »cs •VAHVHVr ter) Indonesian newspapers today welcomed the forthcoming visit of Malaysia's Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman. due to arrive here on Mondav for the first since the three-year Indonesian confrontation of the Malaysian Federation. The Armed Forces newspaner. Angkatan Bersendjata. said
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  • 160 1 KUALA LUMPl'R. Sat. It was “no's" all the wav when Sir Allan Dudley. Deputr Secretary to the British Ministry of Overseas Development, flew in tonight for a week's negotiation with the Malavsian Government on British aid following the British pnMout in 1971. Showing ypir-al
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  • 61 1 SAN FRANCISCO. Sat (Reuter) Police chief Thomas Cahill is asking that all his patrolmen be equipped with walkie-talk-ies. to keep up with radiocontrolled prostitutes. “Believe it or not.” he said in a report, “street walkers and their pimps now use walkie-talkies, with the procurer riding in a car
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  • 55 1 MELBOURNE. Sat. (Reuter) —Australia spends twice as much on medicines in relation to income as Bn am and Sweden, according to a Melbourne University economist. Mr. John Deeble. who carried out a survev on medicine bills, says the expenditure is due to high dispensing costs and to
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  • 267 1 CYDNEY, Sat. (Reuter) It would be very rash to say that when Britain pulls out of Singapore in 1971 she would never come back in any form at all, the Prime Minister of Singapore, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, said in an interview broadcast tonight.
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  • 45 1 BANGKOK. Sat. (Reuter) The Thai Interior Minister. General Praphas Charusathien. leaves Bangkok for a 24-day tour of four Asian countries, riurm* which he is expected to alert their leaders to the realities of Communist aggression and subversion in South-east Asia.
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  • 46 1 LONDON. Sat. (UPI) Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon flew from chilly London to the warm West Indies on Friday. Princess Margaret, recovering from a tonsil operation. and her husband will spend two weeks at the Barbados uncle and longtirnp friend of the royal family.
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  • 289 1 Reds attack 'suicide line DANANG. Sat. (Reuter) North Vietnamese troops inching forward in trenches towards the surrounded .Marine base at Khe Sanh .iumued out of them yesterday and attacked a South Vietnamese Ranker “suicide line” 200 yards outside the Marine perimeter, a U.S. spokesman said today. The North Vietnamese breached
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  • 213 1 UOUSTON, Texas. Sat. 11 (Reuter) President Johnson said yesterday that the United States was “close to landing on the moon” and added that the nation must continue to cross new space frontiers in the next decade. To this end. he announced that a
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  • 240 1 TOKYO, Sat. (UPI) Communist China today accused the United States of using poison gas in Vietnam but said the Communists will win the war on the battlefield. The Peking Government issued a statement charging. “U.S. imperialism and its lackeys have resorted to cold-blooded
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  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 506 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Sot. The government was today urged to insist that all British companies which have investments in Malaysia should register their companies here and not in London or elsewhere. Making this call today, the Director of Publicity of the Malaysian
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    • 416 2 Watch robbery KUALA LUMPUR Sat. Two youth* were sentenced to five years' Jail each in the Session's Court here today for robbing China and Company of $50,239 worth of watches and $lOO cash on Feb. 22. Chang Beng alias Halt Kwa; Meng. 22
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    • 268 2 PENANG, Sat. The Chairman of the United Democratic Party. Penang, Mr. Teh Ewe Lim. today accused the Malayan Chinese Association of "sell-ing-out'' Chinese education and disregarding the feelings of Malaysians of Chinese origin. He declared that the U.D.P. strongly deplored and condemned the Sec-retary-General
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    • 165 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat The amnesty for income tax evaders announced in Parliament by the Minister of Finance in August last year will expire at the end of this month. A statement by the Com-ptroller-General of Inland Re venue says: “It is a complete amnesty in
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    • 55 2 IPOH. Sat. An old Sten gun used bv Security Forces in "Operation Bamboo” in Upper Perak and Ulu Kelantang since 1960 was recovered by a penghulu of Temenggor. Wan Sidek bin Wan Im yesterday The Sten gun which had been handed over to the police, w-as
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    • 36 2 MUAR, Sa*. Enche Ibrahim bin Haji Junid. a Malay school teacher laere and Secretary of the Johore Boy Scouts' training team, has been awarded the “Seniargat Rimba” for outstanding services to the scout movement
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    • 79 2 KI’ALA LUMPUR. Sat. A mechanic. Yeow Ah Yoke. 32 was "hopping mad" when two youths, armed with daggers, held him up and robbed him of $56 at the Merdeka Stadium car park at about 9 pm. last night As soon as the youths turned their hark to
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    • 221 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. A 17-man study team from the Canadian Military College arrived here today for a four-day visit "to get a better understanding of this part of the world." Headed by Brigadier General D. M Holman, the team will be briefed
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    • 67 2 course SEREMBAN. Sat. A one-day vocational guidance course for .secondary schoolgirls was held by the Young Women's Christian Association here today. The course, held at the Town Hall here, was this morning opened by the Tunku Ampuan of Negri Sembilan. It was part of the YWCA's community
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    • 56 2 MUAR. Sat. Enche Husin bin Ahmad, the Treasurer of the Johore Branch of the DTC Teachers’ Union today warned the union would not take up the case of members who were more than $3 in arrears in their subscriptions. Enche Husin gave this warning in the latest issue
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    • 126 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat Four officers of the Malaysian Armed Forces left today to attend Army courses in Australia and England. Three of the officers will attend a one month's joint warfare and ground liaison offii-er course at the Air Support Unit. Royal Australian Air
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    • 51 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. Bemama. Malaysia's national news agency, has engaged its editorial staff for the first phase of its operations and hopes to launch a daily news service in the latter part of May. This was announced after a meeting of Bemamas Board of Governors
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    • 32 2 MALACCA. Sat. Mrs. K. Slnalton. wife of a serviceman, reported yesterday that thieves broke Into her house at Buklt Baru and took away $BBO cash while she was out.
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    • 31 2 IPOH. -Sat Four men. one armed with a pistol and the others with daggers. Staged a daring day-light robbery in Sitiawan yesterday escaping with $12,000 in cash and jewellery.
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    • 182 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat The National Union of Teachers, Selangor Branch, is organising free classes for teachers who wish to sit for the overseas School Certificate and Malaysia Certificate of Education examinations These further education classes are aimed at helping teachers, especially those in vernacular schools,
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    • 112 2 TANJONG RAMBUTAN. Sat. The Minister of Health. Enche Bahaman bin Samsudin said today that the treatments provided by the mental hospitals in the country were scientific and highly modernised. He was speaking at the opening of the clinical diagnostic block of the mental hospital here He
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    • 104 2 TV Singapura's Channel 5 will telecast another programme In its series Visitors’ Book on Monday. The visitor to be highlighted will be Professor J D.B. Miller. Professor of International Relations, the Research School of Pacific Studies. Australian National University. Professor Miller was recently
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    • 64 2 5 p.m.-6 p.m. Performance by the Tanjong Katong Secondary Technical School and Tanjong Katong Girls’ Secondary School Band at the Botanic Gardens. 530 p.m.-6.30 p.m. Performance by the Sinf spore Infantry Regiment land at the Macßitchie Reservoir Park. 6 p.m. Singapore Festival '6B at the Gay World Stadium.
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    • 628 3  -  Entry of Commonwealth citizens if reviewed: By S. RAI QINGAPCRE, Sat. Thousands of Singapore citizens of Indian origin with families in India may find themselves separated in* definitely from their families if the Indian Government decides to review the entry
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    • 379 3 SINGAPORE. Sat. Professor Wong Lin Ken will return to Washington on Monday to his post as Ambassador to the United States pending the appointment of a new Ambassador. The appointment of a new Ambassador will be done by the end oi
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    • 455 3 SINGAPORE. Sat. The Minister for Finance. Dr. Goh Keng Swee. today called on the National Trades I'nion Conpress (NTUC) to establish a permanent training institute of its own This, he said, would do more tha n any other single e ement in producing
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    • 86 3 VISITING the Wellington Zoo soon after their arrival in Wellington, the capital city, these four students from Singapore were interested to see New Zealand's emblem bird the kiwi. A flightless tird, the kiwi is protected by law. A few are kept at zoos and
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    • 131 3 SINGAPORE Sat.—A-iout 700 workers will cor.tribu'e their wages from full-time work tomorrow and the next to raise aoou' 513.000 'or the National Defcnre Fund. This was announced today by the Secretary of the Singapore ’anual and Mercantile Workers’ Union. Mr. Joseph Tan
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    • 140 3 SINGAPORE. Sat A carnival is being organised by the students, teachers and "old hn«-s” of RafTles Institution to aid the National Defence Fund. The RI carnival will be held on April 27 and 28 on the RI g-ovnds in Bras Basah Road Mr.
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    • 259 3 SINGAPORE, Sat. Three women have scored credits in the University of Singapore's Examination for the Diploma in Education (January 1968), the results of which were announced today. The three are Che Zulaiha binte Mohamed Ismail, Miss Loong May Lin and Miss Rosalind Heng
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    • 406 4  -  By L. D. BAPTIST PENANG, Sat. Three "burglars" clad in A block outfits were caught by residents in Island Park within half an hour of a police whistle being blown last night. The three "burglars" were, however, only three ordinary people, participating in a
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    • 230 4 KUALA LUMPUR Sat The Methodist Afternoon School Old Bovs Association here will consider a proposal to admit “old girls’’ not only of its alma mater hut those of its sister school the Methodist Girls Afternoon School as members of the club when it holds its
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    • 112 4 KUALA KANGSAR. Sat. More street lights along the approach roatiU leading to the Istana Lskandariah have been requested by the Private Secretary to the Sultan Of Perak in view of the forthcoming silver wedding anniversary celebrations of the Sultan and the Raja
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    • 52 4 PENANG. Sat. To cope with the growing demand lor telephone facilities in Butterworth. a new rural automatic exchange known as Bagan Ajam (8.A.J.) will be brought into service on March 15. Subscribers on this exchange will be given three<hgr numbers beginning with the figure 4. 6
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    • 277 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. The Economic Commission for Asia and Far East (ECAFE) is to undertake a four-day survey on the community development of Malaysia. Twelve experts, headed by an ECAFE official. Mr. Homi B Minocher Homiji. arrived here this morning and immediately went to
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    • 253 4 KOTA KINABALU. Sabah. Sat. (Reuter). The English-language newspaper Kinabalu Times today urged the Malaysian Government to abandon talks with the Philippines on a proposed labour pact and instead negotiate with Indonesia to meet a shortage of workers. The newspaper said the visit to Jakarta
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    • 53 4 MR. Foong Seong, Perak’s multi-millionaire tin miner and donor of the Foong Seong Badminton Cup, helping his wife to cut their five-tier wedding cake at their Golden Wedding Anniversary in Ipoh on Tuesday night. The function was held at the Golden Jubilee Restaurant where some 1.500 guests sat down to
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    • 88 4 KCALA LUMPUR, Sat. Malaysia has contributed $3O 000 worth of food and clothing for the refugees in Vietnam. This is i|i addition to the $30,000 worth of anti-cholera and anti-typhoid vaccines which Malaysia donated to the country on Feb. 11. The vaccines have
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    • 126 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat A guard of honour will be formed in connection with the official opening of the fifth meeting of the first se-sion of the State Legislative Assembly on Tuesday at 10 a.m., at Jalan Raja, in front of the State Secretariat building. The
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    • 300 4 MALACCA. Sat. An Alliance leader here has claimed that the proposed Chinese university advocated by some people was designed more to embarrass the Malaysian Chinese Association in the eyes of the Chinese community than to serve the Chinese and Chinese education. In an
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    • 151 4 TAIPING. Sat. A nursery school for toddlers between three and six years of age will be opened at the Town Hall here in the second week of next month. “This project is under the Taiping Junior Chamber's service to the community programme. 'he Chairman of the
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    • 53 4 MUAR. Sat. The Government is to spend $20,000 On the construction of 50 low-cost terraced houses at Jalan Haji Mohamed Jaib here this year. Upon completion, they will be sold to local residents on a monthly instalment basis of $3O a month over a period
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    • 34 4 The Yang di-Pertuan Atone granted an audience to the Malaysian High Com-missioner-designate in India, Raja Azmm bin Raja Haji Ahmad, at Istana Negara, Kuala Lumpur, on Thursday. Picture shows the King with Raja Axnam.
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    • 142 4 T/'UALA LUMPUR, Sot. Four thefts were reported in the Federal capital yesterday involving a total of $B5O cash and $745 worth of valuables. A businessman, Yam Loy Wah, of Jalan Doraisamy, reported the loss of $6OO cash from his shop at Jalan Campbell,
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    • 209 4 KI'ALA LUMPUR. Sat —A membership drive committee has beeen formed by the Selangor Local Council of the Malaysia Hindu Sangam to enrol all the temples in the towns and estates in Selangor as members of the bodv. The committee was formed at the suggestion of
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    • 140 4 IPOH. Bat. School crossing patrol wardens will be put into service at 43 schools here to ensure the safety of students, especially in the primary schools. Such a precautionary measure is being undertaken In view of the increasing number of motor vehicles on the road “Such
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    • 114 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. The American Foundation for Overseas Blind this year will contribute $10,500 to the Malayan Association for the Blind to help in paying the salaries of the MAB Staff in the light engineering training division, said Haji Mohamed YusOf bin Mahmud. MP, who
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    • 99 5 SINGAPORE. Sat. The British Deputy Secretary to the Ministry of Overseas Development, Sir Alan Dudley left Singapore this evening after 4-day talks with Singapore leaders on British aid to offset the effects of the accelerated withdrawal of military forces in Singapore. Sir
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    • 64 5 SINGAPORE, Sat The Indian Naval Cruiser INS MYSORE carrying the flag of Rear Admiral S.N. Kohli with its destrover escorts INS RAJPUT and INS RANJIT will be in Singapore on formal visit from March 9 to March 12The Indian Naval ships KHUKRI. KUTHAR and DEEPAK
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    • 466 5 RUBBER FREIGHT RATES UP? SINGAPORE, Sat. The Singapore Representative of the Far Eastern Freight Conference today maintained the rubber and latex freight rates from Singapore and Malaysia to Europe "have definitely been reduced from March 1 In a statement today, Mr. John Mills. Conference Representative said that any
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    • 302 5 SINGAPORE. Sat. Taekwon-do. the Korean art of self defence can he acquired with little disruption in a person's daily life provided one has the urge and the devotion to the art, said Mr. Kim Bok Man. the leader of a six-man Taekwon-do experts.
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    • 35 5 SINGAPORE Sat The Singapore Newspaper Venders' Association has obtained registration from the Register of Societies on Feb. 22. This was today disclosed by the Organising Secretary of the association, Mr. G. Arunchlam.
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    • 380 5 SINGAPORE. Sat. The Minister of Defence, Mr. Lim Kim San this afternoon took the salute at the passing out parade of National Servicemen held at the Taman Jurong camp here. The Min:ster told the recruits that events had moved fast since Aug 1967.
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    • 125 5 SINGAPORE. Sat. National Servicemen enlisted after August/September last year will be guests of honour at dinner parties to be heid this month at all constituencies. These National Servicemen who are now undergoing training in the Singapore Armed Forres will attend dinners at their respective constituencies. At the
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    • 348 5  -  4 KIDS DIE IN SEA TRAGEDY By: K. Sidhu SINGAPORE. Sat. Corporal Barry Ford, one of the lucky-to-be-alive survivors of yesterday’s sea tragedy sat back in his chair today and recalled the terrifying two-hour ordeal in the rough seas. Corporal Ford, of the
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    • 226 5 SINGAPORE. Sat. A five-day Asian Workshop on Justice and Human Progress in Society will begin at the University of Singapore here tomorrow. About 120 delegates from 12 nations Korea, Japan, Taiwan. Hong Kong. Philippines, Indonesia. Ponape Islands. New Guinea, Thailand. Vietnam. Malaysia and Singapore
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    • 117 5 SINGAPORE. Sat. The leader of the Canadian National Defence College team which is now visiting Singapore, Air Vice Marshal, F. S. Carpenter said today there was great potential in Singapore’s economic progress. Speaking to newsmen at the Beach Road military headquarters. Air Vice
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    • 107 5 Eastern Sun picture shows the guests at the main table. They are. from left: Tan Sri Runme Shaw. Mrs. Ong Swee Law. Mr. Ong Pang Boon, the Minister for Education. Dr Ong Swee Law. the President of the OBA; Mrs. Robert F. Lundv; Dr. Robert F.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 1484 2 YOUR TV and Radio TODAY TV MALAYSIA CHANNEL 5 KUALA LUMPUR and Pulau Pinang: 6 Ipoh and Melaka. 3*l# Johnre Bahru; t Taiping; 7 Batu Pahat; 9 Kluang. P.M. 300 Opening Annct. Prog Summary; 3.01 Learn Our Language; 3.16 Rugby Union England vs New Zealand All Blacks; 416 Racket Squad
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  • 460 6  -  By Sam Hall SCIENTISTS at Miami’s tropical Atlantic biological laboratory are hopeful that newly-dis-covered tuna fishing grounds off West Africa will provide American fishermen with new resources. Waters off the coasts of Angola and the Ivory Coast will be studied during a five-month voyage to determine
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 473 6 THE MAN FROM A Q A A V.K.C. L. E GOODNESS/ SOME POOR BLIND MAN WILL BE DESPERATE.' WE'D BEST BRING ITIN FOR THE AGENTS TO IDENTIFY? WHY-HE MUST HAVE BECOME SEPARATED FROM HIS OWNER.' Meanwhile outside uncle headquarters ALICE, LOOK—A SEEING EYE DOG WITH A BUND MAN'S HARNESS ON/
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  • 645 7 is the ingredient that sets your holiday photographs apart from ordinary scenes available on postcards almost everywhere? The answer is—"people". By thoughtfully including your family and friends, or natives of the countries you visit, you can get pictures that are distinctively different from any
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 286 7 TEACH ORVILLE, HERE, SKATE LIKE THAT AMP t I'LL PAY YOU WELL/ TO HEY, WHO YES, you Ta/£/?F Aft SKATING BEAR X like your SFIEL...WSA A P£AL /‘'V /> >1 fT iri r Vi 'll rC*s. DEAL THEN IT 5 YOU TEACH MY 0H...0NE OTHER THING...I'M DEPUCTING TEH BUCKS EYERY
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  • FORLLOW THE SUN
    • 439 8 TOKYO. Sat. (Reuter) Behind the-scenes peace efforts by Prince Fumimarn Knnoe and other Japanese senior statesmen were instrumental in preventing: a last-ditch war effort by Japan towards the end of World War 11. according to a recently-discovered diary of the late former
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    • 245 8 An important scientific experiments is being prepared in the Kerguelen Lslands in the southern Indian Ocean. In a few weeks the National Space Research Centre will launch three Dragon II B sounding rockets from the Port-aux-Francais base as well as a dozen 25.000 to
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    • 109 8 THE MD. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute of Houston, Texas, has just ordered a new electron linear accelerator for radiotherapy. The accelerator, designed and developed by the Compagnie Generale de T.S.F. (C.S.F.), will be built by the Raytheon Company Microwave and Power Tube Division in
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    • 102 8 THE library of the Hong Kong French Cultural Centre has become one of the most active sections of the centre and is highly frequented. More than a third of those enrolled in the library are Chinese. The number of books borrowed exceeded 4.000 in
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    • 739 8  -  by Bernard Dix Editor of the ‘Public Employees* Journal*, organ of the UK National Union of Public Employees. IMPORTANT changes in the pattern of collective bargaining, used by employers and trade unions to fix agreements on wage rates and working conditions, are anticipated in
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    • 291 8 HONG KONG. Sat. (UK)— An Uruguayan and a Frenchman making an art film of Asia recounted here that having Brigitte Bardot aboard their yacht was nothing to a later experience in which pirates held t.iem captive for one month in the Maidive Islands. Carlos
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    • 368 8  -  By WALTER DAVIS LONDON (Reuter) A 50-year-old dream of British theatre lovers for a gTeat new permanent home to house a national theatre company is at last to be realised. Alone among the nations of Europe. Britain has been without a national theatre It
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    • 207 8 STOCKHOLM Test animals which for a couple of weeks have inhaled coal dust show a markedly lower protection against bacteria in the lungs, says Dr. Ragnar Rylander at the department for environmental hygiene at the Swedish Institute of Public Health in an interview in Dagens
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    • 400 8  -  Father of the printed word By JOCHEN BESS MAINZ (DaD) Without the invention of hook-printing, the history of the last 500 years would certainly have been different. The prerequisites for our present form of life with created with the unlimited distribution of knowledge. Johannes Gutenberg, the
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    • 122 8 (DaD) Three wellpreserved 15th century city towers are the pride and joy of the 10,000 inhabitants of Mindelheim in the South of the Federal Repuhlie of Germany. The deep religious feelings of the people here coincide with the heartwarming and gay relebrations during the Carnival season.
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 540 9 OINGAPORE, Sat. In planning an advanced cargo system, an airline commits itself to investment on the grand scale Over the next few years this grand scale will cost BOAC about £29 million, the capital cost of cargo aircraft and their ground support sys-
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    • 147 9 KUALA LUMPUR Sat. The production of tin concentrates In West Malaysia In January came to 154.557 pikuls containing; 6.910 tons of tin metal, an extract from the West Malaysia Mining Statistics disclosed today. The average daily rate of production was 4.986 pikuls of tin concentrates, compared
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    • 100 9 SINGAPORE. Sat The Association of Banks In Malaysia today made the following changes in its rates to merchants: New York: Buying TT. 32-13''16. Airmail OD 3215 16; 90 d st. 33-7/16 credit bills. 33-3/4 trade bills. Canada: Buying T.T. 3511 16; Airmail O.D. 3513 16; 90 d st.
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    • 22 9 WASHINGTON Sat (Reuter) No offers were received by General Services Administration today to buy tin, an agency spokesman said
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    • 179 9 LONDON. Sat. (UPI) South African gold mines boomed on the Stock Market yesterday and prices were higher throughout the section. Buying was prompted by new speculation on the price future of the metal and rumours about a change In the gold selling policy of the
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    • 256 9 Visiting the Operations Room of the Economic Development Board at the Jurong Industrial Estate are Mr. Robert J. Runtz. Vie- President and Control e- of International Our t a-«. Grant Adverlefe*rat:onal. Ine and Mr c,f offrey R"-Area Director for E" one. Middle East
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    • 157 9 NEW YORK Sat (UPI) Stock prices drifted lower in fairly active trading yesterday but declines for the most part were confined to fractions. Golds were a feature, making good headway in response to a surge in demand for gold in the Paris market which stemmed from
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    • 82 9 LONDON. Sat (UPI) The rubber market closed very steady with spot 16-3/8 16-5/8. Settlement House: April 16-11/16 16-13/16 May 16-7/8 17-1/16 June 17-1/8 17-5/16 April/June 16-7/8 17-1/18 July Sept 17-7/16 17-5/8 Oct/Dec 17-3/4 17-15/16 Jan/March 17-15/16 18-1/8 April/June 18-1 8 18-5/16 July/Sept 18-1/4 18-7/16 Oct/Dec 18-3/8
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    • 656 9 SINGAPORE. Sat. Business in and reported to the Singapore and Kuala Lumpur tracing rooms of the Stock Exchange with the number of snares deal: in brackets INDUSTRIALS Ben and Co $2 74 (3 000) S 2 73 <3 000> $2 76 '12.900'. Si <5B < 1.000): C. 5; $2
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    • 159 9 ZURICH, Sat (Reuter) Gold was in great demand and the dollar was under pressure here today because of rumours of a possible change in the US gold-selling policy this weekend, dealers reported. By noon, the dollar had dropped to 4 3450 against the franc, the lowest
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    • 361 9 SINGAPORE Sat —Trading was rather irregular during the past week, stated Holiday. Cutler Bath Co. Ltd in their weekly market review. The following were factors. Conjectures on the volume of Russian offtake during March and the schedules of the steamers allotted to lift it; a
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    • 447 9 i i IMMPOKK—Stock Eirbanie aid and offer price* official!} Uned at tne close or buslnew. INDUSTRIALS Ben 4: to 2-74 2.75 BnuMead 168 1 70 < »ugar 2.;k 2.;7 hemleal to 1 .->2 1.54 old storage 4.00 4.10 Dunlop 2.17 2. MO l 'inciting 4 00 l*so Ord*
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    • 48 9 (Managers' Prices) First Malaran 2.43 Nfcflml Malayan 1 75 Third Malayan 111 The oimncrce Industry .94 1 03 The savin; Industry \l> .93 1.02 first II Kong .18 83> second Hongkong .55 -59* Malayan Inyestment fund 1.05 1.15 sterling ornmodlty 4 1 4/8 Hons Kong Currency)
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    • 103 9 SINGAPORE. Sat. The noun price* at the Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange roday are > Buyer Seller Coconut Oil (FOB) Bulk (51.50 Coconut Oil (F.O.B.) Drums 61.00 Lon.p opra Mixed Feb/Mar 3T.50 Muntdk While Pepper (FOB.) 96% N.L.tV 127.50 Sarawak White Pepper (F.O.B.) 96% N.L.tV 125.00 Sarawak special Black Pepper
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    • 55 9 NEW YORK Sat. (UPI) Rubber futures closed yesterday unchanged and untraded. Mar 68 17.00 17 75 May 17.70 18.05 Juiv 17.80 18.25 Sept 18.00 18.25 Nov 18 25 18.65 Jan 69 18 40 18.80 Mar 18 50 19 00 The spot No. 1 RSS held steady at
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    • 15 9 SINGAPORE, Sat The tin price for today was $557 per picul, up $1.50.
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    • 186 9 SINGAPORE. Sat. The following ships are expected to be in port today:God owns essels 1/2 Waitaki 3/4 Bengloe 5 B a wean 6/7 Thorscape 8/9 Neder Eems in 11 Benreoch 13/14 Myrmidon 15/16 State Of Madras 18 Garrvbank 19 Kyosho Maru 27 23 Toyo Maru No. 1
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  • 121 10 65. Thou hast dealt well with thy servant. O LORD, according unto thy word. 66. Teach me good Judgment and knowledge for I have believed thy commandments. 67. Befo I was afflicted I went astray: but have I kept thy word. 68. The good, and doest
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  • 419 10 TTERE are the Bible answers to some of our readers’ Tl questions. Send In vour problems to “The Christian Answers”, 23-B Cantonment Road. Singapore or 39 Jalan Sultan. K. Lumpur and have them answeredBona fide questions may be on any subject. QUESTION: Q: WHY DID GOD TELL
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  • 1224 10 T WAS saying In an earlier J article that I thought a Christian should do his duty as a citizen by taking an active interest in what is going on around him and sharing in the life of the community. This involves making up his mind
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  • 212 10 rpHE Bible in whole or in part 1 has been translated into 1,326 languages and dialects, the United Bible Societies report. This total represents the languages spoken by about 96% of the world's population. During 1967, 46 language groups received part of the Bible
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  • 119 10 SINGAPORE. Sat. About 40 Christian students from Nanyang University and University of Singapore will be attending a one-week Leadership Training Con ference from Mar. 4 to 9. The Leadership Training Conference, jointly organised by the Chinese sections of the Nanyang University Christian Fellowship (NUCF) and the Varsity
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  • 59 10 JOHORE BAHRU. Sat Mr Tan Kok Berg of Malaysia E'angelis’ic Fellowship in Singapore, will be conducting a sene? of meetings at the Holy Light Church here from Mar. 7 to 10 at 7 p.m nightly. With him is a team from the Varsi’y Chris' ian Fellowship. They
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  • 317 10 PENANG, Sat. A small hut in Weld Quay, which has been unoccupied for some time because it is said to be haunted, has now become Penang Jesus Saves Mission Station. The Director of Jesus Saves Mission in Singapore. Rev. Peter Ng Eng Hoe. who
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  • 159 10 SINGAPORE Sat. ResJohn Chen Ping, who has given his life during the last two decades to pioneering missions, has just arrived here to make preparations to fulfil a missionary engagement with the Overseas Missionary Fellowship in I aos. He is to preach to a Teochew community
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  • 36 10 SINGAPORE. Sat. Rev. John Feters. of the Pocket Testament League in Saigon, will be speaking at the Worship Service International Baptist Church. 8 Jalan Pelangi. Holland Village here tomorrow at 10 a m.
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  • 319 10 SINGAPORE. Sat— The Far Eastern Division of the General Conference of Seventh day Adventists has announced that the world headquarters office of the denomination is sending U 3536.250 worth of relief supplies to South Vietnam to help provide clothing, food, and ir~dicine
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  • 158 10 SINGAPORE, Sat. The coming “Let us reason together’’ series of evangelistic meetings organised hv the Fellowship of Evangelical Students will be held at Kadang Kerbau Hospital Lecture Theatre on Mar. 4. 5 and 6 at 8 nightly. Dr Benjamin Chew, a well-known and outstanding
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    • 1211 10  -  by Watchman Nee “THE God of our Lord Jesus Christ raised Wm from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand m the heavenly places, far above, all rule, and authority, an power, and dominion, and every name that is named, n only in this world,
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    • 990 11  -  By Janat Chong you turn eighteen, the man in your life start to mean more as people and countless as status symbols. Believe it or not, whenever dating begins, it goes through a big change around the age of eighteen. At this
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      162 11 A— For xn evening date out. here is an eyecatching caftan in chiffon of a subtle colour. Slightly gatnrred at the collar for added flare. It is glamourised by the silver sequins on the roll-collar and edges of the full-length flare sleeves. The outfit is fully lined. Complete
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    • 157 11 COCONUT CREME GLACE Ingredients: 1 x 5 oz. tin NESTLES PURE THICK CREAM. chilled 2 eggs, separated 1 x 14 oz tin MILKMAID SWEETENED CONDENSED MILK 1 cup thick coconut milk 1 x 1 lb. tin cream style sweet corn a few drops food colouring, optional. Method: Set refrigerator
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    • 273 11 VIISS .Lma Wong, makeup artiste of the Revlon Company in Hong Kong, arrived in Singapore by air on Thursday night foi a six-week tour of Singapore and Malaysia. The purpose of her visit is to introduce the exciting new
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    • 317 11 ITALIAN garden lamps If you have a garden- in your house,' don't neglecf it. Beautify and light it. up with lamps. Give it an Italian touch and turn it into a romantic place of living. For this I would suggest you get those beautiful -Italian
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    • 90 11 THE fashion love for.deeorative hems, now bordered with fur or rope corded, for spring deep in lace or underruffled pleats. or banded. NEW t:ghts look, first sparked by Rudi Gemreich, with a contrast side band, preferably matched to a side-stripe easy knit dress. REVIVAL of the band collar.
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    • 1223 11 RELIGIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS RELIGIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS ANGLICAN ST. ANDREW’S CATHEDRAL 7.00 a.m. Holy Communion, 8.00 a.m. Parish Communion. 11.00 a.m. Morning Service and Holy Communion, 6.00 p.m. Evensong. Sunday Schools at 8.00 a.m and 9.30 a.m. ST PETEK’s CULT.CII. 1 Tavistock Avenue, Serangoon Garden Estate, Singapore 19. Sunday 8 a.m. Parish Communion.
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      457 12 NO KIDDING, but Mnnkce MIKE NESMITH has composed and produced, in collaboration with jazz trumpeter Shorty Rogers, a full-length rock ‘n’ roil symphony believed to be the first work of its kind. It has been recorded under Nesmith's supervision by over 50 jazz musicians from the bands of
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    • 378 12 JT \RLY in 1967, many followers of a British group railed The Yardbirds were shoeked to hear the news that JEFF RECK, lead guitar placer with the group. had left. One of the ni«»t pertinent questions Jeff s fan» asked was **U hat is Jeff going to
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    • 381 12  -  by SANDIE SHAW WELL, for starters, I don't like men with floppy ears. And I hate men who are overweight. I mean a man can He big if he’s a big man. but if he is little and big he’s out! After-shave lotions are definitely out!
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      424 12 “Fire Brigade" “Walk I pon Tne Water" (Regal-Zunophnnrt Thi* is The Move's follow-up to “Flowers In The Rain", and although this isn’t quite as strong melodically. it’s equally as good performance and impact-wise It pounds along at a driving pace, with a bouncy beat enhanced by guttural twangs
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    • 343 12 HI THERE! LIKE. Hurray for TV Malaysia! Far firing us the forthcoming DI STY SPRIWFIELI) TV series. Like the’* about the grentesl female-type songbtrds aro-ind and tchai with guest star* on the programme too. Make sure you don't mis* a *ingle edition! But speaking of TV i
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    • 119 12 The Anglo-Australian pop group. The Bee Gees, have two different songs at the top of world charts this week. In Amsterdam their "Words" displaces Toon Hermans’ long run at the top, while in West Berlin an earlier release. “World.” is the week's best seller. In Britain a “Busker”
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    • 226 12 LONDON: 1 Cinderella Rockefella Esther and Abi Ofarim 2 Mighty Quinn Man* fred Mann 3 The Legend Of Xanadu Pave Dee, Oozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich 4 She Wears My Kin* Solomon King 5 Fire Brigade Move 6 Bend Me. Shane Me Amen Corner 7
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  • 836 13  -  By Sydney Gillingham TT was, said Cliff Richard, quite ridiculous. What he meant was that it was almost unbelievable, "it” being the number of people expected to watch the next Eurovision song contest when it is televised throughout Europe from London this year. We
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  • 398 13 Singapore, Sat. RA I G Stevens all cool, playing Peter Gunn in Paramount's latest murder mystery "Gunn”. Smooth, sauve, and steady, Stevens's "Cool Hand Luke” method of operation in solving the mystery gets full marks The mystery itself is well-spiced with suspense
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  • 116 13 IN the packed Gloria Palace in Berlin, the youne actress Cornelia Froboess, was recently presented with the Ernst Lubitsch Prize. This Prize has been awarded annually since 19a# by the Berlin Film Journalists’ Club in memory of the (treat German comedy film director, Ernst Lubitsch, for the best
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  • 54 13 TERENCE Stamp seems to be as serious about Joanna Pettet as a man can be with no visible intention of getting married Jessica Walter, another member of “The Group.’’ with Joanna, has gone blonde for her role in the TV special of “Kiss Me Kate." thrilling away with
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  • 848 14 SINGAPORE, Sat. Refusing to buckle despite ternfie rallies by par-wrecking contemporaries, Hsieh Yting Yo, dubbed as the steadiest golfer in the Far East Circuit shot a brilliant 33-33—-66, five under par to retain his lead at 204 after 54 pressure-packed holes.
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  • 217 14 SINGAPORE. Sat Singapore Amateur Athletic Association will hold its annual cross-country race at the RN'AS Simbang on March 16. at 4.00 p.m. Competitors who wish to participate, will have to send their entry form with an entry fee of $l-00 by Wednesday. Entry forms
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  • 336 14 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados. Sat. (Reuter). Gaty Sobers. West Indies captain and the worlds greatest cricketer, steered his team from the brink of catastrophe after England paceman John Snow had taken two wickets in successive balls on the second day of the Third Cricket test
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  • 292 14 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. The Satyananda Secondary School of Brickfields beat 19 other schools to win the Un-der-20 event of the Selangor Schools Sports Council's road relay at the Lake Gardens this morning Satyananda Secondary School returned a time of 50 min. 6 4 sec. Jayasamy.
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  • 310 14 CHICAGO Sat. (Reuter) South Africa's participation in next October's Olympic Games was in the balance again today after the host nation Mexico, thrust the bitter issue back to the International Olympic C o m m it t e e. (1.0. C.). Mr. Avery
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  • 616 14 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. The Malaysian Open Golf ships, the third leg on the 1968 Far East Circuit, will begin here next Thursday, with a record number of 94 professionals and 16 amateurs taking part. The four-dav 72-hole open will he held at the
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  • 26 14 SINGAPORE. Sat. The Singapore Under-23 team will meet Joint Services in a friendly soccer match at Jalan Be=ar stadium tomori row. Kick-off (5.15 pun.).
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  • 537 14 1 REFER to the article in the Eastern Sun of Feb. 29. headed "MMSC must give thought to fall of local entries”, concerning motor cycle racing in Malaysia. Firstly, the Malaysian Motor Sports Club and all motor racing followers are greatly appreciative of the interest
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  • 375 14 LONDON, Sat «Reuter* Results of football matches played today were: ENGLISH ONE Burnley 0 Man City 1 Evert on 3 Coventry C. 1 Leicester C 3 Sheffield U. 1 Man U. 1 Chelsea 3 Sneflfield W 1 Newcastle U 1 Sunderland 1 0 Southampton 3 W oives
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  • 93 14 SEREMBAN, Sat.—Harlmau Sports Club ‘A’ the defending champions had easy victories in their encounters in the women’s hockey competition for the Sydney Ananda Trophy competition played here today. This morning they beat Harimau S.C.B 6-0 and in the evening routed N.S. Schools Sports Council
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  • 79 14 A LOR STAR. Sat. An Irdonesian soccer team from Medan, Sumatra which arrived here for a series of friendly matches against teams from Penang. Kedah and Perlis will play a match against Kedah on Tuesday. They will later play a match against Penang before departure. The
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