Eastern Sun, 23 April 1968

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  • 23 1 Eastern Sun Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION Estd. 1960. Vol. 2 No. 624 Tuesday, 23 April 1968. MC (P) 0050 Price 15 cents
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  • 252 1 WINDHOEK. South-West Africa. Mon. The only survivor yet able to talk about Saturday's Windheok air disaster told today how he miraculously came out of the burning Boeing wreck in which 122 people died. Thomas Taylor. 36-year-old American diplomatic courier from Oklahoma. received only
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  • 70 1 CANBERRA. Mon. (Reuter' The Australian Army's Adjutant General, Major General C. E. Long, will begin a 14-day tour of South Vietnam. Singapore and Malaysia on May 13. Army Minister Mr. Phillip Lynch said today that General Long would visit Australian units and speak with troops. He
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  • 538 1 Corregidor: P.I. Forces Chief makes an admission MANILA. MON. (UP!) 'THE Philippine Armed Forces adJ miffed foday if sfill cannof find 17 persons involved in a fop secref framing camp on fhe island of Corregidor. Armed Forces Chief of Staff Gen. Segundo Velasco told a joint Senate
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  • 72 1 KOTA KINABALU. Sabah. Mon (Reuter) Tan Sri Abdul Hamid bin Jumat. the Malaysian Ambassador to the Philippines, arrived in Kota Kinabalu (formerly Jesselton) Kinabalu (formerly Jesselton) today for discussions with the State Government. It is believed by observers here he will hold talks
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  • 304 1 TEHERAN. Mon. (Reuter) United Nations Secretary General U Thant warned here today that racial conflict was becoming a "destructive monster" which would make past and present disputes seem like small family quarrels In a major address at the International Conference on Human Rights
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  • 233 1 PETALING JAYA. Mon. —A 17-year-old boy whose “heroism" made headlines last month when he was badly burnt while trying to save his father's bar and restaurant from being gutted by fire died in the Assunta Hospital today. He was Johnny Keong Fook Ming, son
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  • 62 1 CANBERRA. Mon (UPI> The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE). U Nyun. said today Asia had to develop in an Asian way and not along the lines of other economic communities. Speaking at ECAFE's annual meeting here. U Nyun
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  • 102 1 SAIGON. Mon (UPI) South Vietnamese troops and National Police in the Saigon area were ordered on special alert today amid numerous reports of Vietcong plans for another largescale attack on the capital. Allied spokesmen said six Vietcong attacks were launched on the outskirts of Saigon on Sunday
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  • 68 1 JOHANNESBURG Mon. (Reuter) Bodies of 104 of the 122 people who died in Saturday night’s Boeing 707 crash at Windhoek. Southwest Africa, were flown here today in an Air Force transport. At the crash scene itself, meanwhile. South African Civil Aviation Department officials continued their
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  • 56 1 NEW YORK. Mon. (UPI) Defence Secretary Clark M. Clifford said today the increased effectiveness of South Vietnamese forces ‘‘will n ow permit us to level off our effort.” He said the United States would be able to begin gradually reducing the number of American
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  • 284 1 LUMPUR, Mon. The suspension •l*- of China Airlines flights to Malaysia and Singapore would continue unless the Formosan Government undertakes to supervise the operations of the airlines. The Malaysia-Singapore Airlines had put forward this recommendation to the Singapore and Malaysian Governments in its proposal
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  • 37 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon The Malaysian Government today announced the appointment of Tan Sri Zaiton Ibrahim bin Ahmad as Malaysian Ambassador to the Soviet Union He js at present Malaysian Ambassador to Japan.
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 778 2  -  By C. F. LEE .*.KUALA LUMPUR, v Mon Moloysio expects that by the end of the year, some 10 per cent of her total rubber production of one million tons would be technically specified and > tailor-made to the requirements of the
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    • 277 2 A challenge to Gerakan leader: —JOHORE BAHRU, Mon. The Chairman of the Gerakan Ra'ayat Malaysia, Prof. (Dr.) Syed Hussein Al-atas has been challenged to contest against an UMNO strongman here, Syed Mohomed Idrus in the 1969 general elections. The challenge was issued bv Syed Mohamed
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    • 173 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon—- The Prime Minister. Tunku Abdul Rahman, today received a letter from the Labour Party of Malaya, denying force had been used' to leed the detainees at the Batu Gajah and Muar detention camps during the recent
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    • 119 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon Thieves made a hie haul of typewriters and photographic equipment worth more than $12,000 from the firm of Tithes Dental and Photo Supply Limited in Jilin Pudu here yesterday. According to police, the manager of the firm. Mr. Leon* Chi Tsung. came
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    • 58 2 KUALA LI'MPUR. Mon A speed limit of 30 miles an hour has been imposed on the Federal Highway from the 14th to 15th mile. This was announced in a Gazette announcement. signed by the Transport Minister. Tan Sri Sardon bin Haji Juhir. The order is cited as
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    • 253 2 SINGAPORE Mon A four-man Israeli economic mission flew into Singapore tonight to discuss economic co-operation and trade and •‘other matters of interest". Official talks will begin tomorrow. The Israeli mission is headed by the Assistant Director-General of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Economic Affairs),
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    • 69 2 National Art Gallery (Jalan Ampar.g). Rembrandt's etchmes and drawings 10 a.m to 630 D-m. Peninsular Art Society (41 Jaian Raja Muria): Works of prominent Malaysian artists 9 a.m to fi pm. British Council Library (Jaian Bluff): Exhibition of books by Sir Thomas More and other works about him.
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    • 75 2 SINGAPORE Mon. —The President. Junior Chamber International. Mr. Philippe AbravaneL 37. of Switzerland. is due here on Thursday after completing an official visit to India. The Board of Directors of the Local Chapter will be on hand at the airport to welcome him. Mr. Abravanel. of
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    • 421 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The President Mr. Chew Keng Wai. VUe-president Mr. Chin Kin Voon. Se~retary Mr. Peter Chua and Treasurer Mr. Chow Wai Choong are among the 12 members re-elected to the Methodist Afternoon School Old Boys' Association. Others re-e'erted into office for the current year included
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    • 206 2 German call to rubber bodies here: SINGAPORE. Mon. The Rubber Association of Singapore and the Malaysian Rubber Exchange have been urged to continue shipping their rubber by Conference Lines vessels. The call came from the German Rubber Trade Association which has written a
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    • 415 2 SINGAPORE, Mon. Th« National Safety First Council's forthcoming crash-hel-met campaign has hit a snag. Reason: The existing stocks of crash he.mets in Singapore is far below the number required whe-i the promotion campaign gets into full swing Local motor firms and safety equipment suppliers
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    • 67 2 SINGAPORE. Mon Mr Ng Hong Chong, has joined Nanyang University as a lecturer in the Department of Accountancy. A Nantah graduate. Mr. Ng first served on the university as a graduate assistant for three years before going to New Zealand for further studies at the
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    • 104 2 SINGAPORE. Mon.—Police are looking for the relatives and friends of an unidentified Malay who died yesterday at the General Hospital after he was involved in a road accident on Saturday. He is believed to have been knocked down bv a motor-cycle at the junction
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    • 185 2 PETALING JAYA. Mon Police last night detained a men and seized a $5,000 Austin car reported stolen last month, at a factory site in Section 11. here. Acting on information, a police party led by the OCPD. Deputy Supt. E.A. Fernandez laid an ambush at
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    • 182 2 PENANG. Mon. A 29-year-old brick-layer Foo Han Seng, who told the First Court Magistrate. Mr. Shiveharan Singh he was engaged to be married soon, was sentenced to 8 months’ Jail for theft. Foo had today pleaded guilty to committing theft of 200 electric bulbs,
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    • 402 3  -  A DAY TO REMEMBER FOR THE LEE FAMILY By SIUHAIMI BIDIN Mon. It was indeed a pleasant surprise for the Lees of Commonwealth Avenue this morning when Gen. Ne Win, Chairman of the Revolutionary Council of Burma called on them. It was part
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    • 193 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Government is offering scholarships for students who have applied for admission to the University of Singapore. Nanyang University and the Singapore Polytecbni he Merit Scholarships will be awarded to students offering Law. Mathematics. Economics. English. Political Science. Engineering. Archi- tecture. Accountancy, Social
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    • 60 3 8 p.m. Malay Dance Practice conducted by Mr Nongtjik Ghani at National Theatre Club. 8 p.m. A review on Malabsorption Svndrome" by Prof C.C. Booth at Pathology Lecture Theatre at the Outram Road General Hosp:tal. 3.15 p.m. Joint meeting of Singapore Surgical Society and Singapore Orthopaedic Association at
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    • 242 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. The new Minister tor Health, Mr. Chua Sian Chin, today opened the Republic's School of Military Medicine at the Singapore Armed Forces Training Institute (SAFTI) in Juronq. Speaking at the officiai opening. Mr. Chua stressed that it was vitally important for
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    • 52 3 SINGAPORE. Mon The Minister of Defence. Mr. Lim Kim San. will officiate at an installation ceremony for the staff of the People’s Association's Welfare Committee on Friday at 2.30 p.m. The Minister, who is also the Deputy Chairman of the PA. will be introduced to the staff during
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    • 108 3 SINGAPORE Mon. The Adult Education Board will hold a public forum on “National Service in Singapore” on April 29 from 8 to 9 p.m. at the Cultural Centre. Canning Rise. Speakers who will form the panel are Mr. Fong Sip Chee. Parliamentary Secretary. Ministry
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    • 20 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. —There will be no delivery of mail on May I—May Day—which is a public holiday.
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    • 137 4  -  By MUSA SCULLY KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Th« CUEPACS-baeked Woman's Action Front will hold its first Stota-lavel roily in Johore Bohru on Wednesday, at 5 p.m., at the Government Industrial and Manual Workers Union Office in Jalan Kebun Teh. Disclosing this tonight, the
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    • 180 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon A two-day aeminar on the operation of bumiputra transport companies would be held on Thursday at MARA Building here. It will be opened oy the Minister without Portfolio, Zr.e he Ghafar Baba, who is the Chairman of MARA The MARA
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    • 180 4 KUCHING. Mon The Federal Minuter of Lands and Mines. Date Haji Abdul Rahman Ya’kub. arrived here this morning from Kuala Lumpur for a nine-day visit. The Minister will proceed to the Third Division tomorrow where he will declare open an
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    • 401 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Due to higher land prices, the slight increase in building costs and more stringent requirements imposed by some local authorities, the selling prices of new houses tended to increase last year in West Malaysia and Singapore
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    • 203 4 KUCHING. Moo More than 500 people last night attended a buffet dinner held at St. Joseph's School here, to celebrate the 40th anniversarv of Mgr. John Vos's ordination to the priesthood The occasion was also held to bid farewell to Mgr. J. Vos on his
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    • 92 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Men The Minister without Portfolio. Enche Ghafar Baba, said today that he would not take any drastic action against those responsible for the “ragging” of freshie Che Shukara of the MARA Institute of Technology in Petaling Jaya. Che Shukara was reported
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    • 32 4 The Minister of Culture. Youth and Sports, Enche Senu bin Abdul Rahman, entertained WAY youth leaders at Angkasapuri in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday night. Picture shows Enche Senu (right) with the leaders.
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    • 530 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon Two experts on home financing instituions, Mr Charles K Fletcher and Mr. Jack W. Bruce of the United States have been invited by the Malaysian Government to help the Ministry of Local Government and Housing to make a
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    • 216 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon Selangor police in a surprise predawn swoop detained four men and seized a quantity of radios and tape recorders from a house in Sentul Pasar near here, today. The detained men are believed to be members
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    • 335 4 Running of artificial kidney machine: PETALING JAYA. Mon. Assunta Hospital here is appealing for public donations to assist in the cunning of its artificial kidney machine, for patients who are unable to pay. A statement from the hospital, signed by Dato Mohamed Yusoff bln Haji
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    • 101 4 Selangor seeks $60 mil loan from World Bank SABAK BERN AM, MOn. The Selangor Government is seeking a loan of $60 million trom the World Bank for rural water supplies. This was announced today by the Mentn Besar. DatoHarun bin Haji Idris when he opened a $15,000 religious school at
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    • 229 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon.— The Minister without Portfolio. Enche Abdul Ghafar Baba would make a tour of important fishing villlages in West Malaysia, beginning on Friday. In a statement this evening Senator Ghafar who is also Chairman of FAMA said he would study and gain first-hand
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    • 93 4 TAWAU. Mon. A mas* rally formed by schoolchildren, voluntary organisations and members of the public will be held at the Lahad Datu Town Padang on June 17 at 7.15 am. to mark the launching of the National Language fortnight celebrations. A comprehensive programme has
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    • 57 4 IPOH. Mon. The State Veterinary Officer. Mr. Chooi Ah Chye died at the General Hospital here yesterday after a short illness. He was 31. Mr Chooi was transferred to Ipoh as the State Veterinary Officer from Kluang in Johore in September. 1966 He had been hospitalised for
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    • 53 4 MUAR. Mon. An odd-job labourer, Lim Kan, was charged in the magistrate’s court here yesterday with stealing 49 rubber plants worth $23.20 from Leo Ah Gek at the Kampong Parit Pakara here on April 13. He pleaded not guilty and was allowed bail of $2OO pending hearing
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    • 237 4 SINGAPORE. Mon A proposed Commercial Practice Agreement will be discussed by four airlines in the region when they meet in Bangkok on April 29This was disclosed tonight in a joint statement issued by the chairmen of Malay-sia-Singapore Airlines i MSA) and China Airlines
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    • 124 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Men. The newly-formed Medical and Dental Corps of the Malaysian Armed Forces will celebrate its first anniversary on May 10. The two-day celebrations will be held in the newly established Malaysian Armed Forces Hospital at Kinrara, eight miles from here. There will
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    • 53 4 KUCHING. Mon. The second meeting of the sixth session of the Council Negri, Sarawak, will be held at the Main Court House, here tomorrow beginning at 9.30 a.m. Two Government bills Port Authority (Amendment) Bill and Supplementary Supply: 1968 Bill—will be presented. The meeting is expected to
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    • 265 10 QINGAPORE, Mon. —There has been no new case of cholera in fhe Republic since fhe first case was confirmed four days ago. The Ministry of Health is not proposing to organise a mass anti-cholera vaccination campaign but investigations and sanitary measures are continuing.
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    • 193 10 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Government has introduced new regulations on hotel development in an attempt to solve the present shortage of first class tourist hotels. The new rules will make It easier for genuine developers to build hotels and also stop speculating in land by landlords
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    • 56 10 SINGAPORE. Mon. A mother of nine was today fined $2,000 bv a Magistrate's Court for assisting in a "chap-ji-kee” lottery. Tan Suan Choo. 37. pleaded guilty to having two chap-ji-kee'' schedules and seven bundles of staking slips with a total for value of 510.500 at a house
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    • 115 10 Second million tug-boat for PSA SINGAPORE, Mon. The Port of Singapore Authority's second mil-lion-dollar tug-boat built by the Keppel Harbour Dockyard was delivered today. The first one the “Tenaga” was delivered in March. The latest tug-boat. the-"Tekun’\ of the same size and cost as the “Tenaga”, is the seventh tug-boat
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    • 157 10 SINGAPORE. Mon. Meet pretty Susana Fung Yee. the film actress who changed her career to singing “because I got tired of acting”. The 22-year-old former actress of Cantonese films has never regretted taking the step as she has made a success out
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    • 166 10  -  INDON-BOUND SHIP ABLAZE By K S. SIDHI SINGAPORE. Mon A Panama-registered cargo ship, the “King River", caught fire a few hours before it was scheduled to sail for Semarang. Indonesia with a load of flour. Damage to the ship, anchored at the Telok Ayer
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    • 179 10 SINGAPORE. Mon Twelve Indonesian seamen were today charged in the Ninth Magistrate's Court with theft of a 1.400scooter. They claimed trial to the charge of stealing the scooter from Boon Tiong Road between April 13 and 14. The 12 are: Kho Tji Hwa. Henry Bedioro.
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    • 184 10 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Federal Court of Appeal today reduced a 13-year sentence on an unemployed J man to eight years. In reducing the sentence, the Court held that the sentences on him on two charges should be run concurrently and not consecutively
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    • 185 10 SINGAPORE. Mon. Singapore has been described as “one of the most modern and progressive cities" by Mr. George Bird, the International President of Lions Club who was recently here in the course of a world tour. He described the Singapore Government “as the most honest
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    • 198 10 SINGAPORE. Mon The Federal Court of Appeal today dismissed an appeal by a widow. Madam Tay Chwee Cheng, for recovery of possession of her premises at Orchard Road. In dismissing the appeal. the acting Chief Justice. Mr. Justice Tan Ah Tah remarked that some issues which were
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    • 328 11 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT: PETALING JAYA, Mon. Am«ndifierits will be made to the controversial Industrial Relations Act in order to cover up the existing loopholes This was disclosed by the Minister of Labour, Mr. V Manickavasagam, when opening the Malaysian Trade Union Congress’s one-week presidential
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    • 146 11 PETALING JAYA, Mon. Gang of thieves busy ransacking the kitchen of a journalist's home here yesterday morning had the fright of their lives when they were suddenly interrupted by two neighbours armed with parangs. They fled without taking anything But in their hurry
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    • 160 11 KA.MPAR. M„n. A Standard Six pupil r f the Anglo Chinese School 'primary* here. Lim Thian Heng 12 died in Ipoh General Hospital early this morning, after a fail here last n.ght, while watching a musical show on television -im was w th
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    • 82 11 IFOH. Mon Professor N*e Kung-fu from Hainan. is holding an exhibition of Chinese paintings at the Kheng Chew Hwee Kuan in Belfleld Street here from Thursday to April 30 The president of the Federation of Kheng Chew Hwee Kuan of Ma aysia and Singapore, Mr
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    • 43 11 PENANG. Mon. Mr Tan Kean Hin of Messrs. Ha Hin Ltd. was re-elected president of the Radio Traders' Association of Penang and Province Wellesley Other office-bearers were Vice-president. Mr. Lim Ee Kuk; Secretary. Mr Hoon Siang Jin. treasurer. Mr. Lim Ghim Choon
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    • 742 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, today outlined a three fold plan for Kaum Ibu UMNO Malaysia to maintain the party in power for the coming general elections. The three-fold programme: To clean up and review the party machinery
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    • 215 11 Tunku: When men are men in name on1y KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. When men are men In name only, there will be oisaster which will lead to toe end of mankind, the Prime Minister Tunku Aodul Rahman, said here today. n a congratulatory mess Ac to the St. Andrews Presbyterian Church
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    • 288 11 MUAR. Mon. A fruit plantation owner told the Sessions Court here today how his son was knocked down and killed one night last year when two lorries travelled abreast speedily. Mr. Tan Chin Pow of Tanjong Gading was testifying at the trial
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    • 82 11 MALACCA. Mon $3,000 worth of jewellery were reported stolen by a businessman here from his home at Bachang Garden here early last night. Chong Slew Kuan, a nee merchant, found his house ransacked and the housemaid tied and gagged when he returned home at 9 p.m. from
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    • 50 11 PENANG. Mon. The R.A.A.F.. Butterworth. today handed over a new 6urgical suction apparatus, valued at $l,lOO to the Balik Pulau District Hospital here. The equipment was handed over on behalf of the R.AA.F. by Sqn Lor. .Ashton Greentree and Fit. Lt. Colin Ely. at the Butterworth Base.
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    • 29 11 Assn meet PENANG. Mon The annual meeting of the State Chinese (Penang) Association will be held at the association's premises in Jalan Bukon at 3.30 o-in. 0 n Saturday.
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    • 395 11 IPOH, Mon. The General Hospital here was described today as a “mad house,” due to lack of proper attention from the authorities concerned. This was the opinion of the acting general secre--tary and chairman of the political sub-committee of the Perak branch
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    • 38 11 The Sultan of Selangor held a “FerMriPek” ceremony for his daughters at Istana Darul Ehsarr, Kampcng Jawa. K'ang, over the weekend. Picture shows Tunku Khursiah sprinkling “tepong ta*ar“ on Tunku Marina (left) and Tunku Norzihan (right).
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    • 48 11 PENANG, Mon. A search by Customs officers of the Preventive Branch. Butterworth. revealed 16 dozen playing cards tucked away in a secret compartment in a scooter this afternoon. The scooter and the rider were detained. Duty on the playing cards was estimated at $4O.
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    • 52 11 GOPENG. Mon. V. Palani of Kinta Tin. was today fined in the Magistrates Court here of $5O for abusing a police constable with obscene language and gambling at the toddy shop. P.C. Ali Nordin. told the Court, when he asked Palani to stop gambling, he abused him using
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 312 5 ‘Iron hand need for construction’ MOSCOW, Mon. (UPI). The Soviet press at the weekend moved in sharp opposition to "liberal" and "nationalist" elements i° other Communist countries which seek to minimise the absolute authority of the Communist Party or place nationalist above inter- nationalist interests.
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    • 252 5 VATICAN CITY. Mon. (UPI) Pope Paul VI expressed keen disappointment over problems that have developed in getting Vietnam peace talks started and urged “divine intervention” to bring an end to the war. Peace!, peace!” the peace of Christ for all humanity.” the pope
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    • 93 5 SALZBURG. Austria. Mon. fUPI) Thailand's Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachom. after a day of sightseeing in this historic city, ends his five-day visit to Austria today with a motor trip to Innsbruck, the capital of Tyrol province and scene of the 1964 Winter Olympics. Before moving
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    • 29 5 NEW DELHI, Mon. Soviet Premier Kosygin being welcomed by Mrs Indira Ghandi at the airport on his arrival yesterday. —UPI radio photo.
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    • 307 5 ‘THINGS DIFFERENT NOW’ WASHINGTON Mon. (UPI) Former Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson has called for granting European nauons "much more influence and authority and control" in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). Mr Pearson said the increased authority should apply “even in the
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    • 183 5 JAKARTA Mon (UPI) Indonesian authorities today totalled up the destruction caused by swirling floods in East Java and reported US SI 1.6 m property losses and nearly 150.000 persons rendered homeless. Religious Minister K.H.M. Dachian said the floods swept through 223 villages in Lamongan
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    • 34 5 ALEXANDRIA. U.A.R. Mon (UPI). A Soviet minesweeper arrived yesterday to join seven other Soviet naval units anchored here. Iwo supply shins left harbour for an undisclosed destination on Saturday.
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    • 179 5 NEW L»i.LHI. Mon. (IPI) India s Delence Ministry is under siege by a band of nearlv 10j monkeys. The brigade has been defying attempts by officials of the ministry to dislodge them from their perches in trees around the red sandstore secretariat where the
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    • 194 5 Townships being evacuated MANILA Mon. (UPI) Residents of the towns at the foot of Mayon Volcano began evacuating their homes today after being warned an eruption might be building up inside the near perfect cone. Arturo Alcarac, chief of the Philippine Volcanology Commission, predicted the
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    • 213 5 KYOTO. Japan, Mon (UPI) A former geisha girl who lost both her arms in a sword attack and then became a Buddhist priestess died yesterday at the age of 80. Junkyo Oishi founded BukoIn temple in 1936 after a tragic geisha career and
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    • 309 5 SAIGON, Mon. (UPI). An estimated three battalions of Vietcong attacked two Vietnamese posts west of Saigon yesterday but were beaten back. They used flame throwers in unsuccessful attempts to overrun one of the positions. point of at least five scattered clashes within striking
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    • 74 5 HONG KONG. Mon (UPI) A 495-ton freighter of Taiwan registry has not arrived in Brunei after it left Hong Kong on March 31, its agent here said today. The ship was identified as the Kwang Ho. which should have put into Brunei a week ago. according to Blue
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    • 278 5 WASHINGTON Mon. (UPI) Former Canadian Prime Minister Mr. Lester Pearson said today Canada would be willing to provide troops to police a settlement of the Vietnam war. “We’ve never run away from that kind of obligation in the past.” Mr. Pearson said. “We
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    • 31 5 MOSCOW, Mon. (UPI) Two earthquakes struck harmlessly yesterday at the “quake-proof” Soviet city of Dushanbe. The tremors shook the city of 300.000. Tass said, but caused no damage or casualties.
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    • 327 6 TIfOSCOW, Mon. (UPI). Teh Atheistie I a d r t of the Kremlin ordered out heavy police reinforcements yesterday to keep the Russian Easter Holy. Hundreds of uniformed and volunteer police patrolled Moscow’s 40-odd Russian orthodox churches to keep the curious at bay
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    • 172 6 TEHERAN. Mon (UPD The Chinese crew of a British tanker anchored In the Persian Gulf Port of Bander Mashahr mutinied on Saturday after being accused by a White Officer of stealing a valuable piece of ship's equipment, it was reported here today. The
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    • 165 6 WEST PALM BEACH. Florida. Mon. (UPI> A 10-year-old boy attacked by sharks while paddling a rubber raft In the Atlantic Ocean was reported In poor condition but ‘‘doing remarkably well’ in a hospital yesterday. Steven Samples was attacked by a school of sharks on
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    • 61 6 BEIRUT. Mon. <UPI) The first Pan-Christian Conference on World Economic Development opened today with a reception attended by visitors and Lebanese religious and civic leaders. The conference, the first on World Economic Development to be Jointly sponsored by the World Council of Churches and the Roman
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    • 71 6 SAIGON. Mon. (Reuter) —The highest ranking North Vietnamese ever to surrender to the South Vietnamese Government voluntarily has given himself up, informed Government sources revealed today. The sources said the returnee, Colonel Tran Van Dae, joined the South Vietnamese side on April 19 under the Open
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    • 66 6 LONDON. Mon (UPI) Queen Elizabeth il celebrated her 42 birthday yesterday by attending the International Horse Trials at Badminton and handing out the prizes. National flags flew from Eublic buildings throughout ritain. The Queen and her family were in residence at Windsor Castle for her
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    • 114 6 BALTIMORE. Mon. (UPI) —An 18-year-old Janitor was charged yesterday with murder in the death of five children whose mutilated bodies were discovered in a Baltimore Park. Reginald Vernon Oats was charged on four counts of homicide, three counts of assault with intent to kill and
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    • 102 6 HONG KONG. Mon. (Reuter) The Chinese authorities in Southern Kwantung Province have smashed a Red Guard gambling which bet on horse races m Macao and Hong Kong, the Star newspaper reported today. The Engish language daily quoted a train arrival from Kwantung as saying that
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    • 140 6 CAIRO. Mon (Reuter 1— A reported vision of the Virgin Mary brought thousands of Cairo Christians flocking to a suburban church during celebrations of the coptic Easter this weekend Bcores of worshippers in the Church of the Virgin Mary in the suburb of Zeitoun
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    • 152 6 NEW DELHI. Men. (Reuter)— India and Pakistan will start talks here »n May 13 to seek a cooperative approach to the development of Eastern rivers in the subcontinent. it was officially stated today. The talks, to be held at expert level, will be the fifth in
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    • 37 6 NEW YORK. Mon. (Reuter) A small bomb exploded outside the Mexican mission to the United Nations here early today, but no one was injured and damage was light. The explosion shattered a glass door.
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    • 87 6 THINKING of fur dresses one usually connects them with winter days, but this is not to be: German furriers proved that fur is exactly the best of smooth material for good swimming suits and dresses on the beach. Unless vou reallv go for swimming. The photo shows:
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    • 313 6 JAKARTA. Mon. (Reuter) Influential Indonesian traders referred to Taiwan as the "Republic of China" in an advantageous commercial agreement they recently reached in Taipeh. it was learned here today. The text of the agreement. providing for $lO million worth of revolving
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    • 327 6 TAIPEI. Mon. (UPI) The Taipei District Court today holds the second hearing of two Civil Air Transport (CAT) pilots involved in the crash of a CAT Jetliner on Feb. 16. As the second hearing came nearly one month after the
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    • 101 6 SEOUL, Mon (Reuter) Foreign Minister Kyu-Ha Choi told reporters today that President Chung-Hee Park and President Johnson did not discuss in their Honolulu talks last Wednesday an increase in South Korea’s military commitment in South Vietnam. Mr. Choi said he did not know
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    • 80 6 JAKARTA. Mon. (Reuter) —President Suharto of Indonesia had decided to abolish celebrations of May Day Labour Day saying it is against the spirit of the present Government, a Palace spokesman said today. The spokesman said President Suharto has ordered that all Government offices, shops
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    • 208 6 WOLVERHAMPTON, Ertjland, Mon (R6uter) Sgv6n hundred members of a working Men’s Club have voted to maintain a 10-year-61d total ban on coloured people. No coloured members, visitors, friends or entertainers will be admitted to the plush £70.000 North Wolverhampton Working Men’s Club
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    • 126 6 GENEVA, Men (Reu*er) Senior officials of the World Council of Churches today warned that the widening gap between rich and poor nation* is dangerous, in an increasingly interdependent world. In a message to a joint Roman Catholic-Protestant-Orthodox conference on cooperation for development, now meeting
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    • 139 6 JAKARTA. Mon (UPI) Indonesian Plantation Minister Thojib Hadiwidjaja has denied reports that mass dismissal of employees at state-owned plantations in Java was imminent. The Minister however admitted that a "reorganisation and rationalisation” in the personnel structure of stateowned plantations would be executed. This could be achieved
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    • 44 6 MOSCOW. Mon. (Reuter) —An earthquake rated at force 5 on the 12-point scale shook Dushanbe, the capital of Soviet Tajikistan, Uxlay. but though the tremors were centred almost under the city there was no damage, the Soviet news agency Tass reported.
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    • 224 6 WASHINGTON. M 0 It. (UPI) The man who won a Nobel prize for his work as a negotiator after the 1965 Middle East war admitted yesterday “its getting more difficult” to achieve a lasting peace between Israel and the Arab nations. Former Canadian
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    • 155 6 KHARTOUM, Mon. (UPI) The White Mercenaries who have been detained in Rwanda since their mutiny against the Congolese Govvemment last summer will be repatriated to their home countries this week, it was announced yesterday. Sudanese officials said the repatriation would start today when the first of
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    • 79 6 LONDON, Mon. (Reuter) Greek actress Melina Mercouri led 4.000 people in a peaceful protest to the Greek Embassy here today on the first anniversary of the coup that brought' the country’s military regime to power. About 60 police lined the streets outside the Embassy but demonstrators
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    • 42 6 BOLZANO. Italy. Mon. (Reuter) A big firecracker exploded inside the cathedral here during mass tonight, panicking the congregation, police said. Fear of bombing is strong in the region where terrors demanding a union of Alto Adige with Austria are operating.
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    • 436 7 ECAFE: Aid is not abstract CANBERRA, Mon. (Reuter) More emphasis should now be placed on action rather than abstract academic studies to solve the problems of the Asian regions, the executive secretary of ECAFE, U Nvun said today. Addressing delegates to the annual ECAFE conference on
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    • 162 7 FrancoCanadian relations strained Quebec delegate in Paris PARIS, Mon. (Reuter) The presence of Quebec at a Conference of Education Ministers from 19 Frenchspeaking countries opening here today threatens to impose a new strain on relations between Canada and France. Canada’s new Prime Miister Pierre Elliot Trudeau has warned the French
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    • 75 7 SEOUL, Mon. (Reuter) Or.e American soldier was killed and three others wcunded in a North Koreanprovoked fire-fight in the western sector of the demili arised zone (DMZ) separating North and South Korea yesterday afternoon. It announced today. A United Nations Command spokesman said that at
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    • 78 7 SYDNEY. Mon (Reuter) Uniformed members of the Australian National Socialist Party clashed with bystanders at an open-air meeting here yesterday afternoon The brawl erupted when ore of the Neo-Nazi party’s brown-clad members was pelted with rotten tomatoes hi’-led from the crowd. One detective was injureo
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    • 79 7 NEW DELHI. Mon Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin and Indian Premier Mrs. Indira Gandhi are agreed that Warsaw is a suitable site for preliminary Vietnam peace talks, the Indian National News Agency the Press Trust of India reported last night. It said that Mr Kosygin, who stopped briefly
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    • 68 7 OSWIECIM. Poland. Mon. (Reuter) Poland yesterday inaugurated a memorial pavilion to six million massacred European Jews in a red-brick barrack building in the former Auschwitz extermination camp here where millions of them died. About 100 people watched in hot sunshine a? Culture Minister Lucjan Motyka a former Auschwitz
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    • 397 7 'Hand of a friend' SYDNEY, Mon. (Reuter) The Sydney Evening newspaper "The Mirror," under the heading: "Hand of a friend," said today. How good it is to see Indonesia. in thp person of its Foreign Minister, offering the hand of friendship in Australia. Only a
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    • 34 7 Windhoek. SW Africa Tart of the wrerkage of London-bound Boeing 707 which crashed here on Saturday night killing 122 of the 129 aboard. UPI radiophoto.
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    • 103 7 BANGKOK Mon (Reuter) A three-member Thai Buddhist delegation will study the possibilities of building a Buddhist tempie in Australia. probably at Sydney The delegation composed of Venerable P'nra Sasanasobhon. Abbot of Bovomives Monastery in Bangkok. Venerable Phra The pk a vi, Sec-retary-General of the
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    • 310 7 ‘Funeral pyre Powell gets a rocket Labelled Racialist and dismissed LONDON, Mon. (Reuter). Conservative Party Leoder Edward Heath last night dismissed his defence spokesman Enoch Powell frem the shadow cabinet for what he called a racialist speech on Saturday. Mr. Heath said the new shadow Minister of Defence would be
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    • 241 7 WINDHOEK. Southwest Africa. Mon. (Reuter) Investigators combed through the smoking wreckage of a South African Boeing 707 airliner yesterday for a vital clue to the crash of the almost new jet which claimed 122 lives. The big London-bound plane, flames pouring from one
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    • 153 7 TOKYO. Mon. (Reuter) The two Japanese members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) today endorsed the IOC executive's recommendation to exclude South Africa from the Mexico Olympics. Prince Tsunenori Takeda. IOC member and president of the Japan Olympic Committee 1JOC1. and Dr. Ryutaro Azuma member
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    • 73 7 ALESSANDRIA. Italy. Mon (Reuter) A two-seater plane strewing flowers at a big church wedding crashed into a cemetery today, killing the pilot and co-pilot. Eyewitnesses said the plane lost height at its third pass over the church yard, rammed the roof of a nearby cemetery mausoleum
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    • 43 7 HONG KONG. Mon. (UPI) A teen-ager was stabbed in the hack by a rejected 70-year-old suitor who then swallowed some insecticide. Police said the critically wounded girl and the man. a factory hand, are being treated at the same hospital.
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    • 147 7 WASHINGTON. Mon (Reuter) Texas Governor tohn Connally acknowledged today that under certain conditions President Johnson might he persuaded to change his mind about not running for re-election this year. Those conditions could be If considerable progress was made towards establishment of an honourable peace in
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    • 44 7 uoiivitnnn Mnn Artnr Tnnv Curtis and new wife (formerly Leslie Meredith) outside their Hollywood HOLLYWOOD. >lon. Acior ionv turns ana new wire uorracny home. Tonv obtained a Mexican “Quickie" divorce last week to marry Leslie on Saturaaj.' —UPI radiophoto.
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  • 403 8 BEFORE political secretaries were appointed to help Ministers in the political aspects Of their work, there were less wanton words in circulation in this country to raise the hackles of the people. In some cases, the stature of Ministers has not been enhanced by the outbursts of their
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  • 312 8 THE traffic authorities are doing their best to teach the people how to avoid accidents, but they are not making much progress. The basic reason is an undisciplined people. Malaysians, by and large, are an easy going people who regard rules and regulations are made to
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  • 3213 8 OAPER by Enche 1 Mohamad bin Jamil. Director of Agriculture, West Malaysia, on “The Mission of Agriculture Its objectives and tasks" to the National Seminar on Agriculture at the Serdang Agricultural College on April 16. THE task of accelerating agricultural development is no small one when one
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  • 230 8 By Henxyß. Rothbiatt (Author, "Handbook of Evidence For Criminal Trials") FRANK was in the business of selling headstones and markers for graves at cemeteries. When Louis refused to pay for his son’s headstone, Frank applied to court for permission to remove it from the cemetery plot. “Frank
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    • 42 8 Eastern Sun Independent National Neu-spaper TUESDAY. APRIL 23. 1968 23-B Cantonment Road, Singapore 2. Telephone: *****/7 Penang Office Ipoh Office 39. lalan Suit a-i. Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. Telephone: *****/6 8. Leith Street. Tel: ***** 77, Brewster Road, Tel: ***** Cable Address: AWNEWS
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  • COMMERCIAL & INRDUSTRIAL
    • 213 9 Mon (Reuter) F.nance Ministers of t>ie 15-nation franc zone ope n talks here today on International Monetary reform The ministers representing France and 14 of her former African possessions are expected to discuss the French abstention from last month’s Stockholm agreement on the
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    • 134 9 SINGAPORE. Mon.—Opel cars will be assembled locally sooa. A new ffretor assembly piar?f. Messrs. Capital Motor-Assembly Corporation with 100 per cent, local capital is now nearing completion at Tampoi. Johore. The plant, employing 120 Malaysians, will be the 'hird in the country. It is scheduled
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    • 116 9 IPOH Mon. Tin-ln-toncentrates are in colossal 'Olumes right under Papan town. 10 miles from here, the Chief Research Officer cf the Department of Mines Headquarters. Enche AbdulUh Yusoff. said today. Enche Abdullah was commenting on the scarcity of mining lands In Perak as expressed by
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    • 84 9 COLOMBO. Mon. (Reuter) A tourist rate of exchange 27 rupees to one pound sterLng and nine rupees to one U.S. dollar is to be introduced in Ceylon from May 1. usually reliable sources said today. The ordinary rate of exchange is 14.35 rupees
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    • 259 9 SINGAPORE. Mon Mr. Will C. Orar.t. President, and Board Chairman of Grant Advertising International, Inc.. Chicago, has said that Southeast Asia is the booming advertising market now. A n a recent interview ne save to the Chicago Tribune, Mr Grant said that Southeast
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    • 59 9 •MR L. S. < Alex) Giam (left!, marketing officer to the Trade Commissioner. New Zealand High Commission. Singapore, examines carpets in the showroom of Felt and Textiles of New Zealand. Ltd.. Wellington, with the firm's export manager. Mr J H Barwirk Mr Giam recently visited New
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    • 284 9 SINGAPORE. Mon May first grade rubber f-O.b. buyers closed at 5 D-m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 49-7 8 cents per lb, unchanged from previous close The tone was very quiet The market ruled very quiet and practically unchanged at Friday's final levels during the morning
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    • 25 9 HONG KONG. Mon.(UPI) —Money Quotations HKS6.O6 6.075 pe r US dollar for cash. HKS 14.52 per pound sterling. HK5300.6 pier tael gold.
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    • 24 9 LONDON, Mon. (UPI) The rubber market opened very quiet. No. 1 RSS spot 17-17-I'4 No. 1 RSS CIF basis ports May 17-3/B—l7-1/2.
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    • 1141 9 SINGAPORE. Mon Industrial share pnces on the Stock Exchange today were mainly easier but on satisfactory turnover However, there were notable exceptions to the general decline and this being Boustead. Cold Storage. Fraser Neave, 0.C.8.C., Robinson Ord.. Sime Darby, Straits Trading and Wilkinson Process
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    • 16 9 SINGAPORE. Mon The tin Price for today was *557 per picul, down 37} cents.
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    • 385 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The United Planting Association of Malaya has said that last year’s average rubber price of 54 08 cents per lb is a ’’poor reward” and not in keeping with the intrinsic value of natural rubber to the world’s economy. In its
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    • 470 9 SINGAPORE.—Stock Exchange old and oiler prices ottu iall> listed at the close of business. INDUSTRIALS Ben Co -■83 2.86 1 X 3.00 3.02 Chemical Co 144 1.46 C old storage 4 20 Iiunlop CD 2.79 2.80 I Smelting h 2.10 2 10 2 8 2.83 Fitzpatricks
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    • 117 9 SYDNEY, Mon. Directors of the Meibourne printing company. Wilke and Company Ltd., .stated in their annual report that Australian book publishers were having books produced in Hong Kong and- other Asian countries at prices with which Australian printers could not compete. High Australian casts
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    • 47 9 Managers' Prices) Mr»t Mala'an 2.5.1 second Malayan 1.8i Ihlrd Maljian XD 1.15 lhe Commerce Industry The savin* .94 1.03 Hind 1.07 HI* First Hkong XD .76 second 11 knnz .56 60* Mala.'<ian Investment Punrl XU 1.10 1 20 Sterling Cmodlty XD 5/3 Hong Kong currency)
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    • 97 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. The noon prices at the Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange today are:Buyer Coconut Oil Seller (J OB.) Bulk Coconut Oil 65.50 (F.O.B.) Drum* Loose Copra Mixed 68.00 Apr 38.50 Muntok White Pepper (FOB.) 96 T, VI. Sarawak White Pepper (F.O.B.) 112.30 N.I.W Sarawak Special Black Pepper (F.O.B.) 110.00
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    • 119 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. The following ships are expected to be in port today:Godowns Vessels 1 2 Hongkong Grace 34 Xara 5 Union Tiger 6 7 Djatianom 8 9 Kapitan Kosko 10/11 Elzan 13 14 Boma 15 16 Karlmun 18 Tjinegara 19 Kyoyo Maru 23 24 Hlld 25 Sea
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    • 1243 10 ""“TV and TV MALAYSIA CHANNEL 5 KUALA LUMPUR and Pnlan Pinan;: 6 Ipoh and Melaka; 3 A 10 Johore Bahru; 4 Taiping; 7 Batu Pahat; 9 Kluang. P.M. 543 Opening Annct. Prog. Summary: 5.50 News Outlines in the National Language. 5.55 National Songs; 6.00 News in Tamil; 6 10 The
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  • Femme
    • 486 12  -  THE THREE IN ONE LOOK By Pat Chan pVER heard of the "mimaxbon" look? No, it's not really a new gimmick. Break the word up and it's in short for "mini maxi bonnie." This is just a new word invented for the latest fashion with a coordination
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    • 112 12 CHEESE DREAMS Ingredients: 1 oz. butter, 5 8 cup (5 fluid oz.) water. 2 oz. plain flour. 1 egg slightly beaten. 2xl oz. portions SWISS K VI ~HT GRUYERE CHEESE. sieved. i.i to taste, pepper to t;. tc oil for deep frying. Met lod: In a saucepan, heat butter
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    • 122 12 you know what is a “magic house’’? I don't until a cute flve-year-old boy told me what it was. One day I was travelling in a car with this kid along Napier Road passing by Gleneagles Hospital. Pointing at Gleneagles, the little boy said, “Auntie, that's the
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  • Eastern Sun Special
    • 1463 13 DC-3 to Boeing 747 in one jump. X Th s uiv a ent of the leap forward, from the 38-seat SR.N6 to the 700-passenger N 4, which British hovercraft will take this year. An entirely new transport medium will soon be put to commercial test and businessmen
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    • 445 13  -  By FRANCOIS DURIAUD Algerian artists are being urged to contribute towards the revival of a national culture whose dormant state is blamed on 130 years of French colonisation. President Hourari Boumedienne has called for a symposium of Algerian intellectuals to stimulate the cultural and
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    • 302 13  -  Bt 1 LUSI OVIDIO SIGARA.V 4 34-year-old Dominican playwright is about to launch a company which could become his country's biggest foreign exchange earner. Frankiin Dominguez, who wrote he screenplay for the Dominican Republic's first film "The Chair”, is currently shooting a second film in
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    • 219 13 fSHAW QftGANISRTTOM SOW SHOWING* NO FREE LIST! Dje to film's length 4 Show* Note Times tJA. €.15. 915 Miin Featnre start* promptly at 11 1* 2.M. »H 4 933 Lm 1 I Ml •THE GOOD THE BID A THE LGLYI'. Wallach Scope <% Color iUA> CAPITOL Phone ***** last s
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    • 406 13 FrrarrrT;TiJMrT»H ■oomittutnnnJ I AST 2 pin’ 1». 4 Oft. II I.oft gSft. B.3ft A 9.15 pm |j SIS 9 3ft p m mgm's "SPEEDWAY" Mancv Sinatra F.lvi* Presley Meti it ORCHARD A PALACE rrmiprr: iVfdnpiitaT, 24th April Orchard. 8.1.A p m Palate: 8.30 p m "GINS FOR SAN SEBASTIAN' ANTHONY
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  • NEWSFEATURES
    • 129 14 PARIS. Mon. (Reuter) The French government announced that it is withdrawing from management of the French Cinematheque (National Film Institute) and setting up a state-run film library. The announcement by the French Culture Ministry came 10 weeks after an international storm blew up over the government’s
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    • 390 14 ON FLEECY CLOUDS SRINAGAR, Kashmir. Mon. (UPI) Maharishi Mahesh Yogi says his recently concluded course for foreigners in transcendental meditation a) Rishikesh was a smash success and brushes aside suggestions that the Beatles are “Spiritual dropouts" The Maharishi says he has given 40 successful meditation
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    • 187 14 Battle of Zeebrugge ZEEBRUGGE. Belgium. Tues. (Reuter) Some 80 survivors of the Battle of Zeebrugge, one of the most daring British operations of the First World War, paid tribute at this tiny port yester- day to comrades who fell in action 50 years ago. The veterans some
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    • 104 14 Reds unhappy with mother-in-law MOSCOW. Mon. (Reuter) Mother-in-iaw. the butt of jokes the world over is now being accused of religious interference in the Soviet Union by forcing young atheist parents to have their children baptised. The Communist Party propaganda magazine Agitator todav said young working couples who could not
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    • 80 14 JAKARTA. Mon. (Reuter) One Chinese was stabbed to death and another wounded in a street brawl in Pematang Siantar in North Sumatra. Indonesia's Antara news agency reported today. It said three bandits accosted the Chinese and forced them to hand over their money and belongings, but
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    • 99 14 JOHANNESBURG. Mon. (Reuter) People of at least 10 nationalities were among the 122 who died in crash of South African Airways Boeing jet at Windhoek South African Airways announced that 44 passengers were South African, plus the crew of 12. all of whom perished.
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    • 46 14 AMMAN. Mon. (Reuter) Israeli patrols tried last night to cross the Jordan River for the third time in five days a military spokesman reported here. He said forward Jordanian positions clashed with Israeli patrols trying to cross the river near the AlMajame Bridge.
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    • 108 14 TEHERAN. Mon. (Reuter) Iran and the Western Oil Consortium have reached a successful and satisfactory accord In favour of Iran, it was announced here today The Western Oil Consortium of British. French, Dutch and American companies operating Iran s southern nationalised oil industry sent a delegation
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    • 102 14 CHARLESTON. West Virginia, Mon. (UPI) Mrs. Pat Haverland, a Charleston mother, reported yesterday that "Everything is fine” in her eight-foot deep grave. She was on the second of a planned 75-day stay in the 73-inch long coffin. Her only complaint was a ringing telephone. Ever
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    • 377 14 NEW YORK Mon. (UPI) A multi-million dollar global birth control plan is needed to defuse the population explosion and save billions of dollars for■development, according to Columbia Lmversity professor Richard N. Gardner. In a forthcoming book on economic development, the former Kennedy administration official calls
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    • 211 14 ATHENS. Mon. (Reuter) Tank crews chanted “Long live the revolution'* as Prime Minister George Papadopulos and other cabinet ministers visited Army units on the first anniversary of the Army coup which overthrew the civilian government last April 21. The tank unit, based near Athens, played
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    • 56 14 NEW DELHI. .Mon. (UPI) Indian folk dancers will soon hit the road for the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in yet another scheme to popularise family planning. Several troupes of dancers will tour the country and encourage family planning saying it with music but saying what,
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  • Sun Sport
    • 302 15  -  By BEN VARIYAN Ti UAL A LUMPUR, Mon. Erland Kops, Pesta badminton tingles champion and seven times All-England champion, said here lost night Malaysia should take the lead and go all out in holding a world badminton championship here. such a championship would
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    • 352 15  - Indonesia will support such championships in this region By ALBERT JOHNSON SINGAPORE. Mon. Dr. Sudirntan. President of the Indonesian Badminton Association, said here today that Indonesia would strongly support any moves to stage an official individual world badminton cham- pionships in this region. The IBA chief who flew into the
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    • 344 15 p.ARIS. Mon. (Reuter) Mr. Henry Berlin’s Fpsom Oaks entry La Lagune raced to a five lengths win in the £6.700 Vanteux over one mile 1-1 2 furlongs at Longchamp yesterday. Geral<i Thiboeuf shook up the ftlly two furlongs out and she shot smoothly away from
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    • 122 15 PENANG. Mon. Denmark’s Erland Kops. who won the singles of the Malaysian Pesta Badminton, will meet Yew Cheng Hock in an exhibition match between international stars and a Penang selection at the Han Chlang High School Indoor Stadium here tomorrow night. Yew Cheng
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    • 349 15 ALOB STAB. Mon Kedah Police swamped Penang Police 7-2 in a North Zone fixture of the Harrigan Shield soccer competition at the Sultan Abdul Hamid College ground here today. Kedah, playing a constructive and methodical game, took command from kick-off. After missing a number of
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    • 60 15 SINGAPORE. Mon. J. Goodaoo was the outstanding driver at the Forces Driving Club Scramble held at Colombo Camp over the weekend Other Results: Ra e 1:—1. G. Potts 2. E. Sirth. Race 2: —1. P. Jarman 2. J. Goodaoo. Race 3:—l. G. Potts and J. Goodaoo 2.
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    • 53 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— Kedah took fifth Placing in the Bumley Cup soccer tournament on a toss of coin over Johore at the Armed Forces Stadium here this evening. In another match. Negri Sembilan beat Sabah 2 —o after extra-time, for seventh placing. Scorers were Majid Yasin
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    • 85 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon Malaysia welcome the recommendation of the International Olympic Executive Board to exclude South Africa from taking part in the next Olympic Games to be held in Mexico. When commenting on the move of the Board, the Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak. said
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    • 689 15 Foi'owing are the race weights for First Day Penang Races on Sunday. April 28 Class 1 Div. 1— About S Furs Royal Meadow II 906 Kings Knight 9 02 Greenstone II 8.11 Mirthful Miss 8 06 Brigand 803 Brave Venture 803 Melody Road 8
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    • 266 15 MANCHESTER, England, Mon. (Reuter) Real Madrid have arrived here for Wednesday’s European Cup game in exultant mood after clinching the Spanish League Championship on Saturday. Their.coach, Miguel Munoz, said: “The tension is off now that we have won the championship and
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    • 113 15 MtTAR, Mon.—The Batu Pahat District Primary Schools’ Sports Council has planned to hold two games carnivals and a sports meet in the district this year *l. The derision Was made at a Committee meeting of the Council yesterday. The aim is to faster better
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    • 74 15 VARBERG. Sweden, Mon. (UPI) Ingemar Sven*ton, a 23-year-old Swede with both his legs paralysed after a traffic accident four yean ago. finished fourth in a Swedish car rally on Saturday night, Svensson who has to bu moved to his car in a wheelchair has been fighting two
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    • 248 15  -  By Albert Johnson SINGAPORE. Mon. Top local boxers will compete in the 1968 Singapore National Open Boxing Championships to be held here from April 25-27.. Disclosing this in an interview with Sunsport here today, SABA President. Mr. F. C. Pestana said: “The forthcoming
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    • 157 15 SERE M BAN Mon. A goal m each half gave N.S. Ceylonese Youth r orum a convincing 2-0 victory over a 10-man N.S. Club in the N.S. Hockey Association League fixture here today. NSCYF could have won by a bigger margin had it not
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    • 102 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— Major Abu Bakar Mohamed was elected President of the Persatuan Sari Jasmam. at its general meeting held here over the weekend. Enche Ahmad Nekmat was elected General Secretary and Enche Abu Bakar Jabba chief instructor. For the Federal capital branch. Mr. H.R.M. Storey, was
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    • 67 15 JAKARTA, Mon. (UPI) Three Malaysian swimmers accompanied by two officials have arrived in Jakarta to participate in the all Indonesia Swimming Championships starting in Jakarta on Wednesday. The Malaysian swimmers are Chan Chee Sing (free style) Chong Teh Cheong (breaststroke) and Leong Wei Tat (backstroke).
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  • 588 16 'UNWISE' FOR SOUTH AFRICA TO PARTICIPATE T AUSANNE, Switzerland, Mon. (UPI). J The nine-man Executive Board of the In* ternational Olympic Committee (IOC) yesterday colled for another vote by the 71 lOC members on whether South Africa should be allowed to compete in the Mexico
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  • 264 16 MEXICO CITY Mon. '(tPI) Mexico reacted with a big sigh of relief on Sunday to the news it may not have to host a “mini-Olympics” after all, in the squabble over South Africa. “Our country has won another battle for human rights", said the Mexican
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  • 120 16 MANILA. Mon. (Reuter) The Indonesian Davis Cup team flew in here on Saturday to play the Philippines team for the first round of the Eastern Zone Davis Cup tie scheduled for April 26 to April 28 at the Rizal tennis arena. The four Indonesian tennis
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  • 55 16 DUBLIN. Mon. (UPI). F.A. of Ireland Cup Final Sham r o c k Rovers 3 Waterford 0. This was Shamrock Rovers fifth successive Cup final win. League of Ireland > Cork Celtic 1. Drumcondra 1. This draw enabled Dundalk to finish second to Waterford and ahead of
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  • 323 16 RON Clarke, although now 30. Is still at the peak of form and is among the fancies for the 5.000 and 10.000 metres events at Mexico City. Twenty times has he broken world times over distances between two miles and 20,000 metres and he still holds six
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  • 325 16 T AS VEGAS. Nevada. Mon. (Reuter) Don January won the USSISO.OOO Tournament of Champions here yesterday, shooting a two under par 69 for a total 276. January, coming back from a bout with the flu on Saturday, won US$3O,OOO for four
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  • 128 16 HONG KONG. Mon. (Reuter) Singapore, represented by the Royal Air Force, lost all the seven events in a two-day interport regatta held here during the weekend. Singapore were beaten in the senior sculls event and also eliminated from the senior pairs and junior sculls on
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  • 255 16 XTUERBURGRING, West Germany, Mon. (Reuter) The season’s first motor cycle meeting counting towards the 1968 world championships, was interrupted on the Nuerburgring track yesterday as forest fires sent clouds of thick smoke billowing across the circuit. The red flags went down in the 500
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  • 123 16 MADRID, Mon. (Reuter) Manuel Santana. Spain’s former Wimbledon champion. yesterday won the men's singles title in the Puerta de Hierro international tennis tournament here But Santana, hoping to hit his best form for Spain’s Davis Cup match against Holland in Valencia next month, had a
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  • 282 16  -  By Anthony White JOHANNESBURG, Mon. (Reuter) South African Olympic Committee President Frank Braun said last night that the International Olympic Committee Executive's unanimous recommendation that South Africa stay out of the Olympic Games "looks as though the strong-arm boys have talked the others
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  • 228 16 TOKYO. Mon. (UPI). Ryutaro Azuma. Japanese member of the International Olympic Committee, today voiced approval of the lOC’s Executive Board's decision that it would be most unwise for a South African team to participate in the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games. Azuma. a long-time lOC member, described
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  • 82 16 NAIROBI, Mon. (Reuter) Maurice Bembridg, of Britain, won the Kenya Open Golf Championship here yesterday afternoon with a one over par total of 289 for 72 holes. The 23-year-old Little Aston, Birmingham, professional returned a three-under-par 69 in the final round on the 6.839 yards Karen
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  • 167 16 BOCHUM, West Germany, Mon. (Reuter) Sture Jonsson of Sweden. won the men’s singles title here yesterday in the inaugural European Badminton Championships. In the final. Jonsson beat West Germany’s Wolfgang Bochow by 17-14. 11-15, Irmgard Latz. of West Germany, became the first European
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  • 251 16 Mon (UPI) driver Jackie p™' yesterday won the Grand Pnx of Pau Formula Two auto-race. Stewart, driving a Matra. covered the 193.2 kilometres (120 miles) of the 36 mRm C rCUI t J? ne hOUr 36 minutes eight seconds at S. (ESS'S®" *****2
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 60 16 TIME AND TIDE Penang: 11.16 a.m. (6.7 ft.), 10.36 p.m. (6.6 ft.) Port Swettenham: 3.01 a.m. (12.0 ft.), 3.32 p.m. (13.9 ft.) Port Dickson: 4.18 a.m. (6.6 ft-). 419 p.m. (7.3 ft.) Singapore: 7.52 a.m. (7.2 ft.), 9.30 p.m. (7.4 ft.) Sedili Kechil: 5.53 a.m. (4.7 ft.), 7.29 p.m. (6.5
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