Eastern Sun, 10 September 1968

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  • 23 1 Eastern Sun Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION Estd. 1966. Vol. 3 No. 759 Tuesday, 10 September 1968. MC (P) 0050 Price 15 cents
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  • 386 1 21 killed, 49 wounded in 5½-hour duel along Suez LIMITED NATIONS, Mon. (Reuter UPI) 'J’HE Security Council today called on Israel and Egypt to strictly observe the ceasefire in the Suez Canal area. The coll was made in a declaration read out by the Council's
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  • 134 1 A WORD of consolation from Hengkie Irian an, winner of the Malaysian Grand Prix for Cars to Max Stewart. Max in his 2.5-litre Brabham Climax had the "5-lap (158-mile) race virtually in his hands and was ahead three-and-a-half laps of Hengkip in second place when he pulled
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  • 400 1 MANILA, Mon. (Reuter) UPI) Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos said last night he would sign into law a Bill including Sabah within the territorial limits of the Philippines if the Foreign Policy Council recommended he should do so. Speaking on a television interview,
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  • 110 1 KOTA KINABALU. Mon. (UPl)—Demands that the 10-month old anti-smuggl-ing pact between Malaysia and Philippines be abrogated snowballed in Sabah today. So far 30 commercial organisations have sent to Sabah Chief Minister Tun Mustapha bin Datu Harun a petition that the pact be abrogated The English-language Daily
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  • 222 1 SINGAPORE, Mon. The All-Races Shipping Freight Committee today threatened to call on its members representing 60 organisations in the Republic to opt out of contracts with the Straits New York Conference for shipping. The committee today strongly protested against the proposed
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  • 284 1 SAIGON. Mon (UPI) Allied troops killed 214 Communists in a half-dozen weekend clashes around Saigon. military spokesmen said today. f.S. Navy destroyers off the coast of North »ietnam reported sinking or damaging 58 Communist supply boats and barges in one of the heaviest
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  • 169 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak. said the signing of the Bill by President Marcos making Sabah part of Philippine territory would result in “serious implications.” Tun Razak. however, added. it was entirely up to President Marcos to sign the Bill
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 393 2 ‘Govt. will accept 84 resolutions passed’ KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Rasak, today suggested the task of holding bumiputra economic congress in future should be handled by the Associated Mala y Chamber of Commerce instead of
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    • 63 2 TOKYO. Mon. (UPI> Slngapores Prime Minuter, Mr Lee Kuan Yew will arrive here Oct. 14 for a weeklong visit at the invitation of the Japanese Government, the foreign sources disclosed today. Mr. Lee was expected to meet with Japanese Prime Ministr Mr. Eisaku Sato. Foreign Minister
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    • 454 2 Author of book on which film ‘The Seventh Dawn’ is based says: KUALA LUMPUR. Mon The author of the book on which the film “The Seventh Dawn” filmed In Malaysia, was based said today the Malavsian Government had a
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    • 202 2 SINGAPORE. Mon Singapore's tourist attractions and facilities will he promoted at the American Society of Travel Agents convention (ASTA>. to he held at San Juan. Puerto Rico from Sept. 15 to 21. Singapore will be represented by Mr. Tan Chee Chve. managing
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    • 119 2 MRS. M. Stephano Is a secretary and a pretty one at that. As vou can see from ber "dog tag”, she la from UNESCO. Paris. Here she is jotting down notes while her boss. Mr. Pierre Nmveaux. representative from UNESCO (not in picture) was addressing the
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    • 214 2 KUALA LUMPUR Mon The University of Malaya Music Society will be staging one of Rodgers and Hammerstein's most celebrated musicals Flower Drum Song from Sept. 12 to 15 at the University Experimental Theatre. It produced “Show Boat” two years ago. “Flower Drum Song” is this year's major
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    • 61 2 The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Culture, Mr. Fong Sip Chee (left), toasting with the Acting Trade Representative of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Mr. Bak Su Kwon, (right), at the Raffles Hotel on the occasion of the Republic’s 20th anniversary. Present at the function were Gov- eminent
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    • 276 2 Congress urges Govt: KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Second Bumiputra Economic Congress today called on th« Central Government to estalish a bumiputra national finance company and a bumiputra national insurance company. Another resolution called on the Federal and State Governments and statutory bodies to
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    • 207 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The National Union of Malaysian Students today welcomed in principle the announcement by the Minister of Education. Enche Mohamed Khir Johari, to set up a National University. It however questioned the wiadom of including the Islamic College w-ithin the framework
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    • 461 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon Cases of teacher* neglecting their duties to take part in business and other interest are “quite rife in the country.” the Minister of Education, Enche Mohamed Khir Johari, said today. The Chief Education Adviser, Hajl Hamrian bin Sheikh Tahir, said last
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    • 75 2 PETALING JAVA. Mofl A 20-year-old girl, about to marrv in a month's time, today told of how the jewellery she was to wear for her wedding was stolen from her home here. Miss M. Arokiamary said: “Ironically enough. I was attending another
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    • 191 2 SINGAPORE. Mon The National Library will hold monthly film shows as from Wednesday. Announcing this today trie Dire' tor of National Library. Mrs. Hedwig Anuar said this was marie possible by the presentation of a film sound projector to the library by Kodak (M)
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    • 55 2 MONDAY. SEPT 9 LONDON Cloudy. 72-59£ 22-15 C. PARIS Sunny. 75-59 L 25-15 C. NEW YORK Sunny. 7961f. 26-16 C. SAN FRANCISCO Fair, 70-finf. 21-15 C. TOKYO Sunny. 76-63 L 24-17 C HONOLULU Fair, 9<V 74f. 32-23 C MOSCOW Overcast. 5945f. 13-7 C. MELBOURNE Cloudy, .•j6-4Rf. 13-9 C.
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    • 213 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. Trade contracts worth more than $6 million have been signed here within the last two days between Singapore and Russian trade organisations. The Thakral Brothers’ Textile Company of Singapore yesterday signed contract for $8 million worth of Russian textiles while the
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    • 250 3 SINGAPORE Mon. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Culture. Mr. Fong Sip Cher today rereived cheques totalling *0«315 from two organisat’ons which had raised funds from their presentation of concerts for the Singapore Arts Council. I'he two organisations were the Nanyang University Students Fellowship
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    • 363 3 We can go it alone, say three V ’nam Senators SINGAPORE, Mon. Three Senators from South Vietnam feel that the Vietnamese can shoulder their own responsibilities and burden if the Allied countries were to leave their country. They are Senators Nguyen Van Ngai. who Is the leader of the three-man
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    • 1180 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. The P.N. Pelajaran Nasional Indonesia (PELNI), the national shipping lines of Indonesia, today re-opened a five-year-old $2 million civil suit in the High Court against two local banks, the Chartered Bank and Mercantile Bank Ltd. Four other firms. South Union Company Ltd.. Eng
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    • 137 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. One of a four-member robbers fired a shot 1 n the air as a warning and robbed the proprietor of Eng Aun Company in East Coast Road of 53.025 $2,600 in cash and cigarettes worth $425, this afternoon. The proprietor,
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    • 59 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon.— A Magistrate’s Court here today fined two men $5O each when they pleaded guilty to being members of an unlawful procession a? the junction of Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman and Jalan Perkins on Saturday. They were Looi Thong Yew. 39 of Petaling Jaya.
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    • 49 3 PENANG, Mon.—Wireless inspection officers from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting todav conducted an intensive check on radio and television licences in the State. Meanwhile, this morning, a large crowd turned uo at the General Post Office here to get licences for their sets.
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    • 208 4 &lALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Democratic Action Party today expressed concern that the Ministry of Education had not made any plans to work out details for the National University. It noted that the Minister of Education. Enche Mohamed Khlr Joharl. had said when announcing the
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    • 155 4 KAMPAR, Mon, Three men. one armed with a pistol, today held up the Assistant Manager ot a tin mine at Kamporg Koboi, and robbed him of $1,500. Ng Hooi Chan. 30. of the Yoong Lee Tin Mine Kongsi, had earlier drawn the money from the
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    • 102 4 Peninsular Art Gallery: Exhibition of works by prominent Malaysian artists at 41, Jalan Raja Muda 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Samat Art Gallery (AIA Building): General art exhibition of paintings by Malaysian artists 9 am. to 6 pm. National Art Gallery (Jalan Ampang): 11th national art exhibition 10
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    • 274 4 For Armed Forces Day: KI'ALA LUMPUR. Mon. Highlight of the Malavsian Armed Forces Day celebrations would be the re-enacting of the Battle of Pasir Panjang before the fall of Singapore in 1942. said Brigadier-General Ungku Ahmad bin Abdul Rahman, the chairman of the organising
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    • 169 4 Kt’ALA LUMPUR. Mon Selangor Traffic Police Chief. Supt. Mansor bin Mohamed Noor. today urged motorists to use the newly-opened multi-storey car park at Jalan Rodger here. The car park, the first of its kind, has 98 parking places on the first floor. It is
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    • 224 4 KUALA LUMP U R. Mon. A tin mine worker who “walked in a peculiar manner” was caught with more than a kati of tin ore in his shoes, a Magistrate's Court was told here today. Boteh Mandullah. security assistant of the Renong Tin
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    • 92 4 THE Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, unveiling a wooden plaque to mark the opening of two MARA batek factories in Petaling Jaya, on Sunday. The two factories the Batek Malaysia (Sdn.) Bhd and Sharikat Jelatak (Sdn.) Bhd are set up by MARA with the ultimate aim of estahlishinr a
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    • 66 4 MALACCA. Mon The breakdown in the TV transmission early Saturday evening continued yesterday, resulting In thousands failing to see the Grand Prix held at Batu Tiga. It was the worse transmission failure since television was introduced. No one in the State was able to
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    • 179 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Moo A Klang artist. Long Thien Shih. who is now on a holiday from his studies in Paris, today introduced a collection of graphic art for the first time to the Malaysian art scene. More than 70 works were displayed at his one-man show
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    • 336 4 PI claim is a threat to regional co-operation —Khir KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Secre-tory-G e n e r a I of U.M.N.0., Enche Mohamed Khir Johari, has said that the Philippine claim to Sabah threatens the spirit of regional co-o peration in South-east Asia. Enche Khir who is also the
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    • 79 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. —Four men armed with daggers held up the jaga of Cheras English Road School here this morning and got away with a safe containing cash $1,016 and property worth $947. The jaga. U. Urukarasamy. was on his round when he was surprised by the
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    • 37 4 The Minister of Health, Dr. Ng Kam Poh (right), receiving the gift of 111,100 millilitres of cholera vaccine from the Pakistan High Commissioner to Malaysia, Mr. M. S. Shaikh (left) at his Ministry in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.
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    • 334 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The Minister of Education. Enche Mohamed Khir Johari. said today he would do his best to obtain the services of an UNESCO expert to assist in Bernama’s editorial training programme. Enche Khir disclosed this during an official
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    • 192 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon The dragnet thrown by police on the two remaining robbers who shot and wounded a miner at a private dub in Jalan Pasar here will “close in” on them in the next few days Selangor's CID Chief. ACP
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    • 239 4 SANDAKAN Mon. About 120 participants, mostly Filipinos, who attended a civics day here this morning urged the Philippine Government to drop the Sabah claim for the sake of peace and good relationship between Philippines and Malaysia. They also pledged to be law-abiding residents. The
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    • 166 4 KUALA LUMPUR Mon. A 28-year-old Ilkebana instructress. Madam Ng Ngok Lan. told the High Court here today how she was driven out of her home by her husband and in-laws because she did not have a son Madam Ng. speaking between sobs,
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    • 346 10 SINGAPORE, Mon. A 34-year-old dance hostess was burnt to death in her locked room when a fire broke out in her Hat at River Valley Road this morning. Police identified her as Ngor Lai Kheng olios Vivian Pok, a mother of an
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    • 307 10 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Coroner’s Court today recorded an open verdict In the case of a 22-year-old soldier of the Singapore Armed Forces, Cheong Eng Hock, who died as a result of a road accident on Feb. 13 in Jurong Road. Cheong and
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    • 138 10 SINGAPORE. Mon. The 1968 Christinas Fair committee will hold its fourth sub-project. a mammoth donation draw with prires worth up to $lOO,OOO. at the Istana on Wednesday at 4.30 pm Singapore’s First Lady. Puan Noor Aishah will officiate at the donation draw. The
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    • 72 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon Thieves broke into two premises here during the weekend and took away properties worth $4,107. A jaga, Arriffin bin Mat of the Veterinary Department at Jalan Klang here reported the lose of five typewriters and two adding machines worth $2,557 yesterday morning
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    • 165 10 SINGAPORE. Mon A petrol kiosk attendant was awaken bv three people at 12.20 this morning and stabbed to death. Police said Rapiai bin Joo. 24. of Yio Chu Kang Road died on-the-spot He was stabbed in the chest. The Acting Police Secretary, Mr. Lionel
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    • 72 10 SINGAPORE. Mon A married man. Go Hean Eng. was fined $3OO or three months’ jail by the Fourth District Court today after he had pleaded guilty to making a false declaration at the Registry of Marriages that he was a bachelor. Go made the declaration
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    • 110 10 SINGAPORE. Mon Spectators at the Johore Grand Prix this weekend will be treated to a fashion parade on wheels presented by Maison Mane of Singapore Sporting new designs from this fashion house, the 12 models will go round the course on cars of various makes. Picture above
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    • 258 10 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Minister for Science and Technology. Dr Toh Chin Chye. last night urged scientists to begin to think of themselves as innovators in industry. Speaking at the University of Singapore Science Society annual dinner and dance at the Goodwood Park Hotel,
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    • 44 10 PENANG, Mon. A 33-year-old mother of seven children. Khoo Cha Boh, was found drowned in a well behind her house in Perak Road this morning It was believed that Khoo fell into the well while trying to fetch some water
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    • 68 10 The Minister of Commerce and Industry. Tan Sri Dr. Lim Swee Aun. presented certificates to the successful trainees of the hotel and catering staff training course at the Federal Hotel in Kuala Lumpur vesterday. Altogether 36 trainees received their certificates. Picture shows Tan Sri
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    • 42 13 THIS strong pictorial photograph was among the 60 award-winning pictures at an exhibition on show at Singapore National Library Lecture Hall. The collection features prints selected from the annual Newspaper National Snapshot Awards held in the United States.
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    • 23 13 IPOH, Mon. Zainbuddin bin Hassan. aged four, fell into a drain at Kampong Telok Pandiang. Bagan Serai, yesterday and was drowned.
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    • 295 13 SINGAPORE, Mon. Singapore Scouts hope to meet some of the 11 million Scouts around the world during their “jamboree-on-the-air” on Oct. 19 and 20. According to the organiser, Mr. Bernard Ferandei, Assistant Chief Commissioner (Relations) on the Singapore Scout Association qualified ham operators will
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    • 61 13 KLANG Mon —The Silver Jubilee celebration of Rev. Father S. M. Dominie Swamlnathan and Rev. Father E. Giraud will be celebrated on Sept. 13 and 14 at the Church of our Lady of Lourdes. here. A mass will be said by the jubilerians on both days the
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    • 73 13 SINGAPORE. Mon—Military personnel will be conducting a street clearing exercise from 1 a na. to 5 a.m. on Wednesday at North Bridge Road from Capitol Building to High Street/ Hill Street to the junction of Coleman Street and Hill Street. No blanks or thunderflashes will be nred
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    • 599 13 SINGAPORE, Mon. The outgoing Chief of Project of the Light Industries Services of the Economic Development Board, Mr. Lang Wong is optimistic about future projects of the LIS. He told a farewell press conference today his optimism was based on three factors
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    • 122 13 SINGAPORE. Mon. Miss Susie Ho and Mrs. Amy Wee will conduct a course on 'Charm and Poise” organised by the Chinese YMCA. This is one of the 13 courses to be presented by the Chinese YMCA in. their new "Learning for Living” programme. The course,
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    • 110 13 5 p.m.: lea party and talk on precious and semiprecious stones at 16. St. Martin’s Drive organised by Pan-Pacific and South-east Asia Women’s Association. 5 pm.-8.30 pm.: SATA free mass X-ray station at 14$ m s. Uprer Chang’ Road. “30 p m.: Free film shows bv Ministry of
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    • 223 13 Artist’s impression of $840,000 community centre SINGAPORE. Mon The Singapore Family Planning Association will hold a seminar for non-medical personnel from Singapore and the Pacific region on Saturday and Sunday. The seminar is being held to discuss the role of non-medical personnel as
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    • 59 13 SINGAPORE. Mon. The University of Singapore Pharmaceutical Society will hold it s annual dinner at the Majestic Restaurant in Bukit Paso a Road on Octo- ber 4 at 7.30 pm Dr. Toh Chin Chye. ViceChancellor of University of Singapore and Minister for Science
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 665 5 MANILA, Mon. (Reuter fir UPI) A Philippine Senate Committee investigating the disappearance of several special forces trainees involved in a military plan called "Project Merdeka" has concluded that the project was "unlawfully organised" and that the trainees had been killed. Sources here who obtained a
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    • 182 5 HONG KONG. Mon. The top leader of Red Guards in Kwanftune Province has been arrested on orders from Premier Chou-En-Lai. it was reported on Monday. The Ming Pao. an independent Chinese dally, said the arrest of Wu Chuan»a? "Ported in the Aug. 4 issue
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    • 155 5 TONDON, .Mon (Reuter) -'olice were today seeking a ,jn; who nailed a man to the wall of a garage in Soho. Central London, yesterday. The man. a bearded street trader known as “Johnny the Irish”, broke free six hours later and staggered out of the garage
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    • 660 5 UNITED NATIONS, New York, Mon. (Reuter UPI) The U.N. Security Council was called into session for 9 p.m. last night (0100 GMT) on I s r a e I's complaint of a major violation of the cease-fire by Egyptian troops in
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    • 36 5 IGNORING the Russian tanks, happy Austrian Karl Talasch. 21. and his bride Jana Gunincova. 17, from Bratislava, seen crossing Dubcek Street, after their wedding in Bratislava on Aug. 3L UPI radio photo.
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    • 93 5 LITTLEHAMPTON. England. Mon. i Reuter) Police at this south coast seaside resort last night charged a man with murdering a six-year-old girl, one of three children found dead yesterday at a nearby village. The dead children, aged six, five and two. all with the surname
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    • 114 5 SAIGON, Mon. (Reuter) A mother of six children has beaten 26 male candidates in a by-election for a seat in South Vietnam’s House of Representatives. Mrs. Tran Kim Thoa took 9.498 votes of a possible 115 244 to become the third woman member
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    • 193 5 T3APEETE, Tahiti, Mon. (UPI fir Reuter) France detonated its second hydrogen bomb yesterday at its Pacific proving grounds* The device was exploded over the lagoon of Mururoa, 800 miles southeast of Papeete, at 1900 GMT. France fired its first H-bomb on Aug. 24. The
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    • 224 5 SAIGON. Mon. 'UPI) Brig. Gen. Truong Quan An. his wife and three American officers were killed on Sunday when their helicopter crashed and exploded in Vietnam’s central highlands. An. Commander of the 23rd Infantry Division, was the first South Vietnamese General killed in action
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    • 188 5 TOKYO Mon. (UPI) A mixture of tension and festivity enveloped the North Korean capital of Pyongyang on the 20th anniversary of North Korea's National Day, Japanese newsmen reported. Four Japanese newsmen are presently in Pyongyang as guests of the North Korean Government. They
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    • 68 5 TOKYO, Mon. (ReuterV The Japan Pen Club today sent a telegram to Mr. Nikolai V. Podgorny, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, asking for the release of Czechoslovak writers who had reportedly been arrested by the Russians. The action followed
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    • 701 6 Allegation of torture, sexual assault and murder made by police 010 DE JANEIRO, Mon. (Reuter) Police hove arrested the part lv owner of the 'Abode Of Light' orphanage here in which they allege young children were murdered, tortured, and sexually
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    • 76 6 Wellington, Mon. (Reuter) New Zealand's Prime Minister. Mr. Keith Holyoake, said here today he had no specific proposals for any new summit meeting of the Vietnam war allies. He was commenting on a Washington report that President Johnson was considering calling another mid-Paclfic summit
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    • 49 6 JAKARTA. Mon. (Reuter) Indonesian Foreign Minister Mr. Adam Malik will leave for Belgrade, on September 17 for talks with President Tito on the situation in Czechoslovakia, informed sources said today. From Belgrade he will proceed to New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly.
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    • 375 6 OTTAWA, Mon. (Reuter) The extengion of Federal Government services in both the English and French languages across the country will be an early priority of Canada s 28th Parliament, which assembles on Thursday. It will mark the first Parliamentary test as Prime Minister
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    • 211 6 BASEL, Switzerland. Mon. (UPI) Western Central Banks yesterday confirmed the loan of S 2 billion to support the British pound. Details were hammered out during a four-hour meeting by the heads of 13 Central Banks. those from Western Europe plus the United States. Canada
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    • 24 6 DACHAU, Germany: New International Memorial on the site of an infamous con- centration camp, which was unvailad on Sunday. UPI photo.
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    • 256 6 CAPE TOWN. Mon. (Reuter) Former Johannesburg Miner Petrus Smith, the third man to be given a new heart by pioneering transplant surgeon Christian Barnard, today asked doctors if he could get up only 12 hours after the operation. Mr. Smith, 52. given
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    • 157 6 TOKYO. Mon. (UPI) Jspsnese Labour Union official charged today that US. military authoritiea on Okinawa are stifling "fundamental trade union rights.’* The charge was made by Mr. Yukitaka Haraguchi. President of the all-Japan Federation of Metal Workers Unions, at the Sixth Asian Regional
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    • 50 6 «HA TANH Special Forces Camp: Wounded Mike Force. IS. Special Forces, adviser is given plasma by a buddy while assaulting NVA in the Ha Tanh Special Forces Camp. The camp was overrun several days ago. but Mike Force Montagnards re- took it in this assault. UPI photo.
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    • 132 6 TOKYO. Mon (Reuter) A 12-year-old Vietnamese girl orphan shyly exchanged style greetings with Japanese foster parents at Tokyo International Airport today when she arrived from Saigon. Ho Thi Kieu had been living in an orphanage in Saigon after her parents were killed in the
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    • 119 6 WASHINGTON. Mon. (Reuter) Governor Spiro Agnew. the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate, today described most hippies and yippies in the American anti-Vietnam war movement as anarchists who do things "generally intended to disrupt the dignity and stature of the United States.” An interviewer on a television programme asked
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    • 184 6 HONG KONG, Mon. (UPI) The 2nd Congress of the Western Pacific Orthopaedic Association opened today with more than 200 delegates from 11 countries attending. In his opening speech. Dr. PH. Teng. the Director of Medical and Health Services, said he felt
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    • 116 6 OAKLAND. California. Mon. (Reuter) Black Panther Party leader Huey Newton was found gul.ty here of voluntary manslaughter in the killing of an Oakland policeman. The jury, led by a Negro foreman, took four days to reach last night’s verdict against Newton, who founded the
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    • 224 6 ESSEN. West Germany. Mon. (Reuter) West German Catholics closed a fiveday Congress today in (be same defiant vein in which they earlier called for a revision of Pope Paul's baa on artificial birth control The conference, attended by more young people (baa usual, voted by 3,000
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    • 44 6 RIYADH, Mon. (Reuter) Saudi Arabian health authorities have West Pakistan a cholera area following reports from the World Health Organisation. The authorities have imposed health measures on all travellers from West Pakistan and banned the import of certain foodstuffs.
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    • 562 7 TTONG KONG, Mon. (UPI). Communist China faces continued "instability and physical insecurity" because of deep divisions among the leadership, according to American diplomatic officials in this listening post. A published assessment of the situation In China also forecasts “a continued political pattern of
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    • 41 7 PYONGYANG. North Korea: According to the Korean Central News Agency, a North Korean news service, this picture shows some of the crewmen of the captured C.S. intelligence ship Puebio playing basketball in Pyongyang in August. UPI photo.
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    • 344 7 WASHINGTON. Mon. (Reuter) The Roman Catholic Church in America is clamping down on the increasing number of dissenters to the Pope's recent encyclical on birth control. Over 600 theologians from all over the country. Including all of the six American
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    • 235 7 CANBERRA. Mon. (UPI) Australia has negotiated Iron ore contracts with Jafrn worth A53.000 million, t was announced. They call for export of 864 million tons of lump ore fires and pellets over the Ef 20 years. "ight mining companies and 22 individual contracts
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    • 160 7 SEOUL. Mon. (Reuter) The Foreign Ministry said today that the Korean Government knew of no move Indicating that the release of the 82-man crew of the U.B.S Pueblo from North Korea was imminent. The Ministry’s official spokesman. Mr Tuk-Po Kim. told reporters that the
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    • 53 7 BANGKOK. Mon. (Reuter) Thailand ts staying out of the Sabah dispute between Malaysia and the Philippines Prime Minister Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn said today. Marshal Thanom told reporters the Thai Government was not doing anything which might affect relations between the countries concerned In the
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    • 42 7 PORT MORESBY, Papua-New Guinea. Mon. (Reuter) —The Sepik jungle region of New Guinea was rocked by an earthquake today. No casualties were reported The Geophysical Laboratory here said the most severe tremors registered 6.5 on the richter scale.
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    • 270 7  -  by Roland Eggleston DACHAU, West Germany, Mon. (Reuter) Angry former concentration camp inmates today fought with German students who interrupted a minute's silence in memory of Dachau victims by shouting anti-NATO and anti-militarist slogans. About 50 leftwmg students the unveiling ceremony of a memorial
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    • 326 7 PRAGUE. Mon. (Reuter) Television viewers here saw two pretty girls bring a smile to the face of Czechoslovak Communist Party Leader Alexander Dubcek as he arrived at the Central Committee headquarters this weekend. The girls —a pop singer and an actress ran
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    • 69 7 NEW YORK. Mon (Reuter) Four girls and a young man danced naked outside the United Nations headquarters in protest against the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia. After burning a Soviet flag In front of 50 onlookers last night, the protesters put their clothes on and walked
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    • 58 7 TOKYO. Mon. < Reuter) Japan today renewed her protest against the current series of French nuclear bomb explosions following her second thermonuclear detonation in the Pacific. Mr. Naraichi Fujiyama. Director of the Foreign Ministry's Information Bureau. in a statement called for immediate suspension of French nuclear bomb
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    • 213 7 NASSAU, Bahamas. Mon. (Reuter) David Knox, the Briton reprieved from a death sentence in Haiti, relaxed over a glass of whisky at his suburban hideaway today and spoke of his “lost weekend" in the West Indies. Mr Knox. Director of Information to the Bahamas
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    • 79 7 NEW DELHI, Mon. (Reuter) Police used teargas and arrested 100 people when a crowd of Sikhs marched on a rival meeting here today in a dispute over organisation of a temple. Police stopped the Sikhs, followers of the late Master Tara Singh, founder of the Akali Dal
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    • 118 7 DANANG. Vietnam Mon. (UPI) A 20-year-old US. Marin* war hero who admitted handing, knifing and shooting to death five Vietnamese civilians was sentenced today to life in prison. Lance Cpl. Denzil R. Allen. Lebanon. Indiana, half smiled as a seven-officer General Court Martial read the
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    • 76 7 JAKARTA. Mon (ReuterT The Trade attache of the Cuban Embassy in Jakarta, Juan Ojeda Farramola. has been granted political asylum by the Mexican Embassy in Indonesia. informed sources said today. Farramola was given a tourist visa on August 20 to enter Mexico. His wife and two
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    • 55 7 Fantastic realist exhibit in Berlin THE famous actress Daphna Rosenthal and sculptor Heinz Ottersen are seen before his sculptor “King Thu” during the great realist exhibition being held in the gallery “Ben Wargin" in the Berlin-Europa Centre. Some ten painters and sculptors are displaying their works which will be later
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  • 450 8 ON Sunday, while Enche Mohamed Khir Johari was telling delegates to an UMNO conference at Teluk Anson that the Philippines was trying to damage Malaysia’s image in the world through using all sorts of tactics, the Filipino delegates to the Inter-Parliamentary Congress in Lima. Peru, also brought
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  • 292 8 ACCORDING to a Reuter report, some fifty countries are attending a conference in Cairo organised by the Afro-Asian People’s Solidarity Organisation. The word solidarity is a misnomer for there is no unity among Africans themselves nor among Asians. This is just an attempt to keep the third world
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  • 732 8 NUMEROUS research activities are accelerating exploration of the oceans for food and mineral resources, and this increased activity emphasises the need for international agreements on jurisdiction over these resources. U.S. leaders have suggested joint international action, and studies of the subject are
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  • 214 8  -  By Henry B. Rothblatt (Author, “Handbook of Bvldoncd for Crlainal Trials”) ROGER took out a health and accident policy to insure himself and his family. Two years later, he tried to collect for medical expenses. When the foster Insurance Co. refused to pay Roger sued. "My IS-year-old
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  • LETTERS...
    • 372 8 KINDLY permit me the opportunity of expressing my support for the call to set up a National University. As a sovereign state possessing a National Language it becomes indubitable that a University can only be deemed to be NATIONAL in the fullest sense if its
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    • 180 8 Answers in the Broadcasting TV Ordinance REFER to the letter of 1 Scorpion” in your issue of 15th August. The points raised in that letter are So widely drawn that they cover a substantial portion of the law contained in the Broadcasting and Television Ordinance. 1963 and the Broadcasting and
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    • 78 8 THE continuous piledriving on the new Hotel site along Orange Grove Road and above Anderson Road is a bit much. One can understand the need for speed, but In this residential area, there should be some consideration for residents, who have already had 4 weeks of pounding from
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    • 202 8 COULD you please help me? I want to make friends with your people. Your newspaper has been suggested to me by a friend in Singapore. Please publish my name and address in your Pen Friends' columns I am very much interested in your country and
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    • 120 8 fj'VERY now and then we read of VIPs going abroad (especially to the UK) for medical treatment. Aren’t our doctors and specialists here good enough for them? Don’t tell me that the Teaching Hospital which we boast of as being the best in South-east Asia
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    • 102 8 IT is now a fortnight since the Dewan Ra'ayat passed the E.PF Amendment Act to permit contributors who had passed the age of 50 to withdraw l/3rd of their credits In an announcement by the Board, published in the Eastern Sun, it was stated that this Act must
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  • 695 8 Chinese press comments From Sin Chew Jit Poh THE American Negroes attending the third national black power conference voted on 2nd September 19fi8 to support the establishment of a separate political party, army, and black nation within the borders of the US. They advocated the
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 42 8 Eastern Sun Independent National Newspaper TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10. 19« S 23-B, Cantonment Road, Singapore 2. Telephone: *****'T Penanp Office Ipoh Office 39. |alan Sultan. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Telephone: (6134 6 S. Leith Street, Tel: ***** 77, Brewster Road. Td1:7232S Cable Address: AWNEWS
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 302 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Handloom fabrics wo▼en in India have a history as old as the pyramids <of Egypt. In fact, said Mrs. M.A. Rahman, wife of the Indian High Commissioner here, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Mark Antony, Hannibal, the Popes, the Kings and Queen
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    • 184 9 TAETROIT, Mon. (UPI) The top officers of General Motors Corp., citing a “solid ground for optimism'’ in the US. economy, have predicted a in 5 1969 reCOrd sales year for 1116 auto industry Mr. James M. Roche, Board Chairman, and Mr. Edward N.
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    • 93 9 SEOUL. Mon. (UPI) South Korea's first international trade fair opened today with a colourful ceremony at the Kuro-Dong Industrial Estate just outside Seoul. President and Mrs. Park Chung-Hee were at the opening of the exposition displaying Korean goods and products from ten foreign countries.
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    • 223 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. A school to train Malaysians in hotel and catering management will be set up soon here. A statement Issued by the Hotel and Restaurants Association of Malaya today said a lease on a school building in the
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    • 91 9 SINGAPORE. Mo r The following ships are expected to be in port today: Godowns Vessels 1/2 Bendearg 3/4 Peisander Domina 6/7 Thorsorient 13/14 Neleus 15'16 Achilles Andrzej Strug 19 Shinyo Mara 21/22 Katong 23/24 Sletter 27/28 Altair 29/30 Waitaki 31/32 Pembrokshire 33/34 Margaret C Artel 38/39 Nara
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    • 246 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. A promotional campaign to increase the sales of New Zealand lamb in Malaysia was launched in Kuala Lumpur. Highlights of the campaign will include cooking demonstrations and recipe tastings in the Weld Supermarket, special New Zealand lamb barbecues for
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    • 86 9 HONG KONG. Mon (UPI) There was no ban on Hong Kong’s textile exports to New Zealand. New Zealand Financial Minister Mr. Robert D. Muldoon said yesterday. Mr. Muldoon passed through Hong Kong yesterday on his way to Japan. Hong Kong's textile products
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    • 98 9 SINGAPORE. Mon The noon price* si the Chlnewe Prod or* Exrbaag* ta da» areBajei HClfe* Coconut Oil (FOB.) Balk 49 50 52-00 (FOB-) Dram Iaiw copra Mixed Sept MOO Muniok While m% n-uw 115.00 Sarawak White 112 50 Pepper (FOB) Sarawak Special Him ok Prpper 1FO.B1 96% N.L-W 55
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    • 263 9 Rubber down cent SINGAPORE. Mon—September first grade rubber buyers f ob. closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 54 cents per lb., down half a cent from previous close. The tone was quiet. The market was slow to form and ruled very thin at slightly below
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    • 102 9 HONG KONG. Mon. (UPI) —Currency Rates. HKSI9B.O per 100 Straits dollars. HKS 145.5 per 1.000 Taiwan dollars HK96.78 per Australian dollar HKS3OO.O per 1.000 Burmese kvats. HK5630.0 tier 1 000 Indian rupees. HKSIS.O per 10,000 Indonesian rupiahs HKS3OO.O per 10.000 South Vietnam piastres. HK5291.5 per 1.000 Thailand
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    • 1592 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Stock Exchange opened the week* trading today on a fairly active note with one suspemion from 3.20 pjn. to 3.30 p.m. to allow broker’s clerks to catch up the backlog of contracts. Prices of industrials had a softer appearance and were
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    • 21 9 LONDON. Mon (UPI) Rubber opened quiet with spot 19-3/8 19-5/8 No. 1 RSS CIF basis ports Sept. 19-1/16 19-5/16.
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    • 433 9 SLNIi APO&K Stock Is.*chance sold and offer prices iilDciaiiT dated at the clo»e ol boatneaa INDl STR1ALS ACMA 2.38 2.41 2.81 Borneo Bhd Bntlsteari 1 C sugar 4.18 chemical Co. 1.82 i -93 Colrt Morage Dunlop CD 3.46 F.. bmclting 6 6ft EAI 255 |>*n Ord* 2.78 Flt/patrlck*
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    • 45 9 'Managers' rnceei First Mahnan 2.74 Second Malayan 1 96 Third Malayan 1.26 The commerce Industry 1.01 1.10 The Savin* Fund \n lia 1.21 First H'kong 1.00 1.11» Second H'kong .74 78* Malaysian Investment Fund 1.20 1 30 Sterling C'mndlty 5/9 Hong Kong Currency)
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    • 16 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. The tin price for todgy was $561.75 per picul, up 37* cents.
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    • 780 9 FLY THE BIG BOEING 707 s OF MSA TO HONGKONG, TAIPEI, TOKYO, MANILA, DJAKARTA PERTH, SYDNEY. Contact your travel agent /J J L or ring *****.***** ***** for reservations. m ARRIVALS DEPARTURES SINGAPORE 6 30 pm 3.25 p m. 10 25 p m. 9 00 a m. 1015 am 2.25
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 1515 10 TODAY YOUR TV MALAYSIA CHANNEL > KUALA LUMP LB and Pnlao Pi nan;. 6 Ipoh and Melaka: 3 10 Jobore Bahru. 1 Paiping: 7 Batu Pahat; 9 Kluang. P.M. 545 Opening Annct Prog. Summary; 550 News Outlines in the National Language: 555 National Songs; 600 News in Tamil; 610 The
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  • Eastern Sun weekly feature
    • 372 11 A FOUR-MAN delegation of the World Muslim League In Mecca, led by Sheikh Omar Abdul Alia Almotrik, called on the Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman at his office in Kuala Lumpur ovew the weekend. Picture shows a member of the delegation. Sheikh Hussain ScraJ (second from right)
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    • 408 12  -  BETTY DESIGNS HER OWN DRESSES By Pat Chan TJREPARING hubby's breakfast, marketing, looking after a child and getting dinner ready in the evening all this sums up the daily chores of an energetic housewife. Very few housewives, burdened with household chores, have the time to watch
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    • 246 12 By Mary Sue Miller A LOVELY Mother writes: Please suggest some low-calorle breakfast menus for my teen daughter. She's determined to lose weight this summer, although our doctor says her weight Is lust right. She nas a summer lob and goes off mornings without so much as
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    • 378 12  -  By Pat Chan. “COLOHt UP!” that’s the password in fashion nowadays. It heralds a new colour "game" with fashion's latest find the “body paint." But don’t get me wrong It's not the kind of deadly gam* that the James Bond girl played in
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    • 147 12 QNE-Whip Ice Cream. This is Australia's favourite ice cream. Thick, smooth and creamy and easy to prepare, too. Ingredients; three rounded tablespoons castor sugar, one level teaspoon gelatine, one level tablespoon butter, two tablespoons water, one and two thirds cups (144 ozs can) Carnation Evaporated Milk (chilled), one teaspoon
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 140 12 TODAY 6nd YOU... Tuesday, September 10, 1968. ARIES MAR. 22 APR 1 20 Q\l2-16-40-42 5745-52-69 yf TAURUS APR. 21 (MAY 21 4 7-20-64 65-66-74 f\ 3- 8-10-251 1528-50-83-85 GEMINI MAY 22 ’JUNE 22 CANCER JUNE 23 MS JULY 23 fT?34-36-51-53 5V73-77-78 LEO JULY 24 AUG. 23 3-18-30,33 /49-63-844$ VIRGO V/M^
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 242 13 SHAW# Orannia ntion LAST 2 DAYS No Fw UM! 11 a in 1.45, 4 00. 6 30 0 15 pm WANO YU and LI CHINO la “THE SWORD OF SWORDS” A SHAW PRODUCTION Mandarin in Shawscope Color CAPITOL Phone ***** Last Das’ 11. 1 45. 4 00. 0 341. 930
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    • 402 13 IfiWHAta ORCHARD-***** TODAY A TOMORROW ON'LT! 1.30. fto ft "ft A fl 5 pm Diana Dort"Thit Swinging City Color Rank Organiatlon Picture» GRAND SINGAPORE PREMIERS Tomorrow at ft. 45 p Bra-Plan* Now Open For All Claaaaa Adm: 44 00. $3.90 11.50 (No Free List* “2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY” Super P*navia:on
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  • 265 14 Hong kong, Mon. (Reuter) Peter Nelson, o 26-year-old New Zealand singer who hails from Christchurch, has been entertaining Hong Kong pop fan at one of Hong Hong's swinging nightspots for several months now. He thinks Hong Kong audiences are great, though it takes quite a
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  • 86 14 JAKARTA. Mon. (Reuter) A Jakarta boy was sentenced to a week’s imprisonment for stealing a kiss from a pretty girl traveller whom he saw in a train The boy, Iwan Sentawan. was walking along the night corridor of the night train from Surabaja. East Java, when he saw
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  • 1488 14  -  By Koichi Fukuhara Kyodo News Service T»OKYO Nothing like living on good but inexpensive foods in our modern living. Believe it or not, you con enjoy such comfortable living in Peking particularly when it comes to prices which remained stable at least during my stay there. It
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  • 108 14 MANILA, Mon. A member of the House of Representatives here has initiated a scholarship programme to help poor students In Palawan Province, in the Southern Philippines. pursue their college education. Representative Ramon V. Mitra said the scholarship programme was aimed at helping talented students who could
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  • 103 14 CHICAGO. Mon. (UPI) The American Medical Association has editorially questioned tests used to determine the sex of athlete* in Olympic competition. The current edition of the Journal of the American Medical. Association features an editorial bv Keith L. Moore Ph D., who claims “no single
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  • 608 14 CALL him John, or Attila, or Geza, or Kurt, or a name from a dozen countries. He is a six-year-old boy in Australia and his major winter sport is football. He argues a lot about football In New South Wales and Queensland he is likely to
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    • 401 14 Eastern Sun Clatsified can b« accepted at the following addreaeet: MONT DOR MILK BAR. Ngee Ann Building. Singapore S.S. MUBARUK Brother*, 63. Bras Basah Road, and 2. Matu Avenue Sorangoon Ca>den Estate. Singapore TAY BUAN CUAN LTDSUPERMARKET 83, East Coast Road Singapore 15 Tel *****9. HAMIEM STORE. 1419. Upper Changi
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  • Sun Sport
    • 77 15 THE face of disappointment —that's Max Stewart (above) the man who had the 75-lap (158 miles) Malaysian Grand Prix race virtually In his hands and lost it. Max was well ahead in the race when he pulled In to the pits for fuel but then his 2.5
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    • 310 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. An incentive scheme for members to achieve better performances and return higher scores in events recognised by the Inter- national Shooting Union has been launched by the Selangor Shooting Association. A special trophy or prize worth not more than 550
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    • 191 15 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Football Association of Singapore have been invited to r send a team to participate in the "King's Cup” soccer tournament to be held in Thailand from Nov. 20-Dec. 2 this year The Football Association of Thailand have stated that
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    • 47 15 Kuala lumpur. Mon. Trending champions. Univerf’tv of Malaya Students Union <UMSU> with 22 points won ff'e overall best performances *"»rd at the sixth Malaysian Students' Games carnival which concluded at Pantai yesterday. Technical Collage. Kuala Lumpur 'TCSUi were placed second with eight points.
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    • 438 15 KUALA LUMPUR Mon Thomas Cup trainee Khor Cheng Chye won two titles in the Selangor restricted badminton championships which concluded at the sBA hall here last night. In the doubles final he and Tew Cheng Hoe beat Abdullah Piruz and Kheng Chooi 15—9. 15—5. while
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    • 629 15  -  By BEN D'CUNHA and BEN VARIYAN KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Malaysian Grand Prix winner, Hengkie Iriawan of Indonesia declared modestly today: "I am just a beginner and I will have to gain more experience to defend my title here next year." 1 And experience
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    • 331 15 MONZA. (Italy). Mon. (Reuter) Defending world champion Denis Hulme of New Zealand won the Italian Grand Prix yesterday after leading most of the wav in his gold McLaren Ford. It was the first time the 28-year-old New Zealander had won the race. There had been
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    • 88 15 HONOLULU, Mon. (UPI) —Hawaii golf star Ted Makalena was critically injured yesterday in a diving mishap at Waiiki Beach. The 34-year-Old 1966 Hawaiian open champion struck his head and was knocked unconscious in about two feet of wafer His brother. Gary, and another man
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    • 62 15 NAIROBI. Mon (Reuter) Kenya's International hockey team shook the visiting Indian tourists here yesterday and pulled off a magnificent 3-1 victory against the Olympic champions. Despite the fact that India had taken an early lead in the first half, through Inder Singh, the Kenyans quickly got
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    • 54 15 MOSCOW. Mon (Reuter) World Javelin recordholder Janls Lusls achieved a distance of 88.64 metres <290 ft. 9j inches) here today In his last competition before leaving for the Olympic Games In Mexico. Lusts set the world record of 9198 metres (301 ft. 9i inches)
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    • 289 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Japanese Works driver* M. Kitano and H. Kurosawa who drove their 988 c.c. Datsuns at break neck speeds round the bends at the Batu Tiga circuit here during the weekend in the Malaysian Grand Prix, today gave notice that they
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    • 611 16 LONDON, Mon. (Reuter) A statement today by Colin Cowdrey that he agreed to lead England's cricket team in South Africa only after being assured that it would be chosen strictly on playing ability did nothing to calm the rumbling storm over the exclusion
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    • 357 16 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Federation Cambodgienne de Football Association may be temporarily suspended for violation of the statutes and regulations of FIFA —the world controlling body. At the FIFA Executive Committee meeting held early this year it was decided to propose at the
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    • 189 16 PENANG, Mon. Eighteen-year-old Tan Aik Mong, won the men’s singles and doubles title at the Penang closed badminton championships here last night. Thomas Cup trainee Aik Mong beat fellow trainee. Yew Cheng Hock 15-5. 18-13, in the singles final at the Penang Chinese
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    • 57 16 ANITA Wong (above), the only woman competitor among 20 men in the Saloons, G.T. and Sports Cars for the BOAC Trophy over 10 laps (21 miles) driving Albert Poon's Alfa Romeo GTA took overall fourth place. Anita who comes from Hong Kong is seen receiving her prize from the Sultan
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    • 360 16 SINGAPORE, Mon. A young boxer who caught the eye at the recent Singapore Amateur Boxijig Association open championship was undoubtedly light flyweight Syed Abdul Kadir. Kadir. 19. -who participated in championships “just to gain experience” surprised the spectators when he easily walked away
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    • 203 16 SINGAPORE. Mon. for Social Wot Enche Othman sa i d today the Na Sports Control Board have arrived at a decision on the appeal case made by the Singapore Amateur Swimming Association. Enche Othman. who Is also the Chairman of the Control Board said:
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    • 1070 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The handicaps for the First Day of the Selangor Turf Club’s September meeting on Saturday are as follows: HORSES: CLASS 2 Div. 3 6 Fur*. Highland Joy 9.00 Pahang 9.00 Limelight 9.00 Silver Crown 900 Binjai Park 8.13 Niagara 8.13
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 56 16 TIME AND TIDE Penan*: 2.10 a.m. (8.4 ft.), 2.14 pm. (8.2 ft.). Port Swettenham: 7.34 a.m. (16.1 ft.), 7.42 pm. (15.0 ft.). Port Dickson: 8.19 a.m. (9.8 ft.). 831 p.m (8.5 ft.). Singapore: 12.27 a.m. (9.4 ft.). 12.45 p.m. (8.7 ft.). Sedili Kechil: 11.29 am. (7.2 ft.). Kuantan: 10.55 a.m.
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