Eastern Sun, 27 October 1968

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  • 23 1 Eastern Sun Independent National Daily SINGAPORE SUNDAY EDITION Estd. 1966. Vol. 3 No. 805 Sunday. 27 October 1968. MC(P) 0050 Price 15 rants
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  • 260 1 LONDON, Sat. (Reuter) London began to fortify itself today against siege and assault from Sunday's big anti-Vietnam war march that could bring out more than 50,OOO demonstrators. Security barricades were going up all around key buildings in the heart of Europe’s biggest city amid fears that extremists,
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  • 180 1 MANILA, Sat. (Reuter) President Marcos has said he will ask former Speaker of the House of Representatives Mr. Cornelio T. Villareal to submit a mediation formula on the Sabah dispute between the Philippines and Malaysia. The President made the Statement yesterday when he
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  • 314 1 Tunku on PFs change of attitude KUALA LUMPUR, SAT. T>RIME Minister Tunku Abdul 1 Rahman said here today Malaysia wanted the present tense situation over the Sabah issue to "cool down." In an interview with Bernama he said, “then probably, we will be
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  • 147 1 JAKARTA, Sat. (AFP) The Indonesian Shipowners Association (INSA) has relaxed its earlier ban on Indonesian ships sailing to Singapore but insisted they should only carry cargo for Singapore. In an order issued yesterday, INSA instructed the ships proceeding to Singapore to leave the island as
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  • 72 1 BONN. 3at. (Reuter) The arrest of a woman secretary in the West German Army Staff Headquarters was disclosed today, adding a new twist to the complex espionage scandal that is gripping the nation. It is not believed to be connected with the death of Rear Admiral Hermann
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  • 62 1 CAIRO, Sat. (UPl)—Girls who wear miniskirts in public will go on trial on charges of indecent exposure and offending public morality. Cairo Police Chief Ma-jor-General Zaky Elag threatened yesterday. He made the threat after two miniskirted girls disrupted traffic for one hour on Thursday in downtown Cairo.
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  • 76 1 SINGAPORE. Sat. The Minister for Science and Technology. Dr. Toh Chin Chye said here tonight that Singapore should widen its markets In the world because It thrives on industries. Dr. Toh also called on the people to discard the traditional thinking of trading only
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  • 86 1 KOTA KINABALU. Sat The Deputy Prime Minister. Tun Abdul Razak bin Hussein. today visited Sabah's northernmost defence outpost on Banggi Island, a few miles from the Philippines, and assured the people that they would be armed soon. The Government, he told them at a rally at Karakit,
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  • 27 1 FALMOUTH. Eng>nd. Sat. (UPI) Derek Heath, a 43-year-old father of six. set out from here today to cross the Atlantic in a rubber dinghy.
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  • 387 1 Piloted by Col. Beregovoi MOSCOW, Sat. (Reuter) The Soviet Union today launched o manned space ship into orbit round the earth. The space ship is piloted by Colonel Georgy Beregovoi. A two-way radio communication has been established with the space ship and Colonel Beregovoi reported
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  • 39 1 A quick job HONG KONG. Sat. (UPI) Lee Hang. 39, downed 63 Danish sausages in 12 minutes today to win an eating I derby sponsored by Danish food merchants here. His prize? A year's free supply of Danish sausages.
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  • 233 1 JAKARTA, Sat. (Reuter) Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Adam Malik said today he believed the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) would weather the current crisis between Indonesia and Singapore and the quarrel between Malaysia and the Philippines over Sabah. “I believe that ASEAN wll) not
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  • 45 1 LONDON. Sat. (UPI) Miss Phoebe Nathan. 51, always wanted to win some sort of fame as a singer. On Friday, after her rendition of “My life Is like a red rose.” she won the Golden Frog Award” as having Southern England's worst voice.
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  • NEWS
    • 768 2 TOHORE BAHRU, Sat. The case against six men allegedly involved in the State Treasury robbery was mentioned in the Magistrate's Court here today before Enche Salleh Eckhardt. The six men. alleged to b« conflicted with the Treasury's robbery are: Too .Chlang
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    • 400 2 PENANG, Sat. The unemployment situation in Penang> worsened by the disruption of the entrepot trade arising out of the Sukarno confrontation, has caused the unemployed in the countryside to drift into the urban areas in search of both jobs and the bright
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    • 179 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. The response to the MedicAlert Foundation, whose aim Is to assist people with hidden medical problems, has been very good, the President of the Foundation. Tan Sri Abdul Aziz bln Yeop, said yesterday. But he added, a lot more had to be
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    • 111 2 I REFER to a report la the Eastern Sun (October 25. 1968) under the headline “Tun Tan: Batu Tlga College Council will be registered soon" wherein the Minister of Finance. Tun Tan Slew Sin. is reported as having said that the Lee Foundation has promised a dollar
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    • 82 2 The Minister of Finance, Tun Tan Slew Sin. is seen receiving a donation from Mr. Yap Kim Hock for the Tunku Abdul Rahman College at his office in Kuala Lumpur on Friday. Mr. Yap cave $50.00(1. At his side Is Dato Tan Kim Chuan who donated $250,000. Looking on (in
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    • 318 2 IPOH. Sat. The shortage of qualified bumiputra personnel and technologists is an obstacle towards the progress of industries to be managed by the bumiputras. This was emphasised by the Mentri Besar, Dato Haji Ahmad bin Said when he opened the 4th
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    • 103 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. The seventh body was this morning recovered from the rubble of the four-storev flat which collapsed in Pesiaran Raja Laut a week ago. It is that of construction worker. Chang Ah Chow. 21. It took nearly three hours to bring the body out. His
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    • 127 2 SINGAPORE. Sat. Two more men from the Singapore Armed Forces were stung by hornets in another area in Chua Chu Kang today. A Ministry of Interior and Defence spokesman said that both were now receiving medical attention in the General Hospital. Yesterday, eight out of
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    • 54 2 CARLISLE. Northwest England Sat. (Reuter).—Police today searched for hand grenades. smoke bombs and rifle bullets stolen by children from an open store at Carlisle's 12th century castle. Four boys have been interviewed and bullets and a smoke bomb recovered, bat police feared children were still biding
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    • 90 2 BANGKOK. Sat. (AFP) A Thai border police unit fought an hour-long battle with a Malaysian communist terrorist gang and captured the terrorist hideout in the jungles of Budo mountain, in Narathivas Province. near the Malaysian border last weekend, it was reported here today. The terrorists numbering
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    • 82 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. The visiting Indian Minister of Labour. Mr. J.L. Hathi. today paid a courtesy call on the Prime Minister. Tunku Abdul Rahman, in his offic* here He spent half an hour with the Tunku. Mr. Hathi conveyed the ‘best wishes” of the Indian
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    • 140 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat.— The Deputy Secretary-Gene-ral of the Democratic Action Party, Enche Diang Ibrahim, today called on the Ministry of Home Affairs to release the proscribed books in the University of Malaya Library for General and unrestricted” reading by the students. In a statement, he said:**
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    • 196 2 PENANG. Sat. The political situation between Malaysia and the Philippines is still tense, the Minister of Justice, Enche Bahaman Samsudin said here today. He said this when he visited the Civil Defence regional headquarters here and inspected six detachments including the mobile team. He said the
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    • 71 2 PERTH. Western Australia. Sat. (Reuter) A short sharp earth tremor, put at force six on the Richter scale, jolted Perth and many country centres just after midday today. At Me-kering. 80 miles west of Perth, the shock was described as violent. The town was the scene of Australia's
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    • 133 2 LEBANON, New Hampshire. Sat, (Reuter) A twin-engine tnrbo-proh airliner crashed into a rugged mountain top near here last night and burst into flames, killing 32 of the 42 people aboard. Police said there were 10 survivors, including the 25-year-old stewardess and a British doctor. The aircraft,
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    • 133 2 SAIGON, Sat. (AFP) American Navy fighter-bom-bers based on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. America in the Gulf of Tonkin bombed North Vietnam last night along with airforce and marine planes the U.S. military spokesman reported here today. The spokesman said the carrier based planes destroyed
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    • 124 2 KUCHING. Sat. (AFP)— The Sarawak National Party (SNAP) hag called for the establishment of an all-party elections commission to draw up a “Code of Conduct” for political parlies at the forthcoming general elections. In a statement released here today, the SNAP said it wanted to
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    • 57 2 BRUNEI TOWN. Sat (Reuter) The Sultan of Brunei, accompanied by his father Sir Omar Ali Saifuddin, returned home this evening from Singapore after holding talks with the British Government in London on Brunei’s future. The Sultan and his party were welcomed at the airport by a
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  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 236 3 SINGAPORE, Sat. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Culture, Enche Sha’ari Tadin. said tonight that the “spirit of self-defence” would serve Singapore in good stead, particularly In the years ahead. Enche Sha'ari said this when he stated that all exponents of semi-marital
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    • 450 3 SINGAPORE, Sat. The carrying out of manpower studies to determine the existing pool of scientists and technologists in Singapore has bean recommended. This is one of the nine recommendations put up by the National Conference on Scientific and Technical Co-operation between Industries and Governmental Bodies
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    • 268 3 SINGAPORE. S» t The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Culture. Mr. Fong Sip Chee last night said that Asian countries were tied down with two extreme. namely spiritual and cultural values, hampering their economic and social advancement. In one community,
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    • 153 3 SINGAPORE. Sat.— Have you heard of “Amami”? It's the brand name of a reputable international beauty product that has just been launched in the Singapore and Malaysian mar- kets. New to this market. Amami consists of a complete range of women's products ranging from
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    • 55 3 SUNGEI SIPUT. Sat. A 19-year-old tapper, now two months' pregnant, alleged she was raped by a coworker on an estate in Karai near here yesterday. She told the Police the man had threatened to harm her if she did not submit to him. A man has
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    • 45 3 SINGAPORE, Sat.—Prof. W. F. Anderson will be the speaker at the next weekly luncheon meeting of the Rotary Club of Singapore at the Blue Room, Capitol Building, on Wednesday at 12.45 p.m. He will speak on “Old Age is a Modern World”.
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    • 211 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. The Government’s satellite transmission station in Petaling Java will give advance warning of bad weather and heavy rain dur- ing the monsoon season. It will enable the Government to provide efficient flood control and give useful weather Information to fishermen
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    • 26 3 TANJONG MALIM. Sat. The District Office in Slim River was burgled last night when two typewriters and a calculating machine worth $1,350 were stolen.
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    • 205 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat.— The former Commander of the Kuala Lumpur Garrison, Brigadier-General Zain Mahmud bin Hashim, was given a grand traditional military send-off by officers and men of Batu Cantonment here to day. Brig-Gen. Zain was recently appointed Chief of Personnel Staff, Ministry of
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    • 26 3 TAIPING, Sat.—A schoolboy, Mohamed bin Hasnol, 13. was waylaid by two teenaged thugs, who robbed him of his watch at Museum Road here yesterday.
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    • 482 5  -  By SUHAIMI BIDIN SINGAPORE, Sat. A woman confided in her sister-in-law before she was alleged to have taken her own life that she would shoot her lover and then kill herself if hr refused to marry her after living
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    • 203 5 SINGAPORE, Sat. A clean and healtb.y surrounding is a reflection of the discipline, the social consciousness and civic responsibility of the people, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Communications. Mr. Phua Bah Lee said today. He added that this would help the people to
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    • 106 5 PENANG, Sat.—The Minister of Transport. Tan Sri Haji Sardon bin Haji Jubir, said here today he was all for quick communication when commenting on the proposed Penang-Medan “hydrofoil” ferry service. Tan Sri Haji Sardon and Puan Sri Saadiah Sardon were received by the Chairman of
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    • 55 5 SINGAPORE. Sat. The Commonwealth Society of Singapore will hold a dinner party at the conference room of Cuscaden House on Nov. 1 at 7.30 p.m. Mr. AP. Rajah, the Singapore High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, will speak at the dinner. His subject will
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    • 33 5 SINGAPORE Sat. The Management Committee of the seven Community Centres in Tampines constituency is organising a “Big Walk" tomorrow at 7.30 a m. at Yok Leng School compound. near Changi Jail.
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    • 111 5 8 a.m. Bird singing contest at Cairnhill Community Centre. 10 a.m. 6 p.m. 16th Singapore and Pan-Ma!ay-sian photographic exhibition at National Library lecture hall. Stamford Road. 10 a.m. Chinese operatic section and harmonica practices at National Theatre Club. 2 p.m. Chinese drama p’ay-reading at National Theatre Club. Clemenceau
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    • 87 5 SINGAPORE. Sat. The Occupational Therapy Department in the General Hospital will be holding its annual sale on Nov. l In Ward 59. Articles for sale include rugs, carpets, bath-mats; raffia bags for ladles and other Items which are made of raffia. There will
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    • 46 5 SINGAPORE. Sat. The American Women's Auxiliary will hold a Christmas Bazaar at 53. Grange Road on Nov. 5 from 10 a.m. to 3 p m. Items made by American women in Singapore will be sold. Proceeds from this bazaar will go to Singapore charities.
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    • 21 5 SINGAPORE. Sat—There were 71 road accidents, of which four were serious, during the past 24 hours in the Republic.
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    • 378 5 SINGAPORE, Sot. Parliament will be asked to approve the supplementary development expenditure totalling $1,610,840. Details of the First Supplementary Development Estimates of Expenditure for 1968 of Singapore have been tabled In Parliament. The expenditure, under five sub-heads, will be for the establishment of
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    • 80 5 SINGAPORE. Sat. A "C.ow Eradication Week” will be"in on Monday in conjunction with the “Keep Singapore Clean” campaign. Members from the Singap j Armed Forces and Police Force wni participate in the exercise which will be held daily from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.
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    • 539 5 SINGAPORE, Sat. Singapore's first National Junior College will open its doors to some 600 students, in the first week of January next year. Announcing this, the principal nf the college. Mr. Lim Kim Woon. added that to facilitate this, the registration of
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    • 46 5 SINGAPORE. Sat. A public lecture on the practice of geriatric medicine will be given bv Prolessor W F. Anderson at the Pathology lecture theatre in Outram Road General Hospital on Monday at 8.15 p.m. Prof. Anderson is from the University of Glasgow.
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    • 149 5 SINGAPORE. Sat.—Some 30 delegates from five countries will be attending the five-day seminar on “Adult Education and the Mass Media which begins here on Monday. The seminar is being organised by the Adult Education Board in co-opera-tion with the FriedrichEbert Stiftung of Germany. All
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    • 461 4 'pENANG, Sat. A 55-year-old clerk, Lee A E n g Aun, who placed his confidence in a "private investigator", following the theft of his daughter's car, found himself beheading a white cockerel here today. "My daughter's car was subsequently found abandoned in a back
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    • 48 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. Mr. Gurnam Singh was today re-elected President of the National Union of Teachers. at a meeting of the Executive Council of the Union here. Others re-elected: VicePresidents. Mr. Aloysius Mathews and Mrs. DJ. Kraal, Secretary. Mr. John Gurusamy. Treasurer Mr. Vong Tai Tean.
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    • 38 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat —Thieves broke into the railway goods yard at Leboh Pasar here yesterday and got awav with 29 boxes of ‘Breeze’ valued at $719. The theft w’as discovered by an official, Mr. A. Nathanamby.
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    • 172 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. A group of 298 Japanese youths on a goodwill cruise to Asian countries will visit Malaysia for three days, starting on Nov. 5. An official from the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports, said today they will be met by
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    • 132 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat— Shukor bin Yaer, 31. of Petaling Jaya. was today committed to stand trial in the High Court on a charge of raping a girl. The offence was alleged to have been committed in a flat at Road 47, Petaling Jaya. on April
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    • 79 4 TELUK ANSON, Sat. The Mentri Besar of Perak. Dato Haji Ahmad bin Said, today urged farmers to use modern techniques. He said this when he opened the progress exhibition on agriculture at Rungkup here this morning. “No country can deny our progress in every field
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    • 77 4 THE Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports. Enehe Senu bin Abdul Rahman, officiated at the closing ceremony of the course in leadership, domestic science, drama and photography for 73 participants at the National Youth Training Centre in Kuala Kubu Bahru recently. The Minister also gave away certificates to the participants
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    • 494 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. Discriminatory taxation on the tin industry in the country is being felt by miners, the Chairman of Anglo-Oriental (Malaya) Sdn. Berhad, Mr. H.M. Fuller said yesterday. He said this when addressing the annual meetings of the Berjuntai Tin Dredging
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    • 48 4 Fesiosiilar Art Gallery (41. Jalan Raja Muda): works of prominent Malaysian artists on display 9 a.m. to 6 pm. Jalan Weld Swimming Pool: 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. 2 to 9 p.m. Zoo Negara: 10 am. to 6 p.m Musium Negara: 10 am. to 6.30 p.m.
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    • 55 4 MUAR. Sat More than 200 youths in Tangkak will attend a one-day civics course on rural ar.d national development at the local national school hall on Nov. 2. Dato Haji Othman bln Haji Mohamed Saat. the Mentri Besar of Johore, a nd members from the Johore State Rural
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    • 211 4 KI'ALA LUMPUR. Sat. There are eight signs from which a layman can suspect he is suffering or liable to get the dreaded disease of cancer. Dato Harun bin Haji Idris. Chairman of the Malaysian National Cancer Society, said tonight. In a broadcast over
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    • 113 4 KAMPAR. Sat—Police are out to smash a gang of copper wire thieves who have been committing a spate of thefts recently. According to a police spokesman so far there have been seven cases of wire thefts In the district this month The Acting OCPD. Inspector Peter
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    • 169 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat.— A team of three officers from the Royal Malaysian Navy will visit Australia from tomorrow to Nov. 15 to study the methods and facilities used by the Royal Australian Navy in the training of their officers and ratings. This is a
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    • 31 4 MUAR. Sat.—Mr. Seah Teng Ngiab, M. P. for Muar Pantai. opened a two-day photo show by Formosan photographers at the Chi Chleh Assembly Hall at Jalan Arab here today.
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    • 157 4 PENANG, Sat. The first ship to call at the $57 million Butterworth wharves almost Immediately after the official opening of the wharves by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong tomorrow afternoon. will be the EAC Lines’ cargo freighter the ‘Songkhla.’ The 9.000-ton “Songkhla” has
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    • 186 4 Late arrival not due to politics— PI delegate KUALA LUMPUR. Sat Two Filipino delegates who arrived four days late for the 11-day seminar on national development being held here today joined 22 delegates from 12 other countries on a three-day trip to Pahang. The two— Mr. Alfredo Plo De Rado.
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    • 303 4 XT UALA LUMPUR, Sat. The government TV was urged today to make public the Raja Mohar report on tourism, "without fearing its financial inability" to implement the report's recommendations. The President of the Kuala Lumpur Tourist Association. Mr. A.J.M.
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    • 72 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat.— The Selangor division of the Malaysian Association of Youth Clubs, in co-operation with the Selangor Information Department, wifi hold a civic course on “Jayadiri” for youth leaders in the State. The two-day course will be held tomorrow at Dewan Belia. Kampong Pandan, here.
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    • 164 4 PORT SWETTENHAM. Sat. Two ships of the Royal Australian Navy HMAS Duchess, a destroyer and HMAS Derwent, an anti-sub-marine frigate will arrive here on Tuesday for a two-day operational visit. On arrival here, the Commanding Officers, Captain J.A. Robertson (HMAS Duchess) and Commander I.K. Wilson
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    • 88 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat Four youths, one armed with a pistol held up a shop assistant of Jalan Klyne here last night and got away with $l,OOO and valuables worth $l,lOO. The youths with parangs herded the victim. Hei Sing Pang. 30. his father and another
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    • 44 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat— A fire gutted a house at Jalan Cheras here yesterday and left a building labourer and his family homeless Siow Fook Yin. the labourer. estimated loss at 55.000 which included $5OO, two sewing machines and other articles.
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    • 91 4 Enche’ Moktar bin Mohd. Kamil, 28, who has returned from United Kingdom after undergoing a one-year course in tailoring at the Tailor and Cutter Academy and Institute of British Tailoring, London, on MARA scholarship. He is the first Bumiputra to have acquired this qualification with three first class diplomas in
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 1400 5 YOUR M TODAY W[§W: s-V> TV MALAYSIA CHANNEL I KOALA LUMP UK aod Pulau Ptnang: Ipoh and Melaka; 3 A 10 Jobore Bahru. raipior. 1 Bata Pahat. S Kluang. P.M.: 300 Opening Annct.: 301 Bahasa Kita; 316 Star Soccer Spurs vs. Leicestor; 4.05 The Perfectionists; 4.35 Zorro—" The New Vomandante”
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  • 250 6 MUNICH, West Germany, Sat. (Reuter) Munich authorities said yesterday they were fining the producers of the Broadway musical "Hair" 1,000 marks (about £100) for failing to alter three scenes one played in the nude so that "a certain moral order" could be maintained. The musical
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  • 30 6 MONTEVIDEO. Sat. (Reuter) A tornado ripped through the Uruguayan city of Vichadero killing a four-year-old boy. injuring 12 other people and demolishing several houses, officials reported yesterday.
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
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  • 113 7 LONDON, Sat. (Reuter) Phoebe Nathan and Tom Sweetman finalists in Britain’s Golden Frog Award are the two worst singers in England. Buxom 55-year-old Phoebe from London was voted the most diabolically bad Singer in southern England yesterday by a panel of judges whose faces twisted
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  • 487 7 ROME, Sot. (Reu- ter) A crucial bottle is shaping up in Parliament to legalise the sale of contraceptives in Italy and repeal a law that beats the Vatican in its severity on the subject. Coming so soon after Pope Paul’s ban on
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  • 88 7 NEW YORK. Sat. (Reuter) Republican Presidential candidate Richard Nixon has the editorial support of some 533 American daily newspapers, more than 420 than Democratic candidate Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey. According to the American newspaper trade magazine “Editor and Publisher”. Mr. Humphrey has the backing of
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  • 34 7 JAKARTA. Sat (Reuter) Ten gamblers caught in a pre-dawn raid yesterday were paraded through the empty city streets in their underpants and made to crawl on all fours, Press reports said today.
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 814 8 TTNITED NATIONS, Naw York, Sat. (Reutar) The Philippines and Malaysia argued their dispute over Sabah before the General Assembly tonight, trading charges of arrogance and lock of maturity and responsibility. Senator Arturo M. Tolentino for the Philippines accused Malaysia of reneging on
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    • 34 8 SEOUL. Sat. (Reuter) Eighteen persons were killed in a series of unusual rainstorms and snowfalls that swept through the East Coast of the country on Thursday, a Government relief agency announced today.
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    • 304 8 UNITED NATIONS, New York, Sat. (Reuter) A U.N. delegate complained today that the World Body was employing “slave labour” and that pretty guides might be tempted to become “kept women.’’ It was the first formal reaction on Tuesday's oneday strike by two-thirds of the U.N.
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    • 100 8 THREE hundred doctors and surgeons from 24 countries attended the Third Asian-Pacific Congress of Gastroenterology in Melbourne, Australia recently. The official oarty at the opening of the Congress. From left: Dr. E£. Dunlop of Australia, Vice-Pre-sident of the Congress: Sir William Morrow of Australia, President: Professor Shinichi Kawashima of Japan,
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    • 144 8 SAIGON. Sat. (Reuter) South Korean troops killed 23 guerillas last night and early today to bring the total guerilla deaths In a major operation Southwest of Nha Tran e to 279. a South Korean military spokesman said today. Two regiments of the Korean White Horse Division threw
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    • 58 8 KARACHI. Sat. (Reuter) Frmet Pakistani Minister Zulficar Ali Bhutto. now an opposition leader. oriay he wanted to restore one man one vote Parliamentarianism In Pakistan. “I am ready to go to jail for the achievement of that objective.” Mr. Bhutto told a public meeting of his
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    • 215 8 MILAN. Sat. (UPI) The Milan Magazine Leuropeo said yesterday Pope Paul VI personally told the former Jacqueline Kennedy she could not marry Greek shipowner Aristotle Onassis. In an article signed by Bernice Craig, described as a long-time friend of the new Mrs. Onassis,
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    • 347 8 PARIS, Sat. (UPI). Diplomatic sources said today the role of the South Vietnamese National Liberation Front (NLF) remained a major stumbling block in efforts to break a Vietnam war negotiations deadlock. North Vietnam wanta the NLF. political afm of
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    • 110 8 HONG KONG. Sat. (AFP) 160 bars of gold valued at $40,000 have been seized by Hong Kong Police in a hotel room of a U.S. Air Force sergeant. The airman, aged about 35. was detained overnight by police and handed over to the U.S. Military
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    • 221 8 HONG KONG, Sat. Trade and Finance officials here foresee no great trading boon to the colony arising out of Indonesian shippers looking for port's other than Singapore as destinations for their goods. Jakarta reports quoted export association leaders as saying shippers should stop
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    • 83 8 BANGKOK. Sat (Reuter) —Three passenger* were killed and 25 others injured when the bus in which they were travelling collided with a goods tram in Sunn province on the Cambodian border, police reported today. The police said the bus collided with the train which
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    • 68 8 BANGKOK. Sat. (AFP) A 70-year-old woman was burnt to death and more than 3.000 people were made home'ess in a fire near the market place in Thonburi. near Bangkok, early yesterday. it was reported here today. The fire began in a rubber factory and quickly
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    • 94 8 LONDON. Sat. (Reuter) British families may soon have their weekend car trips to the coast or countryside rationed by a congestion tax, a researcher has forecast. Dr. Mark Abrams, head of a company called Research Services. recently predicted that by 1983 the proportion of families with
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    • 36 8 ATHENS. Sat (Reuter) Mr. George Papandreou, former Greek Prime Minister. was today showing signs of recovery from a gastritis attack and his condition in an Athens Hospital was not critical, his physician said.
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    • 158 8 KARACHI, Sat. (Reuter) Pakistan wants neaie with India —on a just and honourable basis. President Ayub Khan said here today. Speaking on television on the eve of the 10th anniversary of his coming to power, the President said India had shown no desire
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    • 104 8 UNITED NATIONS. Sat. (Reuter) The United Nations General Assembly, acting under pressure from African states, called on Britain last night not to grant independence to a white minority government in Rhodesia. By a vote of 92 to two with 17 abstentions, the
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    • 116 8 SAIGON. Sat (UPI) North Vietnam has said it would make no deals in exchange for a U.S bombing halt and insisted that President Johnson take the initiative if he seeks a solution to the war. In a Radio Hanoi broadcast monitored in Saigon, the
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    • 78 8 JERUSALEM, Sat (AFP) The Arab "Old City of Jerusalem was virtually paralysed today by a strike in pretest against recent measures by Israeli authorities, including the deportation yesterday of four Arab leaders to Jordan. Practically a’l shops, workshops, offices and Arab schools were closed, and
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    • 36 8 JAKARTA. Sat. UJPI) The Indonesian Association of Exporters has asked its members to shift their exports of vital products from Singapore to other ports t as i J ort Swettenham or Penang in Malaysia.
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 239 9 SINGAPORE, Sat. The Philippine National Bank, the official bank depository of the Philippine Government, has its Representative Office at 7th floor of the M.S.A. Building since Sept. 16th, 1968. Inauguration of the office will be held early next year. Named to head the
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    • 54 9 SINGAPORE Sat. The Association of Banks in Malaysia Singapore today made the following changes In Us rates to merchants (rates are quoted to the equivalent of 100 units of foreign currency). Selling TT. or O.D ready: Deutsche Marks $77.6750; Holland Guilders $84.7625. Swiss Francs $71.8650: French Francs $62.0275
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    • 15 9 SINGAPORE. Sat. The tin price for today was $571.87* per picul, up $2.37j.
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    • 81 9 KLANG. Sat. Enche Jasmin bln Ahmad, an executive in the Accounts Department of Bata Shoe (M) Sdn. Bhd. Klang, has left Kuala Lumpur for Batanagar. Calcutta. India, on a two-week specialised course in administration. The course, the first of Its kind organised by the Far East
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    • 64 9 LONDON. Sat. (UPI) The rubber market closed about steady. Spot 21 21-1/4 SETTLEMENT HOUSE Nov, Dec and Jan/MarCh 20-15/16 21-1/8 April/June 20-13/16 21 July-Sept 20-11/16 20-13/16 Oct/Dec 20-5/8 20-3/4 Jan/March and April/June 20-9/16 20-11/16 July/Sept. Oct/Dec and Jan/March 20-1/2 20-5/8 GENERAL MARKETS CIF basis port. Nov 20-1/2
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    • 189 9 SINGAPORE, Sat. The following ships are expected to be in port today: Godowns Vessels 1/2 Vishva Pratap 3/4 Hongkong 5 Colombo Maru 6/7 Etsuzan Maru 8 Panjnad 9 Angara 13/14 Flintshire 15/16 Surcouf 18 Luna Maersk 19 Ilena 21/22 Yushun Maru 23/24 Kunak 25/26 Soei Maru 27/28
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    • 473 9 SINGAPORE, Sat.—A giant BOAC passenger terminal is now rising from a water-logged salt marsh site at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport. Engineers are overcoming building problems caused by the water by adopting a similar method to that used to "float” the
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    • 116 9 SINGAPORE. MI. Thf noon prices at tnr Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange today are:— Buyer teller Coconut Oil (FOB) Bulk 4(100 Coconut Oil (F OB Drum 44 50 Loom Copra Mixed Oct *8 50 Muntok White Pepper lE.OB.) 96 5 N.L.W tta.oo Sarawak White Pepper 0.8 122 SO Sarawak special
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    • 141 9 LONDON. Sat. (UPI) Industrial stocks stayed depressed on the Stock Market yesterday and small selling combined with fears of new curbs on credit kept leaders on the downtrack. Thev were steadier near the bell but failed to show* signs of rec overy. British Government bonds lost
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    • 225 9 SINGAPORE. Sat. At tw T o separate meetings recently. Singapore Architects and Land Developers attended seminars on a revolutionary method of controlling solar heat and ultra violet rays. 3M Company, manufacturers of the new product Scotch Tint Brand Solar Control Film, together
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    • 175 9 CANBERRA. Australia. Sat The Division of Building Research of the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation < BCIRO has developed a new method of putting non-fading colours and patterns on concrete masonry. Past efforts to produee fired glazes on the surface of concrete masonry
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    • 164 9 NEW YORK Sat. (UPI) General Motors has reported sharply improved earnings and sales for both the third quarter and first nine months of the year. Third quarter net was $lB2 million or 62 cents a share on sales of $4.3 billion compared with $149 million
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    • 106 9 SINGAPORE. Sat. Mr. George Pasqual, Customer Engineering Field Manager of IBM Singapore and Malaysia, is now attending an Advance Management Course in Sydney, Australia. Conducted by the IBM Data Processing Customer Engineering Education Department in Lidcombe. Sydney, the two- week course is being attended by
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    • 265 9 MELBOURNE Australia. ®*s- 77 1 e Bro *«tn Hill Pty. Co. Ltd.. Australia’s largest Industrial enterprise. Is to raise $47,100,000 .n the biggest equity issue ever available to Australian investors. The new Issue will be made to shareholders at a premium of $3 for
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    • 74 9 HONG KONG. Sat. (UPI) A Hong Kong shipping company recently purchased the 11.651-ton passenger liner “Apapa” and renamed It as “Taipooshan.” the South China Morning Post said today. Shun Cheong Steam Navi- gation Company Ltd. will expand its Hong Kong. Singapore and Penang business
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    • 339 9 SINGAPORE, Sat. The holiday-shortened week was generally quiet but there were periods of activity which were governed by developments arising from the situation ruling between Singapore and Indonesia, state Holiday, Cutler, Bath and Co. Ltd. in their weekly market review. Week-end publicity given to
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    • 50 9 < Managers l*rtres) first Malavan > 00 s«ond Malayan l.Hf Third Malayan XD 1.17 The Commerce Indnstrv .98 1 07 The saving fund 1 07 1.18 first ll'kong Xl>... 1.30 second fl'kong 8fi 01 Malaysian Investment fund \I» 1.15 1 75 isterllnr 1 modi tv \II 5/7 <*
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  • 478 10  - Evangelist’s motivation, method matter An exposition by Rev. Peter Ng *1 am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.’ St. John 10:9 EVANGELIST’S MOTIVATION, Jn. 12:1-8. The Apostle John portrays four characters with different motivations
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  • 253 10 PROFESSOR Chang LltSen. a famous scholar in China, arrived in Singapore recently after a onemonth lecture tour on theology to the churches in Philippines. Hong Kong and Taiwan. He is here for a month to give lectures in theology specially arranged by the Singapore Bible College. Prof.
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  • 64 10 SINGAPORE. Sat. East Asia officials of the Seventh-day Adventist denomination have announced here that all Adventist churches around the world will join together on Nov. 30 in taking a special offering for Biafra refugee relief. The church has already contributed US$5O,OOO The first US$5O,OOO from this offering
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  • 153 10 THE Discipleship Training Centre at Kings Read. Singapore, jointly sponsored by the Overseas Missionary Fellowship and the Singapore Bible College, accepts tne full inspiration, infallibility and authority of the Old end New Testament Scriptures. This was reported in the Far Eastern Beacon's
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  • 613 10 MEDICAL science made history and attacked worldwide attention when the first heart transplant was achieved in Cape Town, South Africa, on Dec. 3, 1967. Louis Washkansky. a 55-year-old dentist, was suffering from s "bad" heart which, his doctors knew, was fatal. A team of heart
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  • CHURCH; AT HOME
    • 184 10 SINGAPORE. Sat. Bishop Yap Kim Hao of the Methodist Church will leave on Monday for his first episcopal visit to Sarawak. He Is expected to be away for one month. Arrangements have been made for Bishop Yap to .make courtesy calls on the fcovemor of
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  • 136 10 SINGAPORE, Sat. Some 200 people attended a dinner to mark the graduation service of some 25 graduates who received diplomas in Spiritual Evangelism. The 11-day course on the techniques of Scripture distribution was attended by students from eight countries. The countries were Singapore. Malaysia. South Vietnam.
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  • 87 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. A dinner will be held at the Lee Wong Kee Restaurant in Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman here on Nov. 3. at which the famous evangelist preacher, Dr. Grady Wilson, will give a talk on Christianity. Present also at the dinner will
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    • 581 10 RELIGIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS LUTHERAN LUTHERAN CHURCH OF OUR REDEEMER 80. Duka’s Road. S'pore-10. 830 a m. English Service 9.30 am. English Sunday School 9 80 a m Mandarin Service 10.46 a.m. Tamil Service JUKONG CHRISTIAN CHURCH 487. Blk-61. Taman Jurong (33) 3.00 p.m. Sunday-School 8-00 p m. Engllsh/Mandarln Service QUEENSTOWN LUTHERAN
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    • 387 10 RELIGIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS life BIBLE-PRESBYI'KRIAN CHURCH 9. OUstesd Road. S_por*-11. 8 30 am. Sunday School 10 00 am. English Service 4.30 a m. Mandarin/Hokk. Ser ZION BIBLE-PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 5. ranatock Avenue. 8 pore- 19. 800 am Sunday School 8.15 am. English Service GALILEE BIBLfcPREbBY I'EKIAN CHURCH 175. Paair Panjang Rd 8
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  • HERS
    • 448 11  -  Don't let your whiff make him sniff by madeleine nathan A WOMAN'S taste in perfume is like an inexplicable dream according to a French perfumes expert who was in Singapore recently. Her choice Is never logical but emotional, said Mr. T: Bertrand, export directer
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    • 204 11 The latest jumper look in plaid piped with leather, a deep V front to show a ribbed turtleneck, wide belt and chunky shoes. A new look in sweaters, the shirt, in soft cashmere, but cut like a shirt, placket, collar, cuffs >and all. then belted at
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    • 76 11 Picture here shows No. 1: A gray patent with chunky Louis-curved heel. 2: “Broguette” pump with broad, stacked heel, perforation trim and tension sole. 3: Low-heeled loafer in “brushline” leather, with chain-held high- rise tongue. 4: Dark brown patent pump with medium sturdy heel and double grosgrain
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    • 238 11 LADT de lx Mxre wife of the British High Commissioner in Singapore. an Ikebanx expert, introduces the first of a series of lessons on Ikebanx to our women readers. The essence of Ikebanx is to mould natural beauty into art. In sketching nature, the aim of
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    • 63 11 PERFECT choice for l-;: lithe office in the wet sea- 1 son ahead is the jumper, I as a sleeveless dress, with S a shirt or turtleneck I y: pullover. Picture shows 1 an A-line jumper in red 1 Orion knit bonded to 1 acetate; double-breasted
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    • 196 11 IIfHEN the temperature sizzles and it often does, your eye-make-up melts.! What can you do but start all over? You probably will when you are at homo but if you are out on the town you have to patch the job.
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    • 156 11 Now that the mini-skirt skimp has run its course, teens are taking to a more characterful look derived from costumes around the world, or even from literature. Teen clothes for fall often feature inspirations from the past. There is the Renaissance look, Ann Bolevn or Juliet,
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    • Article, Illustration
      347 11 LEMON CAKE Lined and greased round pan. 7-inch. Preheated 375‘F oven. Ingredients: 8 oz. butter. 1 cup and 1 tablespoon caster sugar. 3 eggs. 2 tablespoons grated lemon rind, optional. 1 3 cup reconstituted NESPRAY. 1-1/4 teaspoons lemon essence. 2-1/4 cups sifted self-raising flour. Method: 1. In mixing bowl,
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  • POPPING AROUND With Platte Pete
    • 398 12 A chronological history of their past limelights from 1962-1963 1962 January 1 January/April May June 9 August August 21 September 4 —ll October f November November 26 December 1963 January 1 January 12 February February 16 March 9 31 April 1 April 8 April 11 May 18/June
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    • 773 12 UI THERE! Like Holy Apologetic Awkwardnness! There’s no ‘Spotlight’ column this week but in its place stands a splendorous feature which vou must surely cherish and treasure. Indeed Trippin’ Impressions’ Of the Juggernautic JEFFERSON AIRPLANE and the claustrophobic (claustrophobic?) CREAM must be one of the most frank
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      1140 12 IMPRESSIONS OF CREAM AND JEFFERSON AIRPLANE THE JEFFERSON AIRPLANE and Cream appeared not long ago at Brandeis University in concerts a month apart. The concerts will be discussed here conjointly because they afford interesting and natural comparisons and because the rock of these two groups is representative of much
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    • 151 12 B onde Mary Hopkin has toppled The Beatles from the number one position on the pop music charts in yet another centre. The 18-year-old Welsh singer's recording of "Those Were The Days’’ is at number one in Stockholm as well as in London, where it has been at
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    • 164 12 A surprise in Elvis latest movie he doesn’t sing! ELVIS PRESLEY is presently undertaking his first all-out acting role for his 29th motion picture. This new film is a straight western—but more surprising, is the fact that for the first time in his entire movie career. Elvis doesn't sing a
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    • 193 12 LONDON: 1. Those Were The Days Mary Hopkln. 2. Hey Jude Beatles. 3 Jesamlne Casuals. 4. Little Arrows Leapy Lee. 5. My Little Lady Tremeloes 6. Les Bicyclettes De Belstze Engelbert Humperdinck 7. The Red Balloon Dave Clark Five 8 A Day Without Love Love
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  • 329 13 An eerie chilling look into one's 'evil' future /COLUMBIA’S “Torture Garden” boldly confronts us with an eerie yet thought-provoking insight of man’s minds. The horror film is built around four stories exploring the “evil” thoughts of four characters in the film who take up the challenge (or is it Just
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  • HOLLYWOOD EVERYWHERE
  • THE NEW FILMS
    • 323 13 "TTP the Down Staircase" smacks too much of the highly-successful "To Sir With Love". The scenes, the plot and even the theme seem oil too familiar. If it had been released before “To Sir With Love” it would prove a hit, but coming
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    • 124 13 NEW YORK. Sat Dame Judith Anderson has been signed by producer Sanford Howard to return to films after a seven-year absence to co-star with Richard Harris in Cinema Centre Films, "A Man Called Horse.” The film is the story of an English Lord who is
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
    • 200 13 SHLSW NOW SHOWING! 11 a m.. 1.45. 4 no. 4.ru> A t-15 pm Peu»r Sellers “The PARTY* Claudme Longot, Pv. Co!orjUAl NEXT CHANOE! Boris Karloff "The Sorcerers** in Color Catherine Lacey lan Ogll^T CAPITOL Phone 2975 v NOW SHOWING! 11 am., 1.45, 4.00. 8.30 A 5# p m Sandy Dennis.
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    • 306 13 TODAY and YOU... Sunday, October 27, 1968. >v By CLAY R. POLLAN ARKS MAR. 22 APR. 20 D 7-12-24-34 45-57-78 TAURUS APR. 21 MAY 21 K-\3O-41-42-71 GEMINI MAY 22 'JUNE 22 5-15-23-35 '47-56-67 CANCER •JUNE 23 .JULY 23 3- 8- 9-53 1^54-55-66 LEO JULY 24 AUG. 23 Osl 7-18-27-28 VIRGO
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 377 14 NEW YORK, Sot. (Reuter) —Mr. Richard Nixon charged tonight that Washington knew the U.S. spy ship Pueblo was under surveillance by North Korea two weeks before it was captured. The Republican Presidential candidate said the Johnson administration failed to act properly
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    • 152 14 LONDON. Sat. ißeuter) Another big switch from production of rubber into palm oil was announced here tonight by an Malaysian Rubber Company. Kulim Rubber Plantations said they had contracted to sell 2.305 acres of pedigree i*ubber and a processing factory owned by
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    • 222 14 WASHINGTON. Sat. (Reuter) American officials believe that despite today’s tough statement from Hanoi there are still hopes for a breakthrough which could lead to a bombing halt and de-escalation of the Vietnam war. The tough language used in the voice of Vietnam Radio commentary
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    • 120 14 SAIGON. Sat (Reuter) Nearly 10.000 weapons have been distributed to members of the Saigon Home Guard to fend off any new Vietcong attack on the city. The official (South) Vietnam Agency said 624 separate groups had been set up to provide Home Guard defence for
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    • 128 14 LONDON. Sat. (Reuter) Beatle John Lennon and his Japanese girl friend Yoko Ono are reported to be expecting a baby at the end of February. Lennon told the masscirculation Daily Mirror in a front-page exclusive article today: “Babies make the world happier ,and that’s our scene.
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    • 91 14 BETHESDA, MD President Johnson announces that he and Mrs. Johnson have become grandparents for a second time. Their elder daughter Lynda Bird Robb, gave birth to a baby girl on Oct. 25. Mrs. Johnson and their younger daughter Luci Nugent, stand by the President as he makes the announcement at
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    • 125 14 MILAN. Sat. (Reuter) Mrs Jacqueline Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis because she was very fond of him and needed the privacy which he could give her. according to her sister. Princess Lee Radziwill. In an interview with the Milan Weekly L'Europeo published today, the Princess said: "My
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    • 81 14 CINCINNATI. Ohio. Sat. (Reuter) A young laboratory technician was arrested here today in connection with the death of a Cleveland schoolteacher who received a bomb by post. Orville E. Stifel 21, was detained on a Federal Grand Jury indictment charging him with using the mail with intent
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    • 173 14 HONG KONG, Sat. (Reuter) The United States has brought the Vietnam peace talks in Paris to standstill by refusing to stop unconditionally its bombing of North Vietnam. Hanoi's official daily Nhan Dan said today. In an article quoted by the North
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    • 204 14 LONDON, Sat. (UPI) Dogs are all right as dogs but their troubles arise because they are also sometimes like humans, according to one of Britain's canine “Psychoanalyst.” Gary Mitton, who keeps a kennel and charges 20 guineas < $50.40 > to treat and retrain unruly
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    • 58 14 MOSCOW. Sat (UPI) Indian Defence Minister Sardar Swaran Singh visited Communist Party General Secretary Leonid Breshnev and later had a talk with Premier Alexi Kosygin. Soviet Defence Minister Marshal Andrei Gre- hko accompanied the Indian Minister on both visits, which the Tass news agency said
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    • 29 14 UNITED NATIONS. Sat. (Reuter) The U.N. General Assembly today unanimously approved the nomination of Ecuador to succeed to Chile’s permanent seat on the special committee on Colonialism.
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    • 84 14 BOSTON. Massachusetts. Sat. (Reuter) Cardinal Cushing said today he would offer to resign as from the end of the vear because of adverse publicity and “hate mail” following his defence of Jacqueline Kennedy's marriage to Aristotle Onassis. The 73-year-old Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston said in a
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    • 94 14 JAKARTA, Sat. (Reuter) The family of Indonesian Charge D'Aflaires in Singapore. Lieutenant Colonel Ramly. said today that he was still in Indonesia and had not yet left to resume his post In Singapore. Colonel Ramly returned to Indonesia with the bodies of two marines hanged
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    • 72 14 MANILA. Sat. (AFP) Some of the 25 Muslim trainees presumed to have been killed in the Corregidor Special Forces Training Camp “are alive and operating in Eastern Sabah.” the Lower House Committee on un-Filipino activities (CUFA) was told yesterday. Sources of the information —univerified was a lawyer
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    • 180 14 LONDON. Sat. (Reuter)— The London Times in an editorial headed “An Echo Of Confrontation’’ said today it was sad to watch Indonesia and Singapore resorting to mutually damaging actions. The editorial in this Independent British daily said: “Trade between Singapore and
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    • 160 14 SANTA MONICA. California, Sat. (Reuter)) Singer Rosemary Clooney. her career halted by illness, today asked Santa Monica Municipal Court to boost her alimony payments from actor Jose Ferrer from a nominal one dollar (about eight shillings) a year to $1,268 (528 sterling)
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    • 169 14 LOS ANGELES, California, Sat. (Reuter) Vice President Hurbert H. Humphrey said today that his Republican rival, Mr. Richard M. Nixon, is “playing politics with our national security” and “undermining our long and patient efforts to bring a rational end to the madness
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    • 376 14 SAIGON, Sat. (Reuter) New Zealand Prime Minister Keith Holyoake said today that Communists must realise the people of South Vietnam would never accept any settlement of the war other than an honourable peace freely negotiated. Mr. Holyoake was speaking at the airport on his
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    • 101 14 MANILA. Sat (AFP) Indonesian Ambassador to the Philippines Moersjid today disclaimed knowledge of the reported arrival in Manila of a secret emissary from President Suharto for “consultations” with the Philippine leaders on Sabah dispute. Mr. Moersjid said: “I have not heard of it”. A Manila newspaper this
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    • 55 14 WASHINGTON. Sat (Reuter) A group of State National Guardsmen Territorials has lost a private battle to prevent Vietnam postings. The Supreme Court yesterday refused to hear an appeal by the 105 Guardsmen that because they were members of the “State Militia” the Federal Government could not order
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    • 57 14 PRAGUE. Sat. (Reuter) The leaders of Czechoslovakia last night warned the country's youth not to be tempted into extreme acts on October 28 50th anniversary of the founding of the Republic. But observers here believed it will be difficult to avoid any outward signs of "mourning” following
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    • 107 14 WASHINGTON, Sat. (UP!) Thai Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman said last night, a U.S. bombing halt of North Vietnam before the Nov. a presidential election “is not an impossibility.” After an address at Georgetown University. Mr. Khoman was asked by newsmen whether or not Nov. 1
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    • 64 14 TOKYO. Sat. (UPI) Philippine Foreign Secretary Narciso Ramos said today he would be pleased to meet Prime Minister Eisaku Sato and Foreign Minister Takeo Miki during his weekend stay in Tokyo. “I would be delighted to meet with them, but no specific appointments have been
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    • 54 14 SEOUL. Sat. (Reuter) Dato Cmm. Yusuf. Lower House Speaker of Malaysia, arrived here by air today for a six-day unofficial visit. He will pay a call on Mr. Hyo-Sang Rhee, Korean National Assembly Speaker. He plans to rest at a Hot Spring Resort at Yusong near Seoul,
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    • 43 14 JAKARTA. Sat. (Reuter)' Indonesia’s Congress Chairman General Abdul Haris Nasution has called on the Government to take political and economic action against Singapore in retaliation for the execution of two Indonesian marines in Singapore last week, it was reported today.
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    • 40 14 HONG KONG. Sa t (Reuter) Malaysia would probably be i n a better position than Hong Kong should Indonesian exporters decide to diversify their trade with Singapore. Mr. P.A. Graham, Manager of the Chartered Bank said last night.
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  • Sun Sport
    • 224 15 Heroic Hungarian girl collapses in canoeing finals MEXICO CITY, Sat. (Reuter) A heroic Hungarian girl captured the hearts of the crowd at the Olympic canoeing finals yesterday as her country went on a medal winning spree. Pretty, dark haired Anna Peeffer, 23, came back to win a
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    • 244 15 SINGAPORE. Sat. Tbi* year's Division One hockey league tournament scheduled to begin the first week of November will see 30 teams vieing for the title. But the most formidable teams will be 19 Signals. Police. Jansenites. Khalsa Association and Singapore Recreation Club.
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    • 64 15 LONDON. Sat. (Reuter) The English Football Association are to take no further action again*t Manchester United defender Nobby Stiles, who was sent off in the first leg of the World Soccer Club Championship final against Estudiantes in Buenos Aires. Estudiantes took the title on a
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    • 86 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. M. Munusamy and Tan Mei Wan were the champion athletes in the men’s and women'* sections respectively in the annual athletic meet of the Rubber Research Institute Recreation Club at the Merdeka Stadium here today. Munusamy of Experiment Station set
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    • 73 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. National Electricity Board are assured of a place in the final of the Malaysian Government Services cricket competition today when they were 67 for one in reply to Malaysian Armed Forces who were bundled out for a paltry 65 at Pantai
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    • 306 15 SINGAPORE. Sat. Singapore's young and promising high jumper, Nor Azahar stole the limelight in the Inter-Ministry annual athletic meet held at the Farrer Park Athletic Centre, today. Azahar. representing the Ministry of Interior and Defence. won the men’s best performance trophy for his record-breaking performance in
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    • 309 15 MEXICO CITY, Sat. (Reuter) The United States, never beaten in the history of Olympic basketball, bagged their seventh successive basketball gold medal here last night. It was sufficient for two Spencer Haywood and Jojo white, to play like geniuses for only 12
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    • 181 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. Perak are placed in a good position against Royal Malaysia Police in the semi-finals of the Malaysian Government Services cricket competition on the Selangor Club padang here today. Helped by a patient unbeaten 81 by R- M. Siva. Perak were 217
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    • 19 15 SEREMBAN. Sat. Singapore Civilians best Negn Sem-bilan-Malacca 19 —8 in a Malaya Cup rugger match her# today.
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    • 484 15 KUALA LUMPUR, Sat. Fast op«n play in th« loose mauls by tin forwards and better handling of tin slippery ball by fh« throes enabled Malaysian Armed Forces to beat Penang by 11 points (a goal, a try and a penalty) to three
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    • 277 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat. Kuala Lumpur based Australian. Tony Maw of the Maple Leaf racing team who won the Macao Grand Prix last year leaves for Macao In a few days to defend his title with a new and better powered machine. The 27-year-old
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    • 58 15 MEXICO CITY, Sat. <AFP) The Olympic Games are ending to the sound of wedding bells. The confetti-throwing started yesterday, when 26-year-old Canadian discus thrower George Bruce married 24-year-old Swedish ballerina Annel Maria Johansson The ceremony took place in the office of the “Governor" of Villa Coapa.
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    • 257 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Sat.— Seiangor Club kept their unbeaten record when they trounced the star-studded Combined Old Bovs Rugby association by 16 points i two goals, a penalty and a try> to ml in a SRU senior league tie at the padang here tooay. With this
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    • 1406 15 SINGAPORE, Sat. The Singapore Turf Club amateur meeting today started off on a sensational note. Bubbles, with Ungku Non astride, wqs first past the post but was disqualified for shortweight. The race was awarded to the second horse, Abdullah. Mr. D. M. Brown was the most
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    • 483 16 MEXICO CITY, Sat. (Reuter) —The Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia —the world’s two top volleyball teams are to fight it out once again for the Olympic gold medal. At the 1964 Tokyo Olympics the Russians beat the Czechoslovakian team into second place in the
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      59 16 THE Olympic Coxed Four rowers, winners of New Zealand's first rowing 'gold'. From left: R. J. Joyce, R. H. Collinge, G. M. Patterson and W. J. Cole (back); D. L. Storey, S. C. Dickie and R. Robertson (Coach), (front). The New Zealanders won the gold medal in the
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    • 231 16 LONDON. Sat. <Reuter) British soccer referees have been urged to take tough line players and officials who commit offences during matches. The appeal is made in the current edition of the Football Referee, official publication of the Referees Association. The article deplores
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    • 195 16 MEXICO CITY, Sat. (Reuter) Czech Gymnast Vera Caslavska narrowly failed to win three gold medals here last night and a 10.000 capacity crowd booed and whistled their disapproval. Instead judges awarded the gold to 18-year-old Russian Natalia KuchinsKaya. Both girls scored 98s for the beam
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    • 95 16 MEXICO CITY. Sat. (Reuter) Hungary won the gold medal in the men's epee team final last night beating Russia 7-4. Even though the Hungarians were the defending Olympic champions the result was an upset because three of the Russian side were members of the team
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    • 398 16 MEXICO CITY, Sat. (Reuter) Soviet and West German riders clashed yesterday over the judging of the Olympic dressage events here. After 40-year-old Soviet riding Instructor Ivan Klzimov won the Individual dressage gold medal yesterday he opened a Press conference by remarking: “The scoring yesterday
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    • 445 16 MEXICO CITY, Sot. (Reuter) The Soviet Union edged up slightly on the world-beoting United States team here yesterday in the Olympic race for gold. The Russians captured five gold medals as compared with three taken by the Americans in the days events,
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    • 363 16 MEXICO CITY. Sat. (AFP). Pakistan is quietly confident to win the coveted Olympic hockev gold medal and the world and Olympic titles that go with it by beating Australia in today’s final at the Mixchura grounds here. The team of the Tokyo silver
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    • 192 16 MEXICO CITY. Sat (UPI) —Medal standings in the Olympic Games after yesterday’s competition:— G. S. B. To. United States 40 26 29 95 Russia 22 23 24 69 Hungary 7 11 10 28 W. Germany 5 10 8 23 E. Germany 6 77 20 Australia 5 6 4
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    • 381 16 MEXICO CITY, Sat. (Reuter) The Olympic Games reach a crescendo today with the last full day of competition when 34 gold medals in eight different sports will be at stake. Only the equestrian team Grand Prix event and the closing ceremony
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    • 65 16 ROME Sat. (Reuter) Sandro Mazzinghi of Italy retained the world junior middleweight boxing title here last night after the referee ruled his fight against Fred Little of the United States a no-contest. No reason was announced for the ruling. Confusion arose when Little’s second raised his
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    • 61 16 TIME AND TIDE Penang: 308 a.m. (7.7 ft.), 4.10 p.m. (6.0 ft.). Port Swettenham: 8.44 a.m. (14.1 ft.), 9.32 p.m. (13.5 ft.). Port Dickson: 9.54 a.m. (8.1 ft.), 10.04 p.m. (72 ft.). Singapore: 2.56 a.m. (8.1 ft.), 136 p.m. (9.3 ft.). Sedili Kechil: 1.52 a.m. (8.3 ft.), 11.47 p.m. (6
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