Eastern Sun, 28 October 1968

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  • 23 1 Eastern Sun Independent National Daily SINGAPORE EDITION Estd. 1966. Voi. 3 No. 806 Monday, 28 October 1968. ft MC(P) 0050 Price 15 cent*
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  • 442 1 Gradual return to normalcy for Singapore diplomats in Jakarta JAKARTA, Sun. (Reuter) f IFE is grodually returning to normal for Singapore's beleaguered diplomats here after a 10-day ordeal of uncertainty and isolation. Their troubles began shortly before two Indonesian Marines were sent to the scaffold in
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  • 473 1 MOSCOW, Sun. (Reuter) The mystery surrounding the space flight of Soviet cosmonaut Colonel Georgy Beregovoi in his Soyuz-3 spacecraft grew today when a Soviet newspaper report suggested that more than one cosmonaut was involved. The Armed Forces newspaper Red Star, reporting on a Cosmonaut's
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  • 388 1 KOTA KINABALU, Sun. The Deputy Prime Minister. Tun Abdul Razak bin Hussein, said today after completing a four-day tour of Sabah that he was satisfied with the security measures that had been taken in the State to meet external threat as a result of
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  • 582 1 T/'UALA LUMPUR, Sun. Sir George Oehlers, the President of the Industrial Arbitration Court, died of a heart attack in his home here this morning. He was 60. He will be cremated at the Mount Vernon Crematorium in Singapore tomorrow. Sir George returned
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 560 2 PENANG, Sun. "The construction of the deep water wharves at Butterworth is yet another milestone in the progress of the nation to bring about greater develooment to better the livelihood of the people and to further stabilise
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    • 465 2 PENANG, Sun. Another chapter in the history of Penang was marked today when the Yang dlPertuan Agong officially opened the $57 million new deep water wharves in Butterworth this afternoon. The King expressed the hope that Penang, which had been well-known as a progressive
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    • 75 2 FIFTEEN girls, all below five feet two qualified for the finals of the “Chili Fadl Queen” next Saturday. The selection was made yesterday morning at the home of the General Manager of Rothmans of Pall Mall (Malaysia) Berhad. Mr. J.E.D. Clinton in Pets ling Jaya. Rothmans
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    • 165 2 IP OH. Sub. There was pandemonium at the railway station in Tanjong Malim early this morning, when arid was thrown on the face of a porter by a stranger. Just after the south-bound mail train had nulled up to a stop at the station.
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    • 218 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. More than 80 percent of the cases sent to the Industrial Court could have been settled outside, the Training and Investigating Officer (Industrial Relations) of the National Productivity Centre. Mr V. N. Ramachandran. said here today. He said that officers, representing employers,
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    • 51 2 L ABU AN. Sun. The Deputy Prme Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, todav officially opened the Royal Malaysian Air Force base here and paid tribute to the young men of this branch of the Malaysian Armed Forces for the way with which they bad carried out their
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    • 146 2 PENANG. Sun An eight-year-old pupil of the Island Girls’ School. Norxalina hint! Hussain, won a second prire in a painting competition for children in Asia. Australia and New Zealand. She was presented with a powerful German transistor radio by the German Ambassador
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    • 85 2 IPOH, Sun. The Pushpak aircraft is now stationed in Taiping for use by beginners, the Resident Instructor of the Perak Flying Club. Capt. E.P.M. Hansen, said today. Those interested could contact Capt. Hansen at the Taiping airfield. Telephone Taiping 3353 or write to the Perak Flying
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    • 53 2 IPOH. Sun. A taxi and a car collided at the 31 mile, Ipoh-Butterworth Road yesterday afternoon resulting in a woman, Isah binte AJang Suleiman, 30. being killed. She was travelling In the car with her husband and her five-year-old child when the mishap occurred. The child sustained
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    • 434 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. There has not been much b i c k e ring in the Dewan Negara because the "Senators are mostly elderly people and more sober-minded," the retiring President of the Senate, D a
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    • 37 2 SINGAPORE. Sun. The following numbers were drawn in today's TOTO Pools: 40. 42. 14. 17, 5. 47. The additional number drawn was 35. In the “three-circle draw”, the numbers drawn were: 31, 42. 48.
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    • 223 2 No charges for sterilisation here Official KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Sterilisation in Malaysia was done free of charge in General Hospitals, the Director of the National Family Planning Board. Dr. Ariffin bin Ngah Marzuki. said here today. “But if patients are admitted to the second and first class wards, then they
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    • 150 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Kuala Lumpur is a magnet for the beggars of Malaysia, according to Social Welfare Department officials. “The beggars migrate to Selangor from other States. They believe they can double their Income in Kuala Lumpur, the Federal Capital.” said Che Fatimah binte
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    • 311 3 SINGAPORE, Sun. British hitch-hiker K. Crutchlow, who's travelling round the world with £lO within 80 days, left S.itgapore today for Australia confident he would win the bet for completing the journey on time. At six this afternoon. Crutchlow. a free lance
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    • 408 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The Government was urged today to include trade unionists in the committees of the various economic development planning bodies. The President of the National Union of Teachers, Mr. Gurnam Singh, told Bernama that their “active Involvement” would help to make
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    • 113 3 SINGAPORE, Sun. 7.30 p.m. Free film shows by Ministry of Culture at River Valley Community Centre, Sum Hup Village (Lorong Kinchir), Tanjong Pagar Community Centre, Kota Raja Community Centre (Sultan Gate) and Ulu Pandan Community Centre. 7.30 p.m. Performances by People's Association Eand and Singapore Infantry Regiment bund
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    • 91 3 KOTA KINABALU. Sun. (AFP> The Cathay Pacific Airlines has suspended all flights from Kota Kinabalu to Manila since last week, an airlines spokesman confirmed here today. The C P A. used to operate two weekly flights from Hong Kong to Kota Kinabalu via Manila.
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    • 82 3 SINGAPORE. Sun. A sub-contractor, Chia Teong, was robbed of $5OO by two dagger-wielding robbers at Hindheed Road yesterday. Chia, who was on his way to his office, sustained a stab wound in his right abdomen when h* struggled with the robbers. After stabbing Chia the two
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    • 25 3 SINGAPORE. Sun. Three fire engines rushed to Tanjong Pagar this evening following a telephone call but it turned out to be a hoax.
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    • 176 3 By Peter Loke SINGAPORE, Sun. "BLOWUP" the controversial film recently banned for general screening by the Govern- ment will be shown in Singapore in a few days' time. But, it will only be for restricted audiences. The film will be shown at
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    • 144 3 SINGAPORE. Sun. A taxi (shown above) was set on fire this afternoon by some unknown men at Market Street. The driver. Yam Soon Kiat. 43, escaped with slight burns. A fire engine was summoned to Market Street to put out the fire in
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    • 78 3 SINGAPORE. Sun. Lighterage charges for cargo landed by contract lighters at Telok Ayer Basin have been revised. The Singapore Lighter Owners’ Association, in a statement issued today, said that the rates were revised with a view to enhancing the lighterage efficiency and improving the trading economy. The
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    • 48 3 SINGAPORE. Sun. Workers in the newly-estab-lished Keppel Shipyard will now have their interests represented by the Union of Keppel Shipyard Employees The Registrar of Trade Unions. Mr. Wong Kah Yeow. has published the registration of this union in a gazette notification, this week.
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    • 108 3 SINGAPORE. Sun. Two political detainees, Ho Piao and Yang Chang Ding, have now entered their 24th day of their “no-water hunger strike.” This was disclosed today in a joint statement issued by the Barisan Sosiallg and the families of political detainees. The families of political
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    • 78 3 SINGAPORE, Sun. A motor-cyclist, Low Ban Seng. 25, was fatally injured when his motor-cycle collided with a trailer carrying logs at 10J m.s., Bukit Panjang Road, terday afternoon. Low. of Chua Chu Kang Road. 16 m.s.. was dead on arrival at Thomson Road Hospital. Police said today
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    • 159 4 The Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, was given a warm welcome on his arrival in Kota Kinabalu on Thursday for a four-day official tour of Sabah. AWhTAMitoa <£rl£3S> bein, wekmngl hr **4™* <* Xd^^riSmSS airport With him are the Chief Minister of Sabah. Tun Datu Haji Mustapha bin Datu
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    • 290 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The Indian Minister of Labour, Mr. J.L. Hathi, left here today after assuring the Malaysian Government that India regarded Sabah as an integral part of Malaysia. Mr. Hathi conveyed a message from the Indian Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, to
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    • 51 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun Teams of youths specially trained in flood relief work have been put on the alert in view of the impending monsoon. An official from the Ministry of Culture. Youth and Sports, said the teams would work closely with the Government and other voluntary
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    • 121 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Malaysia and Indonesia will have discussions on a joint-venture in fishing in the Straits of Malacca, the Minister of Agriculture and Co-operatives. Tuan Haji Ghazali Jawi said tonight. Speaking to newsmen at Subang Airport before he left for a five-dav visit to Indonesia,
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    • 64 4 PENANG, Sun. Ninetysix best paintings. representing 40 primary schools in Penang and Province Wellesley, have been selected from the children’s painting competition for an exhibition at the Penang Museum and Art Gallery on Friday. This was announced by the organising committee of the
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    • 387 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. —A special section to deal with petroleum industry and off-shore exploration of petroleum in the West Coast of Malaysia is to be set up soon in the Ministry of Lands and Mines. This was stated today by the Minister
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    • 90 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. A group of 63 American Peace Corps volunteers left for East Malaysia today where they will teach science, various technical and industrial subjects. Forty-five will be posted to Kuching and the rest to Kota Kinabalu. They will undergo a
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    • 37 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Bun The Minister without Portfolio, Ghaffar Baba, will visit India early next year at the invitation of the Indian Government. Enche Ghaffar would visit factories and the Industrial areas there.
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    • 169 4 KAMPAR. Sun.—Trotting barefooted around the bouse to fix breakfast for her five children. Madam Muniandy this morning received the shock of her life when she stepped on cold, slimy “object.’’ Looking down, she screamed in terror —it was a 15foot long python.
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    • 280 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The High Commissioner of Pakistan Mr. M.S. Shaikh, said today that Pakistan hoped regional co-opera-tion among ASEAN countries would not be disrupted. He hoped that despite the current political upheaval in the region, the Association of South-east Asian Nations would
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    • 174 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. A holiday resort in South Pacific style has been created 10 miles south of Port Dickson. Known as Blue Lagoon Vlllagen the seaside resort comprises 24 beach houses and cottages, each self-contained with air-conditioning, refrigerators, television sets, crockery and
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    • 54 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun— Mr. C. T. Mathews was reelected president of the All Malay Estates Staff Union, at the union's seventh biennial delegates’ conference here today. Other office bearers elected were: Vice-Presidents, Mr. K C. Wal and Mr M. Bankar. General Secretary, Mr TP D. Nair. and
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    • 151 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Sub. Dr. John A. Vanniasingtiam is a doctor with a tricky Job treating animals as large as the elephant and as dangerous as the tiger. It is all part of his job as veterinary surgeon of Zoo Negara and he finds it
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    • 641 10  -  By H.M.S. SUTAN SINGAPORE, Sun. South-e oit A s i o n countries should come closer together in the field of economic co-ope-ration through bilateral or trilateral arrangements. The importance of such a co-operation was noted by the outgoing Indian High
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    • 93 10 BRITAIN'S Minister of Defence for Equipment, Mr. John Morris arrived in Singapore on Saturday night in the course of a Far East inspection tour. Mr. Morris who will be in Singapore until Nov. I, will inspect British military establishments on the island ond have discussions with
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    • Cultural and Music Corner
      • 304 10  -  By AYAKO. *THE Italian opera -L in Mandarin at Victoria Theatre in Singapore at week* end was a success. The famous opera “Cavalleria Rusticana” by P. Mascagni was produced by Mr. Choo Hwee Lim (a music teacher who is also the English opera music
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    • 42 10 SINGAPORE, Sun. The Minister for Defence. Mr. Llm Kim San, has issued a prohibition of entry order against See Cheng Kiong. of Malaysia. The order, made under the Immigration Ordinance, 1959. was published in this week's Government Gazette.
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    • 218 10 PENANG. Sun The Minister of Education. Enche Mohamed Khir Johari. a former journalist, will be among the VlP's attending the Penang Press Ball at the E. and O. Hotel on Christmas Eve night (Dec. 24). The Minister's wife. Che Tom. will crown
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    • 29 10 IPOH. Sun. Burglars broke into the home of a teacher. Miss Helen Wong, of Raja Perempuan School early yesterday morning and stole $4O from her bedroom.
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    • 64 10 SINGAPORE, Sun. The whole amount of currency notes in circulation on Sept. 30 this year totalled $463,310,357. The whole amount of coins in circulation on the same date totalled $17,847,146. These official figures were given in a gazette notification by the Chairman of the
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    • 314 10 SINGAPORE. Sun. The Light Industries Service will soon be conducting a training course for expolitical detainees who are interested in becoming semi-skilled workers. The Chairman of the Singapore Detainees Aftercare Society. Professor Yeoh Ghlm Seng, disclosed this when he spoke at a picnic organised
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    • 762 13 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. Details of the Government's economy drive was disclosed today by Enche Abdullah bin Ayub, Deputy Secretary to the Treasury and chairman of a special committee set up to cut down wasteful expenditure. Overtime will be reduced to minimum and bursaries and
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    • 2180 13 r JOHORE BAHRU, Sun. The Sultan of Johore has created four new Datos on the occasion of his 74th birthday tomorrow. The four new Datos are the Speaker of the Btate Legislative Assembly, Tuan Haji All bin Raya; the President of the Johore Bahru
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 396 5 TOKYO. Sun. (UPI) Police raided Chuo and Meiji universities today to seek evidence to pack up subversion charges for a series of violent demonstrations last Monday. At Chuo University Student Union, over 10 students tried to block police from entering the building by hurriedly
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    • 224 5 CANNES, Sun. (Reuter) A fiveweek conference of the International Air Transport Association (lATA) ended here yesterday without reaching final agreement on worldwide fares to be applied from next year. A closing communique said the complex nature of problems facing the airlines and the fact
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    • 247 5 ISTANBUL, Sun. (AFP). French President Charles de Gaulle arrived here early yesterday afternoon for a two-day visit after a first round of talks with his host Turkish President Cevdet Sunay in Ankara. He was accompanied by Turkish Foreign Minister Ihsan Sabri Caglayangil. Both
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    • 216 5 SPACE CENTRE. Houston. Sun. (UPI) The Apollo 7 astronauts came back to Houston and the "pure pleasure" of reunion with their families yesterday making no comment about the Russian cosmonaut circling the earth above them in a flight apparently much like their own. Walter
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    • 106 5 HOUSTON. Texas. Sun. (Reuter) Carl Von Bates. 50. of Amarillo. Texas, a shoe repairman who received a new heart in August, died late today in Houston St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital. A hospital spokesman said Mr. Bates died of heart failure after being in a serious condition
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    • 123 5 TOKUSHIMA. Japan. Sun. (UPI) Exodus of young farmers into industrial cities has been so fast that the local government has established meet-your-prospeo-tive bride bank. The bank s 32 branch offices have started operation with names and biograhpical data filed on 400 girls ranging from 16 to 25
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    • 224 5 STRATFORD-ON-AVON, England, Sun. (Reuter) —A £200.000 international appeal was launched today to save the crumbling medieaval Parish Church where William Shakespeare is buried. The appeal directors said church walls, buttresses, parapets, wood and stonework, erected by English craftmen when Stratford was a slumbering hamlet
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    • 121 5 CAIRO. Sun. (AFP) Egypt's police have in'ervened after two young girls in microskirts brought Cairo to a halt on Thursday. The girls, seeking to catch up with Western fashion by raising their hemlines, ended by raising a stampede as businessmen left their offices. At the
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    • 71 5 UNITED NATIONS. Sun. <AFP> The mission of Mr. Gunnar Jarring. U.N. Secretary General U Thant's special representative in the .Middle East, has been extended for a month in conformity with his own request and in agreement with the Swedish government it was announced yesterday. Mr. Jarring's mandate
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    • 61 5 SYDNEY. Sun. (Reuter) Aus.ralia was without trains today alter 80.000 railwaymen walked off the job at midnight tor 24 hours. The walk-out started despite a "no strike” ruling imposed by the Commonwealth Industiial Court in Melbourne yesterday. The men are striking over a wages award announced
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    • 419 5 CAIRO, Sun. (AFP). Heavy fighting broke out yesterday all along the Suez Canal between Egyptian and Israeli forces, an Egyptian military communique said. The communique said Israel had launched a rocket attack on the town of Port Tewfik and had destroyed two houses at
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    • 75 5 ROME. Sun. (AFP) The Italian government has decided to buy 18 French Bre-guet-Atlantique planes for naval patrols in the Mediterranean. Defence Ministry sources said today. The planes which will come Into service in 1971 are to be jointly produced by French and Italian firms.
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    • 87 5 ATHEN, Sun. (AFP) Former Greek Premier George Papandreou was in a satisfactory condition today after being taken to hospital yesterday following an intestinal haemorrhage. His personal doctor Dimitries Bakalos said the 80-year-old former leader of the Centre Union Party had been given a blood transfusion
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    • 80 5 Olympic fan PALMERO. Sicily. Sun. (UPI) Giovanni Gatto, an avid sports fan tried to kill himself yesterday because his 14 children shouted too loud while he was watching the Olympics on television, police said. They said Gatto, 41. ran after the children, slipped and fell
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    • 71 5 MANILA. Sun. (UPI) Only 300 officers and men ot the orginal two-battalion strong Philippine Civil Action Group remain in Tay Ninh, South Vietnam, tha Manila Daily Bulletin reported today. The newspaper reported the information was obtained from Filipinos who returned from Tay Ninh recently. It said that
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    • 54 5 THE seeing order is the girl, the motor-cycle and the man. Reporter Julia Rylett has stolen the limelight from British exports in the photograph here of her interviewing a BSA executive on the sales of the British motor-cycles to tho United States. But hearing the statistics may
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    • 155 6 NEW YORK. Sub. (Reuter) New York’s policemen went back to “business as usual” today after a weeklone slowdown called in the midst of their wage contract dispute with the city. “If we are to enforce the law, we must obey the law.” John J.
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    • 108 6 MANILA, Sun. (UFD—President Marcos yesterday rejected an offer of a Philippine Senator to lead a nonpartisan drive to bring law and order in Communist Huk-infested Central Luzon On Friday, Senator Benigno Aquino Jr. of the opposition Liberal Party, called on President Marcos to create
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    • 218 6 TOKYO, Sun. (ATP) One week eince Mr. Yasunari Kawabata became Japan's first Nobel prise laureate for literature, bis books have created a book boom never before seen in Japan In the field of esthetic literature. Publishers have reported that all their 160.000
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    • 62 6 HAMBURG (DaD) The first Sunday in October is celebrated as the Harvest Festival throughout the Federal Republic of Germany, Thanks to Rood weather, the wheat, fruit and vegetable harvest was especially plentiful in Northern Germany. Photo shows a costume (roup from the “Yierlanden.” the vegetable-growing district ■ear Hamburg, dancing gaily
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    • 762 6  -  Reward: Exciting living; penalty: 5 yrs By ROBERT IBRAHIM MANILA, Sun. (UPI). An international organisation is offering strong and willing people an opportunity for travel, adventure, high pay and up to five years in an Asian jail. New employees must be strong because they are expected to
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    • 151 6 HONG KONG. Sue (UPI)— A refugee from Chin* was quoted as saying that five children were drowned after a Communist gunboat had sunk g fishing junk heading for Hong Kong. The Hong Kong Daily News, a right-wing ChfneseLanguage paper, said the five children
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    • 308 6 LONDON, Sun. (AFP) Several hundred firstarrivals for today’s Vietnam solidarity march were queuing today outside the few open coffee bars, under a thin <*awn drizzle, after arriving from the provinces late yesterday and spending an uncomfortable night by the River Thames. Reinforced poliee patrols were
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    • 77 6 TEHERAN. Sun. (Reuter) Six members of an opium smuggling gang died of thirst in the desert near the Iran- Afghanistan border while being hunted by land and air, police announced today. Provincial police headquarters in southern Iran said three other gang members had been captured alive
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    • 86 6 CALCUTTA. Sun. (Reuter) A "world spiritual summit conference" ended here today by appointing an international inter-faith committee to work for the formation of a World Council of Religions. The committee, of 18 leaders of 10 major faiths, was set up to discuss the feasibility of
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    • 523 6 BONN, Sun. (Rsutsr) West Germany's spy scare took on a new dimension today with disclosure of the arrest of a woman secretary in Army staff headquarters on suspicion of espionage. This was the first confirmation that the ramifications of a security scandal extend right into a
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    • 42 6 MANILA. Sun. (UPI) The Philippine Armed Forces have four Generals too many. The Philippines Herald reported today that there are 31 Generals four more than the required 27 under the approved table of organisation of the Armed Forces.
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    • 157 6 PRAGUE. Sun. (AFP) Soviet Air Force units yesterday evacuated the Bratislava airport. Radio Prague reported, citing the director of the CSA airlines as its source. Also In Bratislava, three Soviet Generals today informed Slovakian Communist Party secretary Gustav Husak that they were leaving the country at
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    • 148 6 BERLIN, (Dad) —Among the treasures in West Berlin's museums which are hardly known to the general public is this unusual head of a n Indian demi-god. The victorious smile and a type of cat-skin remind one of the saga of Heracles and the Nemeic Lion.
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    • 194 7 JAKARTA, Sun. (AFP) Former Indonesian President Sukarno had prevented the Armed Forces from carrying out construction works in West Irian immediately after Indonesia took over the administration in 1963, chairman of the Peoples Congress General Abdul Haris Nasution charged in Tjipajung yesterday. In a
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    • 135 7 FALMOUTH, England, Sun. (Reuter) Lorry driver Derek Heath. 43. who left Falmouth yesterday to sail across the Atlantic in a rubber dinghy, returned to port last night for repairs. Heath, a father of six, came ashore near his starting point where a few
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    • 61 7 RANGOON, Sun. (Reuter) Three days of continuous heavy rain have flooded about 10.000 acres of rice lands and disrupted trains in northern Burma, press reports said today. The worst affected areas were in Mandalay and Sagain. about 350 miles north of Rangoon, where a
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    • 156 7 KIEL. (DaD) The public prosecutor’s office in Flensburg, the most Northern city in the Federal Republic of Germany, is trying to find a still unknown tanker captain. On leaving the Elbe, he cleaned his ship and let oil flow into the North Sea. A
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    • 726 7 PRAGUE, Sun. (Reuter) Czechoslovakia, buffeted by political crosswinds for centuries, celebrates its 50th Jubilee tomorrow in a mood of mourning. The capital is blanketed by forests of flags. But they are in the colours of C z e choslovakia red white and blue and
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    • 130 7 PIKEVILLE. Kentucky. Sun (Reuter) President Johnson said today that the Republican Party would reverse the tide of progress in America if it won the the November 5 elections Tne Republicans, in the name of economy, would slash housing, education and social welfare programmes.
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    • 366 7 MUSHROOMS, DEAD COW, AND “FLYING SAUCERS BUENOS AIRES. Sun. (l r PI) Since last June Argentina has been plagued with an epidemic of flying saucer sighting. Now the fever has swung to ground in the form of mushrooms. Things were going on all right on Humbe Damim's Farm near Roldan,
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    • 313 7 SAIGON, Sun. (Reuter) Gunners fired a barrage of shells from a shore battery on Tiger Island 15 miles off the coast of North Vietnam at the American destroyer USS Davis, a U.S. military spokesman said today. The closest of 25 shells aimed
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    • 269 7 TOKYO. Sun. (AFP) The population of China is to be more accurately estimated at 730 million, the foreign ministry announced yesterday. The Chinese population had been roughly estimated at 700 million but data gathered by the foreign Ministry have brought the figure a little nearer the
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    • 49 7 A FRENCH firm for cosmetics established in Berlin a computer in their beauty shop. Here a beautician tests the condition of the skin and transfers the diagnosis to a perforated card, by which the computer gives advices *°r the cosmetics within 30 seconds. PANA photo.
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  • 401 8 THE ill wind blowing between Malaysia and the Philippines has at least brought in something good for the Muslims in Manila. Way back in 1981, the Filipino Muslims from the Southern islands residing in Manila felt an acute need for a mosque to perform their religious duties.
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  • 250 8 MALACCA considers its offshore Island of Pulau Besar as an Important piece of real estate. Not long ago certain people of that State proposed that wharves should be built there for ocean-going vessels as part of the long dreamed of Malacca Port. Since the time when Portuguese galleons
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  • 2477 8  -  By Woon Wah Siang A talk to member* off the University off Singapore Geographical Society recently. Many of you have heard of the Jurong Industrial Estate. Some have visited it. But most of you may not know why the Jurong Town Corporation
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    • 166 8 THE Singapore Foreign Miniiter was reported to have observed in Kuala Lumpur that “we have no choice but to make ASEAN work.” But despite the absence of a choice the question is Will ASEAN work? It is naive. I am afraid, as far as Singapore’s survival is
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    • 149 8 TO relieve congestion in City area, statellite towns like Queenstown and the Toa Payoh Housing estate are built with amenity for their residents in the forms of schools, markets, cinemas, churches, banks. Government out-door dispensaries and post offices. The Jurong Town Corporation is formed
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  • 326 8  -  By Henry B. Rothblatt (Author, ''Handbook of Evidence For Criminal Trials”) BASIL owned a 44-foot Chris Craft motor vessel which he kept moored under Emil’s floating boathouse. When his boat sank. Basil sued for loss of his boat. A hurricane did considerable damage to the boathouse." Emil
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    • 46 8 Eastern Sun Independent Nat tort at N tic tv aver MONDAY. OCTOBER 28. 1888 ti t. Cantonment Road. Singapore 2. Telephone: *****/7 Pepana Office Ipeh Office 39. lalan Seiran. Kuala Lumpur. Malayeia. Telephone: *****'6 8. Leith Street. Tel: ***** 77. Rrewiter Road. Te1:***** Cable Address: AWNEWS
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 169 9 SINGAPORE, Sun. Mr. Esko K. Pajasjiirii, Managing Director of InterMarketing (Singa- pore) Pte. Ltd., who arrived from Bangkok recently, will be joining the Finnish Trade Delegation currently in Singapore as an official member during its visit here and to Jakarta. Mr.
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    • 288 9  -  By ANTONIO FRIGINAL MANILA. Sun. (t'PI). Business in Hone Kong continued on an upswing for the second straight week. Trade officials attributed the boom to the return of confidence In Hong Kong as a safe place to invest following last year's economic scare caused
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    • 113 9 PORT MORESBY, Sun. (AIS) Tourism is now the fourth largest source of foreign exchange in PapuaGuinea. Tourist expenditure in the Territory in the 1967-68 financial year was an estimated 57.000.000. Only the export earnings of coffee, copra and cocoa were larger. The Ministerial Member for Trade
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    • 52 9 OSAKA. Sun. (UPI) Osaka Petrochemical Co. is expected soon to sign a contract with Kuwait National Petroleum Co. for the annual import of 300.000 to 500.000 tons of naphtha, it was learnt yesterday The projected import will be made ove r a five-year period from
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    • 833 9 The weekly market review SINGAPORE, Sun. Another extremely quiet week's trading was seen and conditions were generally thin on the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore. As a matter of fact, the week has been the quietest the market has known since August, as
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    • 691 9  -  By JAY S. BAY QEOUL, Sun. (UPI) Economic policy makers of developing countries in Asia have expressed cautious optimism on continued growth of the Asion economy with agricultural growth showing a "brighter" prospect. In 1967. the world economy as a whole suffered “a considerable
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    • 145 9 TOKYO. Sun. (UPI)—I96B is likely to b# a disappointing year for the nation's bee r industry. Beer shipments as of Oct. 20 registered an increase of only four per cent over last year, it was learnt yesterday. Brewere had expected beer shipments in 1968 to
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    • 584 9 SYDNEY, Sun Two new Qantas computers at Mascot, used for the first time in the airline as an everyday office aid. are already showing bie savings through calculation of flight plans. The savings are coming through reductions in both flight and staff times. Flight
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  • STUDENTS’ PAGE ALL TEN DOLLARS ESSAY WINNERS
    • 455 11 THE cheerful voices of the picnickers heading for home and the chirping of the birds did little to make a man forget his troubles. The man was a cripple who had a small book stall farther down the road. His life, was full of unhappiness
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      134 11 GOD gave us eyes and many things around us. We can see beautiful things around u s and tell the difference between colours with good eyesight. Human beings have eyes. Animals and Insects have eyes too. If a human being is without eyes, he cannot do work.
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    • 325 11 IN ancient times, women were referred to as the weaker sex. Men took first place in everything and women were only confined to their homes. But such barriers do not exist anymore. Women are getting more independent and many are able to tackle responsibilities
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    • 225 11 AT the break of dawn a nurse wakes up to have a wash. After taking her breakfast, she puts on a clean uniform, and checks her bag to see that her pen. handkerchief, etc., are with her. Then she goes to the
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    • 324 11 WHAT causes the strain relationship between the old and the young? One of them is pop-songs. Elders cannot understand why youngsters are so addicted to this type of music. The youngsters are alwavs on the verge of shaking, twisting and Jerking their bodies whenever they
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      241 11 SOMETIMES I like to sit down and dream. I let my mind wander and as I sit dreaming. I find that 1 can see a house before me I can see myself passing through the gates. 1 walk on and berore me is my dream house —a
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    • 210 11 SINCE the day Singapore achieved independence, she has progressed In many aspects. In the political aspect, she Is stable and sound The people have the right to vote and are free to offer suggestions in the Interest of the country. Our progress
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    • 183 11 THE ROAD Safety Campaign has been organised by the Ministry of Transport. Its aim is to decrease the rate of accidents. On Sept. 23 1958. a Police Inspector visited our school and gave a talk on Traffic Rules. Vehicles are manufactured In many countries. Traffic rules are
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    • 266 11 “SCIENCE” says the dictionary is ‘the knowledge arranged in an orderly manner, especially knowledge of the way in which one event causes another.’ In Science, health plays an important part in our daily life. Health is our most valuable possession. The word “health" comes
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    • 300 11 STREET trading Is performed In the streets of Singapore during different hours of the day. There are different types of trading like night bazaars etc. The public and citizens of Singapore encourage these street trading which has Its advantages and disadvantages. street trading is a
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    • 337 11 IT was precisely five minutes past two. The sun had disappeared, and huge black clouds darkened the sky. A strong wind was blowing across the village. Flashes of lightning lit up the sky followed by thunder. A storm wag approaching and it was to bring great
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  • 708 12 DR. Toh Chin Chye, the Minister for Science and Technology was the guest-of-honour at the recent dinner and dance of the Business Administration Society of the University of Singapore. Picture shows Dr. Toh (with hand on chin) and guests and officials of the society at the main
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  • Sun Sport
    • 137 14 MEXICO CITY, Sun. (Reuter) Japan confirmed her position as the leading gymnastic nation by grabbing four more gold medals last night to add to the team and individual men's combined exercises crowns won earlier this week. With grace and strength unmatched by their rivals, the Japanese
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    • 871 14 Kuala Lumpur, Sun. Kicking a football an art which small boys seem to absorb effortlessly—is under Space Age investigation in Melbourne. Australia. Monash University psychology lecturer. Malcolm McMillan, is using some of Australia’s best footballers in an unusual computer analysis of kicking. To date his
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    • 131 14 SINGAPORE. Sun. The Chairman of the Port of Singapore Authority. Mr. Goh Koh Pui this evening officially declared open the new Keppel Club Swimming Pool. The pool, built at a cost of $120,000 is located at the top of the hill overlooking the entrance
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    • 52 14 MEXICO CITY. Sun. (UPI) Vera Caslavka. winner of seven Olympic Gold medals. last night wed her handsome Czechoslovakian Olympic teammate. Josef Odlozil. in a civil ceremony. The couple later went to the Cathedral of Mexico, where they were to be married a second time in a
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    • 79 14 MEXICO, Sun. (AFP) Mr. Avery Brundage, President of the International Olympic Committee said yesterday during a press conference that the United German teams which had participated in the 1956. 1960 and 1964 games had been one of the finest hours for the triumph of the sport and
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    • 108 14 MEXICO. CITY. Sun. (Reuter) Klaus Dibiasl Italy s 21-year-old European champion, scored one of the most convincing men’s highboard victories in Olympic history here last night. Dibiasl, who in Tokyo won the Silver medal, won by nearly ten points from the Silver medal winner, Mexico’s Alvaro
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    • 317 14 PERTH. Sun. (t"PI) Big hitting American Jack Nicklaus today won the 1968 Australian Open golf championship in a sensational finish at the Lake Karrinyup Golf Club. Nicklaus won the title by one stroke over South Africa’s Gary Player when he birdied the 18th
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    • 196 14 SINGAPORE. Sun. Fielding the best players. K.C. beat a strong RAF Tengah golfing contingent by s—l5 —1 in one of the last few Singapore Association League matches of the season. With KC’s victory today, the Bukit Chermin players are almost certain now of emerging winners in
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    • 511 15 DUBLIN, Ireland. Sun. (Reuter) Disappointing Australia were beaten by ten points to three in the first Rugby Union international of their short British tour against Ireland here yesterday. The Wallabies never produced the open play they are famed for and Ireland, much
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    • 178 15 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Pte. Kandasamy won the seven-mile open event of the Ministry of Defence Big Walk at the Setapak military camp here today. Kandasamy. from No. 1 Field Ambulance, Kinrara. returned a time of lhr. 04 sec. He beat Pte. Ibrahim of Bth Battalion
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    • 185 15 ROME. Sun. (Reuter) Friday night’s controversial end to the world Junior middleweight boxing match between Fred Little of America and the Italian champion Sandro Mazzinghi was challenged by Little’s manager, who said he would appeal against the “no contest” decision. Mr Joe Kiernan
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    • 56 15 MANILA. Sun. (UPI) Flash Besande yesterday annexed his second Philippine boxing title via a majority decision over Jimmy Noel in a 12-round junior lightweight championship bout. Besande. 23, dethroned Francisco Balug as the Philippine featherweight champion last August. The fight at the Araneta Coliseum, just outside of
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    • 372 15 DONCASTER, England, Sun. (Reuter) The Elk, owned by Miss Monica Sheriffe. won the £19.430 Observer Gold Cup over one mile here yesterday and the race was a personal triumph for trainer Jeremy Tree, who also saddled the third horse, Blue Yonder. The Elk. a
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    • 137 15 PERTH. Scotland. Sun. (Reuter) Mrs. Margaret Court (Australia) won the women’s singles final In the Dwar Cup indoor law tennis tournament here yesterday when she beat Mary Ann Eisel (United States) in the final. Mrs. Court beat the St. Louis (Missouri) girl 6-2. 6-4. Mrs. Court, with
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    • 682 15 T ON DON, Sun. (Reuter) Allan Clarke, Britain's costliest foot* -Lf bailer, was sent off after 30 minutes of yesterday's English League Division One game between Leicester City and Burnley at Filbert Street. Clarke, captain of Leicester, received his marching orders with
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    • 348 15 LONDON. Sun. (Reuter) Saturday’s UK. soccer results are: English Division One Arsenal 0. West Ham 0. Ipswitch 0, Tottenham 1. Leeds U. 0, West Brom. 0. Leicester C. n, Burnley 2. Liverpool 2. Newcastle U. 1. Manchester C. 3, Notts Forest 3. Queen’s P R. 2. Manchester
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    • 1843 15 ENGLISH ONE HOME AWAY Pts P W D L F A W D L F A Liverpool 16 7 1 0 19 5 3 2 3 14 6 23 Everton 16 6 1 1 16 4 3 4 1 16 I 23 Leeds United
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    • 49 16 MAMO WOLDE of Ethiopia (right) heading towards the finishing line in the Mexico Olympics marathon race recently. He won the gruelling event in the time of two hours, 20 minutes 26.4 secs. Runner-up was Japan’s Kimihara (left). He won the Silver Me- dal. UPI photo.
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    • 430 16 4 sent off field in foul-marred final MEXICO CITY, Sun. (Reuter) Hungary, the defending champions retained their Olympic soccer title when they beat Bulgaria 4*l in a sensational, foul-marred final which saw four players sent off at the Aztec Sta- dium here yesterday. The Mexican referee
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    • 52 16 MEXICO CITY, Sun. (Reuter) Yugoslavia won the Olympic water-polo Gold medal for the first time with a 13-11 victory in a bruising final battle with the Soviet Union here last night. Powerful Hungary, the defending champions, beat Italy 9-4 In their match for third and
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    • 167 16 MEXICO ClTi’. Sun. (Reuter) The medals table at the end of the 14th day of the Olympic Games (with 171 out of 172 events completed) is as follows: G S B United States 45 27 34 USSR 29 32 30 Japan 11 77 Hungary 10 10 12
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    • 82 16 KAMPAR Sun. Lower Perak drew one all with Kampar B in the knock-out Perak inter-district soccer competition for the Cheng Wah trophy, here today. Lower Perak led 1-0 at half time through a goal in the 30th minute by Ngah Wahab. the centre-forward. Kampar
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    • 387 16 MEXICO CITY. Sun. (Reuter) Pakistan, triumphing where their great Asian rivals India failed. beat Australia 2-1 in the Olvmpic hockev final yesterday and proudly took the Gold medal for the second time in their history. India, seven times Olympic champions, who fell victim to
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    • 158 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Selangor Chinese avenged last year’s 1-3 defeat when they beat their Singapore counterparts 4-0 in the finals of the Malaysian Chinese Football competition at the Stadium Meddeka here tonight. Singapore were a disjointed side and failed to provide the Cup final glamour,
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    • 99 16 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. The Badminton Association of Malaysia have named four players to take part in three International tournaments in India next month. They are Tan Yee Khan. Ng Boon Bee. P. Gunalan and Ng Tat Wei. Michael Barbosa will act as team official.
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    • 70 16 FRANCO MENICHELLI of Italy (upper left) doing floor exercises during the Mexico Olympics gymnastics competition and shows a backward turn in midair (middle) and lands on the floor although faltering (right). At this moment he fell back in pain (lower left). HLs team physician rushed to his
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    • 542 16 MEXICO CITY. Sun. (.Reuter) The United States climaxed their triumphant succession of Olympic swimming victories here last night with a world record in the men's 40x100 metres medley relay final event on the programme. The four Americans streaked home 3:54 9 to
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    • 270 16 SEREMBAN. Sun. Singapore Asians beat Negri Sembilan Ma 1 acca Asians 25 points (two goals, three tries and two penalties) to nine (three penalties) in the first fixture of the rugger series at the Station Padang here today. The Singaporeans dominated in the line outs, and set
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    • 60 16 TIME AND TIDE Penang: 3.45 a.m. (6.9 ft.). 7.35 p.m. (5.6 ft.). Port Swettenham: 9.30 a.m. (12.7 ft.), 10.36 p.m. (12.6 ft.). Port Dickson: 1048 a.m. (6.9 ft.), 11.05 p.m. (6.6 ft.). Singapore: 4.10 a.m. (7.4 ft.), 2.24 p.m. (8.6 ft.). Sedili Kechil: 2.56 a.m. (8.1 ft.), 12.34 p.m. (6.2
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