Eastern Sun, 10 January 1969

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  • 21 1 Eastern Sun SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 3 No. 878 Friday, 10 January 1969. MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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  • 225 1 TEL AVIV, Thurs. (Reuter) Lebanese President Charles Helou has rejected a note from Israeli Premier Levi Eshkoi asking him to curb the activities of anti-Israeli terrorists in his country, the evening news- paper. Maariv. said today. The Israeli note was transmitted
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  • 134 1 JAKARTA. Thurs. (Reuter) Indonesia's Home Minister Basuki Rachmat. a key man in President Suharto's Government, died in Jakarta today of a heart attack. His aides said LieutenantGeneral Basuki, aged 47. clutched at his chest and collapsed in his office this morning while reading a
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  • 68 1 GENEVA. Thurs. *Reuter> A dispute over diesel oil supplies between the Red Cross and the equatorial Guinea Government is depriving nearly one million Biafrans of food and medical supplies A spokesman for the Red Cross International Committee said today efforts were being made to resolve
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  • 90 1 CHICAGO. Thurs (UPI) Betty Simons 60. testified in a divorce hearing on Wednesday that her hus- j band Abrahan. 80. wa s too affectionate. Al-o. she said, he was sus- j picious and jealous and ac- 1 cused her of cheating on him. Circuit Court Judge Harry A.
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  • 57 1 No rwegians Art FLEKKEFJORD, Norway. Thurs. <UPI> A Norwegian gunboat has seized four Russian, two East German and two Danish fishing trawlers that violated ‘‘military waters’ in Southern Norway, police said today. The report said the eight boats sailed into the restricted area yesterday and by today all but the
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  • 27 1 WARSAW, Thurs. (Reuter) A 28-year-old Pole. Adam Henryk Kaczmarzyk. has been executed for selling military defence secrets to British intellizence contacts, it was announced here today.
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  • 698 1 AFRICAN, ASIAN LEADERS HIT OUT LONDON. Thurs. (UPI Reuter) African and Asian Commonwealth leaders today charged Britain with reneging on her pledges not to recognize Rhodesia's independence without first giving power to its four million Africans. They called on Prime Minister Harold Wilson to
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  • 162 1 BANGKOK. Thurs. (UPI) Government forces sweeping through the beseiged northern sector of Thailand have found a mass grave with headless bodies of insurgent Red Meo tribesmen and an arms cache with uniforms and Mao Tse-tung badges, it was reported today. Discovery of the
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  • 57 1 BANGKOK. Thurs. (Reuter) Three children were burned to death in a fire which swept through a congested slum area in Bangkok last night, police reported today. The report said the fire destroyed about 700 houses and made some 3.000 people hotrefess. Police estimated the damage
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  • 117 1 LONDON. Thurs. < Reuter)— Commonwealth leaders were today urged to studv proposals to help Asians of United Kingdom citizenship displaced by some African countries. The call was made by a British Conservative Member of Parliament. Mr. John Hunt, who is Chairman of the
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  • 51 1 NEW YORK. Thurs (Reuter) Journalists demanding more pay went on strike today against Associated Press —one of the two big United States new’ agencies The journalists, members of the Wire Service Guild, set up picket lines in front of the agency’s headquarters building at Rockefeller Plaza
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  • 151 1 SINGAPORE Thurs. Professor Rayson Lisung Huang head of the University of Malaya's Department of Chemistry. will be the new ViceChancellor of Nanyang University here. The offer was made after an executive committee meeting of the University, held recently. An outstanding scholar and prominent academician
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  • 112 1 MANILA. Thurs. (UPI) The No. 3 Communist Huk terrorist in the Philippines was reported killed today, together with 10 of his followers. in a major battle with about 400 Government troops. Military reports reaching Manila said the battle started this afternoon and
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  • 73 1 LODGE HONOURED: Outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Germany, Henry C. Lodge (left) and his wife (third from left) are honoured at farewell reception by Berlin Mayor Klaus Schultz (centre) and his wife (2nd from left) at Sehoenfrero Town Hall on Jan. 8. The three Allied Commanders of West Berlin, Gen. Robert
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  • 1142 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. It was a painless budget that the Malaysian Minister of Finance, Tun Tan Siew Sin, presented to Parliament today. Ills revenue proposals for 1969 would result in a revenue increase of Sl4 million to 51.948 million in current account for
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  • 117 1 JAKARTA. Thurs. <AFP> The Merapi volcano has erupted with violent explosions. belching smoke to a height of 3.0(H) metres and covering villages with dust within a radius of 11 kilometres. Reports reaching here from Jogjakarta today said three villagers were missing in a lava flow down the
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 1452 2 SINGAPORE, Thurs. A midwife, Miss XO, told the Ninth Magistrate's Court today she screamed, shouted and pleaded not to be raped when two male Indians pushed open her bedroom door. She was testifying at the continued preliminary inquiry in which four
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  • 101 2 DARWIN. Northern Territory. Thurs. (Reuter) A Sabah seaman rrom the French oil survey ship "Capricorne” which sank off Timor in November is to be deported from Australia. He is All bin Pawero. aged 22. Ali was arrested yesterday on a deportation order signed by Immigration Minister
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  • 97 2 SINGAPORE. Thurs. Four thugs armed with daggers held up a farmer. Teo High Kin. his wife and mother and robbed them of $454 in cash and jewellery valued at $1,047 totalling $1,501 —in their house in Lorong Peryia off Woodlands Road yesterday. Teo was having
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  • 259 2 SINGAPORE. ThursChrist was portraited In three types of image by Mr. Moses L. K. Yu at the first meeting of the “The Future of Christianity” series. sponsored by the “Fisherman of Christ” Fellowship at the Victoria Memorial Hall here tonight. Mr. Yu is working
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  • 298 2 SINGAPORE. Thurs. > The Singapore Medical Asr sociation has urged for the promotion of radio-calis- thenics for all workers in j the Republic's industrial and commercial concerns. In an editorial in the latest SMA bi-monthly newsletter, the association expressed the hope that employers would
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  • 77 2 SINOAPORF Thurs Thieve* broke into a shop in Jalan Brsar shortly after midnight yesterday and got away with motor spareparts worth about $3,800 The proprietor of the shop Mah Yuk Kin was informed of the theft bv hla employee when the latter went to work
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  • 21 2 SINGAPORE. Thurs—There were 74 road accidents, of which six were serious during the past 24 hours in the Republic.
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  • 218 2 SINGAPORE. Thurs. A company executive who was inspired by his fiancee has submitted the best picture made out of shells in the Shellcraft Competition. He is Mr. Eric Seah Lin Song who has won a $1,000 prize for his shell pictures of
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  • 185 3 SINGAPORE. Thurs. In a dramatic chase, a party of police officers detained two men who were caught in the sc? of stealing overhead electrical copper wires along Jalan Lokan, off Upper Paya Lebar Road, this morning. The incident occurred when the police received a
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  • 195 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs.— The Minister of Finance. Tun Tan Siew Sin. told the Dewan Ra'ayat today that any person who considered himself unfairly treated by an insurance company should make a complaint to the Insurance Commissioner. Tun Tan was replying to an oral question by
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  • 77 3 SINGAPORE. Thurs. Miss Tourism Singapore. 1969. Miss R salind Ong will be the guest-of-honour at a luncheon of the International Y’s Men’s Club of Singapore i Beta Chapter) on Jan. 11 at Goodwood Park Hotel. Miss Ong will also deliver a short speech to the
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  • 413 3 SINGAPORE, Thurs Mr. Teng Wong Kee, a staff of Rothmans of Pall Mall (S) Limited who entered a Toto table through an office colleague hit a “king-size" prize in the Toto coupon lucky draw held on Jan. 5. A jubilant Mr. Teng who has been
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  • 89 3 SINGAPORE. Thurs. Mr. S. C. Huang (representing Orchard Hotel Ltd.) was elected president of the Singapore Hotels and Restaurants Association for 1969 at its annua] general meeting held recently. Mr. Jeffrey Cheam. of Cathay Hotel Limited was elected vice-president while Mr. Quek Koon Cheng. (Chequers Hotel) was
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  • 62 3 SINGAPORE. Thurs. Military personnel will conduct exercises from Jan. 11 to Jan. 31, from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. in the Chau Chu Kang area They will again conduct exercises from Jan. 15 to Jan. 17 from 12 noon to 6 p.m In the Sungei Poyan area. Blanks
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  • 162 3 SINGAPORE. Thurs. Enche Buang bin Omar Jumd. the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Social Affairs w’ill open the Tuberculosis Control Unit on Jan. 27. The Unit will conduct a mas X-ray survey of the residents of the constituency The registration of eligible people
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  • 25 3 SINGAPORE. Thurs. The Singapore Clock and Watch Trade Association will hold their annual general meeting at their premises in Waterloo Street on Sunday.
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  • 315 3 SINGAPORE, Thurs. A fortune teller. Ng Ah Bee. who admitted that he had sexual intercourse with a twelve-year-old girl was today sentenced to five years’ imprisonment by Mr. Justice Chua in the High Court. Ng. who conducted his own defence told the
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  • 41 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. Two new members of parliament were sworn in as the sixweek budget session of Parliament began this morning The v are Enche Musa bin Hitam < A!I-Segamat Utarai and Dr. Mohammed bin Taib (AllKuantan).
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  • 709 3 SINGAPORE, Thurs Some villagers were known to have entered the military area in Pasir Laba to catch fish and trap birds even after the incident in which four were killed and nine were injured during military exercises, the Coroner's Court was
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  • 108 3 SINGAPORE. Thurs. The High Court today awarded $15,500 damages to a motorcyclist and a pillion rider for injuries sustained in an accident. The judgment was given in favour of the plaintiffs when the defendant. Kee Chwee Bun. a lorry driver failed to appear in
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  • 56 3 SINGAPORE. Thurs The All Civic Organisations of Alexandra and Queenstown Constituencies will hold a joint annual social night from 7.30 p m on Jan. 18 The Minister for Culture and MP for Queenstown, Mr. Jek Yeun Thong and the MP for Alexandra. Dr. Wong
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    • 48 3 Up 5 OUT OF 49 ONLY 2 DAYS LEFT UNTIL THE NEXT DRAW! LAST WEEK 3186 LUCKY PEOPLE WON CASH PRIZES RANGING FROM $2O TO $31,460 EACH IS 1969 GOING TO BE YOUR LUCKY YEAR? ENTER TOTO NOW AND FIND OUT THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS AWAITING TO BE WON!
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  • 269 4 f SINGAPORE, Thurs. The Director GeneMi Britain's National Export Council will be visiting Singapore later this month to enquire into ways and means of increasing British exports to Singapore and to familiarise himself with the market. Mir. P. F. D. Tennant will also have discussions
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  • 431 4 *7SINGAPORE, Thurs. A .17-member delegation of leading British specialists In the hotel industry will viglt Singapore later this month. The mission which arrives here on Jan. 25 for a twoweek visit la being organised by the British Hotel and Public Building Equipment Group
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  • 168 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. The Dewan Ra'ayat today approved a motion to increase tne number of High Court judges In West Malaysia from 12 to 15 as a measure to reduce the backlog of cases and to expedite court hearings. The three new Judges
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  • 151 4 BINOAPORE Thur*. Bronze award certificates under the Duk* Of Edinburgh Award Scheme have been presented to four'een pupils of RAF Seletar Secondary School by Squadron Leader JK BaUhaw. Chairman of the JOmt Services Co-ordinating and Awards Committee Mo r e than 40 bo vs
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  • 68 4 TOKYO. Thurs UPIi Two Japanese Diet 'Parliament) leaders were invited today pv the Indian Parliament to visit India The two are M'tsujiro Ishii. Speaker of. the House of Representatives. and Yuzo Shigemune. President of the House of Councillors. Indian ambassador S.K Bacerjl this tnomny ‘caned
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  • 431 4 SINGAPORE, Thurs. Foreign languages are becoming extremely popular to Singapore's young and keen population. Disclosing this to the Eastern Sun today. Mr. Koh Watt Seng, the Acting Director of the Adult Education Board said in response to the demand, the AEB
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  • 134 4 THE site of the former Outram Prison in Singapore is now the latest housing estate to be developed by the Housing and Development Board. Eight blocks of 15-storey flats are now nearing completion and this estate, being in a centrally-located area is expected to
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  • 112 4 SINGAPORE Thurs The Customs and Excise Department last year collected $l9O million In revenue In duty $26 million more than in 1967. Figures for the years revenue collections showed that petroleum duty was highe-t. amounting to $54 5 million. This was $ll million more than was collected in
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  • 538 4 SINGAPORE, Thur*. An attempt is being made ta revive the Indonesian and Malay language film industry which is now in the doldrums. An Indonesian film executive is in Singapore to finalise plans for the proposed revival which he said would involve the joint participation
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  • 118 4 SINGAPORE. Thurs B"me IS ,cmit» leaders, almost ail of Ihrm teachers fmm different prlmarv and secondary achoo's will attend a flr,t aid course vtarting on Saturday at 4 30 p m at the Tanjong Katong Secondar* School. The course will be opened
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  • 97 4 Indonesia’s First DirectExport Drive JAKARTA. Thur* (AFPt Thirtr ton* of crumb rubber shipped to Hamburg this week constituted thr fir** *hipment ,ince the *ovemment banned ex. port of rubber for processing laat November The rubber left in the ship Dortmund from the Sumatran port of Belawan last Monday, It was
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  • 120 4 SINGAPORE. Thur*—Highly encouraged by the success of its first competition last year, the Singapore Music Teachers' Association is organising a second and more ambitious competition sheduled for March 4. 5 and 6 at the Cultural Centre Theatre. There will be sections for pianoforte, singing, violin
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  • 88 4 9 a m —4 p.m.: Singapore Blood Transfusion Service mobile blood bank station at Fullerton Square car park. 7 p.m.: Performance by Singapore Infantry Regiment Band at Clement! Park Community Centre. 7 p.m. Western dance practice at National Theatre Club. Clemenceau Avenue 7.30 p.m.: Free film shows by
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  • 226 4 SINGAPORE. Thurs the Adult Education Board will organising a new course, in "Stiles and Marketing" to be conducted by Mr. D. K. Ellery, an Australian Marketing Consultant of South East Asian Development Corpora ion Lta The Course of 20 weeks duration, conducted in
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  • 74 4 KUCHING, Sarawak. Thur,. (Reuter) A man shot end killed hi* three sons and «eriOU*’v wounded hi, daughter before k 1ing himself bv slashing h.:S throat with a parang «knifei, police reported today Police identified the man as Sagi Ansk Tikn. a land dayak. who h*ed with
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  • 189 4 SINGAPORE. Thurs. Mr. Chew Shin Khiong a production assistant at the Singapore Educational Television Service left here recently to undergo a 3J months training course for advanced broadcasting journalists in Germany. The course will also be attended by 18 Journalists from various Asian
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
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  • 563 5 RAWALPINDI. (UPI) The right-wing Pakistan democratic Movement has joined three other opposition parties to form a new alliance pledged_ to boycott the country's 1970 and launch “relentless non-violent movement” for restoration of democracy. Officials of the PDM which is composed of five separate parties said the new front would
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  • 66 5 "I will continue my career and after a while all this interest in us will die down,” said Dr
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  • 52 5 Police claimed that the trousers were too tight to conform to local Islamic traditions. It has not been decided who is to
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  • 95 5 JAKARTA. (.AFP)—American ambassador Marshall Green told Indonesian President General Suharto today that United States aid to Indonesia would be much larger in 1969 than in 1968 This was announced in a presidential statement and confirmed by the United States embassyMr. Green took
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  • 192 5 NEW YORK Thurs (UPI) NBC news said last night that Israel either has a nuclear bomb now or will have one very soon. Correspondent James Robinson. in a report from Washington s aid that Israel launched a crash programme two years ago to produce a bomb
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  • 41 5 AMMAN, Thurs. (Reuter) Pope Paul sent refugee schoolchildren in Jordan 5.500 pairs of shoes and a similar number of boxes of sweets for Christmas, it was announced here today. The gift was distributed to students at refugee camps-
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  • 222 5 TOKYO, Thurs. (UPI) The Japanese government has decided to send a highpowered economic mission to East Europe, it was revealed today. The government indicated that the mission will be headed by Kogoro Uemuro, President of the powerful Federation of Economic Organisation (Keidanren)
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  • 62 5 NOORDWIJKERHOUT. Holland, Thurs (Reuter) The Dutch Roman Catholic pastoral council announced today that it was not convinced by Pope Paul's arguments rejecting artificial means of birth control. It said the well-considered personal conscience of married couples should be recognised and called for more consultations in Holland
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  • 36 5 WASHINGTON. Thurs. (Reuter) The Defence Department announced today it will conscript 33,100 men for military service in March, bringing the number drafted in the first three months of the year to 93,600.
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  • 69 5 STOCKHOLM. (IPGRed snow fell over large parts of Sweden on Tuesday and Wednesday. The weathermen said it came from Russia. of the red snow came from the provinces of Gotland in the Baltic area and Dalecarlia in central Sweden. The weather bureau said the snow had
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  • 73 5 LONDON. Thurs (Reuter)— Dancer .lean Belmont offered her 68-year-o|d husband Henry 4115 a week if he would leave their home permanently. And yesterday a judge derided this was a fair offer and ordered the husband out of the house. Forty-year-old Mis* Belmont. whose married
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  • 96 5 JAKARTA. Thurs (Reuter) Indonesia plans to persuade 10C.000 people to use modern birth control methods during a one-year family planning drive beginning in April, the chairman of the National Family Planning Institute. Mrs. Rusiah Sardjono has said. She said In Bandung about 100 miles
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  • 439 5 MIAMI, Florida Thurs. (I PI) Eighty-one dated Cubans yesterday told of a wild dash for freedom to the ITS. naval base at Guantanamo Bay. Cuba, while their leaders held back Castro guards in blazing gunbattles. The Navy brought the refugees 46 men. 13
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  • 101 5 ZITRICH. Thurs. (Reuter) Six people, including an excommunicated German priest, go on trial here today accused of causing the death of a 17-year-old girl they tried to "exorcise" by beating. The girl. Bernadette Hasler. died in May 1966 after being flogged with plastic piping, a
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  • 64 5 ROME. Thurs. (Reuter) Italy i s returning to Emperor Haile Selassie one of the spoils of its pre-war conquest of Ethiopia —a massive castiron statue of a lion. Like the Emperor himself it is known as “The Lion of Judah Italian Foreign Ministry
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  • 33 5 UNITED NATIONS New York. Thurs (Reuter) Prin-e Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia has called on the United Nations to help combat American “aggression” against its territory, it was disclosed today.
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  • 727 5 MORE REPORT ON PROCEEDINGS IN PAGE 8 LONDON, Thurs. (Reuter) The five Commonwealth powers linked in Southeast Asia defence are to meet during the Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference here to make plans for joint defence talks in the first half of
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  • 114 5 HONG KONG. Thurs (Reuter). Hong Kong., doctors today carried out the colony'! first-kidney transplant. In a two-hour operation giving a 39-year-old man the kidney of a 19-year-old girl. Doctors at the Queen Mary Hospital here, where th® operation was performed, -aid the patient. Mr. Ng
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  • 126 5 MOSCOW Thurs (Reuter) A prominent Soviet surgeon predicted today that come puters will help solve the problem of tissue rejection in heart transplant operations. Professor Alexander Vishnevsky who is carrying out research on the problem* of spare-part surgery —said computers could also be used
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  • 259 6 THE Science Council of Singapore soon will set up a placement agency to help young men and women to seek jobs. The underlying idea behind the plan is to match manpower supply to demand, especially in the high and middle levels of employment. This is indeed a
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  • 199 6 MAIN reason for the prolongation of the Nigeria Biafra war is that “the Nigerian tragedy has become the toy of imperialist and neo-eolonialist forces”, a Soviet political commentator said in an article published in Izvestia, the Soviet Government paper, today. Commentator G. Guerassimov, of the Novostl News Agency,
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  • 188 6 •'T'HE Thai Foreign Minister was quoted today as saying that forcing Saigon to negotiate with the Vietcong was like making Washington sit down for talks with Negro militants. The Bangkok Post said Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman made this comment in an interview yesterday. Mr. Thanat was
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  • 540 6 WASHINGTON, Thurs. It Is patently absurd to suggest any immediate connection between the Apollo-I flight around the moon and curing social problems on earth. Flying to the moon does not put food in hungry mouths, improve working conditions. control pollution or remake cities.
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  • 288 6 TAIPEI. Thurs (Reuter) Tbe Nationalist Chinese Golernmrnt successfully completed its fourth four-year economic development plan last year, according to an official report published here today. The report said that the economic growth rate in Taiwan during the 1965/68 period reached 10.6 per cent exceeding the
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    • 181 6 WHY is Neil Road in Singapore not spelt as Neill Road? General Sir James Neill died in battle in the Indian Mutiny of 1857. The Municipal Commissioners in 1858 decided to name three new roads (including the former Magazine Road) after him and two others. Sir Henry
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  • 260 6  -  By LARS-ERIK NELSON MOSCOW. Thurs. (Reuter) A Soviet economist haa called for the full economic integration of communist countries as the best way to compete with capitalism and fight imperialism. Academician Gennady Sorokin. writing In the latest Issue of the Monthly Problems
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  • 136 6 WASHINGTON. Thuri fAFP) Retiring American Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman considers that prospects for the war on hunger are "infinitely brighter” ihan they were eight years ago Mr. Freeman, in a final report before leaving office with the retiring Johnson Administration. said he thought there had been
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  • 94 6 WASHINGTON, Thun. (Reuter) A correspondent for the National Broadcasting Company claimed tonight that Israel either has a nuclear bomb or will have it shortly NBC reporter James Robinson in a television report, quoted American intelligence sources as saying Israeli agents had been discovered buying certain materia's
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  • 113 6 CITY WITHIN A CITY Airview of Co—op City. a $290 million co—operative housing project under construction in New York City for middle income families When completed in 1971. the 300-acre (121-hectare) complex will have 15.382 apaitments for more than 50.000 residents There will he 35 buildings ranging In height from
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  • 577 6 SYDNEY. New South Wales, Thurs. (CPI) The Sydney Morning Herald took a close look at “ANZUS, 1969” in its lead editorial on Thursday. The Editorial: “The report of the U S House of Representatives Subcommittee on “Defence Posture” is not of itself of any
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  • 230 6 HANOI. Thura. (AFP) North Vietnam's army organ Quan Doi. in a commentary on U.S. President-elect Richard Nixon’s choice of chief American delegate to the Paris talks on Vietnam, said today that the name of Henry Cabot Lodge “is closely linked to lamentable defeats”. North Vietnam's official
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  • 125 6 BERNE. Switzerland. Thurs (AFP) Swiss Federal Police have at last solved a problem that has given them a head-ache since Chinas invasion of Tibet. For since the invasion 650 Tioetans have come to live In Switzerland, mos ly in the eas'ern cantons. And according to ancient Tibetan custom
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  • 179 6 DAR ES SALAAM. Thura (AFP) The Tanzanian Government would not hesitate to ban any imperialist inspired newspapers including the country’s only independent daily. The Standard when the suitable time arrived. Information and Tourism Minister Hasnu Makama said in Parliament Wednesday. The Minister was answering questions fo! owing an
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  • 181 6 MOSCOW. Thurs. (AFP) Pravda warned today t hat the Australian plan to set up special mobile forces in South-east Asia to compensate for Britain's troop w.thdrawal in 1971 would lead to an “aggravation of the situation In that region of the globe" Discussing Australian Premier John
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  • 131 6 MOSCOW. Thurs (AFP) Pravda todav deliberately ‘corrected’’ a sharp outburst in the daily Trud linking the new American Administration with NATO exercises to be held in West Germany as Presidentelect Richard Nixon moves into the White House later this month Trud, the official Trade Union daily, yesterday
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  • 224 6 HONG KONG. Thurs. (AFP) The Chinese Liberation Army daily In a recent article described Chinas cultural revolution as a "spiritual atom bomb more powerful than the real one by tens of thousands of times.” The article, broadcast today by Radio Peking, said this “spiritual atom bomb” had
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  • 168 6 HONGKONG. Thurs. (Reuben The South China Morning Post today advised Belgian Journalist Jacques Marcuse to leave time, diplomacy and reasoning to achieve Reuter correspondent Anthony Grey’s release from house arrest in Peking. The British-owned newspaper was commenting on Mr. Marcuse’s offer to the Chinese authorities to go
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  • 136 6 PRAGUE. Thurs (Reuter) Czechoslovakia's Communist Party newspaper Rude Pravo warned today that NATO military manoeuvres near its border later this month might provoke Soviet troops now stationed in the country and said the exercises would be railed off. “We need none of this," the newspaper
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    • 31 6 Eastern Sun Singapore’s Own Motional Daily FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1969 2S-B Cantonment Rood. 49 lalan Sultan. S'ngaperc 2 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Ttlapbona: ***** 7 Telephone: ***** 6 Cable Address: AW NEWS
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 479 7  -  By LESLIE HAYNES LONDON, Thurs. (Reuter) Gold prices soared to new peaks in the European bullion markets yesterday for the second day in succession. In several markets half a dollar in ounce hos been added to the price in 48 hours as
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    • 233 7 NEW YORK. Thurs <UPI) block sold off sharply tor the third successive day yesterday in tairly heavy trading. Shortly before the final beil, the UPI stock market indicator, measuring all stocks traded, showed a loss of 069 per cent on 1,582 issues traded. Volume
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    • 36 7 ALGIERS. Thur* (Re iter) A Soviet company will be f(°t up in Algeria to build eight dams and tram Algerian experts in hydraulics, under ac agreement signed by the two Governments here yesterday.
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    • 14 7 SINGAPORE. Thurs The fin price for today was ssSo,l2f per picul, down
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    • 90 7 SINGAPORE. Thurs. Allls-Chalmers International, an American Industrial corporation. will hold Its annual Asian sales meeting in Singapore on Jan. 15. More than 60 of the corporations sales executives from 17 countries in Asia will attend the meeting They will come from Japan, the
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    • 141 7 Common Market Big Six’ To Meet Next Week TJONN, Thurs. (I PI) Finance Ministers and Central Bank presidents of the six European Common Market countries will hold a two-day conference next week at the Bavarian Alpine resort of GarmischPartenkirchen to discuss the financial state of the community in the wake
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    • 104 7 SINGAPORE. Thurs The fallowing ships are expected t<i be in port todav: GDdowns Vessels 1/2 Peisander 3 4 State of Bihar 5 Maren Maersk 6/7 Eiko Maru 6 9 Marine Trust ID /11 Centaur 1314 Calchas 16/16 Bennachie Polyphemus Sir Geraint 21 22 Seiwa Maru 23/24 Hikokane
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    • 103 7 SINGAPORE. Thurs. The Association of Banks in Malaysia and Singapore todav announced the following changes in bank rates forSELLING TT. or O D (Ready).- Deutsche Marks $77.08; Holland Guilders 585.23; Swiss Francs 571.387. V Belgian Franca $6.1425; French Francs $62 295: Danish Kroner 540.9025; Norwegian Kroner >43 08,5;
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    • 124 7 PARIS. Thurs. (Reuten French exports are expee’ed to rise by around 19 per cent during 1969. accord ng to a forecast made recently by the private statistics firm Serna. Bema also forecast that overall economic growth should be in the neighbourhood of 5.4 per cent. But
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    • 200 7 Kl'Al.A LUMPUR. lhurs •Mr Robert K L Yon* has been appointed s ales manager of Hume Industries (.Malaya) Bhd., succeeding Mr. lan Mnrson who has left the company. This was announced today by Hume s manager Mr. A G Kyle-Little at the company’s head
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    • 132 7 HAVANA, Thurs. (Reuter) Cuba will step up its tobacco production despite reported links between smoking and lung cancer, cigar-smoking Prime Minister Fidel Castro declared “But the Cuban population should be educated in the consequence* of everything it consumes” he said last night at the
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    • 95 7 Ford's LowPriced Sports Car BRUSSELS. Thurs. 'Reuter) Tne Ford M tor Company will unveil a low-priced ports car stylei on the lines of its American Mustang model at this month's Brussels Motor Show trade sources said yesterday. The five-seater tai-tback coupe, called the Capri will cost around 80 000 Belgian
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    • 154 7 LONDON. Thurs. (UN) Stocks took new losses on the Exchange yesterday that pulled the industrial shares index helow the 500 level for the first time since the end of 1968. Many popular Blue Chips fell back and second line issue* shared the declinesWall
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    • 1428 7 SINGAPORE, Thurs. Properties were again the features of today’s trading in the market. Keen interests were also shown in some Industrial counters. City Development had the highest turnover of some 585.000 units when the 4 p.m. beil rang San Holdings, still steady from the few
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    • 277 7 SINGAPORE. Thura. January first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p m In Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 57J cen s per lb., (unchanged) from previous dote The tone of the market was quiet. The market was quiet today Without any particular trend in trading Prices
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    • 82 7 HONG KONG. Thur*. tUFI) Money quotations. Hong Kong dollars 6.1075 per U.S dollar. Hong Kong dollars 6 ***** per U S dollar TT Hong Kong dollars 14 51 per pound sterling Hong Kong dollar ***** per tael of gold 94 5 per cent tiremss. Hong Kong dollar*
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    • 23 7 LONDON. Thurs. (UPI) Rubber market opened quiet with soct 21-1/1* 21-1/4 No i RSS CIF basis ports Jan 20-5/16 20-1/2.
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    • 423 7 MM.ArilHb Him k t* change Mild and other prlin "ftit i«j 11 > lifted al OuOnp** the close of INDISTK1ALS 3 02 Borneo 1 99 2.00 1 90 1.02 t "u;»r 4 80 f .87 old Morage 5.15 |IH> 1.31 1.32 3.1.4 fc A 1. *>m» onis 2.02
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    • 227 7 LONDON Thurs (Reuter) The market yesterday continued Tuesday's r.ecline in the xvake of Wall Street's heavy losses and growing fears of credit tightness The F T. index dropped below the 500 again and towards the close was down 5 3 at 496 1 with little
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    • 49 7 iManjsfi‘ Prlwl llr>t Mala.ian XI» ?W second Nlili'.m \U 1 tilril 1.31 136 I«t Hung kuna 1 30 '.’ml H'ing linns •92 The ronimrnf InduMr* \l> 10.1 HI Tin- muii: 1 iin cl 1.19 \|j|.i'an InxeMiiieiit 1 nnd \l> 1 311 1 40 Sterling Cn:«ditjr 6 S
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    • 112 7 oiNraroHi ihur —ihe nouB price* at the Singapore hlne..e Produce Exchange lo<la> are.— Bioer Keller 4 cm omit Oil 1 1 o R Hulk in (mill Oil .YMtO (foil lirum n«*e C opra 'lived 'Ill 111 ok While Pepper 3S *0 120 00 (4 O B WiT, M Sarawak
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    • 143 7 SINGAPORE Thuis Cellulose adhesive tapes are new being slit and packed in Sir.gapoie A local company. lAC (Singapore Pte. Ltd., has installed machinery at its L* ll Kee Road factory and is slitting trpes for local and Malaysian consumption The tapes which
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  • 264 8 PAKISTAN FOREIGN MINISTER Arhsad Husain precipitated the explosive Commonwealth immigration question into the general discussion on foreign affairs. PAKISTAN raised the touchy immigration issue and proposed a six-point charter for migrants who go abroad in search of a better life. As one delegate present described it he
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  • 300 8 INDIA'S PRIME MINISTER Mrs. Indira Gandhi refused to bring up another divisive issue, Kashmir. She said she would not reply to the reference made to the dispute in yesterday’s session by Pakistan. Mr. Wilson already had begun bilateral talks with Mrs Gandhi on the complicated question of where
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  • 249 8 ‘To Govern Is No Picnic...’ BEIRUT, Thur*. (UPI) Premier-designate Rashid Karami today began consultations to form a new cabinet and said his government would adopt a more militant line against Isroel. Mr. Karami. a 47-year-old bachelor who has served as Premier
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  • 163 8 Czechoslovakia PRAGUE. Thurs (AFP) Signs of persisting internal tension appeared here last night as Communist Party First Secretary Alexander Dubcek broadcast an urgent appeal for unitv throughout the newly formed federation. His radio and television address followed only a tew hours after :he Czechoslovak partv presidium
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  • 186 8 HONG KONG. Thurs- (UPI) Belgian freelance journalist Jacques Marcuse was booked on a flight to Taipei today after offering himself to the Peking government as hostage in place of British newsman Anthony Grey. The graying journalist. 57. told newsmen upon arrival from Geneva yesterday
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  • 72 8 SAIGON. Thurs (UPI) South Vietnamese troops killed 434 Communists In a twoweek sweep of the U Minh forest in the Mekong delta The forest has been a haven for the Vietcong for more than 20 years The South Vietnamese took 173 prisoners.
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  • 282 8 JERUSALEM. Thurs. (AFP) Premier Levi Eshkol last night said France’s embargo on arms sales to Israel damaged prospects for a Middle East peace He denounced the French move as a one-sided indefensible act by one sovereign state towards another. Mr. Eshkol added: "This action can
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  • 76 8 BRISBANE. Thurs. (UPI) Mrs. Pauline Downes Is going home to die. The 37-year-old Englishwoman has leukemia and doctors give her at most two months to live. Mrs. Downes migrated to Australia in 1960. She married and had two childrenNow they are all going bark to
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  • 38 8 FLEKKEFJORD. Southern Norway. (AFP) Four Soviet and two East German trawlers were arrested by coast guard vessels during the night for violating a restricted military zone in the Lista Fjord near here, police said this morning.
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  • 41 8 FRFSNFDILLAS. Madrid: The Moon, right. Is seen about the 85-foot diameter antenna as the latter tracked U.S. spacecraft. The Fresnedillas Tracking Station is by NASA in conjunction with IN'XA. the Spanish Space Institute. UPI photo.
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  • 305 8 UNITED NATIONS. (AFPi Rhodesia continued to trade actively with other countries during 1968 inspite of the United Nations decision to impose mandatory sanctions, a IT.N.l T .N. report said SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) Police drove a wedge through picketing militants at San Francisco state college when they refused to epen
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  • 36 8 HOUSTON. (AFP) Astronaut Frank Borman, who captained the Apollo-8 moon mission, may forsake his chances for a lunar landing to take an administrative post at the space centre here, a reliable source said last night.
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  • 351 8 LOS ANGELES. Thurs. (UPI) Aside from his appearances in court. Sirhan B Sirhan lives a routine life in his drab cell in the old Los Angeles County Hall of Justice. The day begins for Sirhan, and all other inmates of the
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  • 149 8 LOS ANGELES. Thurs (Reuter) Sirhan B. Sirhan’s trial for the murder of Senator Robert Kennedy entered its third day with lawyers preparing a final bid to have the charges against him dismissed. One of the defence lawyers. Emile Zola Berman, told the court
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  • 255 8 FIRST POLLS SINCE NASSER CAIRO, Thurs. (UPI) Early returns today in the first elections under Pesident Gamal Abdul Nasser which offered voters a choice of candidates indicated a massive vote of confidence in Nasser. The election was for 350 National Assembly seats from 175
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  • 83 8 MELBOURNE. Aus t r alia. Thurs. (UPI) The death toll in Victoria’s raging bushfires bn reached 19 and M; total 25 At least three major fires still are out of control, and 130.000 ftremep and volunteer* are on the flrelines- It's the worst such disaster in the
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  • 70 8 SAIGON. (.AFP) Premier Tran Van Huong today expressed doubt that the suspect held In connection with the slaying of Education Minister Le Minh Tri on Monday was the assassin. The Premier told newsmen at Mr Tri’s funeral the detainee claimed to have written the licence
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  • 272 8 BEIRUT. Thurs. (Reuter)— Middle East Airlines (M E A > which suffered heavily in last month's Israeli commmdo raid on Beirut airport is back in business as before, hut is facing higher operational costs including a seven-fold rise in insurance rate. There might also be
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  • 84 8 TOKYO. Thurs (UPI) Police have arrested a 25-vear-old anarchist on suspicion of creating a disturbance In the grounds of the Imperial Palace Someone set off two smoke candles in the middle of a crowd gathered to give New Year greetings to Emperor Hirohito. The young
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    • 97 8 HEARTIEST CONGRATULATIONS AND BEST WISHES TO Y. M. Tunku Mohd. Khalid (bni T. T. Ahmad and Y. M. Tunku Yan Naxihah Binte T. L. Nasir on the occasion of their marriage Tong Nam Trading Co. Ltd., Tong Nom Timber Co., Wing Gard Co., Chye Eng Huat Sawmill Co., Lion Seng
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  • 309 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. The period of grace for exchanging the old Malayan currency for the new Malaysian currency after Jan. 16 when the old currency ceases to be legal tender will not last indefinitely, the Minister of Finance. Tun Tan Siew Sin.
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  • 643 9 Kt'ALA LUMPUR, Thurs. The current international situation was a “source of potential danger" to Malaysia, as Its economy depended heavily on growth in the industrialised countries and in worid trade, the Minister of Finance. Tun Tan Siew Sin. said today. Too
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  • 99 9 School Clerk’s ‘Biggest Best’ Wedding Gift KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. A school clerk. Mr. Kwan Ho Yin. was today given “the biggest and best wedding gift anyone could wish for” w hen he was presented with a 51.500 cheque by the National Cancer Society here. The amount was the first prize
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  • 136 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs.—The Minister of Finance, today outlined the steps being taken by the Government to cut down unnecessary expenditure in line with its austerity drive. Replying to questions raised in the Dewan Ra'ayat, Tun Tan said that these measures, now being taken or
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  • 207 9 KUALA LUMPUR Thurs Timber will replace tin as Malaysia’s second biggest foreign exchange earner this year, the Minister of Finance. Tun Tan Siew Sin, said today. Tun Tan. in presenting the nation's budget to Parliament said: “Malaysia is the world’s largest exporters of
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  • 194 9 CONCORD New Hampshire. (UPI) Republican State Sen. John P H Chandler has introduced a Bill that would require every ablebodied male in New Hampsphire to keep a firearm and ammunition at home. The lawmaker said his purpose was to provide citizens with protection “like a fire
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  • 93 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs The establishment of a Department of Music In the University of Malaya was suggested by a visiting musician today. He Is Sir Thomas Armstrong. 70. former principal of the London Royal Academy of Music, who is here in the course of
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  • 91 9 MANILA. Thurs (U£l) The Civil Aviation Adminlsi tration <CAA) today disclosed plans to establish Southeast Asia's first air university in i the Philippines. Acting CAA Director Federico Ablan Jr. pointing out the lack of air technicians in the region, said the proposed university will train
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    • 337 9 A TODAY Friday, January 10, 1969. STAR G AZER'*^ ARKS yyJ *a». ‘•AM. a 57-67 7986 TAURUS AM. 70 ma r r i 9-20-31-42 ’45 56-80-88 GEMINI (3j3s »*»r» c*r JUNC 20 )TX 4-17 2R 39 *49 67 72 CANCER 0 juni 2i mr 21 r?\ 2-1&29 40 ;-'5(V63-a2-e9 LEO
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  • 397 10  -  By Gerald F. Burris Honolulu. (upi> Despite electrical shocks, loud noises and bubble curtains. the best way to get rid of sharks is still to catch them. That's the opinion of Dr. Albert L. Tester, a University of Hawaii zoologist
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  • 1289 10  -  By H.L. Herschensohn, M.D. FOR years I have been watching my diet to keep the cholesterol low. Now mv doctor says it is even more important to keep the triglycerides low to prevent coronary heart trouble. What is a triglyceride? It is another fatty
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  • 877 10  -  By Geoffrey Morris THE bullocky, one of the most colourful characters of the Australia bush, is almost extinct. The bullocky is a rugged, leathery-skinned timber-getter who controls a bullock team with a long-handled whip and a strident voice. He has a
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  • 2168 10 EDUCATIONAL Television, established in Singapore in early 1967. as a pioneer in a new form of education in the region has made great strides since then. So great has been its pro- r gress that ETV reported recently that it had made
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  • Sun Sport
    • 61 11 THERE is no doubt about this one as West Indies batsman Basil Butcher is caught plumb in front of the wicket after trying to drive a ball from John Gleeson and missing. Butcher had made 42 when given out 1.b.w., during the first day's play in the second Test match
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    • 468 11 IITELBOURNE, Thurs. (Reuter) Three of the four semi-finalists in the Victorian men's singles tennis title matches at Kooyong Stadium are Americans. Lone Australian is Davis Cup player Ray Ruffels. Ruffels, who advanced his winnings in this tournament to SA6OO (£280) today with a
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    • 93 11 HONG KONG Thurs. (Reuter) The Hong Kong Badminton Association have chosen a strong three-man team for the Asian championships in Manila from February 3 to 15. Two of the player* named at an association meeting yesterday are the Hong Kong representatives at last year’s Asian youth
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    • 51 11 LAS VEGAS. Nevada. Thurs. 'UPI' Hard-punching Dick Hall of Boston, spsrmate of light heavyweight champion Bob Foster, knocked down Jimmy Rosette Of San Diego, California, three times in the second round for a technical knockout victory in a scheduled 10-round fight last mtht Hall weighed 177 and Rosette
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    • 115 11 SYDNEY. Thurs (Reuter) Four Australian professionals headed by Rod Laver top the men's singles seedings for the first New South Wales open tennis championships opening at the White City courts on Sunday. Laver, the reigning Wimbledon champion, is followed in order by Ken Rosewall. John Newcombe
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    • 127 11 MANILA. Thurs (Reuter) Philippines flyweight champion boxer Bernabe Vlllacampo will fight Italy’s European champion Fernando Atzori over 12 rounds in Manila on January 18. it was announced today. The World Boxing Council fW BC announced in Manila that the winner will meet the victor of the
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    • 87 11 LONDON. Thurs. (Reuter) Arsenal have beer installed as favourite* for the English Football Association Cup. following the 3—l defeat of Leeds United by Sheffield Wednesday last night. A leading London bookmaker today quoted Arsenal at 11/2, with Liverpool 6 1 and Evei to,i an<j Manchester United
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    • 196 11 MELBOURNE, Thurs. (AFP) Melbourne will have their first world boxing championship after 60 years when Australian aboriginal, Lionel Rose defends his bantamweight title at the Kooyong Stadium here on March 7. The opponent has not yet been picked but it seems certain that he will
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    • 116 11 LONDON Thurs. (Router) Gary Sprake goalkeeper for Inter-Cities Fair* Champion* Leeds United, has been fined £lOO b v the English Football Association for swearing, jt was announced today The referee of the First Division match between Leeds and West Ham United on December 14 reported that
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    • 123 11 MELBOURNE. Thurs (Reuter) The victorious United Btates Davis Cup team will play several exhibition matches in Saigon as part of a three-week goodwill tour of Asia, team captain Donald Dell said here today Dell said that Arthur Ashe. Stan Smith, Bob Lutz and
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    • 89 11 INZELL. Bavaria, Thurs. 'AFPi So far 34 competitors from li countries have announced their participation in the European speed-skating championships which take p'ace at Inzell. Bavaria, on January 25 and 26 next, organisers sa lt j today. Among them is Norway's FredAnton Maver, who will
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    • 82 11 TAIPEI. Thurs. (AFP) A 'shadow boxing' expert left here today for the Ivory Coast to teach President Felix Houphouet-Boigny the traditional Chinese physical exercise. Mr K u a n g Yung Cheng. 43, an engineer attached to the Taiwan Power Company and outstanding practitioner of shadow boxing
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    • 356 11 TOKYO. Thurs. (UPI> Boxing fans in the TokyoYokohama area are In for a rare treat next Wednesday night when South Korea’s Herbert Kang stakes his Orient featherweight crown against the No. 6 contender. Kuniakl Shibata of Japan Kang. 19 is making the first defence of
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    • 212 11 MANCHESTER. England, Thurs 'Reuter) The future of Old Trafford, Manchester, as a Test match ground is in the balance according to Lancashire County Cricket Club Officials. Announcing the opening of booking plans for the fir*t Test between England and the West Indie* next June.
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    • 103 11 JAKARTA Thurs. AFP) Rudy Hartono. th* reigning AllEngland singles champion and three other Indonesian badminton star* will take part in the Asian Badminton Championship* scheduled to oe held in Manila next month The chairman of the Indonesian Badminton Federation, Sudirman. said today that the Indonesian team
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    • 108 11 LONG BEACH California. Thurs. (AFP > Sally Younger, a 15-year-old schoolgirl, will attempt to have, a* she puts it. the "fastest bikini in the world'' here on Saturday The blonde Miss Younger will bid to beat the world women s waterski record, which has stood
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    • 81 11 MANILA Thurs (UPI) The All-Chiba baseball team of Japan routed the Cavite National High. 13-n. for their seventh straight victory in a barnstorming tour of the Philippines yesterday. Nobuo Masuda's three-run homer in the second and Hitoshi Saito’s bases-loaded circuit run in the fifth highlighted the 14-hit
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    • 39 11 NARRANDERA. New South Wales. Thurs. < Reuter) The West Indian cricketers returned to the winning path in a humble wav today by defeating a New South Wales Country XI by six wicketa in a ona-day match here.
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    • 40 11 ROME, Thurs. (AFP) European bantamweight champion Salvatore Burrinl of Italy will defend his title against Britain's Alan Rudkin next March 13 Rome promoter Rino Tommasi announced today Mr. Tommasi did not indicate where the fight would take place.
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    • 157 11 WELLINGTON. New Zealand. Thurs. (Reuter) Auckland took a big step towards winning the Plunket Shield, New Zealand’s domestic cricket trophy, when they beat the holders. Central Districts, by seven wickets today Auckland have a nine-point lead in the competition and seem assured of winning the
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    • 34 11 NEW DELHI. Thurs (Reuter) Martin Carlstein, of Sweden, heat the Asean champion Jaidip Mukherjea. of India, 10—8. 6 —4, in the fourth round of the Indian national lawn tennis championships here today.
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    • 352 12 T ONDON, Thurs. (Reuter) Leeds United, Lj the 13/2 favourites, crashed to a shock 3-1 defeat against Sheffield Wednesday in their English Football Association Cup third-round replay lost night. Sheffield, losing finalists in 1966. fought back from being a goal down to
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    • 243 12 WELLINGTON, (N. Z.). Thurs. (Reuter) —The New Zealand rugby tour of South Africa in 1970 will go ahead without a doubt, the retiring Consul General for South Africa in New Zealand, Mr. John Oxley, said here today. “The matter of rugby football has been
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    • 80 12 LONDON. Thurs. <AFP) Campions past and present honoured John Clark, the twentv-one-vear-old London bantamweight at the annual dinner of the Boxing Writers' Club, here last night. Clark voted the best voui.g boxe r of 1968, was presented with his award bv the chairman of the club in
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    • 67 12 SINGAPORE Thurs. Khalsa Association will meet 19 Signals in a SHA Division One league match to be held at the Padang. tomorrow ibully-off 515 pm Teams: Khalsa: Chow Mgce Fok: HS Lumba. Baldira.i: Retnam. Gcpal Singh. Aiwah; Veer Singh. Kartar Singh, Jaswant Singh. Joginder Singh and Darshan Singh.
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    • 218 12 SYDNEY. Thurs. (Reuter) Gary Sobers, the West Indies captain, appears to have lost his enthusiasm for cricket and his team are suffering as a result. an Australian cricket writer said today. Writing under the heading “Sobers —a faded image” in the Sydney newspaper The Sun. Norman
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    • 100 12 KARACHI. Thurs. fßeuten Some Pakistan cricket enthusiasts are urging that Saeed Ahmed should rep'ace Hanif Mohammad as captain in the forthcoming Test* against England Saeed. 31. was vire-<-aptain to Hanif on Pakistan's 1967 tour of England The 34-vear-old Hanif has led Pakistan 11 times since
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    • 60 12 CREW of Ondine II. which took line honours in the 1968 Sydnev-Hobart yacht race (L. to R.) Herb Wolfe. Hugh Whaul, George Davis, Dave Elwell, Dick Binning. Ko Kichi Oshawa. Des Kearns. Roger Vincent. Bill Salters. Jim Sanderson. Don Wakeman. Hans Svnde. Cv Gillette. “Huey” Long (skipper-owner). Rus- sell Lons,
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    • 783 12  -  By Leslie Nakashima TOKYO, Thurs. (CPI) One of the most Interesting questions in Asian sports for 1969 is whether former world junior welterweight champion Paul Fuji will be able to make a comeback. The former United States Marine, an American citizen who has
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    • 38 12 LONDON, Thurs. (Reuter) Results of rugby matches played last night were: Rugby League Blackpool Borough 0 Leigh 20; Warrington 10 Oldham 19; Rugby Union Civil Service 17 Royal Air Force 49; Surrey 34 The Army 14.
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    • 275 12 SINGAPORE. Thurs The Indian schoolboys cricket team will play two one-day matches instead of a twoday match against Singapore on Sunday and Monday at the Padang here. The team of 16 players and two officials will arrive here on Saturday, after their successful tour of Australia
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    • 102 12 HASTINGS. England. Thurs. (UPI> Russia’s Vassily Smyslov beat Robert Hartoch of the Netherlands in 20 moves ye-terday and won the Hastings International Chess Congress. The Russian won h1 s eleventh round match In three hours. He had a total of 8J points for the tournament. Second
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    • 927 12 Football Ian? walk tall on Merseyside. For Liverpool is not Just famous for the Grand National, the Mersey Tunnel, the Beatles, and Littlewoods and Venons Soccer Pools It Is the home of Everton and Liverpool, two of the most successful football clubs that any
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    • 147 12 GEORGETOWN. Guyana. Thurs. (AFP) West Indian cricket sources here are openly expressing fears that the West Indian team now touring Australia may break up through many players retiring. Cricket commentators said today that Australia's winning two of the three Tests already played has
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    • 107 12 SINGAPORE, T h u r s. Congratulations and a handshake from Mrs. Lageson, wife of R.A.F. Tengah’s CO.. Group Cant. P. J. Lageson. for Cpl. Peter Richards, a Station F.E.A.F. and Combined Services swimmer, who captained a station team which completed a record long-distance relay swim of
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    • 163 12 NEW YORK. Thurs (LPI)' Jack Nicklaus and Billy Casper were among four players elected yesterday to the Board of Directors of tl o newly created tournament division of the Professional Golfers Association (PGA>. The election of Nicklaus and Casper, as well as Gardner Dickinson and Dan
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    • 179 12 KUALA LUMPUR Thurs. The first ever Asian highway motor rally will be held in mid-April this year The rally organised under the auspices of ECAFE with the co-operation of the governments of Laos, Malaysia. Singapore and Thailand will cover a distance of about 1.800
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    • 97 12 LONDON Thurs. (Reuter) The revised draw for the English Fooiball Association Cup fourth round, to be placed on Saturday. January 15. Blackburn Rovers v Ports* mouth. Southampton v Astjn Villa. Millwall v Leicester City, Manchester United v Watford, Bolton Wanderers v Bristol Rovers. Everton v Conventry
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