Eastern Sun, 15 January 1969

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    21 1 SINGAPORES OWN NATIONAL DAILY Eastern Sun Estd. 1966> Vol. 3 No. 883 Wednesday, 15 January 1969. MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cent*
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    Lock icon Kuan Yew Appeals For Greater Regional Economic Co-operation
    1187 1 ‘DEMOCRACY PREACHED NOT PRACTISED’ f ONDON. Tues. (I'PI Reuter) Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew on Monday appealed for greater regional economic co-operation among Commonwealth countries, particularly those of Southeast Asia. He said through regional co-operation among themselves and with the developed
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    Lock icon Tunku Takes Britain To Task Over Pullout
    402 1 LONDON. Tues. (I'PI) Malaysia Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman on Monday night took Britain sharply to task for her planned military pullout from South-east Asia in 1971. He said Britain is not carrying out her protective role and is leaving Malaysia with a
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    Lock icon Dramatic Slump In Sterling
    56 1 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) Sterling slumped dramatically this morning within minutes of a government announcement that December's overse as trading ended with a £55 million deficit. "Pathetic” and “awful” was the verdict of foreign exchange dealers who earlier in the day had marked up sterling's dollar rate
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    Lock icon REYNOLDS GETS 25 YEARS
    64 1 AYLESBURY. England. Tues. tßeuter) Bruce Reynolds. last of 15 men rounded up in a world-wide hunt, was jailed today for 25 years for his part in the £2.500.000 Great Train Robbery nearly six years ago Reynolds. 33. described as an antique dealer, had pleaded guilty to
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    Lock icon Plague Quarantine
    25 1 HONG KONG. Tues <UPI) The port health authority announced today quarantine restrictions have been imposed against arrivals from Saigon on account of plague.
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    Lock icon Massive Allied Assault In Vietnam
    303 1 SAIGON, Tues. (I/PI) About 5.00 ft allied troops stormed a Communist-held peninsula on Vietnam’s central coast in the biggest amphibious operation since I S. Marines landed at Inchon in the Korean war. military spokesmen said today. Spokesmen said some 3.000 Marines riding helicopters and landing
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    Lock icon 5-Nation SEA Defence Talks In Canberra?
    123 1 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) Australian Prime Minister John Gorton announced today that five-power talks would he held here on Friday to fix the time and place for a full-scale conference on South-east Asian Defence later this year. He told reporters at the Commonwealth summit talks
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    Lock icon Indonesia’s 5-Year Development Plan
    55 1 Indonesia’ s 5-Year Development Plan JAKARTA, Tues. (Reuter) President Suharto today presented the Indonesian Parliament with a five-year development plan relying on about U. 5.52,000 million foreign aid for 60 per cent of its total U. 5.53.500 million resources. A substantial amount ol foreign private investment is evidently also anticiDated
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    Lock icon Fined In Pyjama
    45 1 SYDNEY. Tues. (Reuter) Motor mechanic George Wadley. 21. left a pyjama party and headed for home in his car. At the first red traffic light, he fell asleep. Still in his pyjama, he was fined ASISO (£7O) here yesterday for drunken driving.
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    Lock icon Airliner Plunges Into Pacific: 29 Survivors
    471 1 SIXTEEN BELIEVED KILLED I OS ANGELES, Tues. (I'PI Reuter) A Scandinavian Airlines System DCB with J 45 persons aboard crash landed in the Pacific Ocean on Monday night while making a landing approach to Los Angeles international airport in rain and low clouds. Sixteen
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    Lock icon Row Over Immigration Blazes Up
    121 1 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) Uganda President Milton Obote today accused Britain of devaluing her citizenship as a row blazed up over Commonwealth immigration. The President, attending the 28-natlon Commonwealth summit here, told reporters there were now two types of British citizen white and coloured. The angry
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    Lock icon Sukarno’s Requests Turned Down
    95 1 Sukarno’ s Requests Turned Down JAKARTA. Tues. (Reuter) The Indonesian Armv has turned down former President Dr Sukarno’s requests to see his old friends. Army sources said today. Major Endang Rusman, spokesman of the West Java's Siiiwangi Division. said that the Arm v has issued a decree to shift Dr
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    Lock icon Biggest Arms Haul Ever In U.S.
    77 1 HACKENSACK. New Jersey. Tues. (AFP) —Police seized here last night enough arms and explosives to “fill a twoton truck” in what police and Treasury agents described as the biggest arms haul ever made in the United States. Two men were arrested on charges of
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    Lock icon 1/2 KEO Gurkhas For Brunei
    74 1 BRUNEI TOWN. Tues. (AFP» The British military presence in this oil-rich protectorate Is assured for another year at least with the arrival of the 2 2 King Edwards VII s Own Gurkhas Rifles in Seria today. They will replace KEO Gurkhas who had been here
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    Lock icon LBJ To Extend Income Tax Surcharge
    67 1 WASHINGTON. Tues UPI> President Johnson will recommend extension of the 10 per cent income tax surcharge, it was disclosed yesterday. Administration sources said the President would include a request for extension of the tax, beyond its June 30 expiration, in his budget proposal for
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    Lock icon USSR Hurls Cosmonaut Shatalov Into Earth Orbit
    198 1 MOSCOW. Tues. (I/PI) The Soviet Union today hurled a cosmonaut into earth orbit on a fiery cross of rocket power to carry out “a complicated and responsible programme”. In an unprecedented publicity move. Soviet television showed the launching less than two hours after
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    Lock icon Lily Ho Celebrates 21st Birthday In Three Countries
    643 2 SINGAPORE. Tues. Miss Lily Ho. one of Shaw a top filmstars, celebrated her 21st birthday in three countries yesterday, rounding it up with a “midnight party” in Singapore. "It’s Just too wonderful for words,” Lily told newsmen as her colleague* surrounded her
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    Lock icon Razak: No Pullout From ASEAN
    191 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues The Deputy Prime Minister. Tun Abdul Ratak. today dismissed any possibility of Malaysia withdrawing from the Association of South-East Asian Nation* (ASEAN). The Philippines’ claim to Sabah had become “a hindrance” to the progress of ASEAN, he said, but the question of
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    Lock icon Married ‘Bachelor’ Fined $250 For False Declaration
    175 2 Married Bachelor’ Fined $250 For False Declaration SINGAPORE. Tues A married man. who had been forced to sign a chit for $1,500 for breach of promise of marriage, was today fined $250 by the Third District Court for falsely declaring that he was a bachelor. Chua Sent Tuan. 38. said
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    Lock icon SCHOOL FUN FAIR
    45 2 SINGAPORE. Tues. The MacPherson Primary School will hold a fun fair on Jan. 22 and 23 from 10 am. to 6 pm. at the school grounds. Proceeds from the fun fair will help in the pupils’ activities and projects of the school.
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    Lock icon No Troops Movement To S’pore Until End Of This Year
    281 2 SINGAPORE, Tues. Australian and New Zealand troops in Terendak Comp, Malacca, are not expected to move to Singapore until towards the end of the year. Although the programme for their removal has not been drawn up yet since the announcement
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    Lock icon Man Demanded $100,000 Ransom, Woman Tells Kidnap-Murder Inquiry
    460 2 SINGAPORE. Tuea. A woman told a kidnap-murder inquiry that a man demanded *lOO 000 ransom from her for the release of her son three days after he had disappeared. Madam Teo Chin Lee said her son. Ong Beang Leek. 19. went out
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    Lock icon 1 ROAD FATALITY
    85 2 SINGAPORE Tue* A 52-year-old lorry attendant died in the Thomson Road General Hospital today after the lorry he was travelling in collided with another lorrv at Adam Road early this morning In another road accident yesterday. Madam Lim Lian Kin. 66. died on the spot while she
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    Lock icon PUBLIC IS WARNED OF CONMAN
    128 2 SINGAPORE. Tues. Police have advised householders not to part with any money if they are approached by any person claiming to be a member of the Public Health Division soliciting lor funds Police said today they had received information that persons posing as members of
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    Lock icon Folk-dance Course Planned By YMCA
    131 2 SINGAPORE. Tues The YMCA of Singapore “A”. Orchard Road, will he conducting a beginner’s course on folk dancing from Feb 1. The course will be held at the YMCA auditorium on Saturdays from 2.30 to 4-30 p.m. The object of the course is to promote
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    Lock icon Accused Person Flees From Court
    151 3 n,et^, l^ GA ORE- An accused escaped from the LHsmct and Magistrates’ Court this morning while being held pending bail. Swee 31. who faced a charge of attempting to cheat a housewife of $l5O, had earlier requested permission to make a phone call to his
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    Lock icon One 5 Out 5 Entry Wins $78,570
    130 3 SINGAPORE. Tues. A participant in the last Toto draw on Sunday submitted an all-correct entry enabling him to win the first prize jackpot of $78,570. The first prize has been won second time since the “5 out of 49” game was introduced four
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    Lock icon $62,500 And Costs Judgment By Consent
    88 3 SINGAPORE. Tues —An Industrial accident claim was settled in open court before Mr. Justice Winslow today for $62,500 and costs. The plaintiff in the suit. Sidambara Vanathirayar Kasy. was awarded the judgment by consent. Kasy was working on a crane at a workshop of
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    Lock icon K.L. To Have Justice Hall
    76 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. A five-million dollar Hall of Justice is to be built here soon, the Minister of Justice. Enche Bahaman bin Shamsuddin. said today. He told the Dewan Ra ayat that the Hall which would ■house court rooms, would be built on a different
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    Lock icon Chased Out By His Wife, Wins Divorce
    219 3 SINGAPORE. Tues. A police sergeant who was chased out of his matrimonial horn* by his barwaitress wife was granted a divorce in tbe High Court today. The police sergeant. Sim Hock Onn. told Mr. Justice Winslow that the night before he was chased
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    Lock icon Donation For Taxi Driver’s Widow
    60 3 SINGAPORE. Tues. A sum of $36 has been received from the Principal and Staff of the National Junior College, for the widow of the late Giam Chin Chye. a taxi driver who was found dead in mysterious circumstances on Sunday. Giam leaves, besides his widow.
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    Lock icon Singapore: Venue For PATA Meet In 1972 – Miss Tourism’s Drive
    399 3 Singapore: Venue For PATA Meet In 1972 Miss Tourism’s Drive SINGAPORE. Tues.— “Miss Tourism Singapura 1969”. Miss Rosalind Ong will do her share of lobbying for Singapore to be the site of the Pacific Area Travel Association (PATA) Convention in 1972. She made this pledge when she addressed the luncheon
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    Lock icon ‘Fleet Will Be Around Until 1971’
    168 4 NO DRASTIC AXING SINGAPORE. Tue*.— Britain's Far Fast Fleet trill continue to be based at Singapore until the end of 1971. a Naval spokesman said today. He said the statement by Britain's Defence Ministry that the Far East Fleet would remain until the final
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    Lock icon Govt. Backs Photo Contest By Pravda
    129 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The government encourages local photographers to take part in the photography competition organised by the Soviet newspaper Pravda. -The Minister of Information and Broadcasting. Enche Senu bin Abdul Rahman told the Dewan Ra'ayat todav that this was to enable Malaysian photographers
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    Lock icon Former Director Of Malay Education Shot Himself Coroner’s Verdict
    275 4 SINGAPORE. Tues. A day after he returned from Kuala Lumpur on December 5, Enche Ahmad bin Haji Draflr. a former Director of Malay Education was found dead with a gun shot wound. His 303 rifle was clutched in his arms when
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    Lock icon Lorry Driver Fined $1,500
    109 4 SINGAPORE Tues. A lorry driver, Lim Eng Ksee. was fined 51.500 or nine months' jail by the Fourth District Court today for causing the death of a 15-year-old girl by negligent driving. The Court also disqualified him from driving Class 4 vehicles for one year Lim,
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    Lock icon Dr. Wong Lin Ken Officiates At Balloting
    237 4 SINGAPORE, Tues. Dr. Wong Lin Ken. MP for the Queenstown constituency today made his first public appearance at the balloting ceremony for the sale of flats in Queenstown since his return from the United States where he was the Republic’s Ambassador. Dr. Wong
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    Lock icon Singapore Fishermen Held In India
    115 4 SINGAPORE. Tues Seven fishermen were detained by Indian Naval Patrol boat* while on their way to the fishing grounds In international waters last December The seven fishermen who left here on Dec. 14 were detained on Dec. 21. last year They are currently held at
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    Lock icon Public Is Warned Of Artillery Exercises
    110 4 SINGAPORE. Tues The Singapore Armed Forces will be conducting live firing exercises at the Southern Islands Artillery ranges on Jan. 17, 18 23 and 24 from 10 am. to 0 pm Similar exercise will also be carried out from noon on Feb 3. to
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    Lock icon Malaysia And The E.C.M.
    90 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues Malaysia is still studying the possibility of Joining the European Common Market, the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Tan Sri (Dr.) Lim Swee Ann. said today. He told the Dewan Ra'ayat that exploratory talks been held with officials of the European Common Market
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    Lock icon National Varsity Constitution
    65 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Tuea Aetion has been taker to set up a committee to draft the constitution of the National University, the Dew an Ra’ayat was told today. The Minister of Information and Broadcasting. Enche Senu bin Abdul Rahman, on behalf of the Minister of Education, said committee
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    Lock icon • “Electronic Guardpost”—this electronic censor being planted in the ground is designed to improve the security of the frontline troops against camouflaged or night-time infiltrations.
    62 4 Electronic Guardpost”—this electronic censor being planted in the ground is designed to improve the security of the frontline troops against camouflaged or night-time infiltrations. This inplanted device can detect vibrations caused bv human beings or \ehicles and relav a coded warning signal to the "prrator-attendcd receiver, who is then able
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    Lock icon Russian Is Top Twelve In Fashion League
    359 4 SINGAPORE. Tues.— A Russian woman. Maya Plisetskaya has been listed amongst the top 12 of the world’s best dressed women for the first time in 28 years. This year the worlds best dressed women were grouped Into two categories; those luted best dressed
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    Lock icon Indonesian Firm To Sell 59 Ships
    120 4 JAKARTA. Tues. <AFP> The government-owned Indonesian shipping company. PELNI has put 27 of Its ships on public sale, a communication department spokesman said here today The spokesman said the sale proceeds are needed for an urgent 194 million rupiah repayment of the company's 750
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    Lock icon Fined $200 For $2 Corruption
    68 4 SINGAPORE. Tues A contractor. Sok Ee Mui was fined S2OO by the Fourth District Court today for bribing a Naval Base Police Corporal with $2. Sok was found guilty ot giving the money to Cpl. Chong Yoke Choy at Rotherham Gate. HU. Naval Base, on
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    Lock icon Stolen Cars Recovered
    46 4 SINGAPORE. Tues. —Police, acting on a tip-off, recovered two stolen cars after a man was arrested driving one of them along Upper Paya Lebar Road at 10.30 p.m. yesterday. Following Police investigations. the second car was recoveied in the General Hospital car park.
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    Lock icon Money Taken From Trousers While He Was Sleeping
    63 4 SINGAPORE Tues A salesman who left 51.056 la hl s trousers pocket found It missing the next morning. Mr T Shamdas of Rnrmah House. Rurmah Road left the money in his trousers pocket the night before he went to bed The following
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    Lock icon Send D-funds On Friday
    38 4 SINGAPORE Tue* The Minister for Defence. Mr. Elm Kim San will receive donations for the National nefence Fund on Friday, at 10.30 a m at the Ministry of the Interior and Defence Pearl's Hill.
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    Lock icon Fishermen Urge Govt Action Against Filipino ‘Dumping’
    436 4 SINGAPORE, Tues. Singapore's 1,000 fishermen are appealing to the government to protect their daily livelihood which has been "jeopardised" by Filipino fish traders. Filipino fish traders have of late been coming to Singapore to sell their catch to local fish merchants for local
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    Lock icon Wife Wins A Divorce From Accusing Husband
    153 4 SINGAPORE Tues. A former hair-dresser. Tang Yoon Chun was granted a divorce by Mr Juslice Winslow in High Court today on the grounds of constructive ee.e.c°Tang told the court that her husband Tan Boon Siong, a bicycle shop assistant accused her of having
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    Lock icon Planners Of Lunar Flight Honoured
    116 4 SPACE CENTRE Houston, Tues. (UPI) Members of the team that shot Apollo 3 and Its three astronauts around the moon took the limelight yesterday to receive space agency awards for a perfect Job. Dr Thomas Paine, Acting Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Spa e
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    Lock icon Malaysian Envoy Elected To Council
    45 4 COLOMBO Tues (AFP) Enche Mohamed Sopiee. Maaysia’s High Commissioner in Ceylon, was todav elected president of the Colombo Plan Council for technical co-opera-tion in South and Southeast Asia. He succeeds last year’s president. Philippines ambassador to Ceylon Mr. Yusup Abubakar
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    Lock icon DE GAULLE ACTIVE AGAIN
    274 6 T>ARIS is again getting active in the political world. This is apart from the Vietnam peace talks in the French capital. Two major decisions by President de Gaulle in recent weeks the Franco-Soviet agreement on trade co-operation and the French embargo on arms deliveries to Israel
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    Lock icon ‘OVER 300 ISRAELIS KILLED OR WOUNDED’
    156 6 New China News Agency in a Damascusdatelined dispatch reported today that the Palestinian guerrillas killed or wounded more than 300 Israeli officers and troops in 35 attacks during the first ten days of this month. Quoting the Palestinian National Liberation Movement “A1 Fatah” and
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    Lock icon PUTTING PRESSURE ON BRITAIN
    130 6 /COMMENTING on the problems of immigration discussed at the Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference in London, the Daily Telegraph said today in an editorial: Kenya. Tanzania and Uganda have acted against their own interests and those of the Commonwealth and of racial toleration by boycotting the Immigration
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    Lock icon Sweden May Recognise North Korea
    303 6 WASHINGTON. Tues. (I'PI) Sweden'* diplomatic offensive involvine North Vietnam and Cuba is seen here as part of a pattern that may lead to diplomatic recognition of North Korea. Administration officials said Sweden’s burst of diplomatic activity stemmed apparently from irresistable pressure upon Premier Tage Erlander
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    Lock icon U.S. Consumers Seem Willing To Pay More For Goods
    394 6 SAN FRANCISCO. Tues. (CPI) Economist Walter Hoadley suggests there is a potentially dangerous “new dimension” in the current inflationary spiral in the U.S. The Executive Vice-president and Chief Economist of the Bank of America said in an interview the new factor
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    Lock icon Ready tor Moon Landing In July
    581 6 NEW YORK. Tues. Even as the crewmen of the space ship Apollo-8 visit various American cities so earthbound citizens may get a glimse of them, the flight of Apollo-11 is being scheduled. If all goes well. Apollo- Wl 1 P ut astrona u*s on
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    Lock icon The Wrong Target...
    191 6 NEW YORK. Tues. (UPI) Whatever may have been Israel’s Justification for her year-end attack on Beirut airport, the fact remains she chose as her target the one Arab neighbour who took no part in the 1967 Arab-Israeii war and one which always has preferred banking to fighting
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    Lock icon U.S. Papers Seized
    92 6 PANAMA CITY. Tues (Reuter) Panama's military government today seized copies of two American newspapers, apparently to prevent English language readers in Panama and the Canal Zone learning about guerrilla actions close to the Costa Rican border. The confiscation —of the New York Times and the Miami Herald
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    Lock icon Defence Is Not Real Problem
    328 6 From Sin Chew Jit Poh THE real problem of S-E-A is not that of defence, but the problem of how the nations in this region may adapt themselves to the new circumstances. The adaptability of nations differs The strange thing is that most of them
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    Lock icon Can The Spanish Flu Return?
    515 6  -  By CHARLES S. TAYLOR ATLANTA. Georgia Tues. (|’pi» tk» across the world was 21 million. he d ,h to H America listed its dead at 548.452. New York City counted 851 deaths In a single day Chicago did not have enough hearses, and bodies stacked
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    Lock icon Nixon To Visit Paris?
    96 6 NEW YORK. Tues. (UPI) President-elect Richard Nixon’s first trip abroad after his Inauguration will be to Europe. Newsweek magazine forecast on Monday. A “high emissary” would be sent to the Far East, The magazine said “Nixon Is particularly Interested in conferring with French President Charles de
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    Lock icon Sharp Criticisms By Egyptian Press
    172 6 CAIRO. Tues (AFP) Egypt’s press today sharply criticised the reported obstacles to the formation of a new Lebanese Government. These were the first such commentaries on Lebanon since the 'sraeli raid on Beiru* airport A1 Ahram called for a drastic overhaul of Lebanon’ general policies
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    Lock icon NO By 93%
    60 6 BORDEAUX. Tues. (AFP) A local newspaper poll today found that 93.70 per cent of readers were against General de Gaulle's total embargo on arms to Israel. Eight thousand readers of regional daily Sud Ouest replied to the question: “Do you agree with the Government embargo on arms
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    Lock icon Now Moscow Attacks Reds In The West
    303 6 MOSCOW. Tues. (UPI) —Soviet communists Monday turned on Western communist parties which have publicly criticised the invasion of Czechoslovakia. Obviously setting the ideological stage for »he Sovietsponsored World Communist Conference here in Mav. the Russian* charged some Western communist leaders were trying “to
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      Lock icon Stand Pipe Still Running
      280 6  -  MOHD. YUNI BIN AWI Singapore. IN 1966 some 36 Ma ay families who had been living a harmonious and gotong royong way of life in Kampong Hidaya off Lorong 21 Geylang were given notices by the Singapore Housing Development Board In midJune to clear their possession*
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    Lock icon Johnson’s Mixed Mood Of Pride And Bitterness
    374 6  - Johnson’ s Mixed Mood Of Pride And Bitterness By MERRIMAN SMITH Tues (lPI) Johnson leaves the White House with a towering record of public service and accomplishment. Millions of his fellow countrymen, instead of being grateful and admiring, are glad to see him go. Why this public disdain which at
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    Lock icon Gamble On ‘Mini-recession’
    326 6 W ASHINGTON, Tups (Rpu(pr\ Mr Mitchell said in a copyright interview In US News and World Rpport magazine that without a doubt easing of the present economic boom would cause unemployment to rise. But the Board “anticipates no large rise in unemployment so long as policies of
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      Lock icon Gold Price Falls By 20 U.S. Cents An Ounce
      578 7  -  By Leslie Haynes T ONDON, Tues. (Reuter) The price of gold fell by at least 20 cents an ounce in world bullion markets yesterday, while in London sterling added nine points to its dollar value The morning gold rate in London
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      Lock icon Dr. Tong Appointed Shell’s Field Operations Manager
      182 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues L>: Tong Kok Pau was recently named Shells Field Operations Manager, responsible for the Company's supply and distribution operations throughout West Malavsia. In announcing the appointment of Dr. Tong to this senior management position Shell’s chairman. Mr. JJ. Gerzon stressed
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      Lock icon Equipment For Iran
      159 7 SHAH of Iran yesterday congratulated Kamani Engineering Corporation, India, for securing for India a Rupees 150.000.000 export contract for erecting Power Transmission Line Towers and Equipment in Iran and hoped that such Indo-Iranian collaboratiop would continue for a long timeThis is by far the biggest single export
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      Lock icon STEEL OUTPUT PROSPECTS
      136 7 TWO new steel plants together with a capacity of 3.000.000 tonnes will have to be set up in India by end of fifth plan for meeting Increased domestic and export demands, according to subcommittee of steering group on steel. Committee's findings are based on the assumption that
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      Lock icon Active Trading On New York Stock Market
      293 7 NEW YORK. Tues (UPI) The rising cost of money put another wrinkle In the stock market yesterday In fairly active trading. First National City, which led the nation’s commercial banks last week in boosting the prime rate to an all-time high of 7
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      Lock icon H.K. MONEY QUOTATIONS
      88 7 HONG KONG. Tues (UPI) Money Quotauor.s Hong Kong dollars 6 1025 Per U.b. dollar Hong Kong dollars 6 ***** per U S dollar TT Hong Ko ig dollars 14 52 ter pound sterling Ho g Kong dollars 313 5 I*l t; 0) gold 94 5 per cent
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      Lock icon London Rubber Opens Quiet
      27 7 LONDON. Tues (UPI' Rubber market opened quiet with spot 211 21-7 16 No. 1 RSS spot CIF basis ports Jan. 20-9- 16 20}
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      93 7 S HIPS IN PORT SINGAPORE. Tues The following ships are expected to be in port today: Godnwns Vessels 3 4 Seisho Maru 5 Billy 6/7 Ragna Bakke 8/9 J. Latunarhary 10/11 Shoryu Maru 15/16 Schiekerk 18 Le Natal 19 Van Noort 21/22 Central Master 23/24 Perry 27/28 Keningau 31/32 Karoutua
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      123 7 AIR Derek C. Booth. (above) regional group manager of the American International Assurance Co. Ltd., has been appointed to the position of Assistant Vice President at his company's head office in Hong Kong. Mr. Booth who is a Singaporean and an active rotarian and
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      231 7 Rubber Up Cent SINGAPORE. Tues February first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p m in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 58$ cents per lb up a cent from previous close. The tone of the market was quiet. Rubber Association of Singapore and Malaysian Rubber Fxchange closing prices in
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      94 7 LONDON Tues (AFP> Britain's ‘tee’ industrv is threatened with paralysis following a decision last night by sixteen associated unions not to recognise two new unions for white collar stee!-workers The 16 represent about sixty percent of the industry's quarter of a million employees At a
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      35 7 NEW YORK Tues (UPII The world sugar contract closed 2 to 5 points higher on the New York Sugar Exchange vaster''' There were 806 sales The domestic contract closed unchanged on 7 sales.
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      18 7 SINGAPORE. Tues The tin price for todav was $582 124 P er picul, up $1 75-
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      1242 7 SINGAPORE, Tues The market today continued to be easier with a total turnover of only some 178 million units on all sections at an estimated value of $3 48 million. The trend of the market continued to be stale bull liquidation. There were no special features
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      135 7 SINO APORE Tues. The Association of Banks in Malay-sia-Singapore today announced the following “best agreed merchant rates” for:— SELLING TT. or OD. (All Ready Prices) Deutsche Marks $77.02; Holland Guilders $85.0625: Swiss Francs $71.36; Belgian Francs $6 1475; French Francs $62,215; Italian Lire 0 4950; Danish Kroner $40,985;
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      Lock icon Why U.S. Impose Voluntary Check On Meat Imports
      247 7 CANBERRA. Tues <VP!' The United Stale* Government vewterdav denied that the need lor voluntary restraint* in meal import* had been due to a he.vv v increase In export* hv Canadian and Central American supplier. U S Ambassador Mr William Crook said the
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      87 7 TOKYO. Tues < Reuter* Japan produced 66 890.000 metric ton* of crude steel last year, an increase of 7.6 per cent on 1967. the Japan Iron and Steel Federation said yesterday. It said the increase wa? mainlv due to brisk exports but was small compared with
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      86 7 LONDON. Tues (UPH Turnover bv the automotive industry was 7 per cent higher in November compared with a year earlier, but most of it probably came through price increases rather than improved volume, the Board of Trade said yesterday. The value of sales of
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      550 7 M'l.APUKt hlmt change sold and other price. nfhflatlf lined al the close of business 1MH STRIAI S H XI MA 2 12 ii Hen <t- n 2 o 3 H<»rnfo 1 06 Bmi»lead i it; 1 sugar 4.IX 4 So I> B 133 i hcmical < o 1
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      Lock icon London Mart Closes At The Top Due To Merger Moves
      246 7 LONDON. Tues (Reuter) Stock Market closed virtually at the top yesterday after a steadily lirrri trend since the opening, mainly as a result of merger moves and optimism ahead of Ihe December UK trade figures expected today Near the linal
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      56 7 (Manager* Price*) Hr«t Mala'gn XP 2 92 -ernml Malayan \D 2 10 1 hlr«l Malaxan 1 31 I«t Hunt K'in* 1 29 1 33 2nd thing kong The l ommeree 92 9« Industry 1 OS 114 The saving Fund Malayan Investment 119 1 28 fund \l> 1 30
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      124 7 SINGAPORE, Tue* The noon prli e* at the Singapore hlnexe Produce Exchange todax are:— Ru.ver seller C oronut Oil «F<>H) Bulk 32.00 ocuniit OH (J O B Brum 54.50 1 nn-e opra Mixed 32 50 Muntok W h 11 e Pepper a o b m* vi w 117 SO
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      106 7 INDIAN Airlines hopes to reach 2 million passenger mark In 1969 During calendar year 1968. passenger traffic of Airlines surges to a new record —for second time —of 1 87 million thus beating world Air Passenger growth rate by as much as S per cent. According
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      978 9  -  By Sheilah Graham rpHE new James Bond, George Lozenby, has not waited to finish his first 007 adventure before being as difficult and demanding as his predecessor, Sean Connery. He wants a car and very special treatment and is generally causing
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      186 9 VCADEMY Award winner Sandv Dennis has been signed to co-'tar with Jack Lemmon in Paramount Pictures’ “The Out-of-Towner." it was announced by Robert Evans. Paramount vice president in charge of world-wide production. Miss Dennis will play Lemmon’s wife in the film, which is the story of a mdwe tern
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      463 9  -  By Vernon Scott HOI LYWOOD Tues. (VPI) Ehtabeth Tayler and Richard Burton are slipping in that most important ratprnrv of all the box-office. In 1957. Liz was rated sixth most money-making star in the world and her Welshman husband ninth in the reliable Quigley Publication, poll ot
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      69 9 THE classic beauty of Italian actress Monica Vitti is as striking as ever even with the mod hair-do Gnd dress created for her starring role in "Girl With A Pistol". In the Paramount film Monica is transformed from a simple Sicilian peasant girl to a sophisticated and stylish
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      124 9 MATT Helm pets it from "The Wrecking Crew,’’ and kev exhibitors, press and radio-television contacts across the nation will be Retting it from He'm this week in the form of Columbia's 1969 Matt Helm calendar. The action-packed colour calendar features a month-by-month look at the eyeful of
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      179 9 BENJAMIN Melniker Vice1> president and General Counsel of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. and member of the Board of Directors, was born in Bavonne. New Jersey, Mav 25. 1913. son of Ida and Hyman Melmker. He studied pre-law at Brooklyn College and holds an L L B degree from Fordham
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    1531 10 KUALA LUMPUR, Tucs. Opposition parties today flayed the government for "tampering" with t ie Federal Constitution. The government was asked if it was in the long-term interest of the country that the people should come to regard the constitution as "nothing more than
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    116 10 BANGKOK Tues (AFP) India and Thailand signed a new air agreement here today to ensure closer co-operation between the two countries In the field of civil aviation. The agreement was signed at the Ministry of Communications here by Mr. R.C Dutt Secretary to the Indian
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    36 10 Dr. Lee’ s Date SINGAPORE. Tues. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Education Ministry, Dr. Lee Chiaw Meng, will address a meeting of school principals from the four-streams at the Victoria School at 9 30 a.m. tomorrow.
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    Lock icon • Singapore’s Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew (centre) mops his brow in the warmth of London’s Guild Hall on Monday during a dinner given by Sir Charles Trinder, Lord Mayor of London, for the visiting Commonwealth Prime Ministers—
    44 10 Singapore’ s Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew (centre) m op s his brow in the warmth of London’ s Guild Hall on Monday during a dinner given by Sir Charles Trinder, Lord Mayor of London, for the visiting Commonwealth Prime Ministers— UPI pix.
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    216 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The Malavsian Army is “Independent and strong enough” to stand on Its own feet, an Ethiopian General said here today. Major General. Haile Baykedagn told newsmen before he left here after a weeklong visit that he was
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    249 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Hawkers and petty traders here will carry on business as usual on Thursday the day Malayan old currency ceases to be legal tender, the chairman of the Kuala Lumpur Hawkers and Petty Traders Association, Mr. Slew Yoi said today
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    59 10 SINGAPORE. Tues Three members of the Singapore Armed Forces helped Police to arrest three men who were involved in a fist-fight at Frankel Avenue on Jan. 9 at 8 a.m. The Acting Police Secretary, Mr. H.L. Boudewyn said today their prompt action had averted the fight
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    166 10 KUALA LUMPUR Tues Malaysia will set up three publicity agencies abroad this year te promote tourism here, thp Asslv tant Minister of Commerce ana Industry. Enche Taib bin MahmoOfj said here today. The agencies will be in Britain. Jaoan and
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    200 10 Sadovsky Hits Out At AntiSocialist Forces’ PRAGUE. Tues. (CPU S'efan Sadovsk.v. regional Premier of Slovakia, last night lashcrj at "anti-Socialist forces’’ which he charged were trying “to disrupt our political system" and set up groups to rival the Communists. In the fifth of a series of te evision annearance s
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    184 10 6 Thugs Rob Tom kay’s Wife Of Car Gems KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The wife of a well-known millionaire Madam Sng Swee Llan. 28. was given SI for taxi fare after being robbed of a $lO,OOO car and $l,BOO worth of jewellery by six armed men at Ja'lan Imbi here last
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    Lock icon $185,000 Raised By Appeals Committee Was A Record
    324 10 SINGAPORE. Tues Singapare’s First Lady, Puan Noor Aishah said today the total gross sum of $185,000 raised last year hv the Red Cross Appeals Committee for the Singapore Red Cross Society was an all-time record. Puan Noor Aishah, who is the patron
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    Lock icon Counsel: We Are Not Denying Sirhan Fired Shots That Killed Bob
    490 10 LOS ANGELES, Tues. (Reuter) Defence lawyers for Sirhan Bishara Sirhan told prospective Jurors today that they would not deny in court that the -4->ear-old Jordanian had fired the shots that killed Senator Robert F. Kennedy here last June. Mr.
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    53 10 GEORGETOWN. Guyana. Tues. (AFP)—Twenty-four people, including three wxjmen. nave been charged in Absentia with murdering five policeman and an Amerindian civilian in the Rupunini rebellion on the border wth Brazil on Jan. 2. This brings the total number of accused to 47. Among them is Edward
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    154 10 KUALA LUMPUR Tues The Indonesian Science Teachers recruited by the Government tc meet the shortage in the National Language stream will not be allowed to meddle with local politics, the Dewan Ra’ayat wa s assured todav The Minister for Information and Broadcasting. Enche
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    72 10 SOFIA. Tues (AFP) A sheep with golden teeth has been found in the South East Bulgarian village of Elhovo, the local Bulgarian news agency reported today. The Agency said the gilded sheep was neither a joke nor a dentists whim. The ministry of chemical and metal industries
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    98 10 Keep Clear’ Warning SINGAPORE. Tues. All vessels are advised to keep clear from Selat Damar Laut area in Jurong Harbour from today during the five monthdredging operations During this period explosive with charges of up to eight pounds in weicht will be used in certain positions abreast of berths, three,
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    71 10 LUSAKA. Tues. (AFP) All was quiet at Chawama shanty town on the outskirts of Lusaka this evening following political rioting there before dawn today in which a memher of president Kenneth Kaunda s United National Independence party was killed, a police spokesman reported He said
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    Lock icon Police Unearth Explosives
    69 10 PARIS. Tues. (Reuter) Police probing a clandestine Brittany Nationalist movement yesterday uncovered 240 kilos °3O pounds) of hidden explosives as the French Government faced a warning of step-ped-up activity in support of Br on demands for autonomy. ihe intensive police campaign before President de Gaulle s forthcoming
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    77 10 LONDON, Tues. (Reuter) Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew will visit the United Arab Republic on his way home from the Commonwealth conference, informed sources said today. He will fly to Cairo from s'i°-i nd wv, r ex .v Tuesdav (Jan. -1). While there
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    44 10 HIRSON, France. Tuei Reuter) —Gilbert Champagne. 48-year-old father of P r V* T 3S klUed here "’hen he lo P f event a cow from attackmg a group of children. The cow severed one of Champagne s arteries with a horn.
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      Lock icon Ashe To Turn Professional Next Month
      262 11 (CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand, Tues. (ReuV ter) Arthur Ashe, the 25-year-old United States Negro tennis star, confirmed here yesterday that he would turn professional when he left the U.S. Army next month. “As soon as I get out of the Army I will start playing
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      187 11 LONDON. Tues <AFP» The British Rugby Union are considering a proposal to stage a world rugby seven-a-side with the participation of teams from Japan and Thailand during their centenary celebrations in 1970-71. Reporting this today the London "Daily Mail’’ newspaper said selection of countries
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      173 11 New Post For Utd’ s Team Boss MANCHESTER. England. Tues. (Reuter I —Sir Matt Busby, senior statesman of British club soccer, will end his 23-vear-reign as team manager of Manchester United at the end of the current season, it was announced here today. Sir Matt. Britain's longestserving club manager, will
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      294 11 BANGKOK. Tue* (UPI) Israel s Macs bee Tel Aviv team are strong favourites to win the 15-dav Asian Soccer Club Champions Cup opening here on Wednesday night. But at least three other teams. Japan’s Toyo Kogyo. the Vangji squad from South Korea and Teheran Club
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      116 11 MACAO. Tues (Reuter) A 384-miie car endurance will be held in Macao on May 18. the organiser* announced today. The Macao branch of the Automove Club de Portugal said a maximum of 50 cars would be accepted for the 101-lap race entit'ed Guia 101. All
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      39 11 HOBART, Tues. (Reuter) The West Indian cricketers’ three-day match against Tasmania ended in a draw here today. Final Scores: West Indians 349 for seven declared and 147 without loss declared: Tasmania 231 and 77 for two wickets.
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      Lock icon Mazzinghi US Little For Vacant Title
      205 11 MANILA. Tues (Reuter) The World Boxing Council (WBC) have announced that Sandro Mazzinghi of Italy will meet American Fred Little for the vacant world junior middleweight title on February 28 at Las Vegas. WBC President Justiniar-o N Montano. Jr-, said in Manila yesterday that
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      197 11 HONG KONG. Tues (UPI) Hong Kong have threatened to pull out of the 3rd Asian Ten-pin bowling championships in Manila if Philippine visas for its three players are not issued before Thursday. The ultimatum came in a cable sent to Philippine officials
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      107 11 SYDNEY Tues. i Reuter) Australia's cricket selectors have retained the same 12 men who convincingly won the second and third Tests against the West Indies for the fourth Test, which begins in Adelaide on January 24. The three selectors Sir Donald Bradman. Mr. Jack Ryder and Mr.
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      Lock icon Champion Rose Named ‘Fighter Of The Year’
      687 11 MANILA, Tues. (UPI) World bantamweight champion Lionel Rose of Australia was unanimously voted "Fighter of the Year (1968)" by the World Boxing Council (WBC), it was announced yesterday. The WBC. in their iaiest official ratings for December. said Rose was chosen over five
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      189 11 MEXICO CITY. Tues. -AFP) The Mexico Btate Boxing Commission today asked Justiniano Montano. President of the WBC. (World Boxing Council) to insist that Chartchai Chlonoi of Thailand defends his world flyweight boxing title against Mexican Efren Torres at El Toreo arena here on January 26
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      203 11 WELLINGTON New Zealand. Tues (Reuter) —Auckland tightened their gr p on the New Zealand Plunket Shield cricket championship when they gained their fourth successive victory today. Helped by an unbeaten innings of 118 bv young New Zealand batsman Terry Jarvis. Auckland beat Wellington by nine wickets
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      142 11 LONDON Tue s Th e Lord Provost of Edinburgh Sir Herbert Brenchm. has officially hander) over to British Overseas Airway* and Air Canada for deliver* invitations to 40 Commonwealth territories to participate in the ninth Commonwealth Oames to be held in Scotland from July
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      53 11 C’ wealth Village For 1,500 LONDON, Tues The Commonwealth Village will be sb'e to cater for the 1 500 athletes expected to take part in the games The village will he located in the recently-built Pollock Hall* of residence of Edinburgh University near the city, alongside Parkland and immediately besid*
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      138 11 MANILA. Tues. (AFP) Eighty-six players from 14 countries, including defending champion Malaysia. are so far entered in the second Asian Badminton's Championships to be held in Manila on Feb. 3-15. Early favourite for the men's singles crown is Indonesia's Rudi Hartono, 1968 All-England champion.
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    Lock icon Rhodesia Banned From 1970 Games
    193 12 EDINBURGH, (Scotland). Tues. (AFP) Rhodesia have been banned from the 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh by the ruline body, the British Commonwealth Games Federation based in London, it was learned here yesterday. The proposal, it is understood. came from the Chairman Alexander Ross. The Federation
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    208 12 JOHANNESBURG. Tues. (Reuter) South Africa “scored” 327 for nine by the close of the first day’s play in the computer Test cricket match against England here yesterday. The "match” is organised by the newspaper Johannesburg Star, using a computer and all relevant statistics on the
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    133 12 LONDON. Tuef (AFPi England have nominated six player s to meet Denmark in the semi-final of the European Zone of the Über Cup at King's Hall. Stoke-On-Trent, on Jan 23 but It Is likely only tour will play The team are: Miss MB B
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    25 12 PETERBOROUGH, England. Tue* (Reuter) Peterborough United drew 0-0 with Lincoln City in an English Football League Division Four match played here last night.
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    1077 12  -  By John Disley JUST over 100 years ago, in July 1865. seven men led by Englishman Edward Whymper conquered the Matterhorn mountain in Switzerland and stood on the slanting table-top platform of rock that caps the summit. Within one hour of this triumph four of them,
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    172 12 MANCHESTER, Tues. (AFP) Manchester United manager Sir Matt Busby has followed up his denial that his club are ready to pay a quarter of a mi.lion pounds for two Leicester players. centre forward Allan Clarke and half back David Nish —by saying “I am
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    73 12 BUENOS AIRES Tues. (Reuter) The British pair, Larry Marks and Vir Deschamps. won the first ra<e of the world 505 yachting championships at Olivos on the River Plate today in their yacht Mu-Watsui-Go-Go Ireland's Overdrawn, sailed by Cudmore and Bruen, representing the Royal Cork Yacht Club,
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    413 12  -  By BIG BEN SINGAPORE, Tues. Fireball, who finished second at the Penang meeting recently, went attractively in a 3f trial with stablemate Desert Apache on a good track here this morning. There was very little between them at the finish. Ever England, who
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    44 12 LONDON Tues. (Reuter) Welshman Eddie Avoth won the British lightheavweight boxing title last night, beating Dublin-born champion John McCormack The fight, at the World Sporting Club in London, was stepped by the referee after 11 rounds when McCormack had a cut eye.
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    419 12 From Eastern Knight Singapore: Tan Lian Ann Lim Kok Ann i lan Lian Seng 0 Giam Choo Kwee i IT France: Boutteville J Letzelter j Hugnet 1 Thiellement 2J Singapore needed only half a point from this match to enter the last round with half a point lead over
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    444 12 SYDNEY, Tues. (Reuter) Australian Rod Laver, the top seed, made short work of colourful South African professional Ray Moore in the second round of the New South Wales Open tennis championships here today. Laver dropped only six games to wm 6-3. 6-2. 6-2 In 70 minutes
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    117 12 LONDON. Tues (Reuter) Bobby Moore, the England soccer captain, will miss tomorrow’s international against Rumania ai Wembley stadium. Moore became the third player to drop out of the England squad. Manchester City forward Colin Bell twisted his knee in an English League match against Chelsea
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