Eastern Sun, 30 January 1969

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  • 24 1 SINGAPORE S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Eastern Sun fa Estd. 1966. Vol. 3 No. 898 Thursday, 30 January 1969. fa MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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  • 188 1 SEARCH FOR MEO REDS: Patrol unit of Special Forces parachuters takes cautious advance through a jungle path near Pa Yarb village in Petchabun Province. 250 miles north of Bangkok, during a fight against Communist guerillas. In both Phitsanuloke and Petchabun provinces, heavy fighting has been going on since Nov. 20.
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  • 485 1 CANBERRA. Wed. (Reuter) Australia is making a conscious effort to keep out of the controversy building up in Malaysia over Sabah. This is evident both from the evasive replies which Prime Minister John Gorton gave at a press conference when he returned
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  • 166 1 WASHINGTON. Wed. (I PI) The U.S. State Department would make no comment on on charges by the Malaysian Foreign Ministry that the United States was discriminating against Malaysia in the sale of military weapons. Asked by newsmen if he had any comment on the
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  • 371 1 Tunku: No British Response To Proposal For Stationing RAF Unit In Labuan Till 71 MALAYSIA SETTLING FOR MIRAGE JETS KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. There has been no response from Britain to Malaysia's proposal for the stationing of an RAF unit in Labuan up to the end of 1971. The Malaysian Premier.
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  • 173 1 BEDFORD. England. Wed. (Reuter) Innkeeper Madge Walker distinctly heard the sound of beer being pulled in her centuries-old pub as she lay in bed. Stealthily, she crept downstairs in her nightgown with a loaded shotgun over her arm. And there on the bar were
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  • 59 1 BANGKOK. Wed (Reuter) —Three girls from Sabah attending tne Pacific Area Travel Association (PATA) conference here shed about 40 pounds in weight each after every public appearance The Kadazan costumes Elizabath Pann. 21. Nancy Mobi’ohr.. 24 and Frances L:gamn 25. wear heavy belts of
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  • 199 1 MANILA. Wed. (I PI Reuter)—The United States gave the Philippines 22 T-41 trainer planes today as part of its military assistance programme. Defence Secretary Ernesto Mata received the planes at a ceremonv at Fernando Air Base, Lipa City. 40 miles south of Manila.
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  • 107 1 BANGKOK. Wed (Reuter) The Asia and Pacific Council (ASPAC) will set up its Economic Co-ordination Centre in Bangkok within two years. Dr. Thalerng Thamrongnawasawat. Deputy Secretary-Gene-ral of the National Economic Development Board, said today. Dr. Thalerng told reporters that agreement for the establishment
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  • 86 1 PUEBLA. Mexcio. Wed (UPI) —This city of 250.000 found out just wha* happens when the paper runs out. Assistant District Attorneys said they have not drawn up any indictment and traffic police have not given out any tickets for 10 days because their paper supplies are
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  • 81 1 PARIS. Wed (Reuter) General de GauLe said today that unless the great powers took joint action in the Middle East the situation there would inexorably develop into "bloody chaos". The French President, speaking at the weekly Cabinet meet, ing this morning, reiterated his call
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  • 79 1 VATICAN CITY. W>d. < Reuter) Pope Paul said today he hoped Israel would not take revenge for the execution of 14 Iraqis accused of spying for Israel. The tragic executions had aroused dismay and abhorrence in the •world, he told pilgrims at his weekly general
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  • 59 1 SAIGON. Wed. (Reuter) The Vietcong liberation radio today announced a seven-day cease fire covering the Tet lunar new year holiday next month. Last year's Tet ceasefire was violated by the biggest North Vietnamese and Vietcong offensive of the war. There was no immediate comment from either
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  • 271 1 ONDON, Wed. (Reuter) shots were fired and a Lt Jewish demonstrator was stabbed in a rooftop struggle at the Iraqi Embassy in London during an allnight vigil for the nine Jews hanged as Israeli spies in Baghdad. Thousands of British Jews milling about
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  • 131 1 The Cause A Cork BRIDGWATER. England, Wed (Reuter) The cure for Adrian Bennett's deafness was instant, complete and something of a medical breaki through The doctor simply syringed Adrian's ears and out popped a cork. “I was astonished." said 23i year-old Adrian, who had sufi fered poor hearing since he
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  • 426 2 Lorry Driver Died Four Hours After Operation Surgeon SINGAPORE, Wed. A lorry-driver, Hong png Kow, who suffered from a perforated gastric ulcer died four hours later following an emergency operation, a Coroner's inquiry was told today. According to an autopsy "feport Hong. 51. who was admitted to the hospital -4or
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  • 161 2 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Young People’s Service of the National Library has issued the first issue of a magazine cf book reviews by teenagers, entitled "Teen Talk.” It consists of about 20 book reviews by students of local secondary schools who are also
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  • 174 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Pilgrims for Mecca are assured of better parking facilities at Port Swettenham from now on. the OCPD Klang, Supt. Abu Bakar bln Fathll, said today. A new system of parking and stricter enforcement of admittance into the wharf proper would
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  • 66 2 SINGAPORE. Wed. An ex-mental patient, Eng Tang Koe. was today committed to stand trial in the High Court on a charge of attempting to murder a temple medium after a preliminary inquiry in the Ninth Magistrate’s Court. Eng is alleged to have stabbed Tan Thong
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  • 63 2 SINGAPORE. Wed. Koh Ah Kai, 52. was fined $4,000 or four months jail by the 10th Magistrate* Court today for assisting In the running of Chap-jl-kee lottery Koh, who was found guilty, was also bound over for one year on a $l.OOO-bond. He committed the
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  • 47 2 SINGAPORE, Wed. The State Coroner, Mr. Chandra Mohan, today recorded an “open verdict” at the end of an inquiry into the death of a hawker. Ng Joo Hai, who died following a traffic accident involving, a scooter at Alexandra Road on Nov. 5 last year.
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  • 259 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed Malaysian products displayed at a recent exhibition in West Berlin have received good response from potential European markets. This was disclosed today in the latest issue of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry journal. In an article reviewing the performance of
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  • 59 2 BANGKOK Wed (UPI) Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman said today statement by a Vietnamese congressman that American troops would be stationed in Thailand following proposed withdrawal from Vietnam wag not true. He said the number of U.S military personnel in Thailand would not b* increased and that the two
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  • 461 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Another seven departments have been placed under the care of the Ministry of Justice following a recent re-organisation of the Ministry, the Dewan Ra'ayat was told today. The Ministry now had 11 departments under Its care, the
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  • 921 2 A party given on Monday by the Australian High Commissioner Mr. A. R. Parsons and Mrs. Parsons, to celebrate Australia Day. Some of the distinguished guests present included Mr. S. Rajaratnam. Minister for Labour and Foreign Affairs; Mr. Alex Josey; Dr. and Mrs. J. Chian Heng
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  • 308 2 SINGAPORE. Wed. A former writer and lecturer on the history of architecture in the University of London. Mr. Alex Clifton Taylor has urged the Republic to pursue a strict policy of preserving trees. He noted that certain parts of the Republic, especially the Queenstown
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  • 98 2 SINGAPORE. Wed A World War II sea-mine will be detonated from 9 am. to 12 noon on Jan. 30, in Singapore waters. All vessels and craft are requested to keep at least one mile clear of a position on the Port Limit in the Western
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  • 31 2 1 pm.-2 pm Rotary Club of Singapore-West's weekly luncheon at Hollandsche (Dutch) Club. Camden Park off Adam Road. 8 p.m Oriental dance practice at National Theatre Club, Clemenceau Avenue.
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  • 589 2 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Chinese Chamber of Commerce today nominated 71 members from its various communities for the election of a management committee to be held on Feb. 12. Out of the 71 nominees, 45 will be elected to the management committee with another 10 directly
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    • 232 2 WEISEN-U KV,' Methylmethioninesulfontum Chloride (M.M.S C) has been proved by eminent research authorities in USA. (Stanford University Medical Bulletin 1955 P. 204) to be an extraordinary substance found in the ordinary household cabbage and when taken regularly not only helps heal gastric ulcers, but also prevents relapses These findings have
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  • 306 3 BANGKOK Wed (AFP) Malaysian and Singapore delegates to the Pacific Area Travel Association (PATA) Conference being held here are engaged in active behind-the-scenes lobbying to obtain the right to host the 21st PATA Conference in 1972. Conference sources said participants had
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  • 291 3 SINGAPORE, Wed.—Nine Royal Air Force Lightning jet fighters of No. 11 Squadron will fly past over Singapore tomorrow before starting on the final stage of the biggest air-to-air refuelling exercise ever mounted by the RAF. The Lightnings will take off from Tengah
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  • 220 3 SYDNEY, Wed. (Reuter) On a true balance of risks Australia was bound to accept the continuance of stationing forces in Southeast Asia after the British withdrawal in 1971, the Sydney Morning Herald said in an editorial today. It must be hoped for the
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  • 90 3 PARIS. Wed. (AFP) —Malta's Premier George Borg Olivier arrived here today on a three-day visit during which he will meet French Premier Maurice Couve de Murville and Foreign Minister Michel Debre. He said on arrival: "The object of my visit is to strengthen the ties of
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  • 19 3 PARIS (Reuter) “Nathalie." billed as France’s first sex education film, has been banned to people under 18.
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  • 72 3 Equal Pay For Women In 1975 HONG KONG, Wed. (UPI) —Women civil servants in Hong Kong will get full equal pay with men by April 1, 1975. First steps towards this goal will be taken this year. School teachers and nurses will not come under the scheme right away, because
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  • 55 3 RIO DE JANEIRO. (Reuter i Police have closed down four bars here for breaking hygiene regulationsincluding one alleged to have used diesel oil to make pastries. A sweet factory was also closed down. The owners face the prospect of being sent to an island penal colony off
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  • 138 3 NEW DELHI Wed. (AFP) Chinese troops have put up three new bunkers across the 14.000-foot-high N a t h u 1 a mountain pass in the no man’s land between India's Sikkim territory and the Chumbi Valley, in Tibet It was officially announced here
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  • 403 3  -  BY EDMOND MARCO JOHANNESBURG. Wed. (AFP) South Africa has apparently decided to unload in Europe part of its huge gold stocks in exchange for the foreign currencies she needs to level up her balance of payments. This is the reason qualified experts here see
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  • 54 3 KOBE. Japan. Wed (UPI) —A 193-ton Japanese tanker on its maiden voyage has rapsized off Tsurumi, near Kobe Four crewmen were re- scued but the captain is missing The ship developed a heavy list while crossing the bay from Kobe to Osaka and sank in an
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  • 354 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed.—The Gzrakan Member for Batu, Dr. Tan Chee Khoon, asked the Government to publish an English-language newspaper in competition with the straits Times. •‘I will give it all the support within my resources,’’ he told the House of Representatives yesterday when
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  • 371 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Malaysian canned pineapples are finding a market In the United States because of their excellent quality, says the president of the Vica Pine Incorporation. New York. Mr. Low Eng Chye Mr, Low says that Malaysian canners are aware that
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  • 132 4 JAKARTA Wed (UPI) Indonesia will adopt a common spelling for the Indone-aian-Malaysian language gome time this year, It was announced today Mr. Lukman Effendy. head qf the Indonesian Language section of the Language and Arts Directorate, said the change-over would be done in
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  • 111 4 JAKARTA. Wed. (Reuter) Russian-made MiG-21 Jet fighters of the Indonesian Air Force are no less capable than the French Mirage planes which Malaysia is planning to buy. according to Air Force Commander Marshal Rusmln Nurjadin. He told reporters yesterday that Indonesia had no plans
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  • 78 4 BONN. Wed. (Reuter) Malaysia today signed a 40 million mark (about four million sterling) loan agreement with the Deutsche Girozentrale and Deutsche Kommunalbank. The Malaysian Embsasy here said the agreement was signd in Frankfurt by Ambassador Tuan Haji Abdul Khalid bin Awang Osman It is the
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  • 278 4 Malaysia Has To Prepare Against External Threat’ KUALA LUMPUR. Wed Malaysia has to be prepared against any threat to her security so long as another country covets part of her territory and disregards her sovereignty, a spokesman of the Foreign Ministry said today The spokesman was commenting on an agency
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  • 131 4 SINGAPORE. Wed More Muslims from Malaysia and Singapore this year applied for sea passages to Mecca on pilgrimage than in previous years. An official of the Pilgrimage Office here said a large number of applications for the sea passage was turned down because the number of
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  • 84 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Heavy mist over the Kuala Lumpur International Airport this morning caused a flight from Singapore to be diverted to Penang and delayed the arrival of two other aircraft from Singapore. The Kuala Lumpur bound passengers of the MalaysiaSingapore Airlines Fokker Friendship diverted
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  • 411 4 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Economic Development Board has called for the simplification of impart export procedures and customs formalities. In its annual report for the year 1967. the board noted that for the protection of local industries, the Government had introduced protective tariffs or Import restrictions
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  • 234 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. A total of 1.127 people are being detained under the Prevention of Crime Ordinance in the country while 506 others are placed under restricted residence, the Assistant Minister of Home Affairs. Enrhe Hannah bin Dato Abu Samah. said today. He told the
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  • 99 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Sabah’s Minister of Social Welfare. Enche Payar Juman. arrived today to discuss with the Central Government the setting up of a home for juvenile delinquents in Kota Kinabalu. He told newsmen at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport that the propoeed home,
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  • 60 4 KUALA LUMPUR Wed. Professor McClure Brown, of the Hammersmith Hospital. London, will give two lectures on gynaecology and obstetrics at the Lecture Hall of the Medical Faculty. University of Maiava tomorrow. The first lecture on “placental insufficiency" will begin at 3.15 pm. and the other
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  • 275 4 SINGAPORE. Wed. It’s Ashy business when Filipino fishing vessels start dumping their catch here. And the Singapore DeepSea Fisheries Association is not taking all this lying down and it is contemplating steps aeainst this intrusion into the local market. So far the Filipinos
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  • 242 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed The 11-man American timber delegation which has been here for the last three days was very impressed with the quality of Malaysian timber and their finished products. According to the chairman of the Malaysian Timber Export and Import Industry Board. Mr.
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  • 264 4  -  By LESLIE HAYNES LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) Britain's most widely held government security 1.909 million sterling worth of war loan stock was pushed down yesterday to its lowest price for 27 years as the market reacted to fears that the government may have
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  • 114 4 SINGAPORE Wed. Two senior officials of Singapore's Housing and Development Board will leave Singapore on Friday for a two-week visit to Britain as guests of the British Government. They are Mr. Teh Cheang Wan. Chief Architect and Acting Chief Executive and Mr. Chew Seong Yean.
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  • 260 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The Opposition Gerakan Member for Batu. Dr Tan Chee Khoon today sent the Dewan Ra'ayat Into laughter when he tried to explain what he meant by “a house of assignation”. Dr. Tan. amidst loud guffaws replied that he meant a “brothel”
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  • 174 4 SINGAPORE W’ed. The Singapore Junior Safety First Council Is holding a Safety First Oratorical Contest the 7th of Its kind this year. Sponsored by Shell M. Ltd. the contest Is to promote safety first consciousness among our school children and also Indirectly the
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  • 154 4 SINGAPORE. Wed.—The Department of Extramural Studies is offering a new course on "Practical School Administration”. Consisting of nine lectures by Francis Thomas. Principal of St. Andrew’s Senior School, the course aims to discuss practical problems of school administration in Singapore, with special reference to
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  • 94 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed A goldsmith shop in Kajang. 16 miles from here, was today robbed of more than $40,000 worth of jewellery by five men armed with parangs. The robbery occurred at about 11 a.m. at the Lee Cheong Loong Goldsmith Shop in the town main
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  • 64 4 BELFAST. Northern Ireland. Wed. (Reuter) Police burst into the house of militant protestant leader Major Ronald Bunting before dawn today and hauled the major off to jail. Bunting, chief lieutenant of the fanatical anti-Catholic lan Paisley, had been given a threemonth jail term for unlawful assembly
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  • 465 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A former Labour Party official who was influenced by Marxist publications has admitted that he used his position and power inside the party to “resolutely urge” a boycott and paradestruction of the coming general elections. Soo Yik How. 26. was
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  • 171 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed Confidence tricksters here are active again after lying low for more than two months, a Poll e spokesman said today. The spokesman, referring to a ?4.0n0-swinale reported today, warned members of the public to be on the alert for them.
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  • 366 5 U THAST HE SAY: SEE NEXT DECADE TODAY UNITED NATIONS, Wed. (Reuter) Secretary-General U Thant said today that the People's Repub ic of China might achieve the status 0 0 super-power in the next ten yjars and urged other nations to bear this in mind when resolving
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  • 466 5 KIOTO. Japan. Wed (UPI) Two discussion leaders at the Japan-U.S. Kyoto conference today urged Quick reversion to Japan of political control over Okinawa. Albert Wohlstetter. an Asian affairs expert from the University of Chicago, said the United States and Japan should agree this v-ear
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  • 110 5 ‘Secret Talks’ Hanoi Rebuffs PARIS. Wed (UPI> North Vietnam has flatly rejected a South Vietnamese suggestion to consider secret talks between the two belligerents to settle the Vietnamese conflict. A North Vietnamese spokesman said if the South Vietnamese delegation to the Paris talks on Vietnam has any suggestion to make.
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  • 26 5 NOTTINGHAM. England, (Reuter) Six persons were iniured today when a 12storey high scaffolding on a £1.500,000 hotel block collapsed into a street here.
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  • 365 5 BEIRUT. Wed. (Reuter) The Arab world maintained official silence on the execution in Iraq on Monday of 14 men. nine of them Jews, convicted of spying for Israel. Observers said that although the manner in which the men were hanged had shocked many ordinary Arabs.
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  • 85 5 MANILA. Wed. <UPI) The Philippines will try to conclude as many friendship and trade treaties as possible with other countries. Foreign Secretary Carlos P. Romulo said today Mr Romulo told his regular news conference the Philippines so far has only 20 treaties of friendship with other nations,
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  • 223 5 Sadistic Holy Mother’ Stand Trial ZURICH Wed (Reuter) The "Holy Mother" of a fanatic religious sect, accused here of flogging a teenage girl so badly that she died, was described by the prosecutor today as "an excellent computer for the annihilation of souls The woman. 54-year-old German spinster Magdalean Kohler
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  • 112 5 LOS ANGELES <UPI> Charging that jet aircraft at Los Angeles International Airport threaten their lives and their pockelbooks, 94.noo home owners have sued the City of Los Angeles for US$2 8 million. The mass damage action was filed on behalf of persons with Interest in 35.000
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  • 42 5 MANILA. (Reuter) About 300 students threw stones and broke several glass windows at the Lyceum Universitv in Manila today in protest against the expulsion of four students. Police reinforcements were rushed to the scene to disperse the student demonstrators.
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  • 824 5 PUNGENT COMING-OF AGE LONDON. (Reuter) Princess Anne 18-vear-old daughter of Queen Elizabeth, will carry out her first solo public engagement on March 1 when she hands out leeks to Welsh Guardsmen at an Army depot outside London. Leeks, the emblem of Wales, are traditionally distributed on March 1 St.
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  • 184 5 UNITED NATIONS, Wed. (Reuter) UN. Secre-tary-General U Thant today urged the four great powers in the security council to produce the funaamentals of a Middle East peace settlement and bring pressure on the combatants to accept it. But he was emphatic
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  • 102 5 PARIS Wed (Reuter) France will lose 2.780 million francs (£230 million) following President de Gaulle’s total embargo on arms to Israel. French aircraft and arms manufacturers estimated here today No orders have so far been cancelled But Israel is not placing new orders, they
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  • 56 5 WARSAW. (Reuter) An Influenza epidemic which has already affected about one In every seven people in Warsaw is likely to continue unchecked until the middle of next month, the Communist Party newspaper Trybuna Ludu said today Another newspaper. Zycle Warszawy reported that about 30.000 new cases of
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  • 54 5 WASHINGTON (Reuter) Italy signed the East-West nuclear non-proliferation treaty today after holding out for five-months in protest against Russia's invasion of Czechoslovakia. The long-negotiated treaty, which bars the transfer of nuclear weapons to nonnuclear states, will come into force when ratified by 43 nations. including the U
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  • 472 6 THERE is a pretty furious and interesting debate going on this week in the Dewan Ra'ayat in Kuala Lumpur regarding newspaper monopolies and freedom of the press. Dr. Mahathir bin Mohammed and Dr. Tan Chee Khoon are the principal critics of “Malaysia’s English language newspaper monopoly” while
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  • 211 6 THE Washington Post observed Tuesday in an editorial that President Nixon “left himself plenty of room by offering few specifics in the field of foreign policy in replying to questions during his first news conference. The Post noted that Nixon prefers the arms race to be discussed
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  • 140 6 SAN FRANCISCO. Wed (Reuter) A skyscraper unlike any other in the United States —a 1.000foot (305 metres) hieh pyramidal structure resembling a space rocket is to be built here for the Transamerica Corporation. The company’s chairman. Mr. John R Beckett, said last night that the unique 13
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  • 389 6 BERNE, Wed. (SPR.S.) A major increase in roadbuilding in northern Laos by the Chinese is worrying the neutralist government of Premier Souvanna Phouma in Vientiane. Political motives are suspected. It has been noted that since last summer some 3,000 to 5,000 Chinese workmen have been engaged
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  • 533 6  -  By JOHN F. BARTON WASHINGTON, Wed. (UPI) President Nixon made it clear in his first press conference on Monday that he will maintain a hard line policy against Pekinr. at least for the time being- Asked by newsmen what plans he had to Improve relations with
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    • 108 6  -  J.C. Singapore IT is understood that the Singapore Traction Company are planning to add more buses to their fleet; if so. it is hoped that some of the buses on the 188 route will travel to Serangoon Garden Estate by wav of Lorong Chuan.
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  • 297 6 NEW YORK. Wed (UPI) The New York Times has stressed again the need for an early beginning of talks with the Soviet Union to curtail nuclear missile systems In an editorial on Richard M. Nixon’s first press conference, the paper said: “The
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  • 151 6 Free Jews Call By Pa per TEL AVIV. Wed. (AFP) The leading eveninger Maariv today called on the Government to assume the responsibility of freeing “Our Jewish Brethren” in Iraq should the pressure of world opinion “fail to halt executions in Baghdad.” The paper was apparently reflecting the general trend
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  • 307 6 BERNE. Wed. (SPR K) An article recently published in an Arabic newspaper in Beirut draws the attention of its readers to “the differences of behaviour between capitalist trade missions in the Soviet Union and the socialist missions in the capitalist countries”. For the Communists. the
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  • 2234 6  -  By Dr. Malcolm S. Adiseshiah POPULATION its evolution, its ebb and flow, its geographical distribution and migration ore of tremendous scientific economic and social importance to the world of tomorrow. Demography Is in the forefront of the 20th Century war the war against poverty. Population
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 249 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed Dr. Yoneda. president of the Kubota Iron Machinery Works Ltd.. Osaka, one of the largest agricultural machinery manufacturers in Japan recently s pent two days in Kuaia Lumpur with Tractors Malaysia Berhad when plans were finalised for the opening of
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    • 340 7 BRUSSELS, Wed. (Reuter)—France has warned that the Common Market's existence will be endangered unless food imports from third countries are reduced, informed sources said. Such reduction would gjve a new boost to French farm sales of community markets, they added. French Foreign Minister
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    • 61 7 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Association of Banks In Ma-laysia-Slngapore today made the following changes In Its rates in merchants (rates are Quoted to the equivalent of 100 units of foreign currency). SELLING TT. or OD. ready; Deutsche Marks $76. 8250; Swiss Francs $71.1800; French Francs (62.1425: Danish Kroner $*****0;
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    • 280 7 Rubber Down Cent SINGAPORE. Wed. February first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p m.. In Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 61$ cents per lb., down one quarter of a cent from previous close. The tone was quiet. The market ruled lower following last night’s easier tendency and long
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    • 70 7 HONG KONG. Wed (Reuter) Hong Kong imported 306.876 metric tons of rice last year 89,750 tong less than in 1967. Biggest supplier was Thailand with 120,238 tons, down on 1967’a 219.356 tons. China wa* second with 15.000-ton rise to 97,139 tons and the U.S. third
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    • 15 7 SINGAPORE. Wed. The tin price for today was sssl per picul, down $2.00.
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    • 40 7 NEW YORK. Wed (UPI) Dow Jones closing averaees on the New York stock exchange: 30 Industrials 937 40 20 Rails 273.29 13 Utils 137 24 65 Stocks 340 85 40 Bonds 74.94 Commodity Futures Index 140 84
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    • 253 7 LONDON. Wed (UPI) Auto output in Britain came within one percentage point of setting a new high in 1963 when the Industry rolled out 1 815 800 autos. Export production set a record. 42 per cent up on the previous year The Ministry of Technology
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    • 70 7 HONG KONG. Wed (UPI) —Money quotations HK S 6 0925 per US. dollar HK $6 105 per U S dollar TT. HK $14.52 per pound sterlIBC $312 75 per tael of gold 94 4 per cent fineness HK $162 0 per 10.000 Japanese Yen. HK 1136 5
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    • 51 7 NEW YORK Wad (UPI) Gold price* rose on markets in New York and abroad yesterday in moderately active trading. London dealers reported a pickup of interest reflecting uneasiness over the Middle East situation, but added the price rise reflected more the reluctance of holders to part with
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    • 25 7 LONDON, Wed (UPI) Rubber opened quiet with SPO 21-13M6 22-1 16 No. 1 RSS CIF basis ports Feb. 21-3 8 21-#/16.
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    • 1642 7 SINGAPORE, Wed. change of Singapore and The tone of the market ws Appreciations were noted in most counters in all sections. The speculative element is again on the run up trail and a few shares showed handsome gains. Development Bank once again, became a feature
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    • 143 7 AN UNUSUAL feature of the new Raleigh Cyc'j factory at Batu Tiga. is the wide area of windows at the plant. There are eight electrically operated northl'ght windows. 150 feet long by five feet high. Made of anodized natural colour aluminium, the windows were manufactured
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  • 289 8 Prospect For Deal Since World War II TOKYO, Wed. (Reuter) Japan is considering a plan to import meat from China on condition that importers process it aboard factory ships before arrival in Japanese ports, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry said today. The ministry
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  • 152 8 HOLLYWOOD. California. TVed (Reuter) Actor Cary Grant today denied reports that he was planning to retire Asked to comment on an article by columnist Earl Wilson that Grant might quit because he was too old to get the girl in the films, the 65-year-old actor
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  • 94 8 NEW YORK. Wed (UPI)— Funeral services will be held on Thursday for Mark Shaw President John F. Kennedy's White House photographer, who died on Sunday night of a heart attack He was 47. Although primarily noted for his candid photographs of the Kennedy family. Shaw also
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  • 75 8 LAGOS, (AFP) International Red Cross officials in Nigeria have told their expatriate workers to hand in all tape recorders and cameras. Nigerian government authorities said that Red Cross Workers in Blafra helped the Btafrans compile military situation reports and repeated accusations in the Nigerian press that Red Cross
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  • 70 8 PARIS: Among the most valuable jewels in the world are those created by French painter Braque and made by jeweler Hegar de Lowenfield. A collection of these will presented in Nice shortly. Photo shows, an Air France hostess showing “Helios” the largest topaz in the world, weighing 810 carats, a
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  • 120 8 MANILA. Wed. (UPI) A former policeman was shot and killed before horrified onlookers at city hall and two police officers were killed inside their patrol car yesterday in two separate shooting Incidents in Manila. Conrado Carlos. 40. a former policeman, was reading a newspaper at city
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  • 29 8 BAGHDAD: Two of the 14 Iraqis hanged on Jan. 27 as spies for Israel dangle from a gallows in Baghdad. Nine of the executed men were Jews. UPI photo.
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  • 210 8 WASHINGTON. Wed (UPD Congressmen have deplored crime in the capital, observing that even the President is hesitant about taking a walk One called for deployment of US Marines in the streets. Rep George W Andrews. Democrat. Alabama, noting President Nixon told a news conference the Secret
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  • 121 8 SAIGON. Wed (Reuter) American infantry have found an arms cache containing large amounts of mortars, dynamite, anti-tank grenades and booby traps 25 miles west of Saigon, a US. military spokesman said today The cache, round yesterday. included 37.000 bullets for Chinese-made automatic rifles, more than
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  • 85 8 JAKARTA. (AFP) Army Commander in Chief General Panggabean said last night that Indonesia did not intend to buy arms during the next five years. Instead of building up weapons it would participate in the country’s development under the five year plan which begin next
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  • 356 8 PRES. KENNEDY KILLING NEW ORLEANS, Wed. (IPI) The judge In the Clav L. Shaw conspiracy trial was flatly refused to let prospective jurors say whether they believe President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as the result of conspiracy. But Dist Judge Edward
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  • 99 8 NAPLES Wed (Reuter) Relatives of Michel Ferraro. 81. thought he was dead so they laid him out in a new suit, asked a priest to bless him and called a doctor to sign his death certificate. The doctor came but instead of signing the certificate he
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  • 159 8 THE PROSECUTION in the Clay L Shaw conspiracy trial yesterday subpoenaed as a witness former Texas Gov. John Connally, who was wounded while riding with President John F. Kennedy when he was assassinated. Mr. James L. Alcock. assistant to District attorney Jim Garrison, filed a subpoenaed
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  • 127 8 FIREBASE BLACKHAWK, Vietnam. Wed. (IPI) Five bone-tired Vietrong learned to their dismay that it is hard to outrun an Armoured cavalry charge near here recently. The Communists, farming a hidden rice paddy, tried to flee from a squadron of tanks and armoured personnel carriers (APCS)
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  • 61 8 LONDON. (AFP) Iraq delivered a protest last night against Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart's expression of "sympathy and concern” for the Jews executed in Baghdad At the same time. 4,000 Jews in London began a 24hour torchllt watch outside the Iraqi embassy as prayers for the executed men
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  • 378 8 SYDNEY, Wed. (Reuter) Failure to settle differences with Malaysia over Sabah in the next few months could rule out any significant Australian military presence in Southeast Asia after 1971, a political writer forecast here today. Writing in the Australian Financial
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  • 107 8 LIMA. PERU. Wed (UPI) A spokesman for Peru’s EPF state oil administration said the U.S.-owned international Petroleum Co. (IPO has until Feb. 4 to pay an alleged US$ 15 m. debt to the agency. He said if payment were not received
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  • 109 8 LOS ANGELES. Wed (Reuter) Comedian Bob Hope was operated on today for an eye haemorrhage and his agent said afterwards he was in fine condition. Mr Hope was admitted to the University of California Medical Centre yesterdav for the third time following a recurrence of
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  • 87 8 TEL AVIV. (AFP) The Israeli Interior Ministry last night expelled tw 0 East German Communists who came here as delegates to the Congress of Israel's (pro-Arab and pro-8ovlet) Communist Party due to open on Thursday. The two flew into Lod Airport on Monday night without
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  • 33 8 SHOWN above Is a new French stamp to be issued shortly in Commemoration of the first flight of the French prototype of the super-sonic giant plane “CONCORDE 001” stamp. PANA Photo.
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  • 1009 8 FAIRSEA BEING TOWED LN PANAMA CITY. Panama. (UPI) A disabled ship carrying 98r passengers from Australia to England will be towed into Panama city port sometime on Saturday, a Panama Canal Co. spokesman said. The Fairsea lost power in the middle of the Pacific Ocean after a fire broke
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  • 623 9 SINGAPORE. Wed. Two persons in separate petitions today sought the High Court to dissolve their second marriages. The Judge. Mr. Justice Winslow, granted both the petitions one on the grounds of adultery and the other desertion. In the first suit, a
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  • 136 9 SINGAPORE. Wed 390 Troop of 55 Air Dispatch Squadron. Royal Corps of Transport stationed at RAF Seletar, are to disband on Friday. The troop is the Squadron’s second troop to be disbanded in two months for 389 Troop, who operated from Butterworth in Malaysia, disbanded
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  • 70 9 KUCHING. Wed. < AFP) Slightly over one-t'nird of the population in Sarawak will be eligible to vote in the general elections, which is expected to be held in May. this year. Sarawak's latest census has a record of 900,000 people. The State's electoral rolls were withdrawn yesterday after
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  • 113 9 SAIGON. Wed. (AFP)—A command spokesman here today declined to confirm or deny foreign press reports that the Americans had evacuated their base at Dak To. Central Highlands, the scene of some of the war's heaviest fighting early last year. He said it was command policy
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  • 235 9 SINGAPORE. Wed —Thanks to the eflorts of his comrades in 18 Signal Regiment. Lance Corporal Abdul Rahman bin Haji Arshad. will see his dream come true. On Saturday he will start a pilgrimage to Mecca, made possible by his comrades who
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  • 290 9 SINGAPORE Wed. Police have detained a man in connection with a hold-up yesterday In which a woman cashier was robbed of $2,400 in cash and 17 cheques. The woman. Madam Yeo L iar. 40 of Tong Aik Motor Trading Company in Dunkirk Avenue was
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  • 90 9 SINGAPORE. Wed The managing director of ABC. Press Ltd., Yu Wing Kon. was charged in the Ninth Magistrate's Court today with producing 126.300 obscene books and papers for circulation. Yu is alleged to have committed the offence at the company’s premises at 62. Bendemeer Road on
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  • 155 9 JAKARTA. Wed (Reuter)— President Suharto has lifted restrictions imposed on the 25,000 Indian citizens living in Indonesia bv the Government of former President Sukarno. In a decision signed earlier this month and made public today, the President waived regulations calling for the freezing of transactions
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  • 25 9 SINGAPORE Wed There •were a total of 64 road accidents of wh-.ch six were serious during the past 24 hours in the Republic.
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE
    • 541 10 LAST week, was a holiday for us. Haring nothing to do. one of my classmates suggested that we should go for a picnic. All of us agreed with him. Then we got ready for the picnic. We prepared food, light drinks, records and other necessary
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      333 10 FIRE is one of the most important things in this wide world. Fire was discovered by cavemen. It is very essential and useful to them as well as to us today. The early men used fire to keep them warm, because they did not have proper clothings like us
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    • 240 10 THERE are many subjects taught in school. Of all these subjects, the subject I like best is Science. The word Science came from the Latin word Sclentia which means knowledge. But our modern word Science means something more than knowledge it means classified knowledge Science
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    • 296 10 EVERYNIGHT Johnny dreamt about the same old dream again and again. In his dream was a tall dark man who was trying to kidnap him. and always when the tall man tried to stab him with a dagger, he would suddenly awaken. The first night he dreamt
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    • 312 10 DURING the third term holidays, my parents and I went to visit my grandmother in Johore Bahru. We visited her because she has a kind of disease which cannot be cured. We went there by our own car. As our car passed many places. I
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    • 147 10 A RICH Jew who had a very poor neighbour was told by a fortune teller that some day all his riches would belong to the poor man. This preyed on his mind. So he sold everything; and with his money he purchased a large sized diamond
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    • 151 10 GAMES are important to all of us for if we do not exercise, we will get weak Some people in this world even choose a particular game as their favourite hobby I have a favourite hobby too. My favourite hobby is badminton This hobby is very common
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    • 333 10 IT was Saturday. The night was warm and bright. Suddenly, there was a strange sound which I had never heard. I went outside of my house and in the centre of my garden, there was a flyingsaucer. Then the door of the
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    • 246 10 "SEDIA!" Everyone stood at attention. Three girls standing ten feet away from the flag-pole marched to the front of it and stopped. With the accompaniment of the music, the girl standing in the centre slowly hoisted the flag. When the flag reached the top of the flag-pole, the
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    • 706 10 IT is seven o'clock in the morn ng, I sit alone in the cell awaiting for the time of my execution. Memories of the past keep flooding into my mind and I regret very much w.icn thinking of it. It all began In the year 1934,
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      282 10 ANTS are very tiring creatures. They live in companies in cities like us and their houses are built by them. They are found all over the world. There are different kinds of ants such as red ants, yellow ants and black ants. The red ants, have jaws which are
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    • 208 10 AJIT is a fisherman. He is a Malay man. He lives near the sea. He is 32 years old. He is a Singapore citizen. He has a wife and two children. He is thin and strong. He has black, curly hair. At night he goes
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  • Sun Sport
    • 297 11 KANDY, Ceylon. Wed. (Reuter)—MCC pained the second successive one-day victory of their tour when they beat the Central Province side by 61 runs here yesterday, but their display was far from convincing;. With the three-day match against an All-Ceylon XI starting tomorrow. MCC can take little
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    • 225 11 SINGAPORE, Wed—Singapore s plan to host the first World Badminton Championships will be discussed at the forthcoming meeting of the Asian Badminton Confederation in Manila from Feb. 3-15. Mr. M.A. Lange. Secretary of the Singapore Badminton Association, told Sunsport that the Association would send
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    • 437 11 MELBOURNE, Australia. Wed. They don’t hand out the keys of the city these days but on January 24 two boxers took Melbourne lock, stock and main street. Coincidence brought Australia's two world boxing champions together for the acclaim of tens of thousands of
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    • 97 11 TURIN. Italy, Wed. (Reuter) Juventus soccer trainer Heriberto Herrera was still under police guard today following the Turin club's humiliating 1-1 draw against bottom-of-the-table Sampdoria on Sunday. Furious fans have been besieging the Paraguayan trainer, hurling insults and telling him to go back to South .America.
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    • 255 11 MEXICO CITY. Wed. (Reuter) World flyweight boxing champion Chartchoi Chionoi of Thailand said here yesterday he would defend his title against Filipino Bernahe Villacampo if he beat Mexico's Efren “Alacran” Torres. Chionoi arrived here last night accompanied by his manager Umberto Branchinl and his
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    • 72 11 KANDY. Ceylon. Wed. (Reuter) D Ameraslnghe, the Central Province batsman who was injured during yesterday's match against MCC. had an operation in an attempt to save the sight of his right eye Amerasinghe received a blow on the right eyelid when he attempted to hook a delivery
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    • 82 11 BANGKOK. Wed. (Reuter) —lsrael's Maccabi Tel-Aviv Club trounced India 6 —l to enter the final of the second Asian Champion Teams Cup football tournament here yesterday Israel led 2—l at half-time. The Israelis will meet South Korea's Yang Zee in the final on January
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    • 43 11 CORTIMA DAMPEZ. Italy, Wed. (UPI) —Dag Fomaes of Norway set a world record fo r 3.000-metre yesterday to lead in the standings for the second International Doria Trophy speed skating competition. Fnrnaes covered the course in lour minutes and 17.4 seconds.
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    • 81 11 MEXICO CITY. Wed (Reuter)—Mexican Ruben Olivares will fight world bantamweight champion Lionel Rone of Australia in a title match this June, his manager. Arturo Hemandex. said today. Hernandez said he had signed a contract for Olivares to fight Rose in the Forum Stadium, Inglewood. California, sometime
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    • 590 11 Olympic Games Should Be Free Of Politics Brundage ]%JUNICH, Wed. (AFP) —The Olympic Games A should be free of politics and commercialisation, Mr. Avery Bondage, President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), told a press conference here yesterday. Mr. Brundage on a twoday visit to Munich to inspect installations for
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    • 74 11 SINGAPORE Wed. Khalsa Association staged a walk-out in the Singapore Hockev Association Division 1 fixture against Ceylon Sports Club, at the padang today. Khalsa were leading by a solitary goal when a penalty flick was awarded to Ceylon Sports Club. Before the penalty could be taken
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    • 69 11 TOKYO. Wed AFP)—Japan's Citizen Watch Company men's volleyball team will make a 12-goodwill match series tour of Formosa. Singapore and Hong Kong next month, the Japan Volleyball Association announced today. The team, made up of 12 players and four officials, are scheduled to leave for
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    • 28 11 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter)— Results of rugby matches played last night were: RUGBY LEAGUE CUP FIRST ROUND Huyton 2 Warrington 5 RUGBY UNION Pontypool 6 NeJffh 11.
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    • 150 11 COPENHAGEN. Wed. (AFP) Denmark’s European light-heavyweight boxing champion Tom Bogs retained hLs title when he beat Italian Piero Del Papa on points over 15 rounds hero last night. The 24-year-old Bogs had won the title last September when he beat Lothar Stengel (West Germany) in the
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    • 477 12 A DELAIDE, Wed. (Reuter) The gripping 1 fourth Test match between Austrolio and the West Indies ended in a draw today at Adelaide Oval with Australia's last two batsmen playing out the final three overs and two bolls amid tremendous tension. When stumps
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    • 138 12 West Indies Ist. Inns. 276 Australia lsl Inns. 533 West Indies 2nd. Inns. 616 Australia 2nd. Inns. K. Stackpole c Hendriks b Gibbs 50 W. Lawry c substitute (C. Davis) b Sobers 89 I. Chappell lbw Griffith 96 I. Redpath run out 9 D. Walters run out 50 P.
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    • 159 12 LONDON. Wed (Reuter) Halifax Town, the last surviving Fourth Division team in the English Football Association Cup. were eliminated in a fourth round replay against First Division Stoke City last night Results English Football Association Cup Fourth round replays Birmingham City 2. Sheff. Wed. 1
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    • 96 12 TOKYO. Wed <AFP>—Top jockeys from India, Malaysia. Singapore, Thailand. New Zealand and the Philippines will be invited to international horse race to be held on three courses in Japan in March, the Japan Central Horse Racing Association announced today. The races will be held in
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    • 112 12 THE Singapore XI received a solid trouncing from the Gosford District XI in their first Australian match. The visitors were dismissed for 71 in the first innings after Gosford declared at seven for 216. Singapore were six for 28 in the second innings when plav ceased.
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    • 156 12 COLOMBO Wed (Reuter) Pace bowler David Brown and spinner Derek Underwood were both declared fit today and named In the M C.C.'s strongest available side to play All-Ceylon In the three-day match starting herp on Thursday. Both players have now recovered from chills, although Underwood was advised
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    • 56 12 JOHANNESBURG, Wed. < Reuter) Wicket-keeper Dennis Gamsy and paceman Peter Pollock clicked up a 111-run last cricket partnership here to put South Africa in a winning position on the third dav of the second computer cricket Test against England today. England. 253 runs behind on first innings, struggled
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    • 293 12 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Organising Committee of the Singapore Grand Prix will for the first time introduce the ‘Clubmans’ event* at their forthcoming meet at the Thomson Road circuit, on April 5 and 6. This is to enable newcomers to learn circuit racing Mr.
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    • 163 12 MELBOURNE. Wed (UPI) —Australia will pre>-s for an Open Davis Cup. the annual conference of the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia (LTAA) decided today The conference adopted a recommendation from last month's tennis “summit” in Adelaide between the Presidents of Britain. France, the US and
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    • 205 12 HONG KONG. Wed (Reuter) The Hong Kong team for the second Asian Badminton Championships in Manila next week will be the colony's youngest ever. The seven players for the championships, to be held from February 3. to 8. will leave for the Philippine
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    • 58 12 HAMILTON. New Zealand. Wed. (Reuter) —Canterbury finished runners-up to Auckland in the New Zealand Plunket Shield cricket championship by taking first innings points against Northern Districts in the final game today. It is the fourth successive year that thev have finished second in the table Central Districts. Shield
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    • 172 12  -  By BIG BEN OENANG. Wed. Hendak Menang. with Low astride. did a fluent workout on a yielding track here this morning. He started from the 5f post and clapping on the pace he returned 40 for the last 3f. Colin Tulloh's pair. Bright Sky (Nelson) and
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    • 48 12 ADELAIDE. Australia, Wed. (UPI) England's champion jockey Lester Piggot and his wife arrived here on Tuesday and said they will make a flying trip back to Melbourne, to attend the sale of racehorses owned by disqualified owner Filipino businessman Felipe Ysmael. and others, on Friday.
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    • 351 12  -  By Eastern Knight SINGAPORE. Wed. Last Saturday, Pang Kwok Leong, a former pupil of Telok Kurau Secondary School, won the Class 2 Classification Championship by scoring five out of six points. Second was Nigel Gwee with 4| points. Up till the last round. Nigel was leading by half
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