Eastern Sun, 10 February 1969

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  • 21 1 Eastern Sun SINGAPORE’S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 3 No. 909 Monday, 10 February 1969. MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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  • 473 1 ‘WE COULD SEE ANT ON THE FLOOR CHIHUAHUA, Mexico, Sun. (UPI) A huge fireball, believed to be a meteor, lit up thousands of square miles of Northern Mexico and southwestern United States early yesterday before apparently crashing into the rugged Sierra Madre mountains.
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  • 306 1 PAIGNTON England. Sun. (UPI) Percy the alligator was “resting comfortably" at Paignton Zoo today after what officials claimed was the first heart operation on such a large reptile. The zoo-men said Percy had been 111 for a month before the operation on Saturday and
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  • 86 1 MIAMI. Sun. (Reuter) A woman who was afraid to travel by plane because she mieht be hiiacked. paid US$BOO to a taxi firm here to be driven 1 278 miles to Harrisburg. Pennsylvania, this week. “She was from Jamaica.” said cah driver Eugene Cohen. “She was
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  • 225 1 PRAGUE. Sun. (AFP) Soviet land purchases for the construction of Army blocks of flats have bolstered fears that the Russian troops are preparing for a long stay in Czechoslovakia. The Soviet military command last week obtained the approval of the town council of
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  • 54 1 BOMBAY. Sun. (Reuter) Six people were killed and over a dozen seriously injured when police fired on rioters in Central Bombay today. Police commissioner E.S. Modak told reporters the situation in the riot-tom areas in chaos for the second day was tense and the situation was
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  • 188 1 BRISBANE. Sun. (UPI) Japan s giant Sumo wrestler Koki Naya Taiho found himself in action today on Queenv land's Gold Coast even though he Is on a non-hout holiday. It happened at a fauna reserve when Taiho and two other Sumo wrestlers Komusubi
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  • 255 1 PEARL HARBOUR. Sun. (UPI) Steel-helmeted workmen are toiling around the clock seven days a week to repair the explosion-ravaged nuclear carrier USS Enterprise and send it back to the Vietnam war. The US$444 million vessel, largest warship afloat, lies berthed In oily waters
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  • 51 1 SYDNEY. Sun. < Reuter) Are there maidens on the moon and if so do they need underwear? Peter Volny. 23-year-old sales manager for a lingerie factory here wants to know So he has already booked a passage with an International Travel Agency to carry commerce to
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  • 141 1 PARIS. Sun. (AFP) French authorities today denied a report in the London Sunday Telegraph that a major design fault had been discovered in the prototype o> the supersonic Concorde airliner which would take up to a year to put right. In circles connected with the project,
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  • 86 1 MOSCOW. Sun. (UPI) A big Soviet Turboprop airliner with 79 passenger aboard made a safe belly landing after its undercarriage jammed. the newspaper Trud reported today. It did not say when the incident took place. The aircraft was bound from Syktyvkar to Ukhta in the far north
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  • 78 1 CHEYENNE. WYOMING, Sun (Reuter) The senate of the state of Wyoming today approved a constitutional amendment allowing 19-year-olds to vote —no matter how long their hair. It deleted a proposed condition that young men must have haircuts conforming to Army standards before they
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  • 79 1 DAKAR, Sun. (AFP) World Bank President Robert MacNamara left here today to visit factories and research centres at Port Thies, Bambey and Diourbel alter hearing President Leopold Senghor call for Increased American aid to Africa. At a dinner In honour of Mr. MacNamara last night President Senghor appealed to
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  • 89 1 NEW YORK. Sun (Reuter) Sixty-five people left Kennedy International Airport today on "The great world air cruise 1969." an all-first class, five-week, 23-city tour of the world. The cruise, with Lisbon the first stop, is operated by Trans World Airlines and is the first of
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  • 128 1 KARACHI. Sun. (Reuter) The biggest fire in 20 years and the second mystery blaze in a month swept a giant storage area of Karachi port last night, destroying 50.000 cotton bales worth an estimated £2m. The fire in Thele Produce Yard, scene of a blaze
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  • 332 1 BERLIN, Sun. (UPI and Reuter) East Germany Interior Minister Friedrich Dickel Has closed all land routes to West Berlin to West Germany connected with the March 5 election of a new West German president, East German Radio said today. The announcement
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  • 66 1 MIAMI. Florida. (Reuter) A car salesman who was on a plane hijacked to Cuba last month has filed a suit against Eastern Airlines for more than US$5 000 Rocco Roy Pompeo 47. says he suffered a heart attack when the plane was hijacked on January 2.
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  • 120 1 HAMBURG. Sun. (Reuter) West Germany Is designing two nuclear-powered superfreighters. it was disclosed here tonight. Dr Manfred Von Zur Muehlen. manager of a group set up to study the peaceful application of nuclear energy, told reporters the designs, prepared by his group, were for a
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  • 385 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun A recent breakthrough in Japanese technology may offer Malaysia an exciting opportunity to venture into a new field of industry. The Japanese Arm of Daishowa Paper Manufacturing Company Ltd. claims to have the only formula to make paper from rubber trees.
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  • 238 3 PERTH, Australia. Sun. (UPI) —Capt. Norman Polgen, 39. today became the Arst fullblood Aborigine to be ordained a deacon of the Anglican Church in Western Australia (W.A.) and probably the Arst deacon ever ordained in a cemetery. The Anglican archbishop of Perth, the Most Rev. George
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  • 75 3 JERUSALEM. Sun. (UPI)— Rock-throwing Arab youths jeered Israelis in Gaza today as tensions remained high throughout Israeli-occupied territories. Eyewitnesses in Gaza said elementary and secondary eehool students stoned Israeli cars and buses. The driver and a girl soldier were injured when the windshield of
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  • 44 3 JAKARTA, Sun. (Reuter) Car stealers in West Java are in for a surprise, regional Police Commissioner E-G. Lumy announced today. Senior Commissioner Lumy said new license plates coming out in April will bear hidden codes to distinguish them from false plates.
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  • 130 3 PORTSMOUTH. VIRGINIA. Sun. (Reuter) The US. Coast Guard today sent the patrol boat. Point Arena, to intercept a Aeet of about 60 Communist trawlers suspected to be within the 12-mile limit off the Virginia Coast. The vessel had orders to board any ship found
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  • 79 3 SAIGON. Sun. (.AFP) Workers at rubber plantations in the third tactical region have had their daily rice ration cut from 70ft grams (a pound and a half) to 450 grams (slightly less than one pound), the Armv newspaper Tien Tuyen said today. The decision was taken
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  • 106 3 SINGAPORE Sun Mr. Chan Ohee Seng. Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Culture this morning received a Rift f»>r the Little Sisters of the Poor from the Rotary Club-West of Singapore. In thanking the Rotanans for the gift. Mr. Chan said. “It
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  • 168 3 SANTA BARBARA. California, Sun. (Reuter) Union Oil Company officials announced today that they had succeeded in blocking a ruptured undersea oil well that has been oozing 21.000 gallons of oil a day Into the Santa Barbara channel. But a giant oil slick continued to move
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  • 201 3 JOHANNESBURG. Sun (AFP) The current drought among the worst In years could cost South Africa’s economy 150 million rands (£9O million sterling this year, the “Sunday Times” said here today. A spokesman for the department of agriculture In Pretoria told the paper all sectors
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  • 92 3 SINGAPORE, Sun. A former Bishop of Singapore, Dr. John Wilson, 71, today conducted two services at the St. Andrew’s Cathedral. The services, one in the morning and. the other in the evening were well at- tended. Dr. Wilson was the Bishop of Singapore from 1941 to 1949. Soon after the
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  • 193 3 NEW YORK Sun. (UPI)— A proposal by the Federal Communications Commission to ban all cigarette advertising on television and radio was the big business news tins week. At stake would be around USS2OOm in advertising revenues and a national health problem. The reaction
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  • 103 3 JOHANNESBURG. Sun (AFP) South African Airways officials today expressed delight over yesterday's trial flight between Johannesburg. New-York and Rio-de-Janeiro. A four-engined jet had flown 58 passengers in nine and a half hours from New York to Rio and had covered the Atlantic return crossing from
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  • 68 3 ALEXANDRIA. Sun. (AFP) Egyptian authorities today released the last four of the 400 people arrested during violent student demonstrations in Alexandria last November. They were a deputy teacher, two university lecturers, and Atef Shater, president of the University Students’ Union, who was considered the principal leader of the
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  • 147 3 HOUSTON. TEXAS. Sun. (AFP) Captain Walter Schirra has asked to be released after June 1 from the US Navy and the American astronaut team, a spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Spare Administration (NASA) said at the space centre here last night. He said Capt. Schirra, who
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  • 541 3 SINGAPORE. Sun. Singapore's progress will not be impeded bv “too much culture” or shackled by outmoded traditions, the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Enche Rahim Ishak said today. Speaking at the inaugural conference of the formation of the Central Council of Malay Cultural
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  • 39 3 HONG KONG. (UPI) An unfortunate coolie unloading goods from a vehicle was on Saturday pressed to the ground by a man attempting a suicide jump from seven floors. Both were injured and sent to hospital.
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  • 345 4 THE Minister for Education, Mr. Ong Pang Boon last week opened the conference on the proposal for a regional institute of higher education and development at the Singapore Conference Hall. Picture shows Mr. oig addressing the delegates at the opening session. AIR Marshal Sir Rochford Hughes, Commander,
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  • 341 5  -  By FRANCOIS GIULIANI TTNITED NATIONS, New York, Sun. (Reuter) Jordan has demanded an urgent Security Council meeting to discuss its allegations that an Israeli law will alter the status of Jerusalem. No date has been fixed for the meeting to consider what Amman terms "the
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  • 306 5 gOLOGNA. ITALY, Sun. (Reuter) The Italian Communist Party Congress today starts a fiveday debate in Bologna to determine its strategy for naming power in predominantly Roman Catholic Italy. The basis of the debate is yesterday’s major policy speech by party leader Mr. Luigi Longo expressing
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  • 82 5 JAIPUR. India. (Reuter) Millions of desert rats are thwarting India’s plans to plant forests in part of the Rajasthan Desert in northwest India. The rats, known as gerbilles or antelope rats, burrow through the sandy soil damaging the roots of young trees and plants and turning reclaimed land
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  • 234 5 NEW DELHI. Sun (UPI)— An estimated 55 million voters of West Bengal. Bihar and Punjab States began streaming into polls this morning in a bid to establish popular state governments. In Uttar Pradesh. the fourth state conducting midterm poll, three-fourths of the state's
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  • 94 5 l/’ORIYAMA, Japan: A*- Relatives and friends of a victim in a hotel tire which killed 30 persons, weep beside tne coffin. The fire, one of the nation's biggest and worst hotel tires, destroyed three buildings of the Bandai Kokusai Kanko Hotel last Wednesday night Twenty-eight others
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  • 714 5 IL— BEIRUT. (UPI) Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan AlBakr said on Saturday his regime has turned Iraa into a “hell for spies.” He described attacks on Iraq because of its execution of alleged spies as the “barking oi dogs' 1 and said those against Iraq had been blind to the
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  • 145 5 LONDON. Sun (UPI) Beatle George Harrison had his tonsils out vesterday and lost his voice—Temporarily—with them. But a Beatle spokesman said George was “quite comfortable" except for being unable to talk to hi* wife. Patti, when she visited him after the operation. “He can't talk
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  • 317 5 KEY BIBCAYNE. Florida Sun (Reuter) President Nixon and the Press this weekend embarked on a period of better relations after years of antagonism and mutual mistrust. On the first trip to his holiday home here since becoming President. Mr Nixon ended all the restrictions irritating the
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  • 585 5 WASHINGTON. Sun. <UPI> John A. Gronouskl. former US Ambassador to Poland. believes President Nixon has a “great opportunity” on Feb 20 to take steps for Improving relations with Peking. But he Is “a little disturbed" that the President may not seize the opportunity of the
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  • 401 5 CAIGON. Sun. (UPI) High-ranking U.S. intelligence sources said yesterday Communist troops are expected to start a new offensive soon, but are not planning full-scale attacks on Saigon Informants in the U.S. Command said the main thrust will be on numerous province capitals and military bases
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  • 61 5 JAKARTA. (Reuter)—The Islamic University of Nusantara in Bandung, near Jakarta, has offered the Malaysian Government five scholarships for Malaysian students to study law. economics and oil planting techniques, Antara news agency reported on Sunday. The Indonesian news agency quoted Mr. W Aswani, a university administrator. as saying it
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  • 73 5 CALCUTTA About 5.000 Moslem students staged a morning demonstration recently in protest against a newspaper report comparing the late Mohandas Gandhi to the Prophet Mohammed. The students besieged and stoned the offices of the newspaper The Statesman and set fire to a car in the busy
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  • 567 6 PRESIDENT Nixon’s planned tour of the European capitals has tremendous political significance not only to the European nations hut to Asia as well. This will be Mr. Nixon’s first trip abroad since he became President on January 20. Any effort by the American leader to yeduee
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  • 198 6 THE English-language China. N«ws today urged free Aaian nations to invite U.S. President Nixon to visit the region. They should also spell out to President Nixon their wish to expand the Asian and Pacific Council (ASPAC) into a Pacific and Asian Treaty Organisation after
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  • 533 6  -  By LION DANIEL TOKYO, Sun. (UPI) Some scholars of Asian affairs warn of a rising wave of isolationism in the United States and hint darkly that this trend could undermine relations between the United States and the non-cem- munist nations of Asia.
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  • LETTERS...
    • 347 6 CAPT D Wyatt the Publie Relation* Officer from the Ministry of Interior and Defence had in the past stated that Police do not issue traffic summonses to taxi-drivers for merely stopping to pick up passengers on busy thoroughfares; but only to those who wait and tout for
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  • 223 6 NEW YORK. Bun (UPI) Or. James L Goddard, former Chief of the U.B. Food and Drug Administration, says America’s major prescription drug manufacturers work hard to preserve “the myth that they are public spirited saviours of mankind" but actually are Interested only In making money. Goddard,
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  • 526 6 BFRLIN, Sun. (UPI) President Nixon at the end ot this month will fly to a city whosa vulnerable links to the west are threatened again by communist harassment. Mr. Nixon will come to West Berlin on Feb 27, aix days before the
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  • 600 6  -  By PETER JOB BANDJARMASIN, Sun. (Reuter) Water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink this is Bandjarmasin, a speedy oriental Venice that typifies the torpor of old Borneo. For six months of yea: or more, rein pours Intermit
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  • 413 6  -  By DICK WEST WASHINGTON. Sun. (UPI) Close students of President Nixon's forensic style say that his platform manner, particularly on television, has greatly improved since his 1960 debates with John F. Kennedy. In the opinion of some analysts, however, he still fails at time* to synchronise his gestures
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  • 255 6 WASHINGTON. Sox. (UFI) President Nixon has sent President Nasser a ‘personally warm message on the Egyptian leader's appeal for a more favourable American attitude toward Arab views on settlement in the Middle East, it was learned Saturday, Informed sources said, however, that Nixon’s message to
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  • 428 6 Defence Organisation? i (From Sin Chew Jit Fob) Although up to now the devei lopment of the peaeo talks on Vietnam is going at a snail's pace, the reactions on all sides are nonetheless keen Yesterday, the Thai Ambassador to the US signified that his country is prepared
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  • 213 6 PRAGUE. Sun. < AIT) The weekly newspaper Politika” which stopped publication in November, will appear again shortly, and the newspaper “Tribuna” will appear with new aims and objectives, it was announced today. The Central Committee Secretariat. which announced the news, has thus settled the question of
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  • 293 6 CALCUTTA. Sub (UFI) Close to 170 Bullion Indians trek to the polling booths Sunday in mid-term elections the outcome of which would likely influence the shape and substance of the general elections thre* years from now. Up for grabs ara 1,100 Congressional seats in the four
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  • 150 6 JERUSALEM. Sun. United States is mere likely to influence France and the Soviet Union than he influenced by them in fourdi«cu»ioß» over the Middle East, Foreign Office Director General Dideon Raphael said over Jerusalem radio on Saturday. Raphael was as'ked whether
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 865 7  -  The weekly market review By Goh Eng Kee CINGAPORE, Sun Conditions ruled slightly steady on an easier undertone in trading in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore during the past week. The week's opening was more or less a
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    • 94 7 LAGOS. Sun (AFP) —Wartorn Nigeria's exports fell by 12 7 percent last year, but imports also decreased by 13 6 percent, leaving a visible trade surplus of 17.900,00 c Nigerian pounds (£20.800,000) according to officials figures issued here. This was 300.000 pounds (£349.000) down on last
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    • 294 7 TOKYO. Sun. (Router) A total of 112 world major enterprises will inaugurate the Private Investment Company for Asia (PICA) in Tokyo next Wednesday. A spokesman for PICA preparatory office here said yesterday it was designed to foster smaller industries and develop nvneral resources
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    • 289 7 SINGAPORE, Sun. The Singapore Hilton, a joint venture of the world renowned Hilton International and local industrialists with a paid-up capital of $2O million, is now under intensive construction and is scheduled to commence business by November this year. Construction on the
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    • 866 7 A MAMMOTH coal deal claimed to be without parallel in international trade has climaxed a dramatic ten-year rise in the Australian coal export industry. The agreement signed in Tokyo in January will involve the openlng-up of a major new coal field in the State
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    • 95 7 THE exports of cashew kernel* from India during the year 1968 have earned over Rs 580 million as against less than Rs 432 million earned during 1967 an increase of nearly Rs 150 million. This Is a record performance for the Cashew industry. The quantity
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    • 373 7 Tokyo, sun. (upd Toyota and Nissan motor companies. Japan's two leading automobile makers, registered marked increases in car exports to the United States in January, it was revealed yesterday. Toyota said its exports to the U S rose to 23.253 units for a
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    • 95 7 JAKARTA. Spn 'Reutert Nine South-East A slan cen tral bank governors have ended a four-day conference at the tourist island of Bali and decided to carry out “regional clearing and payment arrangements” among them. According to a statement issued in Jakarta yesterday, the delegates also
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    • 347 7  -  By Patrick J. Killen Sun. (UPI) The Japanese Cabinet has decided to let foreign investors in on a bit more of the Japanese business boom The Cabinet on Friday partially scrapped restrictive policies and approved a plan to allow foreigners to make large investments into 155
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  • 120 8 PICTURE on the right shows American spaceman Frank Borman shaking hands with Britain's Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Wilson (left) on the steps of No. 10 Downing Street recently. The spaceman, accompanied by his wife and two sons (seen behind Premier Wilson) were on a goodwill visit to
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  • 816 8 SINGAPORE. (UPI I Cambodia will send an official trade delegation to Singapore to finalise and sign a trade agreement between the two countries, it was disclosed on Saturday. The Governor of the National Bank of Cambodia. Mr. Touch Kim. speaking to newsmen on arrival after attending the Asian Central
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  • 528 8 French Govt Hostile To Us, Says Cao Ky SAIGON, Sun. (AFP) South Vietnamese Vice-Pre-sident Nguyen (an Ky Hew in here today from the Paris peace talks and accused the French Government of being “very hostile’* to South Vietnam Vice-President Ky, who has been acting as “coordinator” of the South Vietnamese
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  • 74 8 LONDON (Reuter) Only the ch:ef officer was picked up after the 2.163-ton Somali Ship Liverpool with a crew of 31 sank in the South China Sea. Lloyds shipping intelligence reported on Sunday. The 27,372-ton Liberian tanker Violanda reported that the Somali ship sank five minutes after the
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  • 50 8 JAKARTA. (Reuter) —Nine thousand people have been evacuated from Tiepu, Central Java, after floods swept awa v their homes. Indonesia's Antara news agency reported on Sunday. Flood water reached 1-1/2 metres high and damaged at least 2. n 00 houses The floods followed days of torrential rains.
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  • 329 8 T'IACCA, Sun. (Reuter) First indications of away out of Pakistan s current political upheaval appe ired here today with signs that sqm# of President Mohammed Ayub Khan's opponents will accept his offer of talks on constitutional reform. The leaders of the Democratic
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  • 51 8 KEY BISCAYNE. Florida. (UPIi President Nixon directed his science adviser on Saturday to study possible cost, cutting in the space programme and to project the direction of the post-Apollo moon programme. The President is spending the weekend at his winter White House on Key Biscayne. just south of
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  • 612 8 CJAIGON. Sun. (UPI) American soldiers supported by air strikes and artillery killed 34 Communists in two battles that raged until dark less than 20 miles from Saigon, US. spokesman said today. But In the Mekong Delta, Communist gunners shelled two provincial capitals
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  • 186 8 SAIGON. Sun. (UFI) South Vietnamese marines today uncovered one of the largest heavy-weapons caches of the war, military spokesmen said. It included seven anti-aircraft machine guns mounted on a wheel. The cache was buried along a jungled infiltration route 60 miles north-west of
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 30 8 abu By LIM KOK WING \Nt AIN'T ENGAGED OR MARRIED OR NOTHING.^ TLARN BIROS') Toy TALKING L/RGH vc v>: You 've no oA/^y yew* caterpillars MY BIRDS. L SMASH 3
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  • 464 9 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. An assurance that New Zealand will play its role in the defence of the Malaysia-Singapore region was given today by the New Zealand High Commissioner, Mr. b.D. Zohrab. Mr. Zohrab said in a farewell interview with Bemama that the move
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  • 182 9 KUALA LUMPUR, gun Malaysia has been invited to take part in “an important economic event in Bulgaria” the international trade fair at Plodiv from Sept. 21 to 30. Invitations to take part in the fair have already been sent to the Ministry of Commerce and
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  • 151 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Bank Negara Malaysia is to investigate the appearance of three forged Malaysian $5O notes In Brunei, Its Deputy Governor. Mr Choi Slew Hong, told Bemama today. He said he would be writing to the “authorities’ In Brunei for more information.
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  • 167 9 SINGAPORE. Sun. An MP wants the Minister for Defence to take measures to see that members of the People’s Defence Force are not late or absent for training. He is Enche Rahmat bln Kenap who will ask the Minister during the next sitting of Parliament
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  • 122 9 SINGAPORE. Sun. The Singapore Institute of Management is calling for applications for Its forthcoming course on management accounting for managers. Closing date is Feb 14. The course will be conducted by Mr. Lim Boor. Tong, a regis ered account. Mr. Lim is a qualified cost
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  • 87 9 SINGAPORE. Sun The Advisory Committee of the Peck Seah Integrated School has appealed for fund* from parents of students and friends of the school to carry out two projects. These are fixing of a gate on the Anson Community Centre grounds so that the pupils could
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  • 21 9 SINGAPORE. Sun. There were 82 accidents, of which eight were serious. In the Republic during the past 24 hours.
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  • 416 9 SINGAPORE. Sun. A Swiss travel agent has suggested three ways in which Singapore could attract more Swiss tourists to the Republic. Mr. Roger P Nicolet, supervisor of a Swiss travel Agency, said if Singapore wanted to be popular with tourists. it shoyld: Send some
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  • 90 9 SINGAPORE. Sun. A reception was held at the residence of the New Zealand High Commissioner in Queen Astrid Park here last night to mark Waitangi Day New Zealand’s National Day. The Singapore Government was represented by the Minister for Interior and Defence, Mr. Lim Kim
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  • 84 9 SINGAPORE Sun The Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association will hold its annual Chinese New Year parties for its destitute patients tomorrow at the Singapore Chest Clinic at shenton Way and the SATA Uttamram Chest Clinic in Upper Changl Road, simultaneously. The parties will begin at 130 pm and
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  • 77 9 SINGAPORE Sun. Thieves broke into a rubber store In Geylang yesterday and stole some 20 piculs of rubber valued at $1,400. The theft was discovered by Tllak Dhari Yado. the watchman of the store. Tropical Produce Co., who was on his early morning rounds when he
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  • 100 9 SINGAPORE. Sun. Military personnel will conduct exercises during the following schedule: 1 pm. to 930 pm on Feb. 10 in the Tuas area Blanks, thunderflashes and pyrotechnics will be used. 11.30 pm to 6.30 am. from Feb 10 to 11 In the Sungel Mural area Blanks and thunderflashes
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  • 46 9 SINGAPORE. Sun The Royal Customs and Excise Department. Johore Bahru will be closed from Feb. 17 to 19, the first day being the anniversary of the funeral of the former Ruler. Sultan Ibrahim and the other two days being Chinese New Year holidays.
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE ALL TEN dollars ESSAY WINNERS
    • 288 10 ONE day, my brother and I went to stay with our aunt at her invitation. Her house was in a lonely spot in the countryside next to a graveyard. It was an attap house, which stood on four pillars, each about three feet high. That
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    • 267 10 EXAMINATIONS are not the most important tests in life but most of the students have mistaken examinations as very important in life. Exams are actually the test of our ability in studying and not just study and pass them blindly. In order to be successful, we
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    • 387 10 Everyone of us at times find that we do not get along well with our friends or neighbours that is, we cannot live na n niouo.y. This is because we do not possess the three essential things in our life patience, contentment and friendsh p. Patience
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    • 437 10 ABOUT one-sixth of the earth's surface is covered with various types of trees. Although trees have benefltted mankind from the stone-age to this modern era. trees also have bad Influences on man. For instance, many products can be made from trees. Turpentine, a valuable liquid,
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    • 264 10 THERE are many out-door activities which I like They are swimming, lawn-tennis. Ashing, hiking, camping, and many others One of my favourite out-door activities is gardening The equipment needed for gardening are a rake, spade, changkul and shears In the garden I would clear the grass
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    • 317 10 w E ARE living in the late 20th Century and an equal society is important. Men should know what women know, although most of us think that certain jobs are meant only for the women. Imagine yourself as a man helpless and not
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    • 350 10 It is not impossible for one to earn money in his spare time, for there are numerous Jobs and things which need somebody to handle them. I remember an unexpected incident which happened to me two years ago. While I was returning from school
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    • 421 10 LAST Tuesday mv father told the family that we would be going to Changi beach on the coming Saturday. My father had also invited some friends to come with us. Altogether there were three families. We hired two vans to take us to the beach
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    • 253 10 Tourism plays an important role in Singapore. Since Singapore is without as many natural resources as .Malaysia. Singapore therefore must turn to industries for its economy. Since Singapore is placed in a strategic position on the land, sea and air routes of South East .Asia, tourists automatically
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    • 349 10 Water is invaluable and indispensable to every human being, animal and plants on earth. Without water, all the living things cannot exist. Water, besides having its importance as stated above, also has many other uses. It is used for drinking, bathing and washing. The water which
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    • 318 11 LONDON, Sun. (Reuter) While snow ana ice kept the English First Division giants and Football Association Cup favourites in cold storage the lesser clubs monopolised the interest in yesterday's weather-wrecked British soccer programme. All eight fifth round English FA Cup ties
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    • 90 11 TORONTO, Sun. (Reuter Irv Ungerman, manager of Canadian heavyweight boxer George Chuvalo. said today he has been suspended by the New Yoi k State Athletic 'Commission for his actions during Chuvalo's 12-round losing fight against American Buster Mathis last Monday at Madison Square Garden The Commission charged
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    • 56 11 BULAWAYO. Sun. (Reuter) Brian Davison, scoring 57. led Rhodesia to a first innings total of 252 on the opening day of ther Currie Cup Section A' cricket match against Eastern Province here. Eastern Province, for whom S'bley took three wickets for 28 runs, were 14 for no
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    • 101 11 LONDON, Sun. (Reuter) Results of the only Scottish and English football matches played today were: Scottish football association cup second round: Dundee Utd 6. Ayr 2. East Stirling l. St. Johnstone I. Montrose 1. Kilmarnock 1 Stranraer 1. Morton 3. Scottish division one: Dundee 3. Arbroath 0. Scottish
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    • 113 11 MACAO. Sun. (Reuter) The Gu:a 101 endurance motor race will definitely be run ?.s scheduled on May 18 in Macao. Mr Fernando C Margues of the Macao's Automovel Club De Portugal said here today. He denied that the race had been cancelled. “Because a 12-hour
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    • 95 11 MANILA, Sun. (Reuter) The 1969 Philippine Open Golf Championship will be held at the Wack Wack Golf and Country Club course just outside Manila from February 27 to March 2. it w as officially announced here yes.erday. The Wack Wack Country
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    • 138 11 CLEARWATER Florida Sun. i Reuter) The United States Lawn Tennis Association yesterday approved a category that will allow lop American star, the opportunity to play for prize money in Open tournaments. In an unanimous vote at the association's annual meeting, the
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    • 654 11 MEXICO CITY, Sun. (Reuter) A primitive tribe of longhaired Mexican Indians could ause some spectacular feats at the 1072 Olympic Games in Munich, according to a Polish expert here. The Tarahumara Indians, who shun modern civilization live mostly in caves in
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    • 83 11 SYDNEY. Sun. (Reuter) Austrian Jochen Rindt won •he Tasman championship International inn on the wateilogged Warwick farm circuit in Sydney today. Rindt. 26. led all the way in his Lotus Ford after a first-lap accident eliminated New Zealander Chris Amon’s Ferrari and the Brabham-Ford of British
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    • 174 11 HARLEM, Sun. (Reuter) Last year’s finalist Lee Kin Tat of Singapore was surprisingly beaten in the preliminary rounds of the Dutch Open badminton championships here yesterday. Lee Kin Tat. a student based In London, was beaten 15-10. 15-4. by Swede Karl Jonsson.
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    • 140 11 PORT ELIZABETH, Sun. (Reuter) South African Graham Henning won the international golf tournament here with a par 72 final round yesterday. Henning, leading from the first round, returned a 72-hole aggregate of 279 17 under par to win by two strokes from another South African professional
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    • 159 12 TOKYO. Sun (Reuter) Featherweight boxing champion Shozo Saijo of Japan held his world title by outpointing Venezuelan challenger Pedro Gomez tonight in an exciting show of hit and run tactics. As the final bell sounded, the challenger's manager and seconds leapt into the ring
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    • 40 12 PHILADELPHIA. Sun (Reuter) Tony Roche, the Australian left-hander. defeated Holland's Tom Okker vesterdav to reach the final of he USST7,OOO 1111.266) Philadelphia international indoor tennis tournament. Roche, seeded third, beat sixth-seeded Okker 6-1 6-4 in 40 minutes.
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    • 198 12 SINGAPORE. Sun. A biennial cricket match between Singapore and New South Wales is likely to be held in the near future. This was disclosed here today by Mr. Osbert Rozario. Secretary of the Singapore Cricket Association soon after the SCA team's return
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    • 250 12 Tunku Big Walk KUALA LUMPUR Sun A competitor from Singapore this morning won the Seniors’ Event of the B;g Walk held here to mark the 66th birthdav of the Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman. Ahmad bin Raby covered the 13 miles from the Selangor Education Department
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    • 90 12 MELBOURNE. Australia. Sun < UPI) Malaysian racehorse owner Tjong Kian Liong was a little unlucky to score only a minor placing at Sandown Park racecourse in Melbourne yesterday. Racing in partnership with J F Ford, their two-year-old chestnut colt. Pelor Mas. was narrowly beaten
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    • 711 12 SINGAPORE. Sun. The Pro-Am Tournament, in conjunction with the Open Championship. will be hold again this year. It will be playeo on Wednesday. March 5. The starting time will depend on the number of entries The competition will be two ball best ball stroke play Each professional
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    • 310 12 DUBLIN. Sun. (Reuter) Ireland, four times behind in the scoring, finished strongly to snatch a 17 points to 15 victory over England in the Rugby Union international here yesterday. The win. by a goal, two penalty goals, a dropped ,goal and a try to four
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    • 71 12 MELBORNE. Victoria. Sun. <UPI) Playing great golf by any standards Australian veteran Kel Nagle today equaled a 40--ntnute old course record to win this year's ASIO.OOO Victorian open. He beat Billy Dunk, also of Svdnev. and Victorian champion Peter Thomson by three strokes. The record he
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