Eastern Sun, 11 February 1969

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  • 21 1 Eastern Sun SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY SS 1966. Vol. 3 No. 910 Tuesday, 11 February 1969. MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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  • 116 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. A forged Singapore S5O note was found this morning by officials of the Hong Kong *nd Shanghai Banking Corporation here. It was among the receipts being deposited by the Selangor Turf Club and represented yesterday’s takings at the race course. A ooiice
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  • 47 1 YATELY. England. Mon. (UPI) A town councillor has suggested and on-ofT switch be placed on the Standard of a new street lamp in a local lover’s lane. Lovers annoyed at the light had smashed the bulb 12 times in the last few weeks.
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  • 65 1 THE HAGUE. Mon. <Reuter) f— American astronaut Frank Borman has stomach upset and had to cancel plans to attend a Government luncheon in his honour when he arrived here today, an official spokesman said. Colonel Borman, leader of America's moon-circling Apollo 8 space mission, is currently on a
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  • 281 1 PARIS, Mon. (UPI) North Vietnam's key figure in the Vietnam peace talks decided to fly home for consultations today, sparking diplomatic reports his talks with Chairman Ho Chi Minh may lead to a breakthrough in the Paris conference. North Vietnamese officials
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  • 90 1 GENEVA, Mon. (Reuter) Deaths from liver cirrhosis often caused by alcoholism are increasing in prosperous countries, the World Health Organisation said here today. Figures issued by the W H.O. showed that wine-drinking countries have a higher incidence of the disease But the highest rate was
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  • 67 1 SANTA BARBARA. California. Mon. (UPI) Clean up crews on Monday attacked 30 miles of oil stained beaches with live steam and straw while an 800-square-mile oil slick floated ominously offshore. The vast slick from a 12day undersea oil well leak was breaking up into
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  • 223 1 BONN. Mon. (Reuter)—The British Defence Secretary, Mr. Denis Healey, said in an interview published here today that NATO forces could sink all the Soviet warships in the Mediterranean within minutes in the event of war. Interviewed by the West German weekly new
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  • 86 1 KUCHING. Mon. 'AFP) Malaysian security forces killed a high-ranking Communist cadre in the Upper Rejang area of the State's Third Administrative Division two days ago. according to reliable sources today. A local Chinese newspaper today also reported the killing. The incident occurred in the secondary jungles of
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  • 83 1 BOLOGNA Italv. Mon. (Reuter) The Italian Communist Party, biggest in the West, today vigorously affirmed its solidarity with the Czechoslovak Government with a standing ovation for one of the party's chief critics of the Warsaw Pact invasion. Nearly 5.000 people rose to their feet cheering at
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  • 82 1 EAST BERLIN. Mon. 'Reuter) Marshal Ivan Yakubovsky. Supreme Commander of the Warsaw Pact forces and a first Deputy Soviet Defence Minister, arrived here today on a surprise visit. The purpose of the visit was not announced, but a Soviet Embassy spokesman said it was connected with “the current
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  • 418 1 BOMBAY, Mon. (Reuter) A curfew was reimposed on large areas of Bombay today as police struggled to contain fresh outbursts of rioting in which 17 people have bejn shot dead since Saturday. Violence again erupted soon after the
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  • 285 1 Travel Restrictions: No Justification Say Western Big Three BONN, Mon. (Reuter) The Big Three Western allies today declared that there was no justification for East Germany's latest restrictions on overland travel by West Germans to West Berlin. Britain. France and the United Btates. in similarly worded statements issued through their
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  • 96 1 ST. ALBANS. England. Mon. (Reuter) Unwilling police here have a prisoner in their jai! they would far rather release. Filling the cell, and eating her way through a daily feast of 12 tins of food and nearly five pounds of biscuits is a three-foot high Pyrenean
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  • 67 1 STOKE -ON TRENT. England. Mon. (Reuter) Twenty-two girls were overcome by gas and collapsed at a clothing factory here today. A fleet of ambulances took them to hospital where they were treated for gas-poison-mg. A hospital spokesman said five were detained and were satisfactory.
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  • 105 1 HANFORD. California. Mon. (UPI) Shakespearean scholars who want to know "what's in a name" should ask burglary suspect Manuel Martinez who is convinced Darrell Meek should change his last name. Police said Martinez invaded the Meek home on Saturday and ended up with
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  • 242 1 JAKARTA, Mon. (Reuter) Cambodian Foreign Minister Prince Norodom Phurissara said today his country had no intention to join the Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN) comprising Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, the Philippines and Indonesia. He was asked by reporters after paying a courtesy call on President
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  • 206 1 LAHORE. Mon. (Reuter) Zulficar Ali Bhutto, one of President Ayub Khan's foremost political opponents who has been in jail here since last November, was today ordered to be put under house arrest until further notice. The 41-year-old People’s Party
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  • 130 1 BANGKOK. Mon (AFP) Voting in Thailand’s first country-wide election took place peacefully today but official sources reported that only 25 per cent of the 15 million electorate had cast their ballots. Thailand is electing a 219member House of Representatives provided for in the new
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  • 53 1 JAKARTA. Mon. (UPI) Heavy rain and floods in the Tjeru area of North Central Java have left 9.000 persons homeless, the official Antara news agency reported on Monday Antara said several hundred hectares of rieeland had been inundated, but added that no definite figures of damage or
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 442 2 SINGAPORE. Mon A pretty 22-year-old Australian television actress, Lesley-Gaye Walker Is looking forward to setting up her permanent home In Malaysia In a few years time. Lesley, who married a Malaysian student from Seremban in Melbourne seven weeks ago will spend a few years working in
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  • 90 2 LONDON. Mon. (UPI) Queen Elizabeth II has appointed Australian Governor-Gene-ral Lord Casey, who resigned his post this morning, a Knight jol the Order of the Garter. The honour is the highest Britain can bestow. Lord Casey is believed to be the first Australian to be
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  • 315 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Malaysia will relate her experiences in family planning at the International Conference on Family Planning and National Development at Bandoeng. Indonesia, in June. The director of the National Family Planning Board. Dr. Ariffin bin Ngah Marzuki. will speak on them.
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  • 251 2 KUALA LUMPUR Mon The government will spend more than $B9 million this year on drainage and irrigation schemes, the Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives. Haji Mohamed Ghazall bln Haji Jawi. told the Dewan Ra'ayat today. Introducing the development estimates totalling 3 Qf
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  • 101 2 GIBRALTAR Mon. (Reuter) Press censorship in Spain has been extended to all foreign radio and television services, according to visitors here from nearby Spanish towns. Spanish customs officials at Algecira* and La Llnea have also banned foreign publications. including British and Gibraltar newspapers, from entering the
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  • 622 2 SINGAPORE, Mon Singapore has been Chosen a* the site for the Mtabliahment of a RegionAi Institute of Higher Education and Development in Southeast Asia. This was decided at the end of the four-day conference attended by govvernment and university representatives from
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  • 324 2 SINGAPORE. Mon An appeal by two men who were found guilty or 49 charges in connection with the SI 2 million Lee Wah Bank cheating case commenced in the High Court today The two men. Gan Leong Jep alias Gan Gee and Kao Chia Sen
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  • 144 2 MILAN. Mon. (Reuter) —A former French priest. 65-year-old Michael Collins, who has criticised Pope Paul for not giving church riches to the poor, has set himself up here as a self-styled "Anti-Pope Calling himself “Pope Clement XV,” M. Collins. who celebrated his first mass here vesterday at a
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  • 432 2 SINGAPORK, Mon. The Minister for Science and Technology, Dr Toh Chin Chye, said today the academic world could play a more Important role in the development of nations in the vears to come He cited America and" pointed out that the Kennedy
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  • 86 2 PRAGUE. Mon. (Reuter) An 18-vear-old worker is in hospital with second degree burns after soaking his clothes with petrol and setting them on fire, the Prague newspaper Lidova Demokracie reported today It happened on Saturday in Homi Jiretlm. Passers by beat out the
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  • 340 2 SINGAPORE, Mon The Minister for Science Technology, Dr. Toh Chin Chye, has described the four-bay conference on the proposal for a Regional Institute of Higher Education and Development held in Singapore as “an historical one.” The conference has unanimously chosen Singapore as the site
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  • 86 2 Two W.h.A.F. girls on a shopping spree in Singapore cause consternation when they look so much alike. Twins Margaret and Kathleen Townend are serving with the W.R A.F. at the giant R.A.F. base in Changi, Singapore and ever since they arrived in November last
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  • 696 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. Civil servants must imaginatively and interpretatively understand national policy in order to carry out their responsibilities in public administration. This is the view of Mr. G G Thomson. Director of the Political Study Centre. In an article on “The political
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  • 232 3 SINGAPORE. Mon The new Commander of the Far East Air Force. Air Marshal Sir Neil Wheeler, is expected here on Wednesdav aboard an RAF Comet of Air Support Command. The Air Marshal, who is accompanied by Lady Wheeler, has been making a fortnight’s visit to Australia and
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  • 131 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. A stroke that left the main prosecution witness partially paralysed caused the Second District Court to grant two accused persons a discharge not amounting to an acquittal. He is Howe Soo Hoon who was to give evidence at the trial of
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  • 131 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Attorney-General's driver. Ong Eng San 27. was today charged in the Ninth Magistrates Court with 37 counts of cheating a petrol kiosk in Queensway of 390 gallons of petrol. Ong is alleged to have induced William Tan Chong Chake of the petrol
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  • 146 3 SINGAPORE. Mon Fifteen to twenty cars are being stolen in the Republic each week And the numbers are increasing This was stated by court prosecutor. .ASP W St a Marla, when he asked the First Criminal District Court to impose a deterrent sentence
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  • 104 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. Military personnel will conduct exercises in the Tuas area from 7 pm. to 7 am from Feb 11 to 14 Blanks will be used and the public are advised not to be alarmed. They will also conduct a street clearing exercise between
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  • 140 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. Some 550 destitute TB patients received “ang pows” assorted biscuits, cakes and beverages at the annual Chinese New Year party held today at two centres of the Singapore Anti- Tuberculosis Association. Each of them also received a gift parcel containing
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  • 139 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. A lovely Singer from Taiwan. Miss Yin Hwa is full of praises for ;he “garden city" of Singapore “I am captivated by the pleasing sight of green openspaces right In the heart of the city. You have some of the most lovely
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  • 70 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Four Indonesian officials will arrive here from Bangkok tomorrow for a three-day visit, a spokesman of the Indonesian Emoassy said today. The officials, who will visit Government departments here, are Mr. Priatna Abdul Rashid, the Indonesian Assistant Attor. ney-General, Brig. Gen.
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  • 71 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. Dr. James Abraham has been elected president of the Malayan Medical Association, central branch. Other office-bearers are: vicepresident. Dr. Chong Yew Chong; secretary. Dr Pius Martin; treasurer. Dr S. Lourdenadin; auditors. Dr. Lim Boon Par and Dr. P.T. Arasu. Committee members: Dato (Dr.) K.A Menon.
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  • 47 3 $890 m Estimates Passed KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. I The development estimates for this year, totalling $BOO m.. were approved by the Dewan Ra'ayat !h; evening after i seven days of debate I The estimates for the Con- < tingencies Reserve Fund, total, ling $4O million, were also passed
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  • 70 3 SINGAPORE Mon. —Yiew Siew Chins 31. was charged in the Ninth Magistrate's Court today with armed robbery of $3,580 worth of white fungus, sharks fins, birds nest and cash from a Market Street shop on Oct 5. last year. He is alleged to have committed the offence
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  • 61 3 SINGAPORE. Mon Preliminary checks of last Sunday’s Toto entries show that two people have scored five numbers correct and one entry, 4 plus one numbers correct. A large number of participants had entries with four numbers correct and several thousands had three numbers correct. The numbers drawn were:
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  • 93 3 2 30 pm: Lecture on “The Growing Importance of Oceanography” by Dr T F. Gaskell at Singapore Polytechnic 5 30 pm 9 pm.: Free SATA mass X-ray station at Margaret Drive car park, block 24 7.30 p m Free film shows by Ministry of Culture at Kampong Bereh
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  • 196 4 SINGAPORE, Mon. A new luxurious liner, the 11,654-ton “Taipooshan” has begun operating a passenger service between Hong Kong, Singapore and Penang. The ship, owned by Shun Cheong S. N. Co Ltd., will provide a fortnightly service to these ports The "Taipooshan" left
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  • 144 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. There has been a 30 per cent reduction in accidents in the green-wave area in Kuala Lumpur following its introduction at the beginning of last year. There were 1.046 accidents In 1968 compared with 1.491 in 1967
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  • 282 4 Ayako AMERICAN’S DYNAMIC DRAMA IN MARIONETTES” WILL FEAST the eyes of the musiegoers of Singapore at the Victoria Theatre on Feb. 20 and 21 at 8 45 p.m. and Feb. 22 and 23 at 4 p.m. Tickets are available at the usual sources and Goh Soon
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  • 113 4 SINGAPORE, Mon. A flve-member trade mission from India will arrive on Wednesday for a three-day visit to the Republic to discuss the possibilities of increasing trade between the two countries. The mission, which consists of representatives of manufacturers of pharmaceuticals. drugs, chemicals, soap* and others,
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  • 118 4 $68.9m For Road Projects This Year Sambanthan KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The government is to spend $68,999,010 this year to improve existing federal roads and *o construct roads in rural areas, the Minister of Works. Posts and Telecommunications. Tun V T Sambanthan. told the Dewan Ra'ayat this morning. He was introducing
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  • 120 4 TOKYO. Mon. (Reuter) Six Japanese experts will fly to Bangkok tomorrow for a weeklong Asian Industrial Development Council meeting of ECAFE (Economic Commission for Asia and Far East) which starts next Wednesday Mr. Shmtaro who hearts the group Tabata said today he would
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  • 542 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Extensive development of six ports in Penang, Port Swettenham, Kuching, Kota Kinabalu, Sandakan and Sibu are now being undertaken by the government, Tan Sri Sardon bin Haji Jubir said today. Presenting the development estimates totalling $37,427,473 for the Ministry, Tan Sri
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  • 529 4 SINGAPORE, Mon i The Minister of Health. Mr. Chua Sian Chin, today urged the public to shed i their prejudice against un- fortunate people who suf- fer from mental illness i and leprosy. The Minister who toured t the Trafalgar Home and Woodbrldge Hospital
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  • 573 4 Stage Club To Produce Maugham’s The Letter’ SINGAPORE, Mon. For their first production this year the Stage Club are to produce “THE LETTER” by W. Somerset Maugham. Somerset Maugham has been cruelly criticised and extravagantly eulogised. The critic Edmund Wilson wrote of him “He is for our day, I suppose,
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  • 185 4 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. A total of 76.246 pupils In Malay medium primary schools failed to continue their studies in Form One in the last three years because of economic and social reasons. the Dewan Ra’ayat was told today. The figure In English schools for
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  • 150 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon About 1.000 pounds of off-set, letter-press and tin-plate print, inr ink are now being commercially produced everyday by a firm here The manager of Mohamed Ismail and Co.. Enche Jan Mo. hamed Ismail, said in a statement today, the firm's
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 332 4 TODAY and YOU Tuesday, February 11, 1969. STAR GAZER’»0 ARKS 4- 5-10-24 31-42-74 TAURUS A AM 1 Attractive 31 Eoser 2 Would 32 I MAY 10 3 Best 33 Cheer 3- 6-17-19 4 Friendly 34 DeveiOPS iy22 28 85-87 35 Moinron 5 Adv.ce GEMINI 6 Result* 36 Your 37 Decisively
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  • 614 5 ESHKOL TELLS NEWSWEEK: We Are Flexible —But Never On Jerusalem’ NEW YORK, Mon. (AFP) —In an interview in this week's issue of the moss circulation magazine, Newsweek, Israeli Premier Levi Eshkol indicated that Israel might gave up a substantial part of the occupied territories as part of an over-all Middle
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  • 157 5 JERUSALEM Mon. (UPI> Shells lobbed from the Jordanian side of the River Jordan by Russian-made Kattusha weapons bombarded the sodium potash works at the southern top of the Dead Sea for an hour yesterday. an official Israeli communique said. The communique said only one labourer was slightly
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  • 142 5 MANILA Mon. (UPI) President Marcos has disclosed his income taxes Jumped bv more than 100 per cent in his second year in office He said his increased earnings came rom his law practice many years ago Mr Marcos released details of his income tax payments for
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  • 39 5 KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. President Vixon (right) confers with National Security Adviser, Henry Kissinger (left) and Secretary of State, William Rogers (right) at the President’s home here yesterday. The President was planning his upcoming five-nation tour of Europe. UPI radiophoto.
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  • 259 5 NEW YORK, Mon. (UPI) Former President Johnson personally halted a plan to recapture the USS Pueblo, saying, "I don't want another war," according to Time magazine. In this week's edition. Time said that Rear Adm George L Cassell, former assistant Chief of Staff
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  • 34 5 MANILA. (Reuter) President Marcos has established a National Food and Agriculture Council to co-ordinate the activities of various government agencies involved in the government's programme to attain self-sufficiency in food.
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  • 456 5  -  By Lemmy Pinna KARACHI, Mon. (UPI) Encouraged by the diffused chaos within Pakistan's political scene, trib d Pathans have decided to liberate tneir poppy fields. Belonging to the Jadoon tribal region along Pakistan’s notoriously lawless northwestern frontier, these mountain warriors are banking on
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  • 388 5 WASHINGTON. Mon. (Reuter) The director of the British Institute for Strategic Studies advised President Nixon today that when he reshapes the US. foreign policy. American can no longer serve as policeman to the whole world. Mr Alastalr Buchan said in a copyrighted Interview in
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  • 317 5 THE WHOLE WHITE WORLD NEW YORK. Mon. (Reuter) A heavy snow storm that cut visibility to less than 10ft yards in many places paralysed the New York New England area today. serv heavy snow warnings were posted by midafternoon for New York and most of New
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  • 196 5 LONDON. Mnn. (UPI) Britain has fallen behind In her balance of payments in recent years largely because of debts incurred on behalf of other countries, former Assistant Secretary of the Commonwealth Economic Committee Mr. A.J. Conan said today. Writing in the National Westminister
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  • 132 5 HOLLYWOOD. Mon (I'PI) George “Gabby" Hayes, the grizzled, cantankerous I) eni r k of dozens of Western movie heroes, died on Sunday. He was 83 The comic cowboy actor died at St Joseph Hospital in Burbank to which he was admitted a week ago for
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  • 550 5 THE GOO CAMPAIGN SANTA BARBARA California, (Reuter) Work on clearing up the blackened beache? around here was being rushed ahead today after a leaking oil well six mi'es off shore was plugged yesterday. But the vast oil slick, hovering out in the Pacific Ocean, still threatened the coastline and
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  • 424 6 COMMUNALISM is once again popping Its ugly head in India. Six people were killed and over a dozen seriously injured in weekend riots in Central Bombay. The trouble started when India’s Deputy Prime Minister Mr. Morarji Desai tried to enter Bombay. Some of the volunteers of the
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  • 130 6 (AFP) rpHE Soviet Union is prepared to give Southern Yemen cultural, economic and military aid, according to a joint Soviet-South Yemen communique. The communique, published by Tass News Agency yesterday was Issued at the close of a visit by Southern Yemen President Qahtan Muhammad As-Shaabi.
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  • 101 6 (AFP). THE Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda today briefly summed up some of tne main points of the important report read by Italian Communist Party Secretary Luigi Longo at the National Party Congress in Belogna yesterday, but did not mention Mr Longo’s sharp attack on Soviet intervention
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  • 669 6  -  By Vicente Maliwanag MANILA. Mon. (UPI) What’s in a name? To 44-year-old Senator Genar (Gene) Magsaysay, it could mean the magic word to the Presidency of the Philippines. Magsaysay. younger brother of the late President Ramon Magsaysav. has not proclaimed himself an active aspirant for the office
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  • 629 6  -  ERNESTO MENDOZA ROME. Mon. (Reuter) A new breed of extreme left-wing agitators who regard even the Communist Party as bourgeois is spearheading manv violent worker and student demonstrations in Italy. Mostly young people, they march under a red banner but reject Communist
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  • 116 6 CAIRO. Mon. (AFP) The semi-official daily A1 Ahram has claimed that Israel was on the point of annexing the Gaza Strip It said reports reachng Cairo indicated that the Israeli Government at its last meeting had discussed measures necessary for annexing the strip in
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  • 258 6 From Sin Chew Jit Poh Although we are in no position to predict when the Middle East situation is to expolde, we honestly disbelieve that the Middle East problem can be solved in a short time To erase Israel from the map is
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  • 365 6  -  BY William P. Oppel RICHARDSON, Texas, Mon. (CPI) The Cnited States may he the first to land men on the moon, but Russia will win the longer race to the planets, according to
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  • 383 6  -  BY THAUNG MYINE BANGKOK. Mon. (Reuter) A telecommunication network stretching across Asia from Teheran to Jakarta and utilising present domestic systems and new satellites has been called for at a conference in Bangkok. Telecommunication experts from 20 countries, holding the first
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  • 994 6  -  By Kim Willenson BANGKOK, Mon. (UPI) —When Marshal Sarit Thanarat died in 1943, Thailand found itself without a genuine military strongman for the first time since the mid-*****. Several days of intensive bargaining among the half dozen generals who were members of Sarit's ruling group followed. It
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  • 106 6 Parliamentary Sessions KHARTOUM. Mon. (AFP* —-rne Sudanese Journalists’ Union announced here today Es.iy'ss zsygvs&i S c t*h“'A2,Sw r l,n,u us The journalists’ decision follows some highly-spiced exchanges last week. In one a Government spokesman told the oppos?tfo n IccnnH adikel Ma hdi and h£ second In command:
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  • 563 6 IVANOVO. Soviet Union, v e Sun. (Reuter) This ex--1 panding textile city in t Central Russia has solved 3 a sex problem which once P threatened it with industrial decline, and it now looks forward to a climbing
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    • 408 7 HO NG KONG, Tllon. The Boeing 747, which made its maiden flight from Seattle is very much more than the worid’s largest airliner. It is probably the first airliner ever built that will noticeably ease air traffic control problems. These problems are chronic in
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    • 185 7 BASLE, Mon (Reuter) Western centrol bankers today wind up their week-end discussions after finalising arrangements for future action against currency speculation. The scheme will now be put to Professor Karl Schiller. West German Economics Minister and chairman of the Group of 10 western
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    • 104 7 NEW DELHI. Mon (AFP' Indian exports of Cut and polished diamonds have shown a steady increase since 1966. an official statement said here yesterday Total exports during the nine months to the end of December were of the order of U 5523,000,000 against total exports
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    • 85 7 TOKYO. Mon <UPI) The Fuji Electric Manufacturing Co., one of Japan’s leading electric equipment makers, disclosed it was awarded a Canadian order for construction of a 193.000 kilowatt water turbine. The order was made by the British Columbia Hydroelectric power authority for installation of the
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    • 1523 7 SINGAPORE, Mon. Trading in thi Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore today began on s 'ghtly easier conditions and eased further to display a marked easiness at the final bell. Profit-taking was just about the main reason with the active run-down taking place
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    • 279 7 Rubber Up Cent SINGAPORE. Mofi February first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p m.. In Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 63j cents per lb., up one eighth of a cent from previous close. The tone of the market was quiet. The market agkm ruled Steady for the morning
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    • 92 7 TOKYO. Mon <UPI> The Japan Monopoly Corporation said it was conducting talks with cigarette makers in the United States for the manufacture and ?a!e of American cigarettes in Japan under a licensing formula The JMC said Philip Morris. Inc one of America# big three cigarette makers
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    • 12 7 SINGAPORE, Mon. The tin price for today was 5578.75, unchanged.
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    • 85 7 'THE SS President Cleveland arrives in Singapore at 8 a.m. February 18 on its first cruise south of Hawaii in the passenger trade. Several hundred passengers on the cruise will spend the day in Singapore buying and enjoying the food here. The ship left
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    • 47 7 MOSCOW. Mon. (UPI) A Japanese delegation discussed with Soviet officials joint measures for the development of Soviet Siberian harbours. Japanese sources said. The delegation representing a sub-commission on parts and transportation of the SovietJapanese committee for economic co-operation was led by Kazumi Yamagata.
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    • 38 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon A total of $936 4 million worth of old currency r.O’es eolleited bv Bank Negara hove been burnt The artioui.t was collected between June 12. 1967. to Jaa. 31 this y ear.
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    • 184 7 WASHINGTON. Mon (UPD Mr Ralph Nader, the consumer watchdog, has charged that tens of thousands of used Volkswagens have been sold to Americans as new cars by unauthorised VW dealers. In a letter to Sen. Warren G Magnuson Democrat from Washington.
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    • 125 7 SINGAPORE. Mon. The noon pm et. at the Slnespnre t hirte*e Produce Exchange today are Bayer Seller t «< nnut (III (1 O H > Bulk so no o< onut nil 1 O H lirum 52 50 1 1 opra Mixed 31.5C 'lunlok White Pepper non iM-, v w
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    • 66 7 HONG KONG. Mon. (UPI)’ —Money Quotations. HK $6 085 per U S. dollar. HK $6.***** pe r US. dollar TT. HK $14.53 per pound sterling HK $312.0 per tael of gold 94 5 per cent fineness. HK $161.0 per 10,000 Japanese yen HK $137.0 per 100 Philippine
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  • 201 9 SINGAPORE. Mon The Public Utilities Board has warned factories against failure to display treatment of electric shock charts in the premises. The PUB s chief electrical engineer. Mr. Z.K Fiuczek has Issued circulars on this to all factories warning them of prosecution if the charts
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  • 74 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The government plans to set up a Higher Education Endowment Fund, the Minister of Education. Enche Mohamed Khir Joharl. announced today He made the announcement when he received a cheque for $1,500, from the ’Johore Umno Kaum Ibu for the National University
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  • 400 9 SINGAPORE. Mon The National Productivity Centre is organising a course to explain how firms can increase their productivity by employing better office procedures and methods. The three-week application course on office management and methods Is the third course to be organised this year to assist industries
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  • 96 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. About 100,000 people have so far visited the New Ideal Exposition which is being held at the Gay World Amusement Park. The organising committee has drawn up a varied programme during the monthlong exposition These include g Exhibition (Feb. 11). Pugilistic Demonstrations (Feb.
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  • 161 9 SINGAPORE Mon A valuable collection of more than 100 paintings and calligraphy by famous ancient and contemporary Chinese artists is now on display at the auditorium of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce. The exhibition is made possible by the owner of the Ku Hiong
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  • 112 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The results of the Higher School Certificate Examinations will be out on Feb. 19, Immediately after the Chinese New Year holidays. This was disclosed to Brrnama today by the Controller of the Examinations Syndicate. Enche Murad bln Mohamed Nor. A
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  • 141 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. The government is taking action to make the new Malindo spelling system understood by the people, the Minister of Education. Enche Mohamed Khir Johan, told the Dewan Ra'ayat today. He said the Malaysian Cabinet had accepted in principle the new system The
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  • 93 9 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Blood Transfusion Service's lucky donor draw for 50 food hampers will be on until Feb. Id Meanwhile Its mobile blood bank will be stationed at Fullerton Square Car Park on Feb. 21 between 9 a.m. and 4 pm. A Special morning sessions
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  • 387 9 SINGAPORE, Mon. Bicycle dealers here today refuted charges that the local industry had been hit by the imported bicycle stockpile set up by local dealers. In a statement today, the Singapore Cycle and Motor Traders’ Association described as "groundless'' the charges made by the Malaysia
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  • 77 9 SINGAPORE Mon The Christ Methodist Church at East Coast Road will present a film show of “The Ten Commandments” at Palace Theatre, Katong on Feb 27 at 9 a.m Proceeds from the show will go to the church’s educational and scholarship fund. Special concession tickets
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  • 63 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon The Agricultural Industries Standards Committee of the Standards Institution of Malaysia will hold its inaugural meeting at the institution's conference room here at 10 am tomorrow Rubber, timber and oil palm would be among the primary commodities to be discussed at the meeting The meeting
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  • Sun Sport
    • 486 11 INDOOR TENNIS PHILADELPHIA, Mon. (Reuter) Top-seeded Rod Laver won the first U 5527,000 (about 9 200 sterling) Philadelphia International indoor tennis championship yesterday by defeating third-seeded Tony Roche, 7-5, 6-4, 6-4. Laver, in an All-South-paw Australian final, ended the great struggle for the
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    • 59 11 Joe Willie Namath (right). New York Jets quarterback and star of the Super Bowl, visits Sgt. Dennis Lee Koehn of the Ist Battalion, 26th Infantry, at the Camp Kue Army Hospital recently during his tour of hospital wards on a two-day visit to Okinawa. Koehn, of Freeport, III is recuperating
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    • 195 11 SYDNEY Mon 'Reuter) Australian racegoers have a new pin-up girl whom champion Jockey George Moore describes as "the best two-vear-old filly I have ridden anywhere in the world." Her hame is Special Girl, and her two outings on Sydney tracks so far indicate she
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    • 101 11 MELBOURNE. Mon (AFP) Less than ten months alter announcing his engagement to a girl from his home town of Geelong. Victoria Australian Test opening batsman. lan Redpath was quietly married there last week to an English air hostess. His bride was identified only as Christine About
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    • 390 11 PALM SPRINGS, California, Mon. (UPI) Billy Casper, shooting his best golf of the year on a winter day made for the game, had a six-under-par 66 in the final round yesterday to win the US$lOO,OOO Bob Hope Desert Classic with a 90-hole score
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    • 77 11 EAST LANSING. Michigan. Mon. (AFP) A Ifrywr old American university student. Bill Wehrwein. equalled 'he world mooor 600 yards record with a time of one minute 09.0 seconds at an athletics meeting here on Saturday. The record was set by American Martin McGrady in 1966 At
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    • 216 11 LYAILPUR. West Pakistan. Mon. 'UPI) The manager of the touring English Marylebone Cricket Club <MCC> cricket team announced yesterday the team Will not go to Dacca. East Pakistan to play a test match there The East Pakistan part of the MCC
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    • 205 11 SCHOFIELD BARRACKS. Hawaii. Mon (UPI (—Korea’s Bth army team, led by light welterweight Augustine Gomez and heavyweight George Smith, won 5 to 10 titles on Saturday night to rapture the 1969 US. Army Pacific Boxing Tournament Championship. Gomez, of the 30th Ordnance
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    • 374 11 OAYTONA BEACH. Florida Mon. (UPI) Buddy Baker of Charlotte, North Carolina, fighting murderous winds and nursing a broken foot, won the coveted pole position yesterday for the rich Feb. 23 Daytona 500 in a Dodge Charger. Winds that gusted off the Atlantic
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    • 75 11 DAVOS. Switzerland Mon. (Reuter* Dutch skaters broke three world record.* at the International speed skating meeting here yesterday. Kees Verkerk cut the men’s 1.500 metres mark down to 2 mins 2.0 secs; Elly Van De Borm set a women's 1.000 metres record of 1:30
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    • 158 11 BADMINTON HAARLEM. Holland. Mon. (AFP) Oon Chong Hau of Malaysia won the Dutch Open badminton champion ships men’s singles title here yesterday with a convincing 1512. 15-4 win over Erland Kops of Denmark The women’s title went to Gillian Perrin of South Africa RESULTS
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    • 56 11 ADDIS ABABA. Mon. (Reu- ter) Ethiopia beat Libya 5-1 after leading 2-1 at halftime in the second-leg of their world soccer cup qualifying match here today. Ethiopia, beaten 2-0 in the 1 first leg. meet Sudan in the next round. Scorers were: Ethiopia: Grima (2),
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    • 336 12 MANILA. Mon. (Reuter) The men's singles competition in the second Asian Badminton Confederation Championships began here today with Au Tam De of South Vietnam defeating B. Oreta of the Philippines to gain the right to play first-seeded Dinesh Khana of— India tomorrow. Au beat
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    • 219 12 BOSTON*. Mon. (UPD—Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell were back playing familiar roles for Los Angeles and Boston respectively on Sunday. The results reminded opponents why the two giants have dominated the National Basketball Association for the past decade. The 7-foot-l Chamberlain, who has turned from
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    • 158 12 SINGAPORE Mon —Thir-teen-year-old Teo Lee Choc today broke a national record returning a time of 41.2 seconds for the 50 metres breaststroke (Girls under 14 years) at the National Records Time Trials held at the Chinese Swimming Club, this evening. Her time was 1.7 seconds
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    • 60 12 TOKYO. Mon. (Reuter) A 26-member soccer team of Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries leaves here on Feb 13 for a three-week tour of Singapore. Kuala Lumpur. Bangkok and Hong Kong The Mitsubishi team, third ranked in last year's All-Ja-pan tournament, will meet club teams and local selections In
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    • 43 12 MANILA Indonesian team leader Indratno receives the Putra Gold Cup from the President of the Asian Badminton Confederation, Shri S. R. Ruia (third from right) after defeating Malaysia 3-2 in the final of the 2nd Asian Badminton Championship here last Saturday. UPI photo.
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    • 558 12 TOKYO. Mon. (UPI) Shozo Saijo. who on Sunday night retained his World Boxing Association's version of the world featherweight crown against Venezuelan challenger Pedro G'-mez. said today he would like to fight next Japan's Fighting Harada Harada. 25. currently in quest of the
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    • 149 12 SYDNEY. Mon. (UPI) Key West Indian cricketers Rohan Kanhai and Charlie Griffith reported fit when they arrived from Melbourne on Sunday to rejoin the touring team The pair had remained behind •:> have treatment from a Me bourne specialist Kanhai has had a troublesome knee and
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    • 314 12 ST LOUIS. Missouri. Mon. (UPI) A pair of executives Joined the working class in the National Hockey League «n Sunday night. Scotty Morrison, the league's chief of referees, was pressed into service at St. Louis when referee Vem Buffey was injured and Emile
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    • 141 12 LYALLPUR Pakistan. Mon (Reuter) M.C.C. declined to accept a challenge to score 171 in 100 minutes for victory over Central Zone here todav and the match ended in a draw. M C C. were 61 for no wicket at the end of a match in
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    • 76 12 TOKYO. Mon. (Reuter) A group of 32 Japanese professional golfers will leave here around February 22 to take part in the Philippine Open, the first of the seventournaments on the 1969 Far East circuit, the Japan Professional Golf Association said eday. The> will
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    • 74 12 LONDON, Mon. (Reuter) The draw for the quarter finals of the Engl.sh Footba’l Association Cup. to be played on Saturday. March I. was made here today as follows: Mansfield Town or West Ham United vg Leicester City or Liverpool. Blackburn Rovers or Manchester City vs Tottenham
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    • 314 12 SINGAPORE, Mon —The future of rugby in Johore after the British pullout will be the main item to be discussed in the general meeting of South Johore players and officials at the Civil Service Club. Johore Bahru, on Thursday at 7
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    • 904 12 K.L. Race Weights For 1st 2nd Days THE following are weights for the First and Second Days of the Selangor Turf Club Meetings on February 15 and 16. FIRST DAY HORSES CLASS 4, DIV. 1— 6 FURS. Theatre VI 9 00 Starborough 812 Patsohn 8 09 Star Lustre 8 06
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    • 281 12 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Football Association of Singapore has mapped the entire year's league matches which will for the first time, be available to the public. In all a total of 504 matches will be played throughout the season with 14 Division I teams playing 182
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