Eastern Sun, 19 February 1969

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  • 21 1 SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Eastern Sun Estd. 1966. Vol. 3 No. 916 Wednesday. 19 February 1969. MC(P) 0737 Price 13 cents
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  • 340 1 BERLIN. Tues. (UPI) East German border guards today closfed down their main highway checkpoint for one hour and 50 minutes. West Berlin police reported. The Babelsberg checkpoint was closed at 0900 GMT and reopened at 1050 G.MT. police said. Police said the East Germans
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  • 98 1 JAKARTA. Tues (Reuter)— Indonesia plans to sterilise three million fertile mothers during the country's five-year development plan starting in April, according to the Chairman of the National Family Planning Institute. The Chairman. Mrs. Z Rachman Mansjur. said this when speaking to regional administrators in West
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  • 24 1 KARACHI. Tues. (UPI) Authorities imposed a 24-hour curfew on Karachi and Dacca today following bloody street battles in two cities on Monday.
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  • 113 1 NEW DELHI. Tues. (Reuter) Communist Members of Parliament supported by the Samyukta Socialists today tabled a motion of no-confid-ence in the Congress Government headed by the Prime Minister. Mrs. Indira Gandhi. The motion which will be discussed later today, said the Congress Party had been
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  • 174 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. Malaysia and Singapore can come to an agreement on a “quid pro quo" basis giving some goods made either in Singapore or in Malaysia preferential treatment or even free entry into the two markets. the Minister of Commerce and Industry. Tan
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  • 133 1 MANILA. Tues. (Reuter) Police in Quezon City have proved that miniskirts do not contribute to crimes against women, the Evening News said today. The English-language newspaper said that the Police Chief of Quezon City, just east of Manila, has gathered statistics showing a decrease in
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  • 163 1 BANGKOK. Tues. (Reuter) Deputy Defence Minister, Air Chief Marshal Dawee, will head a Thai delegation of 18 officials to the Malay-slan-Thal general border committee meeting in Kuala Lumpur on March 15 and 16. he said today. Marshal Dawee told reporters the meeting would discuss improved
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  • 102 1 BRUNEI TOWN. Tues. (Reuter) Britain's High Commissioner in Brunei. Mr. A. R Adair, said today he did not think the present circumstances would lead to a rebellion in Brunei He was commenting on Malaysian Premier Tunku Abdul Rahman's recent remark that Brunei might face a
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  • 100 1 NEW YORK. Tues. (UPI) Actress Hedy Lamarr has flled a US$2l million damage suit against nine defendants Involved In publication of a book about her life entitled "Ecstasy And Me. My Life As A Woman.” The suit flled on Monday in Manhattan Supreme Court
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  • 55 1 JAKARTA. Tues (Reuter)—A man rushed from his bathroom at the weekend calling for help to put out a fire—but all the neighbours ran away. The man was still in the nude and the only neighbours at home in Surabaja. East Java, were
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  • 180 1 WASHINGTON. Tues (Reuter) A surprise meeting between President Nixon and the Soviet Ambassador to Washington has raised hopes of highlevel efforts to avert a threatening confrontation over Berlin. The White House described yesterday's hour-long discussion between Mr. Nixon and Ambassador Anatolv Dobrynin as "very
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  • 109 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. A six-man French mission will arrive here either tomorrow or on Thursday to discuss with Malaysian Government officials the financial and technical terms for the proposed purchase of Mirage jets by Malaysia A spokesman of the French Embassy here told Bernama
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  • 55 1 ENGLEWOOD. New Jersey. Tues. (Reuter) Dustman Albert Strubel was doing his round here when a mystery archer shot him in the back with a steel-tipped arrow. Strubel. 31. chased his assai’ant but had to give up due to loss of blood. He was in a
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  • 246 1 KARACHI. Tues. (Reuter) Troops stood by today for more clashes between supporters and opponents of President Ayub Khan’s regime after fresh violence here that left at least four dead and raised the death toll to 50 since Pakistan's political upheaval began in midJanuary. Police opened fire
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  • 203 1 LONG BEACH. California. Tues. (Reuter) The United States most ambitious attempt at ocean-bed living has been stopped indefinitely by naval officials after the death of an aquanaut on the first day of a scheduled 60-dav man-under-the-sea experiment. The aquanaut, 33-year-old Louis Cannon, apparently
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  • 188 1 LOITOKITOK, Kenya. Tues (Reuterj The eight blind Africans scaling Mount Kilimanjaro. Africa's highest peak, today began *he second day of the assault after spending a freezing night on the mountain. They struck camp this morning under clear skies and set off in high spirit heading
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  • 92 1 NEW YORK. Tues. (UPI) Newsweek Magazine reported on Monday Australia plans to keep a small defence force in Singapore and Malaysia when British forces leave in 1971. The magazine said the Australian force would comprise an Infantry battalion with support troops and two jetfighter squadrons. It
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  • 68 1 BANGKOK. Tues. (UPI) Bangkok suffered a massive power failure this afternoon when a generator broke down at the Yanhee Dam. 300 miles north of Bangkok, main electricity source for the city. Power was out for about two hours in most areas, from 2.30 p.m. (0730
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  • 81 1 WELLINGTON. Tues. (Reuter) New Zealand Prime Minister Mr. Keith Holyoake has said a statement on New Zealand's role In South-east Asian defence may be released next week. He told a press conference yesterday that in view of the expected statement on Australia's attitude
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 239 2 SINGAPORE. Tues. Representatives from nine nations will meet in Singapore next month to study ways to boost food production. They will be attending the fifth Asia-Pacific Food Production Conference sponsored by International Minerals and Chemical Corporation of the United States. The conference
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  • 219 2 LOS ANGELES. Tues- (l T PI)—A former Los Angeles policeman and a platinum blonde widow were convicted on Monday of first degree murder in the deaths of their spouses in an alleged scheme to collect double indemnity insurance policies. Paul S Perveler,
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  • 155 2 Soon USSRMalaysia Air Pact KCALA LUMPrR. Tues. Negotiations are expected to begin soon for an air services agreement between Malaysia and the Soviet Union. The Deputy Secretary’ (Civil Aviation and Meteorological Services) to the Ministry of Transport, Mr. Saw Hu at Lye eald that the negotiations would not take very
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  • 155 2 CAMDEN. New Jersey, Tues. (UPI) More than 100 prisoners at the Camden Jail barricaded themselves behind mattresses. set fires, and hurled cans at firemen on Monday night before 300 policemen armed with shotguns herded them back to their cells. Sheriff Martin Segal said most of
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  • 127 2 SAIGON, Tues. (Reuter) An exploding Vietcong grenade sent a young Marine flying into the path of two escaping guerrillas enabling him to gun them both down. Lance CpL Royce Heinze, was flushing out guerrillas hiding in a tunnel complex beneath rice paddies south of the big
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  • 142 2 JAKARTA. Tues (Reuter) Two Indonesian Ministers will address directors and general managers of Asian news agencies when they meet in Jakarta for three days from March 5. Antara news agency reported today. Antara. which Is host at this year’s annual general meeting of the
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  • 163 2 JOHANNESBURG. Tues. (Reuter) Eleven Africans died and 155 were injured when a crowded passenger train ran into an inferno of blazing petrol southwest of here, according to official figures issued today. It was earlier believed 13 Africans had died and as
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  • 151 2 HONG KONG. Tues (Reuter) —»Marine Police today mounted a wide search for a Hong Kong yachtsman missing since last night when he tried to row out to sea to catch his drifting sailboat. They identified the man as Mr David Bailey and- said he had
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  • 93 2 GENEVA. Tues (UPI) The Nigerian Federal Command at Port Harcourt has ordered the execution of all able-bodied Biafran male refugees. Biafran authorities claimed on Monday. They said more than 120 already had been killed. A communique from I’muahu. distributed by the Biafran overseas oress
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  • 127 2 MADRID. Tues. (AFP) The Madrid government intends soon to create a Gibraltar province which will include the disputed British colony on the famous rock at the southwest tip of Spain, a reliable source indicated here today. The provincial capital will be Algesiras
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  • 101 2 SAIGON, Tues. (UPI) American B-52 bombers have resumed their attacks on Communist infiltration corridors north of Saigon Many of them were in the air en route to their targets even before the Allied Tet ceasefire had ended. One of the raids was so close to Saigon it
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  • 248 2 Honoured And Awarded For Her ‘Perfect Attendance Madam Loh Trek Hong, 49. has been an employee of Union Carbide for eight long years. And during this period she has not missed work for i d h. nor has she been late for workDay in. day out. Madam Loh has always
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  • 329 2 HONG KONG. Tues. (Reuter) Hong Kong authorities expect it may be several davs before thev have word from Chinese officials about the fate of three yachts which have been missing since Sunday and are believed in Chinese hands. With China and the
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  • 84 2 LONDON, Tues (UPI) Sixteen singing stars including Julie Andrews. Shirlev Bassey and Sammy Davis Jr. have agreed to cut a disc to raise money for the world's refugees, it was announced here on Monday. The record, distributed through the United Nations, will go
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  • 22 2 SINGAPORE. Tues —There were 104 road accidents of which two were serious during the last 24 hours in the Republic.
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  • 739 3 SINGAPORE, Tues.—Details of Colombo Plan assistance to Singapore hare been disclosed in the Contributions to Economic Development chapter of the 16th annual report of the Colombo Plan Consultative Committee just released. The following are the contributions by donor countries towards economic development in Sin- gapore.
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  • 155 3 SINGAPORE. Tues The Commander. Far East Fleet, Vice Admiral H D O'Brien, is shortly to pay visits to four ports in East Malaysia. He will fly his flag mainly in the Assault Headquarters ship HMS Intrepid. He arrives in Kuching by air tomorrow where
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  • 56 3 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) Fifty members of the extreme rightwing National Front Movement booed a meeting on racialism last night and shouted: “Send the blacks back.” Police were called after the audience of 500 voted that the hecklers should be ordered to leave the meeting, organised by the
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  • 192 3 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues.— Negotiations are expected to begin soon for the purchase of two or more modern cargo liners for the Malaysian National Shipping Line. This was stated today by a spokesman of the Malaysian International Shipping Corporation Berhad w’hich will operate the
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  • 90 3 A This is the Siberian Bear, seen for the first time in Singapore. It has been brought in bv the All-Japanese Kinoshita Circus, now performing nightlv at the Great World Amusement Park. The circus is being brought in conjunction with the 1969 Carnival and Trade Fair
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  • 143 3 CAIRO, Tues. Reuter) Foreign experts who are to survey the southern end of the Suez Canal to see if 14 trapped ships can be moved out are due in Cairo on Thursday. informed sources said today The sources said a threeman team is expected
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  • 332 3 SINGAPORE. Tues. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Social Affairs. Mr. Chan Chee Seng has outlined three important, successive stages Singapore would have to undergo if it wished to attain world standards in sports. They are: The Republic must try to
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  • 218 3 BRIGHTON. England. Tues Reuter) Japan is preparing to launch next year a massive probe to get minerals from under the deep Pacific, a Japanese government spokesman said here today Mr Ritsuro Harano of the Science and Technology Agency's Research Co-ordina-tion Bureau was
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  • 96 3 SINGAPORE. Tues The military personnel will conduct exercise* in the following areas TUAS —1 pm. to 6 p m on Feb. 19; 7 a m. to 6 p.m on Feb 20; and 7 a m. to 6 p.m. on Feb 21. MANDAI 6 am. to 11 p.m. from
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  • 267 3 SINGAPORE. Tues. Two bus employee unions have tome out in support of the queue campaign to instil into passengers the necessity to queue up at bus stops. The two unions are the Singapore Traction Company Employees’ Union and the Singapore Bus Employees’ Union. In
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  • 251 3 KUALA LI.MPIR Tues. Malaysia exported 65.750 tons of rubber worth 572.9 million to China in the first half of 1968 compared with 16,121 tons worth $19.6 million for the whole of 1967. This was disclosed today by a spokesman of the Ministry oi Commence and
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  • 243 4 SINGAPORE. Tues. The Nanyang University Players will stage a unique production “Our Town” at the Victoria Theatre on March 8 and 9. The play Is set in Grover’s Comers, a in New England, America. In Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town.” the stage manager
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  • 226 4 SINGAPORE. Tues. Five major projects were completed by the Public Department last year. Amongst them was the Queenstown Driving Centre which was built at a cost of $88,884. This project was the first to be completed in a move to provide improved facilities as well as decentralising
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  • 32 4 LONDON. Tue* (CPI) Queen Elizabeth II will review warships of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisations Naval Forces on May 16 as part of the celebrations marking NATO's 20th anniversary
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  • 234 4 SINGAPORE, Tues. Singapore's businessmen and industrialists have been invited to participate and visit the 47th Milan International Trade Fair to be held in Milan. Italy from April 14 to 25. According to the Italian Trade Commission here, the number of developing countries participating
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  • 326 4 PARIS, Tues. (Reuter)—A storm of protest over the handling of a nine-day siege of a lonely farmhouse near Bordeaux mounted here today as people asked: “How could it have happened?.” Newspapers unanimously condemned the decision to send police in half-track
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  • 267 4 NEW YORK. Tues (l/PI) Lt. Gen Lewis W. Walt, assistant commandant of the U.B. Marine Corps, said today the end of the Vietnam war above end of he Yienam war above anything else is “solid support” from the American public for their servicemen “I owe it
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  • 459 4 LOS ANGELES, Tues. (Reuter) The mysterious girl in the poika-dot dress, central figure in the investigation of Senator Robert Kennedy’s assassination, will probably be called to the witness stand today in the trial of Jordanian Sirhan B. Sirhan. The woman wa* named
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  • 67 4 NAIROBI. Tues (ATP) The team of eight blind Africans »caling Mount Kilimanjaro climbed to a height of 10.000 feet in seven hours yesterday The four Tanzanians, four Kenyans, and their two guides spend the night bivouacked on th« mountain side. Reports reaching here said that they
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  • 150 4 SINGAPORE. Tues. Two thugs were arrested yesterday at 3.30 pm. after they and two other accomplices had rob. bed an 18-year-old youth. Yap Peng Doon of his wristwaten worth $35 and $l3 n rash in Green Lane Yap of Lim Teek 800 Road was
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  • 56 4 SAN JOSE. Costa Rica. Tues. (UPI) Panama abruptly slosed it* border with Costa Rica withoin explanation on Monday and traffic backed up tor miles o n both side* waiting to cross. Panamanian border guards »t 4 pm. stopped the flow of traffic into and out of
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  • 313 4 SINGAPORE, Tues. The Ministry of Finance has sent out stern directives to all Ministries aid Government departments to cut down excessive waste in the use of electricity and water. The Finance Ministry directive states that the expenditure on public
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  • 113 4 LONDON, Tues. (AFP) Fifty left wing organisations including the British Vietnam Solidarity Front and the Revolutionary Student Federation said last night they would organise a series of mass demonstrations coinciding with President Nixon’s coming visit to London. The first will be staged outside the U-S.
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  • 137 4 SEOUL. Tues. (UPI) —Srr.il! snowslides and a threat of another major avalanche tocay prevented rescuers from reaming the scene where 10 alp.nists were buried on Frida; The missing were among 18 persons training for an a tempt at Mt. Everest in ‘he Himalayas. Military helicopters ferried rescue
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  • 313 5 NEW ORLEANS, Lousiano Tues. (UPI) A pathologist colled upon by the prosecution in the Cloy L. Shaw assassination conspiracy trial said today that the shot which killed President John F. Kennedy in 1963 was fired from the front. Dr. John N. Nichols
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  • 341 5 WASHINGTON. Tues. (UPI) A District of Columbia judge todav ordered autopsy X-rays and photographs of President John F. Kennedy taken to New Orleans for the Clay Shaw conspiracy trial, but the Justice Department immediately announced it would appeal the ruling. Judge Charles
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  • 136 5 FALLON. Nevada. Tues (Reuter)—The 3.000 inhabitants of this remote farming community were officially warned their water was poisonous then promptly told by higher authority to go on drinking it. Nevada State Health Officer Edwin Crlppen advised them in a letter yesterday there was enough arsenic In the
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  • 175 5 VIENNA. Tues. (UPI) Authorities at St. Stepnens Catnedral here would like to hear from anyone knowing the wnereabouts of Roman Emperor Friedrich 111 who died almost five centuries ago. r*rof. Rudolf Bachleitner. director of the Diocese museum. disclosed that Friedrich’s tomb recently was X-rayed
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  • 68 5 TOKYO. (UPI) "he Tokyo District Court has found guilty a doctor who admitted to’ have operated on three males to turn them into the opposite sex Judge Hiroshi Kumagaya fined Dr. Masao Aoki, 400,000 yen (US$1,111) and sentenced him to serve two years in prison with
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  • 338 5 Son. Kennedy Murder LOS ANGELES Tues (AFP) —A retired American football star who served the late Senator Robert Kennedy as a bodyguard took the witness stand at the trial of Sirhan Bishara Sirhan here on Monday to give his version of how the latter allegedly assassinated the
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  • 309 5 ATHENS. Georgia. Tues (Reuter) Vice-Admiral Hyman G. Rickover. whose development work made him known as the father of the U.S. nuclear submarine, has warned that unbridled use of technology "may become a Frankenstein destroying its creator.’’ He told a symposium on "Automation and society”
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  • 83 5 MONTEVIDEO. Uruguay. Tues (Reuter) Locked In a sealed glass cage. 38-year-old Yamandu Ynsaun today started a bid to beat the world fasting record. Ynsaun. born here under a circus tent. Is an admirer of Mahatma Ghandl and hopes to spend 33 days in the cage
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  • 366 5 KARACHI, Tues. (UPI) At least a dozen Pakistanis are known to have died immediately after taking a mixture containing opium and LSD. Bottled and dispensed under the name of "Bombard” —“For instantaneous e^eef” by Dr Vmer Nizami, a local homeopath, the mixture icas
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  • 124 5 SAN DIEGO. California. Tues (Reuter) Dr. Herbert Marcuse, a Marxist philosopher and hero of the newleft. has been reappointed for another year to the faculty of the University of California at San Diego. Dr. Marcuse, whose book “One dimensional man” has become the bible of the
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  • 1034 5 BURNING ZEAL CONEGLIANO. Italy. (UPI) A Prague-born Italian youth tried to burn himself to death in protest against what he called the "reign of capitalism in this damn country.” police said. Doctors said Lodovico Ferretti, 17, a self-styled Communist. suffered leg burns and would take two months to recover.
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  • 249 6 rIS is the season to think of closer affinity and mutual respect. If one Is not superstitious, the Year of the Rooster, which has just commenced, is producing enough warmth to translate these ideals Into reality. The offer by Singapore to Malaysia of a detachment of a
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  • 176 6 (AFP). THE Peking Peoples Dally today urged greater Initiative in implementing the Communist Party’s general policy. “If one waits for higher organisations to draw every minute line of demarcation in applying policy and acts only after others accumulate experiences, or If one stresses the peculiarity of
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  • 161 6 (AFP). IN Prague the Communist Party paper Rude Pravo denounced today the circulation of “insidious and ignoble leaflets” attacking party and government leaders. The paper said the leaflets were “of both extreme left-wing and right-wing inspiration.” They “even slander President Ludwig Svoboda, Party First Secretary Alexander Dubcek and
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  • 1344 6  -  By Joseph B. Fleming BERLIN, Tucs. (UPI) As they hove with U.S. Presidents since 1945, the Russians may be planning to test President Nixon on the Berlin issue. Only one month after he took office the East Germans, with Soviet
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  • 340 6  -  By G. L. PINNA KARACHI. Tues. (UPI) A wooden club smacking into a beturbaned head makes a dull, sickening sound. Somewhere In the swirling shouting, sweating mass of people jammed into the Empress Market area where there were men bringing down clubs on heads and
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  • 218 6 AmericanSoviet Summit Likely MOSCOW. Tues. (AFP). The unconfirmed news in the American magazine Newsweek that the Soviet Union has invited President Nixon to Mossow failed to cause a stir here in Western diplomatic circles. The reason was that it was generally presumed that an American-Soviet summit meeting would take place
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  • 962 6  -  By ROBERT J. KAYLOR MAHARON, East Pakistan, Tues. (UPI)— in this tiny fishing village 15 miles from the nearest road in the delta of the Ganges River, a message to President Mohammed Ayub Khan has been neatly lettered in Bengali on the side of a thatched
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  • 785 6 WARSAW. Tues. (ITI) It appears unlikely that Peking will send more than a Charge d'Affaires to the resumption of the Sino-American Ambassadorial talks here on Wednesday, diplomatic sources said on Sunday. A Chinese Embassy spokesman said Ambassador Wang-Kuo-Chan has not yet returned to Warsaw, and he declined to
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  • 701 6 (From Sin Chew Jit Poh) OWING to the impending withdrawal of the British forces from this region and the commencement of the Vietnam peace talks, nations of S-E-A and those related to S-E-A are ail very much concerned over the development ol the situation and
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 212 7 SINGAPORE, Tues. Two top American insurance executives will arrive in Singapore tomorrow Feb 19 for a four day visit. While in Singapore, the visitors wIU consultwltli AFIA Singapore branch officials ard with the AFIA Regional Control Officer for South-east Asia and India which also
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    • 139 7 TOKYO, Tues (CPI) Government approval of a merger that would give Japan the world's second largest steel-producing firm is expected on Feb. 25 Yawata and Fuji, the nation’s two largest steelmakers, planned to form a huge conglomerate that would produce 22.300.000 million tons of steel
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    • 197 7 BRUSSELS. Tues (UPI) The European Common Market Executive Commission has proposed the six member countries set up machinery for mutual monetary assistance in case of crisis and establish closer coordination of economic policies. Under the monetary machinery. member countries would commit themselves to make
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    • 929 7  -  By Frank Colyer T H E Port of Melbourne in Australia, is shrinking as it grows in stature as a major Australian sea terminal. Thi s seemingly contradictory statement was made recently by the chairman of the Melbourne Harbour Trust, Mr. VO Swanson. It sums
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    • 341 7 OTTAWA, Tues Mr. Jeon-Luc Pepin, Minister of Industry and Trade and Commerce, said recently the growth of Canadian exports in 1968 was, in absolute terms, by far the largest ever achieved, and in percentage terms the largest of the past 17 years. He was commenting
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    • 122 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues Woolworths (Malaysia) Berhad and Fitzpatrick’s Food Supplies (Far East) Ltd. has announced the re-appointment of Mr. K. T. Dwver as General Manager. Mr. Dwver previously held thi* position for almost two years between October 1964 and August 1986. when he returned to Australia Since
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    • 26 7 LONDON. Tu4* (UPI) Rubber market opened quiet with spot 23-3 8 23-5/8 No. 1 fi£S CIF basis ports March 22-7/8 J 3.
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    • 161 7 HON 6 K6NG. Tue*. (Reuter) Hon* Kong’l domestic exports fOr January were at HK1684 million (about 47 million sterling) which represented an Increase of 118 million dollars (eight million sterling) or 20.8 per cent over the same period last year, acchrdlng to government figure* released
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    • 452 7  -  By Virgil Kret TOKYO, Tußs. (UPI) ZBngakuren students may storm it and anti-American demonstrations may scare some visitors away from it. But Japan next year is going to put on the first world's fer ever held outside Europe and North America. For the Japanese, who
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    • 159 7 BONN. Tues. (DaD) The Federal Republic of Germany granted the World Bank loans amounting to a total of 1.693 billion DM ($423 million), last year. Bonn herewith contributed 34 per cent of the funds which went to this Institution. the main task of which lies
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    • 96 7 NEW YORK. Tues. (UPI) The textile industry is awaiting details of the Nixon Administration's plans for securing a voluntary -export quota agreement from leading foreign textile supplies to the US. market. Some industry sources were! inclined to shrug off reports of mounting opposition
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    • 51 7 HONG KONG, Tues. (UPI) —The Colony's accounts for the first nine months of this financial year (April to December 1968) showed a surplus of U 5516,815,000 the government reported. Compared with the same period of the last financial rear, this was an increase of
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  • 1084 9  -  By Sheilah Graham KIM Novak was on the set of "The Great Bank Robbery" at Warners-Seven Arts starring in her first western and her first comedy. She looked gorgeous alive bright eyes, great figure, hair, complexion, all beautiful. She is obviously
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  • 151 9 N’EW YORK. Tues. MGM's "Where Eagles Dare." which first opened overseas in Tokyo, December 21, is consistently outperforming The Dirty Dozen," one of MGM's all time boxofflce champions, according to an announcement by Maurice Sllverstein. president of MGM International. Total film rental to date
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  • 1396 9  -  By Hugh MacPherson "I've never been in love" soys Mary Hopkin the Beatles prodigy and top of the charts singer "I just haven't the time." Mary Hopkin was taken aback Her Press Officer was shocked. The photographer who was taking her
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  • 236 10 THE First Lady, Puan Noor Aishah receives a bouquet after she had presented awards to members of the St. John Ambulance Brigade during a ceremony recently. PICTURE shows some of the distinguished guests who attended a reception recently to mark Waitangi Day New Zealand's National Day held
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  • Sun Sport
    • 175 11 RAWALPINDI. Tuts (AFP) The touring M.C.C. team agreed to revise their Pakistan programme again yesterday to include three four-day Test matches at Lahore. Dacca and Karachi. The agreement was reached after lengthy negotiations between the President of the Pakistan Cricket Control Board, Syed Fida Hassan,
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    • 1747 11  -  By Big Ben U A L A LUMPUR, Tues. Happy Landing (Tony Yeo) beat the odds-on favourite Ever England in Race Seven here yesterday to pay $Bl the best dividend of the day. Checkmate, late Cosmopolitan (apprentice Salri) beat the well-fancied Sweet Lotus
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    • 44 11 Total Pool $54,636 1st Prixe: No. *****0 $13,522 2nd Prixe: No. *****0 6,761 3rd Prixe: No. *****4 3,380 Starters: ($422 each) Nos. *****1 *****9 *****8 *****3 *****9 *****6 *****6 *****1. Consolation: ($300 each) Nos. *****3 *****7 *****0 *****8 *****9 *****4 *****9 *****6 *****0 *****9.
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    • 60 11 AGAWAM. Massachusetts. Tues. (AFP) Marv Ann Eisel (United States) retained her women's tingles title in the U.S. East Coast covered courts tennis championships, beating South Africa’s Esme Emanuel 7-5, 6-2 in the final yesterday. Earlier in the semi-finals, the American had eliminated her compatriot Stefanie Defina 6-4. 6-0.
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    • 179 11 MEXICO CITY, Tues. (CPI) Unbeaten bantamweight boxer Ruben Olivares, who is scheduled to meet world champion Lionel Rose in Los Angeles in June for the title, was accused yesterday of beating up two boxing fans. Enrique Flores and Silvestre Hernandez told police that thev were
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    • 35 11 NOTTINGHAM. England. Tues (AFP) London boxer Vic Andretti won the British junior welterweight title at his fourth attempt here late yesterday when he beat holder Des Rea on points in a 15round bout.
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    • 167 11 LONDON. Tues (Reuter) England’* footballers were today warned that they must improve their conduct on the field. In a special memorandum, “conduct and control of the game." the English Football Association (FA.) makes it quite clear that regu'.ar offenders face stiff penalties. The
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    • 320 11 MANILA, Tues. (UPI) Organisers of the Philippine Open yesterday promised a tougher, but bigger and richer tournament next week in the first leg of the 1969 Asian golf circuit at the Wack Wack Golf and Country Club. Juan J Carlos. Wack Wack President,
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    • 1638 12  -  By BIG BEN KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Choi Kion, a five-y 6 a r-old Australian gelding by Pipe of Peace, won the Cup trial when he beat Royal Meadow II by three parts of a length in Race Four here today. Ridden by Les Coles Chai
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    • 57 12 The crash occurred after they crossed the finish line. Both Hasegawa and driver Toshihisa N'agata were taken to hospital suffering from
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    • 47 12 LONDON, Tues (Reuter) The English Football Association. tightening up on timewasting in League matches, today fined a player £25 for deliberately delaying the taking of a free kick. The player. Crystal Palace forward Mark Lazarus, was also warned as to his future conduct.
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    • 67 12 MODENA. Italy. Tues. (Reuter) Ferrari are definitely sending a car to the South African Grand Prlx on March 1. first event of the 1969 Formula One world championship, the Italian motor firm announced here today. The 3. 00 n cc 12-cylinder Ferrari car will be
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    • 152 12 TOKYO. Tues (AFP) Japan’s Hiroyuki Ebihara, the World Boxing Association’s No. 2 flyweight, has started training for his encounter with Brazil’s Jose Severino, the WBA’s No. I flyweight, in an elimination match for the vacant world flyweight title next month. The two boxers vying for
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    • 134 12 LONDON. Tues. 1 Reuter) British goccer, reeling under the effects of the winter freeze-up. took another blow from the weather tocay with the postponement of eight of tonights' matches Four English League games including the vital First Division promotion battle between Everton and Leeds
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    • 117 12 LOS ANGELES, Tues (Reuter) Mando Ramos. 20. will tonight make his second attempt to wrest the world lightweight title from il-vear-old champion Carlos "Teo” Cruz of the Dominican Reoublic. Cruz scored a unanimous point* decision over the 20->ear-old Mexican-American here last September 27 but
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    • 143 12 TOKYO. Tues (UPl> Unbeaten Ken.il Iwata. Japan’s top ranking junior ligMweight contender, scored his 14th straight victory last night by winning a unanimous 10 round over Flash Gallego. no. 5 Philippine lightweight at Korakuen Hall. There were no knockdowns. Referee Gordon Higley called it 50-45. while
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    • 696 12 He Scores A Century And A Double Century In A Test SYDNEY, Tues. (Reuter) Australia’s prodigious run collector Doug Walters sent cricket statisticians scurrying for their record books in the fifth Test at the Sydney cricket ground today. In the final over before stumps, Walters reached
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    • 331 12 LAHORE. Tues. (Reuter) MCC decided against sending for an additional player to help in the forthcoming three-match Test series with Pakistan. A meeting of the tour selectors here today agreed the present 14 players were sufficient to carry on for the time
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    • 133 12 MANILA. Tues (AFP) Rene Barrientos of the Philippines today challenged Japan’s Hiroshi Kobavashi to a title bout to ascertain which of them is the -real" world junior light-weight boxing champion. Barrientos won the world Boxing Council’s version of the 130-pound title by defeating Ruben Navarro of the
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    • 130 12 LONDON. Tues. (AFP) Johnny Cheshire, former British amateur featherweight champion and Britain's representative in the Mexico Olympics, lost his unbeaten professional record in only his second paid contest when he was stopped by Nigerian-born Tommy Tiger (Leicester) at the World Sporting Club here yesterday.
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    • 93 12 TOKYO. Tues. (Reuter) The last leg of the 1969 Asia golf circuit, the Yomiuri International Open golf championship, will be held at the Yomiuri Country Club from April 10 to 13, sponsors said today. The soonsors said players from Asia. Europe and
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    • 106 12 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) Mr. Arthur Gold. Secretary of the British Athletics Board told a press conference here today that British athletes entered for the South African Games in Blomfontein from March 14 to April 19 were competing as individuals and not as an official team.
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    • 165 12 WEST INDIES First inmn n (resuming at 7 233): C. Llovd b McKenzie 53 C. Griffith c Freeman b Glee, son 27. W. Hall b Gleeson 1 Extras 11 Total: 279. For: 100. 154. 159. 179. 179. Pft 193. 257. 259. 379. Bowling: G. McKenzie 22.5, 2. 98. 3.
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 46 12 BIG SWEEP Total Pool $48,634. 1st Prize: No. *****8 $12,037 2nd Prize: No. *****0 6,018 3rd Prize: No. *****0 3,009 Starters: ($376 each) Nos:— *****6 *****7 *****5 *****5 *****9 *****7 *****1 *****4 Consolation; ($267 each) Nos:— *****1 *****6 *****4 *****1 *****5 *****7 *****3 *****4 *****5 *****9.
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    • 166 12 Time And Tide TODAY Singapore: 12.58 a m (11 ft. 1 in.): 6.13 am. (3 ft. 3 ins.); 12.47 p.m. (11 ft, 9 ins.); 6 38 p.m. (1 ft 5 ins.). TOMORROW Singapore: 2.01 am (9 ft. 5 in.); 8.19 am (1ft. 2in.); 2.29 p.m. (9ft. 2 in 8.30 p.m.
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