Eastern Sun, 14 March 1969

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  • 23 1 Eastern Sun SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY ■fr Estd. 1968. Vol. 3 Mo. 938 Friday, 14 March 1969. ft MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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  • 440 1 Who Will Be First Astronaut On The Moon? FOUR MONTHS TO MOON SPACE CENTRE, Houston, Texas, Thurs. (UPI) The precision pilots of Apollo 9 fired a braking blast from their main engine today and returned to earth from a triumphant 10 days in
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  • 84 1 ‘Aussies Not Buying Enough From S’ pore’ MELBOURNE. Thurs. (Reuter) The leader of the first Singapore trade mission to Australia. Mr. Alan Yeo said today that Australians are not buying enough from Singapore. The mission arrived in Melbourne today for talks with Australian businessmen. Mr. Yeo, Managing Director of one
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  • 43 1 ADMIRAL Sir Peter HillNorton, the new Comman-der-in-Chief, Far East Forces, yesterday called on the Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew at City Hall. Admiral Hill-Norton recently succeeded General Sir Michael Carver who has left Singapore. Picture shows Mr. Lee (left) with Admiral HillNorton.
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  • 431 1 Kl'CHING. Thurs. The case of the forged Singapore and Malaysian notes is now “closed’’, said the Assistant Minister of Home Affairs, Enche Hamiah bin Dato Abu Samah. The Assistant Minister who arrived here today for a three-day visit told a press conference that to date
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  • 56 1 BONN. Thurs (Reuter) A West German doctor has bequeated his two-storey villa to the Soviet Embassy here in gratitude for the good treatment he received during his wartime Russian detention, according to the embassy. The 77-year-old doctor, who died recently said in his will that the bequest was
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  • 77 1 COLCHESTER. England. Thurs. (Reuter) Two workmen here have dug up more than 14.000 mediaeval silver coins the largest such haul ever found in England. A coroner’s jury yesterday decided the coins, whose value has not yet been determined, belonged to the State. The coins were found in a
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  • 156 1 KARACHI. Thurs. (CPI) President Mohammad Ayub Khan today agreed to establish a parliamentary system of Government and election by adult franchise for this crisis-wracked nation. Ayub. who has been in power for 11 years, thus met the major demands of both right and left
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  • 81 1 JAKARTA, Thurs. (Reuter) Indonesian Communists are trying to restore deposed President Sukarno to power and arm peasants in efforts to make a comebacK. a Special Government Committee said today. The committee, which is responsible for gathering information on Communist activities. said the Communists were trying
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  • 36 1 JAKARTA. Thurs. (Reuter) The Indonesian newspaper Berita Yudha reported today that villagers from wide areas in North Sulawesi were rushing to the small village of Lopana to a baby born with silver teeth.
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  • 42 1 JAKARTA. Thurs. (Reuter) Chicken thieves in the East Kalimantan (Borneo) town of Smarinda are bringing special fighting chickens with them to frighten the domestic chickens and make them easier to catch. Indonesia's Antara news agency reported today.
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  • 35 1 CAIRO. Thurs (Reuter) Major-General Ahmed Ismail Ali was appointed Chief of Staff of the U.A.R. Armed Forces today to succeed General Abdul Moneim Riad. killed in action last Sunday.
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  • 48 1 MANCHESTER, Eng 1 and. Thurs. (Reuter) Student Christopher Povey, 19. has been awarded record damages of £"8.398 for personal injury. A court here yesterday awarded the damages against the Governors r? his school for injuries in a gymnasium fall which crippled him in 1966.
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  • 180 1 SINGAPORE. Thurs. An Indonesian motorised wooden vessel “Kuala Daik 11“ was sunk today when it collided with the Port of Singapore Authority’s waterboat, “Burong”. off Tanjong Berlayer at 11 a.m. today. Following the collision, the 76-ton Indonesian vessel sank slowly but all 16 persons (15 crew
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  • 70 1 HONG KONG. Thurs. (Reuter) Chinese Army. Navy and Air Force officers have challenged Soviet troops to invade China if they like, but warned them they would be completely defeated. Radio Peking reported today. The radio said all officers and men of the armed forces had promised
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  • 110 1 SINGAPORE. Thurs. Police are looking for two youths in connection with investigations into the case involving the murder of Koh Ah Bee on March 9 at about noon along Jalan Papan. Jurong. Police gave their names as Tng Png Lip, 17, a Shanghainese
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  • 107 1 BALLYHOO SAY V.C. OF ALLIED PROTEST PARIS. Thurs. (UPI) The Vletcong today dismissed fresh Allied protests over shelling attacks In South Vietnam as slander and “ballyhoo" and served notice that its current offensive will go on without letup. “The Vletcong also warned the United States not to carry out its
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  • 68 1 LONDON. Thurs. (UPI) A Vicar announced plans on Wednesday for a bar to be run by the church with a clergyman serving. The Rev. Geoffrey Mountain, 41-year-old father of two. of St. Paul’s Church. Holgate, Yorkshire, claims a bar set up in an empty church could be
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  • 33 1 S30m Spore Sheraton Hotel project Page 2. WEEK'S second Lucky Shopper Page 4. CITIZEN swap proposal Page 9- MALAYSIAN open golf opening day Page 11. DANISH international badminton Page 12.
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 208 2 SINGAPORE, Thurs. A seemingly well-timed robbery turned out to be not so well-timed after all when two off-duty Police officers chanced upon the scene. Court prosecutor, Inspector Koh Lian Bee, and Detective Gurcharan Singh heard the shouts of the victim, spotted the three
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  • 170 2 JAKARTA, Thurs. (Reuter) Indonesia’s Department of Trade is to survey coffee and rubber production conditions starting at the end of this month in an effort to boost production and improve quality, the department announced yesterday. The Trade Department announcement said this was decided
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  • 219 2 LAUNCESTON, Australia Thurs. (UPD—The long search by a Filipino mother grateful to an Australian benefactor ended today. For the first time in nearly 25 years, Rosario Yulo met Robert Dunkley, the Australian sailor who lent them money so they could start life anew after the
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  • 69 2 SINGAPORE. Thurs. A 27-year-old woman, Tav Ah Kham. was today fined $3,000 or eight months’ jail by the Ninth Magistrate’s Court for possession of 16 gallons of samsu in her car. She admitted committing the offence at the junction ol Adam Road and
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  • 68 2 GENEVA, Thurs. (UPI) The 1969 Geneva Automobile Show opened today with 1,221 exhibits from 21 countries. Britain has submitted the largest number of cars 21. The United States follows with 15. Italy 11, West Germany 9 France 6 and Japan 4. Germany leads the field in
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  • 43 2 SINGAPORE, Thun The Singapore Family Planning and Population Board will hold a family planning lecture/demonstration including a film show in National Language on March It, at 5.30 p.m. at the Still Read Maternal and Child Health Clinic, off Changi Road.
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  • 139 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs A Mobile Post Office will commence operation in Kuching District, Sarawak, with effect from Monday, the Ministry of Works, Post and Telecommunications announced here today. The Mobile Post Office will be based in Kuehing and will operate in the kampongs and
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  • 168 2 CANBERRA, Thurs (Reuter) i— The President of the Australian Manufacturers Export Council, Mr. PC. Murray, today urged more “strings” to Government aid to developing countries. He said Australia led the world in giving aid without strings. (Apart from a bonus export scheme worth about
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  • 80 2 SINGAPORE. Thurs. A 17-year-old youth, Khalid bin Ahmad Koya, whose automatic pistol went off accidentally in the toilet of Singapura Theatre, injuring his right thigh, today pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of the pistol. However, the pistol was not recovered as it disappeared with
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  • 456 2 $30 Million S’ pore Sheraton Designed By World’ s Renowned Architects SINGAPORE, Thurs. A hotel designed by the world’s most renowned architects, costing $3O million and designed with very sophisticated modern technology, is now under construction The Singapore sneraton Hotel, located at the Junction of North Bridge Road and Coleman
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  • 314 2 SINGAPORE, Thurs. Ther e were 14 deaths due to accidents in factories in 1967, the Ministry of Labour reported today In Its annual report for the year, the Ministry said 799 accidents were reported to the Factory Inspectorate. 50 of which resulted in
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  • 147 2 SINGAPORE, Thurs The Columbia prize-winning film, "Oliver", based on Dickens’ famous novel, will be shown at a charity premiere in Singapore on April 2 at 9 pm. at the Orchard Theatre under the distinguished patronage of Enche Yusof bin Ishak. the President of the Republic
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  • 134 2 LONDON, Thurs. (Reuter) Singapore and Malaysia should pay for British equipment and installations abandoned there after the troop pull-out in 1972, Parliament was told last night. Labour member Mr John Lee said he was all in favour of overseas aid. “But I am not
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  • 139 3 SINGAPORE, Thurs. Five Singapore seamen and a Malaysian returned to Singaport last night after spending three years in North Vietnamese "prisons They were met on arrival by eager relatives and friends. The fishermen told newsmen that they were treated well while in
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  • 283 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Countries in Southeast Asia were today again urged to unite and co-oper-ate with each other to suppress the Communist threat in the region. The call for joint action came from the seven-member South Vietnamese Parliamentary delegation this time voiced
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  • 42 3 SINGAPORE. Thurs. A 53-year-old Indian, Amaru, was found hanging in his room in Lorong Tanggam, off Jalan Kayu today at 11 a.m. Amaru, single, was a labourer employed by the Royal Air Force. Seletar. Police do not suspect foul Play.
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  • 234 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Thai Railway has agreed to allow concession rates for Asian highway motor rally drivers and their vehicles for travel from the Malaysian border to Nongkhai in Northern Thailand. the Ministry of Transport here announced today. Passenger cars will be
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  • 69 3 SINGAPORE. Thurs. Military personnel will conduct exercises at the following times and pi aces:- Padang Terbakar from 2 o.m. to 10 p.m. on March 15 and 16. Tuas from 1.30 pm. to 5.20 p.m. on March 17. and Lim Chu Kang from 8 a.m to 10 p.m. from
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  • 331 3 Kuala Lumpur, Thurs. The Alliance line-up for the general elections will be finalised at a special Malaysian Alliance meeting at the Prime Minister’s Department on Saturday. The names of the candidates would be announced just before nomination day. said the Deputy Prime Minister,
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  • 76 3 KUCHING. Thurs. (Reuter)’ The leader of a four-man mission from the Asian Development Bank, (ADB), Mr. Akira Tsusaka, said the bank was interested in financing development projects in Sarawak. The mission arrived in Kuching on Sunday to study the possibility of ADB assistance for development
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  • 422 4 S’ pore-N.Z. Venture To Manufacture Masport Lawn Mowers SINGAPORE. Thurs A Joint venture between a local company and a manufacturing firm in New Zealand will be set up to manufacture Mas port lawn mowers in the Republic in two years' time. This was disclosed by Mr. G. A Thorby. product
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  • 317 4 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. The National Electricity Board has granted a meritorious conduct award to Mr. A. Muniandy, a fault finder with the N.E.B. Teluk Anson for his prompt action which saved the lives of two persons In a fire. On the
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  • 63 4 SINGAPORE. Thfure. The Rochore Community Centre will hold a variety show. “Showtime 69" at the National Theatre on March 28 to raise money in aid of the Centre’s activities fund. The Minister for Science and Technology. Dr. Toh Chin Chye who is also M.P. for Rochore. wiU attend
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  • 204 4 PENANG. Thurs A S 5 million industrial training institute will be set up soon by tbe Government at Pral. near here, the Minister of Labour, Mr. V. Manickavasagam, announced here today. Mr. Manickavasagam. who is on a two-day visit of Penang. added that as
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  • 640 4 SINGAPORE. Thurs. A seven-member parliamentary delegation from the Repubic of Vietnam warned today that if their country went Communist the consequences would be tragic in Asia. The parliamentarians are on a month-long goodwill tour of South-east Asia to strengthen the bonds of friendship between their country
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  • 69 4 MANILA, Thurs. (Reuter) The Asian Development Bank (ADB) yesterday announced it had reorganised its operational set-up to make it more convenient for member c ountries to obtain loans, technical assistance and advisory services The president of the ADB. Mr. Takeshi Watanabe, making the announcement said the
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  • 232 4 SINGAPORE. Thurs. These are the "PLAYGIRLS". They are some of Australia’s best showgirls who have been carefully selected by their manager, Ray Bolwell. They are from left Jan (Honey) Brown, Jane Ballantyne. Tabatha Marchinton, Kim Swanson and Irene Lau. Said their manager. Mr. BolweU: "This
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  • 140 4 SHOPPING or merely browsing in any of the three leading department stores Metro, Metrotex, and C. K. Tang puts everyone, young and old, in line for a $2O gift voucher, the prize of our twice weekly Eastern Sun Lucky Shopper contest. Our second Lucky Shopper
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  • 100 4 IPOH. Thurs. The Perak State Legislative Assembly today approved an amendment in the mining enactment empowering the police and the authorities concerned to make arrests and seize boats and equipment without a warrant. Introducing the motion, the Mentn Besar. Dato Haj: Ahmad Said, said the
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  • 98 5 WASHINGTON. Thurs. (Reuter) The U.S. senate today rejected a proposal that the U.S. should retain the right to transfer nuclear arms to Its Nato allies even after ratifying the East-West nuclear non-proliferation treaty. Senators voted 75-to-17 to turn down a reservation which would have
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  • 278 5 WASHINGTON, Thurs. (UPI) President Nixon has announced that Gen. Lyman Lemnit*er would step down as the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe on July 1 and be replaced by Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster, Deputy U.S. com. mander in Vietnam. Gen. Goodpaster. a longtime Nixon adviser, will
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  • 52 5 SANTA MONICA. California. (Reuter) Actor Robert Taylor, in hospital here since March 7 for treatment of an abscess, was today reported “doing well”. Mr. Taylor, 58. had his right lung removed last October 8. A spokesman at St. John's Hospital said he was expected to be released
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  • 61 5 WASHINGTON, (Reuter) President Nixon has announced he intends to nominate Mr Henry Loomis, a former director of the Voice of America, as deputy director of the U.S. Information Agency. Mr. Loomis. 49. was deputy US. Commissioner of Education from 1965 to 1966 Before that he served
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  • 226 5 ROME. Thurs. (UPI) Italians threw coins yesterday but not in the Trevl fountain. Striking top level civil servants hurled a barrage of small change at the parliament building in a gesture of contempt. Tourist traditionally tosa coins into the Trevi fountain a few blocks away
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  • 78 5 WASHINGTON. (Reuter) The House of Representatives has voted a US. contribution to the International Development Association (1.D.A.) of USs4Bom. over a three-year period. It will next be discussed by the senate. The U.S contribution represents 40 per cent of the total replenishment of resources for 1.D.A., which
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  • 356 5 THE BAD LOSER MANILA. Thurs. (UPI) A losing bidder in Tokyo attacked recommendation of the Reparations Commission to award to a Japanese firm a contract to supply the Philippines crawler tractor* worth about LSs2m. The losing bidder. Mitsubishi Shoki Kaisha Ltd., said through a
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  • 78 5 GLOUCESTER England. (Reuter) The bodies of four people who died from gunshot wounds were discovered near here yesterday. Police said they were a married couple who owned a boatyard and the woman’s parents. They issued the description of a 26-year-old man whom they urgently want to ‘race.
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  • 80 5 CARRARA. Italy (UPI) Ceylon's Ambassador to Italy. Maj. Gen Hemachandra Wichrama Wijeyekoon, was seriously mjureo in an automobile accident near this famed city of marble yesterday. Police said the ambassador was travelling in a car driven by his son when it collided with a truck. No cause
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  • 117 5 VATICAN CITY. Thurs (Reuten A 50-vear-old Roman Catholic priest who as held several junior Vatican posts has obtained Pope Paul’s permission to leave the clergy and get married. Vatican sources said today. Monsignor Giovanni Musante last year celebrated the end of his 25th year in holy
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  • 99 5 VALLETTA. Malta, Thurs (UPI) Australian Sandra Mlscallef said she would not leave Malta until the murderer of her 32-year-old husband. Emanuer. was wrought to justice. Miscallef died on Saturday when a bomb exploded in his car. The couple, from Sydney, were visiting relatives in Malta Miscallef's
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  • 35 5 HYDERABAD, India. (Reuter) Four people were killed and 30 injured when the military truck in which they were travelling swerved to avoid a collision and overturned near this southern city today
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  • 335 5 PARIS. Thurs. (Reuter) Vietnam peace negotiators meet here today for their eighth full-scale session with no apparent hope of breaking the deadlock in the six-week-old talks. Allied diplomats here consider that the first phase of the Vieteong's current offensive in South Vietnam is petering out. But
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  • 58 5 KARACHI. (Reuter) Soviet Defence Minister Marshal Andrei Grechko yesterday watched Pakistan's Air Fore® Commander. Air Marshal Malik Nur Khan, fly a MiG 19 in a mock assault staged about 80 miles northwest of Rawalpindi. Marshal Grechko also saw in action F-104S and Sabre aircraft made
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  • 256 6 THE present Indonesian leadership commands considerable prestige in the world eye. Largely, this is due to the sense of stability and sobriety which President Suharto and his team have brought into the Indonesian scene since the exit of Soekarno. Mob oratory, incitement to violence and dreams of
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  • 212 6 (UPI) THE Soviet Union and the United States have achieved a balance in arms which opens the way for nuclear disarmament talks, the Government newspaper Izvestia said on Wednesday. In a lengthy article by the paper's leading political commentator, Vikenty Matveyev, Izvestia said, “The obstacles
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  • 217 6 (UPI) THE Christian Science Monitor said on Wednesday Pakistan’s main problem in the days ahead appeared to be “to hold itself together.” Under the heading “Strains in Pakistan” the paper said in an editorial President Ayub Khan had made an impressive mark in Pakistan. “In
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  • 413 6  -  By Jean Raffaelli MOSCOW. Thurs. (AFP)— The Soviet tnion is building up its military strength and its civilian labour force in its Far Eastern territories near the Chinese border, following the Ussuri River incident of March in which 31 Soviet soldiers were killed,
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  • 133 6 BELGRADE. Thurs (UPI) Large crowds of Chinese civilians and soldiers on Wednesday staged anti-Soviet demonstrations in Peking and all over Red China, the Yugoslav News Agency Tanjug reported from Peking. Tanjug said no incidents were reported as demonstrators showed “outstanding discipline The anti-Russian demonstrations. sparked
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  • 147 6 MOSCOW. Thurs. (UPI) The Soviet published photographs on Wednesday of mutilated bodies of Russian soldiers and accused the Communist Chinese of murdering them in their border clash on March 2. That battle, on frozen Damansky island, had led to an escalating war of words
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  • 407 6  -  BY ROBERT EVANS MOSCOW. Thurs. (Reuter) —The Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda today published a charge that Josef Stalin ran the country with his eyes shut for five years before 1941, leaving secret police chiefs to jail innocent people. The charge la made through
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  • 407 6  -  By James O. Jackson PRAGUE, Tues. (UPI) Gustav Husak. Slovak Communist Party leader on Wednesday disclosed the party's top ideologist had been fired because of his extremist progressive views and for engaging in “public arguments” about party-approved documents. Husak made the disclosure at a full
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  • 104 6 HONG KONG. Thurs. (ATP) The people of Shaoshan. birth-place of Chairman Mao Tse-tung. have planted more than 200 Albanian olive saplings, tokens of 81no-Al-banlan friendship, the New China News Agency reported today. The saplings, gifts from the Albanians, were planted in the Shaoshan nursery on March
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  • 238 6 MOSCOW. Thurs (AFP> The Soviet Government, in informing Western powers of details concerning its frontier clash with Chinese forces last March 2. shows that it considers the incident to be of international importance, diplomatic observers here believe. The Soviet Ambassadors to West Germany and to France informed
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  • 110 6 MOSCOW. Thurs. (UPI) The Soviet Union accused Mao Tse-tung on Wednesday of plotting to destroy the Chinese Communist Party later this year in a scheme designed to set uo a dictatorship and make China a third power between capitalist and socialist systems.
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  • 32 6 UMUAHIA, Thurs. (ATP) A Blafran war bulletin today said “very heavy fighting” was continuing Inside Owerrl town where nearly 2.000 Federal marine commandos have been encircled for the past month.
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  • 485 6 HONG KONG, Thurs. (UPI) —An authoritative Communist Chinese publication described Soviet leaders as “opium traffickers and boose merchants” for permitting the revival of religion in Russia. “To provide pretexts for rampant religious activities, the shameless Kremlin traitors have sunk to such depths
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  • 550 6 PRAGUE, Thurs. (AFP) The writers’ Union weekly. Listy, today strongly criticised the Csechoslovak Communist Party for its failure to send a delegation to the current Congress of the Yugoslav League of Com- munists. Ludvik Vacu 1 i k wrote: Everyone in Czechoslovakia knows that Yugoslavia
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  • 153 6 HONG KONG. Thurs. (Reuter) The New China News Agency today accused the Soviet Union of trying to extend Its military power to the Indian Ocean by taking advantage 0 f Britain's military withdrawal from East of the Suez The accusation was contained in a lengthy
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    • 342 6 PARENTS are quite reluctant these days to want to send their children overseas for higher studies for the fact that in most cases, they returned home imbibing the western cultures and manners which are contrary to the good and respectful oriental and traditional ways
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    • 92 6 I strongly support the call made by T. S. Lee in your column of the Bth March for more “ANG CHYE” display during the Chinese New Year festive season. Within the past few years, this tradition has gradually been neglected or abandoned and I,
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 490 7 Fa bid to relate component* and vehicle testing to orcinary road use. Ford of Britain has embarked on a new test programme to further Improve vehicle reliability. The move will see a small rectangular box fitted into the luggage compartments of 35
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    • 52 7 NEW YORK. Thurs. (UPI) Rubber future* closed 20 to 25 points higher yesterday on no sales: (Bid) (Asked) May 25.75 27.00 July 25.30 26.00 Sept 2520 2580 Nov 25.20 25 80 Jan (t) 25 20 25 80 Mar 25.20 25 80 Locally. No. 2 RSS was 26 cents
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    • 78 7 SINGAPORE, Thurs. The following ships are expected to be in port today: God owns Vessels 1/2 Humilaria 8 4 Phenian 8/7 Ellen Bakke 8 9 A-‘»-10/11 Polydoroo Le/embank Asia Ran 23 24 Bencleuch 25/28 Ranyo Marti 33 '34 Thai 35/36 Makeverett 38/39 Centaur 42/43 St. Of Travaneore
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    • 211 7 Head Of Watch Company Visits S’ pore 6INOAPORE. Thurs Mr. RelJlro Hattorl. the executive managing director of the manufacturing complex that produces tne world renowned Seiko chronometers of Japan, began a four-day visit to Singapore from today. As head of the Seiko Watch K Hattorl Company Limited. Mr Hattorl will
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    • 262 7 NEW YORK. Thura. (UPI) Stocks staged an orderly retreat yesterday in moderate turnover. Shortly before the final bell, the UPI stock market Indicator. measuring all stocks traded, was off 0 24 per cent on 1.531 issues on the tape Declines led advances. 748
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    • 58 7 HONG KONG. Thur*. (UPI) Money Quotations. HK$ 8.***** per U.S dollar HKMIIS oer U.S. dollar TT. HK514.53 pe r pound sterling HK5318.25 per tael of gold 94 5 per cent fineness HKSI6I per 10,000 Japanese yen HK$ 133.0 per 100 Philippine pesos buyers HK5134.0 per 100 Philippine
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    • 1566 7 SINGAPORE. Thurs Slightly easier conditions prevailed in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore today as trading again concentrated on selected industrials. VlnA tl Am /Is* st a a The new issues were somewhat left aside for the time being and the market
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    • 86 7 LONDON. Thurs. (UPI) Rubber market closed steady yesterday with 25, 25-3/8. Settlement House April 25-1 16 25-5 16 May 25-3/16 25-3/8 April/June 25-3/16 25-3, 8 July/Sept 24-7/8 25 Oct Dec 24-11/16 24-3/4 Jan/March 24-3/8 24-I'2 April June 24-I'B 24-1/4 July/Sept 24 24-1/8 Oct Dec 23-7
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    • 167 7 A new trib of packaged holidays to the Orient, created for the two and three-week holidaymaker is now being offered by BOAC in the USA Value Orient Holidays provide one 17-day itinerary and a pair at 22 days each. Tieauent departures are scheduled
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    • 280 7 SINGAPORE. Thurs March first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p m., in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today at 70-3 8 cents per lb., unchanged from previous close The tone of the market was very quiet. London advices weie lower than expected and the market eased
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    • 37 7 NEW YORK Thurs. (UPI) Dow-Jones closing averages on the New York stock exchange: 30 Industrials 917.52 20 Rails 244 22 13 Utilities 131.58 65 Stocks 322.07 40 Bonds Commodity Futures 73 68 Index 139.09
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    • 174 7 LONDON. Thura. (UPI) Induatrial markets kept to this week's quietly mixed pattern again yesterday, but gold stocks, although above tne worst, suffered widespread losses on the return to more settled conditions In the monetary and bullion markets. Ahead of Thursday’s trade figures. government stocks went better
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    • 662 7 SINGAPORE Stork Ex change Mild and other price* nftinall* listed at lhe closa ot ou»lnrH INDUSTRIALS B S. ACM A 2.14 Ben A- Co \R 2 3* 2.40 Hen (Rts) 78 .90 Borneo Bhd 1 *7 1 88 Bnustead 2 16 2 19 Camel Plywood 2.90
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    • 16 7 SINGAPORE. Thurs. The tin price for today was 5594.37 J per picul, down Sl5O.
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    • 53 7 Manager* Price*) l*t Malayan XD 3 02 2nd Malayan XD 218 —W 3rd Malayan 1 38 The Commerce Ind. 1.08 The mating lund 118 \l> 1.19 1.29 '1 Invetf Mind 1 33 143 t»t Mont Kont 1 3fi 1.42* -lid Mont Kong 95 1 00* Merlin; om 7/1
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    • 109 7 SINGAPORE. Thun. The noon prices ai Che Singapore l hmese Produce Exchange todaj a rt Buyer (seller t ocunut nil (Fo b i Hulk 49.50 OCullUt oil < F O B > Drum 52 Of) 'lived opia 31.00 Mum Ink While Pepper n o k > f. w 113.00
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    • 155 7 SINGAPORE. Thurs. Tho Association of Banks In Malaysla-Slngapore today made the following changes in its rates to merchants (rates are quoted to the equivalent of 100 units of foreign currency). Selling TT or O.D. ready: Deutsche Marks $7#.7475; Holland Guilders *84.9700; Swiss Francs $71.7125; Belgian Francs $6 1325;
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  • 29 8 MOSCOW: Soviet news agency Novosti says photo shows Red Chinese soldiers waving rifles like clubs in “provocation’ in the area of Damansky Island on Russian-Soviet border. UPI radio photo.
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  • 219 8 CORONADO, California, Thurs. (Reuter) An American professor this week presented a design for an eel-like nuclear submarine freighter which, he says, would cut the cost of transocean shipping by over 50 per cent. Dr. Robert L. Whitelaw, professor of Mechanical
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  • 124 8 SPACE CENTRE. Houston. Thurs. (UPI) Apollo 9's astronauts received orders yesterday to add one orbit to their flight and splash down on Thursday in the Atlantic in gentle tradewind swells rather than in the storm-tossed original landing area “Lets go there, lets go there.”
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  • 504 8 APOLLO-9 FLIGHT SPACE CENTRE HOUSTON, Thurs. America's Apollo-9 astronauts, with their return to Earth less than 48 hours away, are looking forward to good weather in the Atlantic Ocean recovery area. Astronauts James McDivitt, David Scott and Russell Schweickart got the Information that a
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  • 115 8 NEW DELHI, Thurs. (Reuter) Representatives of the United States, the Soviet Union, Hungary, Belgium and India will meet here today for informal talks on a draft convention on liability for damages by objects launched into outer space. Two draft conventions have so far been tabled at
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  • 217 8 UNITED NATIONS New York. Thurs. (Reuter) Sexual segregation in schools and universities Is on the wane throughout the world, according to a report prepared for the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women. But discrimination against women and girls, in both employment and responsibility, persists and
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  • 100 8 CALCUTTA. Thurs. (Reuter) International airlines today threatened to boycott Calcutta's Dum Dum airport if they were not assured absolute protection in the airport's operational area. The threat came during an emergency meeting at which airline representatives expressed their concern at an "invasion” of the
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  • 162 8 JERUSALEM. Thurs (UPI) Israeli troops have dug in deeply along the 102-mile Suez Canal to discourage any Egyptian military expedition onto the Sinai Peninsula. Israeli military sources said today. It was in a vain effort to disrupt the building of these fortifications located at
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  • 243 8 SIKHS SEEK TO INVEST NAIROBI. (UPI) President Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya today welcomed a Sikh delegation from Thailand visiting East Africa. The delegation, of bankers and textile magnates, led by His Holiness Sri Satguru Jagjithsinghji Matiarai is in Kenya to investigate possible investment prospects. STUDENTS RIOT IN BOGOTA BOGOTA.
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  • 341 8 ■Jf a weekly pictorial feature by the Eastern Sun based -jf on the photographs 45* 4f taken by our camera- 4r man at o ffi cia l 4f functions, parties, <jf exhibitions, shop- ■jf W #ping centres etc. 4f iJc sjc ?fc ]%|RS. John Hoyer, wife
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  • 217 9 SINGAPORE, Thurs. The Singapore Tourist Association is organising a competition for the most attractive service filling stations in Singapore in co-operation with five major oil companies here. Cash prizes totalling 54.600 will be offered for the contest, designed to help enhance the garden city
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  • 183 9 SINGAPORE, Thurs. Representatives for six South-east Asian countries including Singapore meet here from Monday to Thursday to discuss the progress of the South-east Asian Fisheries Development Centre. The meeting, to be held, at the National Theatre will be attended by representatives from Japan. Malaysia, Philippines. Thailand.
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  • 93 9 JAKARTA. Thurs. (Reuter) The chief of the Central Java Fisheries Service, Mr. Samirun. has said his service was receiving many Inquiries from overseas countries wanting to buy fish and shrimps from Indonesia. Indonesia's Antara news agency reporting from Semarang Central Java quoted Mr. Samirun as saying
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  • 72 9 S’ PORE GETS ORCHID AWARD QINGAPORE. Thurs Once O again. Singapore s beautiful orchids have won fame and glory for the Republic. At the Delhi Flower show held in New Delhi on Feb 16, the Singapore Botanic Gardens won the Dr B.P Pal Challenge Cup for its exhibit of orchids
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  • 144 9 CAIRO. Thur* (AFP) Foreign Ministers of the Arab League countries have condemned alleged impending new arms deliveries to Israel and threatened to take “suitable measures to ward off dangers arising from such deliveries.” The warning was contained in an official communique issued as the three
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  • 115 9 I NANTES. France. (Reuter) A massive 10-day manhunt ended in a near-lynching here last night when a angry crowd captured alleged gang leader Bra h i m Lahoucine, wanted in connection with a series of raids on Paris suburban cafes in which several people were killed. Lahoucine
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  • 44 9 NEW DELHI. Thurs. (Reuter) India's Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi will pay a State visit to Burma from March 27 to 30. it was announced here last night. She was invited by General Ne Win. chairman of the Burmese Revolutionary CounciL
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  • 191 9 LONDON. Thurs. <UPI) Britain, in a new challenge to France, yesterday named a government minister as her permanent representative on the council of Western European Union (WEU > which the French have boycotted for the past month. The Foreign Office announced that Lord Chalfont. Minister
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  • 81 9 SINGAPORE. Thurs Marine Police are still conducting a search for the seven men missing since the collision between the "World Carrier" and the ‘‘Shun Tal” off St. John s Island on Tuesday. A local Balvage company. Selco. has also been asked to look Into the
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  • 63 9 WASHINGTON. Thurs (Reuter) US. authorities in Saigon will court martial American servicemen and civilians under contract in Vietnam involved in black market currency operations, the State Department said today. “We are spending US$6OO m (£250 m) a year to stabilise the Vietnamese economy and prevent inflation.”
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  • 85 9 PARIS. Thurs. (UPI> President Charles de Gaulle and his cabinet completed preparations for annual summit talks with West German leaders starting today. Both French and West German leaders predicted the two-day conference between de Gaulle. Chancellor Kurt Georg Kleslnger and their Ministers here would be ••difficult” because
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  • 219 9 SINGAPORE, Thurs. The queueing at bus-stops campaign will be extended for another two weeks, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry for Education, Dr. Lee Chiaw Meng, said today. Dr. Lee who is also chairman of the organising committee for the Q" movement said the extension
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  • 179 9 SINGAPORE. Thurs.. An MP is to ask the Government to consider a bilateral arrangement with the Malaysia Government on the granting of citizenship to those with permanent! jobs and at least 10 years' ex- perience. The MP. Mr. Low Guan Onn (River Valley)
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  • 87 9 SINGAPORE. Thurs The Singapore Chinese Girls’ School will hold a pop show at the National Theatre tomorrow night from 8 to 11 pm. to raise funds for its extension building fund. The show, entitled "Friday Pop-Inn” will feature the Trailers, the Deltones. Hazel Lee,
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  • 142 9 MANILA. Thurs. (AFP) A visiting American drug firm executive toid President Marcos today that a new drug had been developed to cure snail fever (schistosomiasis), which had affected about 141.000 people in the Philippines, mostly women and children. David M Corcoran, president of Winthrop Stearns informed
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  • 87 9 TRAVIS AIRFORCE BASE. California. (UPI) Madame Chiang Kai-shek arrived here yesterday aboard a Chinese Nationalist Air Force DCS to attend the funeral in San Francisco tomorrow of her brother. T. A. Soong. The wife of Nationalist China’s president transferred to a limousine without meeting newsmen
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  • 246 9 JAKARTA, Thurs. (Reuter) President Suharto's decision to drop the Netherlands from itinerary of his first European trip in May is aimed at maintaining Indonesia's good relations with that country, government officials said today. They said the two governments had agreed that the President delay his
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  • 104 9 SINGAPORE, Thurs. Nanyang University has planned a series of activities to celebrate “Nanyang Week*’ from Mav 23 to 30 in conjunction with the 150th anniversary of the founding of Singapore. The celebrations are aimed at Introducing Nantah activities to the public since its reorganisation. A "Nanyang
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  • 105 9 MENDOZA. Argentina, Thurs. AFP) A Chinese surgeon has grafted the toe of a 17-year old bakery worker on to the youth’s hand it was learned here today. The youth lost two fingers of his right hand in an accident at work. Dr Jorge Diez
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  • 107 9 CARTAGENA. Colombia. Thurs. (UPI) A 17-year-old student. Caro Montoya, who tried but failed in an attempt to hijack a Colombian Airliner to Cuba on Tuesday, was reported recovering from head wounds today. Montoya was shot bv police when he was bodily thrown out of the DC-4 by
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  • 147 9 SINGAPORE. Thurs. Lovers of Indian music in Singapore will have a rare opportunity of listening to a recital of carnatic music when Srimati Salem S Jayaiakshmi performs at the Victoria Theatre on March 21 at 8 p.m. Srimati Jayaiakshmi received good grounding and rigid training
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  • 61 9 SINGAPORE. Thurs. A 34-year-old pedestrian. Chong Chear. Soo of Jalan Bahaga died of head injuries ir. hospital yesterday after he was knocked down by a motor cvcle at the junction of Jalan Besar and Foch Road on March 2. There were 71 other road accidents of which
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    • 72 9 FRIDAY POP-INN In Aid Of THE SINGAPORE CHINESE GIRLS’ SCHOOL BUILDING FUND. Tonight At The National Theatre 8-11 p.m. PROGRAMME: 1. The Trailers 2. The Deltones 3. Hazel Lee 4. The Sunny Low Dancers 5. The Roadrunners 6. The Idols 7. The Dukes 8. Lilian Koh 9. The Kinsmen 10.
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    • 319 9 TODAY and YOU... Friday, March 14, 1969. STAR GAZER‘*O r 1 L ARIES WAR 2) APR 1« 16-22-28-45 51-67-70 yf TAURUS <*\ 20 I WAY 20 -•>l4-18-24-29 5x54-55-66 GEMINI MAY 21 JUNE 20 4- 6-34-37 44-46-57 CANCER JUNE 21 JULY 22 1- 7-10-43 '69-71-83-90 LEO JULY 23 AUG 22 K-
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  • 630 10 SINGAPORE, Thurs. The leader of the visiting five-man American survey mission from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Prof. Dr. G.S. Brown today urged for closer co-operation and exchange between the MIT and the Singapore Government. The team of MIT experts who visited the Republic
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  • 232 10 HONG KONG. Thurs. (Reuter) Hong Kong's community leaders today attacked a British Parliamentarian's claim that British troops stationed In the Colony served no useful purpose. Three urban Councillors members of Hong Kong’s only popularly elective body said that the 6,000 strong garrison was essential for security.
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  • 311 10 Japan Keen To Have Joint Ventures With S’ pore—Bank Chief SINGAPORE, Thurs. The outgoing Manager of the Mitsui Bank Ltd. here. Mr. Takehiro Kondoh. said that Japan was very interested in having joint venture* 1 with Singapore. He was confident that Japan would give all the necessary help in Singapore’s
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  • 192 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. Authorised bullion merchants and banks in West Malaysia were today Invited by the government to submit tenders for the importation of 30.000 ounces of gold bullion for the quota period April 1, to June 30 this year. According to a statement Issued
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  • 119 10 SINGAPORE. Thurs. A hospital employee. Chua Peck Toh was granted a divorce by the High Court today on the grounds of her husband’s adultery Chua. told the court that she married Edward Chin Yun Fah at the Singapore Registry of Marriages in September 1964. They have
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  • 50 10 AIR INDIA held a cocktail reception at the Golden Lotus, Hotel Malaysia in honour of their General Manager, Air Marshall M.S. Chaturvedi on Tuesday. Seen in the Eastern Sun picture are (from left) Air Marshall Chaturvedi, Mr* D-P. Mitra and Mr. Mitra. Manaeer of Air India for Singapore and Malaysia!
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  • 80 10 BALTIMORE. Maryland, Thurs. (UPl)—Rookie Wes Unseld dropped in two foul shots with four seconds remaining yesterday to enable Baltimore to beat the New York Knicks 111-110. Coupled with Philadelphia’s 126-117 loss to Boston. Baltimore now lead the east by three games going into the final
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  • 70 10 BOCA RATON. Florida, Thurs (UPl)—Maj. Gen. Thomas J. Hanley Jr., 75. a former West Point classmate of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and former World War II Air Corps Commander of the China-Burma theatre, died on Sunday. Prior to commanding the flying forces in the China-Burma
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  • 27 10 JAKARTA, (Reuter) Certain Indonesian armed forces members have supplied arms to Communists in Central Java, the Armed Forces newspaper Angkatan Bersendjata, reported today.
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  • 365 10 SINGAPORE. Thurs. The life of a young sweet-seller girl married to a Singapore Polytechnic student was narrated in the High Court today in a divorce proceedings brought by the girL Mr. Lut Boon Poh. counsel for the girl. Ng Aik Chen, told the court her
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  • 301 10 SINGAPORE, Thurs. The President of the Institution of Production Engineers of England, Sir Eric Mensforth, today pledged that his institution would do everything it could to assist the Republic in the training of production engineers. He said this after meeting Dr. Toh
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  • 97 10 SINGAPORE. Thurs. Chow Ho Keen. a fitter was granted a divorce by Mr. Justice Tan Ah Tah in the High Court today on the grounds of his wife’s adultery. Chow, in an uncontested petition told the court that his wife, Foo Pak Lim committed adultery with
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  • 371 10 IPOH, Thurs. The Minister of Education, Enche Mohamed Khir Johari, today said it is the aim of the government to see that every child in the country becomes preferably with a sufficient knowledge in the National language and English. This is important because the
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  • 21 10 BANGKOK: Three of the four U.S. Army airmen released by Cambodia are seen here on arrival on Wednesday. UPI radio photo.
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    • 707 11 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Frank Phillips of Australia took the first round lead of the Malaysian Open Golf Championships when he fired a five under-par 67 today. Phillips, winner of the Singapore Open in 1961 and 1965 and who holds the Selangor Course record
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    • 264 11 CHRISTCHURCH. New Zealand. Thurs (Reuter) West Indies batsman Seymour Nurse celebrated his final Test appearance with one of his greatest centuries against New Zealand here today. Nurse battled brizzling rain and poor light to hit an unbeaten 122. He dominated an unbroken second-wicket stand of 196
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    • 147 11 SINGAPORE. Thurs. Singapore s most outstanding centre-forward, Kartar Singh, (above) of Khalsa Association has been suspended for three months by the Singapore Hockey Association Organising Committee. The Secretary of the SHA, Mr. S. Yogarajah said that Kartar's suspension starts from March 1 after a decision
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    • 350 11 TOKYO. Thurs. (Reuter) Leading jockeys from Australia. New Zealand, India. Singapore. Thailand, the Philippines and Japan clash here on Sunday in a special invitation event being staged as part of the eighth Asian Racing Conference. Japanese racing fans will be seeing all the
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    • 45 11 BRISBANE. Thurs (Reuter) Pam Kilborn. Australian Olympic silver medallist, clipped one-tenth of a second of her National and British Commonwealth 100 metres hurdles record at the Australian athlet ic§ championships here today when she won her heat in 13 3 second.
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    • 509 11 Lincoln H’ cap LONDON, Thurs. (Reuter) At the second acceptance stage. 35 were left in for the Irish Sweep Lncoln Handicap and 54 for the Grand National steeplechase The 35 acceptors with probable jockeys and weights for the Irish Sweeps Lincoln Handicap to be run
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    • 249 11 SINGAPORE. Thurs. The Singapore Hockey Association have selected 35 players for the National squad to undergo centralise training, commencing on Monday. This was disclosed today by the Secretary of the SHA, Mr. S. Yogarajah He said that the players were selected on their Performances in
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    • 138 11 MOSCOW. Thurs. (AFP)’ Valeri Brumel, holder of the world high jump record of two metres 28 (seven feet 5.75 inches) since July 1963 cleared two metres (six feet 6.75 inches) during his physical reeducation training at the "Young Pioneers” indoor stadium here today. Brumel
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    • 340 12 COPENHAGEN, Thurs. (Reuter) Two Danes will fight out the men's singles final of the Danish badminton championships following the shock defeat of Malaysian star Tan Aik Huang .ure ycsteraay. Aik Huang, the number two seed, was beaten 15-7, 9-15, 15-10 by
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    • 334 12 LONDON, Thurs. (Reuter) Mighty Glasgow Celtic, the pride of Scottish football, were knocked out of the European Cup by Italians A C Milan last night in one of the biggest upsets of the season. Injury-hit Milan won 1-0 to join champions Manchester United (England), AJax (Holland)
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    • 70 12 SAINT ETIENNE. France, Thurs. (Reuter) Eddy Merckx of Belgium retained the overall lead in the Paris-Nice cycle race, first major road test of the season, after today’s third stage. Merckx finished fifth in the 145 kilometres (about 90 miles) road section of the stage from Paray
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    • 68 12 NAIROBI. Thurs. (Reuter) Kenya will boycott athletics meetings in West Germany. Italy, and Switzerland this year in protest against athletes from the three countries competing in the South African Games. A spokesman for the Kenya Amateur Athletic Association said the decision was taken after a meeting
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    • 61 12 LONDON. Thurs. (Reuter) St. Barts Hospital beat Guy’s Hospital by eleven points to three in the Rugby Union Hospital Cup final played here yesterday. Other results: RUGBY LEAGUE Castleford 17, Keighley 4. RUGBY UNION Club matches Bridgend 3. Llanelli 6. Bristol 9. Exeter 0. Ebbwe Vale 6.
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    • 68 12 LAHORE, Pakistan. Thurs. (Reuter) The International Hockey Federation will oppose any move to curtail the number of teams competing in team events in future Olympic Games. This was stated by the Federation’s Belgian President. Mr. Rene G. Frank, in an interview here
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    • 82 12 LONDON. Thurs. (AFP) Spanish-based Trinidad heavyweight boxer Ulrich Regis is seriously ill in a hospital here after an emergency operation late last night to remove a blood clot on his brain. Regis was rushed to hospital after being found unconscious in his hotel yesterday. He had
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    • 422 12 LONDON, Thurs. (Reuter) Geoff Hurst, whose hat-trick won England the World Cup final against West Germany here three years ago. gave a repeat performance at rain-swept Wembley last night as the world champions crushed France 5-0. It was England's first international victory of the season, ending a
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    • 180 12 LONDON. Thurs. (AFP) The four top women professional tennis players will take part in a tournament in Tokyo in April. One of the four. Britain's Mrs. Ann Jones, was hoping to play in the British hard court championships at Bournemouth beginning on April
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    • 99 12 The Berlin photographer. Heinrich von der Becke. took the “Sporting Picture of the Year’’ with this photo. With this shot when he calls “Gymnastic Rocket”, von der Becke won the annual competition held by the German Sport Press Association for the sporting pi?ture of the
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    • 280 12 CHRISTCHURCH. New Zealand. Thurs (UPI) West Indies cricket captain. Garfield Sober.* denied yesterday he has threatened to withdraw from the forthcoming England tour because he is dissatisfied with the selection of the touring team. He said here that the report he was dissatisfied with
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    • 138 12 LONDON. Thurs (Reuter) Excessive pad play will be among the subjects to be considered by the English Test and County Cricket Board at their meeting at Lords here next Tuesday. Recommendations on pad play have soon to be submitted to the international cricket conference, and
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    • 136 12 SYDNEY. Thurs. (UPI) Mr. Norman Smith, manager of the New South Wales Greyhound Breeders. Owners and Trainers’ Association (GBOTA) announced plans to establish greyhound racing in Jakarta on his return from a four-day visit there. Mr. Smith said the greyhound raring track is to be built
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    • 190 12 PALM BEACH GARDENS. Florida. Thurs. (UPI) Sam Snead, six times a playing member of the Ryder Cup team, was picked to captain the U S 1969 team by the Executive Committee of the Professional Golfers Association. “This makes a real big day for me.
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    • 472 12 HONG KONG. Thurs. The veil of secrecy has yet to be pulled aside but a field of almost entirely new cars is expected to turn out in Britain for the 1969 BO AC International 500 world sports car championships race, on Sunday, April
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    • 122 12 HONG KONG. Thurs. (Reuter) American tennis ace Richard Pancho' Gonzales will not participate in this year’s Wimbledon. Mr. Gonzales, currently in Hong Kong on a visit, said: “I can’t help it if the All-England club are disappointed. It’s time I started pleasing mvself for a change
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    • 47 12 SINGAPORE. Thurs. Jansenites. a comparatively young team in the SHA Division One league tournament, will meet Khalsa Association in a “key" match at the Girls Snorts Club ground. Serangoon Road, on Satyrday. at 5.15 p.m. Jansenites need only a draw to take the title.
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    • 53 12 NORTH LAS VEGAS. Nevada. Thurs <UPI) —Former heavyweight champion Sonny Liston was fined US$l75 in a Municipal Court on a charge of reckless driving. Liston originally was charged with driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. The charge was reduced to reckless driving and
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    • 24 12 BRUSSELS. Thurs. (Reuter) Portuguese soccer champions Benfica were beaten 3-2 by SC Anderlecht of Belgium in a friendly match here last night.
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    • 112 12 MEXICO CITY, Thurs. (Reuter) Vicente Saldivar, Mexico's former world featherweight champion, is almost certain of a title fight if he decides to return to the ring. Saldivar, who has said he would only make a come-back if his manager Adolfo Perez thought he
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    • 310 12 Lahore Hockey LAHORE, Thurs. (Reuter) Three players were sent off in a match between Pakistan and Spam yesterday in the nine-na-tion hockey tournament here. Two Spanish players and one Pakistani were ordered off by the referee as Pakistan battled through to a 2-0 victory in the
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    • 160 12 ROME. Thurs. (Reuter) Henry Cooper. Britain's European heavyweight champion, will enter the ring here today a clear-cut favourite- to retain his title against Piero Tomasoni, of Italy The 34-year-old British champion, tne only Europe; n fighter to knock down Cassius Clay, is confident of beating
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    • 74 12 Time And Tide TODAY Singapore, 4 11 am (3 ft. 4 in.)-; 10 22 a m. (6 ft. 6 ins.); 4 01 a.m. (4 ft. 4 Ins.). TOMORROW Singapore town: 2 38 am. (5ft. 4ins.); 8. 15 am. (8 ft 1 in.): 3.31 p.m. (1 ft. 1 in.); 10.27 p.m.
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