Eastern Sun, 18 March 1969

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    22 1 Eastern Sun SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY VV Estd. 1960. Vol. 3 No. 942 Tuesday, 18 March 1969. MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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    Lock icon Suharto: No Defence Pacts With South-east Asian Countries
    434 1 JAKARTA, Mon. (Reuter) President Suharto of Indonesia has stated in very clear terms that Indonesia will not enter into defence agreements with other countries in South-east Asia. But at the same time, he said he could understand the recent decision to maintain
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  • Article
    Lock icon 150 Die In Aviation’s Worst Ever Disaster
    438 1 Jetliner Smashes Through Village "\YARACAIBO, Venezuela, Mon. (UPI) Investigators dug the flight •Iyl recorder from fhe wreckage of a Viasa DC9 jetliner and began today the task of determining what caused aviation's worst disaster. The plane smashed through a Maracaibo suburb spewing flaming
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    Lock icon RUSSIANS: WE SHELLED CHINESE TERRITORY
    106 1 MOSCOW. Mon. (CPI) The Soviets disclosed officially today that they shelled Chinese territory during Saturday’s fierce clash on the Far Eastern Sino-Soviet border. Pravda reported “a powerful artillery barrage struck the firing positions of the Maoists” on the bank of the frozen Ussuri River. The
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    Lock icon ROBBERS SHOOT CASHIER IN $20,000 GRAB
    321 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Mon. A pun battle took place at high noon between the Managing Director of a transport company and a gang of four armed robbers at Brickfields here shortly after a robber had shot a 64-vear-old cashier and grabbed a bag containing 520.000.
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  • Article
    Lock icon Escapee’s Request
    48 1 ADELAIDE Mon. (Reuter) —A voung prison escapee rang the beli at the main gate of ki6 jail near here early today and asked to be let in again because his prison sentence was almost complete Warders quickly opened the gate and called off a Statewide search.
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    Lock icon Imagine That...
    76 1 LONDON. Mon. (Reuter) Eight-year-old Wendy Sidey. sent to her bedroom for being naughty, crept out of the house with her one pound sterling savings and travelled alone to her grandmother's home 'OO miles away. Wendy set off from her home in Gillingham. Southeast England on an overnight bus
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    Lock icon Overwhelming Vote For Golda Meir
    87 1 JERUSALEM. Mon (UPI) The Israeli Parliament gave Golda Meir an overwhelming vo'.e of confidence today and she took the oath of office as Israel’s fourth Premier since the Jewish State was founded in 1948. Former Premier David BenGurion refused to vote for her. The vote
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    Lock icon School Prefects Make 2 Arrests
    93 1 SINGAPORE. Mon Two school prefects of the Mountbatten Secondary Vocational School Foo Yong Tai and Ng I ook Soon, today helped to detain two other youths who were attempting to steal a bicycle from the school’* bicycle shed. Foo and Ng were both on their
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  • Article
    Lock icon ‘Pregnant’ Decoy
    52 1 HONG KONG. Mon. (Reuter) —An armed gang, two men and “Dregnant" woman today robbed a jewellery shop in Tsimshatsui, a tourist centre in Kowloon, of about 60 pieces of jade, nearl and diamond rings worth HKS 150.000 (about £lO.OOOl. Police believe the woman pretended to be pregnant as
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    Lock icon Jordan Hit Again
    38 1 AMMAN. Mon. (Reuter) Four Israeli fighter planes this morning raided three areas in the northern Jordan valley, attacking with rockets, napalm bombs and machineguns. a Jordanian military spokesman said. There were no casualties, he said.
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    Lock icon Razak Pledges Full Co-operation With Singapore
    153 1 SINGAPORE. Mon. Tun Abdul Razak. the Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister, pledged full co-opera-tion between Singapore and Malaysia in all fields. He told newsmen at the Paya Lebar international airport that the defence arrangements between Singapore and Malaysia were running smoothly. The Malaysian Deputy Frime
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    Lock icon Formal Opening Of Warsaw Pact Summit Delayed
    112 1 BUDAPEST. Mon. (UPI) The formal opening of a Warsaw Pact summit meeting was delayed on Monday because the Rumanian delegation refused to agree to any Soviet-spon-sored resolution condemning China. Communist sources said. The sources said the summit talks among Communist Party. Government and
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    Lock icon Fierce African Bees On Rampage
    100 1 TUOCUMAN. Argentina Mon (UPI) —A swarm of African bees attacked about a hundred students and their teachers in the town of Tusca Pozo. the newspaper La Razon reported Sunday The bees attacked as they entered the town’s school according to the newspaper. The bees also
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    Lock icon 18-pound Baby
    65 1 TAIPEI, Mon .Reuter) The 27-year-old wife of a miner. Mrs. Lin Yu-vi. vesteraav gave birth to an 18-pound baby boy. press reports said today. The reports quoted Dr. Wu Shen-Chang, who delivered the baby, as saying: I’ve never seen such a big baby in my 20 years of
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    Lock icon Bus Mishap: 30 Die
    46 1 BOGOTA. Colombia. Mon. (UPI) A passenger bus smash-up killed at least 30 persons and injured 19 others early today near the town of Fresno, authorities said. Rescue units were sent to the scene. But there were no more details on the crash.
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    Lock icon LIVE BOMB JOKE
    40 1 LE HAVRE. Mon. (Reuter) Schoolchildren playing a practical joke on their school inspector, placed a five World War Two bomb behind the classroom door. The bomb, which they found ir a local forest, did not go off
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    Lock icon Electric Chair For 4 Youths
    112 1 MANILA. Mon. (Reuter) Four weeping young men today were sentenced to death in the electric chair for robbing and killing their wealthy 57-year-old woman employer in 1966. The four men. who were found guilty of strangling Miss Adelina Sajo in one of several houses she
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    Lock icon Rubber Touches 73 Cents Mark
    105 1 SINGAPORE. Mon The second spectacular price rise in rubber was sustained in today’s trading with the price up by another five-eighth cent to 72-7-8 cents at the close. The tone of the market was steady. The market ruled steady quiet in the morning session but
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    Lock icon Strikers March Through Dacca
    97 1 KARACHI. Mon. (Reuter) Workers marched through the Eastern Pakistan capital of Dacca today as strikes hit both the western and eastern provinces of the country. The strike in Dacca, called by the pro-Peking National Awami Party to protest against an apparent attempt tc kill its 86-year-old
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    Lock icon In This Issue...
    47 1 Daring $9,000 grab In S'pore hold-up Page 2. More Health, More Wealth Page 3. Social roundup Page 4. University results —Page 9. Twiggy-Fashion idol of the young Page 10. Aik Huang’s All-England hopes rise Page 11. N.Z. W.I. third cricket Test result Page 12.
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
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  • Cultural and Music Corner
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      Lock icon 3 Blind Students Pass Cambridge Examination
      421 2 By H. C. Tan SINGAPORE. Mon. Courage and determination paid off for three blind students who sat and passed the Cambridge School Certificate examination last November. Tor despite this great handicap Mr. Lee Boon Chong (Grade I), Miss Rosie Wong Siz Ngun (Grade III),
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      Lock icon Rajaratnam: Adjustment In Labour Laws Attracted Inflow Of Foreign Investments
      281 2 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Labour, Mr. S. Rajaratnam said today that the “inflow of investments from abroad” during the past six months was the result of the adjustment to labour laws in the Republic. The Minister
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      Lock icon Rumania Mission Here To Strengthen Trade Links
      838 2  -  By AYAKO SINGAPORE, Mon. A nine-member trade delegation from Rumania, led by the country's Vice-Chairman of the Council of Ministers, Mr. Gheorghe Radulescu arrived in Singapore for a three-day visit .oaay Speaking to reporter* on aruval. Mr Radulescu said the mission which was
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      Lock icon Pearson To Hold Meeting On Development In Singapore
      306 2 SINGAPORE. Mon Nobel Prize winner and former Prime Minister of Canada. Mr. Lester B Pearson, will concuct a meeting for the commission on International Development in Singapore later this month The meeting in Singapore will be part of a series which the
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    • Article
      Lock icon Low Blood Stock
      49 2 SINGAPORE. Mon. The stock at Singapore’s Blood Bank is once again below average During the week, a total of 689 blood donations were received and 535 blood transfusions were given in Singapore hospitals. The average daily stock of blood in the bank was 400 units—below average.
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    • Article
      Lock icon 4 Thugs Take $9,655 In Daring Hold-up
      192 2 SINGAPORE Mon. Four armed thugs held up some ten employees of a factory in Hamilton Road and escaped with $9,655 cash this afternoon. Two of the robbers were armed with revolvers and two others with large-sized screw drivers The four men staged a
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      Lock icon Six To See Pulp Making
      251 2 SINGAPORE, Sun. Six representatives from various companies in Malaysia and Singapore left tonight by air for a week's tour in Australia to see how paper and printing equip* ment are produced and manufactured. They are Messrs. S.F. Sieh of Sun U Book Co. Sdn. Berhad.
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    • Article
      Lock icon S’PORE DIARY
      61 2 530t0 9 p m SATA free mass X-ray campaign at car park. Block 82. Commonwealth Close. 8 pm Chinese Drama lecture at National Theatre Club. 7.30 pm. Free film slows by Ministry of Culture at Pulau Sudong. Jalan Bahtera, 19 m.s. Lim Chu Kang Road and Poi Teck
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    Lock icon MORE HEALTH, MORE WEALTH
    496 3 Says Medical Society SINGAPORE, Mon. The President of the Society of Occupational Medicine, Dr. Phoon Woi-On, has emphasised the need for all-round united effort in the promotion of the health of labour to ensure greater productivity vital to the survival of the Republic. Dr. Phoon said
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    Lock icon Health-on -the-job Lecture
    87 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. Dr 'A Manoharan. International Labour Organisation Consultant in Occupational Health will give a public lecture on “The trend of occupational health in state health services snd in industrial establishments” at the Pathology Lecture Theatre. General Hospita’ grounds. Outram Road at 8 15 p.m. tomorrow. Dr
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    Lock icon Dynamic Nation Through Sports
    270 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Culture. Enche Buang bin Omar Junid said today that his ministry was convinced that sports promotion would contribute a great deal towards the building of a dynamic and affluent Singapore. u. a j/f fitjs when he receiveda
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon SINGAPORE, Mon. — The Skol Club of Singapore has elected the following officer-bearers for the year 1969. From (left to right); Mr. P. Armstrong, Alitalia (Committee Member); Mr. G. Milne, Hotel Intercontinental Singapura (Public Relations Officer), Mr. Tan Chee Chye, Sita World Travel (Vice-President), Mr. G. Howling, M.S.A. (President), Mr. N. Cloke, Thos. Cook and Sons (Treasurer), Mr. V.S. Menon, Lion City Hotel (Secretary).
    88 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Skol Club of Singapore has elected the following officer-bearers for the year 1969. From (left to right); Mr. P. Armstrong, Alitalia (Committee Member); Mr. G. Milne, Hotel Intercontinental Singapura (Public Relations Officer), Mr. Tan Chee Chye, Sita World Travel (Vice-President), Mr. G. Howling, M.S.A. (President), Mr. N.
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    Lock icon One-hour Show For The Tourists
    230 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Tourist Promotion Board will for the first time put on a special one-hour extravaganza of multi-cultural show of Singapore for tourists visiting the Republic. The show to he staged at the Cultural Centre tomorrow (8.30 p.m.) has been specially organised for a
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    Lock icon ‘lnfanticide By Unknown’
    107 3 SINGAPORE. Mon The Coroner. Mr L:pw Ngik Kee today returned a verdict of infanticide by an unknown mother who abandoned her newly born baby in a drain in Jalan Besar on Feb 17. Mr Liew said the unknown mother had committed an offence punishable under the law
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    Lock icon Fireman Ambushed Cycle Thieves
    124 3 SINGAPORE Mon. For several hours. Mr. C. Nadarajah. a fireman, attached to the Singapore Port of Authority Fire Station hid behind some bushes and observed five boys meddling with some bicycles parked along Keppel Road. Finally, the five boys, managed to unlock the bicycles. As they
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    Lock icon Fell To Death
    52 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. A worker fell to his death after he stepped on a weak part of an asbestos roof w r hen he tried to get down in a hurrv to help another worker who had fallen to the ground a minute earlier, the Coroner’s Court was
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    Lock icon THIEF CAUGHT BY POLICE
    178 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. The cries of “thief, thief” attracted the attention of a police constable who was on his way for dutv along Chulia Street, last night. The police constable from Central Police Station gave chase and later with the help of two more policemen caught the
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    Lock icon Father-Of-Four Gets 30 Months
    76 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. A father of four. Ng Cheok Yeow. was today jailed for 30 months by the Fourth District Court for armed robbery. Ng. 26. admitted robbing the chief cashier of Yuyi Ltd at Great World Amusement Park on April 30. last year of sB.ooo with
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    Lock icon 47 Accidents In One Day
    28 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. There were a total of 47 road accidents of which six were serious during the past 24 hours in the Republic.
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    Lock icon Fisheries Research Facilities Based In Singapore
    738 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. Singapore has agreed to provide land end buildings, personnel and servicing staff and meet one third of the annual running cost of the Research Department of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Centre. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Law and National
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  • • Eastern Sun Weekly Feature
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      Lock icon PICTORIAL SOCIAL ROUND-UP
      564 4 Attractive Malaysian girl Siew Phin Chai, Miss Tourism 1368. has made her second trip to Australia in two months this time as Malaysia's entrant In the Queen of the Pacific Quest held in conjunction with the annual Moomba Festival in Melbourne, Australia. Siew Phin Chai and 17
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    Lock icon Rise And Death Of Slansky
    332 5  -  By Fenry Zaleski LONDON.' Mon, (Reuter) On July 3. 1951. his fiftieth birthday, Czechoslovak Communist Pgty Secretary General Rudcf Slanskv received his county’s highest decoration. On December 3. 1952. he was hanged for high treason, espionage and sabotage. A mo\ing account of Slansky’s fall and
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    Lock icon ‘Lucky’ Response To SOS Saves 30 Seamen
    288 5 NEW ORLEANS. Louisiana. Mon. (t'PI) Frelgh/er that "happened along" and a single, desperate £OS frantically tapped from a sinking ship saved the lives of 30 men adrift for 24 hours in small life boats on the Gulf of Mexico. The first six crew
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    Lock icon ‘Gold Flight Crash’ Was Exercise
    117 5 LONDON. Mon. (Reuter) Fire engines, ambulance and police cars rushed into action In an exercise after reports that an airliner carrying Eassengers and gold bullion ad crashed in a town centre The reports said 20 people had been killed in the crash Just west of
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    Lock icon SENT TO COVENTRY
    55 5 SYDNEY. Mon. (Reuter) Docker Sylvester Ellis. 54, Ignored by his 120 workmates because he refuses to take part in strikes asked a Federal Court here last week to order his fellow workers to talk to him. Th* court refused. Mr. Ellis, back at work today, is still
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    Lock icon VC HIT DANISH SHIP
    59 5 «A3IG», ;Y*u \*t) An anti-tank shell crashed into the radio room of the Danish merchant ship Niels Maersk as it wa| heading for Sai S°” day. killing one crew member and wounding two. a U-o--naval official said last night. The Niels Maersk was heading along the
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    Lock icon HUNGARY USING MORE SHIPS
    48 5 BUDAPEST. Mon. (UPI) Four new Ocean-going ships will be added to the Hungarian transport fleet this year, the Hungarian news agency MTI said today. More than 3.2 million tons of goods and 2.8 million passengers were moved in Hungarian ships in 1969, MTI said.
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    Lock icon • COLLECTION from Rodin and his contemporaries’ oowned by the Peter Stuyvesant International Art Foundation. Story and more pictures in page 9.
    21 5 COLLECTION from Rodin and his contemporaries’ oowned by the Peter Stuyvesant International Art Foundation. Story and more pictures in page 9.
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    Lock icon ‘Repercussions’ If US Acts Against Peru’s Oil Grab
    268 5 FEARFUL OF LITTLE LATINS WASHINGTON, Mon. (UPI) InterAmerican relations would suffer "a serious and unfortunate setback" if the United States retaliated against Peru for expropriating an international oil firm, a top U.S. diplomat said yesterday. Mr. Sol M. Linowitz. U.S. ambassador to
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    Lock icon ‘New Look’ At US-PI Relations
    127 5 MANILA. Mon. (UPI) Philippine ambassador-design-ate to Washington Ernesto V. Lagdameo today called for a fresh and frank look at the sometimes shaky relations between the Philippines and the United States. Mr. Lagdameo. a 55-vear-old millionaire businessman on his first diplomatic assignment, leaves for his post
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    Lock icon Priest Tried In Absentia
    95 5 SAIGON. Mon. (Reuter) The second trial of militant buddhist leader Thich Thien Minh began here today in his absence. The head of a five-man military tribunal trying Thien Minh on charges of aiding deserters and draft-dodgers read a letter the Buddhist leader had written to the
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    Lock icon Bulletins
    495 5 PORTTGAL FLOODS LISBON. (UPI) Four persons have so far been killed bv floods caused by heavy downpour which have been pounding Portugal since early last week. The floods are causing considerable damage to agriculture and have left over 300 persons homeless. After a break on Saturday, rain started again
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    Lock icon Hussein Nasser Close Ranks
    348 5 CAIRO Mon (AFP) The current talks here between King Hussein of Jordan and President Nasser are among the final steps on the road to liberating territories Israeli occupied in the six-dav war. the semi-official newspaper A1 Ahram said this morning It emphasised that the round of
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    Lock icon Surplus Of Women
    124 5 COLOMBO. (Reuter) Ceylcnese men in search of wives are luckier than their brothers in most other countries there are three women to every man on the island. According to the census and statistics department, women outnumber men three to one in Ceylon's present estimated population of 12
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    Lock icon RED NAGA CHIEF HELD
    56 5 NEW DELHI. (UPI) Indian troops hiding in the thick foliage of the jungled borders dividing India from Burma ambushed a band of communist Naga rebels and captured its leader. "General” Mowu Angami. the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported. There were n o immediate reports of
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    Lock icon ISRAEL UNCONVINCED
    338 5 Merit Of Four-Power Talks WASHINGTON, Mon. (UPI) The United States has failed in its efforts to persuade Israel on the merits of a big-four conference on the Middle East crisis, Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban indicated yes* reraay. Mr. Eb-in. appearing on a nationwide television news programme said
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    Lock icon Tension At The ‘Truce Village’
    196 5 SEOUL, Mon (UPI) Negotiators from the United Nations Command (UNC) and communist North Korea met at the truce village of Panmunjom today to discuss the recent series of border incidents amid increasing tension along the 151-mile Korean truce front. As the two sides met in
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    Lock icon Reds Stirring Religious Caste Clash
    75 5 COLOMBO Mon (UPI) Slogan-shouting pro- Peking Communists demonstrated yesterday in North Ceylon, urging crowds to storm temples closed by Brahmin Hindu priests to the lower castes. The communists along with student groups have taken over th* people's agitation to open temples to descendants of Tamil
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    Lock icon Merapi Boils Again
    70 5 JAKARTA. Mon. (Reuter) Indonesia's killer Mount Merapi volcano in central Java has again emitted hot clouds reaching the Batang river. 10 miles from the crater, the Armed Forces Bulletin reported today The volcano's activities took place on March 10 followed by slight tremors, the Bulletin said. No
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    Lock icon Ceylon PM To Visit USSR
    47 5 COLOMBO Mon. (UPI) Premier Dudley Senanayake is expected to visit Russia in May on invitation of Russian Premier Alexei Kosygin The visit of the head of the strongly anti-Communist United National Party is the first trip of a Ceylonese premier to Russia.
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    Lock icon CONSERVATION PLANS
    48 5 HONG KONG. (Reuter) An international grouo of 60 professors and experts are attending a week-long conference on development and conservation of the countryside at Hong Kong University Delegates to the meeting, which be«;an yesterday, come from South-east Asia. Japan. Australia, the United States and Brita n
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    Lock icon HIS 7TH SUICIDE THREAT
    109 5 VATICAN CITY, (Reuter) Neither the Pope no r the crowd he was blessing in the square below noticed a young Sardinian and two friends climbing to a ledge between the legs of a giant angel on St Peter's basilica here yesterday. Vatican police ignored the 23-year-old
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    Lock icon THE FUTURE ROLE
    344 6 THE Minister for Science and Technology, Dr. Toh Chin Chye has shown a new path which will boost the image of Singapore and at the same time be of greater help to our neighbours. It is the path of more active participation of the Republic in regional
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    Lock icon PRAGUE’S UNOFFICIAL SUPPORT
    263 6 Czechoslovakia on Saturday expressed its unofficial support for tfce Soviet Union in its dispute with China over a border clash earlier this month. The Communist Party newspaper Rude Pravo said in an unsigned article that “we cannot but express our disagreement with the Chinese shooting into Soviet
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    Lock icon Will Marcos Become PI’s First Re-elected President?
    753 6  -  By Vicente Maliwanag MANILA, Mon. (UPI) Philippines President Ferdinand E. Marcos is supremely confident the prophets of his political doom will be out of business after election day on Nov. 11, 1969. Panther quick, Marcos leaped on the question which he must have
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    Lock icon Prospects Of Sino-Indian Dialogue & Soviet Concern
    609 6 Prospects Of Sino-Indian Dialogue Soviet Concern BERNE. Mon. (SPR. 5) —Soviet diplomat* in New Delhi are showing some concern at the way the Prune Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, has. over the last six months or so. spoken more than once in favour of coming to some accommodation with China. This
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    Lock icon Big Welcome To Mao’s Latest Thoughts
    152 6 HONG KONQ. Mon (Reut«r> Gongs and drums are sounding all over China to celebrate the publication of Mao Ts#-tung’s latest lnstruetions and Friday s Red Flag editorial. Radio Peking reporting this today said millions upon millions of civilians and soldiers In China's 29 provinces
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    Lock icon Yugoslav Citizen Convicted Of ‘Enemy Activities’
    98 6 BELGRADE, Mon. (UPI) Yugoslav authorities on Saturday sentenced a 20-year-old locksmith to seven years hard labour for taking part in an anti-government demonstration In politically sensitive southeast Yugoslavia, the news agency Tanjug reported today. A Tanjug dispatch from Skopje said Seri Faet Fetai. a
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    Lock icon Is This A Far East Version Of The Danzig Dispute?
    398 6  -  By JEAN RAFFAELLI MOSCOW, Mott. (AFP) Western military specialist* here considered today that the Soviet Union and China were now fighting a form of war at a localised point in the disputed border area in Eastern Asia. Saturday’* clash at
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    Lock icon MORE MOSCOW-WASHINGTON TELEPHONE LINKS
    116 6 WASHINGTON, Mon. (AFP) In addition to the famous hot lino” between the White House and the Kremlin, two new direet telephone lines go into service between Washington and Moscow on Tuesday, it was announced todav. One of the new lines will link the State Department with
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    Lock icon Moscow’s Prediction On Israel
    99 6 MOSCOW. Mon. (UPI) The Soviet military jreaieted Saturday the death of Premier Levi Eshkol would be followed by increased Israeli aggressiveness In th* Middle East. The weekly news comment magazine Za Zubezhom <Life Abroad) backed the view expressed in the Armed Force* daily Red Star (Krasnaya
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    Lock icon Need For Closer Ties
    806 6 (From Sin Chew Jag Poh) j EVER since Tunku Abdul Raiunan. t<>« MaUjiiai fume Minister vib.icu a.iigapu.e Usl week end, the sink) r«l»tiAßship between the two sides separated by the Causeway has seemed to be lubricated. After his return to Kuala Lumpur, the Tunku told newsmen
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    Lock icon Ojukwu:Biafrans Not Facing Starvation
    171 6 NEW YORK, Mon. (UPI) Biafian leader Lt. Cel Odumeiwu Oiukwu told Newsvgek that the Biafrans vere not facing starvatiw, the magazine repofled on Sunday in ita current issue. "It i s difficult think of our people b«|n* on the point of cenplet# starvation.” Ojukni said in
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    Lock icon China ‘Withdraws Technical Troops’ From N. Vietnam
    393 6 LONDON, Men. (UPI) China has withdrawn a large part of its “technical troops’* from North ViAnam, diplomatic reports said on Sunday, The withdrawal wa-* believed Intended as a warning gesture both against Hanoi’s peace strategy and its flirtation with Russia. The authoritative Institute
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    Lock icon Australia-N.Z. Decision Welcomed
    209 6 AustraliaN.Z. Decision Welcomed WASHINGTON, M o n. (UPI) The Sunday Star editorially welcomed Australia and New Zealand’s decision to fill the security vacuum in Southeast Asia which would be left with the withdrawal of British forces. "There is little disagree* ment that the harsh logic of economics dictated this withdrawal,”
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      245 7 SINGAPORE, Mon. The last shipment oj Singa-pore-made steel pipes for Zambia left on the "Levernbank” for the port Beira in Portuguese Mozambique. 5.000 miles away, today. It was the 3«th shipment, marking the completion of the supply of asphalt lined steel pipes by Hume
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      177 7 HONG KONG. Mon. (UPI) The Philippine peso, which plunged to its lowest rate last Nov. 22 following currency restriction measures taken hy the Philippine Central Bank, has still not recovered its full ptrength in the money market. On Saturday. the peso exchange rate (at
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      98 7 Mr. Khor Thiam Siew, a Technical Engineer with Vernl’.ron Singapore (Pte.) Ltd., lef recently by Lufthansa for New York for consultations 4vtth his company’s technical division. Mr. Khor. who joined the company this year will be away for a few weeks. Vemitron Singapore (Pte.)
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      122 7 2 P O Ships To Go Off EuropeFar East Route LONDON. Mon. (Reuter) Two of the P and O Line’s best known ghips are to disappear from the Europe-Far East run. the company said. A reorganisation of Far East services resulted from the continued closure of the Suez Canal, the
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      270 7 RUBBER: 72 CENTS SINGAPORE Mon April first grad* rubber buyers closed at 5 pm in Sir.gapora und Kuala Lumpur today *t 72-7 cent# per lb., up five eighths cents from previous Clo»e The tone of the market was steady. The market ruled quiet but steady alter a lower opening. Speculative
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      79 7 NEW YORK. Mon (UTI) International Nickel Co. ef Canada Ltd. hap announced plans to join with French interests and the French Government in a new company to exploit nickel deposits in New Ca.edoma. INCO, world's largeat nickel producer, will have a 40 per cent interest
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      1666 7 SINGAPORE, Mon. Trading in th* Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore today began the week* business on very steady conditions with some very selective interest. Concentration of business in counters like Development I Bank resulted in the trading rooms recording an increased total
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      16 7 SINGAPORE, Mon The tin price for today was ♦■594.37$ pe r picul, down $0.50
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      475 7 TOKYO. Mon. (UPI) Consider the prospect, if you really want to. of wall-to-wall colour television. Hitachi Ltd., a Japanese firm has successfully tested a set with a screen ebeut nine feet high and 12 teet wine. The set uses a laser beam for colour reception, which permits
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      79 7 LONDON, Mon. (Reuter) Britain a exports to China In January wer# tha biggest for any month during the last five years, the Sino-British Trade Council here reported. They were valued al 6.171.000 sterling. Of this about four million sterling was in the non-ferrous metal category.
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      149 7 TOKYO Mon (Reuter) Japanese hope* to turn la* l year s US$l4O million trade deficit with the Soviet Union into a surplus under the 1989 trade programme agreed in Moscow. the Mlnlatry of international Trade and Industry said The new programme get* Japan
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      554 7 MXOAPIIHfc Mum K*ch<in:r m>I<J and mhi-i prlt et ■ittieially lined at the clnae ot DU'Inru IMH STR1ALN \cm\ Hen A Co XK Ben (Rts.) itm neo Hhd Hnilstrail Camel Plywood c sugar Cold >toraxr 1 |i« mic’ul to u..> Iiunlop K.U KfeMt Ords Cup"t- Pi|lp Pusan
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      49 7 (Managers Prices) l*t Malayan \D 3.01) .'nrt Malayan Xl» 2.10 fr»l Malayan 137 1 he nmmerre Ind 1.09 1.19 The Savins tund XP 1.19 1.29 M Invevt Hind l.S.l l 45 l«t linns Kong 1.30 1.42* inrl Hung Runs 05 1.00» Merling nm < Minns Kong 7/1 currency)
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      123 7 »l\«iAPORE. Mon lh* noon prices at the Singapore hmese Product Exchange today are Buyer Seller t nmnai on It O It Bulk 49 00 < CM MiMlf OH Ft) B.) Drum 51 50 Mixed Copia *31-00 Mnntnk White PeppeUp*^ (i OB) «<i% vLrwJc-Ji J17 50 sarauak AAhite s It
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      70 7 HONG KONG. Mon. (UPO —Money Quotations: HK $6.***** per US. dollar HK $6.***** per US. dollar TT HK $l4 53 per t>o'u n<i Porting. HK $320,375 per tael of gold 94 5 per cent fineness. HK $161.5 pef* ft),000 Japanese yens. HK $132 5 per 100 Philippine
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      93 7 SINGAPORE. Mon The foliowin* shios are expected to be port today:— Godnws Vessels. 12 Clytonue*. 3/4 Rajah 5 Zma Portnova 6 7 Karakorum S 9 Helenu* lft/ll Pelydoro* 15/16 Jan Matejka IS Levernbank 19 Htantawya 21 22 Katong 23/34 Bomba a 23/26 Tatiana 27/2* Chelyabinsk 29/30 Romo
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    284 8 SCHWELM, Germany Mon. (UPI) —Renate Kuhnen went on a hunger strike whenever she thought her Vietcong captors were not conducting themselves properly. Miss Kuhnen, who was released by the Vietcong after a year in captivity, told an interviewer from the Springer group newspaper Bild
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    53 8 TAIPEI (Reuter) The National Taiwan University hospital will perform its third kidney transplant operation today, the central news agency reported. The patient is a physican of a municipal hospital who will receive the kidney from his 63-year-old mother, the agency 6aid. The hospital has previously performed two
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    25 8 JAKARTA, (Reuter) Turkish ambassador to Indonesia Vahap Asiroglu has presented puppets made of camel skin to President Suharto at the Presidential Palace
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    993 8  -  By JENNIFER WALTON VENTURE Scouts are young men of action whose aim is to help others through the medium of community service. The movement was started officially in November 196" to replace so far as Britain Is concerned the Senior Scout and Rover Scout sections of
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    320 8 BUDAPEST, Mon. (Reuter) Prospects for disarmament talks between Russia and America and the recent Sino-Soviet border clashes are expected to be high on the agenda of the Warsaw pact countries' summit opening here today. The meeting of the political consultative committee the pact's highest body may
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    154 8 MELBOURNE. Australia, Mon. (UPI) A married former Anglican Minister Mr. J. L Edwell. was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest at the Ukranian Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul in Melbourne, yesterday. Mr. Edwell. whose work will be largely among Ukranian youth in Sydney and
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    44 8 RAWALPINDI. (UPI) Members of West Pakistan's postal employees union were scheduled to return to work today after a 13-day-long strike. No early solution, however, appeared in sight for the strike by telephone operators and linesmen staff which started on Friday.
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    101 8 MADRID. Mon. (UPI) Spam may ask the United Nations to send peacekeeping troops into Equatorial Guinea to protect the departure of more than 3.000 Spaniards trying to flee the trouble-torn African country, foreign diplomatic sources disclosed. Spain has accused its former colony, independent since last
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    150 8 MAN ILA. Mon (Reu ter) Police are looking for a longhaired young "Magician” who is said to hypnotise people before robbing them of their wrist watches and jewellery. Lieutenant Casiano Eugenio of the Paranaque Police Force, just outside Manila, described the "Magician” as 18
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    69 8 BANGKOK. Mon. (UPI) A deputy district chief was reported slain by Communist guerrillas in Tak province. 225 miles northwest of Bangkok last Friday as he plowed a rice paddy with a tractor. Police said the official. Narong Singto. was demonstrating the tractor to villagers as rart
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    43 8 BANGKOK. Mon. (UPI) Dewl Sukarno, wife of the deposed Indonesian President arrived in Bangkok on Friday but declined to say how long she would stay or where she was going from here She had ner daughter, Kartika, 2. with her.
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    24 8 HONG KONG. Mon. (UPI) The Port Health Authority announced today quarantine restrictions have been imposed against arrivals from Madras, India, because of smallpox.
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    58 8 JERUSALEM. Mon. (Reuter) Premier-designate Mrs. Golda Meir said today there could be no solution to the Middle East problem except through a “real peace between the parties to the conflict.” Mrs. Meir. presenting her new broadly-based coalition government to parliament, firmly rejected any ideas for
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    Lock icon East Pakistan Autonomy Seems A Certainty
    265 8 KARACHI Mon. (AFP) Sheikh Mujibur Rehman, leader of the Movement for East Pakistan Autonomy, seems willing to accept a modus vivendi with the country’s western half until the next National Assembly session, or servers said here tonight. They believed him fearful about seeing military
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    127 8 KARACHI. Mon. (UPI) Popular political leader Mau,ana Bhasharu Is still pressing for autonomy for East Pakistan. Mr. Bhashani. leader of the pro-Peking National Awami Party, says the Pakistani constitution should be discarded and an interim government sel up to form a new constitution. His mam demand is autonomy
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    44 8 TAIPEI. Mon. (UPI) Shen Chang-huan new Chinese Nationalist ambassador to Thailand. left Taipei this morning lor Bangkok to assume office. Shen. one-iime Foreign Minister and Chinese ambassador to Vatican. replaces Peng Meng-chi who has been reassigned as Nationalist China's envoy to Japan
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    Lock icon Pearl Harbour Strategist Wants N-Arms Kept In Japan
    279 8 TOKYO, Mow. (UPI) Soldier-turned-politician Minoru Genda, back in Japan after cutting short his speech-making tour of the United States, today defended his remarks on nuclear weapons and Okinawa which recently stirred up a controversy at home. Mr. Genoa, generally credited with the
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    Lock icon Mrs. Castle To Help End Ford Strike
    164 8 LONDON Mon (Reuter) Mrs Barbara Castle. Minister of Employment and Productivity. was called In early today on talks to settle the three-week-old strike at the Ford Motor Company's 23 plants In Britain. But after three hours the meeting broke up without agreement being
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    Lock icon Pak Troops To E. Wing
    79 8 NEW DELHI Mon (UPI)— Ships carrying West Pakistani soldiers, tanks and other heavy military equipment have set sail for East Pakistan from Karachi to supress violence in the East wing, the Press Trust of India reported. The agency said Pakistan has chartered two ships the
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    Lock icon Not Scared Says Peking
    440 8 HONG KONG, Mon. (Reuter) The New China News Agency said today China would not be afraid of the nuclear weapons of the United States and the Soviet Union. The official organ, commenting on President Nixon’s press conference last Friday, described the two countries* weapons as “paper
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    Lock icon New Gunman With Family Hostage Drama
    286 8 PARIS, Mon. (Reuter) A man armed with a rifle was still holding out early today after barricading himself into a groundfloor flat near here and threatening to kill himself and two children. Plain-clothes police watching the shuttered dwelling at ver-rieres-les-Buissons since yesterday afternoon said
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    Lock icon ‘Mad Race’ Carnage: Malicious Intent, Says DPP
    609 9 SINGAPORE, Mon. It was just a "mad race" between two cars that ended with the tragic death of an on-coming motor-cyclist, argued defence counsel, Mr. Nadesan Ganesan, at the conclusion of a murder inquiry today. No, countered the DPP, Mr. K. S. Rajah.
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    Lock icon One Brief Minute With Khrushchev
    535 9  -  By Henry Shapiro MOSCOW. Mon. (UPI) Former Soviet Nikita 5 Khrushchev surfaced on Sunday for one brief minute and then disappeared again into the limbo of his country retreat. He ehowed up in midMoscow, where he has a fiveroom apartment which he almost never uses,
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    Lock icon Conscience Clear Says P.I. Envoy
    278 9 TJONG KONG. Mon (Reuter) 11 The Philippine ConsulGeneral in Hong Kong, Mr. Simeon Roxas. today refused to comment on the investigation into his consulate ordered by President Marcos except to declare: “My conscience it clear." In a brief statement to the press issued today. Mr.
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    36 9 MOSCOW. Mon. (Reuter) Japan and the Soviet Union have sighed a US$7O3 million (£292 million) trade agreement fbr 1969 which will boost exchanges between the two countries by 12 per cent over last year.
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    Lock icon Sculpture Show Opens At Varsity Next Week
    269 9 SINGAPORE, Mon. An exhibition of sculptures and paintings by famous modern sculptors 'Rodin and his contemporaries' will be opened at the University of Singapore Art Museum on March 25 at 6.00 p.m. The collection of sculptures ana paintings by the father of modern
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    Lock icon Tinker Gets A Divorce
    154 9 SINGAPORE. Mon A tinker. Lye Van Sun. was granted a divorce in the High Court today on the grounds of his wife's desertion Lye to d the court that his wife, Lau Kwee Hiong left the matrimonial home on Aug 15. 1963. He did not know,
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    Lock icon Film On Made Malaysia
    49 9 KUALA LUMPUR. Moh. Malaysia will be one of the countries to be featured In the ninth episode of “Islam in the world." an Italian television commentary In colour. A six-man Italian team has lust completed shooting scenes of the Muslim way of life in Malaysia.
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    Lock icon UNIVERSITY RESULTS
    1362 9 SINGAPORE, Mon. The University of Singapore today announced the results of the final examination for the 6.Sc. degree; the B.Sc. (Honours) and the diploma in fisheries. Results of the final examination for the degree of BSc. held in January 1969 The following candidates have passed the examination: Aw
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      722 10  -  By Florence de Santis A DRESS is hardly ever just a dress any more. One never sees a “basic black” or the sort of standard beateau-necked sheath that the fashion trade used to call the “dumb” dress, but which sold and sold season
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      137 10 THE tunic coat, just the length to go over dresses, skirts and pants, in stripes, such as be;ge. navy and white, with solids beneath. THE contrast yoke, one of those details which make the current look, in white or checks on a dark colour, often including
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      Lock icon Italians Lead Europe In Mass Design
      151 10 The European tradition has always been individualism in fashion. The rich had couture, the middle-class had their tailors and dressmakers, and the poor made their own. Now there is a slow trend toward mass production of fashion, in which the Italians are far out
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      1439 10  -  By Edith Teague Fashion Editor Of 'Flair' Magazine, London. AS a schoolgirl, Lesley Hornby was so gawky and skinny that her nickname was "Sticks". She lived with her parents and two older sisters in a small, semi-detached, threebedroom house in the north London suburb of
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      120 10 TO their other useful travel booklets. Pan American Airways has now added one on travelling with children. Seems there are lots of jet kids these days, and the booklet lists everything to take for babies, toddlers and older kids. Washable clothing is best for the travelling
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      130 10 If there's one thing wrong with boots it’s their floppiness. They’re hard to store neatly because they flop. If they get wet inside, they dry slowly because they collapse and air can’t get in. Now comes a new gadget which does away with boot flop.
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      327 10 TODAY and YOU... Tuesday, March 18, 1969. STAR. GAZER**^ ARIES NAP 51 app m yi 5- 6- 9 22 24-27 77 /g TAURUS APP 20 MAY 20 f"\ 3- #-10-25 lU2B-50-83-85 GEMINI MAY2. V WW JO 0i34-36-51-53 73-77-78 CANCER JUNE 21 O\l3-18-30-33 cv 49-63-84-87 LEO JULY 23 AUG. 22 12-16-40-42
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      Lock icon Aik Huang’s Big Boost To His All-England Chances
      435 11 4 Scotland Mon. (Reuter) Tan Aik Huang. the 22-year-old Malaysian badminton star, boosted his chance of regaining the All-England title this week when he won the World Invitation Tournament here at the weekend. In the semi-finals he beat reigning All-England champion Rudy
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      217 11 WELLINGTON’, Mon- (Reuter) Leading North Island jockey Kaye Tinsley is to accept an offer to ride in Singapore and Malaysia, it was announced here tonight. Tinsley. 26. will replace crack Australian jockey Des Coleman with Mr. Peter Wong’s Goldmine Stable. The Goldmine string.
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      110 11 MELBOURNE. Mon. (AFT) Mexico’* sixth world-rank-ed featherweight boxer Jose Jlmlnez arrived here yesterday for next Friday’s 10.round bout with Australia's world champion Johnny Famechon. declaring that he would knock the Australian out Jiminez will be Famechon’s first opponent since the Australian won the world title from Spain's
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      59 11 MELBOURNE, Mon. (Reu- f#r) World bantamweight •champion Lionel Rose of Australia will have his tonsils removed in a hospital here .in two weeks’ time, manager Jack Reme said tonight. A nose and throat specialist said the condition of Rose's tonsils affected his performance In his
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      99 11 YAOUNDE. Cameroun. Mon (Reuter) —The Supreme Council for Sport in Africa has s«nt a protest note to the International Olympic Committee complaining of European participation in the South African Games. In a special communique, the council said the participation of West Germany, host country for the
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      107 11 RANGOON, Mon. (Reuter) A report calling for a ban on the use of still and television cameras at the fifth Southeast Asian Peninsular Games here, was submitted today to the Organising Committee Council of the Games. It said the Burmese Government would
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      61 11 MELBOURNE. Mon. (AFP) Australia’s world bantamweight boxing champion Lionel Rose, who successfully defended his title recently against Britain'* Alan Ruakin. introduced his red-haired 19-year-old white fiancee Jenny Oakes to the press here yesterday. The two disclosed that they would not marrv until Rose’s bantamweight fighting
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      22 11 Mr. Les Hall, the leading Hong Kong qualifier to date in the Cathay Paciflc-Brunswiclt Far Last Bowling Championships. 1969 CATHAY-BRUXSWICK F.E. BOWLING
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      331 11 SINGAPORE. Mon. Alan Lee of Malaysia takes the lead in the qualifying rounds of the 1969 CathayBrunswirk Far East Bowling championships held at the various bowling centres throughout the Far East. Alan bowled a threegame scratch total of 667 pinfalls at the Hotel
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      345 11 SINGAPORE. Mon. Three top Australian motor racing drivers have entered for the 1969 Singapore Grand Prix meet, to he held at the Thomson-Semba-wang Road circuit rom April 4 to 6. Thi* was disclosed to Sunsport by the Secretary of Singapore Grand Prix meeting. Mr
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      89 11 LAUSANNE. Switzerland. Mon. (Reuter)—South Africa has failed in a bid to join the International Judo Federation because of its apartheid policy. it was announced here yesterday. The Federation's African regional organisation, the African and Malagasv Judo Union told the Federation’s management committee here it had
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      85 11 BARRANQUILLA. Colombia. Mon. (UPI) —Zel Jko Franulovic. Yugoslavia, and Ilie Nstasse. Rumania Sunday defeated Australians Bill Bowrey and Ray Ruffles 6-4. 6-3. 6-2 in a men’s doubles quarter finals match of the International “City of Barranquilla” tennis tournament. Margaret Smith-Court and Judy Tegart won the women’s doubles
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      87 11 CORK, IRELAND. Mon. (Reuter) Tunisian Mohamed Gammoudi. the Olympic 5.000-metre gold medallist, finished a disappointing 12th in the International Military Cross-Country Championship run ovar a lO.OOO metres course here yesterday. After being among the leaders early in the race. Gammoudi slipped back and the race was
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      103 11 NAIROBI. Mon. (Reuter) Kenyan runners will take part in an international crosscountry race In Milan. Italy, on March 30 following the withdrawal of Italian athletes from the current South African Games, it wa* announced here. Earlier Kenya had said it would boycott meetings In Italy.
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      89 11 PENSACOLA. Florida. Mon. (Reuter) The fourth and final round of the US$lOO,OOO (about £41.000) Monsanto Open Golf Championship was postponed yesterday because cf heavy rain. The round was put off until this morning following steady rain Jim Colbert, who shot a 64 on Saturday for a total
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      658 11  -  By Little Nene SINGAPORE'S David Milne. KC-handicap 3. deserves a warm reception when he returns from Kuala Lumpur where he took part in the Malaysian Open Championship which ended on Sundav at the Royal Selangor Golf Club course. True. 16-vear-old David did
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      174 11 LAS VEGAS. Nevada. Mon. (Reuter) American Fred Little, victim of two of the most controversial ring decisions of recent times, tonight makes hi* third attempt to win the world junior middleweight boxing title. The 32-year-old Las Vega* schoolteacher. who has chased the title over
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      44 11 CHRISTCHURCH. New Zealand. Mon. (Reuter) Bruce Watt, former All Black, announced bis retirement from Rugby Union here last night. Watt. SO. who ha* made 187 first clas* appearances, toured with the New Zealand All Blacks to BnUia and France in 1963-64.
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      516 12 CHRISTCHURCH, Mon. (Reuter) New Zealand's defiant batsmen held on to draw the third and final Test against the West Indies here today and the series ended in a stalemate. Brian Hastings, who scored 117 not out in 285 minutes, was the
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      354 12 BRAND'S HATCH, England. Mon. (UPI) Jackie Stewart, the Flying Scot, on Sunday won the Daily Mail Formula- One race of champions in his Ken Tyrell Matra-Ford. His time for the 50-lap. 133-mile race was one hour 13 minutes 10.4 seconds, an average speed of 108.65
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      310 12 NEW YORK. Mon. (UPD The proud Boston Celtics heard the boos of their fans and some choice words from their coach after being humiliated by the Los Angeles Lakers in front of the whole country. In a nationally televised game from Boston on Sunday. the Celtics were
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      46 12 SINGAPORE. Mon. Police beat Junior A.A. by 4-2 in a FAS Division One match played at the Geylang Stadium yesterday. In another Division One match played at the Jalan Besar Stadium. Stable Boys and Bakat Baru fought themselves to a 1-1 draw.
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      92 12 SINGAPORE. Mon. Favourites. British Army Sappers will clash against the Bth Royal Australia Regiment to decide the unofficial water polo champions of the Far East, at Glllman Barracks, on Friday at 5.00 pm. The first time the two teams met were at the Olympic
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      1269 12 By SYDNEY HULLS JOHNNY Leach. England's newlv-appointed table tennis “supremo" said: “The aim is to produce a team of sixteen to eigh-teen-year-olds to win us titles 'in the 1970 European which are to take place in Holland, probablv in Utrecht. It is my
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