Eastern Sun, 10 May 1969

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    22 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 3 IMo. 993 Saturday* 10 May 1969. ft MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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    Lock icon Malaysia Goes To Polls Today
    226 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. The Chairman of the Election Commission. Tan Sri Ahmad Perang. today urged West Malaysia's 3.3 million voters to turn out "in full force" to cast their votes on polling day tomorrow. In so doing, they would be upholding Democracy which all Malaysians
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    Lock icon RUNAWAY CAMEL
    29 1 SYDNEY. Fri. (Reutert > woman was knocked unconfclous bv a runaway camel at suburban shopping centre today. The camel, on display from the city zoo. was later recaptured.
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    Lock icon TUNKU: DEMOCRACY WILL SUFFER IF...
    425 1 LUMPUR, Fri. The Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Re' man, warned today that Democracy would suffer if people allowed themselves to be intimidated by anti-democratic forces at the general elections tomorrow. Democracy was the mainstay of Malaysia's independence. The Tunku told reporters at Merdeka House in
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    Lock icon Student Kills Teacher
    43 1 TAIPEI. Fri. (Reuter) A 17-year-old student hacked his mathematics teacher to death with an axe In front of his classmates at a school In Keelung. police reported today. The teacher had earlier reprimanded the student for being absent without leave.
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    Lock icon A Horse For Suharto
    25 1 JAKARTA. Fri. (Reuter) President Suharto has received a horse from a group of Portuguese matadors who staged bullfights in Jakarta recently.
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    Lock icon 'Co-operation Is Our Greater Objective'
    381 1 MALA YSIA ■S PORE RELA TIO.XS SINGAPORE, Fri. Malaysian Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman said today in Alor Star co-operation between Malaysia and Singapore would not be affected by the outcome of Malaysian charges of Singapore's interference in her internal affairs. He was commenting on
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    Lock icon Died Within Minutes Of Each Other
    114 1 TREDEGAR. Wales. Fn (Reuter) The headmaster and deputy headmaster of a I.OOC-pupil school died within minutes of each other at the school's annual speech day. Headmaster David Davies collapsed during his speech to the boys and girls and their parents at Tredegar Comprehensive School
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    Lock icon Flea Started A Strike
    111 1 BRISTOL. England. Fri. (Reuter) A flea started a strike in the factory that built the Concorde airliner s engines. The fle a Jumped out of a Hessian sack and scared a charwoman. She screamed. The other cleaners downed dustpans and brushes and walked out of the
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    Lock icon W. Irian: Several Foreigners Held
    75 1 JAKARTA. Fri. (Reuter) Indonesian authorities have detained several foreigners in the mountain district of West Irian where primitive tribesmen rebelled against Indonesian Government rule 10 days ago, well-informed Government sources said here today. The sources said the Government did not want to reveal the nationality
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    Lock icon WILSON'S SHOWDOWN
    213 1 LONDON. Frl. (Reuter) Prime Minister Harold Wilson and his Cabinet confronted hostile leaders of the ruling Labour Party todav at an all-day meeting called to thrash out policy rifts that threaten to destroy the Government. The joint session of the Cabinet and the party'j National Executive Committee was
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    Lock icon Imagine That...
    82 1 KOTTAYAM, Kerala. India. Fri. (UPI) More than 100 professional beggars on Thursday staged a protest march demanding their right to carry on their profession unhindered and demanding the closure of the local beggars' home. Blind and disabfed beggars and beggar mothers with children demonstrated outside the home and
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    Lock icon Ivy Leong Wins 'Best PDF Trainee' Award
    171 1 SINGAPORE. Fri.— Miss Ivy Leong won the "Best Trainee" award at the passing-out parade of the first People's Defence Force (Women) Volunteers NCO Cadre Course at the Haig Road Camp. A teacher at the Joo Avenue Integrated Primary School, Ivy has beer in
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    Lock icon Saigon Partially Rejects VC Plan
    171 1 SAIGON, Fri. (UPI) —The Saigon Government today rejected the essential points of the Vietcong's 10-point peace plan as undemocratic but seized on other points as a possible basis for progress in peace negotiations. A Foreign Ministry communique said the Communist plan wa s "on many
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    Lock icon 'Miss Korea' Gives Up Her Crown
    156 1 SEOUL. Fri. (UPI) Miss Kim Chi-yon, 20. who recently won a Miss Korea title for 1969, has "voluntarily" given up her crown because she was found married, it was announced today. Miss Kim, 5 feet did 5 inches tall, was the top wanner in
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    Lock icon The Bachelor Who Was Sterilised...
    146 1 AHMED AB AD. Fri. (Reuter) —The young bachelor could not resist the temptation. He was promised money and a job providing he was sterilised under India's family planning scheme. He went ahead with the operation. Now the two men who persuaded the bachelor to get
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    Lock icon Rockefeller's Gift To Museum
    69 1 NEW YORK. Frl. (Reuter) New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller has decided to give his US$2O million (about £8.300.000) primitive art collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art here. The Governor. President of the Museum of Primitive Art, announced his decision last night. His collection, estimated to
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    Lock icon Queen E. And Mozart's Piano
    49 1 SALZBURG. Austria. Fri. (Reut*r> Queen Elizabeth. on the last full day of her State visit to Austria, was offered an opportunity of playing Mozart's concert piano. But she smilingly declined the offer, made by Dr Hans Sehurich. Honorary Curator of the Mozart Museum here.
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    Lock icon Tenancy Case: $3,300 Damages For Store-keeper
    476 2 SINGAPORE, Fri. The High Court today ruled in favour of a store-keeper of Far East Land Forces Engineer Park, K. Thomas, declaring him the tenant of an unnumbered premises at Jalan Hwi Yeoh. In his judgement, Mr. Justice Winslow awarded the plaintiff general damages
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    Lock icon Warning To S.E. Asian Countries
    190 2 TAIPEI, Fri. (UPI) Nationalist China today warned Southeast Asian countries against stepped-up Chinese Communist infiltration and subversion. Wei Sun-sun. spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, gave the warning while commenting on Chinese Communist Defence Minister Lin Piao's political Teport at the ninth National Congress of the
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    Lock icon Pontiff Removes 30 'Saints'
    62 2 VATICAN CITY. Fri. (Reuter) Pope Paul today removed more than 30 'saints' from the Roman Catholic calendar on the ground that they may not even have existed. They include the popular Saint Christopher, patron of travellers. The changes came in a reform of the calendar of
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    Lock icon Denmark Suspends Currency Trade
    34 2 COPENHAGEN. Fri. (UPI)— Denmark today suspended all trade with foreign currency because at the international monetary crisis. The official quotation in the Danish foreign exchange market, Boersen, also was suspended.
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    Lock icon Red Cross Must Prepare To Meet Problems Ahead
    176 2 SINGAPORE. Fri. The Singapore Red Cross must prepare to meet the problems at urbanisation, industrialisation and old age, its chairman, Dr. W. Rasanayagam, said last night. Speaking at dinner to celebrate World Red Cross Day, he said the society's local role was
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    Lock icon Exhibition Of French Tapestry
    114 2 SINGAPORE. Fri An exhibition of French contemporary tapestry, unique to Singapore and the surrounding countries will be held at the Singapore Conference Hall for two weeks from May 15 to 27. The 21 pieces of French tapestries, works of some of the best French and world
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    Lock icon Women Can Play Useful Military Role In S'pore
    167 2 SINGAPORE, Fri. Women can plav an extremely useful military role and show their mettle in combat as effectively as their male counterparts. This was stated by Colonel R. J. Minjoot. Commander at the passing-out-parade of the People's Defence Force 'Wo- men NCO
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    Lock icon Shock Move By Bank Of France
    112 2 PARIS. Fri (Reuterl—The Bank of France stopped supporting the Franc against the mark in official dealings here today, following the withdrawal of dollar support by t*" West German authorities in Frankfurt. The rate rocketed to an alltime Paris peak of 12* 000/ 128 000
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    Lock icon Welsh N'lists Plans Exposed
    149 2 SWANSEA. Fit <Reuter) Welsh Nationalists planned to attack Caernarvon Castle and assassinate Queen Elizabeth's son, Charles, during hi* Investiture there as Prince of Wales, a court heard here today. The orosecutlon at the trial of nine men alleged to be members of the outlawed Free Wales
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    Lock icon Acker Bilk Of Jazz Fame Loves S'pore
    418 2  -  By K.S. SIDHU SINGAPORE, Fri. Britain's famed jazz player Acker Bilk arrived >n Singapore with his group for a three-week assignment where he will perform at the popular Goodwood Hotels group. Friendly Acker Bilk, who Is making his fifth trip to Singapore. told
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    Lock icon French Gold Values Soar
    57 2 PARIS, Fri. (Reuter) French gold bullion value* rose to new heights today as the 12 5-kilo standard fold bar price was fixed nine cents higher at U5548.68 an ounce during the early closed-session fixing. Dealers said there was an active demand for the metal becauae of
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    Lock icon 20,000 Give Shot Youth 'Hero's Funeral': No Incidents
    597 2  -  By Yap Koon Hui KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. More than 20,000 people Labour Party members, friends and sympathisers turned up to give Lim Sun Seng, 23, a "hero's funeral" today. Despite the tragic circumstances of his death, and the tension simmering in the
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    Lock icon $ Record Low Against Mark
    121 2 Record Low Against Mark FRANKFURT. Fri. (Reuter)' —The dollar plummeted to a new record low against the mark on the foreign exchang* market here this afternoon to around 3.910 ft in trading described bv dealers as "utter chaos Foreign exchange dealers said the market was more chaotic than yesterday. wh:cn
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    Lock icon Router's Chief On Grey's Detention
    91 2 J NORWICH. England Fri. Reuter) Mr. Gerald Lor;, General Manager of Reuter'?, referred to the present ordeal of Anthony Grev. Reuter's correspondent in Peking, when he spoke ;n Grey's home town here today. Grey, 30. has beer, confined to his house in Peking jince July
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    Lock icon Thais Go East
    133 3 THE TRADE JAP BANGKOK. Frl. (AFP) Prime Minuter Thanom Klttikachorn told members of a Thai trade mission to Eastern Europe that their aim would strictly business and that they should remember they were visiting a different political camp. Marshal Thanom told the businessmen, who called on nim
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    Lock icon INNOTECH SEMINAR
    104 3 SINGAPORE. Fri. The SEAMES (Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Secretariat) Regional Seminar on Educational Innovation and Technology is to be held in Singapore from May 12 to 16. Delegates from Indonesia, Laos. Malaysia. Philippines. Singapore. Thailand and Viefnam will attend the fiveday seminar at Ladyhill Hotel. There will
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    Lock icon Help House Students
    119 3 SINGAPORE. Frl. The University of Singapore today appealed to householders living in the vicinity of the university campuses at Bukit Tlman and Sepoy Lines and the Singapore Polytechnic to let rooms for accommodating its students. An enrolment of 4.500 is expected at the beginning of the new
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    Lock icon Demolition Exercises
    55 3 SINGAPORE. Fri., Demolition exercises will be conducted by the Singapore Armed Forces from May 12 to 14 at the Southern Islands Ranges. Pulau Senang and Pulau Pawai. These exercises will be held daily from 8.00 a.m. to midnight. The public are again warnea. for their own safety, to
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    Lock icon Pull Out Plan Set
    127 3 SAIGON. Fri (ITI) The I S. high command has taken preliminary steps pointing towards the start of a U S. troop withdrawal within the next 60 days, informed I.S. military sources said today. At least one l.vtOO-man U.S. division the 2.jth infantry has been affected by
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    Lock icon Savings Drive
    95 3 SINGAPORE. Frl. The domestic savings drive launched in September last year is showing promising results In April thiL year the number of new accounts opened was 10.206 a record for any one month. New accounts opened in February and March were 2.620 and 7.480. The total number of
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    Lock icon Thai Admiral To Make 5-day Visit To Malaysia
    401 3 SINGAPORE. Fri. The Commander-in-chief, Royal Thai Navy, Admiral Charoon Charlermtiarana, ♦tPill make a five-day official visit to Malaysia from Tuesdav to Saturdav (Mav 13-17). He will be the guest of the Malaysian Government and his visit will be hosted by the Chief
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    Lock icon C-Plan Student Gets High Honours
    272 3 SINGAPORE, Fri.—A Colombo Plan scholar, Mr. Yeo Poh Teck of Tiverton Lane in Singapore, recently obtained a Bachelor of Medical Science degree with first-class honours from the Monash University, Melbourne. Yeo did his research in neurophysiology under the personal supervision of Professor AK Mclntyre. Chairman
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    Lock icon Film Festival June 16-20
    202 3 MANILA, Fri. (AFP > The 15th Asian film festival is scheduled to be held in Manila June 16-20. with films from Japan. Taiwan. South Korea. Hong Kong and the Philippines competing for top awards. Organisers here said Guam had also signified its intention to take part
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    Lock icon St. Joseph's Founder's Day
    45 3 SINGAPORE Fri.—A parade and distribution of prizes for academic and extramural studies will be held by St. Joseph's Institution on May 15 to mark Founder's Day. Mr. E W Barker, the M;nester for Law and NationalDevelopment, will give away the prizes.
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    Lock icon Chemistry Talks, May 16
    118 3 SINGAPORE. Fri Dr. Rayson L. Huang. Vice-Chan-cellor of the Nanyang University, will deliver a lecture to the Royal Institute of Chemistry (London). Singapore section at the College of Arts lecture theatre. Nanyang University, on Mav 16 at 6 p.m. He will lecture on "Recent Advances in
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    Lock icon NOMINATION FARCE
    52 3 PARIS, (Reuter) A group of militants here today put forward a 44-year-old building worker as candidate in the presidential election "to recreate the atmosphere of last May." The sponsors of M. Espel all members of "action committees" which sprang up spontaneously during last year's riots said they had
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    Lock icon Brothers Face Murder Rap
    356 3 SINGAPORE, Fri. Defence counsel Mr. R. Ramason today described a murder inquiry as "appalling and tragic*' as there were two murders in the same incident and only evidence was led on one murder. He made these remarks at the end of the Inquiry into the murder
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    Lock icon IESC Man 'Impressed'
    206 3 SINGAPORE. Fri. Mr. H. R. Crawford. Vice-Pre-sident of the International Executive Service Corps said today the pace of development in Singapore was most encouraging. Mr Crawlord said he was impressed with the efforts being made by the Government to improve the welfare and living standards of the
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    Lock icon Lord Fulton Due On May 14
    314 3 SINGAPORE, Fri. Lord Fulton, Chairman of the British Council and Vice-Chairman of the Inter-University Council for Higher Education Overseas, will visit Singapore from May 14 to 16 for discussions with the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Singapore, Dr. Toh Chin Chye, and the Vice-Chancellor
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    Lock icon 'Some Progress'
    37 3 CAIRO. Fn. (Reuter) Britain has told Egypt that she believes the New York four-power talks on tho Middle East have made a certain amount of positive progress. Cairo's authoritative A 1 Ahram daily reported today.
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      38 3 Today's Diary 4 p.m.: Choir practice at National Theatre Club, Clemenceau Avenue. 7 p.m.; Eng ish drama workshop at National Theatre Club. Clemenceau Avenue. 8 p.m.: Folk dance and Chinese operatic practices at National Theatre Club Clemenceau Avenue
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    Lock icon Commerce Secretary Now Visiting Asia
    173 5 'MAJOR WASHINGTON, Fri. (UPI) Secretory of Commerce Maurice H. Stans leaves Washington today«f§V a "major mission" to the Far East including meetings with top leaders in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong, the Commerce Department announced. Among the Asian leaders he will be meeting
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    Lock icon A-worker Sues Varsity
    164 5 CHICAGO. Frl. (UPI) A laboratory worker who has worked with beryllium since the Manhattan Project which developed the first atomic bomb suing the University of Chicago for US$l.2 million. Henry J. Duffels, an employee of the Argonne National Laboratory, charged in his suit that the school concealed
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    Lock icon Soviets Will Sign N-treaty
    68 5 WASHINGTON. Frl (UPI) The State Department disclosed that the Soviet Union has informed tbe United States of its intention shortly to ratify the treaty which would halt the spread of nuclear weapons. State Department spokesman Mr. Robert J McC'.oskey also said there still has been no
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    Lock icon MOON ROCKET PASSES TEST
    81 5 CAPE KENNEDY. (Reuter) A critical test of the Saturn V moon rocket was successfully concluded .ast night, clearing the way for a May 18 launch of the Apollo 10 lunar orbit mission. The final test involved the first stage of the huge threestage rocket Nearly two
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    40 5 JAKARTA. (Reuter) A man was arrested in Jakarta today for screening a film showing ousted President Sukarno and the late Indonesian Communist Partv Chairman D. N. Aidit addressing a mass rally in Surabaja. East Java, five years ago.
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    Lock icon Canada To Trim Budget
    204 5 OTTAWA, Fri. (UPI) Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau has promised "very severe expenditure cuts" to curb inflationary trends in Canada's economy. Mr Trudeau made the statement in reply to a series of questions in the House of Commons on government figures that showed a 1.1 per
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    Lock icon Tide Turning On Anarchy
    67 5 PROVO Utah. Fri. (UPI> Vice-President Agnew has Joined the verbal attack on campus disorders. He told some 10.000 students at Brigham Young University that the goals of education cannot be achieved in "a condition of anarchy He said the Federal government can do little, and he
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    Lock icon Allegations
    101 5 WASHINGTON. Fri. (UPI) Congressman Wright Patman has made charges at Treasury Secretary David Kennedy. Patman says that Kennedy kept his holdings in a Chicago corporation secret when he accepted his caoinet post. Patman head of the House Banking Committee says the secretary is trying to mislead congress and the
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    Lock icon "FAMINE" FARMERS PROTEST
    93 5 MANILA. (Reuter) About 1.000 farmers in Buk Dnon province in the southern Philippines went on a hunger strike in front of a townhall on Monday, a Philippine News Service report said today. The farmers demanded rice from the government and asked their town Maramag be declared in
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    Lock icon POSTPONEMENT REQUESTED
    53 5 COLOMBO. <UPI) The Soviet government has asked Prime Minister Dudley Senanayake to postpone his state visit to Russia scheduled later this month. A spokesman said the request was relayed by the Soviet Ambassador here and Mr. Senanayake replied he would consider the request. There was no explanation lor
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    Lock icon TRADE TEAM IN BEIRUT
    26 5 AMMAN. (Reuter) A 15ir.an Pakistani trade delegation arrived here tonight from Beirut for a four-day visit The delegation will also visit E^ypt.
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    Lock icon The Big Question Mark
    789 5 WEEKEND DECISION LIKELY BONN, Fri. (UPI Cr Reuter) West German money chiefs and ministers are in severe discord over the demand to revalue the deutsch- mark. Economics Minister Karl Schiller has demanded an immediate revaluation. Federal Bank President Karl Blessirg wants a decision to carry to
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    Lock icon Israel Urged To Sign The Non-proliferation Treaty
    206 5 OTTAWA. Fri. (Reuter) Canada ts urging Israel to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. External Affairs Minister Mr. Mitchell Sharp told the House of Commons today. He said such a move by Israel would end speculation that Israel is building atomic bombs. Mr. Sharp
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    Lock icon NEW DELHI: Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin is with India's Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi on May 5 after his arrival here to attend the funeral of Indian President Dr. Zakir Husain who died on May 3. Kosygin, after conferring with Mrs. Gandhi on May 6, said "India and Russia have much in common and we want to strengthen our existing friendship".
    63 5 NEW DELHI: Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin is with India's Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi on May 5 after his arrival here to attend the funeral of Indian President Dr. Zakir Husain who died on May 3. Kosygin, after conferring with Mrs. Gandhi on May 6, said "India and Russia have
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    Lock icon THAI AIR SUES H.K. GOVT.
    100 5 HONG KONG. FV. (Reuter) The Thai International Airway is suing the Hong Kong for damages for alleged negligence on the part of the air traffic control unit at Ka< Tak Airport which the slrlme claim* resulted in the crash of one of i's aircraft tn
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    Lock icon On The 'Old West' Trail
    100 5 WASHINGTON*. Frl (UPI) Sixteen travel writers from 12 nation# will tour five *tate» of the American Old West' beginning June 1. the US Travel Service paid today The group will visit major attractions In Montana Nebraska, North and South Dakota and Wyoming under the sponsorship
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    Lock icon Bill To Control Advertising
    91 5 MANILA. Fn. (UPI) Filipino Congressman Edgar U. Ilarde has fi'ed a bill seeking to nationalise the advertising Industry in th# Philippines The bill specifically bans the printing, publication, broadcast or tiisplav on television of any foreign-made commercial and advertisements." Mr I'arde defi-ed "foreignmade" ad"erti= ng as
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    Lock icon Birth Control Centre Planned
    65 5 WASHINGTON, Fri (UPD Senator Joseph Tydmgs is sponsoring legislation that would set up a National Birth Control Centre The Democratic Senator says the Bill hp proposes would authorise U.S. dollars In new grants for familv planning programmes. Tydlngs says no one would b* forced to practice
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    Lock icon FOOD FOR EGYPT
    60 5 ROME. (Reuter) The governing body of the World Food Programme today approved a food-aid scheme worth LTSS4S m for the United Arab Republic. The WFP's inter-govern-mental committee agreed to a request by the U.A.R. for this amount in food and related administrative costs The food will be
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      Lock icon SINO-CANADIAN MEETING SOON
      88 5 OTTAWA, lUPI) External Affairs Minister Mr. Mitchell Sharp told Parliament that the Canadian ambassador to Sweden would meet with a Red Chinese representative in Stockholm shortly in further discussions aimed at eventual diplomatic recognition of the mainland government. Mr. Sharp did not announce a definite date for
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      Lock icon TRUCE FOR BUDDHA'S DAY
      78 5 SAIGON. (UPI) South Vietnam has called for a oneday truce on May 30th. the anniversary of Buddha's birth. Allies have agreed to go along with the tru'-e. Announce-nent of the ceasefire followed several terrorist exp osions in Saigon One blast In the city's central post office
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      Lock icon 10-POINT "PEACE PLAN'
      70 5 10- POINT "PEACE PLAN' PARIS. (UPI) In what the communist say is a plan "To open the wav to progress the Vietcong proposed a 10-point Vietnamese plan It was presented at the Paris talks. It calls for the US and other foreign allies of Saigon to withdraw their troops unilaterally.
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      Lock icon NEW RAID INTO JORDAN
      62 5 TEL AVIV. (UPI> Isaeh nflfic.als in Tel Avl% r say they sent their jets into Jordan for the second time In 24 hours. The target of the raid was guerrilla base in southern Jordan The attack lasted 30 minutes Israel also reported that Egyptian forres along
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      Lock icon BOMB BLAST AT MART
      109 5 SAIGON. (Reuter) A plastic bomb exploded near Sa:gon's central market just after dawn today, wounding three American military personnel and two Vietnamese civilians, A US spokesman said. The quarter pound explosive had been hidden under an American military truck which was damaged in the blast. This
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      Lock icon FOOD FOR THOUGHT
      82 5 ROME. (Router) Sudan today a«ked for US$24 ra worth of food from the World Food Programme for a scheme to feed school children and so help expand »chool attendance Education Minister Mr. Abdel Hadl. making the request to the WFP's governing body here, said Sudan could not
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      89 5 NEW YORK. (Reuter) At least 11 flres were reported today at the City Colleee of New York amid a series of new clashes between rival student groups. Five of the fires were at the student centre. The largest broke out in the organ loft of the
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      Lock icon BIG FLEET REVIEW
      80 5 PORTSMOUTH. England, ißeuteri Sixty-three warships from 12 countries will be inspected by Queen Elizabeth off this main British naval base next Friday It will be the greatest array of naval might seen In British waters since the Queen's Coronation review here in 1953. To make the inspe-tion.
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      Lock icon WEST IRIAN "SERIOUS"
      84 5 JAKARTA, (Reuter* The United Nations representative for West Irian. Bolivian ambassador Ortiz: Sanz said today he is deeply concerned about current events in West Trian. He sa:<3 he has appealed to all concerned to act with the utmost restraint. Mr. Ortiz-Sanz said he is trying to assess
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      Lock icon SAUSAGE-EATING CHAMPION
      70 5 PETERBOROUGH. England. (Reuter) "I never want to see a sausage again." world champion sausage eater Walter Cornelius said last night Cornelius had just scoffed u n 30 well-filled Midlands sausages in 10 minutes to beat his own world record get last year. Thp trouble was that Cornelius. who
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    Lock icon THE MIDDLE EAST
    309 6 ISRAEL'S possession of atomic bombs, if true, is certain to alter the balance of power In the Middle East. Tension in the area will also be aggravated. Though the news is shocking, it is not quite a surprise as some such hints were on the air for
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    160 6 Reuter HANOI'S official newspaper Nhan Dan said today the two-party system proposed by South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu was "absolutely ridiculous." Quoted by the North Vietnam News Agency, the newspaper said President Thieu was "cutting capers on the political stage in Saigon." Commenting
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    129 6 AFP RADIO Peking today attacked Soviet party chief Leonid Brezhnev's theory of "international dictatorship" as "social-imperialist robbers' theory." The theory is as good as the excuse put up by robbers who, having barged into other people's homes declare that they are out to protect the latter's
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    Lock icon BREAKING The I.Q. Test Barrier
    1458 6  -  All over the world, educators are concerned with the problem of children who cannot learn backward children, slow readers and slow learners, antisocial children, children with low IQ s the of the educational system. In Israel. Reuven Feuerstein and his colleagues we provino that such
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    173 6 NEW DELHI. Fri. (UPI) Defence Minister Swaran Singh said or Thursday there will be no power vacuum in the Indian Oean when Britian withdraws all military forres from the area. He told the Upper House, "there was no vacuum when the British left India.
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    155 6 LONDON. Fri. (UPI) Two Englishmen said on Thursdav that William Shakespeare was a Welshman. Williams the Pen. The latest variation on theories of the bards authenticity was published in a hi ok b\ George W irnh com he and his son Bernard. The Winchcombes have been
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    24 6 It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in idea*. and not in circumstances. Emerson, Ralph Waldo.
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    388 6  -  BY GEORGE SIBERA PARIS. Fri. (I'PT) The Vietcong peace package contains some old ideas already rejected by allies plus new offers which may help unfreeze the deadlock in the Paris peace talks. By submitting the 10-point scheme to the allies the chief Vle'cong negotiator Tran
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    895 6  -  FFOM SIN CHEW JIT POH The Indonesian West Irian Affairs Chief. Dr. Sudjarwo. announced in Jakarta that the revolting W. Irian tribesmen occupied and sabotaged Ave airfields a fortnight ago. He said that ths tribesmen had resorted to terrorists' methods; for they blockaded ths alrAelds by
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    Lock icon Big Zinc Mine To Begin Operations
    109 6 WINDHOEK South West Africa. Fri (AFP) Operation* at Rosh Plna Zinc Mine one of the biggest discoveries in recent southern African history are to start next week ;t was announced here today. The mine, with estimated reserves of six million tons, is located in
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    98 6 HONG KONG. Fri. (AFF) The Australian Marx:stLenlmstj must also put Mac Tsetur.g thought in eommanc of everything, the Australia? Maoists said In a statement hailing Chinese Party Nustl? Congress. The statement, issued yesterday by the Communist Party of Australia (MarxistLeninist >. and quoted bv Radio Peking this
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    Lock icon Pak. Censors Ban 'Dr. Zhivago'
    86 6 RAWALPINDI. Fri. (LTD "Dr. Zhivago". the Americanmade academy-award winning film of the life of a doctor durin the Russian revolution, has been banned here because "it might hurt the fee ing? of a particular country." The Government Censor Board announced it "found nothing wrong with
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    91 6 WIESBADEN. Fri. (DaD) Hesse State animal husbandry research institute ;n the Federal Republic of Germany has no lack of new ideas. Its bul'.s have their horns lopped cfl before they are put out to graze and Its cows are the first in the world to wear brassieres.
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      Lock icon The Kodak Lucky Draw Winners
      310 7 SINGAPORE, Fri The first of three monthly KODAK INSTAMATIC CAMERA CONTEST luckv draws was held todav at the Kodak Building, where' it was conducted by Mr. K.C. Wong, Vice-President of the Singapore Photographic Trade Association. The draw was witnessed by Dato Aw Knw, Managing Director
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      Lock icon Trade Balance Up $231.6 m
      226 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Malaysia showed a favourable trade balance of $297.1 million curing the flrst quarter of this year according to the latest estimates released by the Department of Statistics today. Thi: represent* an Increase o< $231.6 m. when compared with 'he $65.5 m. trade
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      71 7 TOKYO. Fri (UPI) Exports of passenger cars, trucks and buses in March totalled 74.243 units to hit a new monthly high, the Japan Automobiles Manufacturing Association announced. The record last February was 70,099. the announcement said Of the total, 49 530 units were passenger cars. 23 900 units
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      15 7 SINGAPORE. Fri. The tin price for today wa« $613 per picul, u© $2.00.
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      301 7 SIN'dIPbRE. Fri. The following is a berthing list released by the Port of Singapore Authority for May 10: DEPARTURE: Godown* Vessels 3/4 Velma Lykes 6 7 Hartvig Maersk NW 1/2 Giang Lee 27/28 Iman 29 30 Nymphe 31/32 Sado Maru 33/34 Emilia Plater 38/39 Polydorus 40 41
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      Lock icon CORNWALL TIN MINING REACTIVATED
      226 7 LONDON, Fri. (Reuter) A f«m project for the development of tin mining in southwest England was announced here todav by Consolidated Goldflelds. Consolidated. which has world-wide interests, notably in South Africt. Australia and Canada, said it is planning to SS?* a new mine at about three
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      Lock icon Rubber: Up Quarter Cent
      296 7 SINGAPORE. Fri. May first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur today a t 693 4 cents per lb. up one quarter of a cent from the previous clow. The tone of the market was very quiet. The market opened some
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      Lock icon Auto Sales Are Down
      67 7 TOKYO. Fri. (UPI) Japanese automobile tales in April totalled 322.939 units, for a decrease of 12.9 per cent from the previous month, but an increase of 18 3 per cent from the corresponding month last year. The Japan Federation of Automobiles Dealers Association and the National
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      Lock icon Aluminium Mart Expert Here On May 20
      162 7 SINGAPORE, Fri. Mr. William Bradley. Market Development Officer for the Aluminium Technology Products Exhibition and Seminar, scheduled for June 2-6 In the Bangkok Trade Centre, will arrive in Singapore on May 14. He will remain in the Republic un. til May 20. The
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      Lock icon London's New AP Terminal Is Now In Full Use
      220 7 LONDON, Fri. Europe'a newest and biggest airport terminal has been officially opened at Heathrow Airport, London, reinforcing the airport's claim to be the finest gateway between Europe and the rest of the world. Transfer coaches link the international Terminal 3 with
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      Lock icon Another Quiet Session In Stock Market
      1497 7 SINGAPORE, Fri. In ytt another quiet trading session, the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore today, failed to maintain the rather brighter tone of Wednesday. Profit-takers were out soon after the opening bell and it wa* only towards tne cloaing s ages tnat some
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      Lock icon Deposits Inerease
      113 7 TOKYO, Fri. (UPI) Cl'y banks in Tokyo showed a rise of 117,583 million yen (US$327 m.) In real deposits during April for the biggest Increase ever registered for the month, the Tokyo Bankers' Association announced today. The Association said this rise was an "unusual phenomenon" since real deposits,
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      Lock icon EXCHANGE RATES
      127 7 SINGAPORE, Fri. The Association of Banks in Ma-laysia-Singapore today made the following changes in its rates to merchants (rstes are quoted to the equivalent of 100 units of foreign currency) SELLING T.T. or OD. ready: Deutsche Marks $78.1075; Holland Guilders $84.9975; Swiss Francs $71.4400; Belgian Francs $6.1575; French
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      Lock icon Stock Exchange Closing Prices
      585 7 HINOAPOKE. Stork bebange told and other price* officially Uatad at Ik* cktaa of OUklDeM INDUSTRIALS ACMA B f .24 B*n A Co 2 25 2.26 Borneo Bhd 187 188 Houttead 2.12 214 Camel Plywood 282 2.65 C *ufar 4 50 4 54 Cold Storage 6*5 Chemical
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      Lock icon H. K. Money Quotations
      58 7 HONG KONG Fri. (UPI) HKS6 1075 per US. dollar. HK$6 ***** per US dollar TT HKSI4 2 per pound sterling HK5325.375 per tael of gold 94 5 per cent fineness HK5163.2 per 10.000 Japanese yens. HKSI3I 5 per 100 Philippines peso® buyers. HK5132.5 per 100 Philippires
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      49 7 Manurn Prlcm let Malayan 3.17 2nd Malayan 3rd Malayan XI> 1.39 The Commerce Ind. 1 12 1 22 The having Mini 120 1.S0 M. Invent l-und XD 135 145 1st Bong Kong 1.40 1.46* 2nd Hrnii Kong 91 1 OS* Sterling Com. 6 lOxd I*UOQI Ron# J
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      94 7 SINGAPORE. Frl. The noon price* at the Singapore mineae Product Exchange today are:— Buret krlMt Coconut Oil (FOB.) Bulk UM Coconut Oil (F.O.B Drum 81 00 Mixed Copra 3100 mm Muntok White Pepper (FOB-) »6% XXW. 117-50 Sarawak While Pepper (FOB) 125.00 Sarawak special Black Pepper ifOB M% 97.50
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      Lock icon US $2,149 m Contracted
      130 7 TOKYO. Fri (UPI)—A Total of 773.630 million yen (US$2.149 m.) worth of export contracts was concluded by 12 major Japanese trade firms curing the period of this year, the Japan Export Import Finn* Association announced. The announcement said ths flfure was an increase of 26 per
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      411 7 ARRIVALS S (H> a m. MsA MLU2U K Lumpor y OU a m. MSA MLII 9 K 1 urr.pur V-45A.ni. MsA Ml 521» PtanomPenb 1018 a.m. MSA MLI2I K Lompor 10 25 a.m. M>A MLOOA Pfßinj, Ipob. k. Lumpur. Malacca. 10 50 am. THAI TU423 Bangkok It JO
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    Lock icon SAIGON: A plainclothes South Vietnamese policeman carries a wounded civilian to an ambulance after he was injured in a bomb explosion in the central post office here on May 8. Four South Vietnamese were killed and 16 others injured in the explosion. In another incident in Saigon late on May 7, terrorists throwing hand grenades from motor-cycles killed one civilian and wounded 20 other persons, including six Americans.
    70 8 SAIGON: A plainclothes South Vietnamese policeman carries a wounded civilian to an ambulance after he was injured in a bomb explosion in the central post office here on May 8. Four South Vietnamese were killed and 16 others injured in the explosion. In another incident in Saigon late on May
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    Lock icon Whitehall – Ulster To Discuss Reforms
    199 8 Whitehall Ulster To Discuss Reforms BELFAST, Northern Ireland Fri. (UPI) Premier James Chichester-Clark says he will meet British Prim* Minister Harold Wilson later this month to discuss social and political reforms in this troubled corner of the British Isles. Minority Roman Catholic civil rights leaders and Protestant extremists called for
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    Lock icon Harbour Re-opened
    98 8 WELLINGTON. New.- Zealand. Fn. (Reuter) Wellington harbour was re-opened to shipping this morning after a search with divers, aircraft and echo sounding equipment revealed that a section broken from a wreck was clear of the main shipping channel. The port had been closed almost. 24 hours since heavy
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    Lock icon Mutiny Put Down
    48 8 LIMA. Peru, Fri. (Reuter) Thirty Chinese crewmen aboard a British freighter mutinied against their skipper but were brought under control by Peruvian port police, the Navy Ministry reported here today. The freighter Amalric (7.791 tons) docked yesterday from Panama at EI Callao port, near Lima.
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    Lock icon V'nam Snake In The Mail
    220 8 JACKSONVILLE. Florida, Fri (UPI) That saying. "The mail must go through," still applies in the Post Office Department, even if the mail is a nine-foot python from Vietnam Assistant Postmaster AF Whittier said mailing a snake was against the rules, "but we're going to make
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    Lock icon Cambodia Sets Poser For Bonn
    116 8 BONN. Fri. (Reuter) The announcement yesterday that East Germany's representation in Cambodia is to be raised to ambassadorial level has immediately posed West Germany with the tricky problem •f how to react. Iraq last week became the first non-Communist country to give East Germany full
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    Lock icon More Escapees Fired On At HK-China Border
    325 8 HONG KONG, Fri. (UPI) Communist Chinese border quords yesterday opened fire on two persons trying to dash across the border into this British crown colony. One of the would-be refugees. a woman, was shot In the hack. The other, a man ran into
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    Lock icon 'Have A Go At The Boss'
    86 8 LONDON. (Reuter) Thousands of shopgirls have been asked to criticise their bosses for a £5O prize They have no fear of reprisals for making superiors the target of their grievances, because all the essays must be signed with pseudonyms The first running the 2.000word
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    Lock icon First Ladies' Confidences
    143 8 MANILA. Fri. (UPI) Empress Farah or Iran says she likes mangoes, the goldenskinned tropical fruit with a sweet taste, but not when she is pregnan*. The lovely Empress confided her alternating passion and revulsion for mangoes to an equally lovely visitor. Mrs. Ferdinand E Marcos, wife of
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    Lock icon 'Freedom Day' Patrol
    99 8 PRAGUE. Frl. (UPI) Extra police and army patrols prowled Prague streets today to prevent demonstrations against the Soviet Union on the day commemorating Czechoslovakia's liberation from Nan Germany So'.diers armed with machineguns and pistols paired wi*h policemen to guard the Sidewalks. and nohce cars stopped young people
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    Lock icon Concorde Is 'Quiet'
    161 8 FAIRFORD. England. Fri (UPI) Britain's version of the Concorde supersonic jetliner is quiete r than a truck "climbing a hill," a leading noise tester said today. The Concorde 002, the Bri-tish-built version of the s ersonic jetliner being developed jointly' by Britain and France, flew through it
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    Lock icon Japan-French Oil Project
    118 8 TOKYO. Frl. (Reuter> French and Japanese oil Interests have agreed in principle to Jointly prospect and develop off-shore oil resources off the State of Sabah. Malaysia. Announcing this, the Sumitomo Shojl Kalsha. a leading Japanese trading house, said today a Sumltomo-led group of eight Japanese firms had
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    Lock icon 'Encephalitis Testing In US'
    211 8 GERM-WAR WARNING WASHINGTON. Fri. (UPI) Rep Richard D McCarthy, of New York says that for the first time the Army apparently was field testing in the continental United States a lethal lorm of encephalitis. McCarthy asked Secretary Mr. Robert H Finch of the De. partment of
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    Lock icon Maritime Nations Brave The 'Killer Jungle'
    636 8  -  Bv Ronald Golden XHA BE. South Vietnam, Frl. (Reuter) Ships from most of the world's maritime nations which trade with South Vietnam face increasingly greater risks a» they run the gauntlet of the "Killer Jungle" between the South China Sea and Saigon. They take
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    Lock icon CYANIDE STOLEN
    122 8 LONDON, Fri. (Reuter) Police searched today for thieves who stole two gallons of cyanide enough to wipe out half London's eight-million population. The deadly chemical was taken in a arum from a factory's security compound and yesterday factory workers were told over loudspeakers: "If it comes back untouched,
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      Lock icon Lana Weds Her 7th Husband
      90 9 LAS VEGAS. Nevada, Fri. (Reuter) Actress Lac a Turner married her seventh husband. magician Ronald Dante, here yesterday. The 2 a.m. ceremony was performed in a wedding chapel across the street from the court-house where they received their marriage licence. Both are 49. ®"riends of
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      Lock icon Surprise For Bailiffs
      54 9 LONDON. Fri. (Reuter) A hippy. happy welcome awaited bailiffs who went to evict artist Rick Wilkms and his family. believers in flower-power and non-violence. The bailiffs arrived yesterday wearily resigned to the usual barricades and abuse, but were offered instead loving messages a drink of wine and
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      Lock icon SPANISH COUPLE THRILLING AUDIENCES
      238 9 SINGAPORE. F r I. A Spanish couple is currently attracting large crowds at a leading: hotel here with their daring performances. They are so very different from other artiste* that the audience ig usually stunned by their breath talcing acts They are ridel Arandis and his
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      Lock icon Singer Sakura Celebrates Her 21st Birthday
      173 9 SAKURA celebrated her 21st birthday yesterdar among a few close friends, a number of press boys and members of EMI. The birthday party was held at Adelphl Hotel. To keep the date with the party, Sakura specially flew from Kuala Lumpur where she had
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      Lock icon Biography Of First Chamber Dance Quartet Of New York
      773 9 The First Chamber Dance Quartet of New York which will be performing in Singapore next month has been described as "American dance at its best". Members of the quartet Include Charles Bennett. Lois Bewley, William Carter, Janice Groman. and Majorle Mussman.
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      Lock icon Salvation Army Band To Visit Singapore
      75 9 PERTH Western Australia. Fn (Iteuter) A group of 50 Salvation Army Band members will sail from here next Friday on a two-week visit to Singapore The SO players are members of the Salvation Armv Subiaco Citadel Brass Band and the Timbrel Brigade During their
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      Lock icon Ian Hendry Loses His Latest Case
      84 9 LONDON. Fn. (Reuter) Aetor lan Hendry, underworld Iswytr star of "The Informer" television crime series, has lost his latest case Not In front of the cameras, but in a real court. Hendry. 38. was yesterday banned from driving for a year add fined £4O
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      Lock icon Michael York In 'The Dreamers'
      182 9 VEW YORK. PH. Mickael York has been signed to star opposite Angela Lansbury in Cinema Center Films' "The Dreamers." it was announced in New York. York, the popular British actor. recently completed starring roles in "Justine" and Alfred The Great." and is currently appearing in
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      226 9 TODAY and YOU Saturday, May 10, 1969. 14-17-21-35 *5-65-75 19 J TAR GAM B T CLAY POLLAN X Your Deify Activity C uid* X. f According to A* Start. To develop message for Saturday, reod words corresponding to number* of your Zodioc birth sign. LIBRA 23 OCT 1 5-25-4447 1
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      Lock icon The Low Flying Dog
      358 10 MELBOURNE. Australia. rri. Spartan, one of the Royal Australian Air Force's potent ground attack weapons, now boasts a world-heatine ST O L (Short Take-Off and Landing) capability. Spartan weighs 100 lb, reaches speeds about Mach 0.04 at sea level and carries 42 fangs in parallel rows.
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      35 10 OSAKA. Japan. Fri. (UPI) —Tom Okker of the Netherlands tonight defeated Australia's Roy Emerson in straight sets. 6—3. 6 —5 in the men'g singles finals of the first profession tennis circuit in Japan.
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      Lock icon Australia May Have Another World Record Holder
      572 10 MELBOURNE. Australia. Frl. Australia may have another world recordholder in Western Australian triple Jumper, Phil May, 23. of. Perth. He proved himself the outstanding athlete at the recent Australian track and field championships in Melbourne. even In the company of world rocordholders. Ron
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      Lock icon Meet Jean, RAF's Only Woman Umpire
      307 10 SINGAPORE, Fri. When the cricketing appeal "Owxat" echoes over R A F. Seletar's cricket ground in future, the chances are that the uplifted hand or the negative head shake will be given by the Station's only woman umpire 25-year-old Mrs. Jean Place who has
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      Lock icon South Johore RFC Officials
      84 10 SINGAPORE. Fri. Mr. PGM Lee welected President of the South Johore Rugby FootbaJ Club at their annual general meeting held recently. Messrs. Tan Meng Kwang. Ahmad bin Hj Abdullah. X A Nicholas. J.A.S Edlngton were elected vice presidents. O'hers elected were: Messrs. Dennis Young (Secretary). Tan
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      Lock icon BP Malaysian Rally
      72 10 SINGAPORE. Fri.—Entries are now open for the BP Malaysian Rally from Johore to Singapore, to be held on June 14 and 15. Entry forms are now available from the organisers and from the following BP Ser* vice Stations in the Republic. They are Pasir Panjang, Serangoon Garden.
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      Lock icon Astros Beat Phillies
      212 10 NEW YORK. Fri. (Reuter) The Houston Astros scored "hre* run» In the eighth and three in the ninth to trim the Philadelphia Phillies In the only scheduled major league baseball game yesterday. The late Innings rally wiped out the five run performance cf Philadelphia's Rich Allen who
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      Lock icon Miss Tegart In S-finals
      127 10 GUILDFORD. England, Frl (Reuter) Australian Judy Tegart. losing finalist at Wimb'edon last year, fought back from the brink of defeat to qualify for the women's singles semi-finals at the Surrey hard court tennis championships here yesterday. Miss Tegart recovered from trailing 4-6. 2-4 to Mrs. Mary
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      Lock icon Athletic Meet
      41 10 SINGAPORE. Fn St Joseph's Institution will hold their annual athletic meet at the school ground on May 16 at 2.30 p.m. Mr. D C D'Cotta, a member of the Christian Brother School Management Board will giva away the prizes.
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      Lock icon India Confident Of Beating Japan
      219 10 POONA. India. FTI. (lUuter) India's Davis Cup team, spearheaded by veteran Ramanathan Krishnan, are confident of repeating their eight previous victories over Japan in the Asian zone final starting here tomorrow The winners go into the inter-zone semi-finals to play the winners of European Zone
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      Lock icon WI-Lancashire Match Called Off
      120 10 MANCHESTER. England, Fri. (Reu'.er) Persistent wet weather forced the aDandonment of the match between the touring West Indian cricketers and Lancashire today with no further play after the opening day Heavy showers which prevented any play yesterday also stopped play thl* morning With a faint hope
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      Lock icon Achilles Meet
      26 10 SINGAPORE. Fn—Achilles Sports Cub will hold their third annual open' relays athletic meet at the Farrer Park Athletic Centre, tomorrow* at 2 00 p.m.
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      191 10 SINGAPORE. Fri. Jansenites will clash against K. balsa Association in the semi-finals of the SHA senior division knock-out competition, at the Padanr tomorrow at 5.15 p.m. The winner will meet the Singapore Armed Forces in the finai. Forres had earlier beaten Singapore Recreation Club 3-2 in
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      40 10 LONDON*. Fri (Reuter) Results of football matchei olaved last right F.ntlish Division Four Halifax Town 1. Rochdale 0, Workinfftor. 3 Newport a. Friendlies Crystal Palace J Swindon 1. Waterford 0 Man- United 3. Watford 1. Arsenal 2-
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      Lock icon England Tipped To Beat Scotland
      459 11 T ONDON, Fri. (Reutcr) England and Scotland will wage soccer war here tomorrow as they battle for the British championship in a match which is traditionally the high point of the nine-month. England, the reigning world and British champions. need only to draw to retain
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      Lock icon Mexico Score First Victory
      95 11 OSLO, Fri (Reu'er) Mexico gained the first victory of their European soccer tour when they neat Norway —0 in the last of their seven matches here last night. Mexican match-winner was rent re-forward Javier Fragoso who netted both goals in the tenth and "sth minutes Mexico,
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      Lock icon Eastern Zone D-Cup Draw
      76 11 POONA. Frl. (Reuter) The following draw for the India-Japan Eastern Zone Davis Cup final here on May 10. 11 and 12 was announced today: Opening Day Singles 1. R Knshnan (India) vs. Ichixo Konishi (Japan* 2. Premjit Lai (India) vs. Koji Watanabe (Japan). Second Day. Doubles
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      Lock icon Wolves Beat West Ham
      156 11 KANSAS CITY. Missouri, m. <Reuter) Wolverhampton Wanderers made the best of their chances to defeat Wen Ham 4-2 In the fourth game of the North American Soccer League s International Cup tournament. Wolveg left-half John McAlle starred for Wolves, scoring two goals and helping to make
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    • RACING COMMENTS
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        1379 12 Race 1: HOP® es Class 4. Div. 3—1 MUe 1.J0 p.m. (FOR LOCAL RIDERS 0\LY) L. 1 090 009 676 Grandeur OF Sarawak Gala Bern SOVEREIGN Mint 5Y 6V 900 900 9 00 Date 4 natia H.T. WM Happy Syndic* TO GOODMAN Stablo Heddl* E Donnelly Daniels
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        Lock icon Literati Gets Confident Vote
        988 12  -  GOING: Yielding To Soft By BIG BENM T ITERATI has been going great guns on the track and in this moderate field I give him a confident vote to outstay the opposition in race four at Bukit Timah today, opening day of the Singapore Turf Club
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