Eastern Sun, 14 May 1969

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  • 21 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 3 No. 997 Wednesday* 14 May 1969. MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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  • 461 1 SIEW SIN'S DRAMATIC T/"UALA, LUMPUR, Tues. The Malaysian Chinese Association to- day announced its intention to withdraw from participation in the Alliance Government. "No MCA representative will accept any appointment in the Cabinet or in the Federal Government or in the executive councils
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  • 104 1 HONG KONG. Tues. (Reuter) A rroup of 14 Japanese tourists in Hon* Kong de rided to hare a meal fit for an Emperor and it took them two davs to finish. There were a total of 20fl courses including braised bear's paw, double-hoilod white crane, deer's tail and
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  • 266 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. The Deputy Prime Minister. Tun Abdul Razak, said today the MCA's decision to withdraw from participation in the Government had been brought by the Chinese electorate. This would mean that there would be no Chinese representation in the Government "and we
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  • 68 1 BANGKOK. Tues. (Reuter) A 16-year-old bride in Central Nakhon Sawan committed suicide when her bridegroom failed to appear at the wedding ceremony, press reports said. Miss Somchit Poonphum locked herself in her room a nd took insecticide when on th« wedding day the bridegroom Raid
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  • 520 1  -  (By Chan Kam Yau KUALA LUMPUR Tues Moh violence paralysed this capital city of Malaysia following the sudden and dramatic announcement of the Malaysian Chinese Association to withdraw from participation in the Government. As large groups of armed youths roamed the city and surrounding
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  • 125 1 LA TEST KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. A state of emergency has been declared throughout Selangor following mob violence in Kuala Lumpu r and the outlying areas. This was stated by the Malaysian Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, in a broadcast over Radio Malaysia. If necessary, the
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  • 493 1 WASHINGTON. Tues. (Reuter) Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew yesterday spent more than one hour discussing defence questions and other world problems with President Nixon. In the unusually long meeting in the President's office, Mr. Lee had an opportunity to learn at
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  • 389 1  -  By Ben Variyan SINGAPORE, Tues. Employees in comk mercial firms in the Republic who prefer flashy clothes and long hair may have to do without them in the spirit of the "Keep Singa- pore Clean" campaign. The Government has urged the private sector to
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  • 39 1 CHANDPUR. West Pakistan, Tues. (Reuter) Local magistrates are working a nigbt shift to dispose of thousands of pending court cases after the Army, now- running Pakistan unde r martial law, ordered a speed up in legal machinery.
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 387 2 SINGAPORE, Tues. A globe-trotting news columnist who files a syndicated column daily with major Australian newspapers today suggested how Singapore could "cosh in" more on her booming tourist industry. He is Mr. Jim MacDougall, a columnist with the Daily ond Sunday Mirror
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  • 238 2 BANGKOK, Tues. (Reuter) Thai border police have captured a large Communist jungle camp on the Malaysian border after a fierce gun battle with 40 guerillas. The camp, well hidden in the wooded Sadao district, had accommodation facilities for 150 people, Police Colonel Chitt Lelayuth,
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  • 173 2 SINGAPORE, Tues. An exhibition of photographs entitled "The face of Singapore" is to be presented by the three British Services secondary schools on the Island. The subject matter will be exclusively portrait, figure and group compositions, and prints entered for the exhibition will depict citizens of
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  • 177 2 SPACE CENTRE. Houston Tues <UPI) Brief day-bv-day log of key events planned during the moon orbit mission of Apollo 10, set for launch on Sunday to clear the way for a July lunar landing. Sunday .May 18 launch, begin course toward moon, television of earth. Monday. May
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  • 49 2 SINGAPORE. Tues. The Shipping Community is today warned by the Port of Singapore Authority to navigate with caution while moving in the area around Empire Dock. The reason is oecause piling and construction operations will be taking place at the North Wall ot the... Empire Dock.
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  • 280 2 SINGAPORE. Tues. "Two head* are better than one'* and Hume Industries proved it correct recently when they employed two lorries to convey 80 feet lon* beams, each weighing over 21 tons from the Hume plant to the Jurong Wharves. The prestressed concrete beams cast
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  • 425 2 SINGAPORE, Tues. The wife of a businessman, Madam Yeo Swee Luan, today told the Ninth Magistrate's Court how she was waylaid and robbed of cash, cheques and personal belongings at gunpoint by four men. Mdm. Yeo, 40, said she was punched In the face
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  • 129 2 KOTA KINABALU, Tues. (Reuter) Malaysia's ambassador to the United States, Tan Sri Ong Yoke Lin, said today that the United States did not support Phillipines claim to Sabah. Accusing the Philippines of not observing the United Nations Charter o n selfdetermination, he
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  • 99 2 SAIGON, Tues. (Reuter) The South Vietnamese government today suspended another newspaper the 27th since press censorship was abolished 11 months ago. The 30.000-circulation daily, 'Dan" (People) was closed for an indefinite period for "sabotaging the government's economic policy in a war situation," the Information Minitry
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  • 222 2 UNFINISHED FLATS SINGAPORE, Tucs. Tht Managing Director of Pearlson Enterprises Ltd., Chia Kck Lim, today stood trial in the Fourth District Court on a summons charge of not complying with a Ministerial order to notify purchasers of his firm's flats to submit their claims
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  • 152 2 SINGAPORE, Tues— The Commander-in-Chief. Ro. yal Thai Navy, Admiral Charoon Charlermtiarana, paid a day-long visit to the Royal Malaysian Naval Base at Woodlands today. The C-ln-C who was accompanied by two Rear Admiral! of the RTN was given a ceremonial welcome which Included a 17-gun
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  • 111 2 SINGAPORE. Tues The Port of Singapore Authority today issued a warning of blasting operations that are now being conducted at Selat Damar Laut, Jurong Harbour for the next two months. Blasting will take plac« each day along berths 3, 4 and 3 daily between 9 a.m. and
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  • 169 2 SINGAPORE, Tuei The Embassy of Japan. In co-operation with the Japan Club, will hold a bazaar in aid of Singapore charities on Saturday from 3 to 6 p m. at the Japan Club. 135. Bukit Timah Road. Admission Is at SI but children under 12
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  • 62 2 SINGAPORE. Tues. A 23-year-old man. Chua Say Guan, was charged in the Ninth Magistrate's Court toc»y with vandalism. He Is alleged to hav> painted slogans in aluminium paint in front of Siglap Market. Esst Coast Road, yesterday w:th another unknown male Chinese He claimed trial and
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 69 2 Today's Diary 12 45 pm —2 pm.: Rotary Club of Singapore's weekly luncheon at Blue Room. Capitol Building. 530 p.m. 9 p m.: SATA free mass X-ray station at 489 Stirling Road, block 49. 7 30 p m.: Free film shows by the M.r stry of Culture atKampong Ef.g Ho
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  • 405 3 SAIGON, Tues. (Reuter) Vietcong and North Vietnamese shelled 40 targets in bouth Vietnam last night and early today, including the main runway at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport. Military spokesmen said that five civilion merchant ships came under fire on the canal networks
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  • 124 3 BLANTYKE. Malawi. Tues. (UPI> President Hastings Banda told Members of Parliament on Monday that when they were drunk they became "monkeys." He also warned them against using their positions to take advantage of girls. "People do not respect you If you drink yourself into monkeys," Banda
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  • 93 3 HONG KONG. Tues. (UPI) A Chinese fisherman was shot to death in international waters on Monday, police reported today. Wong Man-tat. 42. was shot twice when he and his brother were fishing on their vessel some miles off the coast of Kwangtung Province In Southern
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  • 142 3 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) Compulsory tests to ensure overseas doctors, particularly from India and Pakistan, had a sound grasp of the English language before practising in Britain was envisaged by Social Services Minister Richard Crossman yesterday. He told a questioner to Parliament he hoped some form
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  • 293 3 THE poultry-feeding and nutrition techniques of Australia could be applicable to Singapore's poultry industry, said Mr. Leow Y. Cheong, a poultry expert attached to Singapore's Primary Production (Rural Development) Department. Mr. Leow said that feeding and nutrition were the two main problems of the industry
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  • 304 3 MANILA, Tues. (UPI) Former Foreign Secretary Salvador P. Lopez has proposed strengthening the Asian and Pacific Council (ASPAC) with Japan playing a major role in the event the South-east Asia Treaty Organisation (SEATO) Is dissolved. Mr. Lopez presented possible alternatives to BEATO in a
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  • 43 3 SINGAPORE. Tues Mr. Chew Say Teck was the winner of a car In the Toto lucky coupon draw in the special Labour Day draw. The car was presented by Singapore Pools <Pte) Ltd and not by Orchard Motors as reported.
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  • 92 3 CAPE TOWN Tues (Reuter) —Dr Philip Blaiberg the world's longest-surviving heart transplant patient, has been ordered to take a week's rest at home in bed because his activities have exhausted him. His wife. Eileen, who disclosed this todav said: "The doctors have put him to
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  • 129 3 SINGAPORE. Tues. A delegation of 21 members, including t*o staff officers and 19 students from Thai National Defence College are on a four-day study tour here to study Singapore politically, militarily, economically and socially. Major General Chantrakupt. the leader of the delegation, said that they were
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  • 79 3 TAIPEI. Tues. (UPl)—More than 500 journalists and Government officials paid their last tribute today to two Hong Kong newspapermen, Norman Soong. President of the Pan Asia Newspaper Alliance and founder of the Asian Magazine, and Henry Chang. Publisher of the New Life Evening News. The
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  • 71 3 MOSCOW. Tues. (Reuter) The almost intact fossil skeleton of an eight-foot (2.5 metres) tall mastodon has been dug up jn the Tien Shan mountains of Central Asia, the Soviet news agency.Tass, reported today. Resembling a presient-day elephant but with long straight tusks, set in the upper
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  • 453 3 SINGAPORE. Tues. A Government clerk told landlord Quek Kian Chuan that he would be faced with difficulties if he did not change his house number, the Third Criminal District Court was told today. Ahmad Kassim bin Jantan. a temporary clerical assistant
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  • 97 3 LONTKDN. Tues (Reuter) A Chinese kitchen hand, who speaks only Ave words of English, passed his driving test yesterday thanks to an instructor who learned Chinese to help him. Kitchen hand Chan Shun. 21 can only say ••yes, no," and "oh. my God' in English. His instructor
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  • 140 3 SINGAPORE. Tues. American industrialist. Mr. F. A Werstein who is the President of Philips Drill Co. arrives here tomorrow for an on-the-spot assessment of the market Mr. Werstein has already set up a company in Singapore. Far East Marketing Inc. which is the regional headquarters
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  • 121 3 SINGAPORE. Tues. The Majlis Ugama Islam. Singapura. today announced that it proposed to award scholarships to Muslim students for further studies. The scholarships, to be awarded on merit and not on the financial circumstances of the applicant, will be divided into two categories, the Higher School Certificate
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  • 132 3 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues The second batch of three Caribou aircraft for the Royal Malaysian Air Force is expected to arrive at the Kuala Lum. pur Royal Malaysian Air Force base from Canada in July. Three Royal Malaysian Air Torce pilot officers have been
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  • 67 3 "MEET us at the Australian fashion show", say lovely Nellie and Sandra as they model garments to be shown at the Gala Preview of Australia's 1970 Fashions Textiles, to be held on Thursday, May 15, at the Australian Trade Commissioner's Display Rooms in Clemenceau Avenue. The girls will be modelling
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  • 273 5 MURDER MANILA, Tues. (UPI) The prosecution has asked the death penalty for a Police Captain and a Corporal and six other men accused in the murder of Chinese millionaire businessman Remiglo Tan la«t September In downtown Manila Tan was shot down on Escolta Street. Manila's prime
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  • 438 5 SEATO 'COMPLETELY INEFFECTIVE' BRISBANE, Tues. (Reuter) Australia did not envisage having to face revolutionary warfare in Asia without allies, Army Minister Mr. Philip Lynch said here. Outlining the essentials of Australia's future defence position, Mr. Lynch said Australia's major and abiding concern would
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  • 229 5 LUXEMBOURG, Tues. (UPI) Common Market Foreign Ministers meeting for the first time since the resignation of French President Charles De Gaulle yesterday affirmed their determination to proceed with European Integra- tion. Opening a two-day meeting here, the si* Foreign Minister* agreed to end the European
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  • 69 5 GOLDEN. Colorado. (UPI) A small amount of highly radioactive plutonium escaped from a Dow Chemical Co. plant near here on Sunday when fire raced through a building Involved with the construction of nuclear weapons. The Atomic Energv Commission said the plutonium contamination was confined to the immediate plant
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  • Bulletins
    • 84 5 CLEVELAND, Ohio, f Renter) A 37-year-old Negro Fred Evans, was todav sentenced to die in the electric chair after being found guilty of kilL in e f our people three of them policemen during racial disorders here last July. An all-white jury of seven women and five
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    • 88 5 ROME. (Reuter) The World Focd Programme today promised food aid to 14 countries worth a total of USslBom. it was announced here., The food aid, will be used mainly as "wages'* for workers, and for feeding mothers, children. students, the sick and livestock. The largest
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    • 75 5 WASHINGTON. (UPI) The U.S. Export-Import Bank announced it will provide a U552.5m. credit to the Industrial Development Bank of Pakistan to help finance sales of U.S. goods there. Under two earlier leans totalling USssm. 44 sub-loans were extended to finance sales by 36 different American firms
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    • 79 5 TEL-AVIV. (UPI) Israeli Defence Minister Gen Moshe Dayan has told Egypt not to play with Are. Addressing the opening session of the Bnai Brith National Convention, Gen. Dayan said that although Israelis along the Suez Canal were coping with a defensive war. "if the Arabs continue this
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  • 167 5 TOKYO. Tues. (UPI) Japanese and Communist Chinese trading circles agreed on a new formula for settling their trade accounts. Kaheita Okaraki. representative of the Japan-China memorandum Trade Office in Tokyo, said today. Mr. Okaraki said under the new formula, export and import contracts will be made either
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  • 435 5 HOUSTON, Texas, Tues. (UPI) John Madden, photo shop towner who received a new right eye three weeks ago in what was announced as the world's first total eye transplant, checked out of Methodist Hospital and went home yesterday. His wife soid he could not
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  • 56 5 WASHINGTON. (UPI) Mr Janies F Leonard Jr State Department Country Director for Korea, save he saw no immediate prospects for a reduction in the U.S. troop commitment to Korea He added that a "great threat" remains in Korea and any precipitate reduction of U.S.
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  • 72 5 BOMBAY. (UPI> Former Indian Cabinet Minister and Cor.gres* Party leader Mr. S K PatiT made good his pol ties] comeback by being elected to the Lower House of Parliament in a Uj flt HOT in the Banas- district of Gujarat State on Sunday. Mr. Pat:'., who was
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  • 273 6 A MAJOR political crisis is developing in Malaysia following the election shock for the Alliance. The MCA, one of the partners of the Alliance, has decided not to accept any cabinet appointment. This decision, it said, was because the 'Chinese have rejected the MCA to represent them
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  • 221 6 UPI. THE Washington Daily News saw on Monday "bits and pieces of evidence" that the United States is hoping Australia will assume "a much larger strategic role in Southeast Asia in coming decades." Looking to the ultimate removal of "America's military perimeter from along the
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  • 139 6 Reuter. TN Cairo, the authoritative Egyptian newspaper A 1 Ahram warned Israel today that reprisals would only increase the Arabs' determination to liberate their occupied lands. It said in an editorial: "The enemy has tried the method of revenge before, in more than one part of
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  • 420 6  -  ■y Dick West WASHINGTON, Tues. (UPI) Pundits hereabouts recently have been deeply involved in appraising President Nixon's first 100 days in office. Since that subject by now has been pretty well exhausted, I thought I could better devote my energies to evaluating
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  • 628 6  -  BY CHARLES R. SMITH HONG KONG, Tues. (I'PI) So you want to he a writer? Listen to thl* advice from an unusual quarter. Don't put blind faith in any conventions. You must dare to create. The chief thing is to write about people and their thought. People
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  • 447 6 ROME. Tues. (AFP) Nicolas Ceausescu. Rumanian Communist Partv Secretary-General, today came out against the Soviet l'nion'» conception of "limited sovereignty" among socialist nations and said he wanted to see the end of both NATO and the Warsaw Pact. In an interview published
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  • 436 6  -  BY ADAM KELLETT-LONG MOSCOW. Tues. (Reuter) If you have recurrent nightmares about falling over a cliff, you may be suffering from a heart disease. Or if you dream about getting stuck while climbing through hole in your fence because your thorax gets caught up. you might
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  • 162 6 JAKARTA. Tues (UPI) Indonesia should stop importing rice this year and support prices for farmers to prevent rice production from dropping, an Indonesian economist has warned Dr. Mubyarto. a leading Indonesian researcher, said production this year was likely to drop because of the continuing trend for rice
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  • 244 6 HONG KONG. Tues. (ATP) In support of Peking. Albanians have denounced the Kremlin "•gangsters" for lining up India. Japan, Burma and and other reactionery countries to rig up "a ring encircling China." The Albanian denunciation was earned by the New China News Agency today in a dispatch
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  • 130 6 HONG KONG. Tues (ATP) Radio Hanoi claimed tonight that People's Liberation Armed Forces (P.L.A.F) In Quang-Nam province had killed a total of 102.300 enemytroops from January 30, 1968 to March this year. The radio said the total included 59.480 US. and South Korean troops The broadcast also claimed
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  • 28 6 The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will. George. Henry
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  • 134 6 PARIS. Tues (AFP) Striking journalist prevented publication today of Le Figaro, France's oldest daily newspaper. The dispute is not over wages but policy-making and ownership. The newsmen want to prevent the principal owner, press magnate Jean Provoust, from running the paper as he sees fit. They want
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  • 189 6 MANILA. Tues (UPI) A 17-year-old Malaysian boy scout from Kuantan. Pahang State, it rapidly making friends with Filipinos, preaching togetherness instead of bitterness between the Philippines and Malaysia. Taib Salomon, named most outstanding Scout Hero for 1966-1968 in the Far East, is a special guest at
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  • 539 6 NEW YORK, Tues. (UPI) The New York Times commented in Monday's edition on Lin Piao s speech to the Chinese Communist Party Congress. The text of the editorial, titled "Lin Piaos Chinese Stalinism," follows: "Lin Piao's major policy speech to the Chinese Communist Party Congress gives
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  • 337 6 HONG KONG. Tues. (IPn Rightwing and independent newspapers On Tuesday said results of the Malaysian election reflected a potential racial crisis. The independent Wah Kiu at Po said editorially the major issue for the Malaysian Government now :g how to Keep the various race
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  • 223 6  -  By Gerd Kriwanek PRAGUE. Tues. (UPI) The bureau that operates Communist Party affairs in Crecnspeaking lands Indicated on Monday night that "anti-so-cialist" forces still are at wors in Czechoslovakia. CTK News Agency reported that the Czech Party Bures 1 met "to discuss an analysis of right-wing opportunistic
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 126 7 HUNDREDS are thronging to the Teachers' Training College in Patterson Road to view the Innotech Exhibition which was opened yesterday by Inche Mohd. Ghazali Ismail political secretary to the Ministry of Education. Picture shows Inche Ghazali (right), at the Philips' Minilab booth yesterday. Showing him the Philips
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    • 166 7 JAKARTA. Tues. (UPD Indonesia should stop Importing rice this year and support prices for farmers to prevent rice ©reduction from dropping, an Indonesian economist has warned. Dr Mubyarto. a leading Indonesian researcher, said production this year was likely to drop because of the continuing
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    • 270 7 SINGAPORE. Tues. The following is a berthing; list released by the Port of Singapore Authority for May 14: DEPARTURE: Godowns Vessels 3/4 City of Chester 15/16 Jan Matejko 24 Fuuko Maru 27 28 Batjan 31 32 Lica Maersk 40 41 Mombasa Maru 47 South Hoe Onn 31/32
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    • 221 7 JAPAN Air Lines earned a Jross revenue of $906,784,000 uring the fiscal year ended 31st March 1969. This is an increase of 27 per cent over the previous financial year. For the same period, JAL carried 1.031,000 international passengers, an increase of 29 per cent over
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    • 210 7 With the construction of the pavilion at the New Zealand s.te Osaka for Expo '7O due to be completed towards the end of October this vear, a timetable provides for installations of displavs and interior furnishing to begin in November. The whole pavilion has
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    • 73 7 INDIA'S exports during 11 monthj of the last financial year, upto February 1969, reached an all time high record. The total value of exports durlne thLs period was over Rs. 12.360 million. This was higher by 12.4 per cent compared to the level of exports In the
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    • 1652 7  -  By Our Market Reporter SINGAPORE, Tues. The Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore today reacted nervously to the latest political development in West Malaysia following the recent general elections. The sharp reaction to the news that the MCA will not be involved In
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    • 147 7 NEW YORK. Tues. (UPI) Stocks backpedalled yesterday, but generally as the result of some normal consolidation after the almost uninterrupted two-week run-up which had carried some market averages to their highest levels of 1969. Trading was moderate. Shortly before the close, the ttpt stock market indl-
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    • 276 7 SINGAPORE. Tues May first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m.. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur todav at 68-3/4 cents per lb., up one quarter of a cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was steady quiet. Slackening of currency anxieties resulted in some
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    • 197 7 Japanese workmen building the New Zealand pavilion at Expo *7O in Osaka asked for extra helpings of New Zealand lamb when the Meat Board arranged a barbecue at the Expo restaurant. 'This is a good omen for our restaurant at Expo", the chairman of the Board's
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    • 134 7 LONDON, Sun. (Reuter) Big Increases in the sale of British goods to China and Japan were reported yesterday by trade associations here. Sales to China between January and March this year reached 12,939,000 sterling more than double the total for the same period last year
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    • 499 7 MMMPoKfc Mock Ba(Aiinir told and other prl cea urticiail} llitrd at the close ot Du»inm INDUSTRIAL* B. H. ACMA 2-17 ben 4- Co 2 25 2 2!) Borneo BhO 1.83 1.85 Boustead 2.12 Camel Pljwood 2.55 2.44 C. Sugar CD 4.50 t hfmtcal Co. 1M 1.96
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    • 140 7 SINGAPORE. Tues The Association of Banks in Malaysia-Singapore today made the following changes In its rates to merchants <rates are quoted to the equivalent of 100 unit* of foreign currency). Selling T.T. or O.D ready: Deutsche Marks $77.1825; Holland Guilders $84.7375; Swiss Francs $7l 2850; Belgian Francs $6
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    • 51 7 (M ana* erg Prices) 1st Malayan 3-17 2n<l Malayan 2 29 3rd Malayan XD 1.39 I be Commerce Ind. 1.12 1 22 The fcavin* Fund M. Invent Hind XD 1-29 135 1.30 1*5 1st Bnnc Konp 1.40 1.46* 2nd Hone Konc .97 1.02* Sterling Coin XD (•Hong Kong
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    • 99 7 SINGAPORE. Tuea. Tbo noon price* at tie Mn*^p"re Chinese Produce Exchange today are Bujei seller Coconut Oil 48-SO (FOB.) BuJIi Coconut Oli 51 00 (F.O.B Drum MUed Copra 11.00 Mnntok White Pepper (FOB) W% SlVf. 127-50 Sarawak White Pepper 125.00 (F.OB.) ttarawak special Black Pepper 1F0H1 96% •7 JO
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    • 17 7 SINGAPORE. Tues. The tin price for today was $6lO 75 per picul, up $3 75.
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    • 430 7 ARRIVALS--600 a.m. MSA MLO2W kutu Lumpur. 7.25 am fcAS >k»7» Bangkok. laubkeat. Copenbasen V.OOam. MsA MLIIB Kuaia Lumpur. 10.10 am. GARLDA OAkOO Jakarta. 1015 am. MSA MLI2I kuate Lumpur. IOUaJB. MSA MLOOS Penang. Ipob. Kuala Lumj-ur. Malacca. io 50 a.m. THAI TG423 Bangkok 110 pm. MSA ML4SI Kucblng
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  • 578 8  -  Feature On The Finer Things In Life By H.C. TAN SINGAPORE, Tues. jyjUSIC, art, poetry or material comforts... what's your choice of the finer things in life? In the quest for meaningful living and the finer things of life modern man
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  • 165 8 SINGAPORE. Tues —Are vou having difficulties in selectine proper items as gifts for your friends then pewterware should solve your problems Union Pewterware from Weeming Industrial Corporation are choice, sophisticated and elegant gifts for all occasions. For something personal, pay a visit to Poh Huat
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  • 151 8 SINGAPORE. Tues Symbolic of a new trend of departmental stores are the eirporia which are springing up everywhere In Singapore, stocking anything from socks to evening gowns. The New India Emporium is no exception to the rule Up-to-date and modern this ♦•mporlum specialises in the «ale of sirees
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  • 311 8 SINGAPORE, Tues. Through the halls of fame and the echo of great names of art like Van Gogh. Cetanne. Delacroix. Millet. Manet. Monet. Degas and Corot still rankles in the minds of many. More than that, reproductions of outstanding works like Van Gogh's "Sell-portrait."
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  • 308 8  -  By PATRICIA CHAN SINGAPORE. Tues. Are you a jewel collector? If you are. here are some sparkling news for you. One of Singapore's big-time iewellers. Mr. Lau Fook Chmg. Managing Director of Chleng Shing Manufacturing Jewellers Ltd has some of the latest and most exquisite jewelleries
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    • 177 8 GOODWOOD HOUSE ARTS CRAFTS. Wholesaler, Exporter Importer. Specialist in Bali Wooden Statues. 99-B. High Street. Tel: *****. Singapore SHOP AT aural BIBMBi s CHIANG SMING MANUFACTURING JEWELLERS' LTD. Rainbow Jewellery G'ittcr on the Ground Floor to symbolise the Splendours and variety of shops on the above Floors. THE MERANO COFFEE
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  • THE NEW FILMS
    • 2374 9  -  BY SHEILAH GRAHAM "OH. this mad. mad town." Eva Gabor, her teased yellow hair piled high, flung the Hungarianaccented words into The Edwardian Room at The Piaza. "I'd love to stay," 6 he sighed Hungarlan-ly, •'but I have to ao
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    • 62 9 TE AN FRANCOIS MAURIN plays a young lad who is enchanted by a beautiful lady (JACQUELINE BISSET) in 20th Cen-» tury Fox's production of "The White Ladder." Produced by Jacques Strauss and directed by Robert Freeman from the screenplay written by Gerald Brach. The motion picture is
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    • 634 9 IJOBERT Marx, the man who will sail the Viking ship "The Alfred The Great" from Bergen. Norway to New York City Is a modern-day adventurer with the same driving spirit that made Alfred himself one of history's bravest figures. The drama of Alfred's conflict with the
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    • 263 9 *JL i D O Phone ***** 1 NOW SHOWING I II aJ» 14V SO ».IS p m. Magia A Julio P»n* la "SATAN'tK" Color SB) NEXT CHANGE' Elisabeth Taylor Mia Farrow "secret Ceremony** Color R">s»-t M:tchiai fOT-8Bt CAPITOL P»H)nr 297so J 14th tClKE-rtfle DAT* 111 SB. 1.45 4 00. «.30
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE
    • 175 10 DAD. When the bombardier beetle (photo) shoots, the smoke and smell are so bad that even stronger enemies flee. Many beetles defend themselves with chemical weapons yet none are so refined as the braehynides. Their way of waring war is so complicated that Professor
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    • 234 10 BONN. Tues. (Reuter) Soviet vessels keep a mmute-by-minute electronic vigil on all American naval manoeuvres throughout the world, the German monthly "Soldier and Technology" reported today. The magazine usually well informed on defence matters said that all Russian ships, from fishing smacks and ocean research vessels to jarger
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    • 974 10  -  By- BARRY COLE, CONRAD FAREL SIMILARITIES between the reign of Queen Elizabeth II and Queen Elizabeth I are necessarily In name only. Today, Britain is in the forefront of social and technological development; then, science was in its infancy, industry almost wholly pastoral and
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    • 91 10 MUNICH; There stems to be no stopping the Tillage church in Sensau. t'pper Bavaria. Federal Republic of Germany, from sliding downhill Despite expensive shoring operations undertaken after the latest statistical calculations the church is heading steadily nearer to the Tillage. The tower already leans more
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    • 405 10 THE Territory of Norfolk Island will Issue a special 10c stamp on 3rd June, 1969, to commemorate the 200 th anniversary of the observation of the transit of the planet of Venus across the sun at Tahiti by Lieutenant James Cook. R.N on behalf
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    • 1596 10  -  LONDON. Tues. Hie second and concluding article by Denis Gilford. by Denis Gifford. But it was left to a famous book illustrator to become the founding father of what soon became known as the British School of film cartooning. Lancelot Speed, who had illustrated such
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 470 11 SEAP GAMES SINGAPORE, Tut*. Singapore hope to send a bigger and stronger contingent to the 1969 South-cast Asian Peninsular (james to be Held in Rangoon from December 6 to 13. "Dijfcpwas stated by the MimsxTr of Social Affairs, Enche Othman bin Wok, vho is also the
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    • 224 11 LONDON*, Tues. The total number of athletes and team officials taking part in the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh. Scotland. July 16-25 1970. is now expected to be between 1,700 and 1.800. This was revealed in Glasgow when a cheque for £5,000 was given to the
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    • 330 11 Davis Cup LONDON. Tues (Reuter) The South African Government would allow foreign non-White Davis Cup tennis teams to play in South Africa but probably would not allow individual non-White players to compete In their tournaments at present. These points are made in
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    • 97 11 SINGAPORE, Tues. A total of 18 records were broken and two equalled at the Balestier Hill Inter grated Secondary Technical School held at the Farrer Park Athletic Centre, recently. Tan Suan Keng was the boys 'A' division individual champion, while Samsudin and Ho Kim
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    • 124 11 LONDON*. Tues—Alan Rudkin. the British bantamweight champion, is to meet the Scot. Evan Armstrong, at Belle Vue, Manchester on June 9. The champion has not defended his title since he won it back from Walter McGowan in May last year. Armstrong won a final eliminator by beating
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    • 259 11 SINGAPORE, Tues. Singapore's probable Thomas Cup badminton team proposed Asian tour nave been scrapped, the National Coach, Mr. Wong Peng Soon, confirmed today. Reason: The Japan Badminton Association have declined to sponsor a visit by the Singapore team, because they want to concentrate
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    • 444 11 CRICKET LONDON. Tues (Reuter) Lancashire pace bowler Peter Lever completed the first hattrick of the English cricket season and the first of his career in Lancashire's threeday County match against Nottinghamshire yesterday. Another in-form bowler was Leicestershire's new captain Ray Illingworth. who took seven
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    • 59 11 GLASGOW. Tues (Reuter) Swaziland will take part in the 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh. Mr. Nkomeni Ntlwane, High Commissioner for Swaziland, announced this here after tour, ing the sports centre now being built in Edinburgh where most of the events will take place. He said Swaziland
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    • 352 11 NEW YORK. Tues (Reuter) Ferguson Jenkins hurled a five-hitter and drove in a run yesterday as the Chicago Cubs, leaders in the National League'? eastern division shutout the San Diego Padres 2 —o. The Cubs' first run came in the second inning when Jenkins hit into
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    • 163 11 BP R SINGAPORE. Tues More than 40 entries hare so fir been received for the BP South Malaysian Rally from Sooth Johore to Singapore, on June 14 and 15. The Secretary of the meeting. Mr. J. Watkms said that this was more than half of the number allowed
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    • 98 11 KHARTOUM. Tues. (Reuter» —Sudan beat Ethiopia 3-1 in a World Soccer cup qualifying match here. A crow of 25.000 watched the game and saw Sudan take the lead through All Gagareen after 20 minutes. The score remained 1-° until 15 minuses after the interval when
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    • 78 11 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) Last season's English Soccer League Cup competition realised a record profit of £122JU>6. European Cup champions Manchester United did not take part, but the other 91 foo. hall league clubs each netted £1,349 from he pool, the League announced today. Finalists Swindon Town tnd
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    • 43 11 SYDNEY. Tues (Reuter) A 17-year-old builder today claimed a new world record for barefoot water-skiing backwards. Paul McManus covered 18 miles (2» *ms) in 33 minutes 19.5 reconnc in his backward excursion on the "lawkesbury rtiver nortn of here
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    • 600 11 SINGAPORE. Tues—After ten rounds of the 1969 National Chess Championship the standings are:— Tan Lian Ann 7 pts.. Oey Liong Hien 4J pts. Chong Liong On 4 pts. (plus one adjourned). Tan Lian Seng. Giam Choo Kwee 4 pts Lee Chee Seng 3}
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    • 323 11 SYDNEY, Tues. (Reuter) The Australian Cricket Board of Control have agreed to amend financial terms submitted by the Indian Board for the Australian tour of India next season This was officially announced today by the Secretary of the Australian Board. Mr A Barnes, who said
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    • 185 12  -  BY BIG BEX CINGAPORE, Tues. Last L staA winner Mastrel Boy is retaining his splendid form. This morning on a heavy track after yesterday's rain and this morning Mastrel Boy with Alan Trevena astride was anxious to gallop but his rider kept him well
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    • 1067 12 Horses Class 2 Dlv. 3 7 Purs. 393 Cho Cho 5u 4y 90(1 Egyptian Stable J. Donnelly B39 Tat piny Jade 7y 900 Textile Stable Rvlgers 274 Bran Chime* Sy 900 Hoong V»n Stabla Dantel* 715 Com Dindead 4v a 13 V Stable
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    • 211 12 EUROPEAN CUP MANCHESTER. Tues. <Reuter) Manchester United face their European Cup second leg semi-final tie with A C. Milan here on Thursday In better heart after the brilliant return to form of England star Bobby Charlton and the recoverey of injured players Heartened by Charlton's dazzling
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    • 175 12 NEW YORK. Tues (Reuter) Emile Griffith took a step toward challenging for the middleweight title he once held by winning a unanimous decision over Stan Hayward last night in a dull 12-round bout at Madison Square Garden. Griffith opened a cut over Hayward's left eye In
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    • 113 12 LOS ANGELES. Tues 'UPI) Lightweight boxing champion Mando Ramos will defend his title against Japan's Yoshlakl Numata at Memorial Coliseum on June 14 on an outdoor programme featuring two other major bouts. In addition to the 15rounder between the 20-year-old Ramos and Numata, Aileen Eaton. Olympic boxing
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    • 74 12 BOGOTA. Colombia. Tues. (Reuter) Brazil won through to the south section final of the American Zone of the Davis Cup when they defeated Colombia 3—2 here today in the second round of the section competition. Each team won one of yesterday's last two singles matches in the
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    • 246 12 OXFORD. England, Tues. (Reuter) A century by opening Batsman Joey Carew was the only bright spot for the West Indian cricket team on the third and final day of their match against a Combined Oxford and Cambridge Universities XI which was abandoned as a draw
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    • 106 12 LONDON, Tues. The British Broadcasting Corporation <BBC» have signed a contract with the Amateur Athletics Association 'AAA) and the British Amateur Athletics Board (BAAB> to televise 28 major athletics meetings In Britain In the next four years. The contract ensures that British athletics will be paid
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    • 139 12 MADRAS. Tues < Reuter) Ramanathan Krishnan. who led India to a sweeping flve-nil victory against Japan in the East zone Davis Cup tie at Poona yesterday, withdrew from the reverse singles of the final day The Indian ace who returned to Madras yesterday afternoon told the press that
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    • 47 12 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) Results of English football league matches played last night were: Division One Manchester City 1, Liverpool 0 (brought lorward from Mav 14); Sheffield Wednesday 0. Tottenham Hotspur 0. Division Four Bradford 0. Halifax Town 0; Scunthorpe United 4. Southend United 1.
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    • 34 12 WARSAW. Tues. (Reuter) France's B" team thrashed Poland 67—0 in an international rugby match in the final series of the European Nations' Cup here yesterday. The French led 23—0 at half time.
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    • 268 12 F-E BOWLI.XG SINGAPORE. Tues. Twenty bowlers have qualified for the national finals of the Far East Bowling Championships to be held at Jackies Bowl. Orchard on May 25. The semi-finals were held last week at Jackies Bowl. Katong where the men and women bowlers battled it out.
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    • 144 12 INGLEWOOD. California, Tues <UPI> Promoter George Parnassus said, yesterday he had offered middleweight chsmpion Nino Benvenuti of Italy USS 100.000 to defend his title against Mexico's Jose Napoles. the welterweight title holder. Parnassus said he had a meeting scheduled later in the week with Benvenuti's manager Bruno
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    • 83 12 STOCKHOLM. Tues (Reu!er) Justi e Minister Herman King, said yesterday he would shortly introduce Parliamentary 'egislation banning professional boxinc in Sweden Mr. King told Parliament's Legal Committee, which must approve the text of the Bill, that it should conform with the recommendations made by the
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    • 197 12 TOKYO. Tues (AFP) Japan's Masahiko "Fighting" Harada is ready to challenge World Boxing Council featherweight champion Johnny Famechon of Australia in Sydney in July. Replying to reports from Sydney that the Australian boxing commissioner announced today that Famechon will stake his title against Harada. former
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    • 548 12 YOKOHAMA. Japan, Tues. (Reuter) A trim blonde American in a pink and white trouser suit shed a few tears yesterday and then set sail to try to set, a yachtine record for crossing the Pacific. In a pink and white yacht named Sea Sharp
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    • 152 12 NEW YORK Tues (AFP) Eight of the world's best professionals, led by Australian •eft-handers Rod Laver and Tony Roche, will take part in the U5525,000 Madison Square Garden tournament here from Thursday to Saturday. The eight players will be divided into two pools of four,
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    • 48 12 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) The revised draw lor the Gillette CUD second round to be played on Saturday, June 7 is: Derbyshire vs. Worcestershire; Glamorgan vs. Hertfordshire; Hampshire vs. Surrey; Lancashire vs. Yorkshire; Leicestershire vs. Kent; Nottinghamshire vs. Middlesex; Sussex vs. Gloucestershire, Warwickshire vs. Essex.
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    • 155 12 LONDON. Tues. Ron Clarke, the 32-year-old Australian. who holds several records but no Olympic Games gold medal, is to run in Britain later this year. He will make what is expected to be his last appearance there in the invitation 10.000 metres event at the
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    • 51 12 TOKYO. Tues (UPI) —An All-Japan soccer team tonight defeated the British amateur Middlesex Wanderers 2-1 before 15.000 spectators at the National Stadium. It was the first of a fourgame &eries by the Wanderers who arrived yesterday. The score was 1-1 at the end of t'*e first
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    • 168 12 SINGAPORE. Tues. Commemorative banners and a plaque were presented to RAF Changi at a "thank you" dinner given to men from the Station by the Hun Yeang Community Centre in appreciation for their assistance to the Centre In the past years RAF Changi had provided the
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    • 142 12 Missing Luu A Spy Report HONG KONG. Tues. (UPD South Vietnam's Davis Cup champion Luu Hoang Due. missing here since last month, has fled to Hanoi via Communist China, a local Chinese newspaper reported today. The right-wine Sing Tao Jih Pao said the South Vietnamese tennis player was a communist
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    • 118 12 LONDON, Tues. Eleven newcomers are in Great Britain's team to meet Federal Germany in an International swimming and diving match at Coventry in the English Midlands on May 30-31. This was inevitable with the retirement after the Olympic Games of such star swimmers as Bobby
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    • 1093 11 (CHANNEL 5i P M 30? Opening Announcement in all Languages A Housewlvn Mannee Part 1 of a Hokkien Film. "Madam Chiam T;an"; 340 House And Home Chinese Version; 3-55 A Diary Of Event* In Singapore This Week Chinese version: 400 Be Our Guest English Vernon. 4.10 It's Happenirg In Singapore
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    • 94 12 Time And Tide TODAY Singapore Town: 3.30 a.m. (1.9 ft.); 9.51 a.m. (8 ft.); 347 p.m. (2.7 ft.); 9 45 p.m. (8.3 ft.). Naval Dockyard: 3.16 am. (2.6 ft.); 10.03 a.m. (9.7 ft.); 3.42 p.m. (3.5 ft 10.02 p.m. (9.4 ft.). TOMORROW Singapore Town: 407 am. (1 ft 2 ins);
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