Eastern Sun, 20 May 1969

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    22 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY it Estd. 1966. Vol. 3 No. 1003 Tuesday* 20 May 1969. MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cento
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    Lock icon SEATO Still 'Essential'
    99 1 BANGKOK. Mon. (UPI) XJ s. Secretary of State William P Rogers said today thai, the continued vitality of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organisation is "an essential element in the peace of Southeast Asia He described the region as secciii none in importance in the eyes of the
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    Lock icon Pope Warns Of 'Influence'
    134 1 VATICAN CITY. M on. (Reuter) Pope Paul today warned the young against succumbing to the powerful Influence of television. Addressing pilgrims in Saint Peter's Square, the Pope taid young people should not let themselves "be witched and overwhelmed by the voices and images which come Into
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    Lock icon Date With Moon: July 20
    568 1 Apollo-IP: Smooth As A Moon Beam SPACE CENTRE, Houston, Texas Mo n. (UPI) Space historians of the future may mention Apollo 10 only in passing. They may not mention it at all. But Apollo 10 and the three men flying It are as much a
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    Lock icon P.M. LEE DUE TODAY
    99 1 TOKYO. Man. (Renter) Singapore Prime Minister Mr. Lee Kuan Yew went this afternoon and tonight resting at an airport hotel on his way home to Singapore after a month in Britain and the United States. Mr. Lee had no ofllcisl engagements and did not venture far
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    Lock icon Upcountry Train Services Resume
    169 1 SINGAPORE, Mon. Trains services between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur was resumed tonight after a halt of some five days due to the current disturbances along the West Coast of Malaysia. The first train left here at 10 p.m. tonight with a halfload from Singapore end. comprising
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    Lock icon Loss Of Image —Says Razak
    314 1 NORMALCY BEING RESTORED KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Malaysia's image as a nation of peace and harmony had suffered a serious setback as the result of the disturbances in Selangor and other parts of the country, the Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak said today. He was
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    Lock icon First Nat'l Operations Council Session
    173 1 TUNKU: RESTORING THE PEACE KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The Malaysian Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman today said the National Operation Council was "working in earnest" to bring peace to the country. Speaking to newsmen after he had officially opened the first meeting of the Council at
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    Lock icon Severe Losses When Mart Resumed
    136 1 SINGAPORE. Mon Very sharp losses were registered when trading resumed today in the Singapore trading room of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore after last week's threeday shut-down due to the civil disturbances in West Malaysia. Business were restricted to ready dealings and among
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    Lock icon Food Gift Due In KL Today
    114 1 SINGAPORE, Mon. All is set for the despatch of a major bulk of some $500,000 of foodstuffs—donated by the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce —to Kuala Lumpur for distribution among needy families in the current disturbances. Today tens of workers worked throughout the day
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    Lock icon Gang Clash At Jln. Sultan
    43 1 SINGAPORE. Mon. A minor fracas erupted at the Jalan Sultan food stalls this evening when a party eating there was set uoon by a gan?. The gang dispersed soon after the Police was summoned. No injuries were reported.
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    Lock icon 'Keep Smiling'
    23 1 ARUSHA. Mon. (Reuter) Tanzanians living here have been asked to "keeD smiling" to make visitors to nearby Mount Kilimanjaro feel happy.
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    Lock icon Imagine That...
    68 1 MURR URRUNDI, New South Wales, Mon. (Reutcr) Saint Christopher, the patron saint of travellers, is being blamed for a run-way car that roared through the main street of this country town at 80 m.p.h. When the driver finally brought the car to a stop he found a Saint
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    Lock icon Blood-Food Aid: Good Omen For Future Relationship
    354 2 SINGAPORE, Mon. Mr. T.W. Ona, president of the Peranakan Association of Singapore, has described the Government's gift of 220 pints of blood and $500,000 worth of food aid by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce to Malaysia as a "good omen" for the future
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    Lock icon Witness: Baby Girl Found Dead In Cot
    382 2 SINGAPORE. Mon—A two-month-old baby girl who had been looked after by a private nursing home was found dead one morning and her body was lying in a cot face downwards. the Coroner's Court was told today. Miss See Ah Poh. 21. who was
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    Lock icon VARSITY CARNIVAL IN AID OF LOAN FUND
    168 2 SINGAPORE. Mon. The University of Singapore Students' Union will hold Its 7th Varsity Carnival at the Ngee Ann Kongsl grounds at Orchard Road on June 21 and 22 Th« two-day carnival will help to raise funds for the Students* Loan Fund whereby It
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    Lock icon To Stand Trial On Rape
    298 2 SINGAPORE, Mon. A youth, Lock Slew Khern, 21, today claimed trial in the High Court to a charge of raping a sixteen-year-old girl in June last year. Lock, who is being defended by Mr. Freddy Yin is alleged to have committed the offence at about
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    Lock icon PRECAUTION BETTER THAN CURE
    142 2 SINGAPORE. Mon. Members of the public are urged to co-operate with the Government to take necessary health precautions whenever there qre reports of the outbreak of cholera in the Republic. The first case of cholera was reported in Bukit Panjang area on May 3. Another case
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    Lock icon THE Bishop of Singapore and Malaysia conducted a Confirmation Service at St George's Garrison Church. He was assisted by the garrison chaplain Reverend John Barrie and the Venerable David Chelliah of St. Paul's Church, Serangoon Gardens. A total of twenty-seven candidates from Singapore and the British Services in Singapore were confirmed. Picture shows the Bishop talking to the Venerable David Chelliah and his four grand-daughters.
    65 2 THE Bishop of Singapore and Malaysia conducted a Confirmation Service at St George's Garrison Church. He was assisted by the garrison chaplain Reverend John Barrie and the Venerable David Chelliah of St. Paul's Church, Serangoon Gardens. A total of twenty-seven candidates from Singapore and the British Services in Singapore were
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    Lock icon Call To Protect Tourists From Taxi-Drivers
    228 2 SINOAPORE, Mon.—The president of the Pernakan Association of Singapore, Mr. T. W. Ong, today appealed to the Government and Registrar of Vehicles to protect tourists from being fleeced by unscrupulous taxi-drivers in the Republic. He emphasised that the first Impression of visitors to Singapore
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    Lock icon Contest FOP Posters, Bookmarks, Photos
    170 2 SINGAPORE. MOB. The National Book Development Council of Singapore and the National Library are jointly organising a "poster bookmark and photo competitions" *s part of Its Festival of Books from June 14-26. All posters and bookmarks must have as their slogan "Read More Books'* which
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    Lock icon A.E.B. To Hold 3 Technical Courses
    96 2 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Adult Education Board announced today that three technical course? will commence on May 31 at Bukit Ho Swee Vocational School The courses are "Safe use of electricity.'*: "Maintenance and repair of household appliances''; and "Understanding and maintenance of electric motors." The
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    Lock icon 4 Charged With Bribing Police Officer
    335 2  -  CONSPIRACY CASE...DAY 1 OF HEARING Reporter: Martin Lim SINGAPORE, Mon. The trial of four men, on a charge of conspiring to bribe the officer-in-charge of the Gambling Suppression Branch, CID, began in the Third District Court today. The charge also alleged that they bribed
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    Lock icon Cultural and Music Corner
    616 2  -  By: AYAKO and vigour were all over the young lsraeli Maestro Rillis, who was the guest conductor at the Rossini 150 Centennial Concert at the Conference Hall recently. Well, to the 47-member one-year-old National Orchestra it was quite an exciting experience being raised by the quite
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    Lock icon Combined Parade By 38 Schools
    78 2 SINGAPORE. Mon Some 38 schools from the Bukit Timah District will take part in the Combined Bukit Timah District National Cadet Corps Parade on Saturday at the Police Training School. Thomson Road. The parade is held in conjunction with The Singapore Youth Festival this vear
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    Lock icon 6 Months Jail For $1.40 Theft Bid
    54 2 SINGAPORE. Mon. Hamid Un Kassim was iailed for six months by the Ninth Magistrate's Court today for attempted theft of $1.40. Hamid, 41. admitted putting hi* hands into the left hand shorts' pocket of Govlndatamy Singaravelo Pillai along the flve-foot way at Arab
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    Lock icon Cross-Country Run
    53 2 SINGAPORE. Mon. The PAP Paya Lebar branch is organising a six mile cros»-coun-try run on June 22. It is being held to mark the 150 th anniversary of the founding of Singapore and to mark the 15th anniversary erf the People't Action Party and in conjunction with the
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    Lock icon Community Picnic
    53 2 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Management Committee of the Cairnnill Community Centre will hold it s annual picnic at the Tanah Meran Youth Camp on June 15. More than 400 people are expected to turn up for the picnic. The Minister for Interior and Defence. Mr. Lim Kim San, will
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    Lock icon The Touch That Cost Him $250
    107 2 SINGAPORE. Mon. A 20-year-old youth. Sim Meng Yong was fined $250 or two months' jail by the Ninth Magistrate's Court today lor outraging the modesty of a Toto coupon seller. Sim pleaded guilty to have committed the offence by putting his hand through a
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    Lock icon Shaw Donates $100,000
    47 2 SINGAPORE. Mon. Tan Sn Runme Shaw as chairman of the Shaw Foundation today donated $lOO,OOO to the national Relief Fund for victims of the disturbances in Malaysia. The donation was in response to the Malaysian Government's appeal for donations towards the National Relief Fund.
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    Lock icon Fine $10 For Assault Bid
    47 2 SINGAPORE. Mon Ng Kim Cheng was today fined $lO by the Ninth Magistrate's Court for attempting to assault a man with chairt at Middle Road on May 18. Ng admitted trying to assault the man wi*h chairs together with three other persons
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    Lock icon Souvenir For Maiden Trip To S'pore In Her 150th Year
    199 3 SINGAPORE. Mon The s.9<M> d w tons M.V. "Kyusei Mara" which arrived here on a maiden voyage was given a 150 th anniversary welcome by the Port of Singapore Authority. "Kyusei Maru" was the third vessel within five weeks to
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    Lock icon Nixon Playing Trick, Says Red Newspaper
    251 3 TOKYO, Mon. (UPI) Peking'! Peoples Daily said yesterday President Nixon is P aylng tricks when he p.eaches p e ac e f u 1 coexistence with Communist China. "On the on® hand he (Nixon) talks loudly about a so called peaceful coe~i*tenc« and plays
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    Lock icon No. 1 Drink In Britain Is Tea
    150 3 LpNDON. Mon. (UPI)— For the benefit of anyone who did not know; tea is still bv far the most popular family drink in Britain. But it is not quite so popular as it was 10 years ago, according to survey released today by
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    Lock icon Bank-Firm Dispute Settled Off Court
    217 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. The hearing into an application for an interlocutory injunction, sought by a local trading company against a bank, which was due to commence today was settled out of court. The application was ftxed for a three-day hearing before the Chief Justice. Mr. Justice
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    Lock icon Syria's Military Leaders Visit Mao's Birthplace
    186 3 TOKYO. Mon. (UPI) Syria's top military leaders yesterday paid respect to Chairman Mao Tsetung of the Chinese Communist Partv by visiting his birthplace, New China Newa Agency (NCNA) reported today. Maj. Gen. Moustapha Tlass. Chief of the Svrian General Staff of the Army and
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    Lock icon When Hanako Tries For The Upper Hand
    524 3 'CATASTROPHE HAPPENINGS' TOKYO, Mon. (Kyodo) —By design or Occident the rate of divorce by consent in Japan has been rising at about the same pace as the economic growth of the country during the past several years. Japanese married men and women were
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    Lock icon Red Cross Sends Gift
    73 3 SINGAPORE, Mon. The Singapore Red Cross Society today disclosed that it had sent 200 cartons of condensed milk and 1,200 tins (101b tins) of biscuits to the Malaysian Red Cross for relief work. It was disclosed that the supplies of food were air-lifted to Kuala Lumpur
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    Lock icon Podgorny Leaves For Ulan Bator
    93 3 TOKYO. Mon. (UPI) N.V. Podgorny, President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, left Pyongyang today by a special plane after a six-day official visit to North Korea, according to the Communist Korean Central New; Agency (KCNA). Podgorny arrived in the North
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    Lock icon LBJ's Grand-Child Baptised
    82 3 LBJ's GrandChild Baptised AUSTIN. Texas. Mon. (UPI) Luclnda Desha Robb, grand-daughter of former President Lyndon B Johnson, was baptized on Sunday In St. David's Episcopal Church. She was baptized in the same church where her mother, Lynda Robb, and her aunt, Lucl Nugent, were baptized. About 45 persons. Including the
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    Lock icon Toto: One 2nd Winner
    89 3 SINGAPORE, Mon Singapore Pools (Pte) Limited announced today that there was one second prize winner in last Sunday's Toto Draw The lucky participant would receive the prize of 520.000 for being the sole 4 1 numbers correct winner. An official statement said since one of the
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    Lock icon Cheaper Permits
    29 3 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Ministry of Health today announced that the deposit for all public entertainments licences Issued to wayang and other operators would be reduced to $lOO.
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    Lock icon Euthanasia And Morals
    204 3 LONDON. Mon (Reuter) Just over half the people interviewed in a British survey agreed with mercy killing, it was announced here today. Mass Observation Ltd., who carried out the survey, found 51 per cent of people interviewed would condone mercy killing, another 19 per cent agreed with
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    Lock icon Fueling Stop Denied Flier
    128 3 AUCKLAND, New Zealand. Mon. (UPI) The Russians have denied Clifford Tait, 39. permission to land on their territory on hi* flight around the world, aviation sources said today. However, Tait. who had hoped to refuel in Russia on his way from Japan to the Aleutian Islands,
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    Lock icon The Law Is For Assemblymen Too
    518 3 TUN ISMAIL EXPLAINS ARRESTS KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Some members of Parliament and State Assemblymen were arrested during the disturbances because they had committed specific offences, the Minister of Home Affairs, Tun (Dr.) Ismail bin Dato Abdul Razak said today. He stressed that they were
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    Lock icon STUDENTS GIVE BLOOD
    45 3 SINGAPORE. Mac. More than 30 students erf the UnS▼ersity of Singapos* today donated blood lor the Univen sity of Malaya Teaching Hospital in response to a recent appeal This blood will be sent to West Malaysia by the Singapore Blood Transfesfcn Centre.
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    Lock icon Uncle Ho Is 79 Yrs. Old
    205 4 HANOI. Mon. (AFP) President Ho Chi Minh was 79 today. Haaoi newspapers celebrated his birthday by front pacing red and black bordered pictures of the President alongside the messages of congratulation which have flooded in for him. The press linked the birthday celebrations which
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    Lock icon 200,000 Workers On Strike In Rome
    184 4 ROME Mon. (ATP) Some 200,000 auxiliary civil servant today started an indefinite strike in support of a cemand for revision of their terms of employment, as part of the administrative reform currently under study. The strike will cause severe dislocation in the social insurance
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    Lock icon Fined $500 For Stealing
    88 4 SINGAPORE. Mon —A 22-year-old man. Tan Ji Baa. was today fined $5OO or four months jail by the Ninth Magistrates Court on three charges of theft. The court also called for a probation report on two other youths. Tan Kah Soon, 18, and Lim Teck Heong,
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    Lock icon Kidnap Case Postponed
    63 4 SINGAPORE. Mon. The trial of Anthony Samy Sebastian, on a charge of kidnapping the four-year-old son of a doctor, was adjourned to Auguat 19 and 20 because the defence counsel. Mr. Nadesan Ganesan, was sick. Anthony ia alleged to have kidnapped Lennard Thean See Yin, the son
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    Lock icon DEATH ROW SON MEETS MOTHER
    281 4 NEW ORLEANS, Lousiana, Mon. (UPI) Larry Joe Purkey, 22, met his mother for the first time since she left him as an infant 21 years ago. But they could not kiss. A steel prison screen separated the mother and sor. Purkey is waiting on death
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    Lock icon UK Heart Man Misses His Tea
    105 4 LONDON. Mon. (UPI) Doctors aren't saying who Bri. tain's newest heart transplant patient is, but you can be sure he is English. He promptly complained when his tea arrived a little late. But the complaining was done "cheerfully." doctors at London's Guys Hospital said
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    Lock icon Course On Chinese Brush Painting
    138 4 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Adult Education Board will conduct a course in Chinese Brush Painting from June 1. The course is designed for beginners who wish to learn and develop the use of the Chinese brush as a medium of expression. Students will be given both
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    Lock icon Provide Jobs Appeal During 'Youth Week'
    141 4 SINGAPORE. Mon. The Vocational Guidance Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education and the Junior Chamber of Commerce are jointly making an appeal to -ocal commercial firms and factories to participate In this year's "Youth Week In Commerce and Industry" project. A statement today
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    Lock icon PURGE ON RED CADRES CONTINUES IN CZECH
    281 4 PRAGUE, Mon. (AFP) A far-reaching purge 6f Communist party cadres was continuing today, one month after Gustav Husak replaced Alexander Dubcek as party first secretary. ine spue or sackings and "resignations" of party members. and the extent of sanctions against the press. Is
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    Lock icon Military 'Airstrip' In Thirty Minutes
    295 4 (LONDON, MON.) A PARTY of British Royal Engineers last week set up in thirty minutes a landing and take-off pad for the jump-jet Hawker "Harrier" to demonstrate the increase in tactical airfield mobility resulting from the introduction of this unique aircraft. The pad. which can
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    Lock icon Kiesinger On Nuclear Treaty Ban
    244 4 TOKYO. Moo. (UPI) West Germany and Japan should continue to cautiously study the treaty baftninf the spread of nuclear weapons. Chancellor Kert Georg Kieainier and Prime Minister Eisaku Sato agreed today. The two leaders discussed for one hour and a half the international situation, according
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    Lock icon Indian Church Worker's Death
    121 4 REV Sam Sanjeevs Rao. f«n«ral secretary of Scripture Union In India, hat gone to the Lord recently. Since 1901, Mr R.T. Archibald first pioneered the work of the C S S.M. in India. Staff e-. angelists had worked unceasingly to present the claims of Christ to
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    Lock icon White, Negro Youths Clash
    140 4 GLASSBORO. New Jersey. Mon. (UPI) —Street lighting brok# out last night between fangs of white »nd Negro teenajers in thia town where former President Johnson and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin hela their historic summit conference in. 1967. Police arrested more than 30 persons and called for
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    Lock icon 'Officer' Fraud
    43 4 DOUAI. France. Mon. 'Reuter) Police *aid »hey had arrested a 40-year-old Frenchman who lived and ate in style for a week at this town's best hotel by passing himself off as a high Soviet naval officer whose ship was anchored nearby.
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    Lock icon Thicker Than Water
    35 4 KARACHI. Mon. (Reuter)— A man here stabbed his 18-vear-old sister with a dagger because she was going out with the wrong boy—then gave a bottle of his blood to save her life.
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    Lock icon Vertical Take-Off Airlines By The Seventies
    517 4 LONDON, Mon. With the current technical know how on the development of vertical take-off and landing aircraft, high ;peed VTOL commercial airliners are feasible before the end of the next decade, two design experts from the Hawker Siddeley Aviation said this week. In a
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    Lock icon Blaiberg: Improving
    158 4 CAPE TOWN, M 6 n. (AFP) Dr. Philip Blaiberg. doyen of heart transplant patients, was today reported to be "much improved" in Groote Schuur Hospital. A health bulletin iAsued bv the hospital, to which he was admitted on Friday suffering from breathing difficulties, said: "The condition of Dr.
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    Lock icon QUIRKS IN NEWS
    368 4 L6S ANGELES. Mon. (U*D A Beverly Hill* *-6rtin vesterday discovered the quickest way to get through the long lines at airline ticket counters drive your car. As a line of air travellers waited to check their bags in the western airlines satellite terminal at international airport. Mrs.
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    Lock icon A 2-in-1 Egg
    55 4 CAPE TOWN. Mon (Reuter) —Sixty-year-old Jan Pretorious sat down to a boiled egg supper here a nd found two egg?—one inside the other. The chairman of the Western Province Poultrv Association said it was only the second time in 23 years that he had seen an egg
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    Lock icon Cabbage Cheque
    40 4 WESTPORT. New Zealand: Mon. (Reuter) —A signed, stamped cabbage leaf has been accepted as a cheaue bv a bank here. Now the bank is wondering how to preserve the leaf as cheques-have to be kept for seven years.
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    Lock icon 3,000 Walk To Raise Funds
    195 4 SANTA CLARA. California, Mon. <UPI) Some 3.000 youngsters walked for pay yesterday over a 25-mlla circular route that began and ended at the Santa Clara urban renewal district. The object of the "Santa Clara County Walk For Development" was to raise funds for two self-held
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    Lock icon Viet Troops Withdrawing ?
    159 4 Viet Troops Withdrawing VIENTIANE. Mon. (UPI) Field commanders in Northern Laos have reported North Vietnamese combat troops appear to be pulling north off the strategic Plain of Jars, a high military official said today. Maj. Gen. Oudone Sannanlkone. Chief of Staff of the Laotian Army, quoted the Commander of Government
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    Lock icon Satellite Survey Of Japan And Siberia
    179 4 TOKYO. Mon. (ATP) Soviet and Japanese scientists have agreed to conduct joint surveys to determine the relative positions of the Japanese Archipelago and Siberia by means of American geodesic satellites starting within this year. The agreement was reached at a meeting between Dr. Alia
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    Lock icon NO MORE FICTION
    1139 6 npHE facility of the human mind la such that It accepts, without the slightest qualm, the fact that in a few weeks time a man might land on the moon a proposition that a couple of decades ago would have appeared as ridiculous as the sky falling
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    Lock icon Finger Tip Discovery Of Earth's Glory
    253 6 WASHINGTON, Mon. For many of us the scenti. the feel perhaps even the love of the out-of-doors are lost in our workaday world. But for a person who has been blind since birth, the opportunity to savour the beauties of nature can be stimulation.
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    Lock icon Aid To Mothers And Children
    716 6  -  By R.E. Stannard Jr. UNITED NATIONS, Mon. (UPI) The U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) holds its first board mooting in Latin Amorico today to consider requests for 46.5 million U.S. dollars in aid to mothers and children. Dr. Imssn Dogramaci of Turkey will preside over the
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    24 6 ARTISTS must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees, they must Put their lives into the sting they give.— Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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    Lock icon Thousands Cheer Pompidou
    273 6  -  By GEORGE SIBERA PARIS. Mon (UPI) Former premier Georges Pompidou completed a barnstorming tour in his bid for the French Presidency on Sunday, stressing that he plans a more human administration than that of Charles de Gaulle. It was a personal triumph for Pompidou. Thousands turned out
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    Lock icon China's Warning On Soviet Naval 'Expansion'
    301 6 PEKING. Mon (AFP) The People's Dally today condemned the Soviet "New Tsars" policy of naval expansion and warned them that they would be "burled In the vast ocean of the world revolutionary movement* "The Soviet revisionist renegade clique has despatched a permanent fleet of
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    Lock icon Vietnam And Allied Hopes
    310 6  -  By RAY F. HERNDON PARIS. Mon. (UPI) Communist attacks on part of President Nixon's Vietnam peace p.an on Sunday failed to dampen allied hopes that the Paris negotiations might he entering a phase where give-and-take bargaining would emerge. "The next meeting should be a very interest.ng
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    Lock icon 8-point Plan Is A Trick Says N. Korea
    154 6 HONG KONG. Mon (Reuter) North Korea's newspaper Rodong Shinmoon today attacked President Nixon's May 14 television speech in which he outlined his eightpoint plan for peace in Vietnam. In a commentary released by the Korean Central News Agency, the newspaper said that
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    Lock icon 'The Public's Right To Know Nothing'
    498 6  -  Br Elizabeth Whart WASHINGTON, Mon. (UPI) The man who headed the most secret project ever undertaken by the United States now believes there's entirely too much secrecy involved in U.S. government and military operations. Dr. Edward Teller, who is known throughout the world as
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      707 6  -  ELIZABETH SEAH. Singapore. WITH reference to the "Sure Failure's" letter in your paper dated 13.5 69. may I be permitted to Add the following: The arrangements for the recently held London Chamber of Commerce shorthand examinations were unprecedented in that, unlike in previous years,
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      Lock icon Thankful Pensioners
      72 6  -  CHIA KIM WATT President Singapore. The Committee of the GOTeminent Pensioners Association, Singapore, wishes to take this opportunity of conveying its grateful thanks to the Government of Singapore for its v ery gracious concession to those who comply with the conditions mentioned in G.N. No. S 68 of
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
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      Lock icon THE COST OF LIVING INTERNATIONALLY
      339 7 we live, it is human nature to suppose that it is more expensive than elsewhere. Certainly in Britain a lot of people ore complaining about the cost of living since recent Government measures imposed price increases. London naturally tends to be a bit more expensive
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      Lock icon 6,000 Ton Freighter Is Still Grounded
      145 7 TAIPEI. Mon. (UPI) A spokesman of the Butterfleld and Swire Co. said Its 6.000ton freighter Kwangsi remained grounded off Taiwan's northern coast today but was in no immediate danger of Sinking. The Hong Kong registered ship, loaded with 5 000 tons of general cargo,
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      134 7 MELBOURNE. Mon. (AFP) Some one million workers will be idle from midnight tonight because of a wave of strikes protesting against the detention of Clarence O'Shea. the Communist secretary of the Victorian Tramways Union. Mr. O'Shea was jailed indefinitely last week for contempt
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      1758 7  -  By Our Morktl Reporter SINGAPORE, Mon. Trading was resumed today in the Singapore trading room of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore. It was, however, restricted to ready dealings and only between mem-ber-firms this side of the Causeway. Malaysian member-flrma were not allowed
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      236 7 AN Interacting development of one of Britain'* specialist building-board*. Stramlt. is taking place now In Japan and Thailand. Stramit's main us* is for heat and sound Insulation, and for cheap light partitioning, and In Britain it is manufactured from compressed cereal straw. In the past a
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      303 7 SINGAPORE. Mon. June first grade rubber buyers closed it 5 p.m.. in Singapore today at 69| cent* per lb., down one cent lrom the previous close. The tone of the market was quiet and slightly steadier. The market ruled uncertain and prices were sharply lower reflecting
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      101 7 TOKYO, Mon. (Reuter) Japan may set its export goal for the 1969 financial year (April to March) at around U5515,700 million, according tc a preliminary estimate by the Japanese Ministry of Inter, national Trade and Industry. The figure given on a customs clearance baais is a forecast
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      324 7 TTir? seem a far cry from a cool green valley near Winchester In Southern England to the hot sunshine or Dares Salaam on the east coast of Africa, but the first stages of one of Tanzania's new factories are taktogshape besid e the River Itchen in
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      63 7 HONG KONG. Mon. (UPI) —Money Quotations: HK $6 0375 per U.S. dollar HK $6.***** per U.S. dollar TT HK 514.5 per pound sterling HK 5322.375 per tael of gold 94.5 t>er cent fineness. HK $163.0 per 10.000 Japanese yens. HK $134.2 per 100 Philippines pesos buyers.
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      87 7 SINGAPORE. Mon—Mr. Gordon Yorke has arrived in Singapore to take up his new appointment as manager of the Qantas office in Singapore. Prior to his Singapore appointment. Mr. York* served as assistant manager in the Philippines for more than three years. In the Qantas office here, Mr.
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      31 7 LONDON, Mon. (UPl)—Tin was barely steadv with sales of 380 tons. Cash buyers 1419 sellers 1420 business 1421 1420. Three months buyers 1426 sellers 1426 business 1430. Settlement 1420.
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      302 7 SINGAPORE. Mon. The following is a berthing list released by the Port of Singapore Authority for May 20: DEPARTURE: God owns Vessels 8/9 Belgorod Dnestrovsky 15/16 Bengalen 18 Gienearn N.W.3/4 Perlis 27/28 Fiepko Ten Doornkaart 31/32 Koudekerk 33/34 Tarantel 42 43 Texaco Edinburgh 45 Djatiprana 46 Benratha
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      396 7 til NO A POKE dtorft Klfhangr Mild and otbet prlcM official 1? tinted at the ck»«c of bU>lDFU INDUSTRIALS B. 8. if \tt 1 90 1.96 Hen A Borneo Co 2.10 Rbrl 169 1.72 Camel Plywood 2 10 *0 C. Sugar 3.92 told Storage 6.20 6.50
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      162 7 TOKYO. Mon. (Reuter) The Japanese Government would find it impossible at the present time to approve a plan for Mitsubishi and Chrvsier to organise a joint venture for manufacturing cars in Japan, a senior official of the Ministry of International Trad® and Industry said today. Mr.
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      81 7 JAKARTA. Mon. f AFP) United Nations Secretary General U. Thant's representative for West Irian affairs, Dr Farnando Ortiz Sanz. said on his return from West Irian today that all was Quiet there now and that there was no cause for alarm about the future. Dr.
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      49 7 < Manager* Prices) 1st Malayan 2nd Malayan 3rd Malayan XD The Commerce lnd. lis 9 1 1.30 1^5 The Saving Fund M. Invest (and XD 1st Bong Rons 1-20 1.40 1.46* l-0t* 2nd Hong Kong t *r1 Inf fAtii \D J1 6/9 Sterling com. AW (•Hong Rons currfncy)
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      89 7 SINGAPORE. Tati. TM noon price# at the Singapore Chinese Produce Exchange today ire >• BOTH WIMI Coconut Oil (FOB) Bulk WM. 48 -50 Coconut Oil /w (F.O.B.) Drum 3100 Mixed Copra tl-00 Mnntok White Pepper (FOB->96% fij-tw. 1*7*0 Sarawak Whl (POP) Sarawak ppeciai »iacB Pepper (F-O-B.) »6* N.LW »"-*>
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      14 7 SINGAPORE. Mon. The tin price for today was $612 per picul, unchanged
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      387 7 ARRIVALS 600 ana. MSA Mlu.'f Koala Lompor. 800 a.m. MSA MLIIA Koala Lumpor. 8.85 ana. GABL'DA GA9BB Jakarta. 10 15 a.m. MBA MLI2I Kuala Lompor. 1035aa MSA MLOO3 Penana. lpoh. Koala Lumpur. Malacca. 1.00 p.m. SAB SK»7I Copenhagen. Taarient. Bang 1.10 pm. MSA ML4SI Kuching IJO p a
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    341 8 'IT'S UNBELIEVABLE...ITS HOUSTON, Mon. (Reuter) —People on earth yesterday watched live colour television pictures of their own planet for the first time sent back by America's Apollo 10 astronauts on their way to the moon. In a second, unscheduled colour television transmission, the
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    200 8 CAPE KENNEDY, Mon. (Reuter) Dr. Wernher Von Braun, Director of Development of America's moon rocket, said yesterday that the Soviet Union held a clear lead over the United States in exploring the planets. Dr. Von Braun, Director of the Marshall Space Flight Centre in
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    557 8 HOUSTON, Mon. (Reuter) —The crew of the Apollo 10 spacecraft will take a final close look at sites along the moon's equator where it is hoped two of the Apollo 11 crewmen will touch down in an historic landing in July. After two
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    246 8 PARIS. Mon. (UPI) Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Dayan warned In an Interview 0 n Sunday that "there will be a war" in the Middle East if the Arabs continue shotlng and Israel will have to fight back. However, Dayan added, he did not expect
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    273 8 SEABROOK. Texas, Mon. (UPI) Mrs. Faye Stafford and Mrs. Barbara Young one tense and shy. the other exuberant said on Sunday they were happy the flight of Apollo 10 began so well but they would be glad when it was safely over. "It's like having a
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    249 8 SPACE CENTRE. Houston, Mon. (UPI) Apollo 10 astronauts were officially carrying 217 flags including the Russian hammer and siclde with them on their moon mission. Commander Thomas P. Stafford may have sneaked aboard 10 extra Oklahoma banners. A Space Agency spokesman confirmed that a five-ounce package
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    137 8 LONDON, Mon. (UPI) —An estimated 100 million Europeans watched the launching of Apollo 10 on Sunday. Live coverage was broadcast in most of the nations of Western Europe and Yugoslavia It was 5 49 pjn. on Sunday in Britain and Western Europe when the spacecraft
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    447 8 BANGKOK. Mon. (tPI) 17.8. Secretarv of State William P Rogers arrived in Bangkok today for meetings with America's allies in South-east Asia and said North Vietnam held the key to peace or continued war in Vietnam. Mr. Rogers arrived by air force
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    203 8 JAKARTA, Mon. (Reuter) Indonesian Foreign Minister Adam Malik will leave for a week-long visit to West Irian tonight to study the position there, informed sources said todav. i But a Foreign Office spokesman could neither confirm nor deny the visit. Irian has
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    136 8 GLASSBORO. NJ. Mon. (Reuter) More than 50 people were arrested and four reported injured last night in sporadic racial violence here. Although police denied there were any injuries reporters at the scene said thev saw at least four people hurt as gangs roamed streets, smashing car
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    89 8 BERKELEY, California. Some 2.500 demonstrators milled around the University of California campus here yesterday but a massive turn out of National Guardsmen and riot police stifled any repeat of .ast week's violent disorders. The official show of force prompted the demonstrators to cancel a planned pro'est rally against
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    220 8 HONG KONG, Mon (Reuter) The New Ch:na News fi ee P7 today accused the Lnited States of trying its utmost to create an anti-China fu nce^L n Asla with the help oi the Thai government. The recent visit of the Nationalist Chinese Defence Minister Chian? Ching-Ku
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    593 8 DRUMNADROCHIT, Scotland, Mon. (UPI) Mon-ster-hunting recognises no barriers of age. rank or nationality. You can be an exiled Polish princess, a retired Irish-bom military captain or a teen-aged archaeology student from America and still get In on the act. But if the monster of your
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      73 8 SAIGON, (UPI Reuter) A U.S. Air Force cargo plane caught fire in flight and crashed. killing all six men aboara. military spokesmen said on Monday. The plane. A C 123 Provider, plummeted to earth about seven miles northeast of Bien Hoa. as it attempted to return to the
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      96 8 RIO DE JANEIRO: Federal and State police were searching for four young bandits one dressed as a military policeman —who staged Brazil's biggest bank robbery in three minutes here last night. The haul was 607.380 nev cruzeiros (about £63,035) about a fifth was in cash and the
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      83 8 MANILA. Filipino Congressman Edgar U. Ilarde has objected to a bill granting millionaire businessman sportsman Feline Ysmael a franchise to operate a race track in the suburbs of Manila Ilarde called the bill a '"direct assault" on the people of Quezon City and the three provinces
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      52 8 MANILA: US Navy Secretary John H Chaffee was scheduled to arrive at the US. naval base at Subic Bay this afternoon for 20-hour visit and talks with Navy authorities. Subic is 90 miles northwest of Manila and is a major repair and supply centre for the
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      49 8 NEW DELHI An Indian Parliamentary delegation led bv the Speaker of the House of the People, Mr. Neelam Sanjiva Reddy. will visit Yugos'avia for a week from June 5. it was announced today. The delegation will include c even other Members of Parliament of various political parties.
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      34 8 CALCUTTA: Two miners were killed and three seriously injured when the roof of a colliery m the Asansol District of West Bengal collapsed yesterday, according to official reports reaching here today.
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      53 8 TUNIS: A group of agronomists from 15 countries arrived here yesterday to take part in a seminar on agricultural planning in irrigation zones which starts today. Thev came from Afghani*, tan. Cyprus. Greece. India, Iran. Iraq, Jamaica. Libya. Pakistan. Southern Yemen. Sudan. Syria, Turkey, the United Arab
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      98 8 MANILA, President Feiv dinand E. Marcos declared a s'ate of calamity on Sunday over the town of Catbalogan in the Southern Philippines which last Friday was almost comple.ely destroyed by fire, leaving 15.000 persons homeless. Marcos was to have flown f c the tqwn to survey damage
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    203 8 MANILA, Mon. (Renter) The Philippines would oppose any move to abolish the Southeast Asia Treaty Organisation (SEATO) unless a better substitute for the 15-year-old alliance could be found, according tn President Ferdinand Marcos. The President, speaking at a meeting at the Philippine military academy in
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      769 9  -  By Elizabeth Sherry (CRUSADES to stop cigarette smoking in Britain and abroad have become widespread. But are they having any effect. There are in Britain 23 million people who regularly light up a cigarette. The Americans lit up 527.8 billion cigarettes in 1967 and
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      114 9 LOOK New ways to belt the suit, now more often sashed, in pull-through tipped strings, in leather passed through grommets, in bowed patent. Light coats for spring and summer in bright or bold cotton prints, water-repellent, with white buttons doublebreasted. collar accents Sudden emergence of the sailor dress
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      182 9 THIS month saw the opening of another arts and crafts boutique in one of Singapore's fashionable spots. Now Viet-Thai Artt at the Goodwood Park Hotel chopping arcade brings to Singapore shoppers handicraft! from Saigon and Bangkok. What it perhaps the most outstanding item displayed in this
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      41 9 For really waterproof raincoats. look these davs to notions counters, where TtnyHtfl raincoats show their colours through clear plastic envelopes. black and white taffeta plaid looks like fabric, yet is waterproof, has a black belt, matching hat, umbrella and tote.
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      60 9 "IN my experience as a beauty specialist, what women tend to neglect most 1a 'heir necks. An Australian sheep farmer told me once that you can tell the age of a horse by ita teeth and a woman by her neck, so I think there's a leason
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      260 9  -  by h. c. tan IT was not high fashion that I saw last week at the fashion parade presented by Fibre- makers of Australia. But all 47 ensembles, ranging from swimsuits,, nightgowns, day dresses and evening gowns brought waves of encore from the guests as
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      235 9  -  Bv Mary Sue Miller WHEN you wish to lose weight, you must, of course, count calories. But there are other factors, too often overlooked, in a successful reducing programme. Let's count them. 1. Exercise. Unless you combine diet and exercise, you cannot expect perfect results. For
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      73 9 THE Chairman and Committee of the International Bazaar Singapore Stall,' under the patronage of Puan Xoor Aishah, will hold an exhibition of antique and moaern hand painted batik and a talk on the history and interpretation of batik design by Carola Tan. The exhibition and talk will be
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      170 9 TODAY and YOU... I Tuesday, May 20, 1969. it CANCII 5 a a 1 YouH 2 B« 3ur 4 Ci mt. 5 You d Con 7 Up 8 Others 9 Overcome lOTok 11 In 12 Afmo*t)h«rt 13 Trying 14 Your 15 You'v* 16 Con 17Ttn<foncy IB Day 19 Choncss 20
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    284 11 etion <MFA S M 0 .< UP '> The International Soccer Federj.j.. in WniJfk n s nd °V that player* who represent their eoun--1972 Championship tournaments will not be eligible for the IV7Z Olympic tournament, FIFA circles said. They said the FIFA
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    376 11 Prmce Mon < lTI > Majestic f''° ot run ln th B <"'mont Stakes, trainer Johnny Longden said on Sunday, and the colt who already has Kentucky Derby and Preakness Tictories to crown e winner! >anC beC mln Amer,ca s Owner Frank McMahon
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    138 11 IUO DE JANEIRO, Mon. (-"PI) Italy won the World Bridge Championship for the 12th straight time as the 10 days of pla v in the 1969 championshio ended on Saturday nifht Nationalist China was a distant second. The Italian victories include two unofficial Olympic Championships and
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    217 11 INDIANAPOLIS. Mon. (AFP> —-For the second day running heavy ram washed out the qualifying trials for the snr>-mlle Indianapolis motor classic, to be run on Mav 30. The trials will now. weather permitting, begin on May 24 and May 25, with a possible third session on
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    369 11 MANILA. Mon. (UPI) The World Boxing Council (WBC) opened a three-day convention in Manila today with high hopes of expanding its membership to include the powerful North American bloc and the Pacific region. The convention was formally opened at 10 a.m. (0200 GMT) at
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    583 11  -  By Patrick Davidson A U ST R A L I A has scores of golf courses that compare with any in the world. Leading international stars from many countries who have often competed on them for big money have expressed their admiration for their
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    655 11 SINGAPORE. Mon. A new record, set by Serjit Singh of Dunearn Secondary Technical School, was the highlight on the second day of the five-day Buklt Timah District Secondary School annual athletic meet held at the Chinese High School ground, today. Serjit. running effortlessly,
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    113 11 HONG KONG. Mon (Reuter) Hong Kong soccer officials have left it up to the Ma. lavsians to decided whether to still hold this year's Ho Ho Cup soccer tie in Ipoh on July 19. "If Malaysia considers the conditions suitable for the game, we
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    147 11 ANGELS CAMP. California, Mon. (Reuter). Foreign entrants proved fat and lasv in the 1969 frog jumping Olympics here yesterdav, surrendering all the prise money to Californian frogs. An athletic frog named Rinso. from Lafayette, California, leaped Into first place in the international contest with a
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    356 11 FORT WORTH, Texas. Mon. (Reuter) Gardner Dickinson yesterday won the U*****,000 (about £51.000) Colonial National Invitational Tournament here, shootin? a sizzling fourth round four under par 66 for an aggregate of 278. Dickinson's victory was worth U5525,000 (about £10.000) first place cash prize. South Africa's
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      301 11 Classified Ad. j Carpets FOR washing and mending of all kind* of carpets b nigs. Contact: UNITED CARPETS 183 Tanglin Road. (Opposite Hotel Malaysia) Singapore 10. Tel: *****9. Dealers In: PERSIAN. PAKISTAN BOKHARA. INDIAN. BtLCIUM b CONTINENTAL CARPETS b RUCS. Wall to wall Carpeting is oer Speciality. NOTICES OFFICIAL NOTICE
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      Lock icon Graham Hill Captures Monaco G.P. For 5th Time
      713 12 MONTE CARLO, Mon. (UPI) Reigning world champion Graham Hill of Britain on Sunday won the Monaco Grand Prix for the fifth time with the tame Lotus car and Ford engine that brought him to victory here 12 months ago. Hill led from
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      174 12 LONDON. Mon. (Reuter) Leading League and Cup goaL scorers after the completion of the English soccer programme were: Division One Jimmy Greaves (Tottenham Hotspur) 36. Geoff Hurst (West Ham United) 31, Joe Royle (Everton) 29, Jeff Astle (West Bromwich Albion) 26 Hugh Curran (Wolverhampton Wanderers)
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      336 12 MACAO, Mon. (UPI) West German and Hong Kong drivers E. Waxenberger and Albert Poon, driving a Mercedes Benz, made an easy win to take the championship for the Guia 101 endurance race on Sunday night The Chinese and the West German clocked 5
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      134 12 LE MANS. France, Mon. (Reuter) World champion Giacomo Agostlni, of Italy, led from start to finish in the 500 c.c. French Motorcycle Grand Prix here yesterdav to win at an average speed of 120.8 kph. In driving rain, which cut down speed .he beat
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      131 12 PARIS. Mon. (ATP) The World Rugby League Championships, scheduled for this October in Britain and France, have definitely been cancelled. Mr. Maurice Tardy, President of the French Rugby Federation, told AFP here that during his talks on Saturday with British officials in London, both sides
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      384 12 LONDON, Mon. (Reuter) The weather played havoc with the day's cricket yet again yesterday, and play was possible in only four players' County League games. Chasing a 147 target. Glamorgan owed their six-cricket victory against Hampshire to a breezy third wicket stand of 61
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      159 12 OUTSPOKEN (Glynn Pretty astride), a handsome winner of the Class 3. Div. 1 race over 6 furlong* on Sunday, the fourth day of the Bukit Timah May Meeting, is seen being led in bv Mr. G. E. Mus«ev. Outspoken won by four lengths from Green Son
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      198 12 PARIS. Mon. (Reuter) The French horse prince Regent, the odds-on favourite, beat the English horse Caliban by a head at Longchamp yesterday to win the 531.000franc (£44.250) Prix Lupin. Prince Regent is a major French hope for the English and French Derbys and
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      523 12 NATIONAL LEAGUE NEW YORK, Mon. (ITPI) Larry Hisle's double, his fourth hit of the scored Dave Watkins with two out in the ninth inning on Sunday to give tne ladelphia Phillies a 9-8 triumph over the San Francisco Giants in what was expected to
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      500 12 NEW YORK. Mon. (UPI) Mike Cuellar pitched a two-hitter, holding Kansas City hitless for the last 7-13 innings, and climaxed a three-run seventh inning rally with a run-scoring triple on Sunday as the Baltimore Orioles defeated the Royals 5-0 for their fifth straight victory.
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      110 12 LANDSKRONA, Sweden, Mon. (AFP> Karin Janz. a 17-year-old East Berlin student, dominated the 1969 European Gymnastics Championship which ended here vesterday. taking four of the five titles. The petite auburn-haired German, sixth in the Mexico Olympics, won ihe overall tit'.e. the vaulting
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      480 12 AMERICAN LEAGUE STANDINGS: EAST W L GB Baltimore 27 12 Boston 21 13 3J Detroit 17 16 Washington 19 20 8 New York 17 21 94 Cleveland 7 23 15$ WEST W L GB Oakland 21 12 Minnesota 19 13 1) Chicago 15 15 41 Kansas City
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      217 12 BRUSSELS. Mon. (Reuter) Tom Okker. the Dutch professional, beat unseeded Yugoslav player Zelko Franu!ovlc 6-4. 1-6. 6-1 6-2 here yesterday to win the men's singles title in the Belgian Open Tennis Championships. Franulovic had eliminated three seeded players on his way to the final C iff
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      76 12 Time And Tide TODAf Singapore Town: 0.09 a.m. (8.8 ft 7.07 a.m. (05 ft.); 1.58 p.m. (7 ft.); 702 (4.1 ft.). Naval Dockyard: 021 (9.8 ft); 6.41 a.m. (1.1 ft.); 2 p.m. (8.8 ft.); 7.01 (5 2 ft.). TOMORROW Singapore Town: 045 a.m. (8.6 ft.); 7.44 a.m. (0.7 ft.); 2.37
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