Eastern Sun, 22 May 1969

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  • 23 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY ft Estd. 1966. Vol. 3 No. 1005 Thursday, 22 May 1969. MC (P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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  • 468 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. —Powers enabling the government to examine publication material before they are printed were gazetted tonight. The regulations Essential (Newspapers and other Publications) Regulations 1969 also empowers the Post Master General or any officer authorised by him to examine all "postal packets''. Those failing
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  • 202 1 KOTA KINABALU, Sabah. Wed. (Reuter) An operations council has been set up in Sabah to maintain peace and order. Chief Minister, Tun Datu Haji Mustapha bin Datu Harun said in a radio broadcast the first of the council would be to ensure that
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  • 327 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Situation in the country is fast returning to normal and for the first time in Selangor the curfew will be lifted at varying times in all districts. Th# curfew break in Petaling Jay a was extended by another lour and a hall hours from 6.30 a.m.
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  • 215 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A declaration by the Alliance Government that the country would return to Parliamentary rule once law and order has been restored would go a long way towards assuring the fear of manv Malaysians and friends abroad as well. Dr.
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  • 107 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed.— The Prime Minister. Tunku Abdul Rahman today received a sample consignment of foodstuffs given by the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce to help victim# of the disturbances. The consignment wag handed to the Prime Minister bv a representative of the Chamber. Meanwhile, the
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  • 277 1 POLICE FIND SINGAPORE, Wed. A team of investigators from the Special Investigation Section (CID) are now working on several theories in the follow-up investigations of a motor-cyclist shot dead by four armed thugs at Sumbawa Road yesterday. I The four assailants described by police as
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  • 98 1 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Malaysian High Commissioner. Tan Sri Jamal bin Abdul Latiff today received 1,000 cases of condensed milk from the Indian Chamber of Commerce. Tan Sri Jamal said on behalf of the Malaysian Government that he was grateful to the Chamber for the generous gift for
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  • 349 1 'You Invest In A Happy, Lively Place' Goh SINGAPORE, Wed. Singapore offers a good environment to foreign executives and management personnel so that they will be more effective, more creative and more productive. This was stated by the Minister for Finance, Dr. Goh Keng Swee in his foreword to the
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  • 78 1 SAN JOSE. California. Wed. (Reuter) Kir by Hensley, head of a church which ordains ministers by mail order, appointed a Police 'Sergeant a bishop for a CSS22 fee. a court here was told. But the judge rejected charges that Hensley had violated the state education code, ruling the
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  • 27 1 TEL AVIV. Wed. (Reuter)— An Israeli motor! sed column thrust across the Jordan border today and attacked an Arab guerilla base. *n Army spokesman announced.
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  • 305 1 LONDON, Wed. (UPI) Malaysia has asked Britain to supply her with equipment to meet current internal Malaysian unrest, the foreign office said today. The Malaysian request based on the mutual defence agreement with the United Kingdom, was made within the last 48 hours, officials
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  • 85 1 ROME., Wed. (UPI) A hundreo senior civil servants locked themselves in the Italian treasury buildin? today leaving police outside to watch as they slashed tires of cars parked in a court yard. Political observers said it was the first time at least since the end of World War
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 316 2 SINGAPORE, Wed.—The Singapore Medical Association has called on the Government to review the present "input" of medical students in the Faculty of Medicine to ensure that there would not be a "brain drain'* in future. This was stated today by a spokesman of the SMA when
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  • 235 2 BINGAPORE. Wed. The Speaker. Mr. P. Coomaraswamy will open the threeSingapore Hindus Religious and Cultural Seminar at the Qovindaaamy Plllal Kalyana Mandabam (Perumai Temple) at Race Course Road on Friday, at 8 p.m. The theme of the Seminar Is "Unity in Nation Building." This is the first
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  • 69 2 SINGAPORE, Wed. The schedule of the Mobile Blood Bank at Fullertoa Square on Friday has been cancelled. The Blood Transfusion Service invites mem ben of the public to mske their donations on Sunday, May 25 at the Blood Donation Centre, Outram Road General Hospital between 8.30
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  • 227 2 GOVT. ADVICE TO A BANK'S CLIENTS SINGAPORE, Wed. The Singapore Government today advised depositors that they had a right to withdraw their deposits placed with the Bank of China in full. If any depositor is unable to reeelve the full amount he is asked to
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  • 164 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. A Committee is to be set up by the National Operations Council to consider ways of strengthening and re-organlsing the Government's Information services and mass media. The directive to form the committee was given by the Deputy Prime Minister and Director of Operations. Tun
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  • 52 2 LOS ANGELES: What looks like a scuffle is an attempt by a passer-by to put out the flames of a draftcard burner on fire. Two men were burning a pile of stolen Induction Centre Records when the clothes of one caught fire. The two fire-makers, and a third were later
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  • 405 2 SINGAPORE, Wed. The proprietor of a petrol kiosk, William Tan Chong Check, punched an executive and fractured his nose during an argument over a fallen chair, the Second District Court was told today. Lancelot William Taylor, a manager in the Service Division of a
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  • 51 2 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Ministry of Health Special Cattle Disposal Squad seized a buffalo yesterday at Jalan Bungah in Jurong. The seized animal was slaughtered this morning and the meat distributed to charitable institutions. This brings the total number of all animals seized under the Cattle Ordinance 1964. to
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  • 143 2 SINGAPORE. Wed. An appeal by a man who used an "SZ" ear as a publie service vehicle against a lower court conviction was dismissed by the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice »>ee Chong Jin today. The man, Chan Chee Pew was fined $2OO or one
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  • 207 2 SINGAPORE, Wed.—The Orientation 801 l Committee of the Singapore Polytechnic Students' Union will be organising an annual orientation ball to be held at the Lion City hotel on June 7 from 8.00 p.m. to 2.00 a.m. The main objectives of the Ball "is to foster a
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  • 30 2 SINGAPORE. Wed Mr Keith Lohan it now Command Public Relation* Officer, Tar East Air Force. He replaces Mr. Tony Brooks who is leaving Singapore goon
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  • 136 2 KUALA KANGSAR. Wed. Dato Hajl Ahmad bin Said was today re-appoint-ed Mentri Beaar of Perak at the Istana Iskandariah here. Th# swearing-in ceremony took place before the Sultan of Perak who handed Dato Haji Ahmad his letter of appointment. Dato Haji Ahmad told newsmen that under
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  • 290 2  -  HIS STARS WERE IN OPPOSITION By Martin Lim SINGAPORE, Wed. Thomby Durai, 18, like ony other youth hos his likes ond dtsi-kes. And among his dislikes is the Indian film star M. G. Ramaehandran, who is a member of the'Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK),
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  • 316 2 SINGAPORE, Wed —Th trial of a naval recruit, Lock Stew Khern. on a charge of rape took a turn today when half way through the cross-exami-nation of the main prosecution witness. The court was informed that the prosecution was not proceeding with the case. This followed a
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 58 2 Today's Diary 10 am. 8 p.m.: Trench contemporary tapestry exhibition at Singapore Conference Hall, Shenton Way 1 p.m. 2 p.m.: Rotarv Club of Singapore-West's weekly luncheon at Hollandsche <Dutch) Club. Camden Park off Adam Road. 7.30 p.m.: Free film shows by Ministry of Culture at Ama Keng Wavang Stage (Lim
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  • 583 3 BANGKOK, Wed. (AFP)—The SEATO Ministerial Council, which ended its 14th annual session here today, agreed that "aggression, both overt and by subversion, infiltration and terrorism, instigated or supported by external Communist movements, remains a major threat to the peace and security of
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  • 176 3 MOSCOW. Wed. Reuter) Anatole Shub. Moscow correspondent for the Washington Post, was' ordered today to leave the Soviet Union within 48 hours. Mr. Shub. 41, said he had received the order this morning from Fyodor Simonv. Deputy Chief of the Soviet Foreign Ministry Press Department. The reason
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  • 339 3 HONG KONG. Wed. (Reutfcr) —Peking has sent abroad another ambassador after bringing home all her top envoys during the cultural revolution. A brief announcement bv the New China News Agencv today said Mr. Huang Chen. China's ambassador to France, flew back to Paris yesterday. Last week Peking
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  • 153 3 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Adult Education Board will conduct a course in practical photography for beginners which will commence on June 6 at Canning Rise. It will be held everv Friday and to be conducted in English. The fee is $lO. The course is designed for
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  • 533 3  -  European Elections: Milestones Or Stumbling Blocks? By L. Hubert-Rodier, (F. 1.0.) PARIS, Wed. If there is one sector where the consequences of the departure of General de Gaulle are being felt, it is certainly that of Europe. It is in for this reason that, abroad
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  • 132 3 SINGAPORE. Wed. The inaugural issue of "Prospect" the current affairs magazine for secondary schools published by the Educational Publications Bureau has been "sold out." An EPB statement said because of the continuing great demand, the Bureau is reprinting more copies of the magazine, and are now
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  • 116 3 SINGAPORE, Wed. The Housing and Development Board is scheduled to complete its 100.000 th unit of public housing in July. To commemorate the occasion. special postage stamps of 25 cents and 50 cents denominations and First Day covers will be Issued on July 20. In a
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  • 648 3 SINGAPORE, Wed The First National City Bank of New York has published a Singapore Foreign Investment Guide to wo 0 investors from abroad to this country. This Is the first time that a foreign bank in the Republic has undertaken such a project. Bome 15.000 copies
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  • 428 4 SINGAPORE, Wed. Dr. W. Rasanovagam, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Singapore Red Cro«s today appealed to Rotarians to help in the blood donation recruitment campaign now beinc carried out in Singapore. He said Rotarians, as members of an Inter- national
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  • 257 4 PRAGUE, Wed (CTI) Frank Bonnm, who commanded the first manned ipaee flight around the moon, arrived yesterday to cheers of Czechoslovaks as he became the first American astronaut to visit a Communist country. Borman landed at Ruzyne Airport where airborne Soviet troops landed shortlv
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  • 54 4 SINGAPORE Wed There will be no water or poor pressure in the following areas from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. en Saturday, May 24. The shutdown is to enable connections to be made to a 4" dla main: Maxwell Road Traffic Police. T/S. Erskine House, Tamil School
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  • 325 4 SINGAPORE, wed. An alcoholic, David Thomas, who had been in and out o t Woodbridge Hospital 17 tuftes for treatment, was today Jailed for two years b> the Third District Court on a reduced charge of causing hurt. Thomas. 25, who becomes
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  • 177 4 SINGAPORE. Wed. —The Poatmaster-General. Singapore announces that there will be no delivery of correspondence or parcels on Friday. 30th May. 1969 (Public Holiday). The hours of business at the General Post Office will be from 9.00 a.m. to Noon. All other Post Offices will
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  • 215 4 SINGAPORE, Wed.—The eight-day South-east Asia Invitation Pugilistic Championships have drawn cacrowds each night since it began at the Gay World Stadium on May 17. Each night pugilistic experts from countries all ov«r Bouth-east Asia thrilled the spectators with thelr demonstrations of the art of
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  • 147 4 CINCINNATI. Ohio. Wed (UPI) Dr. Hisao Yamashita. chairman of the Radiology Department at Keio University School of Medicine in Tokyo. ieported yesterday on his research to measure the effecs of high dose-rate radiation in the treatment of cancer. In a paper read to the 17th annual
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  • 105 4 SINGAPORE. Wed The Law Society of the University of Singapore hag launched a drne to collect donations in cash and kind from students and staff of the university to aid riot victims In West Malaysia This was disclosed by Mr. Francis Khoo vice-president of
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  • 270 4 SINGAPORE, Wed. Two youths were today committed to stand trial at the High Court after a preliminary inquiry on a charge of raping a 26-year-old woman. They are Lim Kim Heng. 20. and Lim Poh Heng, 17. Two others. Chan Kok Er.g
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  • 164 4 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Adult Education Board will conduct a course in "Social Graceg and Personal Charm' starting on June 9 at the Cultural Centre. The course which is designed to helo ladles to cultivate a more attractive and confident personality will be conducted In English
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  • 53 4 KATMADU. Wed. (UPI) The state-run Nepal National Trading Agencv has agreed to sell Communist China 500 tons o£ rice for "starving Chinese" in Tibet, the dailv Nepal Times reported yesterday. The daily did not explain the reference to "starving Chinese." There was no immediate government confirmation
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  • 67 4 SINGAPORE. Wed. Professor M.R.N. Prasad of the Department of Zoology of the University of Delhi will deliver a public lecture at the postgraduate lecture room. Faculty of Medicine. University of Singapore. Sepoy Lines, on Friday at 5 p.m. He will lecture on the scientific basis of the control
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  • 312 4 SINGAPORE, Wed. She is charming. She is slender. She is fair. And to top it all. she has an enviable combination of talent and beauty. Yes. meet this 20-year-old attractive personality who is here on an impromptu visit. Betty Pai Chia Lee is her
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  • 31 4 SINGAPORE. Wed There were a 'otal of (55 road acclcentg of which one was fa'al ar.d seven serious during tht past 24 hours in the Republic, police reported today.
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  • 170 4 SINGAPORE. Wed. Some 1.200 National Cadet Corps, including girls, will take part in the Bukit Timah District Parade to be held on Saturday at 4.30 p.m. at the Police Training School In Thomson Road. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister
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  • 52 4 SINGAPORE Wed A 23-year-old motor-van driver. Koh Ah Lay. died on the spot after a head-on-collislon with a motor-lorry alon e New dementi Road, yes enday. The accident occured at 3 40 p.m Those who have seen the accident are asked to contact Sepoy Lines Traffic
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  • 60 4 NEW DELHI. Wed. (UPI)— Two persons were killed today and geven injured in an explosion aboard a train 80 miies from Shillong. the capital of Assam State, it was announced here. A railway spokesman said it appeared a crude bomb of ?ome sort was responsible
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  • 55 4 SINGAPORE. Wed. A National Serviceman. Abdullah bin Abdul Ghani was today fired $6O by the Fif h Magistrate's Court for possessing four rolls of Indian Hemp. He admitted that on February 4. he had the hemp (marlluana) with him at a coffee stall opposite a
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  • 376 4 SINGAPORE. Wed. A suspected Chap-Ji-Kee promoter was found dead in Queenstown's remand cell two days after he was detained, the Coroner's Court was told today. At an inquest into the death of Lee Ah Tuck. 59. on April 27, the court Mas told
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  • 451 4 A FAREWELL dinner will be given for Mr S Mochihara. the First Secretary of the Embassv of Japan in Singapore, by the General Committee of the Japanese Cultural Society on Sunday. May 25 at 800 p.m. Dr. Rayson L. Huang will officially open an art exhibition
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  • 555 5 D SALISBURY, Wed. (Reuter) Prime Minister lan Smith of «dl I? V! d J as n '9h* hope hod gone for o negotiated settlement of Rhodesia's independence dispute with Britain, and recommended that the breakaway colony should become a Republic. Blaming an
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  • 297 5 MOSCOW, Wed. (Reuter) Soviet President Nikolai Podgornv vesterdav accused China of playing into the hands of "the dark forces of imperialism and reaction" by trying to split the world Communist move- ment. Mr. Podgorny was speaking in the Mongolian capital of Ulan Bator where he
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  • 144 5 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) The British Gamine Board has appointed one of London's ten cohcerren to lead its fight tc clean up Britain's gambling industry, the Board announced yesterday. Chief Supenntendent Reginald Doak, 49. will select and command a team of 15 crack police
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  • 202 5 SAEI. Morocco, Wed. (Reuter) Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdah! said he had decided to oostpone until F n cay his depature from the harbour here in the Papyrus boat hound for Central America. The departure, due to have taken place yesterday, has been delayed by a series of jobs that
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  • 111 5 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) Women have known it for years. But now even the men have admitted it which should make it official And today It was publicly announced. "Women are safer drivers than men'\ said Lord Chesham. executive Vice-Chairman of the Royal Automobile Club, adding that
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  • 263 5 LEEDS. England. Wed. (Reuter) There they were. 11 innocent men and one suspect, all lined up with sticking plaster over each eyebrow, another strip across the nose and a black eye-shade on the left eye and coat collar turned up. The six witnesses walked
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  • 36 5 JAKARTA U.N. Rep. Ortiz Sanz arriving at Kemajoran airport here on Monday after a seven-day inspection tour of West Irian following reports of tribal rebellion. He said everything is quiet in the area now. (UPI photo).
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  • 299 5 LIVERPOOL, England. Wed (Reuter) A Pakistani cut off bis father's nose and cut hig hands because he believed his father had brought disgrace to the family, a prosecutor said in court yesterday. Mohammed Anwar. 31, a turner. has pleaded not guilty to
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  • 93 5 TAIPEI. Wed. (UPI) Wang Chih-Yuan. formerly the Rev. Longinus Wang, became the first Chinese Catholic priest to leave the church to marry, it was reported on Monday. Wang. 39. quit the priesthood last July after permission was granted by the Vatican He was married
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  • 181 5 LONDON. Wed (Reuter) Prime Minister Harold Wuson •aid last night that he w«s prepared to stake the life of the Government on his Bill to curb wildcat strikes. He told a television interviewer that the lite of the country was at stake on a.l economic
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  • 402 5 MELBOURNE. Wed. (Reuter). Clarence O'Shea, 63. was freed from jail here today as massive union unrest set off by his imprisonment six days ago edged dangerously close to a nation-wide general strike. While O'Shea left a brief court appearance a free
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  • 186 5 MUNICH. West Germany. Wed. (Reuter) West German Foreign Minister Willv Brandt said last night he believed the tense political situation in the Far East had prompted Cambodia's recent full diplomatic recognition of East Germany. Cambodia was probably" more concerned with what would haDDen in South-east
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  • 182 5 WASHINGTON. Wed. (UPI) Senate Majority Leader J William Fu'.bright of the Mike Mansfield and Chairman Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday described the appointment of Armin Henrv Meyer as Ambassador to Japan as "excellent." Both influential Senators said they were perturbed" at f>ublished
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  • 224 5 JAKARTA. Wed. (Reuter) Informed sources in Jakarta said today that the Foreign Ministers of the Netherlands and Indonesia were meeting secretly in Rome to discuss the recent trouble in the former Dutch territory of West Irian. The sources said the surprise. unscheduled high-level
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  • 76 5 LONDON. Wed. (UPI) Several hundred Indian and Pakistani immigrants mostly women and children flooded into London's Heathrow Airport in special flights on Tuesday. Officials said they apparently were trying to get in under the deadline before tighter immigration controls become effective in about a month Under legislation
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  • 313 5 BERKELEY, California, Wed. (Reuter) A military helicoptter bombed 1.000 student demonstrators with tear gas yesterday in an escalation of the guerilla-style warfare that has torn this university city for the last six days. T The National Guard aircraft flew over a main square of
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  • 214 5 PARIS. Wed. (UPI) France's two leading Presidential candidates voiced views on Tuesday that would make them unpopular in Moscow. But former Gaulllst Premier Georges Pompidou was quick to add that he would continue to follow Charles de Gaulle's policy of trying to improve relations with
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  • 797 6 IS there a policy coordination gap between Washington and Saigon? Else, why this hastily arranged summit between President Richard Nixon and President Nguyen Van Thieu on June Bon Midway Island? Secretary of State William P. Rogers only this week concluded his talks with South Vietnamese leaders and Nixon's
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  • 274 6  -  By R E. STANNARD JR. NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) Protectionism, Okinawa and the burden of defending Asia are the chief issues between the United States and Japan this year, according to a senior U.S. State Department official Robert W. Barnett, Deputy Assistant Secretary
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  • 315 6 WASHINGTON, Wed. U.S. researchers have developed an automatic system for administering anesthetics. Operated by an automatic programmer, the system continuously provides the patient with a scheduled amount of anesthetic tailored to hi# individual needs. It resulted from research Initiated Ave years ago by Dr. Harry
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  • 393 6  -  By FRANCIS DURIAUD ALGIERS. Wed. (Reuter) The National Liberation Front (FLN), Algeria's sole party, will handpick all 1.306 candidates contesting a nationwide ballot to elect departmental assemblies on May 25. Although there Is no uncertainty about the outcome, the estimated seven million voters will
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  • 576 6  -  ■v VAN NGAN SAIGON, Wed. (MF) For those conservative parents in foreign lands, worried about the decline of sexual morals of the younger generation, adoption of an old, traditional Vietnamese custom of cutting one ear off a pig's head, may offer some hope and encouragement. Unlike
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  • 216 6  -  LETTERS... DM. JANI Singapore The Housing and Development Board is to be congratulated for the provision oi community hall on the first floor of its Area Office (East), Tos Payoh. This hall is quite suitable for religious meetings, wedding receptions and judo classes. In fact,
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  • 177 6  -  By Robert Ghisays LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) Lady Macbeth wears on lJ a transparent negligee in the sleep-walking scene of a new production here of Shakespeare's "Macbeth American director Charles Marowitz cut and adapted the version which opened here at the off-West End open space theatre
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  • 323 6 TOKYO, Wed. (UPI) More than 100 Christian Ministers were fasting yesterday to protest a government plan to grant subsidies to a Shinto Shrine founded 100 years ago to honour Japan's war dead. The special council of Japan's Christian Ministers said the hunger strike began on
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  • 11 6 Thinr* do not chuie: we change Henry David Thoreau.
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  • 310 6  -  by Jon G. Amstutz PRAGUE, Wed. (UPI) An important regional Communist Party organisation demoted seven of its leaders and retracted a resolution signed immediately after the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia, Rude Pravo said on Monday. The National Party newspaper reported the North Moravian Regional Committee took the
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  • 102 6 It's 'BerlinTokyo' Axis Says Izvestia MOSCOW, Wed. (ArP) The Soviet Government paper Irvestia said in a comment on West German Chancellor Kurt G. Kieslnger's current visit to Japan today that the Chancellor's hopea were apparently coming true and the old Nip-po-German friendship of the Berlin-Tokyo axis is springing up again.
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  • 372 6 WASHINGTON. Wed. (FPI) The Washington Post said editorially on Tuesday Thailand had a right to bar anyone it wanted as it did the Post's Hong Kong correspondent Stanley Karnow but the newspaper felt it raised the question again of L'.S.-Thai arrangements. "Of all
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  • 162 6 VIENNA, Wed. (AFP) Hungarian Priemier Jenoe Fock said in an interview with Australian newspaper today that his government had to the very last minute-endeavoured to prevent the Warsaw Pact intervention in Czechoslovakia last summer "This intervention brought us no material or moral
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 206 7 •bfltoN, Wed. (tPI) Fears of an intensified •qaeeze on credit and tirhter control of the money supply sent Industrial stocks sharply lower on the stock mA k f} yesterday British government bonds also took a battering for the same reasons and often set new all
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    • 122 7 SINGAPORE. Wed. The Association of Banks in Ma-laysia-Singapore today made the following changes in its rates to merchants (rates are quoted to the equivalent of 100 units of foreign currency). SELLING T.T. or OD. ready: Deutsche Marks $77.1300; Holland Guilders $84.7025; Swiss Francs $71.3625; Belgian Francs 56.1600; French
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    • 92 7 TOKYO. Wed. 'UPI) Hitachi Zosen Company has announced it will »end a n engineering team to South Vietnam goon to build a sugar refinery in that country in accordance with the request of the Bouth Vietnamese Government. Hitachi said the refinery will have
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    • 158 7 BANGKOK, Wed. Businessmen and government officials from all over Asi* will converse on Thailand to attend a Data Processing Exhibition and Seminar being held at the t.S. Trade Centre in Bangkok. June 23-27. More than a score of leading American computer and data
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    • 96 7 JAKARTA. Wed. (UPI) The Indonesian Government is planning to rehabilitate rubber and palm oil plantations In North Sumatra with a US$l6 million credit from the World Bank. Information Minister Budiardjo announced after a Cabinet meeting yesterday the money will be invested in the rehabilitation
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    • 63 7 NEW DELHI. Wed. (UPI) Andhra Pradesh plans to export maize to Japan which has inquired about the maize supply in the Indian State, the Hindu Madras daily said yesterday. The daily said Andhra Pradesh supplies Minister V. B. Raju disclosed this to newsmen in Hyderabad, the
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    • 83 7 JAKARTA, Wed. (UPI) The Indonesian Government has. issued licenses for the construction of 38 crumb rubber mills In a drive to Improve the quality of Indonesian rubber exports, the Cabinet announced yesterday. An additional 54 licenses may be Issued in the near future Of
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    • 1734 7 By Our Market Reporter SINGAPORE, Wed. Conditions in the Singapore trading room of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore were reversea today as price levels improved on a broad front with life in West Malaysia assuming further semblance of normalcy. Together with
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    • 234 7 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) Btocks declined again yesterday. with pressure stemming from carryover profit taking from the previous session, lack of new Vietnam peace developments and belief that the economy may be slowing. Shortly before the closing, the UPI stock market indicator was off 0.69
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    • 261 7 SINGAPORE Wed June first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p m.. in Singapore today at 694 cent® per lb down one quarter of a cent from the previous close- The ton# of the market was quiet A very quiet session ruled during the morning. Some
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    • 71 7 NEW DELHI. Wed. (UPl> The government yesterday set its food production next year at 105 million tons to sufficiently meet the nation's needs. Agricultural commissioners from all over the country planned the food production programme in a conference which ended in New Delhi yesterday. B. R. Patel,
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    • 61 7 HONG KONG. Wed (UPI) —Money Quotations: HK $6,090 per U.S. dollar, HK $6.***** per U.S. dollar TT HK $14.50 per pound sterl5322.0 per tael of gold 94.5 per cent fineness HK $163.1 per 10,000 Japanese yens. HK $134 5 per 100 Philippines pesos buyers. HK $135.5
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    • 34 7 NEW YORK, Wed. (UPI) Dow-Jones closing averages On the New York stock exchange: 30 Industrials 949.26 20 Rails 237.89 15 Utilities 131.24 65 Stocks 324.92 40 Bonds 73.73 Commodity—Futures Index 139.82
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    • 88 7 HONG KONG, Wed. (UPI) The Hon* Kong Stock Exchange yesterday set a turnover record in the wake of reports that Malaysian capital was Sowing to Hong Kong. Yesterdav's turnover at U553,221,000 beat the record set on Oct. 25 last year by US$ 97.000. Unconfirmed press
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    • 206 7 TOKYO. Wed. (UPI) Japan's razor industry is now being faced with rising competition from foreign makers of razors and razor blades, it was disclosed yesterday. Japan's razor industry sources said the makers of Japan's best known "Feather" brand razors and blades still holds
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    • 44 7 NEW YORK. Wed (UPI)— Rubber futures closed unchanged and untraded yesterday. (Bid) (Ask) July 26.20 26.70 Sept. 25.35 26.45 Nov. 25.45 25.95 Jan. (1970) 25.25 25.50 March 25.00 25.35 May 24.85 25.35 Locally, No. 2 RSs 36 3 8 cents per pound.
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    • 255 7 SINGAPORE, Wed. The following is a berthing list released by the Port of Singapore Authority for May 22: DEPARTURE: Godowns Vessels 5 Setiabudhi 8 7 9 Laomedon 19 Bingo Maru 21/22 Angelina 25 26 Kunak 42/43 Seikai Maru 44 Pinya 6 7 Hikokane Maru ARRIVAL: Godowns Vessels
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    • 140 7 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) Gold prices slipped in moderately active traaing yesterday on world markets In London, gold dropped 5 cents at the morning fixing and an additional 2i cents for a second fixing of 43.425 dollars per troy ounce. In Zurich, gold remained unchanged at 43.50
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    • 15 7 SINGAPORE. Wed —The tin price for today was $615.12} per picul, up $3.12}.
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    • 55 7 (Managers Price*) let Malayan 2.«7 3n<l Mala* an 2 07 3rd Malayan 1.26 The Commerce Ind. 1.02 1 12 The Sarins Fund 1.13 123 M. Invent Knnd XD 1.3ft 1 4 ft 1st Hon* Kong 1 48 1 54* 2nd Hon* Kong 100 1 06« Sterling T om
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    • 98 7 SINGAPORE. Wed. The noon prices at the Singapore Chtne«e Produce Exchange t»xiay are:— Borer belief Coconut Oil 4850 (FOB.) Bulk Coconut Oil 51 00 (F.O.B.) Drum Mixed Copra S1.00 Muntok White Peppe* (FO B 96% S.L W. 121 -50 Sarawak White Pepper 125.00 (FOB) Sarawak special Black (F.O B.)
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    • 66 7 TOKYO. Wed. <UPT> The Japan Min:ng Industry Association announced yesterday it will send a team soon to Malaysia to invesugate prospects of developing its quicksilver mines. The announcement said the team will be made up of representatives of Nomura Mining. Hokushin Mining and Yamato quicksilver mines companies
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  • 385 8 40 Warships For SEATO's Exercise Sea Spirit' MANILA, Wed. (Reuter) More than 40 warships the hard core of the South-east Asia Treaty Organisation's (SEATO) sea power will assemble in Manila Bay on Thursday, to begin a SEATO combined defence exercise code-named "Sea Spirit". The 15-day exercise will start in the
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  • 277 8 HOUSTON. Wed. (Reuter) The Apollo 10 astronauts last night beamed back a television broadcast from deep in space, showing viewers their thick flight plan book and admonishing children to foi-ow their example and study b ar(3 Their 25-minute broadcast, from 175,000 nautical miles (350.000 kilometres)
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  • 330 8 HONG KONG, Wed. (UPl)—'My dance is religious* Shri Gratap Pawar said. "I will not dance if people are eating and drinking to make fun of me and insult my religion." With these words. Pawar walked out of a rehearsal and told the management
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  • 188 8 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) A leading expert on SinoSoviet relations said on Tuesday that the Communist Chinese appear to be responsible fo r the latest Russo-Chinese border incidents. "In the absence of any signs of official displeasure from Peking over the recent course of events, one
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  • 142 8 HIS MAGIC ACT MISFIRED... ACCRA, Wed. (Reuter) A Ghanaian magician, who claimed to be able to bring people back to life after they had been shot and buried, was acquitted of manslaughter. The case arose out of an occasion when his act misfired. In December
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  • 386 8 WASHINGTON, Wed. (UPI) The Apollo 10 spacecraft may be visible even to the unaided eye as it nears and circles the moon, the National Geographic Society reported on Tuesday. Given good weather conditions, the society said, the first opportunity to spot the
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  • 156 8 JAKARTA. Wed. (UPI) An Indonesian Navy Diane carrying an Australian Naval Attache and has wife has crashed in the Indonesian island of Timor, according to reports reaching here on Tuesday. Australian and Indonesian sources said the wife of Naval Attache Capt. John Lovell and
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  • 211 8 NEW DELHI. Wed. —Off season rains battered Andra Pradesh state the past four days, touching off floods that isolated villages and washed away bridges. Press reports said 11 persons were buried on Monday In the slope of a hill near Vijavawada city In Eastern Andhra when
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  • 74 8 PARIS: The {lris with the longest locks They took the first three places in a competition to find the longest hair-do. Marie Odile Lefebure (centre) took th first prize with her 1.86 m lonr hair. She won by a hair's breadth from Emmanuelle Aris (on
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  • 222 8 MANILA. Wed. (UPI) Ar. Opposition Member of the House of Representatives filed in Congress on Tuesday a resolution demanding the impeachment of President Ferdinand E. Marcos for violation of anti-graft laws. Minority floer leader Justin: ano Mor.tano charged the President "has enriched himself in public office"
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  • 260 8 MOSCOW. Wed. (UPI) Extra-marital sex is not immoral if it is based on mutual affection and sincerity, a monthlv publication of the Soviet Central Committee said on "tuesdav. I In any case, sex In a Communis? society is pure because the rotten" principle
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  • 175 8 WASHINGTON. Wed (UPIV -Thailand's problem is that for the past seven years the U.S. militarv has wormed its wav into key areas of the Thai infrastructure." a former military intelligence expert charged on Tuesday Zalin B Grant, writing in the current issue of the weekly magazine The
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  • 125 8 UPPSALA. Sweden, Wed (UPI) A Swedish wwnar. with a battery-supported heart on Monday gave birth to a boy, the Academic Hospital said on Tuesday. Kristina Torstensson 21. who was born with a heart beating too slowlv. has lived with a so-called pacemaker inplanted in
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  • 63 8 KYOTO, Japan: West German chancellor Kurt George Kiesinger and his wife (left) receive bows from Kimono-clad Japanese girls who served tea ceremony when they left the Katsura Villa here on Monday during sightseeing trip in this ancient capital city, Kyoto. The chancellor also met Prime Minister Sato and the Emperor
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  • 274 8 SAIGON, Wed. (Reuter) American paratroops yesterday finally captured a strategic hilltop near the Laotian border rrom entrenched North Vietnamese defenders who had defied week-long battering from U.S. artillery, air strikes and assaults. Announcing the capture, the U.S. Military Command soid the "Battle of Hamburger
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  • 207 8 WASHINGTON, Wed. —Senator Edward M. Kennedy said on Tuesday It was "senseless and irresponsible to continue to send our young men to their deaths in Vietnam offensives like the battle for Hamburger HilL "American boys are to valuable to be sacrificed for
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  • 245 9 i fc Arnftrat^n Fi /litt?^ d A ®'itiih Broadcasting Sfr 3*°*} t iat FiJi B Chief Minister Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara s visit to London would inC H U nal 4! alks sparkcd ro between government and opposition members in Fiji's legislature
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  • 236 9 tANGKOK. Wed. <UPI) Philippine Foreign Secretary Mr. Carlos P. Romulo said today the Youth Volunteer Corps proposed by his government 4, wi1l do much to channel the restlessness and ambitions of youth" away from Communism. Mr. Romulo proposed the youth corps alone with
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  • 97 9 i HAVANA, Wed (Keuter) Aa Avlanca Airlines jet returned to Colombia overnight alter being hijacked and forced to fly o Cuba. The Bceln* t37 the 26th plsr.f to. be hijacked to Cuba this vear was allowed to return sfter only five and a half he in Havana.
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  • 41 9 Celebrating the 53rd anniversary of the Squadron's formation nine Canberra B 15 twin jet bombers of No. 45 Squadron, commanded by Squadron Leader Bill Innes and based at R.A.F. Tengah, flew a 'diamond nine' formation over Singapore recently.
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  • 105 9 SINGAPORE, Wed—The 18th Signal Regiment an. nual fun fair in aid of Singapore charities will be held on Saturday at the Dover Road stadium from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. There will be numerous food, drink and amusement stalls, children's film shows, toy park, train
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  • 1276 9 SINGAPORE. Wed. Professional secrecy is the fundamental responsibility of a doctor to hit patient. And in cases of doubt the ethical principle that the patient must always be placed foremost in the mind of the doctor treating the patient should alwaya be upheld.
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  • 152 9 HONG KONG. Wed. (ATP) —General Huans Yung-Sh*ng. Chief of the Chinese Army General Staff. last night pledged that China w<wld do its utmost to support the Syrian and other Arab countries in their struggle against US-Israeli aggression." He s*id that it was China's International
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  • 113 9 PRETORIA. Wed. (ATP) A. man. whose sight was destroyed by ammonia burns, had partial sight restored in one eye in what is believed here to be the first operation of its kind in the world. A communique issued yesterday by the Hendryk Verwoerd Hospital—where the operation
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  • 45 9 TEL AVIV, Wed (ATP) Peter Hayman British Under Secretary of State for Middle East Affairs, left here for Cairo via Cyprus today after a 24hcur visit during which he had talks with Foreign Minister Abba Eban and top Foreign Ministry officials.
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    • 183 9 b SHAW 1 LIDO Phone ***** rf OFfWS TODAY! Wo Pre* List U tff 1.45. 4.M. I.U 4 ».1S |Ji. "LOVES OF CAU.i" 'SB) Btarrmg MIKEILLE DARC 2975«5 CAPITOL Phone ffi By o\«rwhelm;nf Demiac' Capitol A Lld« Saturdar MTUtC TBI FLYING DAGGEB' 'A SHAW PRODUCTIONi Ms aasrm in Shawseope. Color
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    • 320 9 TODAY a Thursday, May 22* 1969. m m STAR GAII By CLAY H POLLAN— M Your Daily Activity Guidm JK According to tho Start. To develop message for Thursdoy, read words correspond ing to numbers .of your Zodiac hirth sign. LC-j r» 1 P ecu lie. 31 Disfavor 2 Top
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    • 184 9 ADVENTURE that takes you above and under the freezing North Pole! Metre GoWwy' Mayr yntrts Man* RrwNyis &oduet«n of "Ice Station Zebra" REMtMREJ) THE NAMIYOUR Llff MAY DtffND ON IT' Rock Hudson Ernest Boignine Patrick McGoohan Jim Brown f* SuCtrFVlMOn'lMMetiKOiOr ORCHARD-COMING! 3rd BIG WEEK: GALAVYffBR Today 8 «kewt 8. 6.
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    • 184 9 ORCHARD —***** OPENS TODAY! 1.3*. «.<*. «30 9 15 p.m. "With Six You Get Ecfroir Deris Day Brian Keith P"V!*ion Co'.or (A CBS Releaaat I ODEON 21 1 16j OPENS TODAT: U am. 13* 4 M». SO (SO p m Chriitopher Lee in MOM "The Blood Of Fu Manchu" TMI
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    • 383 10 STUDYING is our main concern as a student. But studying is not so simple as the word might seem. It needs encouraaement from the elders, the determination and dedication to study and' also a systematic planning to make progress in our studies. Everyone of
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    • 812 10 THE alarm clock rang loudly. I woke up and it was early in thi morning. Then I remembered that we were going to visit my grandmother who is living in the Cameron Highlands. Feeling excited, I nearly fell out of my bed. In the hall
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      274 10 RECENTLY, the Government of Singapore encouraged the public to save in the Post Office Savings Bank. The Post Office Savings Bank offers an interest of 4 per cant par annum. The saving stamp cards can be obtained from Post Offices, while students can get them from their teachers. We
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    • 744 10 THE bell rang. Soon the girls vMOuld be released from their studies. Jane was glad to be in the school-field, for the day had been very warm. She glanced at the sky. The lovely orange-red glow radiated with an irresistable charm that made her wish
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    • 237 10 AS o child I wot very timid and easily frightened. My mind was full of ghosts and evil spirits. I did not know how I came to think of these frightening elements. I used to keep myself close to my mother all the
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      215 10 ONE fine morning. my grandmother and I went to visit my cousin in Bukit Timah Road. We went there by bus. On the way we saw many factories, houses and shops. On reaching our destination, something happened. We saw black smokes from a factory rising up into the
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      388 10 ONE mght at about 12 o'clock, Thiam Fook and I started fourth to a deserted house on an island. We went there by a boat borrowed from a fisherman living near our house We reached the island in fifteen minutes When we reached our destination. we hid
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      335 10 THERE art many different kinds of trees. Some have soft wood, others have hard wood. They supply us with raw material. In the early days, man worshipped trees. They used the bark of the trees to make their clothes. The branches of the treea were also used as natural
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    • 184 10 NEW ESSAY CONTEST: RULES TO OBSERVE THE EASTERN SUN'S new essay writing contest for boys and girls of 14 and under appears in this page every Thursday. One of the objects of this contest is to encourage young boys and girls to express themselves properly. And what better way to
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    • 69 10 El IE I! mm Si >V> "Jurt imagine! Ttwra's stuff up h«r« that ditas back to 1942! By Buford Tune DOTTY GQOO NUSHT,/ PAP tj -n/rTI DAP! m to ss *4 E*>3 m M m 6 i Cd»*» s I ■FTI Mi ►■liiSi WIZARD OF ID r HpeA <4NP /4£
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 605 11 T °HDON, Wed. (Reuter) Tom Cortwright, the England medium pace bowler, swept i 0 thrilling five<run victory over English County cricket champions Yorkshire. Yorkshire looked favourites to win the match at Bradford when they started their second innings yesterday morning needlne 121 runs for victory.
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    • 234 11 BRISTOL. England, Wed. (Reuter) Rain forced the abandonment of the cncket match between the West Indians and Gloucestershire here yesterday. The County, set to score 202 runs in two hours 20 minute* for victory, were 63 for one when the players dashed for the pavilion with half
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    • 152 11 LONDON. Wed. One of the most impressive cavalcades of veteran and vintage cars seen in Britain will take place at the annual Manehes-tei-to-Blaekpool run in the North of England on June 1. One of the Interesting entrants la Mr. David Neal, a 33-year-old lorry driver who win
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    • 114 11 ATHENS. Wed. (Reuter) Britain and West Germany swept to comfortable victories in tne second round of the womens' Federation Cup tennis team competition yesterday at the Athens lawn tennis club. The two teams will now meet in the quarter-finals tomorrow. A third second-round match
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    • 317 11 SINGAPORE. Wed.—Winners of the Singapore Junior team judo championship ar« the children's team of R. A. F. Seletar's Judo Club and the man they largely have to thank for their success is 25-vear-old Cpl. Peter Griffiths, an electronics fitter in the Engineering Wing,
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    • 291 11 LONDON, Wed. A computer was used to work out the 18 clubs that now form the three premier national divisions of six clubs each in the new National Athletics League, which started in Britain on May 10. Other League competition dates this year are August
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    • 92 11 SINGAPORE. Wed. Twenty bowlers will compete in the 1969 Cathay PacificBrunswick Far East Bowling championahips national finals to be held a t the Jackie's Bowl, Orchard Road on Sunday commencing at 1.30 t>.m. Che Dah. wife of the Minister of Social Affairs, will give away
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    • 49 11 MOSCOW. Wed. (Reuter) Champion Tigran Petrosyan and challenger Boris Spassky 'ast night agreed on a draw in the 14th match of their world chess championship series, leaving them still level pegging on points score. Both have seven points The match ends when one player totals 12-1/2 points.
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    • 173 11 EAST BERLIN. Wed. (Beater) I act Germany yesterday crushed Malta 10-0 in thair Group "B" match of the International youth soccer tournament and now need only a draw with England tomorrow to win the group. England scored a H victory ever the Maltese la their ft
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    • 308 11 CHINGFORD. (Essex), Wed. (ATP) Ken Fletcher, the self-styled Australian "rebel" who now based himself in Hong Kong, crashed out of the "Rothmans invitation hard court lawn tennis tournament here yesterday in hig opening match of a competition in which he
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    • 631 11 BOWLING SINGAPORE. Wed. The Hustlers are still leading in the Cipricon Learue tournament now being held at the Jackie's Bowl Katong. They have won fiO games out of the 72 played so far. Behind them are the 810 -Mo Shun and the Reformers, etch winning
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    • 222 11 SINGAPORE. Wed. Last rur'i winners. St John's Comprehensive School will meet Raffle# Institution in the inter-schools final replav for the Rodrigo Challenge Trophy, at Ihe Jalan Besar Stadium tomorrow at 4.50 p.m. In this soccer-classic final played last Thursday Raffles held the defending champions to a
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    • 212 11 LONDON, Wed. The Will* Open tennis tournament, which Btart« at Bristol. W#t of England, on June 9, haa become Britain's second bifgest tennis tournament with prize money totalling £10.625. The sponsor, W.D. and HO. Wills, the cigarette manufacturers announced a £1.845 prize increase for the event.
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    • 346 12 MCC Crisis Over —Report LONDON, Wed. (ATP) The "Daily Mirror" devotes a lengthy feature article to the MCC in today's issue. In the article, written by Richard Sear, the "Basil D'Oliveira Affair" is referred to on several occasions. Writes Sear: "This private club, which has filled a power vacuum in
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    • 182 12 LONDON. Wed. (AFP) Australia's world featherweight boxing champion Johnny Famechon scored a comfortable points win over British junior welterweight champion Jimmy Anderson in a ten-round nontitle fight at the Royal Albert Hall here last night. Famechon won officially by 49 and three-quarter points to 48 and
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    • 60 12 MELBOURNE. Wed. (AFP) Two of Melbourne's top jockeys Geoff Lane and Kevin Mitchell will '.eave here tomorrow for the Far East and South Korea on special riding engagements. They are going at the invitation of the Korean Horse Affairs Association and will ride In the
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    • 68 12 SINGAPORE. Wed. Goh Hock of Gang Eng Sen* Secondary School broke the boy's "C division long jump record on the first day of the fourday Pasir Panjang District Secondary School annual altletic meet held at Farrer Park Athletic Centre, today. He leapt to a new distance
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    • 880 12 QINGAPORE, Wed.—Seah Chwee Lan of Bukit Timah Government High School smashed her own mark on the fourth dav of the five day Bukit Timah District Secondary School annual athletic meet held at the Chinese High School ground, today. Running confidently Chwee Lan led
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    • 184 12 MANILA. Wed. (Reuter) The World Boxine Council 1W8.C.) have re-elected Mr. Justiniano Montano. Jr., a Filipino. as their President. The W B.C. during their three-day convention which ends today, also elected Mr. Ramon G. Valesquez of Mexico as their Vice- President. The Council adopted rules making it compulsory
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    • 142 12 NEW YORK. Wed (Reuter) A world-ranking American light-heavyweight boxer. Frank De Paula. 29. was arrested here today on charges of stealing copper from interState shipments. De Paula, who lost to Bob Foster in a world-light heavyweight title bout last January, is due to meet Don Fullmer
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    • 108 12 MOSCOW. Wed. (Reuter) Soviet soccer international Anatoly Banishevsky has been barred from the game for two years following a drunken brawl in a Baku Street, it was reported here yesterday. The 24-year-old star forward, a member of the 1966 Soviet World Cud squad, was
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    • 541 12 PORT MORESBY, Wed (Reuter) Papua New Guinea are bracing themselves for their biggest peace time "invasion" a huge influx of competitors and tourists for the South Pacific Games the Olympics of the South Seas in Port Moresby from August 13 to 23. The
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    • 58 12 TOKYO. Wed (UPI) The Mitsubishi Heavy Industries soccer team give a surprising performance tonight and held the Middlesex Wanderers to a 3-all tie before 20,000 spectators at the National Stadium. The score was a 2-all tie at half time in the fourth and last same played by the
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    • 187 12 HONG KONG. Wed. (Reuter) Australia will not join forces with five other Asian nations to form the proposed Far East motor racing circuit. Secretary General of the Confederation of Australian Motor Sports, Mr. Don Thompson, said yesterday that the cost of getting drivers
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    • 115 12 INGLEWOOD. California,' Wed. <UPI) Bantamweight champion Lionel Rose of Australia will face Emie Cruz of the Philippines in a 10-round non-title fight in Honolulu on June 10. his manager said today. Jack Rennie said he plans to fly to Honolulu during the weekend to sign the contract
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    • 108 12 JOHANNESBURG. Wed (AFPi The Australian women's golf team won their four-match series against Africa 1-1/2 to 1-1/2 after drawin e in the final Ifst here today: 3 3. In the singles matches. South Africa's Jeannette Burd and Felicity Wassenaar both recorded victories. Mrs. Burd b*»at
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    • 145 12 BASLE, Switzerland, Wed (Reuter)—Barcelona of Spain are strong favourites to beat Czechoslovakia's Slovan Bratislava in tonight's European Cup Winners Cup soccer final here (kickoff 1900 GMT). Three-times winners of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. Barcelona are out for a bigger prize tonight, backed by an undefeated
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    • 923 12 American Baseball NEW YORK, Wed. (UPI) Willie Horton, playing his first game since bolting the team last Thursday, and Jim Northrup drove in two runs each in a five-run first inning on Tuesday night, powering the Detroit Tigers to a 7-6 triumph over the
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    • 156 12 TOKYO. Wed (UPI) Former world flyweight and bantamweight champion fighting Harada will accept an offer of from US$2O,OOO to U5525,000 to challenge Johnny Famechon, the World Boxing Council's world featherweight titleholder, in Australia. Harada's manager said today. Manager Takeshi Sasazaki. however. said he could
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    • 66 12 MOSCOW. Wed. (AFP) Nadezhda Chizhova, Soviet Union's Mexico Olympics bronze medallist, yesterday, set a new Soviet women's shot putt record of 64 feet 3 3/4 inches at an athletics meeting at Sotshi. on the Black Sea. She broke her own former record of 61 feet 3
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    • 76 12 Time And Tide TODAY Singapore Town: 1-23 a.m. (8.3 ft.); 8.23 a.m. (1 ft); 3.20 p.m. (6.5 ft); 8.22 p.m. (4.3 ft). Naval Dockyard: 1.30 a.m. (9.3 ft); 7.56 a.m. (1.7 ft); 3.23 a.m. (8.2 ft.); 8.24 p.m. (5.5 ft). TOMORROW Singapore Town: 2.04 a.m. (7.9 ft); 9.05 a.m. (1.4
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