Eastern Sun, 23 May 1969

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  • 23 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY ft Estd. 1966. Vol. 3 No. 1006 Friday, 23 May 1969. ft MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cants
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  • 248 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. The Deputy Prime Minister and Director of Operations, Tun Abdul Razak today said the present stage of emergency in the country will remain in force until three main objectives were achieved. Number one the restoration of law and order number two,
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  • 79 1 WASHINGTON. Th u r (Reuter) A Haitian embassy chauffeur was found shot dead in an embassy car in Washington early this morning, police reported. They said no gun was found and they were treating it as a case of murder. The dead man was named as
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  • 142 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. A ban has been imposed on all publications of political parties in Malaysia. According to an announcement by National Operation Council, the Ministry of Heme Affairs will revoke a I I permits issued for such publications. The statement also said people who commit
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  • 118 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs.— Three more confirmed cases of cholera has been reported in Kelantan bringing the total to 25 A statement by the Ministry of Health here, said sini*e the outbreak of cholera, mass mnoculatlon had been carried out in the state and more
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  • 113 1 BANGKOK. Thurs. (Reuter) United States Secretarv of State William Rogers today signed an agreement pledging US$l.75 m for an English language centre In Singapore. The money will BO towards the cost of constructing a building to house the centre, which is one of the projects set
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  • 55 1 RIO DE JANEIRO. Thurs. (Reuter) After a record stay of 33 years, four months and 20 days in a RIO penitentiary, 56-year-old Jose de Barros Cavalanti has been released. Sentenced for murder committed during the 1932 Sao Paulo secessionist revolution. Cavalanti told newsmen of his first mission outside
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  • 72 1 AMONG 84 students who received the grant certificates from the Prophet Muhammad's Birthday Memorial Scholarship Fund Board at the King Faisal Muslim Lecture Hall, in Lorong 12, Geylang, last night, were Teo Kok Pong, 19, of the University of Singapore. Mageswari Ragunath Guha, 13, from a secondary school, Aminah binte
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  • 655 1 HOUSTON, Texas, Thurs. (Reutcr) A two-man scouting party swoops to within 50,000 feet of the moon today in a perilous dressrehearsal of America's plans for a lunar conquest. One tiny fault aboard the rugly Insect-like moonship carrying Apollo 10 astronauts Thomas Stafford and
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  • 447 1  -  By Chan Kam Yau KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. —When Kuala Lumpur will be treated to the luxury of a 12-hour curfew break has become a popular guessing game in town presently. That of course is a reflection of the encouraging improvement in the situation
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  • 109 1 BRUNEI TOWN, Thurs. (Reuter) Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei today postponed a trip to London for talks with British government officials on the future of the British- protected sultanate. No official reason was given for the postponement but It was understood the Sultan's wife Is
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  • 49 1 BANGKOK. Thurs. (Reuter) South Korean Foreign Minister Kyu Ha Choi todav called for regular meetings of ambassadors of South Vietnam and her six war allies to be held in Seoul to discuss the security situation in Korea and in North and Southeast Asia as a whole.
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  • 745 1 TRADING FAR AND NEAR THE MINISTER for Foreign Affairs and Labour, Mr. S. Rajaratnam, said last night that the fact of separation from Malaysia did not mean that Singapore would consciously and deliberately move towards economic isolation. On the contrary .Singapore he said had and
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  • 104 1 SINGAPORE. Thurs. The Singapore Government has issued a writ of distress against the Bank of China, it is reliably understood hero today. The writ was made as the result of the Bank's refusal to accept the judgment made by a lower court which
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  • 461 2 SINGAPORE Thurs. A husbond-and-wifo ttam wsra among 17 Jcpont«s-»psaki«9 tourist guides who groduattd today aftar a thrttmonth intensified course organised by the Tourist Promotion Board. The young couple is Mr. Chia Aik 800, o reporter in a leading Chinese newspaper and his Japanese
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  • 54 2 SINGAPORE, Thurs There will be no water or poor pressure on May 27 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at North Bridge Road Pnhlie Latrine and house numbers 897, 960, 971. 973. 975, 1001, 1003 and 1011. The shutdown is to anable connections to be made to a
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  • 177 2 SINGAPORE Thurs. A coin exhibition. Ulustratlng the currency history of Singapore from 1819 to 1969. will be held at the National Library Lecture Hall from May 26 to June, this year. The exhibits consist of various kinds of coins that were used
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  • 106 2 SINGAPORE. Tb'irf Th Assistant Stat® Coroner, Mr. Leong Keng Thai todav returned a verdict of misadventure on the death of a 10-month-old baby girl whs was found strangled with a gold chain she wa« wearing on April 26, this year. Tan Sim Cheng. 19. of
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  • 231 2 SINGAPORE, Thurs A teacher, Foo Chang Sang, was today awarded $4,000 consent damage by a co-respondent in a divorce proceeding in the High Court today. Foo. cited Peter Ho, an advertising firm employee, as the co-respondent in the divorce Droceedings against his wife.
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  • 82 2 SINGAPORE. Thurs. A sub-aeeountant, Yong Ny en Vui. was charged In the Ninth Magistrate's Court today with misappropriating 1180,700 65 from hU bank. Yong. 32, Ls alleged to have committed criminal breach of trust of the money between June 1, 1065 and May 31, last year
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  • 75 2 SINGAPORE, Thurs. A course on portrait photography, organised by the Adult Education Board, will commence on June 11 at the Cultural Centre from 7.00 p.m. to 10.00 p.m. The course, conducted in English, will be held every Wednesday for 1® weeks. The fee is $OO.
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  • 60 2 WITH reference to our report in yesterday's Eastern Sun under heading "High Court Upholds SZ Car Conviction*, the name of the accused was erroneously reported as "Chan Chee Pew Mr, Chan is the Magistrate who convieted the accused, Ng Kee Hock, in this case and rthe accused and
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  • 73 2 SINGAPORE. Thurs. The Commonwealth Society of Singapore will hold a dinner at the Blue Room. Capitol Building to celebrate Commonwealth Day and the 150 th Anniversary of Singapore, on Saturday. May 24. The guest-of-honour for the evening will be the Minister fcr Foreign Affairs, Mr. S Rfejaratnam
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  • 49 2 SINGAPORE. Thurs —BO AC has resumed its normal operations into Kuala Lumpur as of today. The airline will make first scheduled stop to London leaving Singapore at 7.30 p.m. and arriving in Kuala Lumpur at 820 p m to pick up forward going passengers.
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  • 71 2 SINGAPORE. Thurs. Military personnel will conduct military exercises in the followins areas: Ma railing from 8 a.m. to 11.59 pm on May 27 and at Blakang Matl from 8 am. to 11.59 p.m. on May 28 and at Tuas from 6 am. on May 27 to 8 am.
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  • 45 2 SINGAPORE. Thura. The Singapore Armed Forces Sports Association will hold their second annual athletic meet at the Farrer Park Athletic Centre on May 24 at 2.00 p.m. Mrs Lim Kim San, wife of the Minister for Defence will give away the prizes.
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  • 43 2 SINGAPORE. Thurs. The Assistant Director (Research) of the Tourist Promotion Board. Mis* Betty Lau will give a talk on "Tourism in Singapore" to members of the Singa Corps, St. John Ambulance Brigade on Sundey. May 25 at Stamford Girls' School.
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  • 55 2 10 em.-8 p.m.: French contemporary tapestnr exhibition at Singapore conference Hall, Bhenton Way. 5 p.m.: Public lecture by Professor MR.N. Prased at posttraduate lecture room. Faculty or Medicine, University of Singapore. 6epoy Lines. 7.30 pm.: Free film shows py Ministry of Culture At SeI pm.: JUrmonlca practice at
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  • 235 2 SINGAPORE. Thur* A young pilot from MalaysiaSingapore Airlines hat won the coveted medallion presented annually by the Lord Provost and Councillors of the City and Royal Burgh of Perth. Scotland, for the "best flying student for the year 1968 Second Officer. Mr. Teo
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  • 73 2 SINGAPORE. Thurs. a seven-and-a-half week course on elementary swimming for non swlmmerg will be organised bv the Adult Education Board, and the Public Swimming Club, beginning on June 9 from 530 p.m. to 7.00 p m The course will be held at the Yan Kit Swimmln*
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  • 100 2 524 gift voucher awaits the lady (circled) In this pictare. She thus becomes this week's first Eastern Sun Lucky Shopper. She is requested to call at Eastern Sun. 21-B Cantonment Road. Spore 2. during office hours to collect her prise She was "caught" by our
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  • 85 2 SINGAPORE. Thurs. A graphic design and silk screen printing course will commence on June 12 at the Cultural Centre from 7 00 p m. to 10 00 p.m. for 12 weeks. The course, organised by the .Adult Education Board will be conducted In English and
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  • 200 2 SINGAPORE, Thurs. Art exhibitions, however common they were, reflected an absolute freedom of expression, said Mr. Liu Kanf, the president of the Singapore Art Society. He was speaking at the opening ceremony of the 20th anniversary of th« society at the Victoria Memorial Hall
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  • 22 2 SINGAPORE. Thurs—There were 54 accidents, three of which were serious during the past 24 hours in the Republic, police reported
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  • 107 2 SINGAPORE. Thurs. The Department of Extramural Studieg of the University of Singapore will organise a public lecture on the "Issues in the Education for the Gifted' at the university's Nem' Lecture Theatre No. 3 on June 3 The speaker will be Dr. James F. Magary. Associate Professor
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  • 42 2 SINGAPORE. Thurs. A male youth. Ang Kian Aww. 12. had four of his right fingers smashed by the roller of a noodle factorv today while working at a Henderson Road noodle factory. He was admitted to the hospital.
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  • 349 3 WASHINGTON, Thurs. (Reuter) —President Nixon today named Judge Warren E. Burger of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington to succeed the retiring Earl Warren as Chief Justice. The President announced his intention to nominate Judge Burger in a nationwide radio and television
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  • 119 3 WASHINGTON. Thurs. (Renter) The World Bank yesterday announced a C.SS--8.800.000 loan to Malaysia for a school construction and expansion programme to provide 10.900 new students places. The loan will be for 25 years, including a 10-year grace period, with interest of 6-1/2 percent. The project
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  • 79 3 RANGOON, Thurs. (Reuter) At least 115 people have died so far in a heatwave which has struck Northern and Central Burma, according to the official newspaper Vanguard. It said 51 people, mostly children and the aged, died in Monywa In Upper Burma In the last
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  • 158 3 WASHINGTON, Thurs. (Reuter) Defence Secretary Melvin R. Laird yesterday expressed shock and disappointment over what he called a Hanoi official's cruel rejection of an appeal for names of American prisoners in the Vietnam war. Mr. Laird issued a statement directed at remarks made by Xuan Thuy,
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  • 127 3 KARACHI. Thurs. (Reuter) Police at Khanpur, West Pakistan, are making preliminary enQuires into an allegation that ex-President Ayub Khan's eldest son cheated a local landowner's wile of about 75 acres of land. Reliable sources in Rawalpindi last night confirmed press reports that the wife of
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  • 270 3 SPACE CENTER, Houston, Texas, Thurs. (UPI) Chief space physician Dr Charles A. Berry says the moon-bound crew of Apollo 10 is the healthiest of the Apollo programme but he wants the astronauts to drink more water. Berry held a private radio conversation with Thoma s
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  • 84 3 LAKE CHARLES, Louisiana, Thurs. (UPI) Bioforists are studying a rattlesnake which may prove the JJKr that two heads are better than one. The snake has two fully formedheads h c h P**" fnrm their seoarate functions of eating and inhaling. form their separ e eese suu Collefe s
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  • 390 3 *Spare His Life 9 Appeal By Kennedy Rejected LOS ANGELES. Thurs. (Reuter) Judge Herbert Walker yesterday rejected an appeal by Senator Edward Kennedy to spare the life of Sirhan Sirhan and sentenced the assassin of Robert F. Kennedy to death in the gas chamber.
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  • 177 3 WASHINGTON. Thurs. (UPI) The U S Armv admitted on Wednesdav that it was conducting open-air tests of deadly poison gases but said none had been sprayed from aircraft since March. 1968. Such open-air testing of lethal agents, the army said, had recently been conducted by
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  • 250 3 WASHINGTON, Thurs. (Reuter) A baby lamb, removed from its mother's womb on Tuesday, yesterday lived on for 14 hours before It died in an artificial womb created at the National Heart Institute in Bethesda. Maryland, near here The lamb, removed one month
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  • 69 3 TOKYO. Thurs. (UPI) Chancellor Kurt Geor* Kiesinger of West Germany on Wednesday ended his first visit to Japan designed to familiarise himself with the Asian situation by two conferences with Prime Minister Eisaku Sato. A West German Air Force 9 special plane, carrying the Chancellor and
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  • 284 4 LONDON, Thurs. (Reuter) The Commonwealth Development Corporation complained yesterday that the increased interest it has to pay for Government loans made it almost impossible to undertake new overseas projects profitably. It urged the Government to give urgent consideration to the pro- blem.
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  • 204 4 MANILA* Thurs. (UPI) Masked terrorists ridinf on six jeeps went on a shootinf spree at Angeles City in the Communist-Huk infested province of Pampanga on Wednesday night. Unconfirmed reports said four persons were killed la the firing. Fourteen others were injured. A woman
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  • 278 4 MANILA, Thurs. (UPI) A ranking Senator from the ruling Naclonalista Party defected on Wednesdav to the opposition in a bid to oppose incumbent Philinpine President Ferdinand E. Marcos. Sen. Genaro Magsaysay a younger brother of the late President Ramon Magsaysay told newsmen he boltered the
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  • 222 4 BANGKOK. Thurs (UPI) Foreifn Minister Thanat Khoman on Wednesday charged that Washington Post correspondent Stanley Karnow, barred from the country last Sunday. was "indecently hostile" to Thailand. The Foreign Office, at a news conference, handed out copies of a letter concerning one of Karnow's
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  • 270 4 PHNOM PENH. Cambodia, Thurs. (UPI) —Cambodian authorities announced on Wednesday they have smashed plans of rightwing: armed insurgents to set up a rival government and a provisional "Free Cambodia" capital in dense jungles bordering Thailand. Col. Suth Sakhan of the Royal Cambodian Army told newsmen at
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  • 92 4 PRETORIA Thurs. (Reuter) An organisation formed to stamp out mini-skirts in South Africa cabled an appeal yesterday to the Social Welfare Minister. Dr. Connie Mulder, to consider a law against "nudity on streets and beaches." The association for Public Morality and Welfare said that short
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  • 275 4 WASHINGTON, Thurs. (UPI) Japan has reservations about two of the four international economic freedoms espoused by the United States and welcomed in most other free world nations, according to Manrlce H. Stans, Secretary of Commerce. In an address prepared fdr a Midwest Trade Conference
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  • 158 4 SYDNEY Thurs. fUPI) Admirers of Australian national folk hero Ned Kellv were up in arms todav at news that mop-haired British POD singer Mick Jagger would portray their idol in a movie The cries of protest were specially loud in Glenrowan, a small sheep
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  • 39 4 TOKYO. Thurs. (Reuter) West German Chancellor Dr. Kurt Georg Kiesinger flew home last night after a fourday state visit in which Japan and West Germany fledged afresh to contribute politically and economically TO the stability of Asia.
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  • 45 4 SAFI, Morocco: Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl carries one of the Jars which will be used to hold supplies of food and water for the crew of the "RA" Papyrus boat. ITie voyage is slated to begin on May 23. UPI UPI radiophoto.
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  • 269 4 BANGKOK. Than. (UPI) Free world Foreign Ministers, their discussions completed on security prospects for South-east Asia after the Vietnam war, turned their attention today to hopes and plans of ending the difficult and costly conflict. US. Secretary of State William P Roger# met
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  • 386 4 SAIGON. Thurs. (Reuter) The death toll of North \ietnamese on Hamburger Hill two miles from the Laos border has risen to about 500 with the discovery of more bodies, a I S. spokesman said today. The corpses of 34 more North Vietnamese were found
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  • 176 4 THE HAGUE. Thurs. (Reuter) Dutch Foreign Minuter Joseph Luns said here yesterday Holland had stressed to Indonesia that acceptance of the forthcoming act of free choice in West Irian would depend on Its credibility. Dr. Luns was speaking at a press conference after his
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  • 73 4 TOKYO. Thurs. (UPI) Three Italians, believed to be part of a swindling syndicate operating in South-east Asia, were arrested yesterday In Western Japan, police revealed yesterday. They were charged with talking unsuspecting Japanese Into buying cheap suiting materials from Japan six times higher than
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  • 64 4 RANGOON. Thurs. (Reuter) Right-wing rebels removed the hearts and livers of seven of their victims during a recent attack on a village in Wakema township, about 40 miles south-west of Rangoon, according to press reports. The rebels also looted cash and Jewellerv worth £2OO and burned
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  • 523 4 SAIGON, Thurs. (UPI) After more than a month of bargaining, President Nguyen Van Thieu and six South Vietnamese political parties have reached final agreement over the formation of a new political alliance. The purpose of the alliance la to unite anti-Communist political factions behind
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  • 128 4 SYDNEY. Thurs. (UPI) Another 24-hour strike was called yesterday by 100 000 members o* 20 unions In New South Wales. It went in effect today, minutes after transport workers resumed work following the balling out of jail of an Irish Communist by a Scottish gabbler
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  • 229 4 VIJAYAWADA, India. Thurs. (Reuter) At least 50 people have died in 18 villages of one district alone in four days of cyclones which have lashed coastal area of Southern India, an official said here late last night. Officials in Hyderabad, capi* tal of
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  • 59 4 JAKARTA. Thurs. (Reuter) A Criminal Court In Bodnowoso. East Java, has sentenced a 14-year-old boy to 13 years In jail. Indonesia's Antara News Agency ha* reported The boy. named Titus, ■was found guilty of murdering the of a chemists st"v last year. The motive
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  • 205 5 M weekly pictorial feature by the Eastern Sun based on the photographs taken by our cameramen at official functions, parties, exh i bit ions, shopping centres etc. MRS. D. D. Sachdev (left), wife of the president of the Indian Chamber of Commerce, at a cocktail reception
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  • 412 5 SALISBURY, Thurs. (Reuter) Mr. Lan Smith's government yesterday promised Rhodesia a new form of political and geographic apartheid with political power forever held by the European minority. The proposed new Independence constitution contained in a 21-page White Paper was denounced by the government's opponents and
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  • 219 5 UNITED NATION 8. Thurs. (UPI) The Big Four ambassadors met for three hours yesterday and reported "progress' in their ninth session seeking a middle East peace formula. But they were unwilling to say in what areas the progress was made. While Assistant
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  • 247 5 MOSCOW. Thurs (UPI) Mongolia yesterday denounced Mao Tsetung and supporters as traitors to the interest of the Chinese people and the cause of socialism." Prime Minister Yumjagiyn Tsedenbal said China was doing damage to the world Communist movement by pursuing an anti-S ov iet policv
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  • 326 5 LONDON, Thurs. (Reuter) A number of trade union leaders walked out of a meeting with Prime Minister Mr. Harold Wilson yesterday called to thrash out a formula for curbing wildcat strikes. The crucial meeting was to hear the general council of Trade
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  • 307 5 TEL AVIV, Thurs. (UPI) Israeli armoured forces invaded Jordan yesterday in a punitive raid against Arab guerillas. Israeli jetflghters repulsed an Egyptian air attack near the Suei Canal. A military spokesman a "mobile" force of undisclosed size crossed the Wadi Araba truce line and blew up
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  • 46 5 KARACHI. Thurs (Reuter* Kidnappers who carry off children to brothels or slave labour camps now face the death penalty. Pakistan's Mllitarv Government has announced According to local newspapers organised gangs are carrying off young girls to brothels and abducting boys for forced labour.
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  • 454 6 RHODESIAN Premier lan Smith has taken the final plunge and consolidated means to set his country firmly on the road to apartheid, emulating the racist principles of neighbouring South Africa. In short, the constitution will mean that the 225,000 whites of Rhodesia will rule over four million
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  • 388 6 SEATO has had a new lease of life. That Is what Thai Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman said as he came out of the final session of the SEATO Ministerial Council meeting in Bangkok which concluded Wednesday. Did Thanat mean that a shot of adrenalin had been
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  • 596 6  -  By Emelita Gutierrez MANILA, Thu r s (UPI) There is a boom in backyard business in the Philippines. Cottage industries fib r ecraft, embroidery fiber craft, embroidery work, bamboo and rattan craft have shot up from virtually nowhere to become a major Philippine export. Philippine
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  • 16 6 There is nothinr either rood or bad. but thinking makes it so. William Shakespeare.
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  • 106 6 LETTERS... MY attention has just been I drawn to a press release from the Ministry of Finance sometime ago that the Government also requires economical rents from Its employees but they wou'.d do it by painless extraction which shows consideration for its staff, i.e. that when the present
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  • 408 6  -  by Ginger Sinnigen AGANA, Guam, Thurs. (UPI) The President of Marianas District Legislature said recently Micronesians have not yet decided on their future political status. Vicente Santos told UPI shortly he left for Washington there has been no overwhelming sentinment for a Micronesian congressional commission
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  • 328 6  -  By GILBERT SEDEON PARIS. Thurs (Reuter) The Vietnam peace negotiators meet here today for their 18th full-scale session with delegates retting down to asking each other specific questions on the shape of a political settlement. They key issue at the moment is who would organise
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  • 89 6 SAIGON. Thurs. (ATP) A Saigon newspaper reported today that Mr. Lawrence Walsh. Joint Chief of the American delegation to the Paris talks on Vietnam, would soon replace Mr. Ellsworth Bunker as American Ambassador in Saigon The "CAP Tien" did not cite any source for its storv
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  • 776 6  -  (Froa Sin Chew Jit Poh THE Israeli authorities have disclosed that the plan for resolving the Middle East situation is now under discussion by the four powers in Washington and New York According to the Israeli Foreign Minister, any plan agreed upon
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  • 324 6  -  By CLEMENT BRAISE GENEVA, Thurs. (AFP) Top envoys from the world's rich and poor notions hove failed after a fortnight's deliberations to find ways of co-operating wore closely# They were attending a meeting here of the United Nations Trade and Development Conference (UNCTAD), which has Just
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  • 73 6 JAKARTA. Thurs. (AFP> A diamond gravel washing plant will be set up in the Bandjar sub-district of South Borneo by the end of this year. Antara News Agency reported today. The government owned plant, with a washing capacity of 90.000 tons a year, would operate a 25-square
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  • 438 6  -  By ROBERT EVANS MOSCOW. Thurs. (Renter) The Soviet Union today unveiled its TV- 144 supersonic airliner to the world press and announced that more of the giant 120-seater craft were already in production. The plane was demonstrated at Moscow s Sheremetyevo international airport five months after
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  • 125 6 TOYKO, Thurs. (ATP) A Soviet-Japanese joint shipping i s being projected, it was reported today. An agreement has been reached between Soviet maritime agencies and YamashitaShin Nihon Steamship Company of Japan to form the company on a 50-50 basis a shipping industry source reported. It will be
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 73 7 THE chairman and representative director of Eisal Co. Ltd., Mr. Toyoji Naito (above) one of Japan's leading pharmaceutical companies will arrive in Singapore on Sunday on a familiarisation tour. Mr. Naito's visit is preceded by the arrival of Mrs. Y. Takei, director of the Export Department of Eisal Company Ltd.
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    • 160 7 LONDON, Thurs. (Reuter) British funds, as much as one point down in some Issues, featured a generally dull market. Fears of further curbs on the money supply through the gilt edged market was the dominant factor, with speculation on a UK bank rate increase and US
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    • 377 7 TOKYO, Thurs. (UPI) South Korea asked Japan for its strong co-operation to ease the nation s trade in balance at the last day of the two-day meeting of the Japan-Korea Co-operation Committee which opened here on Tuesday. The South Korean delegation
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    • 89 7 TOKYO. Thurs. (UPI) Japan-China trade circles announced yesterday they expected about the same volume of trade as last year will be agreed between Japan and Red China if the remaining negotiations on steel at the trade fair in Kwangchow is as successful as last
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    • 86 7 TOKYO. Thurs. (UPl)—The Bank of Tokyo yesterday announced it has ootained a US$75 million loan from the U.S. Export-Import Bank to finance import of raw cotton from the U.S. this year. The money will be used to purchase about 600,000 bales of
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    • 15 7 SINGAPORE. Thurs. The tin price for today was $615 per picul, down $0,124.
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    • 1642 7  -  By Our Market Reporter SINGAPORE, Thurs. The market, still restricted to trading in the Singapore trading room of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore today, sustained yesterday's recovery efforts with a further rise in share prices. However, although conditions were steady,
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    • 66 7 The British merchant banking group, Samuel Montagu Co., it linked with an Australian consortium in the establishment of Capel Court Corporation, a new Australian merchant bank. The Australian Interests are headed by the Melbourne sharebrokinf Arm of JB. Were and Son, and the consortium
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    • 189 7 NEW YORK. Thurs. (UPI) Stocks finished higher yesterday after dropping sharply in the two previous session. Trading wag active. Progress on the Vietnam peace front a recent market Influence was likely to slow up until President Nixon meets South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thleu on
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    • 288 7 SINGAPORE. Thurs. June first grade rubber buyers closed t t 5 p.m in Singspore today at 69 cents per lb., down one quarter of a cent from the previous close. The tone of the msrket was dull Bearish press reports and lower London advices combined to reduce
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    • 62 7 HONG KONG. Thurm. (UFI) —Money Quotations: HK $6,090 per U.S dollar. HK $6.***** per U.S. dollar TT HK $14.46 per pound sterling HK $322.5 per tael of gold 94.5 per cent fineness. HK $163.0 per 10,000 Japanese yens HK $134 5 per 100 Philippine pesos buyers. HK
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    • 55 7 NEW YORK. Thurs. (UPT) Rubber futures closed unchanged to 30 point® lower on the New York Commodity Exchange yesterday with no sales (Bid) (Ask) July 26.20 26.70 Sept. 25.60 26.30 Nov 25.15 25.60 Jan. (TO) 24.95 25.30 Mai 24.80 25.25 May 24.70 25.10 Locally. No. 2 RSS wa®
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    • 124 7 NEW YORK. Thurs. lUPI) Gold prices closed mixed In quiet trading yesterday on world markets. In London, gold remained unchanged at the morning fixing but gained 24 cents for a second fixing of 43.45 dollars per troy ounce. In Zurich, gold remained unchanged at 43.50 dollars.
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    • 37 7 NEW YORK. Thurs. fUPT) —Dow Jones closinf averages cr the New York stock exch rgs: 30 Industrials 951.78 20 Ralls 237.26 15 Utilities 131.26 65 Stocks 325.08 40 Bends 73.56 Commodity futures index 140.04
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    • 270 7 SINGAPORE. Thurs.—The fo'lowing is a berthing list released by the Port of Singapore Authority for May 23; DEPARTURE: Godowns Vessels 1/2 Alemannia 5 Setiabudhi 6 7 Bergen Maru 8 9 Himeji Maru 10/11 Ushio Maru 13/14 Naumberg 15/16 Pando Cove 18 Jalazad N W. 3/4 Hua Li
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    • 404 7 81.NQAPOH& Stock extbinit aoJd and other price# officially Usted at tba clow i t butl new INDUSTRIALS ACMA Ben C6 B. 2 15 s 2.10 2.18 Borneo Bhd Bouatead Camel Plywood C. Sugar CD Chemical Co Cycle Carriage I»BS Dtin lop E. "melting XD E A.I
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    • 99 7 SINGAPORE. Thurs. 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 TT. or OD. ready: Deutsche Marks $77.1125; Holland Guilders $84.6300; Swiss Francs $71.4400; Belgian Francs $6.1575; French
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    • 52 7 (Managers Prtoea) 1st Malayan t. 87 *nd Malayan 2.07 ■<rd Malayan 1.26 The Commerce Ind. 1.02 112 The savins lund 1.13 1.23 M. Inve«t Nnd XD 1-3A 1 45 1st Hon* Kong 14A 1 54» 2nd Hon* Kong Sterling T'oiu XD 1 00 1 06* 6 4 (•Hone
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    • 104 7 SINGAPORE, Thurs. The noon price* at the Sinjapore Chinese Produce Exchange today are:— Buret seller Coronal Oil (FO B.) Bulk 49 00 Coconut Oil (FOB,) Drum 51 50 MUfd Copra 81.00 vtuntuk While Pepper (FO B) 96% NXW. 127.50 Sarawak White Pepper 125.00 (FOB) Sarawak special Black Pepper (F-O-B.)
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    • 99 7 LONDON. Thurs. (AFP) The British steel industry yesterday received sovernment approval for a five per cent average price rise. The increase is expected to trigger off a round of price increases throughout British industry. This may harm the country's competitive position since 80 per cent
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    • 438 7 i VKK1VAL8: 6-00 im BOO am 10-15 am. 10B am l.io p-m. 2.25 p.m 125 p.m. 0.25 p-m. 0.35 p.m 0.05 p.m. 4.40 p.m 145 pm. 5.20 p.m. 5.25 p.m. &4« fja ISA ML029 Koala unipar >t>A ML11V Kaala .umpor. ASA ML121 Koala Lompor. 484 ML005 Penang, Ipoh.
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    • 1161 8  -  By Shota Ushio TOKYO, Thurs. (UPI) Japan, last of the great whaling nations, continues to hunt the monsters of the deep for one reason. The Japanese are almost the only people in the world who eot whale meat. Only Japan and the Soviet Union
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    • 378 8 WASHINGTON, Thurs. New studies by an American scientist indicate that apes and monkeys are incapable of making the sounds that humans use in speech. The results appear to contradict a prevailing belief that human speech is generated solely by organs that evolved for
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    • 107 8 SINGAPORE. Wed. Th» Singapore Boys Town will hold a talentime next month to raise funds for the Boys Tov-n Old Boys Association's Scholarship. It is held in conjunction with the 10th anniversary of the Boyg Town Old Boys Association and the Republic's 150 th Anniversary. Some
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    • 93 8 SINGAPORE. Thurs. Eight boys from the Boys Town English School and the St. Joseph's Trade School, Buklt Tlmah. have been awarded the Boy* Town Old Boyg Association* Scholarship this year. They are: Bernard Teo. Michael Jude. Wee Chwee Kow. Llm Sun Mui. Tan Nguan Hua Tony Tan
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    • 135 8 SINGAPORE Thurs. The ninth annual safety first quiz organised by the Singapore Junior Safety First Council will be held in June and July. This quiz which is sponsored by Shell i$ one of the Council's activities for th« year to promote safety first among the Republic's student*.
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    • 151 8 BONN. Thurs. (DaD) The most accidents at work occur on Monday and Friday in the Federal Republic of Germany This tendency more accidents on the weekend and at the beginning of the week was again confirmed by the third accident prevention report of the
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    • 517 8  -  By Ramesh C. Pande NEW DELHI, Thurs. (UPI) A young Indian archaeologist believes he may have unlocked one of the secrets of India's oldest civilisation. M.V.N. Krishna Rao. 38. gives credit to God and his own wife in his work to decipher the
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    • 81 8 AMY By Jack Tipprf "Rosemary, that jelly definitely clashes with your dress." DOTTY By Buford Tune K, I'LL MISS WiM SO— T: NNCM'T BE SHARING HIS SMILES OR HIS WITH HIM WV^ 9t> I WONT HAVE V TO SHARE THE COLD J > x r SPAGHETTI AND AT BALLS EVERV
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  • 963 9 ON May 23, 1969, the Federal Republic of Germany has been in existence twenty years. Economic reconstruction went ahead at a fast rate one of the reasons being the favourable situation created by the currency reform in the year 1948. In the world at large, the
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  • 300 9 SIXTEEN years after the coming into power of the Hitler dictatorship and four years after World War II Germany again became a member of the family of democratic nations. On May 23. 1949. the Parliamentary Council In Bonn could state in Its
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    • 125 9 One of Germany's leading producers of Industrial and Domestic rubber goods For your requirements of Transmission Betting Solid Sheeting Conveyor Belting Printer's Blankets Matting Industrial Rubber Gloves Insertion Sheeting Surgical Rubber Gloves General purpose sheeting All types of Industrial and Domestic Synthetic sheeting Pica* consult \rajy) MOUTR,E (PRIVATE) LTD n
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    • 804 10 Ipoh Race THE PERAK DERBY Class 1 Div. 1 li Miles Chai Kian 9.06 November Sun 8.12 Treble J 8.10 You Asked For It 8.04 Castle Command 8.03 Joint Command 8.03 Viva Ipoh 8.00 Prince Dino 7.13 Top Power 7.12 Nonyellan 7.11 Huang Ho 7.10
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    • 852 10 Raee 1 2.00 p.m. MARA CI. 5 2F Scurry (Catchweights 12 S D 1. Red Rocket (10 lb. penalty) 8 2. Blue Jeans (8 lb. penalty) 11 3. Sarima (8 lb. penalty) 3 4. Kedidi lb. penalty) 5. Grey Grenadier (3 lb. penalty)
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    • 442 10  -  By R. NATHAN In the 20th minute Raffles' Kim Siong beat the St. John's defenders and as he was about to take a shot at goal, he was tripped by Brian Cooke. A penalty was awarded and Kumar made no mistake with it. Half
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    • 140 10 PALM BEACH GARDENS. Florida. Thurs (UPI) Gary Player, who finished second by one stroke to Gardner Dickinson in last weekend's Colonial National invitation tournament and earned US? 14.000 hds moved Into fifth place on thj« year's golf money winning list, it was announced yesterday bv
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    • 557 10 NEW YORK, Thurs. (UPI-Reuter) —Jerry Kenney singled home Horace Clarke from second with two out in the 11th inning last night to give the New York Yankees their seventh straight victory, a 6-5 triumph over the Oakland Athletics. Bill Robinson opened the inning with his
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    • 303 10 NORTHAMPTON, England, Thurs. (Reuter) Graysom Shillingford, 24-year-old West Indian fast bowler, shot out Ave Northamptonshire batsmen for eight runs in 13 balls here yesterday. Northamptonshire appeared headed for a big first Innings score on the opening day of the three-day match with 183
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    • 114 10 OSAKA. Japan, Thurs. (Reuter) Hisao Minami of Japan won the vacant Orient welterweight title here last right by stopping Filipino Ravalo of the Philippines in the 10th round of a scheduled 12-round boxing match. The fight was stopped two minute® five second* after the 10th round
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    • 228 10 SINGAPORE, Thurs. The Singapore Amateur Swimming Association have awarded a swimming scholarship to Singapore's "Golden Girl" Patricia Chan for being the 'Sportswoman of the Year' for the past two years. This was decided at the SASA meeting held at the Singapore Chinese Swimming Club, Amber Road,
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    • 54 10 SINGAPORE. Thurs. The Methodist Girls' School senior team won the City District Netball title when they beat National Junior College by 29-6 in the final held at the Rangoon Road Secondary School on Tuesday. The MGS junior team also emerged champions. Runnersup were the Convent of
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    • 54 10 TOKYO. Thurs. (Reuter) The visiting Middlesex Wanderers All-Star amateur British soccer team ended a Japan tour with one victory, one loss and two draws after they drew with the Mitsubishi Heavy lndusty club team 3 —3 in Tokyo yesterday. Hajftime scores in the fourth and last match for
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    • 76 10 TODAY Singapore Town: 2.04 a.m. (7.9 ft-); 9.05 a.m. (1.4 ft.); 4.10 p.m. (6.3 ft); 11.13 (4.5 ft.). Naval Dockyard: 2.09 a.m. (8.9 ft); 8.42 a.m. (2.2 ft); 4.16 p.m. (8 ft.); 9.23 p.m. (5.6 ft.). TOMORROW Singapore Town: 2.54 a.m. (7.4 ft); 956 a.m. (1.8 ft);
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    • 350 11 SINGAPORE, Thurs The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Enche A. Rahim bin Ishak. who is also the President of the Singapore Amateur Athletic Association, urged school athletes to join athletic clubs a s soon as they leave school. In this way,
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    • 320 11 NEWCASTLE, England, Thurs. (Reuter)—Newcastle United won through to the final of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup last night amid riots and fighting among fans who invaded the pitch during the home side's 2-0 victory over Glasgow Rangers. Twenty-two people were injured. Police with dogs had
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    • 181 11 ESSEN. West Germany, Thurs. (Reuter) West Germany erushed the amateur Cyprus team 12-0 the third biggest victory in their soccer history in Group 7 of the World Cup qualifying competition here last night. Two goals up in five minutes, the West Germans led 7-0 at halftime
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    • 115 11 CAPETOWN. Thurs (Reuter) A second-half rally failed to save the British Barbarians Rugby Unlen team from defeat here yesterday by Southern Universities their third In succession on their South African tour. The Universities won by 16 points (twe goals and two penalty goals) te 14 (one
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    • 57 11 MOSCOW. Thurs. (Reuter) —r Champion Tigran Petrosyan and challenger Boris Spassky drew the 15th game in their world chess title series here yesterday. A draw was agreed on the 20th move. The score now stands at 7i ocints to both olsyers. the winner will be the first to
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    • 259 11 SINGAPORE Thurs. Twelve local teanv? and one from Johore will compete In the men'i section of the Singapore AAA third annual open relays championships to be held at the Farrer Park Athletic Centre, on Sunday at 2 30 p m Singapore District Athletic Association
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    • 142 11 LONDON, Thurs. (Reuter) Young Pakistan all-rounder YounU Ahmed heads the batting aggregates in the English County cricket championship with 383 runs from seven Innings Ahmed 21. now In his fourth season with Surrey, also topj the batting averages at 127.66. boosted considerably by four not
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    • 325 11 FRENCH OPEN PARIS. Thurs (Reuter) Australian professionals nil the first four place* in the men s seedings for the French Open tennis championships which bef.n at the Roland Garros Stadium here next Monday Wimbledon ehampion Rod Laver ia top-seeded for the event He is followed by
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    • 111 11 DALLAS. Texas. Thurs. (Reuter) Two goals by world cup star Geoff Hurst steered West Ham United to a 3-1 victory over Dundee United here in the international cup soccer competition organised by the North American League Dundee, representing Dallas, took a 1-0 lead at half-time
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    • 176 11 SINGAPORE, Thun. Shintaro Fuji ef Japan who ha s thrilled local fane with his bouts recently, will team up with Negro Jack Claybourne agams* King Kong and Steve Richard in an hour long non-stop tag-team wmtlmg match ft the Q»y World Stadium on sui»4«yTail if tin
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    • 395 11 T ONDON, Thurs. (Reuter) Twenty-seven wickets fell in an extraordinary day's cricket on a sticky pitch at Brentwood, Essex, yesterday. Essex bowled out championship leaders Kent for 81 to take a first Innings lead of 50. but collapsed disastrously in their second innings to
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    • 259 11 CupWinners'Cup BASLE. Thurs (Reuter) Slovan Bratislava last night became the first East European football team to win a top European competition when they defeated FC Barcelona of Spain 3-2 In the final of the Cup Winners' Cup here. In a hard fought contest at St Jakob's Stadium.
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    • 115 11 LA PLATA. Argentina, Thurs (Reuter) World football champion s Estudiantes of Argentina clinched the 1369 South American Club titie here with a 2 —o victory over Nacional of Uruguay. The victory both goals were scored In the first half gave the Argentines a 3 —B sggregate triumph
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    • 185 11 LONDON. Thurs. (Jleuter) Australian Rod Laver emphasised his right to be called the world's number one tennis player when he beat fellow-countryman Ker Roaewall 8-6. fi-0* in the of a £5.000 professional tournament hare last night. The left-handed Laver won the first prize of £2.500
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    • 182 11 TENDERS P.W.D. SINGAPORE TENDERS are invited from P.W.D. Registered Contractors for the following Werks:— The Construction of Watten Estate Public Park at Dunearn Road. All Building Contractors. Cloetßg Date: 6-4-69 at 18 a.m. Construction of Nurseries alone Dunearn Road (Phase 3). AH Building Contractors. Closing Date: 8-6-69 at 10 a.m.
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    • 1050 11 IMMH' roOT TV and R i i. I TODAY (CHANNFL SI P.M. 300 Opening Announce ments in all Languages and Morning Star; 3.20 Health in the Home (Malay Version): 3.45 It's Happening in Singapore (Chinese Version) (Repeat*; 400 Be Our Guest (Tamil Version'; 4 10 Scarlet Hill: 455 Close Down:
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  • 746 12 No. 4 Man's Trial Continues Monday By MARTIN LIM SINGAPORE, Thurs. The trial of four men, on a ehorge of conspiring to bribe o high-ranking Police officer not to raid 20 premises carrying on 4-Digit activities, took a dramatic turn today when three of them pleaded
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  • 326 12  -  By Lars-Erik Nelson MOSCOW. Thurs. (Reuter) Pyotr Yaklr, son of one of the most famous Soviet generaLs killed in the Stalin purges. has appealed to the United Nations commission on human rights to defend human rights in the Soviet Union. Mr Yaklr 46.
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  • 199 12 LONDON, Thurs. (UPI) The Malaysian government has requested Britain and Australia to supply arms for three new infantry battalions, British officials said today. The Malaysian government made the request early this week, and officials said it is being "actively" considered in London. The
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  • 47 12 CAPETOWN, Thurs (Reuter) The condition of Dr. Philip Blaiberg. the world's longest surviving heart transplant patient, was todav reported "under control" at the Groote Schuur Hospital here. Dr. Blaiberg was re-admit-ted to hospital last Friday after suffering two bouts of breathlessness in one week.
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  • 66 12 BERKELEY. California. Thurs. (Reuter) A national guard corporal threw down his rifle, removed his helmet and cried "I cant stand it anymore" while fending off student demonstrators at bayonet point here, a Guard spokesman disclosed today. Military police restrained Corporal Michael Feliclano. a 26-year-old truck driver in
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  • 72 12 KATMANDU. Thurs <UPI> Some 300 Indian travel agents from Asian countries resolved Tuesday to urge governments concerned to abolish travel restrictions between India Pakistan. Ceylon and Afghanistan. The travel agents during their 18th annual five-day convention here decided that governments must liberalise visa regulations to promote
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  • 162 12 BANGKOK, Thurs. (Heater) —The United States has no intention of withdrawing from Asia after settlement has been reached in Vietnam, high ranking State Department sources said in Bangkok today. Fears were expressed privately by some nations at the South East Asian Treaty Organisation (SEATO)
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  • 143 12 SINGAPORE. Thurs The Director of National Library. Mrs. Hedwlg Anuar announced today that the closing date for entries for the Children's Costume Competition and Parade has been extended to May 24. The competition Is open to all children of kindergarten and primary school age. Mrs.
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  • 56 12 SINGAPORE, Thurs. Dr. Lee Chiaw Meng, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education will declare open the Fifth Industrial Safety Seminar tomorrow at 4.30 p.m. The Industrial safety Seminar will be held at the Mobil Refinerv Singapore Sdn. Berhad Jurong Industrial Estate. The theme of the Industrial
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  • 159 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. A big rush lor contraceptive was reported today at all family clinics In Kuala Lumpur when they opened alter a lapse of nine days due to the disturbances. The Public Relations Officer of the National Family Planning Board. Enche Hasslm bin Yunus today assured
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  • 243 12 TOKYO. Thurs (UPI) A Japanese diplomat and author, who lost his Job because of his undiplomatic book about fellow Japanese, returned home on Wednesday. Foreign Minister Kiichl Aichi announced on March 28 his decision to Are Ichiro Kawasaki, then Ambassador to Argentina, for
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  • 92 12 SINGAPORE. Thurs. The Department of Extra Mural Studies of '.he University of S gapore is offering a 12lecture course on '"Knowing Our Singapore." commencing on Tuesday. June 3. The co-ordinator of the couise is Mr. G G. Thomson. The course is designed to meet
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  • 863 12 SINGAPORE, Thurt. Mr. E.G. Waller, President of the Singapore Employers' Federation today expressed confidence that the Republic would absorb the effects of the British pull-out in its unimpeded advance towards full employment and greater prosperity. He noted that the bold and determined efforts undertaken
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  • 135 12 SINGAPORE. Thurs. A 31-year-old man. Tan Cheng Soon, of Kolam Ayer Lane, who was suffering from insomnia fell to his death from his fiat in Commonwealth Crescent on March 27, this year, the Coroner's Court was told. Tan Tye Cheng. 21. the younger
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  • 45 12 HANOVER. West Germany. Thurs. (Reuter) Captain Flint, a three-year-old penguin at Hanover Zoo. has been given a wooden lpg His own leg was amputated because of an inflamation. but his keeper reports that he is now as lively as ever.
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  • 43 12 SINGAPORE. Thurs.—A baby show to be held at the Jco Seng Community Centre on Mav 25 at 9 a m. has already received 80 entries. Che Aspah Ghazali, wife of the Political Secretary. Ministry of Education, will give away the prizes
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