Eastern Sun, 3 July 1969

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  • 22 1 Eastern Sun SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 3 No. 1046 Thursday* 3 July 1969. ft MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cento
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  • 486 1 WASHINGTON, Wed. (UPh Sen. George McGovern, of South Dakota, revealed he held a secret, day-long meeting with the chief negotiators for North Vietnam and the National Liberation Front in Paris last month. McGovem said he found the enemy negotiators adamant on
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  • 103 1 SYDNEY. Wed. (Reuter) Hundreds of foreign birds smuggled into Australia on a flicht from Singapore were seized and destroyed by customs officers at Sydney airport today. A total of 448 birds of African and American origin were found in four large suitcases containing specially constructed cages,
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  • 136 1 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) British Minister Lord Shepherd todav appealed to the Commonwealth press not to hurt Commonwealth unity or aggravate racial problems by destructive criticism. He was opening a two-day conference of the Commonwealth Press Union composed of owners and editors from newspapers and news agencies throughout
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  • 119 1 JAKARTA. Wed. (AFP) —When Jimmv the Orang Clan emigrated from Indonesia to the United States yesterday, he was accompanied by a letter of introduction from Jakarta Governor Major General Ali Sadikin. The letter said; "Even I am on® of God's creatures but a member of a dying race,
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  • 265 1 THE combined Police-Military Display at Jalan Besar Stadium tonight will provide some thrills and spills Singapore audiences have never seen before. The highlight of the evenine will be "Platoon in Attack" which demonstrates a real life situation of an attack in which the ultimate
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  • 227 1 WASHINGTON, Wed. (UPI) Secretary of Slate William P. Rogers announced today the "immediate resumption of diplomatic rela- tions" with Cambodia. Rogers told a news conference he regarded the resumption of relations between the two countries as "a step forward in the cause of peace in South- east
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  • 119 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. The general situation throughout West Malaysia was today reported to be calm except for certain areas in Selangor and Malacca where nine people were killed recently in separate incidents. The Malaysian Folice reported a case of arson, a case of attempted arson and two stone
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  • 52 1 THE Sarawak See Hua Daily News in Kuchmg and Sibu was today suspended for a period of two weeks. The suspension was made by the Registrar of Printing Presses in Sarawak The permit for the printing of the daily, suspended with immediate effect was made under the printing
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  • 340 1 UNITED NATIONS, Wed, (Reuter) Israel faced fresh attacks in the Security Council today, from Arab states following a big four warning to the Jewish state against taking any steps that might alter the status of Jerusalem. Two Arab states Iraq and Lebanon another Moslem country.
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 73 2 A seminar on Experience of Major Administrative Reforms for Development, organised by the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE) in cooperation with the United Nations Office of Technical Cooperation and the United Na- tions Public Administration division, which opened at Sala Santitham.
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  • 259 2 THE clinical meeting of Medical Unit II scheduled for Tuesday, July 8 at 8.15 pjn. will include presentations on "A case of Insulinoma presenting as a psychiatric problem" by Dr. Lim Pin; "Cases of heart block treated with permanent pacing" by Dr. C. S. Toh and
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  • 58 2 A 26-YEAR-OLD man, Quek Yow Choon. was jailed for a cay and fined $l5O or one month's jail by the Ninth magistrate. Mr. E.C. Foenander yesterday for stealing a brassiere. Quek admitted committing the offence by stealing the bra *rom the master of the "Chastxne Maersk"
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  • 450 2 THE n e w 1 y elected Chairman of the Institute of Materials Handling (Singapore Division), Mr. N. D. Holt, has said the Institute had an important role to play in contributing to the Government's efforts to match increased incomes with increased productivity.
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  • 112 2 A TELECOMS technician, Tham Poh Lint collapsed only 60 feet away from his flat in Lim Liak Street when he was robbed and fatally stabbed. This was the story told to the Assistant State Coroner, Mr. Leong Keng Thai at the inquiry yesterday.
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  • 231 2 A SCHOOL-TEACHER, Chin Yong Eng yesterday identified in Court a former student, Tan Joon Teng as one of those who assaulted the principal of Sin Min High School, Chew Peng Leng. Chin, told the court the Incident occurred following the dismissal of three students
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  • 188 2 Ex-Constable Gets Nine Months For House Breaking EX-POLICE Constable Arthur Martin Jalleh a doghandler. was jailed for nine months by the Eighth Magistrate Mr. Francis Remedios yesterday for housebreaking on September 3 last year at Cassia Drive. Jalleh, In the police force for thirteen years, In his defence said that
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  • 208 2  -  By K. S. SIDHU THE bead of the Trade Division of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mr. P. Groot highly praised the quality of Singapore manufactured products yesterday and urged local businessmen to maket them in Denmark. Mr. Groot told newsmen he was
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  • 38 2 THE Cairnhill Community will be having i: s annual bird singing competition on July 13 it the Cairnhill Community Centre. The M.P for Cairnhill. Mr. Lim Kim San will be present to witness the contest.
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  • 132 2 The Judicial committee of Britain's Privy Council has dismissed an appeal against a police Inspector charged under Malaysia's Prevention of Corruption Act. The Federal Court of Malaysia and a sessions court at Batu Pahat had already acquitted Inspector P. Yuvaraj of corruptly accepting $250
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  • 130 2 LOCAL disc artistes are getting increasing support from local audiences. Yesterday, another international recording: label, Polyrlor released an EP disc featuring one of the top local sinners, Miss Chang Siao Ying. The disc is released through Xanyang Radio Company (Pte) Limited A f a
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  • 87 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Malaysian and Bntish officials Ibis morning had very genial Iriendlv talks" cn how the ft 184 million economic aid promised by Britain to off-set *he eliect s of her military wlthdtowal could fit in with Malaysia's new economic policy. After the morning's session
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  • 60 2 A FORMER postal employee Mohd. All bin Mohamed yesterday failed in his appeal to ♦iiA High Court against a lower court sentence of 12 months' imprisonment Mohd. Ali. who conducted his own appeal against sentence pleaded to Mr. Justice Kulasekaram to reduce his sen'ence. Mohd. All was convicted
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  • 43 2 A Penang school girl has reported to police that she had been raped by her stepfather. The alleged incident took pi r on S lOday night while she was reading in her room. Police have detained a man for questioning
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  • 65 2 A YOUTH. Lee Sc-k Boon, who was sentence o three years' imprisonment by a lower cjurt today had his appeal against sentence dismissed by the High Court. Lee was convicted by the iower court for voluntarily causing hurt for the purpose of extortion. In dismissing his appeal sentence.
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  • 35 2 THE Malaysian National Re» gistration Department has issued more than 30.000 Malaysian citizenship cer.ificates la Sobah A spokesman from the deF?r*ment added that 379.009 i'entity cards had also been ir«ued in hp state.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 68 2 .SPORE DIARY 9 a.m. 6 p.m.: "Home Safety Exhibition" by National Safety First Council at Vicirria Memorial Hall, Empress Place. 1 pm. 2 p.m Rotary Club of Singapore West's weekly luncheon at Hollandsche (Hutch) Club. Camden Park cff Adam Road. 2 p.m.: Semi-finals of the Ninth Annual Safety First Quiz
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  • 386 3 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Wed. (UPI) Gov. Nelson Rockefeller received a warm welcome from several hundred thousand Haitians Tuesday, then met for 75 minutes with Haitian President-for-Life Francois Duva- lier. Rockefeller afterward described the talks as "wonderful" Duvalier delighted the crowd of about 75.000 which had packed
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  • 142 3 WASHINGTON. Wed. (Reuter> Thirty Civil Rights demonstrators from four deep south states sat down in the Attorney General's offices today and vowed not to leave "until we see some black faces behind these desks." The demonstrators said they will camp in the ornate carpeted offices until
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  • 87 3 NEW YORK. Wed. (Reuter) Twenty-four beauty queens from Europe. Asia and Africa arrived here by air overnight for the annual Miss Universe contest at Miami Beach later this month. They represent Austria. Belgium, Congo (Kinshasa). Denmark. England. F inland. France. Greece. Holland. India. Ireland, Israel, Italv,
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  • 193 3 WASHINGTON, Wed. (UPI) The government announced Tuesday the award of USS2.B million worth of contracts for studies of possible new birth control devices. The 66 contract recipients will conduct research in four major areas, including male contraception, and in the social sciences,
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  • 248 3 WASHINGTON, Wed. (UPI President Nixon's choice for the number two job in the U-S. Disarmament Agency said Tuesday the U.S. Minuteman missiles "could be part of a first-strike capability," and "the Russians may consider them so." Chairman J. William Fulbright of the Senate Foreign Relations
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  • 143 3 MONTEVIDEO, Wed. (AFP) The clandestine National Workers' Confederation called tonight for a general strike throughout Uruguay In defiance of the state of emergency clamped on thp country last week. The confederation also called on the workers to attend meetings and street demonstrations which could lead to
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  • 133 3 FULLERTON, Calif. Wed. (UPI) A sophisticated Air Defence System that will stretch from Norway to Turkey to protect western Europe from air attack was unveiled Tuesday. The electronic equipment will be the heart of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's USS3OO million air defence net. work which electronically
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  • 281 3 BOSTON, Wed. (UPl)—The former Executive Officer of the USS Pueblo said Tuesday the North Koreans "coerced" him to rig navigational charts to show six violations of North Korean waters by the spy ship—and then added 11 more false violations to further sup- port their intrusion claims.
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  • 133 3 BUENOS AIRES. Wed. (UPI) The government announced on Tuesday night it had arrested 300 persons in an apparently successful attempt to blunt a general strike protesting alleged official repression and concluded the visit of New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockeller. Interior Minister Francisco
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  • 231 3 NEW YORK. Wed. (Reuter) Congressman Adam Clayton Powell charged today that detention camps used to confine Japanese-Americans during World War Two were being refitted for militant negroes and whites. In a television interview Powell, a flamboyant and rontroversial Negro, charged that the U.S. was
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  • 83 3 SANTO DOMINGO. Wed. (UPI) Leftist demonstrators protesting the impending visit of Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller tossed a bomb at the Chase Manhattan Bank office in Santiago Tuesday night, blowing out its front windows. The incident in Santiago, about 100 miles from here, came less than 24 hours
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  • 177 3 CHARLESTON. SC. Wed. (Reuter) About 360 strikers at the Medical University of South Carolina Hospital have begun to return to work under an agreement reached last week, but the three-month-old hospital strike here is still smouldering. Talks with 69 striking workers at the Charleston County
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  • 61 3 NITEROI, Brazil, Wed. (Reuter) Six bound and bullet-riddled bodies were found in Rio de Janeiro state yesterday. They are presumed victims of the notorious "death squad." The "death squad." widely believed to be a clandestine police organisation, has been credited with more than 200 summary executions of
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  • 122 3 WASHINGTON. Wed Reuter) The U.S. Apollo 11 astronauts will leave a simplyinscribed metal plaque on the moon after they land there on July 20. a Space Agency spokesman said today. The inscription, approved by President Nixon, reads: "Here men from the planet earth First
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  • 269 3 Moon Bound Astronauts Pass Medical Checkup CAPE KENNEDY, Wed. (UPI) The three moon-bound Apollo 11 astronauts passed their next-to-last major medical checkup Tuesday and were declared fit for launch July 16. Dr. Charles E. Berry, Chief Astronaut Physician, said a three-hour examination and subsequent labouratorv tests showed that Neil A.
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  • 190 3 WASHINGTON, Wed (UPI) Bonny the spacemonkey was still alert and active as he continued his month-long earth orbit Tuesday, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration reported. Bonny's 92.1 million dollar Biosatellite 3 flight, launched Saturday, is to determine the effects of prolonged space voyages.
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  • 128 3 DETROIT. Mich. Wed. Reuter) A Federal Grand Jury here is investigating whether a demand for 500 million dollars from white churches and synagogues by a militant Negro organisation constitutes extortion, according to informed sources. The demand for what it calls centuries of oppression, has been made
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  • 52 3 ORLANDO. Fla.. Wed (Renter) A National Airlines Boeing 727 airliner carrying 46 people made an emergency landing here today spewing out flaming jet fuel after one of its engines exploded. None of those aboard the plane, which had only minutes earlier taken off from Orlando's McCoy airport, was hurt,
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  • 307 4 Britain Switches Its Nuclear Strike Force To Polaris Submarines LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) —Britain said last niaht it has transfered its nuclear strike-force from delta-wing bombers to Polaris submarines The Defence Ministry made the disclosure which ends a 12-year- role by the Royal Air Force's V-bombers. The bombers, which have been
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  • 475 4 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council yesterday decided that a temporary order for substitution of parties made by the Federal Court of Malaysia over tin mining rights in reran should stand. The committee said they would report to
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  • 49 4 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) Britain will continue to press China to release Reuter correspondent Anthony Grey, Mr. Maurice Foley. Foreign Affairs Under-Secretary, assured Parliament last night. He told a questioner that Mr. Grey, in a letter to his mother, had reported the conditions of his detention had improved.
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  • 67 4 BANGKOK. Wed. (AFP) Air Chief Marshal Dawee Chulasaphya. the Chief of Staff of the Royal Thai Armed Forces, today predicted that the Communists would intensify their attacks on allied force in South Vietnam. Dawee, who returned here on Saturday after a lightning trip to the war zone, said
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  • 56 4 STOCKHOLM. Wed. (UPI) The mini-skirt has been banned at Stockholm's Caroline Hospital. Nurses and other female staff were told in a memo from the hospital management that mini-skirts have been banned for "hygienic reasons." The nurses' skirts should be no shorter than 2 centimeters, (one inch)
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  • 374 4 MOCCOW, Wed. (Reuter) frink Borman. commander of last December's Apollo round-the-moon flight, arrived here early today for the first visit to the Soviet Union by an American astronaut. "It took us almost as long t6 get from New York to Moscow as from earth to the
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  • 331 4 TOKYO, Wed. (UPI) Japanese diplomats see no immediate change in Communist China's foreign policv and hold little prospect for improvement of the Peking regime's relations with the United States and Russia. This assessment was made at the opening yesterday of
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  • 182 4 IB AD AN, Nigeria. Wed. (Reuter) Three policemen were officially reported killed and several others seriously injured yesterday as troops and police were drafted to quell rioting tax defaulters in Anakran. 15 miles southeast of here. Unofficial sources put the police death toll as high
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  • 96 4 TEHERAN Wed. (Reuter) Drug traffickers 'ace the death sentence in Iran under a government Bill announced yesterday. Traffickers, smugglers and dealers In opium, morphine, heroin and cocaine, and illegal possession of more than two kilograms (four pounds) of cpium or more than 10 grams of
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  • 748 4 CAERNARVON, Wales, Wed. (Reuter and UPI) Security chiefs probed the violent death of a young soldier here today as the Prince of Wales began a fourday tour of his mountainous Principality. The soldier was killer} when an army truck burst into flames
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  • 156 4 COPENHAGEN. Wed (Reuter) Denmark yesterday abolished the last the legal barriers against oubllshing pictorial pornography and showing "blue" movies. But police regulations against the display in shop windows and on stalls of offensive" pictures were strengthened. Police were out on the street? yesterday
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  • 79 4 CAIRO. Wed. (Reuter) £n Israeli commando force of about 30 men raided a n Egyptian coastguard station in the Gulf of Suez during the night, killing three men. a military spokesman said here yesterday. Four Egyptians were wounded and one was missing, the spokesman said. It
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  • 88 4 ALGIERS. Wed. (Reuter)— Moi?e Tshombe's widow, a mother of nine, arrived h*re by air yesterday t 0 mak« arrangements for the bod v of her husband, who was ofice one of black Africa's most controversial politicians Madame Ruth Tshombe, 45. was expected to have the body
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  • 51 4 LONDON. Wed. (Reut±r) Fifty works by the Swiss-born architect and artis. Le Corbufetched £170.690 at SotheoVs auction rooms London, last night. The paintings, drawings, and sculpture were created between 1919 and 1964. They were exhibited la Japan during May and several Japanese buyers attended last eight's
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  • 272 4 STOCKHOLM. Wed (Reuter» Canada, anxious to establish Itself as a Pacific as well as an Atlantic power. Is moving towards full diplomatic recognition of Peking at secret talks here which, if successful, will result in a virtual Canadian about-face on the
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  • 166 5 SEOUL, Wed. (Reuter) William Rogers, the U.S. of State, will arrive here on July 31 for a twoday visit. Foreign Minister Kyn-Hah Choi told a Press conference today. He also announced a forthcoming visit by Tunisian Foreign Minister Habib Bourguiba Jr Choi said Rogers
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  • 33 5 SEOUL. Wed (AFP)—About 100 students and 77 poMcemen were injured in a series of clashes during anti-government demonstrations. Police reported that a total of 147 demonstrators were rounded up tod av.
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  • 26 5 JAKARTA, Wed. (AFP) Major Gen. H.R Dharsono. former military commande r o? West Java, will be sworn in on Saturday as Ambassador tc Thailand.
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  • 328 5 ReT25 8* T (Renter) Recent Russian proposals to set up a new collective secursystf™ in the Asian-Pacific did not envisage a body like the Warsaw Pact Organin»r was it directed aSi? hln a Soviet or Ja Pan said to4t.? le *u A Troyanovskv stated visited
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  • 117 5 HYDERABAD, Indi*. Wed. (Reuter) Demonstrators for a separate Telengana State in the southern state of Andhra held up trams today, but no major violence was reported. Police chased aw-ay agitators who pulled the alarm cord, uncoupled carriages and stoned the guard of a passenger train at a
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  • 164 5 MANILA, Wed. (Reuter) Government neglect and public Indifference have turned the National Mental Hospital Into a ••snakeplt*' where the two moat common causes of death are tuberculosis and malnutrition, says a private report published here today. The report, drawn up free of charge by the private management
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  • 252 5 MANILA, Wed. (UPI) —Philippine Columnist Nestor Mata said today foreign journalists critical of the Philippines should be told to go Jump into Manila bay Writing in his daily column in the Philippines Herald Mata complained about recent critical articles written by John Mechlin in Fortune magazine
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  • 235 5 WICHITA. Kna. Wed. (Reuter) —Vice President Spiro Agnew said here vesterday that in some cases sincere opposition to the Vietnam war "is undermining our negotiations for peace and prolonging the war." In a prepared address delivered at a State dinner at
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  • 157 5 PHNOM PENH, Wed. (UFI) President Huynh Ta n Phat of the National Liberation Front (NLF) provisional government for Vietnam flew Wednesday to Battambang province 200 miles northwest of here, for a two-day inspection of provincial accomplishments in agriculture. industry and education. He is due back
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  • 113 5 JAKARTA. Wed (Reuter) The Indonesian government will release 112 political detainees in West Irian this month, a West Irian Office spokesman said here today. The spokesman said the release would be made in stages and might start on Monday. July 7. He said
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  • 98 5 IMPHAL. Wed. (Renter) Police have arrested several youths alleged to have planned secession of strategic Manipur Province from India with Chinese and Pakistani help. Government officials said here yesterday. The arrests were made recently after it was learned that anout 20 young Manlpuris returned with a
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  • 198 5 SEOUL Wed (Reuter) South Korea has announced plans to use a 240-acre land near a major port city as a free export area to induce foreign investors to take part in Korean industries Deputy Premier Hak YulK:m. who is also the Economic Planning Minister,
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  • 57 5 MELBOURNE. Wed (Reuter) Many Australian Jockeys are wearing panti-hose for winter warmth under their flimsy riding silks One leading Jockey, who chose to remain anonymous. said here today: 'Tor the first time. Jockeys aren't shivering in the saddle during the winter months." He said wives or
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  • 173 5 VIENTIANE, Wed. (Reuter) Laotian Government troo]>s have turned back a North Vietnamese attack on the strategic town of Phou Kuon and inflicted heavy casualties on the attackers, a Government Military com- mander said last nightGeneral Kouprasith. Commander of the Fifth Laos Military Region, reporters about
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  • 54 5 BANGKOK. Wed (AFP) Thailand and Lebanon will sign an agreement tomorrow paving the wa v for a regular commercial air service between the two countries. A Ministry of Communications spokesman t^ e agreement would allow Middle East airlines, one of three Lebanese airlines, to operate a twi<-e weekly
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  • 164 5 HONG KONG, Wed. (Reuter) A 34-year-old father who sold his three young daughters for 5,000 HK dollars was sentenced to 15 months in jail here today. A friend who helped him sell the girls was jailed for six months. Both men pleaded guilty to three
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  • 403 5 SAIGON, Wed. (Reuter) An American ammunition and supply convoy rilled Into Ben Het camp today onlv hours after South Vietnamese Infantry had raised the 58-dav siege of the central highlands outpost. A South Vietnamese military spokesman said the road from Dak
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  • 83 5 Tokyo Search For Aussie SYDNEY. Wed. CUPI) Two Svdney detectives have been sent *o Tokyo with fresh information on Australia s biggest bank robbery. Thf- Bank of New Souta Wales King's Cross branch. Sydney suburb. w»as robbed ot 1'3.120 U.S. dollars on Sept. 21 1966. The money was never recovered
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  • 130 5 BANGKOK. Wed. (UPI) American Charge d'Affaires Robert A. Hurwitch met Monday with Soviet Russia Charge d Affaires in Vientiane apparently to discuss the Communist attack on Moung Soui town last week, according t° reports reaching Bangkok Tuesday. The discussion between the two Charge d'Affaires
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  • 79 5 SAIGON. Wed. (Reuter) Thirteen people were killed and 16 wounded in bomb attacks in two cinemas in a Mekong Delta town last ni?ht. a South Vietnamese military spokesman reported today. The spokesman sa:d suspected Vietconjz threw handgrenaries into the crowded cinemas in Ba Xuyen
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  • 170 5 NEW DELHI. Wed (Reuter) —Letters were exchanged here today to gi\> effect to the 7.500.nn0 sterling British loan to India to refinance capital repayments due this year on past British loans. The loan is rart of a plan sponsored by the World Bank under
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  • 95 5 NEW DELHI. Wed. (Reuter) —The Indian Medical Association (IMA) said todav thousands of doctors throughout India wore black badges to hospitals and participated in silent processions yesterday to express resentment against their service conditions. A spokesman of the Association, which had called upon the doctors to
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  • 480 6 SEN. Mike Mansfield, whose verbosity is perhaps unparalleled among contemporary politicians, has come up with the suggestion that President Richard Nixon visit Moscow after or before his trip to Bucharest. The Senator does not clearly state why he wants Nixon to visit Moscow except to point out that
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  • 500 6 NOBODY was naive enough to believe that the so-called Big Four sitting at a conference table in New York could evolve a formula to arrest, If not altogether eliminate, the worsening Middle East crisis. However, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's trip to Cairo late last month stirred
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  • 829 6  -  By WILLIAM FORREST Ifs time to sound the alarm on the danger of a Nazi revival in Germany. Or so the Communist publicists have been warning the world for years. But now from a very different quarter comes a supporting cry. Cardinal Julius Doepner
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  • 239 6  -  By BARRY MAT LONDON, (Renter) Olive? Cromwell, Iron-fisted dictator of EB|lu»'« 17th century civil war, la still eausiag trouble for historians An Anslican Vicar now ssys lhat England's only non-royal Head of State may be burled in a sealed family vault of his London suburban church,
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  • 139 6 SYDNEY. Wed (UPI) The Sydney Sun recently commented editorially on President Nixon's forthcominf vi«it to Rumania. "No prairies are going to sprout up under President Nixon'g feet. Without wordly preamble h* is makinr direct contact with the Communist world, which America hag not
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  • 703 6  -  JOSEPH ALSOP WASHINGTON The signs are daily growing stronger that, contrary to the almost universal expectation, Sen. Edward Kennedy is no* aiming to run for the Presidency in 1972. "The spirit of '76" is the watchword, quite clearly. There are two reasons for this. Very naturally,
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  • 1147 6  -  ■y KIM WILLENSON VIENTIANE (UPI) The possible end of the yWhwm war, and his own fcr&rinoss after seven years Hio job. have caused Tnme Minister Souvanna yWSuma of Laos to begin ••ttino up M political strucjture that will bo capable of finding his successor. Although
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  • 12 6 IB much at your talking. b half murdered Kahili Gihraa
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 490 7 By Our Market Reporter ALTHOUGH the market wa« considerably steady, trading in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday was relatively thin. The volume ol business done through the trading rooms was reduced again to about 1.2 million units. Price levels rose
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    • 793 7 DUSINESS done in and reported to the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified: INDUSTRIALS Acma $195 (1) $1.94 (1); Ben $2.05 (3) $2.00 (4); Borneo $1.70 (6) $1.71
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    • 307 7 JULY first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m., in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 74-4 cents per lb., down one quarter of a cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was easier. Uncertain conditions ruled throughout the morning as July 1
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    • 37 7 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) Dow Jones closing averages yesterday on the New York Stock Exchange: 30 Industrials 875.90 20 Rails ***** 15 Utilities 122.54 65 Stocks 29€.98 40 Bonds 72.55 Commodity Futures Index 138.90
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    • 236 7 The following is a berthing list released by the Port of Singapore Authority for July 3: DEPARTURE: God owns Vessels 1/2 Sudan 15/16 Demodocus 21/22 Corr.pass Satu 31/32 Limburg 40/41 Kfmiji Maru 42/43 Loval Echoes (tanker) 45 Nvanza 46 Glenfinlas ARRIVAL: Godowns Vessels 47 Baxtergate 19 Prodromes
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    • 141 7 rpHB Singapore Rubber Broker* Association baa supplied X lng information in reepect of business transacted in SMRs tbft week June 37. SMR 5 CV (HC) 6MR g CV (HC) July July/sept. Pallets (i cents premium traded. i cents premium buyers. 4) cents premium sellers. 6MR H5L (HC)
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    • 131 7 MRS. JENNY Seet, Pan American senior counter sale* representative, returned to Singapore recently after an intensive special tariff training course in Honolulu. Mrs. Seet was stilted to attend the eourse which was conducted in the workshop technique at the Pan Am new training school. Most
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    • 149 7 NEW YORK, Wed. (UPI) Gold prices slipped in quiet trading on markets here and abroad yesterdayLondon gold dropped 10 cents at the morning fixing, but recovered five cents at the second fixing to 41.15 dollars five cents under the second fixing on Monday. London
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    • 55 7 HONG KONG. Wed. (UPI) Money QuotationsHK56.090 per U.S. dollar HK$6 1075 per U.S. dollar TT HK514.53 per pound sterling HK5306.5 per tael of gold 94.5 per cent fineness HK5162.8 per 10,000 Japanese yens HK5134 5 per 100 Philippines pesos buyers HK$ 135.5 per 100 Philippines pesos sellers Philippine
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    • 13 7 The tin. price for yesterday was $610.12$ per plcul, down $0.87£.
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    • 342 7 ANOTHER widely represented Italian trade mission consisting of 27 members will fly into Singapore today (July 3). This mission will be Italy's eighth Government organised trade delegation to this part of the world since 1959 and the 4th in the last 30 months. The
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    • 99 7 THE Association of Banks in Malaysia-Singapore yesterday made the following changes in its rateg to merchants (rates are quoted to the equivalent of 100 units of foreign currency): SELLING T.T. or O D r««dy: Deutsche Marks $76.8175; HoL land Guilders $84.2175: Swiss Francs $71.0425; Belgian Francs 56.1175; French
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    • 164 7 NEW YORK, Wed. (UPI) The stock mirket carved out a thin gain in moderate trading yesterday. The advance, like Monday's was dubbed technical, a backing and filling on the market'! Rart while it awaits some denite sign for its next major movement. The outside business
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    • 113 7 LONDON. (UPI) Stock markets closed yesterday Arm with industrials once again pushing ahead after some uncertainty at first. But late afternoon the Financial Times irdex had risen 4.3 to 402.8. The less satisfactory retail sales statistics failed to bring out stock and when buyers returned In
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    • 58 7 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) Rubber futures closed 50 to 25 points higher on the New York Commodity Exchange yesterday on 1 sale. (Bid) (Asked) July 27.30 Sept 26.75 27.25 Nov 26 25 26.75 Jan 70 2535 25 65 Mar 25.30 25.65 Mav 25.30 25.65 July 25.30 2565 Locally.
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    • 191 7 Citizen Watch Company announced a series of high-speed digital counter at the recent Tokyo International Trade Fair. Designated as HSC-17. measures 17.3 mm x 60mm x 23.7 mm and it capable of 3.000 counts per minute in both plus and minus directions. Each
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    • 600 7 SINGAPORE Stock ExChan re sold and other nrlcec officially Hated a business. lit the close Of INDUSTRIALS A cms u 93 1 1 95 Ban it Co. CO Borneo Bhd. XO Bouatead 21 1 95 i± I L.75 1 04 C'i am*) Plywood CBI 1.1 1.34
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    • 80 7 LONDON. Wed. (UPI) Rubber market closed uncertain yesterday with soot 261/8 26-3/8 nom seller. Settlement House Aug 26 28-1/8 Sept 25-7/8 26-1/8 Oct 25-8/4 26 Oct/Dec 25-11/16 25-18/16 Jan/March 25-3/8 25-1/2 April/June 25-3/16 25-1/4 July/Sept 24-7/8 25 Oct/Dec 24-3/4 24-7/8 Jan/March 24-9/16 24-3/4 April/June 24-9/16
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    • 94 7 THE noon prices at pore Chinese Produoa yesterday were>— the SlnsaExehant* Coconut Oil (FOB.) Balk Coconut OH (F.OB.) Drum lUi 48.06 60 80 Muntok Whit* Pepper (FOB.) Sarawak White Pepper (FOB.) 126.00 122 00 Sarawak Special Black Pepper (F.O.B.) 96% N L W tampons Special Black Pepper (F.O.B) Lamponc
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    • 45 7 (Manager* Prleas) l»t Malayan XD 2 74 2nd Malayan XD 198 3rd Malayan The Com. Ind The Saving rund 11 if M. Invest Fund 1.25 1^5 lit Hong Kong 145 1JJ1* 2nd Hong Kong XD 100 1.05* Sterling Com 5/7 (•Hons Kons currency)
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      247 8 COCONUT trees grow well in Equatorial countries like Singapore and Malaya. They grow well in sandy coastal areas. It is sometimes known as "the tree of the hundred uses" because every part of the coconut tree is useful and can be made into hundreds of things. The coconut
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    • 332 8 THE domestic dog is loyal and courageous, intelligent and adaptable. Useful as well as affectionate, the dog guards man's flocks, plays with his children, and aids in the hunt. A trusted pet and companion, the dog is often called man's best friend and this is very true.
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    • 337 8 LOYALTY to a country means we must be sincere and faithful. No country in the world can exist without loyal citizens. For in- stance, if a country is at war with another country, then people must take up arms to defend their country. This is one
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      100 8 MY name is Yeo Heng [nn I am a Chinese girl I live at Jalan Rlndu. I attend Elling North Integrated School. I am in Primary Two A and attend the morning session. I am tall and thin. I have short hair. I am a very hard-working girl ind
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    • 242 8 ELECTRICITY is one of the most important inventions. Thomas Edison discovered it many years ago. Without the invention of electricity, all things will not work well at all. In fact, almost every invention today is connected with electricity. Electricity is used in aeroplanes, motor cars and other
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      319 8 EVERYONE has a hobby. There are many different kinds of hobbies. stamp-collecting fishing, swimming, reading and others They are all good There are also bad hobbies.' such as gambling, stealing, cheating, and robbing Once we have learnt such hobbles, we would always like to do it. It is
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      216 8 I AM sure everyone of u? is interested in the weather. When we get up in the morning, we want to know what the weather is going to be like. We look at the sky to see whether the sun is shining or whether there are dark clouds.
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      218 8 SCHOOL examinations enable us to know our abilities in the studies at schools. Usually, there are three examinations in a year, and the third is the final. In Singapore, we have various stages of school examinations. The entrance examination is the final examination. Primary School students in Primary six
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    • 168 8 RIVERS are very useful to us in many ways In certain countries rivers provide us transport. Along the rivers, motor-boats, sampans and tongkangs are used. Rivers are useful to farmers because they can water their crops and feed their animals with the river-water. River-deltas are also
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    • 59 8 Students: This is your page to further your interests. Therefore please send to us your articles on sports and extra-curricular activities, stories, poetry and painting for publication in the Eastern Sun. They will benefit the entire student community. Address your letters to the Editor, Students Page, Eastern Sun, 23-B Cantonment
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    • 185 8 NEW ESSAY CONTEST: RULES TO OBSERVE THE EASTERN SUNS 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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    • 102 8 AMY By Jack TippH 3 4?3 m m ft mi. >5? MM A m "Oka/, fellers. .once more. .from the topi" DATELINE: LAUGER! WHAT'S THE MATTER, LEE RGV? DON'T YOU SPEAK TO YOUR KIN ANY MORE.? UT THE WIZARD OF ZD WWDOYOTI PPISC €>o MUCH WIUE? A ft 4 B
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  • 495 9  -  By Sheilah Graham LONDON THE Shah of Persia is encouraging British and American film producers to film in his large and lovely land. David Pelham, who married a lady of high degree and great charm from Persia on the
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  • 189 9 BOSTON. Wed. (UPI) Cary Grant expects never to act again, according to a television commentator, but the Bntish-born matinee idol s attorney has firmly denied that he planned to retire Stanley Fox. Grant's attorney, said in Los Angeles this week that the star had
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  • 371 9 "TVER heard of a nite-club restaurant built on stilts in the middle of the sea? Well, there's one in the Johore Straits accessible through Ponggol Point. And it's the Sea Palace Restaurant Nite-Club. The "palace" is meant just for you
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  • 93 9 HONG KONG, Wed. (Reuter) China celebrated the 48th anniversary yesterday of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party with a full-length documentary film on the partv's ninth National Congress. Reporting this yesterday, the New China News Agency said the film which is in colour, will
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  • 286 9 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) London's film critics yesterday gave a cool reception to a film partly shot in Taiwan after the Hong Kong Government banned location shooting there because of threats of action by local leftists. The 20th Ontury Fox film was originally to
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  • 443 9 NEW YORK. Wed. (UFI) In an age of acid rock and naughty lyrics, long hair and strobe lights, the Lettermen might seem a little square. But they believe their non-conformity is one reason for their success. "When we are asked to
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  • 160 9 GOLSPIE. Scotland. Wed. (UPI) John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono and their two children were hospitalised last night after a car accident on a lonely Scottish road. The shaggy-haired Lennon and his family were taken to Lawson Memorial Hospital at Golspie, in the county
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  • 311 9 LONDON BACK in London after visiting the recent Wadners-Seven Arts Film Festival in Freeport, Grand Bahama Island, I found that Franco Zefftrelli was also here "to see my doctor and to find actors for my next film." The doctor is
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    • 288 9 sDSHAW LIDO Phone 2841 J 414 I LAST DAT! 11 am.. 145. 4.00 «-3» 915 Jeanv Hu Angela Yu Chien "TOBBENT OF DESIBE" (A SHAW PRODUCTION" Mandarin in Shawscopo, Color OPENS TOMOBBOW! Oliver Reed. Michael J. Pollard HANNIBAL BBOOKS" Color <UA> I CAPITOL Phone 2975^ XOrt SHOWING: 11 a m
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    • 31 9 TODAY anYOU..I Thursday, July 3, 1969. 21 m (0 m Background 62 TV. 63 Ptraon 64 For 65 Nmlt 66 TT3 47-50-59-67 70-77-81-85 CANCER .A JWN£ 21 22 36-39 52-69 72-76-86-90
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    • 317 9 WAiikVi ORGAN IS A I IO N Ul, ODEON I PALACE 11-116 *****8 OPENS TODAY: U 1 tt. 4.M. f! 1.3 A, 4.00 30. 9.30 p.m. I' «.45 A 9.15 p.m. "SOME GIRLS DO" colour Richard Johnson DaLiah Lavi A Rank Organisation Release PALACE: Oa Star* Tonight 9 15 p.m
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    • 1218 10 THE COMMITTEE CUP Horses Class 2—10 Furs. 114 Takin 4y 903 Tunku T.C.N. Mawi 082 True Friendship 6y 812 T. A T. Stable E. Donnelly 000 State L* w 6y 8.09 Bukit Stable J. Donnelly 203 Brave Bambino 10y 8.09 B K. Ohua
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    • 159 10  -  By BIG BEN SINGAPORE. Wed. Bambi 11, with apprentice Velu in the saddle, did a smart trial on a good track at Bukit Timah this morning. Starting from the half mile Bambi II clapped on the pace and ran on strongly to clock 4o 3/5
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    • 54 10 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) Ribofilio. owned by American Mr. Charles Engelhard, is coughing and will not run in the Eclipse Stakes at Sandow n Park on Saturday, trainer Fulke Johnson Houghton said yesterday. Ribofilio was runner-up in the Irish Sweep s Derby on Saturday, won by
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    • 219 10 MELBOURNE, Wed. (Reuter) Australia's world featherweight boxing champion Johnny Famechon regards his July 26 title fight with Japan's Fighting Harada as a far tougher hurdle than the bout in which he won the title from Cuban Jose Legra of Spain, Famechon's manager Mr. Ambrose Palmer said
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    • 168 10 Tour De France CHARLEVILLE-MEZIERES, France. Wed (Reuter) Belgium's Eric Leman won the third stage of the Tour De France Cycle classic here yesterday in a Belgian dominated ride from Holland, through Belgium and into France. Leman completed the 217.5 kilometres (135 miles > from Maastricht in
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    • 81 10 SYDNEY, Wed. (UPI) Australia announced yesterday their entries in the Singapore Ten-Pin Bowling Association (TBA) championships next month. They are Phil Leigh, 31, who won the men's division of the Malaysia-Singapore Airlines National Telephonic championship Sunday, and Pat Marshall, of Victoria, who won the women's
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    • 214 10 SYDNEY. Wed. (Reuter) Twenty-two Australian athletes headed by distance star Ron Clarke and Mexico City Olympic 800 metres Gold Medallist Ralph Doubell have been selected as members of the British Commonwealth team to compete against the U.S. and Russia in Los Angeles on July
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    • 118 10 MANILA. Wed. (UPI) Australia want to join the the Baseball Federation of Asia (BFA), a ranking Philippine sports official said yesterday. Prof. Candido C. Bartolome President of the Philippine Amateur Baseball Association. said Indonesia and Hong Kong also were being considered for membership In the
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    • 573 10 EVERY July of the year. RAF Station soccer players in the Far East readily accept an increase of tempo to their training; a fresh excitement is experienced; new plans for team play are tried thrown out and invariably tried again And all
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    • 204 10 HELSINKI. Wed. (Renter) Britain's Ron Hill, his right leg bleeding after a brawling race, won the 10 000 metres at the world games athletics meeting here last night. Hill was jostled by Ethiopian runners Wohib Masresha and Fikru Deguefu but battled on to victory
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    • 81 10 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) England newcomer John Hampshire earned the £lOO batting prize awarded by Horlicks for his century in the second cricket Test against the West Indies. Hampshire from Yorkshire inspired England's first innings fight-back with a magnificent 107 in his Test debut. No bowling
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    • 902 10 NEW YORK. Wed (UPI) Frank Howard bansed out six hits, including two homers last night, to pace the Washington Senators to their third straight doubleheader victory. 4-1 and 7-5 conquests over the Cleveland Indians. In the opener, Eddie Brinkman h't a two-run homer, and
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    • 139 10 SUNNINGDALE. England. Wed. (Reuter) British professional Tony Grubb lost h:s chance of outright first prize money in the Bowmaker £4,000 pro-am golf tournament here yesterday when he dropped three shots on the last five holes. Grubb (Coombe Hill) finished with a two-under-par 68 second round
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    • 97 10 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) The United States will meet Peru in the first round of the American Zone of the Thomas Cup world men's team badminton champioship following the draw announced here yesterday. The winners play Mexico, who received a first-round by® for a place
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    • 81 10 TAIPEI, Wed. (UPi) Eighteen top Asian bowlers will meet in Taipei Saturday and Sunday for the Far Eastern championship. T£ e *L and flnals of the 1969 Cathay Pacific Brunswick East bowling tournament at a»e Yuanshan Hec.e.t a Centre feature 18 men and women
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    • 84 11 BRISBANE. Wed. (AFP) Australian international Rugby Union centre Dick Marks has been forced by recurring injuries to retire from the game at the early age of 26. Marks played in 17 jest matches between 1962 and 1967 and made two lours of New Zealand,
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    • 151 11 CHARLES Andrews. 11 (left) and Janet Dean. 11}, give the biggest of champions' smiles as they hold high the Inter-Ser-vices Junior Schools Athletics Ctip. Charles and Janet are the captains of the boys and girls athletic teams from Alexandra Junior School who led their school to victory
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    • 436 11 LONDON. Wed (Reuter) Norman Gifford. the Worcestershire left-arm spinner, broke through the Leicestershire second innings with a haul of #»lght for 85 to give hl» side their first victory of the season in the English County cricket championship yesterday. Leicestershire crashed to 148 all
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    • 242 11 LONDON. Wed (Reuter) In one of the most one-sided semi-finals on record, defending champion Billie Jean King cruised into the finals of the women's singles at Wimbledon todav by overwhelming Ca.ifornian professional Rosie Casals. Mrs. King won 6 —l. in onlv 28 minutes without ever having
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    • 52 11 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) Virginia Wade, United States open champion, heads the British Wightman Cup tennis team to defend the trophy at Cleveland Heights. Ohio, from August 9 to August 11. The other members of the team are Winnie Shaw. Christine Janes, here sister Nel Truman, and
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    • 87 11 BRADFORD. England. Wed. (Reuter) The cricket matrh between the touring New Zealanders and Yorkshire ended In a draw here yesterday. Scores: New Zealanders 287 and 65 for ore Yorkshire 393 for four declared. Whatever victory hopes Yorkshire may have had disappeared when rain tock 75 minutes
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    • 311 11 MANILA. Wed. (UPI) Filipino fighter Bernabe Villacampo stands an "excellent chance" of finally meeting World Boxing -Association flyweight champion Hlroyukl Ebihara of Japan in a title match soon, according to Villacampo s business manager. Lope Sarreal Sr. said today he had received a cable from
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    • 46 11 MILAN. Wed. (ATP)—Finland's former European lightweight boxing champion Olle Maeki has .greed to meet Italian Sandro Lopopolo, former world light welterweight champion, at Viforelli here on July 11. The bout will be over ten round? at the weight limit of 64 kilograms (146 pounds).
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    • 150 11 MANILA. Wed. (UPI) A 27-year-old father of four today began an attempt to become the first Filipino to swim nonstop for two days and two nights. As a portectlon from sharks and other marine hazards. Rtcardo Cuenca was swimming the estimated
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    • 144 11 HONOLULU. Wed <UPI> Cordobes Lopez of Mexico took a unanimous decision over Willie Cordova In a furiously paced 10 round main event last night at the Honolulu International centre arena. However, Lope/ painfully bruised the knuckle on the mldrilp finger of both hands In saining the victory.
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    • 389 11 TOKYO. Wed <UPI> Flash Gallego of the Philippines stunned a capacity hometown crowd of 2.500 at Korakuen Hall tonight by knocking out hard hitting Kenji Hayashi in the fifth round of a scheduled 10round bout for the right to challenge champion IthiAnuchit of Thailand.
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    • 164 11 HENLEY, England. Wed. (Reuter) Two North American eights narrowly beat British opponents in Thames Cup heat s on the opening day of Henley Royal Regatta. Argonaut Rowing Club, from Toronto, had a narrow half-length win over Liverpool Victoria and Harvard University (USA) sc6red by three-quarters
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    • 325 11 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) A proposal by S i n g a p ore for the launching of a world badminton championship was approved by the International Badminton F e d e r a t ion (IBF) at their annual general meeting here
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    • 177 11 LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland. Wed. (Reuter) The West Indian cricketers were all out for 25 here today in a sensational collapse in their one-day match against lowly, rated Ireland. Top-scorer in a team which Included five of the players who helped the West Indies draw with
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    • 342 11 Carpets CARPET CLEANING Cleaning 11-to-wall carpet* and rugs with latest machine and formulated chemicals at moderate charges. CARPET MAINTENANCE COMPANY M. Ada Gardens. *ff Everton Bead. Singapore. 2. Tel: 983*34. For Sole TRADITIONAL, Costumes-Masks-Wigs and all Kinds of Accessories* including Decoration for Celebrating 150 th Anniversary Stage Play etc. At
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 1131 11 *YOUK TU TV a CHANNEL 5) P.M 300 Opening Announcements in ail Languages Morning Star: 325 It s Happening in Sirgapnre < Repeats <F"g?ith> 40 A: Horre (Malay); 350 A Diary of Event* In Singapore This Week Malay); 355 Health in the Home (Chinese); 4.05 Housewivpf Matinee ("Tears of a
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  • 360 12  -  by Suhaimi Bidin RUNNERS-UP of the "Miss Tourism Singapura 1969" contest, Miss Yosmin Soif and Miss Selina Cheng Siew Yuen will leave for Sydney on Saturday on a mission to promote Singapore during their Australian tour. They will tour the states of New South Wales
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  • 145 12 THE tragic story of a young maid servant who took the risk of an illegal abortion because she did not want another child, was told to the Coroner's Court yesterday. She died of tetenus. The wife of an upholster vorke r and mother of
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  • 348 12  -  Big fc Sweep* In 150 th Year by Peter Loke THE Government has started operations along the foreshores of Singapore to clear up derelict boats, hulls and timber debris, in a move to beautify Singapore beaches during its 150 th anniversary year. The
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  • 126 12 Contracts for the supply of six ve?se's valued at approximately S9 million had been given to Vosper Thornycroft I'mteers Ltd said the Chairman of VTU Ltd., Commander CW S. Dreyer at a press conference yesterday. The contracts, said Mr. Dreyer. would ensure full productivity at
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  • 35 12 THF. Ramblers Musical Party 'vmprising of eight musicians will entertain the public with Erglirh and Malay songs at the Macßltchle Reservoir Park cn .■uly 6 from 5 30 p.m. to 6 30 PIT.
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  • 104 12 A 61-YEAR-OLD man. Leong Kai Tween was charged in the Eighth Magistrate's Court yesterday lor attempting to cheat Singapore Pools (Pte) Ltd. on Sept. 18, last year. Leong was alleged to have taken a Toto "A" coupon to a clerk of the company, Patricia Ong
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  • 96 12 Mr Peter Jchn was reelected a s President of the Hume Industries Daily-rated Employees' Union a; the 2nd Annual General Meeting held recently. Other office bearers ar*: Mr Gob Tee Se<*k (vice-president); Mr. Ley Jit Kit (secretarygeneral). Mr. Ng Mok Siang 'lst asst. secre ary). Mr. Lay
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  • 131 12 A FOULTRY farmer's $40.000 claim for damages for injuries sustained in a motor accident more than '.wo years ago was dismissed by the High Ccurt yesterday. In dismissing the claim. Mr. Justice Window remarked tha' the poultry farmer. Tan Ah \ong was the "author of his own
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  • 118 12 SEVENTY outstanding students in the French language yesterday received certificates and books from the Alliance Francaise de Singapour at the Cultural Centre. Canning Rise. Among those present at the prize-giving ceremony were Tan Sri Runmp Shaw, President of thp Alliance Francaise, Mr. Philippe Guillemin. Cultural Attache at
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  • 207 12  -  By Albert Johnson THE popular all-green terylene bush-jacket for officers of the People's Defence Force "is out." This is in line with a directive from the Ministry of Interior and Defence. The dress will now be exclusively worn by MID staff officers and members
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  • 94 12 An exhibition on Australian graphic arts is now going on at the Art Museum of the University of Singapore. About 40 pieces of art are on display and includes prize winning paintings of 1968. The exhibition will go on for 5 month and will be open from
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  • 345 12 ISO Years On, And... THE growing number of motor vehicles in Singapore and the astounding growth of the shipbuilding industry were discussed yesterday when Mr. Lim Kuan Ming, the Registrar of Motor Vehicles, addressed a Rotary Club luncheon. Singapore today, he said, has over 120.000
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    • 95 12 Time Tide High Tide (Today) Singapore Town 0.24 a.m. (9.7 ft.) 2.23 p.m. (8 ft.). Naval Dockyard: 0.41 a.m. (10.7 ft.) 2.13 p.m. (10.1 ft.) Low Tide (Today) Singapore Town: 7.31 a.m. (0.7 ft.) 7 28 P.m. (3.6 ft.). Naval Dockyard: 6.54 a.m. (-0.4 ft.) 7.16 p.m. (4.2 ft.). High
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