Eastern Sun, 11 July 1969

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  • 23 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Eskd. 1966. Vol. 3 No. 1054 Friday, 11 July 1969. •fr MC (P) 0737 Price IS cents
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  • 738 1 'Needed: One New God 9 SOUTH-EAST Asian countries must whole-heartedly ond sincerely accept and be prepared to pay the price —of modernising their societies if they are to find a way out of the crisis in the region. This was stated last night by
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  • 98 1 A LEADING local industry. Electrical Manufacturers of Malaysia Pte. Ltd. subsl diary of GEC-AEI (Singapore) Pte Ltd. has won a huge export order for lamps stiff international competition. This was announced by a spokesman for the company late yesterday The contract is for a continuous annual
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  • 85 1 BANGKOK. Thurs. (UPI) A Thai International Airlines Caravfclle jet caught fire on landing at the Bangkok airport tonight causing no injury to about 80 persons aboard. Officials said the plane from Tokyo via Taipei and Hong Kong suffered "moderate" da. mage to its undercarriage and wings.
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  • 521 1 KI'ALA LOIPt'R. Thurs. The government has ordered all non-citizens above the age of 12 who are permanent residents in possession of West Malaysia red or brown identity cards or Sarawak Sabah red tangerine identity cards to turnish personal
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  • 73 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs. A space exhibition entitled "Man on the moon" in conjunction with the Apollo li s flight on Wednesday was opened this morning at the Muzlum Negara here. Exhibits on display include a model of the lunar landing module. a space suit, food taken
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  • 19 1 England 194 for seven. Knott not out 20. B. Knight C Fredericks B Gibbs 7 Extras 8.
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  • 186 1  -  by RAY MOSELEY CHUR, Switzerland, Thurs. (UPI) Belgian Cardinal Leo J. Suenns, in a clear challenger to Pope Paul VI, today called for a complete new look at the question of priestly celibacy in the church. In a speech closing the European bishops conference. Suenns
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  • 128 1 CAPE KENNEDY, Florida, Thurs. (L'PI) A leak was discovered in Apollo ll's pressurization system today, but a space agency spokesman said it was not expected to delay the start of the lunar landin? countdown tonight. The problem was in Apollo ll's booster rocket. Technicians were
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  • 69 1 LONDON*. Thurs (UPI) American Astronaut Col. Frank Borman stopped over for two hour s at London airport today on his way home from a lOnJay visit to the Soviet Union. Borman. his wife and two sons, then left for New York On leaving Moscow. Borman paid
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  • 37 1 KUALA LUMPUR. Thurs— All subjects except English Language and the pupil's mother tongue could be taught in the national language in primary school from next year, the Minister of Education announced today.
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  • 519 1 Bonn Ponders Nassers Recognition Of E. Germany LONDON, Thurs. (Reuter) France Has decided to continue total arms embargo to Israel "for the present" while Bonn is studying the implication of President Nasser's recognition of the East German government. In the escalating ground war.
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    • 55 1 M This Issue FILM Festival Page 2 XIXON may ask Rumanian aid to free airmen Page 3 COLOIR prejudice in Britain Page 4 BEST dressed women Paee 5 EDITORIAL Comments Page 6 THE Market Page 7 FOR The Students Paee CINEMA Page Page 9 SPORTS Roundup Pages 10-11 WAR Games
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • FILM FESTIVAL WEEK
    • 514 2 A GLITTERING host of top Asian film stars will fly in at end of this month to add glamour and limelight to the Singapore Film Festival staged by the local film industry to celebrate Singapore's 150 th Birthday from July 28 to August 3. The
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    • 347 2 THE following candidates passed the Examination conducted by the Institute of Business Administration of Australasia in May, 1969. Licentiate: Victor Lee See I n Associate: Lim 800 Peng. Principles of Administration Tang Kwok Kin. Herbert Ong Soon Hee, Robert Tian Chin Luk. Yuen Kam Ming, Teo
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    • 101 2 The Adult Education Board will conduct a 16-week pastel drawing course starting from July 27 at the Mountbatten Vocational Secondary Integrated School, Dakota Crescent. The course for beginners who wish to learn and develop the use of pastel as a medium of expression will be
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    • 310 2 A British Engineering Week will be held at the Polytechnic from Sept. 16 to 20, Mr. George Finlavson, Head of the Commercial Section of the British High Commission, announced yesterday. Speaking at a Rotary West luncheon. Mr. Finlayson said that he hoped this event
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    • 53 2 KOH BOCK CHIEW, alias See Moo Soo. 33, was fined $5OO by the Ninth Court Magistrate, Mr. E C. Foenander yesterday after he pleaded guilty to a charge of assisting in a "chap-ji-kee" lottery on July 9 at Upper Thomson Road. Koh admitted that he was a bet
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    • 145 2 THE National Defence Fund now stands at $8,565 817. During the past two weeks the Minister of Interior and Defence. Mr. Lim Kim San received the following donations:Staff of Customs Dept. $l7 50; Mr. Low Kum Chong $5.00; Mr. Tan Swee Hee $l5 00; Mr.
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    • 48 2 A CHINESE woman, aged about 45. asked permission to use the toilet of a shop in Queen Street. Two minutes later she walked out with $lO, a crossed-che-que for $2OO and the driving licence belonging to the proprietor Png Liew Seng 52. a police spokesman said.
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    • 73 2 The Adult Education Board will conduct an eight-week course in confectionery for housewives, at Hai Sing Dewasa Institute. 49. Holland Road on July 30 from 5 to 8 30 p.m. The lull course costing S3O in fees, will be conducted In English by Jimmy Wong.
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    • 169 2 THE "jackpot prize" for this week's Toto Pools has been increased to 582,500. In addition, lucky punters will be able to win valuable Irizes if they pick 4 plus 1, or 3 numbers correctly. Singapore Pools (Pte) Ltd, will also offer valuable prizes In the
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    • 171 2 THE Deputy Foreign Minister of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Mr. Kwon Hui Kyong, is scheduled to arrive in Singapore today at 11.45 a.m. to deliver a "special message" to the Singapore Government. Mr. Kwon was expected to arrive yesterday but his
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    • 34 2 A Ssnn-WATER pump was reported missing from a contractor's temporary shed in Lim Fang Road. Toa Payoh. on July 9. Fong Sew Chee. 31. told police that his shed was not locked.
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    • 114 2 The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Labour. Mr. S. RaJaratnam will officially open the Swaml Vlvekananda Centenary Memorial Building on July 21 at 179 Bartley Road. Srlmat Swaml Gambhlranandajl, the General Secretary of the Ramakrlshna Mission and Srlmat Swaml Bhaswaranandajl, formerly Head of
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    • 70 2 The Photographic Society of Singapore will hold the 1989 Singapore National Photoeraphic Exhibition at the National Library from Nov 2 n 23 to mark Singapore's isnth anniversary. The exhibition will consists of photographs and colour slides submitted for a competition. cpen to all photographer* residing m
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    • 445 2  -  By JOHN HSU GOOD entrenreneurship. dedication of workers and technological innovation were outlined by Mr. Ong Pan* Boon, the Minister for Education, as the basis for success in the international market. Mr. Ong was speaking yesterday at the opening of Lim Seng
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  • 311 3 The Vietnam SAIGON, Thurs. (UPI) President Nixon is expected to ask Rumania to help obtain from North Vietnam the release or at least improved treatment of captured U.S. airmen. U.S. sources said Nixon was expected to make this persona] appeal in
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  • 102 3 SEOUL. Thurs (Reuter) Leading North Korean agent Chong-Tai Kim, 42, sentenced to death last January for having attempted to overthrow the South Korean government, was hanged in a Seoul prison today. The Seoul District Court had found him guiltv of visiting the North Korean capital of
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  • 127 3 NEW DELHI. Thurs. (Reuter) The lion has been chosen as India's national animal bv the Indian Board for Wild Life. Dr. Karan Singh, Chairman of the Board and Minister for Tourism and Civil Aviation, told a press conference today the lion was in danger of
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  • 164 3 SAIGON. Thurs (t'PI) A new press code bill which appears to reduce restrictions on the press in South Vietnam was forwarded for promulgation to President Nguyen Van Thieu Wednesday by the Nali<*nai Assembly. One of the key articles in the long-waited nill provides that no
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  • 113 3 TAIPEI. Thurs. (Reuter)— The death toll in the coal mine disaster at Juifang. 20 miles northeast of Taipei, rose to 28 when three more miners died yesterday, the Central News Agency reported today. Quoting a sookesman for the Keelung Miners Hospital, the Agency said the
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  • 70 3 KARACHI. Thurs. (UPI) A camel-riding caravan of smugglers killed one senior Pakistani customs officer and seriously wounded a guard during a fierce desert fight Tuesday 70 miles from the Arabian Sea along the Lasbella coast. Customs sources said more police had been sent to the area while Pakistani
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  • 296 3 SAIGON, Thurs. (UPI) North Vietnamese Army soldiers using a land mine, automatic weapons and rocketpropelled grenades ambushed an American truck convoy 65 miles north-west of Saigon, military spokesmen said today. The attack yesterday killed four Americans and wounded 11 others, spokesmen said. But they
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  • 360 3 PORT MORESBY, New Guinea. Thurs. (UPI) Australian and Indonesian officials will meet for special talks on both sides of the border between Papua New Guinea and West Irian next Tuesday the day after the start of voting in the Act of Free Choice in
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  • 64 3 SHILLONG. India. Thurs. (Reuter) India's longest river, the Brahmaputra, has flooded vast areas in the north-eastern border State of Assam. The water is rising rapidly and large areas have been submerged in the north of the State, officials said yesterday. Last month, nearly half a million
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  • 57 3 BELGRADE. Thurs. (UPI) a savage hurricane at Nov; killed three persons, ripped off roofs, levelled crops and carried off newspaper stands with the vendors inside. The news agency Tanjug said yesterday the six-minute hurricane, followed by a 20minute strong wind storm and hail was the most
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  • 218 3 TOKYO. Thurs. (UPI) The major department stores In Tokyo have set off a space craze with the approach of the moon-bound Apollo 11 launching only a week away. Missing no chance to commercialise on the event, the department stores have launched an "operation Anollo" drive
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  • 500 3 Melbourne SUBIC BAY NAVAL BASE, Philippines, Thurs. (UPI) A sixman, U.S.-Australian Navy Investigating Board met in closed session today to consider the statements of Lt. Ronald Ramsey, the young Navy officer who wouldn't talk. With those statements the Board, investigating the
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  • 121 3 Meanwhile. It was reported in Sydney yesterday, the badte of the "L'SS Frank E. Evans" was embedded in the bow of "HMAS Melbourne", after the Australian Flagship collided with the American Destroyer in the South China Sea on June 3. "Me bourne" returned here from
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  • 265 3 TOKYO. Thurs. (Heuter) Dinnrr for 100 guests in a restaurant at the bottom of the sea is being made a possibility by one of Japan's biggest industrial companies. A basic design for such a restaurant is on the drawing boards. Ishikawajima Harima Heavy Industries
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  • 478 3 NEW DELHI, Thurs. (UPI) Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi today challenged Ruling Congress Party leaders to a show of strength, which could split the Party and cost her job. In an unexpected move which caught her opponents within the party off-balance. Mrs.
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  • 55 3 HONG KONG. Thurs. (UPI) A senior officer of the Narcotics Bureau Wednesday denied allegations that Hong Kong has been turned into an international centre for smuggling heroin. David Lam. Superintendent of the Bureau, said the Narcotics Bureau have received no official reoort from London that indicate heroin seized
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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  • 234 4 MOSCOW, Thurs. (Reuter) American astronaut Frank Borman said last night he believed that space would be the key to really close relations between his country and the Soviet Union. Colonel Borman was Bpeaking after a 40-minute Kremlin meeting with President
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  • 198 4 -HOMA BAY. Kenya. Thurs '(Renter) Thousands of Luo tribesmen chanted and wept aiound the coffin of Tom Mboya in the cathedral of this tiny Lake Victoria town today. The body of Kenva's Minister for Economic Planning and Development, who was smated last Saturday lav
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  • 45 4 ALGIERS. Tnurs. (Reuter) 1 The Algerian Government has agreed to the nomination of Mr. Yang Ki Liang as China's new ambassador to Algeria, it was officially announced here yesterday: He will replace Mr. Tseng Tao who left for home early in 1967.
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  • 564 4 LONDON", Thurs. (Reuter) A major survey on race relations in Britain says that only 10 per cent of white Britons have strong racial prejudices. The 815-page survey, published yesterday by the Institute of Race Relations, an independent body, took five years
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  • 241 4 CRISTIANSTED. Virgin Islands, Thurs. (UPI) A converted trawler left here on Wednesday to meet Thor Heyerdahls storm-battered raft "Ra'* on the high seas to escort her on the last leg of her trans-Atlantic voyage. The Norwegian scientistexplorer. who seeks to show that cultural influences
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  • 129 4 NEW YORK Thurs. (UPI) A Manhattan attornev on Wednesday was found guilty by a Federal Grand Jury of obstructing justice when he allegedly helped three Jamaican women illegally obtain extensions of their permits to visit the United States. U.S. Atty. Robert M- Mor- genthau announced that
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  • 279 4 WASHINGTON, Thurs. (UPI) Sen. J. William Fulbright, Democrat-Ar-kansas accused Defence Secretary Melvin R. Laird on Wednesday of suppressing testimony indicating that the U.S. intelligence community disagrees with Pentagon assertions about Soviet weapons development. Laird's contention that the Russian? are trying to achieve the ability
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  • 39 4 Contestants in the Miss Universe beauty pageant pose on the steps of the U.S. Capitol during sightseeing tour of Washington on Tuesday. The pageant begins in Miami Florida, on July 19. —UP I picture. UPI picture.
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  • 75 4 PARIS. Thurs (Reuter) President Georges Pompidou held* his first presidential press conference here today, but no major policy sta'emen*s are expected The Middle East problem is one subject certain to be discussed. and Mr. Pompidou* statemen s will be carefully examined not only by the governments
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  • 644 4 BELGRADE, Thurs. (UPI) Delegates to a meeting of nonaligned nations decided yesterday by a majority vote to hold a third neutral summit conference, but only "at an opportune moment. Sources close to the consultative meeting said objections of some delegations to a
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  • 273 4 WASHINGTON. Thura. (UPI) Navy patrol planes Wednesday kept track of a Soviet naval task force steaming off the east coast on its way to visit Cuba. The Pentagon said the last report showed the task force was in two group*. A guided missile
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  • 290 4 HOUSTON. Texas. Thurs. (Reuter) The first men to land en the moon will carrv three American flags two to b? left behind and the other to be brought bark to earth as a souvenir of the voyage. Apollo 11 astronauts Nell r
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  • 271 5 WEEKLY pictorial feature by the Eastern Sun based on the photographs taken by our cameramen at official functions, parties, exhibitions, shopping centres etc. MRS. Peggy Kruger dresses in this chic navy outfit which shows the Bonnie and Clyde double-breasted look. Machine stitching edges the collar, pockets
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  • 252 5 WASHINGTON. Thurs. (UPI) State Department officials confirmed on Wednesday night that R.A. Fearey has been appointed the new civil administrator for Okinawa Richard Finn, country officer for Japan at the Btate Department. said Fearey will replace Stanley Carpenter In the position. Finn said Fearey, who
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  • 137 5 UNITED NATIONS, Thurs rßeuter) Australia has pro. posed that there should be a basic code of standards to control the amount of violence, horror, sex. ridicule and propaganda contained in international programmes broadcast from satellites In a paper submitted for consideration by the direct broadcast sateliites
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  • 106 5 NEW YORK. Thurs. (Reuteri A new book bv Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluveva. titled 'Only One Year" will be published here on September 19. it was announced today. In the book, she described her life in India with her late husband's family She also tells why she decided
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  • 518 5 Director To Moonport Crew: CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (UPI) The Apollo 11 Launch Director Wednesday cave engineers the go-ahead to start the final countdown for man's first lunar landing mission and told them. "This is the big one we've been working on for eight or nine
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  • 232 5 WASHINGTON, Thurs. (Reuter) The Nixon administration made a strong plea to Congress today to increase economic aid to India, Pakistan and Turkey, saving that cuts now would delay the day they can stand on their own feet without assistance. Maurice J Williams, head
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  • 136 5 WASHINGTON. Thurs. (UPI) President Nixon believes a delay by the Senate In approving extension of the income surtax "will just continue to fan the flames of inflation" and lead to a continuation of the rise in prices and interest rates. the White House
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  • 56 5 CARACAS. Thurs. (Reuter) The Venezuelan government today decreed July 21 as a public holiday to mark the landing of the first man on the moon. The decree said the holiday would enable Venezuelans to watch on television the live transmissions from the moon of Apollo 11 astronaut Neil
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  • 396 5 WASHINGTON. Thurs. (UPI) President Nixon will begin hjs extensive review of U.S. policy in Asia on Thursday when he confers with Indian Foreign Minister Dinesh Singh at the White House. The talks between Nixon and Dinesh Singh, which come withinafortnight before the
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  • 152 5 WASHINGTON. Thuri. (UPI) The "agony" of Nigeria and Biafra and the Mideast crisis were discussed u Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie made a farewell call on Wednesday on President Nixon. The Emperor, in America on a four-day visit, also invited the US. Chief Executive to visit
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  • 172 5 LOS ANGELES. Thuri (Reuter) A reputed United States Mafia leader. 72-year-old Nick Licata. has been Imprisoned for refusing to answer Federal Grand Jury questions about whether he headed a crime syndicate In Los Angeles. The Grand Jury is investigating the gangland-styla slaying of Julius Anthony Petro
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  • 93 5 MEXICO CITY. Ttaurs. (Heater) A Mexico zoo has claimed the world's first titer tooth transplant. In a three-day operation this week, Juan Cabrera. Director of the Chapulctepec Park 100 here, used giant pincers to pull the 2.5-inch-long right lower fang tooth from Rajpur. the too's 360-pound Bengal
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  • 125 5 NEW YORK. Thurs. (UPI) Hubert H Humphrey's chief policy adviser during the 1968 Presidential campaign said on Wednesday the candidate considered issuing an election eve statement urging withdrawal of U S support from the Thieu government In South Vietnam because It had broken its agreement
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  • 560 6 FIT weren't for the possible serious consequences of the Sino-Soviet confrontation, one is tempted to laugh at the mutual recriminations as one of history's best jokes. The tragedy of the situation arises from the fact that people friave been shot and killed over a border dispute
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  • 300 6 T'HIS is the season when space experts in Houston are busy with their preparations for the moon landing. Curiously, this is also the time when pessimism and passivity surface and Doubting Thomases begin to drum up their misgivings. Human tendency is such that one cannot check
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  • 835 6  -  By SHAUNAGH COWELL LONDON: A year ago they were known all over the world as the best acrobatic team in five continents. The Royal Air Force's Red Arrows nine Haw-ker-Siddcley Gnat twoseater advanced trainers had so many invitations to show their
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  • 521 6  -  By DAVID MUSOKE, KAMPALA: Educate a man and you develop an individual; educate a mother and you develop a nation, To make this dictum come true women leaders from Eastern and Central African countries recently trekked to Uganda's picturesque capital. Kampala, to
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  • 17 6 Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a rigorous intellect. Samuel Johnson.
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  • 1628 6  -  Third Article Step By Step By EDWARD K. DELONG SPACE CENTRE, Houston (UP I) The first space pilots had to develop new skills and techniques to deal with a hostile new environment, learning by trial and error in the comparative safety of earth orbit, before
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  • 586 6  -  By DIET SIMON BONN, (Reuter) The humble strawberry has become a political issue here that threatens to project a shadow over the Federal West German elections three months from now. What should get right-of-way on thi s country's long-distance highways, the autobahn s thousands of tons of
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 374 7 BY OUR MARKET REPORTER Exch^iee^f^>laTav*ia^nH in ye J a other uiet trading session In the Stock fidenttff their moves. Sln a e° r e >«'e»iay operators were still hardly cona own d dri,t rlght a,ter tho "Peninj bell and the sstssvA iwsr.tasr^sag; ,he aMernoon Generaf
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    • 859 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 Ben $2.02 (1) $2.01 (1): Borneo $1.69 (2); Boustead 51.83 (1): Camel Plywood 51.99
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    • 307 7 JULY first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m., in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 74-3/4 cents per lb., up half a cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was quietly steady. Levels advanced some five eighths of a cent during the
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    • 267 7 THE following Is a berthing list released by the Port of Singapore Authority for July 11; DEPARTURE Godowns Vessels 3/4 Chios 3/4 Prometheus 5 Myoma Ywa 10/11 President Hoover 19 Kotoku Maru N.W.5 Petaling 21/22 Yushun Maru 23 Auby 25/26 Fembrook 35/36 Sarpedon 45 Musi Lloyd 46
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    • 75 7 TOKYO, Thurs. (UPI) Japans trade surplus for fiscal 196S ending in March next year will reach U553,900 million, the Sanwa Bank said in a revised estimate released this week. f The bank predicted that Japans overall balance of payments during the same period would register a
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    • 181 7 NEW YORK, Thurs. (UPI) A general uneasiness over recent domestic and foreign developments kept the New York stock exchange a seller's market yesterday, driving prices down for the third session !n a row in fairly light trading. Shortly before the closing bell the UPI
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    • 167 7 LONDON. Thurs. (UPI) The stock market stayed in retreat along a broad front yesterday with the runback probably speeded by Wall Street's performance. Shortly before the final be'.l the index had slumped 5 3 to 385.7 and most of the popular blue chips joined
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    • 126 7 THE Association of Banks in Malaysia-Singapore yesterday made the following changes in its rates to merchants (rates are quoted to the equivalent of mo units of foreign currencv): SELLING T.T. 0 r OD. readyi Deutsche Marks $76.9675; Holland Guilders $B4 4325; Swiss Francs $71.4400; Belgian Francs $j.1225; French
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    • 13 7 The tin price for yesterday was $621.12$ per picul, up $1.125.
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    • 308 7 WASHINGTON, Thurs. (Reuter) The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have announced adoption of a programme to help developing countries stabilise world prices of their primary products. The Bank programme calls for studies to improve the accessibility of markets
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    • 39 7 NEW YORK Thurs. (UPI) Dow Jones closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday: 30 Industrials 861 62 20 Rails 209.17 15 Utilities 122 03 65 Stocks 292.97 40 Bonds 72.54 Commodity Futures Index *****
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    • 60 7 NEW YORK Thurs (UPI) Rubber futures closed 5 points lower across the board yesterday on the New York Commodity Exchange There were no sales. (Bid) (Asked) July 27.5 Sept 2680 2730 Nov 26.0 26.80 Jan 26 30 26 BO Ma r 25.40 25.70 May 25.35 25.70 July 25.35
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    • 48 7 (Manager* Price •> lat Malayan XO 2.73 2nd Malayan XD 1.98 3rd Malay an 1.24 The Com. Ind. 1.00 1.10 The Sarins fund 1.11 1.21 M Invest Fund 1.25 1.35 1st Hons Kong 152 1.58* 2nd Hons Konc XD 1.04 109* Sterling Com. 5/8 •Hone Kong currency)
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    • 84 7 LONDON, Thurs. (UPI> Rubber market yesterday closed barely steady with spot 26-1/2 28-7/8. Settlement House Auf 26 26-1/4 Sept 25-7/8 26-1/8 Oct 25-5/8 25-7/8 Oct/Dec 25-1/2 25-9/16 Jan March 24-7/8 24-15/16 April/Jun 24-3/4 24-15/16 July/Sept 24-1/2 24-11/16 Oct/Dec 24-3/8 24-9/16 Jan/March 24-5/16 24-1/2 April/June
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    • 142 7 NEW YORK. Thurs (UPI) Gold priceg slipped in moderate trading vesterdav on markets here and abroad. In London, gold dropped 20 cents at the morning fixing and an additional 7-1/2 cents for a second fixing of 41.82 dollars per troy ounce. In Frankfurt gold
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    • 88 7 TOKYO. Thurs. (Router) Japan's to© auto maker, Toyota. plans to double its annual production to two million units by 1971, the company said. Last year. Toyota produced one million units. The target for this year Is 1.4 million motor vehicles, including 400.000 units lor export.
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    • 53 7 HONG KONG. Thurs. (UPI) Money Quotations: HK56.***** per U.S. dollar HK56.1075 per U.S. dollar TT HK514.54 per pound sterling HK5309.0 per tael of gold 94.5 percent fineness HK5162.7 per 10,000 Japanese yens HK$l34 5 per 100 Philippines pesoe buyer HK5135.5 per 100 Philippines peso» sellers Philippine pesos 4.52
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    • 290 7 TOKYO, Thurs. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Co.. Ltd. announced yesterday it will assemble Its MU-2 "flyine executive suite" txlanes at its San Angelo, Texas, Slant for sale in the United tates. Mitsubishi purchased the plant from Mooney Aircraft Company. The announcement said Mitsubishi and Mooney have been
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    • 604 7 SINGAPORE change aold and officially luted at busineta. Stock Exother prices the close of INDUSTRIALS ACMA Ben Co CD Borneo Bhn Boustead Camel Plywood XBI B 1 81 1 89 1(1 1.81 1 96 3.52 s. 1 84 2 01 170 1.84 198 6 80 unf-micai
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    • 106 7 1 HE noon prtre* at the in gapore Chine** Produce Exchange >e»terda> were;— Bayer selier Coconut Oil (FOR) Bulk 48 00 Coconut Oil (F O B Drum 50.50 Mixed Copra 11.00 M tint ok White Pepper (F.OB.) 125 00 Sarawak White Pepper (F.OB.) 122.50 Sarawak Special Black Pepper (FOB.)
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    • 453 7 4HKIVALS: 500 a.m. *ISA MLO29 Koala Lumpor. 800 a.m. MSA ML11» Koala Lumpor. 1015 am. MSA MLI2I Koala Lumpor. 10.25 a.m. MSA MLOOS Penanf. lpob. Koala Lonpur. Malacca. 1.10 pm. MSA ML 451 KOChing. 2.25 pm. MSA MLO47 Kota Bharo. Trengganu, Kuala Lompor. 325 pm. MSA MLSO9 Bangkok.
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    • 999 8  -  Communications Giant By James Ferguson Commander, U.S. Air Force Systems Command WASHINGTON We ore caught up today in a scientific revolution. The atom has been identified, captured and put to man's use. We have taken significant steps into space. The sciences of light and energy are
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    • 156 8 Nine schools have been chosen to enter the finals of the Ninth Annual Inter-School Safety First Quiz at the semifinals held last week at the Shell Theatrette. They are: Anglo-Chinese School: National Junior College, St. Joseph's Institution. St. Andrew's School. Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus (Bukit
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    • 213 8 Singapore looks ahead with hope, confidence and faith in itself. This was stated by the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Education Mr. Kwan Sai Kheong in his message to the Art and Crafts Exhibition now on at the Victoria Memorial Hall. Mr. Kwan stressed that
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    • 214 8 MANILA. (Reuter) Residents of Quezon City just outside Manila objected to a proposal to restore tuition fees for students in the city's high schools so now a "local special educational fund board" has been approved for each school. The Quezon City Council approved a
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    • 191 8 WASHINGTON. A group of teenagers attending Nile 9 Township High School in the midwestern town of Skokie. Illinois, have donated a homemade" artificial kidney machine to the Cook County Hospital in the memory of a classmate who died of kidney disease The macl'ir was
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    • 337 8 THE Department of Posts and Telegraphs, Port Moresby, has announced that Papua and New Guinea will issue a special set of four stamps on 27th August. 1969. The stamps are the third in the Territory's annual Flora and Fauna Conservation series and depict four local
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 42 8 Questions which appeared last Friday. 1. Name the nationalities of the following composers: Mocart. Chopin 2. What is the original meaning of the word 'sophisticated'? 3. What was Benjamin Franklin's original profession? L Austrian: Polish. 2. Impure, adulterated, not genuine. 3. Printer.
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    • 80 8 AMY By Jack TTppcf "Would one of you people like to come up and tell me g'night once again?" DATELINE: DANGER! by John Saunders and AktenMd/Viiams LEE RO// IVE BEEN WORRIED SICK/ WHERE...?? AS f SKIP THE PANIC ACT, 515...81G DAooy DAN BEAT VTDU TO THE SCENE/ Si MY NICE
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  • 128 9 LOS ANGELES. Thurs (Reuten The wife of film and television star David Janssen. 40. asked a Santa Monica court for a receiver to take over his earnings and assets to stop him from "showering expensive gifts on actress Hosemarv Forsyth.'' Ellle Janssen. 48.
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  • 55 9 LONDON". Thurs The Duke e? Edinburgh will attend the world premiere of MGNFs "Alfred the Great" at the Empire Theatre here July 14 The premiere is being sponsored bv the Variety Club of Great Britain to a id the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme, the Variety Club's Heart Fund
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  • 539 9  -  By Sheilah Graham LONDON, Thurs rrONY CURTIS has been sounding off here about how to stay young though married "lots of kissing and cuddling." Handsome young actor Alex Cord married to actress Joanna Pettet has another formula that seems to work just
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  • 316 9 SYDNEY, Thurs. (Reuter) British pop star Marianne Faithfull was reported somewhat better today but doctors refused to sav whether she had come out of the coma in which she was rushed to hospital here more than 24 hours ago. St. Vincent's Hospital said in a
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  • 169 9 ROME. Thurs (UPIi Act ess Sophia Lorcn flew to Moscow yesterday to start work on a film in which her six-month-old son also will get a part. The academy award winning star, elegant in a mustard yellow Dior suit, made the trip alone,
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  • 512 9  -  By Sheilah Graham LONDON. Ttaurs. ijEOPLE with cash in London and they are mostly picture people are buying or renting unfurnished apartments, doing them up, furnishing them, and renting them to other rich Americans for double the money. Hollywood director Jean Negulesco gave
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    • 637 10 NANYANG SIANG PAU captureo the inter-business league title for the second successive year, when they trouncea City Bank Club 5-0 in the final of the Singapore Table-Tennis Association's national championships held at the Khee Fatt School on Tuesday night. Heng Jai Friendly
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    • 267 10 NEW YORK. Thurs. (Reuter) The National Tennis League, which has Rod Laver and six other men professionals under contract, yesterday announced a new style tournament for 1970 worth USS2OO.OOO (about £83.300) in prize money. The tournament will be played from mid-February to May next year,
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    • 242 10 BUKIT TIMAH District won three events on the third day of tho four-day Singapore Combined Primary School's 10th annual athletic championships held at the Jmimc Besar Stadium yesterday. They are the boys* and girls' open 400 metres and the girls open 80 metres hurdles. They
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    • 53 10 JAIPUR. India, Thurs (Reuter) The Thomas Cup tie between India and Indonesia will be played here on September 28 and 29. the Badminton Association of India announced today. The association have Invited 24 countries to compete in the Gandhi Centenary world badminton festival In Lucknow from October
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    • 285 10  -  BY BIG BEN KUALA LUMPUR, Thurs. Fraser Hill 11, unbeaten in his last three starts, is retaining his winning form. This morning with Decuman (Pretty) for company the pair raced stride for stride over half a mile, the last si in 42. Fraser Hill II
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    • 327 10 LYTHAM ST ANNES. England. Thurs. (Reuter) —British players Tony Jacklin and Alex Caygill today set tb* pace in tfnr full pionship here, both reach;ng second round totals of 138. Caygill, 28-vear-old Yorkshire professional who has never previously qualified for the final stages of the
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    • 649 11 Clarke Doubell To Run Here Local athletic fans will see two Australian world record holders in action here at the Farrer Park Athletic Centre in early October. They are the long distance runner Ron Clarke. who holds the world record for the .VOOO metres and 10.000 me. re® events, and
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    • 324 11 LONDON. Thurs. (Reuter) C ounty championship leader Gloucestershire, bristling with confidence after increasing their lead at the top of the English County cricket table to 34 points on Tuesday, yesterday hit Derbyshire for 323 for eight. Opening pair David Green and Ron Nicholls put on 119
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    • 149 11 FINAL TEST LEEDS, England. Thurs. (Reuter* England had scored 37 for one wicket by lunch after rain had delayed the start of play for one hour 20 minutes on the first day of the third and final Test here against West Indies. England, leading 1-0 in
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    • 53 11 THE Secretary 0 f the Singapore Badminton Association. Mr Max Lange was elected Council Member of the International Badminton Federation at their annual meeting held in London recently. Mr. Lange who returned from London on Monday, said this was the first time a Singapore representative was elected
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    • 137 11 NEW YORK. Thurs. (Reuter) Results of yesterday's major league baseball games: AMERICAN LEAGUE Baltimore Orioles 6. New York Yankees 5 (10 innings). Detroit Tigers 6. Boston Red Sox 5, Seattle Pilots 8. California Angels 0 (first game). California Angels 5. Seattle Pilots 0 (second game). Washington Senators
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    • 844 11 Fifteen-year-old Serjit Singh crack another of his own record yesterdav at the Singapore Combined Secondary School's 10th annual athletic meet held at the Farrer Park Athletic Centre, to establish himself as the top distance runner here. Serjlt of Dunearn Secondary Technical School running
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    • 184 11 ALEXANDER CHAN established a new National record In the 400 metres Individual medley at the Chinese Swimming Clubs 54th annual swimmine meet at the Club's pool. Amber Road, yesterday. He clocked a new time of 5 minutes 15.3 seconds, to improve on his own National record
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