Eastern Sun, 14 July 1969

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  • 23 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY VV Estd. 1966. Vol. 3 No. 1057 Monday, 14 July 1969. MC (P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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  • 507 1 MOSCOW, Sun. (Reuter) The Soviet Union today launched an unmanned craft towards the moon in what may be an eleventh-hour attempt to beat the Americans in the race to land equipment on the moon, and bring it back to earth. The craft, Luna-15, blasted
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  • 269 1 CAPE KENNEDY, Sun. (CPI) Apollo's astronauts wound up their last full day of training for Wednesday launch to the moon by honing their flying skills on Saturday in two moonship trainers, a helicopter a#d a supersonic jet. The countdown on their gleaming black and white space
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  • 38 1 BCCIiHOLZ. West Germany. Sun. (Reuter) A locomotive drove into a garage here after crashing through the buffers of a nearby railway track The engine driver was unhurt, but several cars in the garage were wrecked.
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  • 148 1 MOSCOW. Sun. (L'PI) China has relented from its refusal to participate in Sino-Soviet talks in Khabarovsk and the talks will resume on Monday, Radio Moscow said on Sunday. The radio report came on the same day that Soviets announced the Chinese delegation had walked
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  • 64 1 LONDON. Sun. (AFP) One ma n in Britain. David Threlfall. aged 26, of Preston. Lancashire, stands to win £lO.OOO if the American astronauts make a successful landing on the moon next Monday. In 1964 he placed ten pound bet with a London bookmaker at odds of 1.000
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  • 40 1 NEW DELHI. Sun. (Reuter) The 75-year-old Acting President. V. Venkata Girl, announced today that he will contest the election for the office of President of India a mov* that could split the ruling Congress party.
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  • 257 1 VIENNA, Sun. (Reuter) President Nicolae Ceausescu has broken a twoweek silence to express pleasure at next month's visit by President Nixon to Bucharest, the Rumanian news agency Agerpress reported today. Speaking in Cluj, Transylvania, President Ceausescu told a rallv yesterday, "We are looking forward with
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  • 86 1 CASTLEGANDOLFO, Italy. Sun. (Reuter) Pope Paul today prayed for the success of the U.S. moon-landing mission and said. "Science fantasy is becoming reality." He spoke about the lunar trip during his Sundav midday blessing of pilgrims outside his summer residence here. The Pope described the
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  • 371 1 PREMIER L SINGAPORE'S Prime Minister. Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. cautioned the people that the problems they expected to meet after 1971 might have to be faced even earlier. His words of caution came In a speech he made at the combined anniversary celebrations of the
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  • 105 1 CAPE TOWN. Sun. (AFP) Mis. Eileen Blaiberg today ridiculed press reports that her husband. Dr. Philip Blaiberg. the world's longest surviving heart transplant patient, could hardly move around because his legs were too weak. A Cape Town newspaper reported that Dr. Blaiberg had to be taken to
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  • 163 1 MANILA. Sun. <UPI> A 21-year-old night club hostess was sentenced to death three times on Saturday for the revenge slaving of three men last April 29. Three death sentences were imposed on Janet Clemente and her two male accomplices. Mario Carnal and Alfredo Edwards, after
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  • 98 1 MONTEVIDEO. Sun. (UPD—lndian diplomats were busy Saturday looking for ways to find a permanent home for two orDhaned elephants. The elephants, 7 and 8 years old respectively, originally had heen destined for the zoo in Rio de Janeiro as a sift from the Indian government. But when they
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  • 85 1 WASHINGTON, Sun. (UPI) —The Council of the Organisation of American States (OAS) met in a brief emergency session Saturdav to consider the border dispute between Honduras and El Salvador. Council chairman Carlos Holguin, Columbias OAS Ambassador. said "nothing was discussed, nothing was decided. nothing was asked" at
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  • 252 1 TEL AVIV. Sun <UPI) Arab guerrillas on Saturday shelled popular Israel: picnic spot where thousands of Israelis were enjoying the Jewish sabbath holidav, an Israeli armv spokesman said. Three civilians received scratches from flying shrapnel when two shells fired from homemade bazookas exploded near a restaurant
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 147 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Top priority will be given to programmes and projects ai m ed at bringing about racial unity, the Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Enehe Hamzah Bin Dato Abu Samah said today. His Ministry, he said, will be geared to meet the
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  • 157 2 BELFAST, Northern Ireland. Sun. (UPI) The "Glorious ljth" Protestant holiday in Northern Ireland was shattered yesterday by street violence that erupted despite special police patrols in the country's 18 major towns. Major rioting between Pro. testants and Catholics broke out in Londonderry and Lurgan. Protestants
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  • 217 2 THE Republic's own Disneyland Cemplex known as the Singapore Wonderland Amusement Park is well on its way to completion. The "fun centre", which covers a 5.5-acre site of the old Kallang Airport, will provide entertainment for young and old alike when it comes into operation on Aug.
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  • 200 2 KUALA LUMPI'R, Sun. Trade Unionists were last night told to help organise the little known and neglected thousands of workers in the agricultural sector to a properly organised group. In presenting a paper "On the Role of Trade Union in the Economic Development of
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  • 63 2 JAKARTA. Sun. (UPI) Hopes for the holding of general elections in June 1971, grew slimmer with parliament's inability to pass the necessary legislation last week. The Indonesian Congress in 1968 ordered general elections be held in June 1971. The elections would lead to a better reflection of current
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  • 175 2 JAKAPTTA. Sun (UPI) The Dutch Ambassador to Indonesia. Hugo Scheltema. flew to West Irian Sunday to investigate reports that antiIndonesian activists in West Irian were being "intimidated and tortured. Ambassador Scheltema left here early Sunda v with Indonesian Foreign Minister Adam Malik. Australian
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  • 147 2 MANILA, Sun. (UPI) Some 150 Filipino "call girls" are working in Hong Kong, Manila newspapers reported on Saturday. They said the information was contained in a confidential report from the Philippines Consul-General Rafael Gonzales to the Foreign Affairs Department. In his dispatch. Gonzales said there were
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  • 184 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. —Malaysian Premier Tunku Abdul Rahman said today that steps were now being taken to set-up a Muslim Affairs Council in the Prime Minister's department to streamline and improve mat- ters regarding Islam. In a message to the annual delegates' conference of
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  • 102 2 BANGKOK, Sun. (UFI) Thai police on Friday and Saturday seized 1,140 kilograms of opium from a Ashing boat and at Don Muang airport, police reported on Sunday. The 1.000 kilograms of opium were found in a fishing boat in Chonburl province, some 100 kilometres south of Bangkok
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  • 104 2 JAKARTA. Sun (UPI) Tunisian Foreign Minuter Habib Borguiba left for Honf Kong Sunday morning a* the end of a five-day goodwill visit to Indonesia. During his visit here. Borguiba held extensive discussions with top Indonesian Foreign Minister Adam Malik He also held consultations with President Suharto Trade
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  • 49 2 KABUL. Sun. (UPl)—Hsieh Tang Chih will be Communist China's Ambassador to Afghanistan, the Foreign Ministry announced Sunday. The affairs of the Red Chinese Embassy here have been handled by minor officials since the recall of the previous ambassador more than a year ago, during the cultural revolution.
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  • 155 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. No fresh incidents were reported during the last 12 hours ending at 5.30 p.m. today, the Malaysian Control Centre said. However, tension was still evident in the sensitive areas in Selangor, Perak, and Malacca. The overall situation was reported to be calm, the
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  • 293 2 A ROMANCE which blossomed four years ago between an airline pilot and an air stewardess reached full bloom yesterday when they became man and wife at a Bersanding Ceremony at Still Road. Katong. The groom is Mr. Choo Kok Liang. 28 a Comet pilot with
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  • 73 2 KATMANDU. Sun. (AFP) The wreckage of a Royal Nepal Airlines Dakota, missing since yesterday on an internal flight, has been spotted only ten miles from Simra where the aircraft was scheduled to land with 28 passengers and four crew members aboard, officials said today.
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  • 206 3 PARIS. Sun. (L'PI) American pacifist David T. Deliinger flew home yesterday after arranging for three U.S. prisoners of war to be released in Hanoi within 10 days. The prisoners' release was expected to improve the atmosphere at the Paris peace talks. Deliinger. Chairman
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  • 71 3 SYDNEY, Sun. (Reuter) A 35-year-old mother of 13 has given birth to a 141b. 6 oz. baby believed to be the heaviest child born in Australia. Mrs. Patricia Pollett. of Newcastle. 100 miles north of here, said that the baby, born yesterday morning. will be her
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  • 72 3 KATMANDU. Sun. (UPI) The resettlement of 10.000 Gurkhas being retrenched by the British Far East Army in agricultural colonies is now ready for implementation, according to the Nepal Herald. The Nepali daily said the first group of 400 Gurkhas finished their training in agricultural farming along the
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  • 349 3 BANGALORE, India. Sun. (Reuter) India's ruling: Congress Party today chose the 56-year-old Speaker of the House of the People, Sanjiva Reddy, as its candidate for President of India in the face of bitter opposition from Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi. But Congress sources said
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  • 306 3 TOKYO. Sun. (UPI) Hanoi said on Sunday only the total and unconditional U.S. troop withdrawal from South Vietnam will enable Vietnamese to hold general elections, the Vietnam News Agency reported. This view came in a memorandum issued by North Vietnamese Foreign Ministry on the
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  • 37 3 KARACHI. Sun. (Reuter) Air Marshal Malik Nur Khan. Pakistan's Air Force Commander, will take a personal message from President Yahya Khan to Mao Tsetung when he leaves for Peking today, a top official said.
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  • 425 3 TOKYO. Sun. (I'PI) A surprisingly light turnout of voters marked on Sunday's balloting for a new Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly. The Japan Socialist and Communist parties, hostile to the American role in Asia, hoped to win a combined majority of the seats, and capture working control
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  • 129 3 KOHIMA. India, Sun. (Reuter) Chuzulo Mekirsu. a leader of the moderate facilon of the Naga Nationalists and speaker of the Naga Nationalist Assembly, was found dead with gun shot wounds in a jungle near Chizami. 30 miles from here on Thursday, according to reporrs received here
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  • 83 3 TOKYO. Sun. (AFP) In Kobe yesterday 52 students and policemen were Injured and 86 students were arrested in a clash on a municipal construction site. Four thousand students were holding a rally to seek settlement of the campus dispute, when police intervened. Riot police surrounded
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  • 140 3 NEW DELHI, Sun. (Router) The Indian news agency Press Trust of India, quoted a radio report today as saying Chinese troops had opened fire on Indian troops In the vicinity of Lipu, Lekh Pass, on the border between Tibet and India. The report, quoting
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  • 191 3 HONG KONG. Sun- (UPI) The Medical and Health Department yesterday offered free cholera vaccine to doctors and clinics amid signs that the epidemic may spread in this British colony. So far four confirmed cholera cases have been detected and more than half of the four
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  • 600 3 SAIGON, Sun. (UPI) Air Force Cl4l jet transports lifted off Bien Hoa air base near Saigon on Sunday with another complement of the 25,000 American troops who will be withdrawn from Vietnam by August 30. The first of nine transports carrying an 800-man
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  • 115 3 SAIGON. Sun. (AFP) Militant Buddhists here have come ou; in support of President Nguyen Van Thieu's call to the National Liberation Front on Friday to take part in internationally supervised elec'ions. The Venerable Huyen Quang. Genera! Secretary of the An Quan 2 Pagoda Institute for the
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  • 170 3 SAIGON. Sun. (Reuter) Twelve Vietnamese journalists cut short a planned 24-hour hunger strike today after receiving assurances from the authorities that police would respect the dignity of reporters They staged their demonstration inside the National Press Centre building in protest against alleged police brutality. One
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  • 83 3 SEOUL. Sun. (UPI) Nine persons who were celebrating the launching ol a 1.3-ton motor boat drowned late Saturday when the vessel capsized in ;he North Han river in its first voyage, police reported Sunday. Twenty persons were aboard the boat but 11 of them were rescueo. Four bodies
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  • 603 4 BONN, Sun. (Reuter) A war-time link between Kim Philby, former Russian master spv in the British Secret Ser vice, and Dr. Otto John, one-time west German-Intelligence Chief, has thrown new light on an old east-west espionage drama. Dr. John. 60. contends In
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  • 213 4 JOHANNESBURG, Sun (Reuter) Anti-apartheid Editor. Laurence Gandar was fined at the end of a 90-day trial for articles published in his newspaper. He wrote an editorial warning that many of the realities facing South African were unpalatable, but presenting news or view* that might
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  • 282 4 GENOA. Italy. Sun. (Reuter) The fate of Lone Swedish sailor. Peter Wallin, remained deep in mystery yesterday when his seven metre yacht. "Vagabond", was brought here aboard the Liberia n Freighter, "Golar Frost." The single-masted yacht, sailing from Sweden to Canada. was found by
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  • 195 4 LONDON. Sun. 'UPI)— Loodon police have been alerted to watch for a new kind of drug-users youths who inject themselves with berr and hard liquor—a Scotland Yard source said yesterday. The source said a growing number of teenage drug addicts and Hippies were taking alcohol directly
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  • 78 4 ATHENS. Sun <UPI» John F Kennedv. Jr. has replaced his mother. Mrs Jacqueline Onassis. as the favourite of Greek newspaper news and picture coverage The presence of John and a Negro school-mate from NewYork. Eric Vaughn, on Aristotle Onassis' private island of Skorpios is front
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  • 64 4 GENOVA. Italy. Sun (UPI) Mrs. Roswitha Schwitrer was having coffee with her husband in a Genoa bar vesterday when she saw a man lifting two packages from their parked car. She ran. He ran She caught him in no time and turned him over to the police.
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  • 93 4 LAGOS. Sun (Reuter) The Nigerian Air Force destroyed two DC-4 aircraft on the ground at Biafra's Uliihiala Air-strip last night, the Federal Commissioner for Information. Chief Anthony Enahoro, announced here yesterday. Speaking at a presa briefing. Chief Enahoro said the planes were attacked while being offloaded and
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  • 241 4 ROME. Sun (Reuter) President Saragat gave the mandate to Signor Rumor after three days of consultations with political leaders on the week-old crisis. Signor Rumor's coalition government of Christian Democrats. Socialists and Republicans resigned eight days ago after only six months In office because
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  • 227 4 THE 'TRIMARAN' LONDON, Sun. (Reuter) The organisers of the round-the-world yacht race during which sailor Donald Crowhurst disappeared in mid-Atlantic yesterday launched an appeal fund for his wife and four child- ren. The organisers. "The Sunday Times." announced yesterday they would contribute 5.000 sterling to
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  • 261 4 MADRID. Sun. (Renter) Doctors, lawyers and theologians from all over the wortd gathered hero at the weekend for the first International Symposium on Organ Transplants opening tomorrow. An ambitious programme has been mapped out for the symposium, which lasts until Thursday. The organisers say
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  • 147 4 BERLIN. Sun (UPI> Col. Gail Halvorsen dropped candy over West Berlin yesterday in a re-enactment of the "Operation Little Little*", Lt. Halvorsen carried out 20 years ago during the Berlin Blockade Halvorsen came back to Berlin to take part in the annual open house held at the US
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  • 121 4 ESSEN. Germany. Sun. (UPI) The Roman Catholic Diocese Board of Essen yesterday criticised the governmentsponsored sex education 'Sex-Atlas' for not Including full pictures of naked men and women and for using too many medical terms. "The lack of full photographs of men and women In their nakedness throws
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  • 729 5 Dinner On SPACE CENTRE, Houston, Sun. (UPI) The first thing Apollo 11's landing crewmen will do after settling down on the moon is to prepare to launch themselves back into space. One of the next things they do is eat dinner. Here is a schedule
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  • 122 5 CAPE KENNEDY. Sun. '(UPI) Apollo 8 commander Frank Borman said yesterday that Soviet President Nikoli Podgomy told him Russia plans to put large manned space stations in orbit around the moon. Borman. reporting on his recent 10-day tour of the Soviet Union, "said launch timtables
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  • 94 5 OWEGO, New York. Sun. (UPI) Two spectators were killed and a dozen injured, some seriously, when a stock car ploughed into the crowded stands during a race at the Owego-Shangrila speedway last bight Tioga County Sheriffs Deputies identified the dead as Ernest Vann, 59,
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  • 45 5 JOSEPH Sisco (R) Asst. US Secretary of State for MidEast Affairs in Moscow Saturday for talks on the ArabIsraeli crisis. Alexander I Zinchuk (L) chief of the American section of the Soviet Foreign Ministry and Anatoly Buronov (C) Deputy Protocol Officer received him (UPI radiophoto)
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  • 276 5 SAIGON. Sun. LTD Mme. Anna Chennault. named by author Theodore White as influencing the 1968 presidential elections, said yesterday she had "nothing to sav" of the report. "The public must wait for my book about Vietnam which is comirg out soon." said Mme Chennault. the
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  • 99 5 CAPE KENNEDY. Sun CReuter) The US Space Agencv will ask congress for funds to build the fir st moon buggy, it was announced here. The vehicle, the Lunar Rover, is to be sent to the moor, in 1971 by a manned Apollo Module Four prototypes are to
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  • 105 5 WASHINGTON, sun (Filter) Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield said today President Nixon has apparent. IT quietly ordered a lessening of military pressure in Vietnam. He told reporters he believed this wa« part of a Nixon Administration effort to get the stalemated Paris peace talks moving
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  • 93 5 CAPE Kennedy, Sun (Reuter) When a Hilton can't find a room in a Hilton, there must be a room shortage. Baron Hilton, who run* (he international hotel chain, asked for a room yesterday at the Cape Kennedy Hilton, near the main entrance to the Kennedy
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  • 206 5 DETROIT. Sun. (UPI) A pleasure cruiser chartere-i for a gala cruise on 'he Detroit river exploded at Marina after taking on gas Saturday afternoon, kiling two small children and Injuring 17 other persor.s A seven-year-old boy was killed in the explosion and his 12-year-old
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  • 209 5 SAIGON. Sun -AFP) Music may have charms to soothe the savage beasts, but war activity here yesterday left some doubt about its effect on American military commanders A company of Gls had just curled up In its Are support base near Due Pho. 100 kms
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  • 354 5  -  Bv PAUL SHEDOWN MIAMI. Florida. Sun. (UPI) Eighty-three-year-old Sam Kipnis sat alone in his spacious. 180-seat art theatre watching a film on Russian culture no one wanted to see. "Where are the intelligent, the cultured people," he asked despairingly. The glitter and tinsel of Miami's
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  • 324 5 Nixon And The Spaceman CAPE KENNEDY, Sun. (Reuter) Astronaut Frank Borman today criticised American space agency doctors for being too concerned about the dangers of infection to astronauts. At a conference here. Borman made clear he was particularly incensed by a controversy over a proposal for
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  • 171 5 MINNEAPOLIS, Sun. (Reuter) India's External Affairs Minister, Mr. Dinesh Singh, said today that the U.S. should not establish any military base in the Indian Ocean. He noted that the Indian Ocean is an area "free of conflirt" and said acquisition of a
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  • 909 6 IN EXACTLY one week man will set foot on the moon. We know all the details in advance. We know the name of the man, the time he will set foot on moonsoil, the weight of his space suit, etc. You name it, the details have been already
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  • 1676 6  -  Fifth And Last Article The last few hundred feet will be the most dangerous step man will take to complete the nine-year "dream" to land on the moon. This is the last of five articles telling the story of step-by-step to
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  • 688 6  -  JOSEPH ALSOP PARIS Reportedly, Andre Malraux is now dining out in Paris on the grisly prediction that before the year ends there will be 50,000 dead in the streets of Paris. This hecatomb is to result from a plunge into chaos, which will in turn result in
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  • 19 6 Nothing is impossible and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. La Rochefoucauld.
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  • 301 6  -  LETTERS... S. RAMAPHAMtlftA Singapore. THIS letter should be of interest in view of Armed Forces Day and the exhibition of weapons etc. being held at Beach Road. By the side of the main entrance of the National Museum are two 13" mortars. They were previously placed
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 743 7 By Cubes And Chunks HONOLULU, Sun. (UPI) Foreign producers ore putting the pressure on the U.S. pineopple industry, according to o spokesman for the Pineapple Growers Association of Ha- waii. "They're shipping and selling pineapple cheaper than we can and the housewives are
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    • 86 7 PERTH. Sun. (Reuter) The directors of West Australian Newspapers Ltd. yesterday accepted the takeover offer of the Herald and Weekly Times Ltd., of Melbourne, on a share exchange basis. The deal is worth more than AS66 million based on current share prices, making it. on
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    • 77 7 THE Bank of America opened two overseas branches last Tuesday in Willemstad. Curacoa and Buenos Aires. Agentina. The Willemstad branch will become the first of a foreign bank in the Netherlands Antilles. The New office in Buenos Aires will be the third Bank of
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    • 252 7 Japan Warns Of StockManipulating In Her Marts HONG KONG, Sun. (UPI) —The Bonk of Jopon warned lost week that sharp increases in foreign investment in Japanese stocks will hurt Japan's international balance of payments. The warning came in the wake of a Ministry of Finance announcement that foreigners purchased an
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    • 281 7 LONDON. Sun. (UPI) Bustling world trade is keeping merchant fleets busy and has pushed tonnage of world shipping laid up for lack of work down to its lowest P°*®' since records were started 11 years ago. Chamber of shipping figures showed the total of workless
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    • 149 7 TOKYO, Sun. (AFP) The United States government has notified Japan of 20 items of interest" to the United States including voluntary restrictions on exports of textile products, government sources revealed today. The notification was made through the U.S. embassy by way of preparations
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    • 224 7 WASHINGTON, Sun. (ReuterJ The world's major wheat exporting nations announced today that corrective action would be taken by some exporters to bring prices into proper competitive relationship. The announcement came at the end of a two-day meeting here called to solve pricing problems of
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    • 595 7 ISFAHAN, Iran, Sun. (Reuter A force of 14,000 Iranian technicians, skilled workers and labourers, helped by some 300 Russian experts, are working around the clock to build Iran's giant steel mill complex the first in the country's history. The Soviet Union 1* financing; the building
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    • 52 7 MANILA. Sun. (UPI) The fourth regional conference of Asian Development Banks is scheduled to open Monday in suburban Makati. two miles south of here. The four-day conference, to be attended bv representatives of National Development Banks from 18 Asian countries. is under the auspices of the Asian
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    • 899 7 The weekly market review TRADING in the past week in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore was a daily course in slight downward bias as the uneasy calm upcountry continued to keep initiative down to the minimum. Conditions were thus practically unchanged from the previous week. The
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    • 134 7 UNITED NATIONS, Sun. (UPI) Australia. France and Portugal have contributed the highest percentage of their income to financing development of the poor countries, according to a United Nations report. Generally, it noted, the industrial nations were falling behind the U.N.-formulated aid target for the developing
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    • 290 7 HONG KONG, Sun. (CPP— An ambitious programme to build a rfries of luxury hotels in South and Southeast Asia is moving ahead "fine ana smoothly/' according to one of the prime backers of the Programme. i Hart N. Harilela. a prominent Indian businessman in Hong Kong, said
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    • 109 7 TOKYO, Sun. (UPI) Nissan Motor Co. of Yokohama, one of Japan's largest automobile makers. announced it has switched from pound sterling to Japanese yen as the medium for settlement of accounts for future exports to Britain. The announcement said the switch was decided on to
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    • 100 7 Sembawang Gets AfterService Contract OSAKA. Sun. 'UPI) Hitachi Ship building and Engineering Co. of Osaka arnounced vesterday it has concluded a contract for a tie up with Sembawang Shipyard of Singapore for after-sale service of its ships. Under the contract. Sembawang Shipyard will undertake repair work and after-sale services of
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    • 110 7 Mr. H.A. Nowell. recently appointed Commerciai Manager of Guinness has now been appointed to the Board of Directors of Guinness Malaysia Berhad from July 1. Mr. Nowell, 35, qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1957. He served with the R.A.S.C. in Germany and the Internal
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      442 9 THE arid atmosphere of the room makes you perspire. Beads of sweat ooze down every part of your body, making you feel sticky all over. This is perhaps the mid-way of the ordeal, the ordeal of sitting for an examination. In the middle of a rider which you
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    • 398 9 AT present there are school rules that we have to follow very closely. There are rules on schooluniforms. For example, the blouses should have pointed collars, white in colour and sleeves must be above the elbow. Whit© leather shoes are not allowed in school. Jewellery
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      481 9 WASTE as everyone knows is very common in one's daily life. Most people waste things instead of making use of them for good purposes. Moreover wastage is a very foolish thing in life and only brings with it evil. However, there are different kinds of waste. For instance,
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    • 259 9 WHY juvenile delinquency? Tccay. with the rue in such misdeeds much attention is being paid to them Because of many frustrations or lacK of parental care, youngsters ha* e become disobedient to their superiors and unruly They rob and attack the innocent, and some have taken
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    • 403 9 THERE are many politicians. doctors and teachers in Singapore. A politician's duty is to rule the country well and make the people more civilised so as to prevent them from getting into bad habits of doing unwanted things. The doctor is saving the lives of
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    • 590 9 A SPORT is a form of amusement and therefore, sports include games like soccer. rugbv and hockey. Swimming is a sport too. In these activities, the muscles in the various parts of the body are strained and actively involved In soccer, for example, there is kicking and
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 59 9 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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    • 198 9 Essay writing: Rules to observe All entrant* are requested to observe the following rules: 1. Each entrant must fill in his/her own writing the entry form appended below in block letters. 2. Ao entry will be considered without the entry form properly filled up. 3. The entrant must attach his/her
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 74 9 AMY By Jack Tippit nii'jj ns h. i. "Look, Archlt. ONE of ui rides. ONE hat to pull I u DATELINE: DANGER! by John Saunders and Alden McWfliams AND IF VOU THINK TM QONNA COP OUT ON'THE OROUP', YOU'RE NUTS.'. 1 THEY'D GET MEAN'...' M 3 3 CHEER UP, LITTLE
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  • 289 10 Robin Yan Kam Chiang won the 20,000 metres point race in the Singapore Amateur Cycling Association National track championships held at the Farrer Park Athletic Centre yesterday. Out of a field of 20 riders, three reached the half way mark. Ac the «nd two
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  • 180 10 Singapore Cricket Club, last year's champion, trounced Indian Association bv eight wickets in the second round of the SCA Division One league match played at Balestier Road yesterday. Indians, who batted first, were dismissed for 18 runs. Skipper Baldiraj scored nine runs and Herat eight
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  • 29 10 BAKAT BAKU scored a 1-0 win over Tampines Rovers in the second round of a FAS Division one league match playad at Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday.
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  • 646 10 SINGAPORE'S champion sprinter C. Kunalan's four-year-old 400 metres meet record was shattered by Ho Mun Cheong at the Stoneley triangular athletic meet at the Dover Road Stadium yesterday. Ho. who made a comeback after a lapse of more than a year, ran the 400 metres
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  • 251 10 LEEDS. England. Sun. (Reuter) The West Indies may consider risking all-rounder John Shepherd, who has missed the last two days of the third cricket Test against England with back trouble, when they start their chase for victory here tomorrow. At the close last
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  • 77 10 Police walked out in the FAS First Division match against Fathul Karib at Jalan Besar Stadium last night when referee Mydeen threatened to send right winger Khoo Hian Kee off the field. Khoo was warding off a tackle from Fathul Karib's left back Syed Khalid Omar ten
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  • 1600 10  -  Bv BIG BEN KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— Castle Command scored an easy win in the King's Cup trial over 6f beating Pisang Mas by four lengths here today. Ridden by Velayutham and neglected On the tote Castle Command paid $l6l for a win ticket. Castle Command is not
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  • 212 10 AIX En Provence. France. Sun (Reuter) Seven profes. sionals will fleht for the first open men's singles title a t the Golden Racket tennis tournament starting here tomorrow. Favourite for the title must be Australian Roy Emerson, but he will be given a
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  • 160 10 W ATKINS GLEN, New York, Sun. (Reuter)—Porsche racing cars finished one. two. three yesterday in a world championship of manufacturers six hours endurance race at Watkins Glen. The red and white Porsche. with Josef Siffert of Switzerland and Brian Redman of England driving. led the
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  • 161 10 HOHENSTEIN-ERNSTTHAL. East Germany. Sun. <Reuter> Italian double world champion Giacomo Agostini won the 350 c.c. race at the East German Motor Cycling Grand Prix here today ahead of Britain's Rodney Gould and East Germany s start rider Heinz Rosner. The 20.000 people watching the
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  • 56 10 DUBLIN, Sun. fßeuter) American Billie-Jean King, who lost her Wimbledon title this year to Britain's Ann Jones, crushed British number one Virginia Wade €-2, 6-2 to win the women's single title at the Carrolls tennis tournament here yesterdayMrs. King took only 45 minutes to clinch
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  • 803 10 NEW YORK. Sun. (Reuter)— Rich Reese belted a homer, a double and a single to spark the Minnesota Twins to a lopsided 13-1 win over the Seattle Pilots here yesterday In an American League Western Division baseball game. Reese slammed his
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous
    • 44 10 BIG SWEEP TOTAL POOL: ($29,362) Ist Prize: No. *****1 ($7,267) 2nd Prize: No. *****1 ($3,633) 3rd Prize: No. *****3 ($1,816) Starters; ($302 each) Nos. *****1 *****6 *****5 *****2 *****8 *****3 Consolation: ($l6l each) Nos: *****0 *****8 *****1 *****9 *****4 *****0 *****3 *****2 *****6 *****9
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 418 11 LONDON, Sun. (Reuter) Gloucestershire, runaway leaders at the top of the English County cricket championship, gave current champions Yorkshire a rough time at the start of their three-day match yes- terdav. Sparked by another fine performance from their South African all-rounder Mike Procter. who took
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    • 211 11 TOKYO. Sun. ißeuter) AMan football coaches will take part In the first soccer to be held here next week. The Japan Football Association <JFA) have Invited 40 coaches from 13 Asian countries to attend what It described as the first International coaching school, opening on
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    • 42 11 SYDNEY, Sun. (Reuter) Malaysian champion Lee Mun Chew, 25. won the New South Wales table tennis title last night, defeating Sydney's 18-year-old Paul Pinkewich in the final. 13-21. 12-21. 21-15, 24-22. 21-18. Lee is in Australia lor IS months' study.
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    • 445 11 DERRICK de Souza captured top honours for the second year in the Yio Chu Kang Recreation Club's ID-| miles Telecoms Big Walk held yesterday. The route was from the Bukit Timah/Mandai junction to the clubhouse at Yio Chu Kang Road. Derrick taking part :n
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    • 174 11 FIVE countries have confirmed their participation in the Singapore Ten-Pin Bowling Congress First International Championships incorporating the Fifth National Championships from August 11-17. They are Malaysia, Thailand. Australia, Hong Kong and the Philippines. The biggest team outside Singapore will be from Malaysia (sft bowlers)
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    • 123 11 HONG KONG. Sun. (UPI) The national soccer team of Rhodesia will be banned from entering Hong Kong in October en route to South Korea, a government spokesman said today The Rhodes.an Football Association requested a game against Hong Kong on Oct 4 or 5 before the
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    • 116 11 SANTA CLARA. California. Sun. (Reuter) Three world records were broken here yesterday during an international swimming contest. Gary Hail of the U.S. set a new world mark in the men's 4on metre freestyle of 4 min 38.7 sec. Hall. 17. who took second place in
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    • 645 11 GOLF LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England. Sun. (UPI-Reuter) Tony Jacklin of England became the first Briton in 18 years to win the British Open golf championship. He shot a one-over-par 72 for a 72-hole total of 280. Jacklin finished two shots ahead of
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    • 147 11 DURBAN. Sun <Reuter> The Australian rugby team was deservedly beaten by Natal 19-14 here yesterday in a match that produced few tactical movements from either side The opportunist Natal side dominated play until the dying minutes when the tourists threw away their chance to save
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    • 179 11 Jockeys' Strike SYDNEY Sun. (Reuten Hopes have risen for a quick settlement of the Sydney jockeys" strike which yesterday caused the major Randwick race meeting to be abandoned The Chairman of the powerful Australian Jockey Club Committee. Sir Brian Crowley, said last night no action would
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    • 45 11 SEOUL. Sun (UPI) The Or ent's bantamweight champion Won-Suk last r.ight <eored a 12-round unanimous decision over fe'low countryman Kim Hyun in a non-title bout at Changchung stadium here Lee lost to Kim. the nation's featherweight champion, by a decision on May 31.
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    • 36 11 DUBLIN. Sun <UPI) Bob Hewitt. South Africa, beat Nicky PUie of Yugoslavia 6-3. 6-2. in the men's singles final to win the £1.200 first prize in the Carroll's £5.000 Open lawn tennis championships yesterday.
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    • 279 11 TAY KWANG JIN. a hard hitting handicap eight golfer shot a fashionable 36-36-72. nett-64, to win the Keppel Club's A Division (stroke) Medal of the month, six strokes in front of runner-up Stephen Wee (8) who ended with a nett-37-33 yesterday. B/Division Medal went to
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    • 175 11 AI'STRALLVS amateur women golfers returned score cards in a recent tournament which indicate that women's golf in Australia is reaching a high standard. Some of the nation's best women golfers competed in an open tournament over 72 holes conducted by the Ladies' Golf Inion 'n the State of
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 484 11 Classified Ads. Soles Service Television Radio REDIFFLSION TELEVISION RENTALS HP. CASH Complete range to auit everyone Showrooms: Clemenceau A vs., j o o Ctatat Road. Taman Juron? BEDIFFTSION REPAIRS ANT MAKE OF TV SETS Radiophone Controlled Mafnteaaaco Phone 83.Ml 2 >2ias Sinjapore Communal Aerial System* Closed Circuit TV Barktround Music
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 1091 11 <■' 1 'WW TV and Ratio M v* > ft ICHANNEL 5» 11 20-11 40 Mathematics Sec II P.M. 3.o'i Opening Announre- Mathematics and the outside merit? in all Languages A: world re Star; 321 Health ;n the P>l 1155-12 15 English 2nd Home Ei c!i?h; 335 Be Our Language
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  • 452 12  -  By K.S. Sidhu LEGGY Miss Elizabeth Bell, a British Broadcasting Corporation Television star hopes to make good cne day as a full fledged feature film actress. Althouh she has had 12 rears experience as one of Britain's top stage and television actresses, she
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  • 267 12 THE Ministry of Interior and Defence has set up 21 centres in various community centres for those who have registered for the National Service to report any changes in their address. In the past. National Service Registrants and parttime National Servicemen had to call at
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  • 66 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Goodwill committees were today urged to concentrate particularly on the youths around their areas. The call came from the Chairman of the General Hospital Goodwill Committee, Dato (Dr.) Haji Abdul Majid Bin Ismail, who said the Goodwill Committee was concentrating on youths as goodwill was
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  • 104 12 MANILA. Sun. (AFP)—FFo r beauty queens representing four Asian nations have arrived in Manila to take part in this year's second "Miss Asia" beauty pageant s echeduled for July 25 at suburban Araneta Coliseum. The v are Linda Calvo. 19, Miss Guam Sandra Van Geyzel. 18. of
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  • 285 12 THE Government should seriously consider upgrading the present salary scale of technical assistants graduated from Polytechnic in the government sector to remove their frustrations and unhappiness. This was suggested by Mr. Chone Hoi Y1 n g, Chairman. Fifth Interim Council, SPSr. at the graduation dinner
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  • 86 12 A FILM show, fashion show and a body-building competition will be organised by the Pasir Panjang Community Centre Management Committee on Aug. 13 to 15 to celebrate National Day and the 150 th anniversary of the founding of Singapore. The Minister for Social Affairs. Enche Othman
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  • 216 12 Thirteen 10-minute talk s on English will he delivered over Rediffusion hv Mr. Philip Burton, a Chief Examiner in English for the Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate commencing on Aug. 11. The talks, designed specially for overseas students will also be helpful to every student who
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  • 567 12 AVAILABLE accounts and assessments of the years immediately preceding the emergence of Singapore to self-governing statehood in 1959 suffered from several "major omissions." So declared one of Singapore's most prominent citizens in a ta'k given to members of the Anglican. Methodist and Presbyterian Churches
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  • 151 12 A MOTOR-CYCLIST Mr Lee Seng Kian. yesterday caught a man who had earlier robbed a couple of a wrist watch valued at S"6. a cigarette liehter costing $lO and cash $33. at Bras Basah Road Lee heard their cries tor help and gave chase to a fleeing
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  • 104 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. A call was made today to the Penang milk vendors to report to police any signs of illfeeling or trouble among the people during their daily rounds. Making the call at the 32nd anniversary of the Penang Indian Cows's Milk Traders Association. the
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  • 33 12 THE SLIGHTLY decomposed bodv of a naked newoorn baby girl was found dead in a dry monsoon drain in Coronation Road West by a passer by yesterday afternoon. Police are investigating
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  • 124 12 THIS beaming belle is not only beautiful but also brainy as is evidenced by the diploma she is her© seen receiving from Dr. Ong Swee Law, the chairman of the Public Utilities Board. Miss Yu Swee Ling was one of 37 recipients of professional diplomas at the Singapore
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  • 226 12 TO TAP all the talents required in the efficient running of the country, every citizen counts and is in a position to play his part in a modern society. The M P for Upper Serangoon. Mr. Sia Kan Hui said this at the official opening of
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  • 22 12 THERE were a total of 59 road accidents of which six were serious during the oast 24 hours in the Republic.
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  • 211 12 MEMBERS of toe Photographic Society of Singarore ranked among the top international exhibitors at world photographic competitions last year. Mr Tan Lip-Seng scored the nistlnction of being among the Top 25 in Colour S'.ides". while the honour of being among the Fifty Leading Monochrome Exhibitors
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  • 66 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun The Mentri Besar of Perak. Da o Ahrad Bin c a "v--dav called on the people of various races to form a formiable front against rumourmongering. Speaking at a luncheon party in Gopeng. he said there was no reasons why the various communities could not
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
    • 55 12 EASTEHNSIJN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY REQUIRES ATTRACTIVE girls between the ages of 17 and 25 who are able to converse freely in English for temporary promotion jobs. Experience not necessary as training will be given. Interested, please call personally at the office. 23-B Cantonment Road, Singapore 2, today or tomorrow
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 65 12 TOTO DRAW The following numbers were drawn at the Toto Draw yesterday: Nos. 35, 6. 5. 7 and 30. The additional number is 28. In the Lucky Draw for the last five digits for $l,OOO the number drawn/were: *****. For the last four digits for 100, the num>* o rs
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    • 99 12 Time Tide High Tide (Today) Singapore Town: 11.53 a.m. (7 ft); 10.28 p.m <8.3 ft). Naval Dockyard: 12 12 p.m. (9 ft.); 10.41 pm. (9 ft.). Low T»de (Today) Singapore Town: 4.52 a.m. (0.6 ft.); 4.43 pm. (4.1 ft Naval Dockyard: 4.39 a.m. <1.2 ft.); 4.57 pm. (5.1 ft.). High
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