Eastern Sun, 20 August 1969

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  • 22 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN WATIOWAL DAILY TV Estd. 1966. VoL 4 No. 1093 Wednesday, 20 August 1969. MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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  • 383 1 JAKARTA, Tues. (AFP) —Japanese adoption of the role of policeman in Asia and Southeast Asia would constitute a great risk to the United States and to Japan itself, Indonesia's Foreign Minister Adam Malik said in a television interview broadcast last night. Mr. Malik
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  • 180 1 UNITED NATIONS. New York, Tues. (Reuter) Members of the United stations Security Council last niffht failed to avree on a date to hear Ireland's request for action in the Ulster crisis. The Security Council yesterday completed a general debate on the Israel-Lebanon conflict but did not vote.
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  • 81 1 A MALAYSIAN woman, who came to Singapore to visit relatives was killed when she was knocked down bv a car at the junction of Lorong 101 and Changi Road, yesterday. Police identified her as Madam Kiew Sek Kiaw. 49. of Kampong Abdullah, Segamat. Madam Kiew
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  • 134 1 HONO KONG. Tues (UPP Two former Chinese employees of Trans World Airlines (TWA) were arrested yesterday on charges 0 f cheating the company about U5532,000 and were given jail sentences today. Yeung Ting Kwaong, 24. was accused of falsification and forgery of documents and sentenced to
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  • 197 1 Elections Ban KUCHING. Sarawak, Tues. (Renter) Malaysian Deputy Premier Tun Abdul Rasak said today that the suspension of elections in Sarawak was unfortunate but there was no alternative. Tun Razak told reporters on arrival from Kuala lAßnpur today that one of the causes of the Mav 13
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  • 338 1  -  By: JOHN HSU SINGAPORE will become one of the important centres for American participation in the economic investment in this region. This was stated yesterday by Dr. Paul A. Fabry, Managing Director of International House in USA after he met the Prime Minister.
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  • 182 1 SINGAPORE and Indonesia has entered into a new phase in diplomatic relations with the arrival of the Indonesian Ambassador-Designate, General Sunarsu yesterday. A beaming General Sunarsu met newsmen at the airport on his arrival and commented that the cocperation of the two countries in the
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  • 215 1 JAKARTA, Tuts. (Keuter) Indonesian Foreign Minister, Adam Malik, said last night there was no alternative for Singapore but to co-operate with Malaysia and Indonesia. In a recorded television Interview the minister, who is now touring Europe, was asked on the possibility of a confederation
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  • 54 1 HENLEY. England. Tues. (Reuter) —Princess Lee Radziwill, sister of Mrs. Jackie Onassis. was fined £3O today for a driving accident in which she broke her nose. A police officer told magistrates that on May 18 her Aston Martin sports car swung across the road and collided
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  • 79 1 ADELAIDE. Tues. (Reuter) Icebergs have been reported for the first time off Australia's southern coast and shipping has been warned to steer clear. Two large ice floes were sighted by ships 22 miles off the coast near the border of South Australia and Victoria. A Department
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  • 89 1 HONG KONG, Tues. (Reuter) China today demanded that the Soviet government stop immediately all provocations against its territory. Radio Peking reported. The demand was made in a "strong protest" note issued by the Chinese Foreign Ministry to the Soviet embassy in Peking. the radio said. The Chinese government
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  • 33 1 JERUSALEM. Tucs. (UPI)— Two bombs exploded in Jerusalem today wound irvg two young boys only few hours after Israeli troops launched a clean up of Arab guerrillas in the Gaza Strip.
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  • 94 1 LUEBECK. Germany. Tue«. (DPI) —An East German swimming champion fled to the West in a night swim, West German border police said today. Axel Mltbauer. 19. East Germany's 400-metre crawl title holder, swam yesterday morning from the East German Mecklenburg coast to a buoy off Dahmeshoeved in
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous


  • 580 3 WASHINGTON, Tues. (UPI and Reuter) Army Secretary Stanley Resor flew to Asia yesterday for a visit to the War Zone and a look into the Green Beret murder investigation in Vietnam. The trip will take Resor to Hawaii, Guam. Korea and Japan as
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  • 190 3 NEW DELHI, Tucs. (Reuter and UPI) The President of India's ruling Congress Party. S. Nijalingappa. yesterday asked Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi to explain her defiance of Party orders to support its candidate in last Saturday's Presidential Elections. The move could herald disciplinary action
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  • 152 3 MUNICH. Tues (Reuter) A 38-year-old United states Array officer stationed in Stuttgart has been charged with the premeditated murder of a young Thai woman, an array spokesman said here yesterday. He identified the officer as Lt-Col. Dennis Day. 38, of Detroit. Michigan, accused of
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  • 78 3 JAKARTA. Tues <AFP) A quarrel between a man and his wife caused a fire that destroyed 143 houses and rendered 816 persons homeless. Antara News Agency reported today. The fire swept through Le bak Pasar, near Bogcr. 60 kilometres from Jakarta, during the week-end. Fire engines were
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  • 51 3 MANILA. Tues. (UPI) Lightning struck four high school girls huddling under a mango tree yesterday, killing one and injuring the other three in a school yard. Marilyn Tubise Valenzuela. 14. died of multiple burns, according to officials at Quirino Memorfal Hospital. Her three companions also were treated for
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  • 174 3 JAKARTA. Tues. (UPI) A bomb exploded in Surabaja, East Java, during Indonesian Independence Day celebrations last night, killing two persons and wounding 52 others, it was reported today. Five of the wounded were in serious condition while the 47 others suffered slight injuries, the Jakarta
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  • 119 3 HONG KONG. Tues. (Reuter) China today kept up its propaganda drive against Russia by announcing that cinemas in Peking and other Chinese cities would start screening two anti-Kremlin documentary films tomorrow. The New China News Agency said that one documentary entitled "Chenpao lsland Brooks No Violation" recorded
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  • 355 3 TOKYO, Tues. (UPI) A young Japanese who oppose the Vietnam War yesterday damaged a I S. Air Force transport plane making a landing at Tachikawa Air Base by hurling rocks from a trench alongside the runway. Maj. Daniel Boone, 37. pilot of four-engine
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  • 50 3 JAKARTA, Tues. (Reuter) Beauty queens entered for the Miss Indonesia auest came up with these answers during intelligence tests: What country does Queen Sirikit come from? Cambodia. What does Pepera (Indonesia's five-year plan) stand for? The United Nations. Who is Adam Malik (Indonesian Foreign Minister)?^*J do not know.
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  • 237 3 BANGKOK, Tues. (Reuter) Thailand has formed a special committee to prepare the country against a Communist guerrilla war, government sources said today. The sources said that the formation of the committee, however did not mean that the Government expected a Communist guerrilla war
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  • 82 3 NEW ORLEANS. Tues. (Reuter) Hurricane Camille. the most severe in United States history, weakened yesterday after leaving at least 15 dead, hundreds injured and 70.000 people taking refuge in emergency shelters in three southern states. Dozens of communities along the coast of Mississippi. Louisiana and Alabama were without
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  • 104 3 MOSCOW. Tues. (Reuter) A Russian sailor, afloat for 7-1/2 hours in the sea after being swept overboard, clambered aboard his rescue ship and wisecracked. "You kept me waiting a long time." Alexander Kochabyenko fell from his Haiphongbound ship during a recent storm in the Gulf of Tonkin, the
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  • 79 3 MR. AND MRS. SHEPHERD WHEAT have passed their mid-sixties but their urge to travel to places has not waned. The couple, who are both retired lawyers from Los Angeles, have been on the move round the globe for the last 15 years, either together or separately as circumstances permitted. Mr.
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  • 360 3 WASHINGTON, Tues. (I'PI) The State Department said yesterday there were no grounds for Thailand's insistence that its permlaslon was necessary before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee could look at a secret U.S.-Thai Military Agreement. The Document in question specifies
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  • 283 3 CANBERRA, Tues. (Renter) Australian Prime Minister, John Gorton, is expected to decide this week when to hold the next Federal Elections his first as Prime Minister. Following a vote-catching budget last week with Increased social service benefits, more aid for education and more handouts
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  • 183 3 AUCKLAND. New Zealand. Tues. (UPI) The New Zealand University Students' Association have asked the Government to prevent the Malaysian Government from interfering in the activities of Malaysian students at the University of Auckland. The Association, meeting In Dunedln. heard evidence in secret
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  • 126 3 PRETORIA. Tues. (Reuter) South Africa's supreme court yesterday dismissed the appeal of a white university professor and an Indian woman doctor against theirw-on-viction of conspiring to £eak the immorality act. The two. John Blacking. 40-year-old Professor of Social Anthropology at Johannesburg's Witwatersrand Univer. sity, and Dr.
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  • 84 3 VICTORIA. Brazil. Tues. (Reuter) Police here have discovered two more charred corpses, believed victims of Brazil's notorious squad," some way from the beach where 11 bodies were found last week. The "death squad" is believed to be a group of policemen who have summarily executed
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  • 702 4 BARNARD TO STEP UP HEART TRANSPLANTATIONS PAPE TOWN, Tues. (Reutcr and UP I) Medical experts today prepared to begin exhaustive studies of tissue from the body of Dr. Philip Blaiberg part of their continuing effort to solve the problem of rejection in organ transplantation. Tiny slivers
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  • 336 4 PRAGUE. Tuaa. (Reuter) Police and troops tightened their grip on Prague this morning amid growing tension on the ere of the anniversary of the Warsaw Pact tnvaaion of Czechoslovakia. Observers said that Communist Party leader Gustav Husak might today at l ast tell Russia that
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  • 113 4 LONDON. Tues. fUPI) —He was "Hutch' to just about everybody. To the Duke and Duchees of Windsor, who sat around his piano la Mayfair clubs while he sang son*s like "Let's Do It Let's Fall In Love." Leslie Hutchinson died yesterday after a week-lon* illness. His death
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  • 441 4 BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Tues. (Reuter) Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark leaves this divided, battle-scarred city today for crucial talks In London with British Prime Minister Harold Wilson as the future of Northern Ireland appeared to hang in the balance. Though police said
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  • 450 4 INVERNESS. Scotland. Tues (Router) Now it's the Loch Morar monster The annual summer hunt for a monster in Loch Ness was temporarily shifted yesterday with a report that a 60-foot long monster in nearby Loch Morar tried to overturn two men in a boat there
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  • 357 4 EVIAN LIS BAINSWN, Tues (Reuter) Police frogmen searched overnight by a relights for bodies frOm the French pleasure boat which sank in Lake Geneva, drowning 21 people. Fourteen ol the victims were girls from Metz, Northern France, attending a holiday camp in the area.
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  • 212 4 CANBERRA. Tues —Queen Eii?aheth has approved an itinerary for her visit to Austral a in If TO with the Duke cf Ea nburgh They will be in Australia from Easter Monday. March 30 to May 3 and will visit the Auftralian capital, Canberra. Ntw South
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  • 81 4 MOSCOW. Tue f (UPl)—The Soviets yesterday voiced gupport of Roman Catholic Ireland against "British imperialism." A lengthy commentary distributed by the Tas# News Agency justified the pro-Dublin stand by a n officially atheist country by saying Southern Ireland "justly saw the cause of the present political
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  • 68 4 TEL AVIV. Tues. (Reuter)— Three Tel Aviv penguins have got a touch of the sun and are apparently thriving on it. It seems the birds sre unaware they should be tucked up in their specially-prepared refrigerated boxes at the TeJ Aviv Zoo. They defy standard penguin behaviour by
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  • 233 4 MILAN, Tues. (Reuter) Police today made a dawn raid on a Maoist hideout in the centre of Milan, uncovered a cache of weapons and detained 72 psople for Questioning. The raid was on a former hotel taken over and occupied nine months ago by leftwing youths
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 146 4 TODAY an Wednesday* Auouit 20, 1969. STAR GAZERS Bf CLAY X. POLLAN K Your Dmify AttMfy Guid* K wtl Ace orbing tm tha Stan. n To develop mntegt for Wednwdoy, Ptod words corresponding to numbers 69-72-***** of your Zodioc birth sign« icaipio (S 2 'k m > KSXfiCM 31 On
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  • 395 5 SUPREME COURT JUDGE SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (Renter) A new Senate storm loomed today after President Nixon named a southern judge, noted for bis lukewarm approach to civil rights issues, as a Justice of the Supreme Court. Even before he had announced his choice 56-year-old South
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  • 244 5 CLEVELAND, OHIO. Tues. Oleuter) A 20-year-old Negro was sentenced to life imprisonment here yesterday after being convicted of the shooting of three policemen and a civilian in a pitched battle between police and black rationalists in Cleveland on July 23. 1963. The jury of eight
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  • 82 5 LAKEWOOD, New Jersey Tues. (UPI) Police fired tear gas to dispose groups of Negro youths early yesterday as more firebomblngs hit this southern New Jersey community. It was the second consecu tlve night of racial disorders, stemming from the arrest of three black youths
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  • 61 5 WASHINGTON, Tues. (Reuter> The US. Customs Bureau today reported a phenomenal rise" in seizures of hashish in the past year and said the demand for the drug seemed to be constantly Increasing. The bureau reported record seizures of heroin, cocaine and hashish in the year ending June 30,
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  • 742 5 Eighteen Die, M Injured GULFPORT. Mississippi. Tues. (UPI) Rescue workers struggled through the mangled remains of Gulf Coast cities and villages yesterday searching for more victims of CamiUe. the strongest hurricane ever to hit the U.S. mainland. At least 18 persons were
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  • 486 5 NEW YORK, Tues. (UPI) Sharon Tate's mutilated body was found nude and hair stylist Jay Sebring had been sexually mutilated. Time magazine said in its current issue on Monday. Miss Tate and Sebrlng were slashed repeatedly while fighting for their lives. Time said.
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  • 74 5 WASHINGTON. Tues. (Router) The State Department spokesman said today he had no first hand knowledge about a report that Cambodia was ready to re-examine its policy of not accepting economic assistance from the United States. In a report from Phnom Penh on Saturday, Prime Norodom Sihanouk. the Cambodian
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  • 456 5 LOS ANGELES. Tues. (UPI) A man wanted for questioning in the brutal murders of actress Sharon Tate and four others was interrogated by police for nearly three hours Monday and then released. Thomas Steven Harngan, 27 said he was in Manhattan Beach.
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  • 240 5 WASHINGTON. Tues. (UPI) The Apollo 11 astronauts are not all agreed that the United States should try to send a manned mission to Mars by 1981 as suggested by some Space Agency officials. Lt. Col. Michael Collins, who looked down from an orbiting spacecraft while
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  • 91 5 MIAMI. Fla (UPI) Planes took off from the Roosevelt Roads Naval Base at Puerto Rico on Monday armed with chemicals to "seed" Hurricane Debbie in a bold experiment to tame nature's most destructive force. "They've been given the goahead from Washington." a project stormfury spokesman at
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  • 882 6 IF there is any American prestige left in this part of the world after the continued determination of the United States to decrease to practically nothing its commitment in Asia, Sen. William Fulbright is trying his hardest to flush it out. In his all-out campaign to publicise the Thai-U.S.
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  • 526 6  -  By Ramesh C. Ponde NEW DELHI, (UPI) Jainism teaches that every living creature, no matter how small, possesses a soul. Thus, Jain monks wear gauze over their nose and mouth to prevent inhalation of bacteria. In the old city of Delhi. Jain believers operate what they say
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  • 389 6  -  BY DICK WEST WASHINGTON (UPI) Every now and then you see an item in the papers about scientists somewhere needing thousands of lightning bugs for experiments. At such time s there is usually an offer to pay small boys a nominal bounty for all of the glowworms they
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  • 198 6  -  By ANTON WILLS-EVE SAIGON. (Renter) About four million South Vietnamese children will go without moon cakes next month when the lunar festival comes round on September 26. Each year on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunar year, children follow
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  • 19 6 We eombat obstacle® In order to get repose, and. when got. the repose is insupportable. Henry Adams.
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  • 523 6  -  By STEPHEN SIU HONG KONG (UPI) Suddenly, there it e new incentive to live. Price increases of grave spaces last week have made death more expensive. But the real battle is not beating the price. It :s a war against the Chinese tradition
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  • 640 6  -  by CEDRIC LINDO Gemini News Service KINGSTON: "Here's your change, »ir, two shillings end sixpence." "But this coin isn't a shilling. It's marked with the figure 10 and this one isn't a sixpence because it has a five on it." "It's all right,
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  • 438 6  -  By LEON DANIEL TOKYO (UPI) Japan's tough new law aimed at quelling the nationwide campus rebellion went into effect Sunday wi*h instructions from the Education Ministry to college presidents to make sure it is enforced smoothly. But a Kyodo News Service survey showed that the presidents of
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  • 163 6 Gemini SYDNEY. Mrs. A. P. Maruff noticed nine years ago that the country around Innisfail. Queensland, where she lived, was rather like Assam, India. Her husband, a doctor, botanist and horticulturist, took up 320 acres of tropical jung'.e at Nerada. 20 miles from InnisfaiL
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    • 95 6 SPACE GIANT (Son CHART 64 Primary purpose is to test accuracy of tracking system for air traffic control Already tests have proved superiority of satellites m air/air and air/ground communications This month sees US launch of biggest spacecraft ever-253ft wide-as big as a football field Purpose of "arms is to
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 358 7  -  By OUR MARKET REPORTER of Mala y s >a a nd Singapore yesterday noted mild rally «Ha«h< con jiitions and appeared poised for an upturn whence renewed profit-taking towards the close reduced the probability. Generally, the market was attuned to the activity of
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    • 955 7 BUSINESS 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 Borneo Bhd. $1.72 (2); Camel Plywood $1.86 (3); C. fcugaip $3.40 (1); CCM $1.61
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    • 89 7 LONDON. Tues. (UPI) The rubber market closed nominal yesterday with spot 27-3 4. 28-1/4 Settlement House Sept 27-3/4, 28-1/4 Oct 27-7/8, 28-1/4 Dec 27-7/8. 28 Oct Dec 28, 28-1/4 Jan/March 27-1/4. 27-5/8 April/June 26-7/8. 27-1/8 July /Sept 26-1/2. 26-3/4 nOm. Oct Dec 26-1/4. 26-1/2 nom.
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    • 13 7 THE tin price for yesterday was $630.25 per picul, down $4.37$
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    • 340 7 SEPTEMBER first graae rubber buyers closed a t 5 p.m., in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 78 cents per lb., down half a cent from the previous close The tone of the market was quietly steady. After being marked down half a cent at the opening,
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    • 254 7 The following is a berthing list issued by the Port of Singapore Authority for today, Aug. 20. DEPARTURES Godown Vessels 3/4 Hessenstein 10/11 Bakuriani 13/14 Helryu Maru 15/16 Bristol Maru N.W. 5 Bruas 25/26 Htoneywa 29/30 Johneverett 38/39 Esso Colon 45 Athenian Sky 47 Australasia N.W. 4
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    • 205 7 MR. ARTHUR WEE. sales manager of Pan American World Airways, will leave shortly to attend a special tariff course in the Airline Headquarters In New York. Pan Am has established a new Excursion Fare New York and West Coast. U.S.A. to Singapore and a
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    • 139 7 MANILA. Tues. (Reuter) President Ferdinand Marcos has assured the country of adequate rice supplies and accused the opposition Liberal Party of Inducing an artificial shortage by spreading rumours. The President made the assurance in Zamboanga Del Qnorte Province. In the Southern Philippines yeaterday. The government
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    • 109 7 WASHINGTON. Tues (UPI) The World Bank, lending more money profitably, will offer US$lOO million of its 1969 fiscal year profits to a related development agency. The bank said in a year end statement that its profits for the year ended June 30 totalled $171.4 million
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    • 69 7 CALCUTTA. Tues. (Reuter) More than 200,000 tea garden workers in West Bengal yesterday began an indefinite strike that will cost the nation three million rupees (£166,000) a day. The strike, for an increased minimum wage, hit all but eight of the 300 tea gardens
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    • 208 7 The British Surges Higher LONDON, Tu«s. (UPI) The British pound surged higher on calmer money markets yesterday when strong buying orders flowed in from Europe. The biggest single improvement was against the West German mark, but the pound also staged a comeback against the dollar and other leading currencies. Dealers
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    • 166 7 NEW YORK. Tues. (UPI)— Stocks closed strong yesterday in moderate trading. Carryover demand from last week and an easing of some short term bankers acceptance rates helped support the list Shortly before the clo«e, the UPI marketwide indicator showed a gain of 0.64 per cent on
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    • 50 7 NEW YORK. Tues. (UPI) Rubber futures closed unchanged to 25 points lower yesterday on the New York Commodity Exchange. There was 1 sale. (Bid) (Asked) Sept 30.75 Nov 30.25 Jan 30.00 Mar 29.60 May 29.25 July 29.15 Sept 29.00 Locally, No. 2 RSS was 303/8 cents per pound.
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    • 129 7 MR. M. J. Nanporia, Air-India's regional manager for East Asia, visited Singapore recently in the course of his tour throughout the Air-India network. Having been based in Tokyo for the past 15 years. Mr. Nanporia noted that the number of tourists from Japan to Singapore
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    • 131 7 NEW YORK. Tues. (UPI) Gold prices rose in moderately active trading yesterday on markets here and abroad. In London, gold gained 9 cents at the morning fixing, but slipped 7-1/2 cents for a second fixing of 41.125 U.S. dollars a troy ounce. The closing range was 41.05
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    • 64 7 TOKYO, Tues. (UPI) Department stores sales in Tokyo and Osaka from Tebruary to June this year totalled 270,000 million yen (750.8 million U5. dollars) for a 18.4 oer cent increase over the same period last year, the Japan I)epartment Stores Association announced yesterday. The increase rate
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    • 138 7 mHB Singapore Rubber Broken Aaaoci* X in# tnlormatioe in moert of turns Us* «t*k andin* 1Mb August 1MBlion baa eupplled the followtransacted ta SMBi tor SUR 5 SMK S SMR ft SM* ft SMR H 8 ME 5 SMR ft 55m SMR 30 SMH 30 BMR SMR
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    • 621 7 chftoie told and other prices officially lifted at th« CIOM of buln«M. INDUSTRIALS B 6. Ben A CO. XD 1.77 1.85 Borneo Bhd. 1.70 BouMead 1 S3 1.U Camel Plywood XB1 l 86 18* C. Cugar 3 44 3-48 Chemical Co. 159 Cold Morace 2.12 Cj
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    • 125 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 100 units of foreign currency): SELLING T.T. or O.D. ready: Deutsche Marks $77.7050; Holland Guilders $85.4300; Swiss Francs $71.7375; Belgian Francs $6 1575; French Francs
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    • 53 7 HONG KONG. Tues. (UPI) Monev Quotations: HKJ6.095 per US. dollar. HK56.1125 per U.S. dollar TT. HK514.35 per pound sterling HK5308.25 per tael of gold 94.5 per cent fineness. HK5162.3 per 10,000 Japanese yens. HKSIIB 5 per 100 Philippines pesos buyers. HKS 119.5 per 100 Philippines pesos sellers. HK$5.lO
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    • 92 7 THB noon price# at tfte hmt*pore biotM Produce tulunt* >e«terda> were;— Hnja o»-i w-r Coconut Oil (F.O.B.) Bulk 48 75 Coconut Otl ((F.O.B-) Drum 50 25 Mixed Copra 3U-50 Muntok Ntute Pepper 147.50 (FOB) Urn»ak White Pepper 145.00 (F.OA) Sarawak Special Black Pepper IFOH.) #6% ***** N.L.W. Lampong fcpedal
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    • 60 7 (Manacfr*' Price? for Aug. 19) ASIA UNIT TRU6TS >1*1. Invest. Fund 1-25 1 33 SINGAPORE UNIT TRUSTS 1st Malayan XD 2.72 2nd Malayan XD 198 3rd Mala>an 125 The Com. Ind 101 111 The Saving fund 1-08 Sterling Com 5/6 118 H K TRUST FUNDS 1.62* lit Hone
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    • 39 7 NEW YORK. Tues. (UPI) Dow Jones closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday. 30 Industrials 827.68 20 Rails 199-47 15 Utilities 115.32 65 Stocks 280.13 40 Bonds 71.96 Commodity Future® Index 139.74 up 0.13
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    • 406 7 ARRIVALS. 6 00 a.m. MSA ML029 Koala Lumpur. 1X5 a.m. K4S t»K»7SS Banckok. lu-bkent. lopenbafen. 8.00 am. M&A MLlli) Koala Lumpur. 10.10 a.m. UAKIDA OAUO Jakarta. 10.15am. MSA ML1Z1 Koala Lompor. 10.25 am. MteA ML005 Penam, Ipob. Koala Lompor. Malacca. 10-50 a-m. THAI TG428 Bangkok. 1.10 p.m. MSA
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE
    • 48 8 Scientist at the Bell Telephone Laboratories. Murray Hill. New Jersey, reconstructs a holographic image stored in a lithium niobate crystal. Researchers have found that the crystal can store as many as 1.000 different holograms photographic records made with the aid of a laser beam. IPS
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    • 353 8 By K. FARASU RAMAN NEW DELHI (UPI) The odds favoured Durba Banerjee when the young woman decided to make history in India. The Bihar Flying Club offered two scholarships to women who wanted to learn how to fly. From all India. Miss Banerjee was the only
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    • 432 8 CANBERRA: Some of the brightest physics students from high-schools in five countries will study together in the University of Sydney from August 25 to September 5. From the United States. Japan, England. New Zealand and Australia, they will be attending the annual International Science
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    • 799 8 By Douglas R. McKinlay a student In the Brlgham Young University, Utah AS the first rays of warmth slice through Utah's erisp mountain air, three station wagons slowly move out behind a command vehicle in a northerly direction. Inside eacn wagon are tents, sleeping bags, several weeks'
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    • 382 8 Science In U.S. WASHINGTON: U.S. scientists have discovered that a crystal, smaller than a lump of sugar, can store as many as 1,000 different holograms. Holograms are photographic records made through a form of lenaless photography, and are generally known for their ability to reproduce threedimensional images. But
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    • 458 8  -  Date-line Br Ele and Walt Dulaney DEAR Walt: What would you do if your friend came over and asked you to lend him $1.50 so ha can 90 to a dance with a bunch of guys, and then he doesn't even offer an invitation for you
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    • 188 8 WASHINGTON. Engineer* of the t'.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration are working on a television receiver with a high contrast black screen. The research is directed toward development of a TV tube which would give airplane pilots, at a single glance, a sharp contrast view of vital Instrument
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    • 625 8  -  By CAROLYN SCOTT Gemini News Service LONDON: Scouts from all over the world are travelling to Helsinki, Finland, for the Scout World Conference (August 21-27). Theme: the training of young people. Are scouts an anchrosnism* When students set fire to themselves in Czechoslovakia in protest against communist
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    • 109 8 AMY By J«cl Tippit V "Oh, hi, Rogtrf* «l didn't rtcognlz# you for a mlnuttl" DATELINE: DANGER! IT IS FOR —ME,HANK/ THE PLUGS ARE BAD A. I HEARD BUTCH ON THIS TRUCK, LEE ROY/ A TALKIN'TOTHE AND WE ...HEY IT ISN'T 1 BOSS/ QUITTING TIME/ M BUTCH SAID IF I
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    • 932 9  -  By Gloria-mae DANGER! Woman! says the sign pasted on the back screen of a car. Has anyone delved into this yet? I mean really studied this certain specie of mankind since women were allowed to be seen and felt in society and
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    • 577 9  -  Ann Landers DEAR Ann: Why are modern parents so foolish? How can they expect their children to know the value of a dollar when allowances are handed out regularly and nothing is expected in return. Not even a "thank you." When I see my
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    • 38 9 LONDON. Tues (UPI) Th* London festival ballet will give 19 performances in Tokyo and other cities during its first visit to Japan in October, the company announced yesterday. The openin* coincides with British Week in Japan.
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    • 531 9  -  f a if i it r .l/i/ sc//... Uf) Sheilah Graham LONDON. Tues Marlon Brando is reportedly very interested in starring in "One Afternoon At Mezzegra," the storv of the last five days in the life of Mussolini. There is a rather large snag,
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    • 331 9  -  By H. C. Tan AS the tourist trade becomes a more important aspect of Singapore's economy, more and more people are now taking to the travel business. Brand new on the travel and touring agency list is the eight-month-old Asean Travel and Tour
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    • 61 9 CANBERRA. Tues. (UPI) English pop star Mick Jagger was wounded in a shooting accident today while on the set of the film "Ned Kelly" being »hot near Canberra. Jagger was hit m the right hand when the pistol ne was using backfired. A spokesman for Canberra Hospital, where
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    • 435 10 LONDON, Tues. (Reuter) John Edrich. England's opening batsman for next Thursday's third and final cricket Test against New Zealand, notched his seventh century of the season yesterday. Edrich compiled a laborious 139 in 353 minutes to help Surrey, score 272 for four. 63 runs
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    • 129 10 LOS ANGELES. Tues. (UPI) Both champion Lionel Rose and challenger Rubin Olivares cut down on their training bouts yesterday as they prepared for their world bantamweight title fight at the Forum this Friday. Olivares of Mexico City "looked stronger." according to his manager, Arturo
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    • 1151 10 New Zealand* Wellington* Tues. FEW single events in thoroughbred breeding throughout the world give studmasters such incentive to excel as the annual New Zealand National Yearling Sales. Held recently at Trentham, 18 miles north-east of the capital, Wellington, these sales have stimulated international recognition
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    • 159 10 NAPIER, New Zealand, Tues. (Reuteri Kelvin Tremain. one of New Zealand's greatest rugby union forwards, announced his retirement from international rugby here yesterday. Tremain, 31. said he no longer had the time to devote to training. "If I wanted to go to South Africa next
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    • 176 10 LONDON. Tues. Stronger and safer crash helmets for jockeys will become compulsory in Britain in all horse races from Jan. 1, 1970, when all Jockeys must wear safety caps of a type passed by the British Standards Institutions (BSD tests and received their "kite" mark
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    • 78 10 LEEDS. England. Tues. (Reuten England opener Geoff Boycott made a long overdue return to form with an unbeaten century for Yorkshire against Somerset in an English County cricket championship match here today. Shrugging off his lack of confidence after three ducks In his last four Test
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    • 202 10 BY EASTERN KNIGHT Renato Naranja, Philippines top player has own many games before this year's Zonal Championship. His Olympic success included a win over American Grandmaster Lornbar dy and a draw with Hungarian Grandmaster Bilek. He is. however, not satisfied with his play in this Zonal
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    • 275 10 HONG KONG. Tues. (Reuter) Atet Wijono of Indonesia today beat Burma's Kyaw Zaw 6-0. 6-2 to win the individual singles title of the third Asian youth tennis championships. The individual doubles title went to Tin Aung Cho and Aung Htay of Burma who powered their
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    • 322 10 CHESTNUT HILL. Massachusetts, Tues. (UPI) American Davis Cupper Clark Graebner yesterday led an advance of seeded players Into the third round of the 89th annual ÜB. national tennis championships at Longwood Cricket Club. Graebner defeated Z a n Guerry, runner-up In last month's
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    • 132 10 WARSAW Tues. (Reuter) Th e Polish Army's lon« jump champion. Wiktor Godlewski, 20. has died in hospital after falling from a hotel first floor window sill where he lay down to sleep after competing in an athletics meeting, a Warsaw newspaper reported today Glcs
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    • 233 10 Perth, Tues. (Reuter) Singapore welterweight Krishnan Gopalan, a veteran of more than 150 amateur fights, ended his career with a points win over promising John Kelly when the Singapore-West Australia series ended in the Perth Town Hall last night. Gopalan. who has fought in many
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    • 164 10 LONDON. Tues Exports of Britain's Dunlop Sports Company during the first half of this vear were worth £1.280.000 —an increase of nearly 25 per cent over the corresponding period in 1968 and the highest level ever achieved in any six months. Sales of sports equipment increased
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    • 355 10 NEW YORK. Tues. (Reuter) George Scott swatted a run-scoring double in the 10th Inning as the Boston Red Sox nipped the Minnesota Twins, leaders in the American League's Western Division, 7-6. The Red Sox scored three runs in the first inning but were held scoreless
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    • 90 10 Hans Fassnacht of Germany from Mannheim managed to set up two European records in three days at the traditional Santa Clara swimming gala recently. Fassnacht, 18, who is currently studying in the United States, swam the 400 metres freestyle in 4 mins. 8.2 secs, to beat the previous European record
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    • 1266 11 THERE are many theories concerning football defence tactics. Here sports journalist Arthur Potter who works for the "Kent Messenger", a county newsP a P* r in Southeast England, writes about some of the tactics used by England's leading clubs and how they are put
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    • 502 11  -  By LESLIE NAKASHIMA TOKYO. Tues. (UFI) —Japan have finally produced a golfer who has shot his ate in a round of 18 holes a rare feat In any part of the world. The Sports Nippon newspaper says he Is 75-year-old Yoshltomo Asai, captain
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    • 56 11 MELBOURNE. Tues. (Reuter) Former world tennis champion. Frank Sedgman. will make a return to big time tournaments next week in the Australian squash championships. A Wimbledon winner, former Australian champion and Davis Cup player. Sedgman. 41, will be trying to add the revived national professional squash
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    • 112 11 NEW YORK. Tues. (Reuter) Frank Beard, who won US$4,375 in last week's PGA championship at Dayton. Ohio, yesterday remained the leading money winner on the professional golf circuit. Beard's winnings total US$159,562. Dave Hill is in second place with U*****,680Ray Floyd, who won the
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    • 435 11 New York* Tues. (UPI) Heavyweights George Chuvalo of Canada and Buster Mathis of Grand Rapids. Michigan, were demoted in the latest monthly boxing ratings released by Ring Magazine. In their ratings for the month ending Aug 20, Ring Magazine dropped veteran Chuvalo from
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    • 111 11 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) Jockeys riding arrangements for the Johnnie Walker Eboi Handicap to be run over one ml.e and three quarters at (1415 GMT) York on Wednesday are: Riboccare L. Piggott. Lucky Finish B. Taylor. Quartette W Williamson. Philoctetes P Eddery. Duperion J. Wilson. Mir on ton
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    • 83 11 LONDON. Tues. (Reuter) Results of football matches p'ayed last night were: English Football League Cup Ist Round Replays Barrow 3. Workington 1(Barrow meet Nottingham Forest in the second round on Sept. 3). Brentford 0. Southend United 0 after extra time. (Winners vs Shrewsbury Town. Score at
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    • 148 11 Austrian Titles S antana, Tegart KITZBUEHEL, Austria. Tues. (Reuter) Manuel Santana of Spain won the Austrian lawn tennis men's singles title here yesterday when he beat fellow-countryman Manuel Orantes 6-4. 6-2, 6-3 on a rain-soaked court. Rain forced a one-hour delay to the start of the match and a 20-minute
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    • 191 11 HAMILTON, Bermuda, Tues. (Reuter) University of London sailing teammates Peter Claydon and Nick Martin gave England an early lead in the world junior sailing championships here yesterday. The pair, who have been racine as a team only since Easter won the afternoon race after earlier
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    • 1182 11 (CHANNEL 5) P.M 300 Opering Announcements in all Languages A Housewives Matir.ee "LOVE Havoc Part 1 of a Mandarin Film*; 3 30 House and Hnme Chinese Version 345 A Diary of Events in Singapore This Week Chinese Version; 3.150 Be Our Guest English Version: 4.C5 It's Happening in Singapore Ma.ay
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  • 317 12 FIVE Malaysian students have been awarded the ASEAN scholarship for the academic year of 1969-1970 to pursue their studies at the University of Singapore. The ASEAN scholarship is a prestigious scholarship and is awarded only to students of outstanding merit. The
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  • 46 12 THE National Safety First Council of Singapore in conjunction with American Optical Corporation will hold a safety exhibition at tbe Goodwood Park Hotel from Aug. 25-30. Emphasis of the exhibition which include lectures will be on vision care, and an industrial eye safety programme.
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  • 35 12 ABOUT 150 members of the Singapore Armed Forces are now conducting military exercises in the Mandai Reserve till Aug. 22. The public is advised not to be alarmed as blanks will be used.
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  • 119 12 The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education. Dr. Lee Chiaw Meng will present certificates to all participants in this year's Youth Week in Commerce a nd Industry. The Youth Week in Commerce and Industry is an annual project of the Junior Chamber of Singapore and the
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  • 169 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. A military adviser to the Indian High Commission here told an armed youth to "get lost" last night hut had his watch snatched. He is Col. M.L. Chadha who was a victim of robbery ar.d the't for the third time when
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  • 89 12 A talented young Singapore violinist, Mr. Lau Suat Chonr has returned after five years' of study in the United Kingdom. During his stay there, Mr. Lau had tuition under the famous musician, Mr. S. Griller of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He also
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  • 125 12 The 12.000-ton Neptune Orient Lines Ltd. new freighter, "Aquamarine," will sail from the Republic on its maiden voyage to Hong .Kong tomorrow, Thurs- day, Aug. 21. Neptune Orient Lines Ltd., is a wholly-owned company of the Singapore Government. The "Aquamarine" is the fifth vessel to be
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  • 83 12 KUALA LtJMPUR, Tues. The Ministry of Health is to adopt a new approach to tackle the problem of malnutrition so as to reduce drastically the country's infant mortality •rate. Toddler mortality rate had fallen from 10.7 per 1.000 in 1957 to 5.7 in 1966. but the ministry was
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