Eastern Sun, 2 September 1969

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  • 23 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY I Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1106 Tiwriiy, 2 September 1969. ■fr MC(P) 0737 Prim 13 wnto
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  • 335 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. The remote possibility of Japan ploying o defence role in the region after the British withdrawal appears to be very unlikely. Answers to questions by a Japanese Rear Admiral at a press conference in Port Swettenham today indicated this very starkly.
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  • 436 1 DES MOINES, lowa, Mon. (Reuter and UP|) Rocky Marciano, former undetected heavyweight champion of the world died in a plane crash with two companions last night about 30 mlies east of here. It was the eve of his 46th birthday. Marciano, who was the
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  • 47 1 TEL AVIV, Mon. (Reuter) Four civilians were injured today when Arab guerrillas threw a hand grenade into a bank in Nablus in the Israeliheld west bank of the Jordan, a military spokesman said here. The spokesman said one of the Injured was a woman.
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  • 98 1 DONG TAM, Vietnam Man. (TJPI) The United States today turned over this former 9th Infantry Division base camp to the South Vietnamese Army. Donf Tam, 40 miles southwest of Saigon, la the largest base yet turned over to the South Vietnamese and will become headquarters
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  • 85 1 KUALA LUMPUR, lion. New organisations aimed at improving the economic status of the Malays are expected to be announced by the Deputy Prim* Minister and Director of Operations. Tun Abdul Rasak. soon. The organisations are the National Trading Corporation. Agricultural Bank. National Insurance Corporation and the
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  • 153 1 BANGKOK, Mon. (AFP)—Bar and night-club owners and landlords have already begun to feel the pinch of a drop in business In Udorn, North Thailand, with reports of a possible withdrawal of American forces from Thailand, according to press reports here today. Udom. about 400 miles
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  • 68 1 LONDON, Man. (UPI) A British European Airway* (BEA) flight from London to Madrid was forced to make an emergency landing at Gatwick Airport today after two telephone calls warning of a bomb on board. An airline spokesman said two telephone calls were made to BEA at
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  • 75 1 OSAKA, Western Japan. Mon. (Reuter) Australia's first fully containerised ship sailed for Sydney today to open up a new container shipping service between Japan and Australia. The 16,580-gross-ton "Australian Enterprise", the first container ship built for Australia at a Japanese yard, is being operated by the Eastern
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  • 71 1 TAIPEI, Mon. (AFP) Chinese fat Taiwan today celebrated "Journalists Day'' with certain newspapers offering editorials furiously attacking a new sorernment measure classifying newspaper personnel under "Industrlal and commercial service' and radiomen mi^tf "Entertainment service". Heretofore Journalists here were classified under the "Learned profession" together with lawyers and physicians.
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  • 464 1 LONDON, Mon. (Reuter) Two heads of State have lost control owing to illness during the last 24 hours. Brazil's President Arthur da Costa e Silva is reported to have had a "stroke" and the Armed Forces Chiefs are ruling by decree "till he is able
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  • 121 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Mem Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman today attended a "burning protest" bj^JMNO youths who set fire to copies of the American magazines Time and Life and the Hong Kong based Journal 4he Far Eastern Economic Review. The ceremony in which about 400 persons took
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  • 68 1 BEIRUT. Mon. (Reuter) Crown Prince Hassan Al-Rida of Libya today broadcast an abdication speech over Tripoli Radio a few hours after an army coup had swept his uncle. King Idrls, from power. The 40-year-old crown prince said he was renouncing all his constitutional rights to the throne and c&lled
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  • 207 1 ATHENS. Mon. (Reuter) Four Israeli women passengers from the hijacked Transworld Airliner arrived In Athens today. The women. Mrs. Eva Freud. 42-year-old wife of a factory owner, her daughter Dalla. 15. Mrs Victoria Shamash, 61, and Mrs. Caden Ardottl, 63, arrived in a chartered
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 52 2 VISITING tour operators are seen with Mr. Runme Shaw, Chairman of the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board. (From left): Mr. Sultan Mumjai, Mr. M.N. Mammen, H.J. Makhijani, Mr. Amin M. Sayegh (leader), Mr. Runme Shaw. Mr. Eldred Chan, Saad Bushnaq, Haiden Ali, Y.M. Ahmad and Mr. Murad Ghamoum. (Story i n
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  • 268 2 Hie Shell service station at Thomson Road, Boon Liew Ltd., ha« been judged as the most attractive petrol station in the Republic. The results of the competition, Jointly organised by the Singapore Tourist Association and five major oil companies, were announced yesterday. The winner. Boon Liew Ltd.
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  • 187 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Four student organisations in Britain has cabled their support for the University of Malaya Students' Union in their campaign to seek the release of four student leaders detained by police. The organisations are: The Federation of United Kingdom and
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  • 136 2 A special three-week course on "Joint Consultative Machinery" for top trade union officials In the Republic will be held here beginning next Monday. The course is being organised jointly by the National Trade Union Congress and the National Productivity Centre 0 f the Economic Development Board.
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  • 271 2 SINGAPORE Pools (Private) Limited announced yesterday that the special arrangement for "Two Toto Draws A Week" has been extended into the month of September. Originally, this arrangement was introduced in August to mark the Republic's 150 th anniversary and National Day. A spokesman
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  • 112 2 One of Singapore's leading fashion designers. Miss Caroline Tan. will be aecompany i n g the Singapore Tourist Promotion Boards Jet Sell Fashion Show to Hong Kong and Tokyo. Mis# Tan. owner of Caroline Boutique, has designed six cocktail and evening dresses for
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  • 120 2 FOUR Lightning supersonic jet fighters of the 74 Squadron of the Royal Air Force will carry out a non-stop 2,000-mile mobility test from Singapore to Australia later this month. The mobility demonstration will also include air-to-air refuelling exercises in which the fighters will have their tanks
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  • 299 2 THE FIUST LADY, Puan N'oor Aishah, yesterday launched a mammoth donation draw to raise $150,000 in aid of various children's charities. Speaking at the ceremony hela at the Istana. she said the variuu < .ildren's charities the Spastic Children's Association, the Retarded Children's Association, the Children's
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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  • 622 3 SAIGON, Mon. (Reuter and UPI) South Vietnam's new Premier General i a i D j en Khiem today presented an enlarged Cabinet to President Thieu which included many new faces, mostly known supporters of the President. Onlv nine members of the old Cabinet
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  • 155 3 T«EL AVIV, Mon. (UPI) —An Australian girl who was aboard the Trans-World Airlines jetliner hijacked to Damascus said last night Syrian troops looted the aircraft after it landed in the Syrian capital. Susan Rayner of Sandy Bay, Hobart. Tasmania, said while passengers were being held, Syrian
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  • 347 3 SAIGON, Mon. (UPI) A blind Vietnamese girl is about to 1/ead for Watertown. Massachusetts, to studv at Perkins School for the Blind. Tran Thi Hoa. 15. has been blind since she had smallpox at the age of three. She was overjoyed last
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  • 156 3 BANGKOK. Mon. (Reuter) Malaysia will allow Thai fishermen to operate within Malaysian 12-mile territorial waters where they are deeper than 90 feet, Agriculture Minister Chakrathong Thongyai said here. Chak rath one told reporters Saturday, on his return from Kuala Lumpur where he attended a
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  • 193 3 HONG KONG, Mon. (UPI) Communist China's war preparations. production key political programmes are lagging because of dissidence and indifference in many regions of the country, according to monitored radio reports from China. The reports hinted at violent dissent in some areas, complaining of "anarchism" that
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  • 153 3 BRUNEI TOWN. Mon. (Reuter) Leaders of the Brunei Chinese community are to appeal to the government against a decision to cut off all aid to Chinese schools here. The leaders held a closed door meeting here yesterday and a spokesman later announced that
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  • 56 3 BANGKOK. Mon. (UPI) Special medical team will be flown this week to three isolated villages 130 miles north of here where 52 children have died from a mysterious disease in the past month, it was announced today. The disease, which strikes mainly children under 10, is characterised by
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  • 40 3 JAKARTA, Mon. (Reuter) An Indonesian grandfather Is planning a pilgrimage from Jakarta to Mecca by bicycle Former army serfeant, Achmad Nur, 6, told reporters today it would be the only way he could fulfil a lifelong dream.
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  • 119 3 HONG KONG. Mon. (Reuter) A mysterious American syndicate has paid more than two and a half million Hong Kong dollars (£175,000) for the Australian racehorse. Always There, the South China Morninf Post reported today. In a deal clinched In Hong Kong last week,
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  • 292 3 SEOUL, Mon. (UPI) South Korea headed for a political storm today as the National Assembly opened an important regular session to tackle, among others, a controversial proposal to amend the Constitution. Student radicals greeted the opening of the National Assembly with campus rallies at two
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
    • 506 3 Advertisement Singapore And Her People THERE S only two d»y» left till Sept. 4 for photographers in Singapore to enter the "Singapore and Her People" photographic competition. Jointly sponsored by Behn. Meyer and Co. Ltd. .and Eastern San. Do not miss this opportunity, for you mar be Just as lucky
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  • 317 4 ACCRA. Mon (Reuter) Ghana's Premier-elect. Dr. Kofi Busia, savs his government will examine anew debts from foreign creditors incurred during the regime of ex-President Kwame Nkrumah. Many of the debts could not bear scrutiny, he said In his first statement since his
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  • 34 4 MAUVOISIN, Switzerland. Mon. (Reuter) —More than 150 sheep fell to their death here this weekend when they followed their flock leader who had slipped down a 400 metre precipice.
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  • 105 4 LONDON. MOB. (TJFI) Several thousand Muslim* •tated a protest march yesterday against the burning ot A| Aqss Mosque in Jeruaaletn. Shouting an tl-Jewish si off sns. the protestors carried banners reeding "Jerueslem. we dial] fight!" snd "Holy war is the only solution Th« group.
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  • 129 4 TOKYO. Mon. (UPI) The South Korean and fapanese Governments are considering giving medals to leaders of both nations in recognition of their outstanding work In the normalisation of relations between South Korea and Japan, it was reported today. The Sankei Shlmbun newspaper said in a front
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  • 56 4 SA L S OMAGGIORE. Mon. (Reuter) —Green-eyed Anna Zamboni. 18. last ni?ht won the Miss Italv contest alter a controversy during which a cousin of film star Sophia Loren withdrew. Miss Loren's cousin. Igli Villani. pulled out last night after mothers of other contestants protested that the competition
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  • 253 4 BELFAST, Northern Ireland. Moon. (UPI) While Roman Catholics debated today whether to take down their barricades. militant Protestants, led by the Rev. Lan Paisley, geared for a new battle against any civil rights reforms. Paisley, who is preparing for a trip to the united States
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  • 148 4 ROME. Mon. (UPD A bearded New York schoolteacher thinks Che Guevara would be disgusted if he knew how Arab commandos were using his name. "They stole my underwear,* said David Fitelson. 35, "now would Che do a thing like that?" Fitelson said the Arab man and
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  • 352 4 CAIRO, Mon. (Reuterl Four Arab heads of state are expected to begin talks here today aimed at stepping up the war effort against Israel. The mini-summit will bring together Egypt, Jordan, Iraq and Syria the four countries most directly involved in the continuing
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  • 211 4 BAN CLEMENTE, California. Mon. (UPI) President Nixon, despite a current holding pattern, still hopes to pull out 100.000 more American troop# from Vietnam by Christmas, high level sources indicated yesterday. The chief executive, in delaying his planned late August announcement of another
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  • 187 4 CHICAGO. Mon. (UPI) A 24-year-old West Side man was arrested yesterday and charged with the murder of a Catholic nun who was shot to death on Saturday night as she slept In bed In a second floor apartment. Police said Eddie Taylor was arrested
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  • 404 4 TENT CITY. Isle of Wight, Mon. (Reuter) American folkslnger Bob Dylan today sent 170.000 fans wild with delight as he made his first mass concert in four years and then left them frustrated, screaming for more- Dvlan. paid £35.000 to appear at a giant pop.
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  • 336 4 DAMASCUS. Mon. (UTI) The four Israeli w««» B Enters aboard a hijacked Trans-World Airlines or who were detained by the Syrian Government imascus will be reler#eed and sent to Rome, the Syrian News Agency SANA said last night. SANA said: "The authorities concerned
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  • 58 4 BELGARDE. Mon. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Grornvko will pay an official visit to Yugoslavia Iron Sept. 2 to at the invitation of his opposite number Mr. M:rko Tepavac it »a« announced here lot night. An official announcement on August 1 said the visit would take place
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  • Page 4 Advertisements
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  • Fotorama '69
    • 323 5 HI there, Fotofans! Not so very long ago FOTORAMA '69 brought you an exclusive story on how the Earth was photographed by Astronaut Anders of the Apollo 8 Mission while his spacecraft orbited round the moon. To be more precise, we described how exposure
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    • 218 5 IT Has come to the notice of the sponsors of the Singapore and Her People Colour Photo Contest, Messrs. Behn, Meyer Co. Ltd. and Eastern Sun. that a number of entries for this contest were not accompanied by an official entry form (as published below). Under the
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    • 432 5 The International Scene AS part of their 150 th Anniversary celebrations, Asahi Optical Company Limited, manufacturers of the world famous ASAHI PENTAX and SPOTMATIC single-lens reflex cameras, have announced their sponsorship of yet another photographic competition on an international scale. Entitled the
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    • 397 5 CONTEST B-4 FIRST PRIZE: One Yashica Super 825 Cine Camera. SECOND PRIZE: One Yashica EZ-Matic Electronic Instant Loading: Camera. THIRD PRIZE: One Yashica MicroType Binocular. It's all over now and you know the results. But did you seize the opportunity to Photograph the 15
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 145 5 "LIGHT A CANDLE AND TAKE A PHOTO" Absurd? Would be with an ordinary camera. But the YASHICA ELEpTRO-35 is no ordinary camera. MM# I >*•: P *y, •x--;3 siThe Yashica Electro-35 does the almost impossible! It takes living colour photos in next to no light. An electronically controlled system makes
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 459 7 BY OUR MARKET REPORTER CONDITIONS in the Singapore trading room of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday were very steady. Trading was active. The Kusla Lumpur trsding room was closed for the Merdeka Dsy holiday. Also closed for the day were the
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    • 1165 7 T>USIXESS 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 lota of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified: INDUSTRIALS ACMA SI 88 (1) $l9O (1>: Ben $1.82 (1>; Borneo SI 77 (1) $1.76
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    • 149 7 TOKYO. Mon. (LTI) Excellent «rops of early rice have heen achieved this year In South China's rice arowing areas cesp.te many natural adversities. the New China News Agency reported. The New China News Agency said the total output In Kwangtunf Province, which has the
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    • 73 7 LIMA. Mon (UPI) Peru hat invited repreientative® of 11 European nation* and Japan to meet in Lima next October to discuss refinancing th« nation'# foreign debt. The ambassadors of West Germany. Italy. France. Spam Finland, England. Belgium. Austria. Holland. Switzerland. Denmark and Japan were handed the
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    • 225 7 DEPARTURES God owns Vessels 13/14 Kambodia 18 Paterelias 19 Sir Galahad 24 Hal Hlng 31/32 Cypria 33/34 Jalarashmi 35 36 Antenor 38 39 Fuuko Maru 46 Benkali* 30 Cherry Laju 3/4 Wonogiri 5 Ramon everett N.W. 5 Giang Lee ARRIVALS God owns Vessels 5 Ramon everett 46
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    • 142 7 TOKYO. Mon. (Reuter) Japan's external reserve* increased by US$92 million to $3,126 million at the end of August, the Finance Ministry announced today. The reserves had fallen for five straight months since last March mainly bscsuse surpluses in the balance of payments were
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    • 85 7 BELGRADE, Mon. (UPI) Avio-Genex, one of Yugoslavia's growing erop of private-ly-financed airline*, announced it hag agreed to bur two So-viet-built Tupolev TU-154 "jumbo Jet*" by 1971. The long-expected deal was concluded here last week with officials of the Soviet Arm Avioexport. A final
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    • 79 7 TOKYO. MOB (UPI) Jar oan and Rumania signed today a treaty of commerce and navigation. The treaty provided for most-favoured nation treatment in entry and exit of nationals of both nations. It also carried provisions on tariff and shipping. Foreign Minister Kiiehi Aichi an* Rumanian Foreign
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    • 74 7 TOKYO. Mon. (UPI) The Finance Ministry said that the budget for next fiscal year will total some 7.700.000 million yen (U5521,388 million). up from 6.739.500 million yen (U8518.720 million) for this year. The budget plan Is subject to the approval by the Cabinet and Diet
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    • 63 7 HONG KONG. Mon. (Reuter) China'* official New China News Agency has accused the United States of dumping surSlus agricultural product* in apan seriously damaging the agricultural economy. "The dumping 0 f US. surplus agricultural products has caused Jaoan to reduce her agricultural output and cut
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    • 76 7 HONO KONO, Mon. (UPI) Money Quotations yesterday: Hong Kong dollars 6.0875 per US. dollar Hong Kong dollars 6.1025 per U.S. dollar T T. Hong: Kong dollar* 14.48 per pound sterling. Hong Kong dollars 307.125 per tael of gold 94.5 per cent fineness. Hong Kong dollars 162.6 per 10.000
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    • 505 7 SINGAPORE will soon IM Hl* latest development in banking. ON-Lint Computers. Banks in Singapore, like the banks overseas, ara investigating and preparing for the introduction of computers. Because of the economies and advantages derived from computerisation, the raee is startin* to «ee which
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    • 133 7 MR OL HIRANANDANI (above), a specialist in the manufacture of welding electrode*, recently joined Oregon Industrie* Far Ea*t Ltd., as works manager of the company'* electrode* plant at Bukit Tim ah. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Hlranandanl was attached to Power Cable Pte. Ltd. of Bombay which,
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    • 119 7 HONG KONG. Mon. (UPI) A North Carolina agribusiness trade mission Arrived here last night. The mission is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Commerce and seeks to expand trade with countries in the far western Pacific. The 10-man mission, headed by Roland E.
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    • 427 7 1 Im 1 Hid iK 146 148 Gammon 156 C Lumber 1.02 1.98 GuinneM 10 620 Harper Oil Allan Hone Lmm 3. l. \l Hum* Pref. CO 1.46 International Wood 1-45 1.46 kboigl Ouan 196 J. Wftii.h a.on M B B.S 1-60 J.10 M- Banking 1.00
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    • 65 7 SEOUL, Mon. (UPI) The government has gave conditional approval to a proposal by the Bam«ung Group of Seoul to form a Joint Arm with Japan'* Sanyo Denkl and Sumitomo Buuan to produce electronic goods and component. The conditional approval of the Joint venture plan wai
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    • 63 7 TOKYO. Mors. (UPI) The Bank of Japan announced that 3.459,700 million yen (U.S.S 9.810 million) was being circulated during August in Japan. The figure represented an 18 6 per cent increase over a year earlier. To fight the inflation the Central Bank raised its official discount
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    • 93 7 THE soon prtceo at nor* Chine** Produce the fctnrwExchange »e*terday w«ra>— irer ttelle* Corannt Oil 48 50 (F O B-) Bulk Coconut Oil 5100 (FOB.) Dram w Vftxerl Conra SO-50 Monro* White Pepper 14:. oo (FOB) m •arowan White Pepper 142.50 (FOB) Sarawak Special Blad Pepper ir ojii M%
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    • 87 7 (Manag er*' Price* 1 MA UNlf Tl pet Fun ft for 1 Sept. 2) A \f 1 fnr iUSTis 1 ?S 1 u iiw for »ept. 1) ttsrs n f7i 1.16 KINO lat Mala 2nd Mai APOKE CM: ran ayan TH !?I 1 97 3rd Mah The Cor
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    • 385 7 ARRIVALS S 5855: Mi tU I tSSSS! y3sa m- GARLDA UAMtt Jakarta. 1015 am. MSA ltl K. Lumpur 10 25 a.m. MSA 005 Pana n g. Ipoh. Kuala Lumpur. Malacca 100 pm. HAS SK97I Copenhagen. Tashkent, Bangkok. 1-10 p.m. MSA 451 Kuehln* 1-30 p.m. CAL C|Blfe lalpel. Hong
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE
    • 54 8 Eyes On Kids —But Away Tokyo, A 2S-m wwimminx pool In the basemem of the play centre for children. Anyone under 18 can use the facilities free. UPI. TOKYO: The four-storied children's palace include a swimming pool, roller skate rink and gymnasiums. Their safety i s always watched by closed
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    • 260 8 Poem By Student MAPTS first landing on the moon gripped the imagination of the world and apparently inspired many people to put their thoughts on paper! The Melbourne 'Sun' published some verses written by Norman Zimmerman, 14. a third-form student at Carey Baptist Grammar School.
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    • 484 8  -  By Shota Ushio TOKYO, (UPI) Here is o playground where safety comes first. Thev built a four-storey children's palace in the centre of Tokyo with closed circuit television so that attendants can keep their eyes on the swimming pool, gymnasiums and roller skate rinks at all times.
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    • 583 8  -  By KIM WILLENSON KANCHANABURI, Thailand (UPI) A few miles west of this peaceful province capital in central Thailand lies the scene of one of the most dramatic stories to come out of World War 11. the infamous crossing of the River Kwai. There isn't much
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    • 349 8  -  By RON ROBERTSON BEING a thoughtful young man I stopped at a roadside stall and bought a clear plastic bag filled with golden sunkissed oranges. At the threshold of mv residence I handed my wife the love gift and said in a scholarly way,
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    • 350 8  -  Asia To Alaska By BETZI WOODMAN KAMCHITA, Alaska, (Reuter) A team off government-sponsored archaeologists ara working quickly at a tita on ona off the Aleutian Islands before the government uses the island for an underground nuclear test. The archaeological sites may prove that North America's
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    • 117 8 TEN Alumni Associations of the various local and overseas Universities are celebrating the 150 th Anniversary of the Founding of Sin 9apore at a dinner on Friday, Sept. 5. At this dinner will also be launched a project to erect a monument or sculpture to
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    • 657 8  -  Date-line Br m Ele,Walt Dulaney DEAR ELE: I am 12. Every one of 'mv friends has a bra. I asked my mother if I could get one. I know I don't need one and that I*m very flat but I just wanted to be popular. My friends said that
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 142 8 AMY By Jack Tippit M 7 i I i 4m*r "Dad. can kids belong to a union that bargains with parents?" DATELINE: DANGER! II CHEER UP, LEE pay/THE HOME TEAM CANT WIN EVERY TIME/ THEY HAD THE WINNING RUN ON FIRST, MR.TROV... THEN THAT STOOP HAD "TO STRIKE OUT/ JI^W
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  • Jemme
    • 579 9  -  Ann Landers DEAR ANN: YOU ehaflaed my life. That letter from the woman who said she felt like a prostitute putting up with her husband's sexual desires in exchange for financial security sounded like the story of my life for
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    • 653 9  -  1»r 11 Sheilah Graham LONDON. Mon. Sharon Tate had completed several scenes for her new film with the unlucky title of 13" and was to complete the film after the birth of her baby. The title was to be changed because Sharon had
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    • 167 9 NEW YORK. Mon. Filming one of the sequences for Paramount's ski-adven-ture. "The Downhill Racers." starring Robert Redford, created considerable confusion not only for visitors who watched from behind the cameras but in some instances, for the actors and film crew as well. The reason for this
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    • 335 9  -  ■y Gloria-Mae EVERYONE seems to be moon-struck ever sine® word wos received thot the Americans were ready to 'conquer' the moon. Well, they did succeed in landing on the moon but it was the 'man on the moon' as is the usual saying. The astronauts were equipped
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    • 245 9  -  By Mary Sue Miller A LOVELY write*: I have always avoided reducing exercises Well. I give up. Please tell me what to do to reduce my knees and I'll do it I have a new dress but, wearing It. all I see in the mirror is
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    • 725 9  -  By Fred Mpanga TWO middle-aged English women unashamedly eavesdropped as I talked to Mrs Joy Adamson at the India Tea Centre, in London's Oxford Street Mrs Ad am son insisted on fresh air. She flun* open the windows, complaining of the cloaer.ess and the
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 178 9 ROYAL CAMBODIAN I in. Ail- I 11 v.-r-»i(> DAMIRN Only On* Performance VICTORIA THEATRE Monday Bth Sept. 1969 at 8 30 p.m. Tickets: $2, S3. $5 at C. K. Tang, Robinson's and National Theatre Bo* Office. Ist ANNIVERSARY SALE ONLY ONCE A YEAR USUAL CENTS* DIPT. PRICE PRH PURITAN SPORT
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 235 9 LIDO Phone 2841 4 OPENS tod*y: 11 am. 1 4.V 4 00. 6.30 9 15 pa. A F 'm Francois Truffaut "STOLEN KISSES" Color (UA) CAPITOL Pt>one_2975 < VOW SHOWING No Free List II in., 1 3*, 4 00, 6 45 A 9 -30 p.m. Chen* Pei-pei "RAW COL'RAGE" A
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    • 229 9 TODAY and YOU... Tupsday, September 2 1969. i« et Your Doily Activity Guide According to tho Stars. To develop message for Tuesdoy, reod words corresponding to numbers of your Zodiac birth sign. 1 Money 2 Today's 3 Day 4 Public 5 Con GCMINI Influential o«V>' JiSf Pj JUNE JO 9
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 460 10 FOREST, HILLS, New York, Mon. (UPI Pancho Goniale* responded to the partisan audience yesterday to overcome wSESi I>JbJ Torben Ulrich in a battle of senior America six berths in the final sixteen Af theft USSl37.ooo Open tennis championships. Ui ,www -r Playing "for 1 more than
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    • 67 10 UXBRIDGE. England. Mon (Reuter) Ireland beat the Combined Services by seven wickets in a two-day cricket match which ended here today. The scores were: Combined Services 190 for eight declar ed and secondly 98 for four declared. P. Lishman 50. Ireland 127, M. Christy three for twelve, G.
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    • 66 10 PAL MA. Majorca, Mon (Reuter) The future King of Spain, Prince Juan Carlos of Bourbon, today clinched the Spanish Dragon class yachting championship in the final race of the weeklong series. The Prince, who was last month named General Franco's successor as Spanish head of state,
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    • 84 10 TAMPERE. Finland. Mon. (UPD Swedish motor cyclist Jack Lindh was fatally injured Sunday when he went off the track in the Pyynikki Motor Cycle Grand Prix here. The accident took place during the first lap of the 500cc class, when Lindh's Matchless came to a
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    • 307 10 OSAKA, Japan, Mon. (I'PI) Manager Masakl Kanehira announced today that his fighter, Hiroyuki Ebihara, will defend his World Boxing Association's flyweight crown against second ranking Bernabe Villacampo of the Philippines on October 19 In Osaka. Ebihara, who was present at the announcement, said he was
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    • 186 10 WET HERS FIELD. Conn. Mon. (UPI) Steady Bob Lunn. his confidence buoyed by an eagle and a string of four birdies, fired a five-under-par 66 Sunday to grab the third round lead in the $lOO,OOO Greater Hartford Open Golf Tournament with a 54-hole total of 201Lur.n. the
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    • 341 10 ELKHART LAKE. Wisconsin. Mon. (UPI) Bruc e McLaren and Denis Hulme, driving a pair of identical McLaren Chevrolets. escaped the troubles that wiped out all serious competition yesterday to roll to another 1-2 finish in he Canadian-American Challenge Cup road racing series. McLaren, who had
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    • 132 10 LONDON, Mon. (Reuter) A total of 746 players in English League Football received cautions from referees last season, according to statistics published yeterday in the League's magazine "Review." The cautions show an increase of 168 on the previous season's figures. But the number of players
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    • 48 10 TWO SINGAPORE GIRLS, Misses Geraldine Yu and Catherine Nr. both in the Police Force, passed the Taekwon-Do grading test for the Black Belt First Dan to join 19 other Black Belt holders.
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    • 380 10 BUENOS AIRES. Mon. (Reuter) Argentina were knocked out of the 19<0 World Soccer Cup yesterday In one of the biggest upsets in the tournament's history. The powerful Argentinians were expected to cruise into the 16-nation finals in Mexico next year but they
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    • 155 10 INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., Mon (UPI) —Neveie Pride, driven by the veteran Stanley Dancer, shattered a 31-year-old trotting world record for the mile with a 1:54.4 clocking at the Indiana State Fairgrounds Oval Sunday. The record, set in a special feature of a grand circuit racing
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    • 84 10 DETROIT. (UPI) Tommy Davis, a two-time batting champion with the Los Angeles Dodger® in 1962-63. was traded back to the National League Sunday when the Seattle Pilots dealt him to the Houston Astros for utility man Sandy Valdespino and Minor Leaguer Danny Walton. Davis, who was drafted eighth
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    • 412 10 American League Baseball NEW YORK, Mon. (UPI) Ted fnhaender hit a three-run homer and Harmon Killebrew followed with a solo shot in the third innings yesterdav to five the Minnesota Twins and Jim Perry a 6-2 victory over the Boston Red Sox. The victory
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    • 21 10 MOSCOW. Mon. (Reuter) The Soviet Union and Poland played a goalless draw in a friendly soccer international here yesterday.
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    • 587 10 National League Baseball NEW YORK, Mon. (UPI) Ken Holtzman drove in three runs with his first major league homer and a single and Billy Williams added a three-run homer yesterday to power the Chicago Cubs to an 8-4 victor over the Atlanta Braves.
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    • 87 10 JAKARTA. Mon. (AFP) Most of the tall, well-built West Irian athletes will stand out prominently from the 7.500-odd athletes competing in the current Indonesian Sports Festival. Reason: The West Irian athletes are unable to obtain running shoes big enough for their unusually large feet. The independent newspaper Merdeka
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    • 113 10 NATIONAL LEAGUE EAST W. L. GB. Chicago 82 52 New York 76 54 4 Pittsburgh 70 60 10 St. Louis 71 62 10* Philadelphia 52 78 28 Montreal 41 93 41 WEST Cincinnati 72 57 San Francisco 74 59 Los Angeles 72 58 Atlanta 73 62 2 Houston
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    • 205 10 MELBOURNE, Mon.(Reuter) Ambrose Palmer, manager of Australian world featherweight champion. Johnny Famechon. said yesterday he was amazed at the World Boxing CounciTs ruling that» Famechon would be required to defend his title so eariy. "What i s the WBC doing changing their rules?" Palmer
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    • 143 10 WINDHOEK. South Africa. Mon (UPI) An unofficial Wallaby plays for Australia against Southwest Africa here Monday in th« last provincial match before the third test match between Australia and the Springboks. He is Barry McDonald who playing as a flank forward dialocated his shoulder in the
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    • 412 10 MANCHESTER. Mon. (Reuter) Thick-set Dick Mote saved the New Zealand cricketers from a humiliating first innings collapse against Lancashire here yesterday. Pace bowler Mots came to the crease shortly before tea and left about half an hour before the close after hitting
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    • 783 11 THE UNBEATEN CHAMP WHO WASN'T TEMPTED BY MONEY NEW YORK, Mon. (Reuter and UPI) Rocky Marciano, killed In a plane crash Sunday, was born of American-Italian parents as Rocco Marchegiano at Brockton, Massachusetts, was described In his prime as "the most dangerous unarmed man in the world." One
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    • 759 11 SINGAPORE'S SEAP Games fold Alex Chan shattered the 100 metres butterfly stroke record on the second day of the three-day Buklt Tlmah District 10th annual swimming carnival held at the Chinese Swimming Club. Amber Road, yesterday. Alex representing Anglo Chinese School in
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    • 156 11 POLICE beat Tamp 1 net Rovers 3-1 in PAS division one league match at the Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. Rovers, currently placed at the bottom of the table, were first to score when, in the 10th minute, Nasir headed in a pass from Chan Chuck Weng. Police
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    • 97 11 All Blacks RFC of SingaEire clinched the Mrrdeka •7 first carnival seven-a-side rugger tournament trophy when they thrashed Johore All Blues 26-nil (four goals, two tries) in the final at Johore Bahru Sunday. Ten teams participated in the tournament organised by Johore United RFC in conjunction
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    • 99 11 Schoolgirl Molly Tay failed to beat the SEAP Games qualifying mark by two-tenths of a second In the Singapore Amateur Swimming Association's official trial held at the Chinese Swimming Club ye»terday. Molly of Anglo Chinese School who attempted her trial in the 100 metres freestyle clocked
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    • 44 11 MF.T .BOURNE, Mon. (Reuter) British Commonwealth light heavyweight boxing champion Bobby Dunlop of Australia will meet Italian Aliredo Vogrig here on September 26 The fight will be over 10 rounds Vogrig i 9 ranked number four in Europe's light heavyweight division.
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    • 921 11 SATURDAY FOLLOWING are the race weights for Saturday and Sunday racing at Kuala Lumpur: Class t Dir. 4—7 Furs Black Tulip 9 00 Beau Chimes 9.00 Hatico 8.13 Snowfiake 8.13 Richard Diamond 8.11 Master Boy 8.11 Joint Venture 8.11 Little Ange! 8.10 Semangat Berjuang 8.10 Invincible II
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    • 195 11 LONDON, Mon. (Reuter) British soccer star Peter Knowles today said he has decided to quit the game and become a fall-time preacher for the Jehovah's Witnesses instead. In quitting, the Wolverhampton Wanderers halfback gives up a career paying him 100 sterling a week and a
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    • 102 11 Armed Forces down 0-1 at half-time rallied strongly in the second half to whip RAF Seletar by 5-1 in the other FAB dlviHon one league fixture at the Jalan Besar Stadium last night. A eight-yard drive by Geoff Roden in the tenth minute gave Seletar the lead
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 1250 11 P.M. 11.55-12.15 English 2nd Language Sec. II "Dr. Han Goes Shopping 12 30-12 50 Geography (Ch Sec II "West African Cash Crops"; 1.15-1.35 General Science Sec. "Fishes"; 1.50-2.10 Geography (Ch.) Sec II "West African Cash Crops"; 2.25-2.45 English Sec. I "Faces"; 300-3 20 Mathematics Sec II "Loci in)"; 4.00-4 20
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  • 121 12 SINGAPORE is among nine places ta the world which are benefitting from specially constructed minicoaches for use by children's organisations, presented by the British Services. The gift, a white coach costing nearly $6,400, arrived here this week on the P and O cargo liner. Pando
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  • 284 12 THE Chairman of the Tourist Promotion! Board, Mr. Runme Shaw yesterday disclosed that Singapore would soon launch a massive publicity campaign overseas to woo tourists to. the Republic. He was speaklne to a group of eight tour operators from the Persian Gulf who
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  • 147 12 A Number of major, though less urgent, surgical operations had to be postponed last week owing to the shortage of stocks at the Singapore Blood Bank. Announcing this yesterday, the latest weekly report of the Blood Transfusion Service stated that the reserves had fallen more than 150
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  • 404 12 THE Singapore Telephone Board's share capital has been doubled to forty-million dollars. This doubling of the capital was done through the capitalisation of the Board's reserves. An announcement made yesterday also stated that a dividend of $1.2 million had been declared for 1968. The announcement was
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  • 189 12 An "All Star Show* will be staged at the National Theatre from Oct. 3 5 to raise funds for the proposed ultra-modern Kampong Glam Community Centre to be built on the Golden Mile. The entire project will cost $300,000. To date, the fund raising
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  • 67 12 THE vice-president of the Korean Traders Association, Mr. Kim Young Soo told local traders at an informal meeting yesterday that his association would try hard to increase the trade volumes to the mutual benefit of both countries. South Korea and Singapore. Mr. Kim, who arrived last
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  • 170 12 Young men who are 20 years of age and above and who are not liable for National Service may volunteer to serve in the People's Defence Force Engineers on a parttime basis. The announcement was made In a press release issued by the Ministry of Defence,
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  • 282 12 The mortf.h-lonjr Transport and Communications Exposition which ended on Sunday clearly showed what could be achieved by the Joint efforts of the Government and the business community, given mutual understanding and a spirit of co-operation. This was the comment of Singapore's Parliamentary Secretary to the
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  • 153 12 Ticket number *****9 won the first prize of a MercedesBenz 200 motor car i n the Transport and Communications Exposition Lucky Draw. The second prize of a doub'e return air ticket to Tokyo went to ticket number *****4. and the third prize of a double
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  • 75 12 THE Malay Youth Literary Association will organise a Blood Donation Day on Sept. 13 as its contribution towards the Republic 150 th anniversary celebrations. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Culture. En. che Sha'ari Tadin is the patron for the occasion. The general secretary to
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 95 12 Time tic Tide High Tide (Today) Singapore Town: 2.22 a.m. <8.2 ft.), 2.11 pin. (85 ft.). Naval Dockyard: 2.28 am. (10.0 ft.), 2.24 p.m. (9.9 ft.). Low Tide (Today) Singapore Town: 8.20 a.m. (2.9 ft), 8.50 p.m. (1.4 ft.). Naval Dockyard: 800 a.m. (3.7 ft.). 8.18 p.m. (2.1 ft.). High
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