Eastern Sun, 8 September 1969

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    22 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Eftd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1112 Monday, 8 September 1969. if MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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    Lock icon Malik's Statement On S'pore 'Misinterpreted'
    413 1 SOUTHEAST Asian security demanded the co-operation of Singapore with Malaysia and Indonesia, declared Mr. Adam Malik, the Indonesian Foreign Minister, on his arrival at the Paya Lebar International Airport here yesterday for a one-day stay. The Foreign Minister said this in "explaining" a statement attributed
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    Lock icon Pike's Body Discovered
    102 1 BETHLEHEM. Israeli-Occu-pied Jordan. Sun. (UPI) Ine body of American former Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike was found Sunday in the Judean wilderness, police sources said. They said Pike's body was found a few miles from where his automobile broke down Monday. Pike's wife had stumbled •ut of
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    53 1 HONG KONG. Sun. (AFP> Madame Soong Chlng Ling, widow of the founder of the Chinese Republic Dr. Sun Yat Sen. made her first in public for the past three vears when she called at the Vietnamese Embassv in Peking vesterday to tender condolences for the death of President
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    Lock icon FAST BOATS TO FOIL SMUGGLERS
    529 1 Unfriendly forces and smugglers seeking to damage or destroy Singapore's security and economic well-being by way of the sea have forewarned of the folly of their plans. A fleet of fast patrol boats, each manned by more than 20 highly skilled men. will soon be
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    Lock icon Mideast Clash
    65 1 TEL AVIV, Sun. (UPI) I Israeli troops clashed with' Arab guerrillas near the village of Jemaiyn 20 miles o* here Saturday, an Israeli mili-' tarv spokesman said. 6ne guerrilla was killed, the i spokesman said. No Israeli I casualties were reported. Three Israeli soldiers were wounded Saturday when
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    Lock icon THOUSANDS TOOK PART in the annual Novena Procession in honour of 'Our Mother of Perpetual Succour' on the church's grounds yesterday evening. Police had to divert traffic coming from both ends of Thomson Road at Newton Road and Whitley Road, to avoid any traffic congestions. Immediately after the procession an evening mass was held in the Church.
    57 1 THOUSANDS TOOK PART in the annual Novena Procession in honour of 'Our Mother of Perpetual Succour' on the church's grounds yesterday evening. Police had to divert traffic coming from both ends of Thomson Road at Newton Road and Whitley Road, to avoid any traffic congestions. Immediately after the procession an
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    Lock icon Raja Urges Better Safety Measures At Industries
    364 1 The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Labour, Mr. S. Rajaratnam last night called on the management, supervisors and workers to bear equal responsibility to ensure that safety measures taken are of the highest order and are observed strict- iy* Noting that there were
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    Lock icon Political Prisioners Freed By Brazil
    325 1 U.S. Envoy Exchange RIO DE JANEIRO. Sun. (ITI) Kidnappers of r.S. Ambassador C. Rurke Eibrick demanded confirmation yesterday night that the Rraztlian government had released and flown to Mexico the specific 15 person» whose freedom tbev demanded in exchange for Elbrick's life. The Brazilian government
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    94 1 PALERMO. Sicily, Sun. (Reuter) A pretty bride putting; on her wedding gown before leaving home for the church was shot dead by a suitor she had rejected, police said here today. "If you won't be mine, nobody else will have you, M the man shouted before pymping Ave
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    Lock icon Chin Ping Now Engaged
    76 1 HONG KONG, Sun. (UPI) A famed Mandarin actress who disappeared from the middle of two Shaw Brothers films was Sunday announced engaged to a son of a department store magnate here. Chin Ping secretly left Hong Kong for Boston. Mass.. to join her boy friend, David
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    Lock icon PLANE CRASH IN THAILAND
    75 1 BANGKOK. Sun. (UPI) Eight people were lulled, including four Americans and 12 other Americans injured when a US Air Force EC-121 reconnaissance plane crashed in Korat airbase Saturday while attempting to land during a heavy rainstorm, a spokesman of the U.S. Embassy here said today. The
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    Lock icon Red Chiefs Gather In Hanoi For Ho Funeral
    246 1 HONG KONG, Sun. (Reuter) Silently mourning North Vietnamese paid their last ffe. pects to dead President Ho Chi Minh today as more foreign delegations flew into Hanoi for his funeral. President Ho. his bcdy dressed in a modest khaki uniform and his
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    38 1 ATLANTIC CITY, N J. Sun. (UPI) —Miss Michigan, Pamela Anne Eldred. a 21-year-old classical balle* dancer. was crowned Miss America Saturday night at a pageant picketed by demonstrators claiming she ann other contestants were being "exploited
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      35 1 LADIE iAP«S LC. Atfwc m K f es a /IV fl "We're at the bottom of the league but it was our most successful season—two marriages and three engagements and still a week to go!"
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    Lock icon Elizabeth Walk Features Open Air Art Exhibition
    151 2 HUNDREDS out on a Sunday outing at the Esplanade were treated to a 120-paintings Open Air Art Exhibition on Elizabeth Walk. The Open Air Art Exhibition is held once each month to enable local artists a chance to show their talents to the
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    Lock icon Party Must Have Many New Ideas
    295 2 The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Culture, Enche Sha'ari Tadin, reminded members of the ruling party, the People's Action Party, the importance of having an abundance of fresh ideas. "Effective government aepends on sensible, practical and far-sighted political ideas that arise from sustained
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    Lock icon Man Held For Extortion Attempt
    74 2 A 22-year-old ma n was arrested by two po ice detectives inside a provision shop in Toa Payoh where he had earlier tried to extort $36 from the proprietoi. On the pretext of getting the money from "his proprietor,' the owner went out of the
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    Lock icon Pedestrians Reckless, Not Considerate
    336 2 The inconsiderationness and reckiiessness of pedestrians in Singapore came for a scathing attack over the weekend by one of the Republic's Government leaders. Singapore's Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry oi Social Ailairs, Mr. Chan Chee Seng, made the criticisms at a saie cycling rally c-t Victoria
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    Lock icon BACK HERE AGAIN
    132 2 A YOUNG American university graduate. Bill Coleman (pictured above), had such a fine time in the Republic that he went off to Jakarta en route to New Delhi, without collecting his visa for India from the Indian High Commission here. Yesterday, an excited Bill flew back to
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    Lock icon K.L. Talks Revise Anti-Red Tactics Along The Border
    318 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. New tactics to fight the Communists terrorists along the border are now being considered by the Malaysian and Thai authorities. The terrorists at the Malavsian-Thal border areas are known to have adopted Vietcong-style tactics against security forces. The counter-measures
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    Lock icon Teong Says: Remember Forefathers
    161 2 Singapore's multi-racial policy, political stability, and its economic progress together with the Republic's remarkable achievements In housing and Industrialisation were the envy of many countries throughout the world. So declared Mr. Teong Eng Slong. the Member of Parliament for the Sembawang Constituency. In his speech as
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    Lock icon 'Singapore In 20th Century'
    95 2 A former staff tutor of the Political Study Centre. Mr. Gerald de Cruz, will be the speaker for a six-lecture course on "Singapore in the 20th Century" commencing on Sept. 9 The course which l« organised by the Department of Extramural Studies. University of Singapore, will
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    Lock icon Hotel Rooms To Quadruple Within Next Three Years
    424 2 THE Immediate Past President of the American Society of Travel Agents, Mr. Gordon R. Girvan, yesterday spoke of the tremendous potentialities Singa. pore has in the field °f tourism. He was speaking *t grand luncheon reception given by new Hotel Equatorial given
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    Lock icon Brunei Perty Chief Quits
    119 2 BRUNEI TOWN. Sun. (Reuter) Mr. Hapldz Laksamana. President oi the Brunei People's Independent Front, the State's most powerful political organisation has resigned from the party Mr. Hapldz said tonight he was leaving the party to concentrate on his business. Mr. Latlf Hamid. the Party s Secretary
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    Lock icon Transport Workers Get Union Pledge
    186 2 THREE major transport unions In the Republic have made a pledge to co-operate and work for a brighter and better future for tranaport workers The pledge was made by the leaders of the Singapore Air-Transport Work era' Union, the Singapore Port Workers' Union and the
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    Lock icon Officials Urged To Lead
    154 2 The President of the Government Servants Welfare Organisation. Mr Lawrence Arokiaraj. called on government servants to play a leading and responsible role toward a nation building. He was speaking at a dinner held at the club house of the GSWO In Haig Road to commemorate the
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    Lock icon ONE KILLED, FOUR HURT IN ACCIDENT
    65 2 Four person? were seriously injured with one other dead when two taxis collided along Changi Road on Saturday. All the injured including the fatally-injured person were taken t© the nearby RAF hospital for immediate attention. The deceased is Woon San Wah. 54 a passenger
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    Lock icon Burglary
    43 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Burglars got away with 50 pairs of sun-glasses from an optical firm at Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman here yesterday morning. The manageress of the firm. Mlsg Woon See Yong reported the loss estimated at $1,200 to the police today
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      198 2 TODAY and YOU... Monday* September 8, 1969. S ARIES MAR. 21 AHM9 -25-44-54 ..-59-79-80 TAURUS Kv APR. 20 MAY 20 8-19-20-33 41-60-74 GEMINI 2l fy JUNE 20 28-37-40 63-72 CANCER JUNE 21 STAR GAZER By CLAY R. POLLAN X. Your Daily Activity Gold* X "T According to th, Stan. rsfi
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      30 2 TOTO DRAW THE followinc numbers wer e drawn in yesterday's Sunday Toto Draw:— 16—24—15—35—19 The additional number drawn was: 5. The numbers drawn in ♦he special "three-circle" draw were: 2—21—33.
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    Lock icon REISCHAUER URGES CHANGE IN US STAND ON CHINA QUESTION
    360 3 SHIMODA, Sun. (Reuter) A former U.S. ambassador fo Japan Mr. Edwin Reischauer, has urged a completely new American attitude towards China and the removal of irritants which he said stood in the way of improved relations with the Chinese. His proposals
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    Lock icon Saigon Rejects Red 'Ceasefire'
    336 3 SAIGON, Sun. (Renter) Saigon today rejected the three-dav ceasefire proclaimed by the Vietcong to mark the funeral of North Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh. The decision was announced in a brief government statement onlv 12 hours before the 72-hour ceasefire was due to start .it 0100
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    Lock icon Opposition Party Disbands To Fight Pres. Park
    242 3 SEOUL. Sun. (UPI) South Korea's major opposition party dissolved itself today in a last-ditch manoeuvre against a proposed constitutional amendment designed to permit President Park Chung-Hee to seek a third term. The Shinmm (New Democratic) Party disbanded itself in a hastily called convention
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    Lock icon India-Made MiGs By 1970
    92 3 BOMBAY. Sun. (Reuter) India has started manufacturing Soviet-designed MiG fighters direct from raw materials. the Minister of Defence Production, Mr. L. N. Mishra, said here today. The first plane built up ijrom raw materials would be finished by July next year, he told reporters. MiGs in
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    Lock icon Fishermen Arrested And Released
    210 3 TOKYO. Sun. (AFP) Eight Japanese, includng four Coast Guard Officers, were captured by Soviet soldiers en Taraku Island in the Sovietoccupied Southern Kuriles' Hahomal Islands off Hokkaido, yesterday but were released late this morning. The Koahin Maru No. 3. a crab-fishing boat of 19.6 tons, with
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    Lock icon £7.7m Flood Bill In India
    70 3 LUCKNOW, India, Sun <Reuter) About 60 people were drowned or killed in monsoon floods this summer in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. government officials said here today. Total damage to crops and buildings in the floods was estimated at 140 million rupees (£7.700.000 sterling),
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    Lock icon 'S'wak Reds Suffer 75 Per Cent Wipe-out In Weeks'
    375 3 KUCHING. Sun. (Reuter) Seventyfive per cent of the Communist threat in Sarawak's third division has been wiped out by security forces in the past few weeks, chairman of the state operations committee Harun Ariffin said here. *T7ie success we obtained in
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    Lock icon HO'S BODY LIES IN STATE
    198 3 HONG KONG. Sun. (Reuter) President Ho Chi MinhV body lies in state in the Ba Dinh meeting hall across the historic Ba Dinh Square where the late North Vietnamese leader proclaimed his country* independence 24 years ago, the North Vietnam news agency reported today. The
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    Lock icon Eight Die In USAF Plane Accident
    112 3 BANGKOK Sun. (Reuter) Four American airmen and four Thai security guards were killed when a U.S. Air Force EC-121 reconnaissance plane crashed on landing In a rainstorm yesterday at the U S. Korat Air Base. 160 miles northeast of Bangkok. American Embassy sources said
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    Lock icon Udugama Freed
    58 3 COLOMBO. Sun. (Reuter) Major Gen. Richard Uriugama, 58. a former Army Commander accused of plotting an antiGovernment coup In February, 1966. wa.< today discharged by Ceylon's Supreme Court The prosecuting officer said there w a„ not enough evidence against the General. Last month four other accused—including an influential
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    Lock icon VC Launch Massive Raids Before Ceasefire Deadline
    754 3 SAIGON, Sun. (Reuter) The V 1 e t c on g yesterday launched a nationwide series of attacks killing 18 Americans and wounding 242. only two days before the start of their unilaterally proclaimed ceasefire In honour of dead President Ho Chi Minh.
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    Lock icon Embarrassed Diplomat
    147 3 HONG KONG. Sun. (Reuter) The Indian Commission here is to lodge a complaint with the Hong Kong government over the mistreatment of an Indian diplomat at a Police Station last night. A spokesman for the commission said the diplomat third secretary L.T. Pudaite was rudely ordered off a
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    Lock icon Coconut Community Conference
    85 3 COLOMBO. Sun. (UPI) The Asian Coconut Community conference yesterday decided to hold its next meeting in Bangkok in January. It was announced. The conference also agreed to open a temporary headquarters in the Thai capitaL Among the subjects discussed during the closed-door session was the possibility of
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    Lock icon 4 Convicts Recaptured
    44 3 PERTH. Sun. (Reuter) Police have recaptured four of eight convicts described as dangerous who escaped from Fremantle Jail on Friday. it was announced here today. The eight were serving sentences for crimes ranging from rape and armed robbery to car theft
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    Lock icon WORLD'S GREATEST RAVE-IN
    59 4 150,000 DYLAN FANS, a section of which is seen above, stormed the Woodside Bay site on Aug. 31st for the three-day Isle of Wight Pop Festival. The hippiegeared human jungle merged from U.K., the Continent and even U.S.A. The revelrv climaxed with Dylan's 65-minute performance that day
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    Lock icon Irish Request: Ulster Problem On UN Agenda
    585 4 UNITED NATIONS, Sun. (AFP and UPI) The Irish Delegation to the United Nations yesterday requested that the problem of "The Situation in Northern Ireland" should be put on the agenda of the next session of the general Assembly. This will begin on September
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    Lock icon Black Power Leader Arrested In London
    182 4 LOJfDON. Sua. (Renter) Fugitive Black Power Leader Robert Franklin Williams was arrested in London last night shortly before h e planned to fly back to the United States after eight years at exile. Williams. 45. was picked up at Heathrow Airport here after he
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    Lock icon Al Fatah Guerrilla Warning: Underground Will Use Lebanon For Anti-Israel Attacks
    236 4 CAIRO. Sun. (UPI) The A 1 Fatah Guerrilla Organisation's Voice of Storm Radio last night said Palestinian guerrillas will fight the Lebanese Army if it tries to prevent them using Labanon as a base for attacks on Israel. The
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    Lock icon NEW HOPE IN PIKE SEARCH
    160 4 JERUSALEM. Sun. (Reuter) —A pair of underpants found in the Judean wilderness were last night identified by Mrs. Diana Pike as belonging to her husband. Dr. James Pike, former Episcopal Bishop of California, missing since Monday. The pants were discovered beside a waterhole by civilian
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    Lock icon SHOULD A V.D. VICTIM MARRY HIS GIRLFRIEND?
    554 4  -  Ann Landers DEAR Ann: I was recently discharged from the Army after having done a tour of duty in Vietnam. I contracted a venereal disease while in the service and although I have received heavy dosages of penicillin I am still not cured.
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    Lock icon Libya To Join With Other Arab Nations
    444 4 CAIRO. Sun. (I'PI and Reuter) The ruling Libyan Revolutionary Council indicated to-day it will align itself with militant Arab nations. The Council took over the oil-rich country last Monday. Yesterday, as Britain, the United States and North Vietnam announced recognition of the military
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    Lock icon Norwegians Begin Voting
    114 4 OSLO. SUB. (Reuter) Norway begins voting to-day ID a two-day central election In which two unpredictable factors could lead to a close race or possible defeat for the ruling coalition government. Nearly 2.6 million Norwegians will elect 150 members to the national assembly for four years. Until
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    Lock icon USSR Assures Yugoslav Sovereignty
    129 4 BELGRADE. Sun. (Reuter) The Soviet L'nion yesterday gave Yugoslavia assurances about her sovereignty and independence which President Tito lias sought since the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia last year. In a communique Issued after a five-day official visit by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, the two
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      105 4 DATELINE: DANGER! by John Saunders and Alden McVWfanw THE POLICE BOMB SOU AD HAS ARRIVED TO INVESTIGATE THE OMINOUS PACKAGE FOUND ON CONGRESSMAN GRAVS STEPS/ STAY DOWN, LEE ROY THIS IS NO TIME V POR CURIOSITY/ THE CHIEF SAID THE FIRST PROBLEM IS TO FIND OUT IF IT IT A
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    Lock icon BRAIN DRAIN
    561 6 Ff spirited speech delivered before some of the best educated people in Singapore, Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, himself a Cambridge scholar, posed the question whether the intellectual elite of the nation will be "quitters or stayers." Singapore society being new and largely of immigrant stock, he pointed
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    Lock icon TOWARDS COMPACT SOCIETY
    289 6 MAN needs greater faculties to cherish and practise multi-racialism. Its demands are exacting. The paradox of today's society is that more countries are turning back to 'tribalism and lingualism' than attempting to break down man-made barriers. It is all the more saddening when one witnesses this trend
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    Lock icon Scientists Still Differ On The Ages Of Man
    818 6  -  By GAMINI SENEVUtATNE, Gemini News Service Kenyan anthropologist Dr. Leakey has announced the discovery in Tanzania of a skull of man that is older than the earliest known human being by quarter of a mil lion years. Two American scientists have made
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    Lock icon TODAY'S QUOTATION
    32 6 Yf H I N everythinq looks simple and uty, it moans either Hit gods aro on our side, or that the decisions we have made wore right Loo Kuan Yew.
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    Lock icon 'Outstanding' Diplomat Elbrick
    283 6 WASHINGTON. (UPI)— Chariot Burke ilbrick, Hit U.S. Ambattador who hat been kidnapped by terror isft in Brazil. it dweribtd by kit diplomatic colleague# k• r at an outttanding career foreign tervice officer, alwayt dapper, slightly reserved but with a pleasant tente of humour. Foreign service officers who
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    Lock icon 'Sense Of Belonging...'
    417 6 The Lighter Side WASHINGTON, (UPI) Unless he maintains a legal residence elsewhere, there Is no way that a citizen of the district of Columbia can vote in a Congressional election. Yet fund raising dinners for members of Congress frequently are held in this voteless enclave. And some
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    Lock icon The Ordeal In The Judean Desert
    647 6 In this story written exclusrt'ely for UPI Mrs. Diana Pike tell s of her 10hour ordeal In the Judean desert after her car broke down and she left her husband Dr. Jamaa Pike to search for help. BETHLEHEM IsraeliOccupied, Jordan, (UPI) What started as
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    Lock icon Ceylon Is Thinking Big
    501 6  -  By PATRICK J. KILLEN COLOMBO (TPI) Ceylon is a small Island with a bis Idea. The idea is to tame the Island's wide ranging Mahaveli River and pat it to work providing flood control along with more food and power for Ceylon's 12 million residents. The
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    Lock icon Call To Cut Customs Red-tape
    318 6 By Thaung My in# BANGKOK, (tauter) Customs officials have callad on Asian countries to cut customs rod-tape to cope with Hia new era of by jumbo jets and containerised skipping. A recent BCAFE working party on Customs Administration agreed Asian nations had made progress in
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
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      Lock icon Asian Economic Roundup
      635 7 HONG KONG, Sun. (UPI) Thailand joined the United States last week in warning that continued Japanese trade protectionism will lead to "import and other restrictions." The Asian Development Bank granted a US$7.5 million loan to help Korea txprest Co. to establish an Integrated highway freight transportation and
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      Lock icon Joint-Venture On Plastic Motorboats
      84 7 TOKYO. Sun. (UPI) NisIhin Seiko Co. of Tokyo announced on Saturday it will ?et up a joint firm with Pacemaker Inc. of New Jersey to produce motorboats in Japan. The joint firm will be established on Dec. 1 in Tokuyam a City, Yamaguchi prefecture on the
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      Lock icon Selling Colour TV Sets To US
      108 7 Major Japanese electric appliance makers have begun to step up shipments to the United States of colour television sets, tape recorders and stereo tuners. Mitsubishi Electric Corp., which hitherto kept out of the U.S. market, is joining other Japanese (makers next month with its
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      Lock icon HERTZ EXPANDS SERVICE HERE
      260 7 THE Singapore branch of Hertz, the world wide car rental organisation is now operating from new premises at 304 Orchard Road. The move to the new, larger premises has been brought about by the need for more facilities to cope with the steady increase in business
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      Lock icon THE most powerful computer ever built by IBM, the System/360 Model 195, was announced recently in the U.S. and Canada. The new system is designed for solving vast computing problems ranging from global weather forecasting to space exploration. In addition, the Model 195 can be the central control point, for example, of the most complex airline reservation system or a coast-to-coast time-sharing network.
      63 7 THE most powerful computer ever built by IBM, the System/360 Model 195, was announced recently in the U.S. and Canada. The new system is designed for solving vast computing problems ranging from global weather forecasting to space exploration. In addition, the Model 195 can be the central control point, for
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      Lock icon Pet Food Plant Set Up
      159 7 Taiyo Fishery Co. has announced plang to set u e a P*t food company, with Purina of the United States, the biggest feed producer in the world. According to ©lens agreed by the two firms, th« new enterprise will be called "PurinsTaiyo Pet Food Co."
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      Lock icon For Training In Alabama
      101 7 A SINGAPORE electrical engineer, Mr. Tan Kiat 800. 28, will be leaving for the United States next month to undergo training in the welding electrodes division of Westinghouse Electric Corporation. He was one of more than 100 applicants for the posts of quality control and plant
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      Lock icon Trade Up 8 p.c.
      50 7 Two-way trade between Japan and China during the first six months of this year reached $241 million on a customs clesrance basis, sn Increase of 9 per cent over the corresponding period of lsst year, according to a survey by the Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO).
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      108 7 TOKYO. Sun. (UPI) The AU-Nippon Airways will fly "mini air bus" planes in Japan next month, it was announced yesterday. Three Boeing 727-200 mini air buses on lease from the Pacific Southwest Airlines of the US. will start regular domestic flights between Tokyo and Osaka
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      53 7 LONDON, Sun. (AFP) Leaders of the Trades Union Congress are studying a secret document counselling opposition to British entry into the Common Market, the Observer newspaper claimed today. The paper said that the document argued that "Britain's industrisl and social development could be gravely threatened if she joined
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      Lock icon KODAK QUALITY CONTROL
      112 7 RICHARD F ELDERKIN. an expert on colour film processing and photoftnlsnlng services from the Eastman Kodak Company In Rochester. New York. U.S.A. Is currently visiting the processing laboratory of Kodak (Malaya) Limited here In Singapore. Elderkln's visit is part of a continuing programme to enable Kodak processing
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      Lock icon HK Telstar Station Ready Sept. 24
      127 7 HONG KONG, Sua. fCTO Hoof Koar's first satellite earth sttaon built a cost of U556.66 mlQioa, will be officially opened Sept. by Governor Sir David Trench. The station, situated at the end of the Stanley Penmsuia on the southernmost point of Hong Kong Island,
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      994 7 The weekly market review THI Stock ixchonge of Malaysia and Singapore experienced in the past week some of the bullish conditions reminiscent of those May 31. Faint signs were riven towards the end of the previous week when the market closed steady. It was hopefully
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      89 7 HONG KONG, Sun. (UPT)— Pakistan International Airlines will open new route Nov. 1 twice weekly from Dacca to Tokyo vis Bangkok snd Manila. the airline's managing director. Mr. S.U. Durrani said on Friday. Durrani srrived here on Friday from Canton where he held talks with officials of
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      211 7 NEW YORK. Sun. (UPI) President Nixon this week struck the hardest blow yet levelled at inflation bv ordering all new federal construction cut 75 per cent. It's a harsh remedy that will put a lot of neople in the building trades out of work. But the
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      150 7 EXMOUTH Salt Pty. Ltd. and the Government of Wes< tern Australia have signed an afreement for the production and export of salt from Exmouth Gulf. 800 miles north of Perth. Thii la the sixth salt agreement that the Western Australian Government haa negotiated during the last
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      410 7 5 00a.m. 9 00 m i AHUVALI MBA 029 MBA 110 K. Lumpur V l.nmnnr M D i ltl K Lumj our 10-18 UD. 10.50a.m. lttlDJk Ms A 005 Pen Ant. lDon. K. Lumpur, Malacca THAI T04S8 Huikok. PAN-AM PA841 Saltan. Guam. BonoluJu. MO rruaieo OABUDA GA8M Jakarta.
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    582 8 LEFT: The First Lady, Puan Noor Aishah, and the chairman of the Building Fund Committee of the Singapore Association for Retarded Children, Miss Lee Seok Tin, exchanged greetings during a meeting at the Istana, last week. The meeting was called for the First Lady to launch a
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      2820 9 A SHORT STORY YTANG retains only A the memories -of his young days after the age of six; beyond that the past is clouded with tne blua mists on the far-off Hills of Time. Memories Of his past always gives hiih a sense of guilt towards his
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      451 9 MAN has been a hunter since time vu recorded. Because. this activity provided him with food. But today, hunting for the purpose of Just staying alive 1* don* only by a small portion of the world's people. Because of this change. In most countries, man has developed new ideas
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      1776 10 3 Return 3-figure Dividends bv BIG BEN KUALA LUMPUR, Sun.— Three horses returned three-figure dividends on the concluding day of the Selangor Turf Club meeting here today. They were Hendak Menang ($127). Rexrosa ($124) and Tudor Pirate ($113). Star Writ (Podmore) followed up his Ipoh
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      171 10 TAMPINES. Rovers scored a convincing 4-0 win over RAF Seletar in a division one league second-round match at the Geylang Stadium yesterday. Rovers, who surprised last week by holding Hamilton SC. to a two-all draw, took the lead In the 20th minute through Nasir who headed
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      Lock icon Jockey Defies Death Threat
      148 10 DUBLIN, Sun. (UPI) Ryan Boater Parnell, leading flat Jockey on Irish tracka and fancied to win the Irish jockey championship trophy, defied a threat to his life yesterday and rode at the Phoenix Park meeting. He was second to Khaiberry (C. Roche) in the Whitechurch Maiden
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      65 10 DARUL AFIAH. the defending champions, beat Stable Boys 4-1 in a division one league fixture at Jaian Besar Stadium yesterday. Darul's goals were scored by Salleh Ibrahim (2), Khamis Serai (1) and Zakaha Ambu (1) while Anwar netted for Stable Boys. In another division one match
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      Lock icon Marciano Laid To Rest
      196 10 FORT LAUDERDALE. Florida, Sun. (UPl)—Former heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano wu buried at hia adopted hom f under dark, gloomy skies yesterday as some of the violent sports greatest names paid respects. Mrs. Barbara Marciano kissed the ca*et and then wept as workmen lowered it Into
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      Lock icon Ashe Should Be Allowed To Play In SA—Player
      138 10 JOHANNESBURG. Sun. (Reuter) South African golfer Gary PI aver believes that American Negro tennis star Arthur Ashe should be allowed to play in South African tennis championship Player, in South Africa on holiday, said in an interview with the Johannesburg Sunday Express
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      140 10 DETROIT. Michigan, Sun. (Reuter) Larry Hinson and Kermit Zarley, with five-under-par 54-hole aggregates of 205, shared the lead here today at the start of the final round of the US$lOO,OOO Michigan golf classic. Hinson, the 25-year-old from Douglas. Georgia, who won the New Orleans Open,
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      27 10 MUNICH. Sun. (AFP) The Pakistan National field hockey team were held to a surprise 2-2 draw by West Germany in an international match here today.
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      691 10 Darkness Halts S-Final Match FOREST HILLS, New York. Bun. (Reuter) Top seeded Rod Laver of Australia won the first two sets against defending champion Arthur Ashe, and the pair battled into a marathon third set. before darkness ended their semi-final match at the UfJ. Open tennis
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      Lock icon Balestier Shock Padang To Win Cup
      487 10 BALESTIER CLUBS, the underdogs, created an upset when thev beat Padang Clubs by 72 runs in the first annual two-dav 'Kiwi' Cup cricket match played at th* 1 Padang yesterday. Final Scores: Balestier Clubs 112 for nine wickets declared and 136. Padang Club 6'
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      203 11 AKRON, Ohio, Bua. (UPI) British Open champion Tony Jacklin got off to a fast start in the first round of the World Series of Golf yesterday by firing a birdie there on the first hole of the Firestone Country Club course. Skies were dark and
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      533 11 T ONDON, Sun. (Rcuter) Promoted Derby County mode their biggest impact in tin English First Division soccer championship yesterday whan thay knocked Everton from the top of the table. Derby ended Everton's unbeaten run this season with a well-de-served 2-1 home win and did
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      134 11 TOKYO. Sun. (AFP) World Junior middleweight boxing champion, Freddie Little of the U.S. is favoured to retain his title when he defends it against Japan's Hisao Mm ami oc Tuesday. The title fight will be staged at the Osaka Prefeetural Gymnasium. and will be televised
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      40 11 CAPE TOWN, Sun. (Reuter) The South African Rugby Union Board yesterday approved a tour of Australia by the Springboks in 1971. Final dates for tour, which will include three Tests and ten other matches, will be announced later.
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      1100 11 English Division One Arsenal 0. Sheff Wed 0. Crystal Palace 3. Stoke 1. Derby 2, Everton 1. Ipswich 2, Newcastle 0. Leeds 2. Man. United 2. Liverpool 2. Coventry 1. Man. City 0. Chelsea 0 Southampton 1, Burnley 1. S'iand 2 W. Bromwich 2 West Ham 0.
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      188 11 LONDON. Sun. (Reuter) Yorkshire's cricketers salvaged some prestige this season after relinquishina the County championship bv winning the one-day Gilctte Cup final against Derbyshire here at Lord's yesterday. Yorkshire won bv 69 runs after Derbyshire's gamble In sending them backfired. Yorkshire rattled up 219 for eight
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      174 11 SAPPORO. Japan. Sun. (Reuter) World featherweight boxing champion Shozo Saljo of Japan, using fast combination blow*, knocked out Jose LuLs Pimentel of Mexico in the second round of a world title match here tonight. The quick-punching Japanese champion stopped Pimentel with hard left and
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      39 11 ALL Blacks of Singapore last lo Johore Bahru United bv 26 points 'four goals, one try. one penalty) to 12 (three tries, one penalty) in a friendly rugger match at Civil Service Ground. Johore Bahru yesterday
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      193 11 US Baseball Results Standings NEW YORK. Sun. (UPI) Major league baseball result# played yesterday: AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit 5. Baltimore 4. Boston 9. Washington 5. Minnesota 8. Oakland 8. N. York 1. Cleveland 0. Kansas City 6. Seattle 2. California 2. Chicago 1. NATIONAL LEAGUE N. York 3. Philadelphia 0 Pittsburgh
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      434 11 CAPE TOWN, Sun. (Renter) —The powerful Springboks proved their superiority beyond aoubt when they beat the Australian Wallabies 11-3 in the third international here yesterday to clinch the Test series with an unbeaten record. Once again the mighty Springbok forwards were the decisive factofr in a,
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      128 11 MONZA. Italy. Sun. (Reuter) Austrian racmf -driver Jochen Rindt and four others smashed the Monn track record yesterday in practice for the Italian Grand Prix today. Rindt. driving a Lotus-Ford, raced around the 5.7 kilometre <3J mile) course in one minute 25.4R seconds, at an
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      69 11 CHRISTCHURCH. New Zealand, Sun. (Reuter) The sixman Sirgapore badminton team arrived here tonight to play New Zealand in the Australian zone final of the Thomas Cun this week. Mr. Wong Peng Soon, the team coach, said tonight his team had been training to win the
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      108 11 TOKYO. Sun. 'ATP) Former world featherweight boxing champion Vicente Saldivar of Mexico plans to challenge Japan's Shozo Saijo if he successfully defends his world Boxing Association's featherweight title against Mexico's Jose Pimentel in a 15-round title match in Sap*, poro. Hokkaido tonight, it was reported
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      50 10 BIG SWEEP TOTAL POOL: ($31,560) lit Prist: No. *****5 ($7,811) 2nd Prist: No. *****9 ($3,905) 3rd Prise: No. *****7 ($1,952) Starters: ($162 each) Nos: *****2 *****9 *****2 *****1 *****4 *****5 *****5 *****0 *****6 *****8 *****9 *****1 Consolation: ($173 each) Not: *****2 *****0 *****5 *****1 *****2 *****3 *****6 *****3 *****5 *****3
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      1243 11 (CHANNEL 5) PM 300 Opening Announcements ia all Languages and Morning Star: 3.25 Woman's World (Tamil); 3.55 A Diary of Events in Singapore thi*. week Tamil) 400 It's Happening in Singapore (Tamil* <Repeat>; 4 15 Scarlett Hill (City Mice); 440 Close. 6.00 Prog Summarv in all Languages. fi.os Phantaman Egyptian
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    534 12 JUST who do you think won the three top prizes all saloon cars, including a Mercedes Benz 230 m the Chinese Chamber of Commerce's mammoth 1515-prize Lucky Draw held in conjunction with the "Keep Singapore Clean and Beautiful Campaign"? The lucky
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    391 12 THE MP for Alexandra, 1 Prof. Wong: Lin Ken, last night called on the Government to make wider use of academic men in committees and statutory boards. Prof. Wong, who has been Singapore's Ambassa. dor to Washington and Representative to the United Nations,
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    64 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. A four-day curfew has been imposed in the Bintang District of Sarawak yesterday The curfew was announced by a police spokesman but no reasons were given. The spokesman added that every person in the area should remain indoors from 6 p.m yesterday to 6 a
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    417 12 EXPORT of Singapore manufactured goods increased by more than 80 per cent over the five years 1962 to 1967. This is one of the encouraging facts recorded in the 1967 annual report of the Singapore Government's Trade Division published last week. The report records that
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    786 12  -  By JOHN HSU PARENTS, teachers. Judges and community leaders sat enthralled for hours in the packed auditorium of the Cultural Centre to hear Singapore's own "Demosthenes, Ciceros and William Pitts*' competing for top honours in the nationwide "Leaders of Tomorrow" oratorical contest, presented by the Junior
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    244 12 Mobil's Jurong Refinery has set up a safety record when it completed three consecutive years of operations with no "lost-time" due to injury. The record became) effective at 12.01 a.m. last Fridav. In a statement Issued by the company, it was stated the three years represent
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    82 12 LONDON. Sun (Reuter) The Royal Air Force will continue operational training in the Far East after Britain s withdrawal from the area in 1971. a Ministry of Defence spokesman said yesterday. Airfields and maintenance facilities will be kept up. probably in Malaysia and Singapore.
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    73 12 SOME 150 Singapore Armed Forces personnel will conduct a military exercise in the Mandal Forest Reserve as from 6 a m. today till Friday. Sept. 12 Another exercise involving some 800 military personnel will be held at the Jurong Industrial Area from Tuesday. Sept 9 at 8
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    Lock icon Japan Investment In Malaysia Seen
    107 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The leader of the Japanese delegation which successfully negotiated an agreement on the avoidance of double taxation today predicted that it would bring mor e Japanese investments to Malaysia. Mr. T. Hosomi. the Director General of the Tax Bureau "f Japan, said
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    186 12 The Ministrv of Labour is now re-organising its Employment Exchange Services to ensure a speedier suppiv of labour demanded by the ever-expanding industries in Singapore. This was announced in a news release issued by the Ministry over the weekend. The Ministry said that in
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    128 12 THE National Defence Fund now stands at $8,626,976 48 The Ministry of Defence announced this when the latest list of donations were published. The donors and the amounts are as follows:The Junior Singapore Mercantile Co-Operative Thrift and Loan Society SI60; S.M. Abdul Azeez $10; Wah Lian Amusement
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      98 12 Time ft Tide High Tide (Today) Singapore Town: 10 09 a.m. <6B ft.), 8.44 p.m. <7.2 ft.) Naval Dockyard: 10 24 a.m. <8.5 ft.), 8.45 p.m. (8.1 ft.) Low Tide (Today) Singapore Town: 3.03 am. <2.0 ft.). 3.02 pm <45 ft.) Naval Dockyard: 2.37 am. <2 9 ft.), 301 pm.
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