Eastern Sun, 27 September 1969

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  • 22 1 Eastern Sun SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY rV Estd. 1968. Vol. 4 No. 1131 Saturday* 27 September 1969. MC(P) 0737 Price 15 rants
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  • 195 1 BERNE, Fri. (Reuter), A Swiss engineer arrested on Tuesday has confessed to selling plans of the French Mirage jet fighter to Israeli agents, the Swiss Attorney General announced here today. The man was named as Alfred Frauenknecht, Director of a technical division of a
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  • 229 1 LA PAZ, Bolivia, Fri. (Rcuter) Gen. Alfredo Ovando Candia, Bolivia's army Com-mander-in-Chief and long the country s most powerful man, today ousted President Luis Adolfo Sites Salinas in a dawn coup and installed a new revolutionary government. A communique Issued by the Joint Command of
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  • 163 1 TEL AVIV, Fri. (Reuter) Israeli jets screamed into action on two fronts again today, blasting Egyptian military objectives in the Suez Canal Sector and pounding artillery positions in Jordan, a military spokesman said Here. In the raid against Jordan, Israeli plane® attacked military objectives
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  • 56 1 CANBERRA. Fri. (Reuter)— Australia's Parliamentary Upper House, the Senate, today condemned the government for "mishandling'* the purchase from America of the controversial swing-wing, F-11l aircraft. Prime Minister John Gorton announced earlier this week hat Australia would accept its 24 F-lll's but modifications to the wing carry-through box had
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  • 230 1 WASHINGTON, Fri. (UPI) President Nixon has indicated he is at least impressed by the arguments Israeli Premier Golda Meir used in her request for additional shipments of U.S. arms. Mrs. Meir, who made the request during her initial meeting with Nixon on Thursday, planned to call
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  • 164 1 Singaporeans spent a quiet evening last night celebrating the annual Moon-Cake Festival. Much of the glamour and the festivities in preparing for open-air worship of the Moon in the evening were lost with the recent space achievement of landing on this "celestial" body. There was
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  • 299 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Fri. The solving of the youth problem the "key problem" now facing Malaysia would cure all the country's ills, Tun Tan Siew Sin said today. Failure to solve the youth problem in time would lead to another "eruption" more serious
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  • 212 1 TOKYO, Fri. (Reuter) First it was Prince Charles and the Cherry Brandy... Now Princess Margaret and the Gin and Tonic. Photographers with the Princess as she visited a typical olde English pub here as part of a British Trade Promotion Week caused furore when they tried
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  • 75 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Frt. A government paper to explain the causes of the May 13 incident, will sow bo issued, the Acting Prime Minister end Director of Operations. Tun Abdul Ra*ak, disclosed this evening. The paper, now being prepared, was almost complete, he added. Tun Rasak was talking to
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  • 342 1 WASHINGTON. Fr 1. (UPI) Any arbitrary cut-off dates for U.S. participation in Vietnam would destroy all chances of ending the war before then and would undercut and destroy the U.S. negotiation position in Paris, President Nixon told a news conference on Friday. The Presidents remarks
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 313 2 THE President of the Republic. Eoche Yusof bin Ishak. u Chief Scout of Singapore. yesterday presented warrant to Mr. Cnu Chui Lum. a company director, officially appointing him u Chief Commissioner of Singapore Scouts. The Deputy Chief Commissioner. Mr. Soh Teow Seng, deputy director with the People's
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  • 533 2 THI President of the Singapore Council of Service, Mr. Ee Peng Liang yeaterdey spoke of Hie importance of public support end help in fund-raising activities without which voluntary charitable organisations cannot carry out their work to cere for the destitute and underprivileged members of
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  • 214 2 Public-spiritedneaj in Singapore has again helped to bring to book another armed robber who preyed on innocent people. It all started when a busdriver. 81m Kim Pang, 40. was confronted by three men. one armed with a dagger, while walking along AlJunied Road. The three men
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  • 93 2 JAKARTA. Frl. (Reuter) The permanent committee on food and supply of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) ended three-day meeting here on Wednesday with a deciiion to set up an Asean Emergency Food Stuff Buffer Stock. A spokesman for the
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  • 669 2 Ma fridge- Of Con ven ien ce Case AN Assistant Director of Social Welfare, Abdul Ails bin H. M. Nor, facing a charge of corruption before a District Court, once told a investigator in his department that if approval could be sought for an application put in by
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  • 74 2 Member* of the Junior Chamber of Commerc* have reeponded to an urgent call for blood donations from the Blood Transfusion Service. In a story published by the Eastern Ran earlier this week, the Blood Tranafuaion Service reported an acute drop in the blood unit reserves and
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  • 68 2 London Festival Ballet Company. which ranks among the leading touring companies in the world, wlfi make Its first ever appearance in Singapore on Oct. 29 and 30. Thla is the company's first tour in the Far East including Malaysia, Japan and South Korea. A release from
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  • 65 2 Ths Department of ExtraMural Studies. University of Singapore will organise a course on "Health in Industry" in October The course, conducted by Dr. Phoon Wal-On and Dr. Chew Pin Kee. aims at the promotion of occupational health in line with the rapid Brogress of industrialisation in le country. Those
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  • 53 2 The driver of a private bu§ had a lucky escape without any injuries yesterday when hit vehicle ran Into a tree at the junction of Henderson Road and Tiong Bahru Road. One of the huge branches of tree broke off but missed the bus and crashed into a
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  • 26 2 There will be no water or ooor water pressure at Jalan Belang, off Thomson Road, 7-J m.s., today from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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  • 319 2 A grand Cantonese Opera will be staged to raise funds for the People's Theatre Extension Fund at the new Kreta Ayer People's Theatre on Sept. 29. Appearing on the show will be top opera artistes of the Pak Wan Tien Cantonese Opera Troupe
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  • 221 2 Like nil and water, marriage and career do not mix. •ay pessimist*. But. well-known Hong Kong opera singer and filmstar. Chung Lai Yoong (seen above), thinka other* wise. Lai Yoong. who rocketed to fame when she was discovered to be the "rebirth" of a
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  • 72 2 The new Tampines Home at 9-3/4 m s Tamplnes Road which houses 41 retarded children and young adults, will be officially opened by the Parliamentary Secretary (Communications). Mr. Phu® Bah Lee. on Oct. 4. The Home, under the management of the Singapore Association for Retarded Children. aims at giving
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  • 114 2 BANGKOK, Fri. (ATP) Singapore's Foreign Minister S. Rajaratnam said here today, during a brief stop-over on his way to the United Nations General Assembly, that Singapore had no special problem# or proposals to take up before the world body. Anewmn« reporters' question* Mr. Rajaratnam Mid he
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  • 821 4 RABAT, Fri, {Reuter) The first Islamic summit conference ended here last night with e declaration calling on the great powers to intensify efforts to secure the speedy withdrawal of Israeli military forces from all the territories occupied in the June 1967
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  • 347 4 LONDONDERRY Northern Ireland Fri. (UPI) British troops yesterday raised barbed wire barriers and called in reinforcements after new "holy war" violence in Northern Ire'and. A Protestant leader said hi s militant followers might be forced to organise vigilante bands Soldiers ringed the
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  • 67 4 LONDON, rri. (Reuter) Britain's Defence Ministry today denicJ it was planninf to call off the air and sea patrols blockading Beira., the Portuguese East African port which can supply ©ll by pipeline to Rhodesia. A story in the Daily Express said th« plan is now being
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  • 68 4 West German Chancellor Kurt George Kiesinger (R) receives miner's lamp from Pritz Bar, oldest of 101 survivors of thel963 mine disaster here, during a political rally. Kiesinger currently campaigning for the nation's crucial elections, was accused by Foreign Minister Willy Brandt of "irresponsible" politicking with the nation's currency after Kiesinger
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  • 170 4 Big 4 Mideast Talks Again In Mid-Oct. UNITED NATIONS. New York. Fri. (Reuter) Four power consultations on the Middle East could resume in mid-October. British diplomatic sources said yesterday. The source# indicated that this view was shared by British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart who has just been holding intensive consultations
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  • 32 4 VATICAN CITY. Frl (UPI) Pope Paul VI named 11 new members yesterday of the Pontifical Commission for Social Communications, the group that handles the Vatican'* press, radio and television relations
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  • 431 4 West German BONN, Fri. (Reuter) West Germany's grand coalition party leaders meet here today for talks on critical economic Issues as the fiercelyfought campaign for next Sunday's elections drew to climax. The meeting between Chrltlan Democrat Chancellor Kurt Oeonr Kleslnger and Foreign Minister
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  • 315 4 PARIS. Frl. (Reuter) An ex-legionnalre was under heavy police guard In hospital here today after a vain attempt to force millionaire French banker Baron Guy De Rothschild to pay a two million franc (£150.000) ransom The man. 24-year-old Joseph Stadnlk demanded the money yesterday while
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  • 60 4 PARIS, Trl. (Reuter) The wives of five American airmen missing in action over North Vietnam arrived her* today in the hope of discovering the fate of their from Hanoi representatives here. Their journey from Oklahoma a similar visit last week by four Texan women whose
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  • 71 4 AMMAN, Frl. (Reuter) Jordan has lost 400 killed, among them 170 »oldiers. s mce the June. 1967 war. MajorGeneral Nasser bin Jamil, the Commander-in-Chief of the Jordanian Army, said here tonight. The Jordanian leader was speaking on television about 450 battles which, he said. Jordanian
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  • 39 4 TARANTO. Italy. Frl. (Reuter) A six-year-old «irl has died and three of her family are In hoapital today with food polaoning. after eating what they thought were mushroom» gathered by the girl In lorett near her home.
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  • 131 4 CANBERRA. Fri (Reuter)— Two of the Australian Federal Parliament's bachelors were told today to "make the most of their opportunity'* in having the goie woman Member sitting between them. Speaker William Aston gave this advice to Government Member# Jim Dobie, 42 and Dooald Cameron. 29. on
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  • 325 4 PRAGUE, Fri. (Reuter) Former liberal leader Alexander Dubcek today faced almost certain dismissal from the last key post he still holds his seat on the Czechoslovak Communist Party's ruling 11-man presidium. The decision officially stripping him of the job was expected to come from the
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  • 70 4 LONDON. Fri. (Router) —> Film jttar Richard Todd. 50. is being sued for divorce by his actress wife Catherine Bogle, after 20 ve?rs of marriage In her petition, which Mr Todd is not defending. Mrs. Todd names a woman cal'.ed Mailer. Mr. Todd is known for
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  • 35 4 SANTO DOMINGO. Dominican Republic. Fri. (Reuter) Four boys ages between t w o and 14 years were killed and another injured by a landslid while playing in a limestone quarry here today.
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 196 4 TODAY and YOU. Saturday, September 27, 1969. r di m Z! GEMINI a MAY 21 PJ JUNE 30 ftf m 1 Good 31 litfar* 2 Romanea 32 Intarvi 3 Restrictions 33 TSoea 4 Something 34 mi 5 Financial 35 For 35 For 4 Looks 36 6* < 7 Surprise# 37
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  • 389 5 UNITED NATIONS, Fri. (UPI) A top U.S. official, urging that the United Nations be streamlined, said Thursday that the world organisation is "drowning in Its documentation." Samuel de Palma, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organisation Affairs, told the U.N. Correspondents Association: "In Washington. It Is
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  • 152 5 WASHINGTON, Frl. (Reuter) An American alleged to hav« hijacked an Eastern Air Lines jet to Cuba has returned to the United States vo. luntarily aboard a commercial airliner from Berlin, the State Department announced today. He was identified as Edward Lorenzo Ervin. of Chattanooga. Tennessee, and
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  • 78 5 GEN EVA. Fri. (Reuter) Seven churches were admitted to the World Methodist Council at the annual executive committee meeting which ended here tonightThey were the churches of Belgium. Estonia, Cuba, Chile. Indonesia. Malaysia and Singapore. The council now represents 25 autonomous methodist churches with
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  • 98 5 SANTA ANA, California, Frl. (Reuter) The commander of the Apollo 10 moon shot. Col. Thomas Stafford. plans to enter a business venture backing a group of young inventors launching a two-wheel motor car. Stafford said he had consented to become a director because he was Intrigued
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  • 80 5 WASHINGTON. Fri. (UPI)— Senate subcommittee investigation on US. commitments will get underwav next week a closed-door hearing or. the Philippines on Tuesday morning. Chairman Stuart Symington of the Senate Foreign Relations special subcommittee said the Philippines hearing will be followed on Oct. 13 with a secret session
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  • 54 5 MELVIN LAIRD, U.S. Secretary of Defence, is seen addressing a National Press Club luncheon on Thursday in Washington. He said the United States wants South Vietnam to take over more responsibi- lity for the political, econo. mic and police aspects of the wa r in addition to taking a greater
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  • 150 5 NEW YORK. Fri. (Reuter) A computer recently ordered President Nixon to report for jury duty here, but he won an exemption when his lawyers told the courts he had moved to Washington Separate notices from the New York State Supreme Court and the U.S.
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  • 63 5 WASHINGTON. Frl (Reuter) President Nixon today formally asked Congress to approve a 10 per cent increase In social security benefits He also proposed that the future scale of payments be automatical adjusted to reflect cost-of-living rises Nixon asked that the 10 per cent Increase be made effective on
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  • 296 5 WASHINGTON, Fri. (UPI) Sen. Hiram L Fong Republican-Hawaii, has joined with Sen. Mike Gravel, Democrat-Alaska, in calling for a complete study of the foreign policy implications of underground nuclear testing by the United States. The two Senators have Introduced a resolution In the Senate
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  • 104 5 LOS ANGELES. Fri (UPD— Paul Ferguson, a 23-year-old Chirago house painter, was ordered to hfe imorisonment on Thursday for the murder of silent screen star Ramon Novarro despite his younger brother's attempt to take sole blame Thomas Ferguson, who was 17 at the time of the
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  • 220 5 NEW YORK. Fri. (Reuter) The New York Times said yesterday that the Soviet Union has put a three-point plan to China aimed at relaxing tensions and restoring relations between the two countries. Quoting U.S Communist party Chief Gus Hall as its source, the newspaper
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  • 64 5 WASHINGTON. Fri. (Reuter) Defence Secretary Melvin R. Laird said today he is greatly concerned over the Soviet Union's massive naval build-up. Including the construction of *:ght nuclear missile submarines in the past year. He predicted that Russia will catch up to America's Polaris missile fleet of 41 submarines
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  • 115 5 UNITED NATIONS Fri. (UPI) Prime Minister Sir Seewoosagur of Mauritius yesterday pronounced himself for a two-China policy in the General Assembly. Taking the floor to deliver the policy speech for the newly Independent Island ration in the India Ocean, he said he believed mainland China "should take
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  • 102 5 WASHINGTON. Frl, (UPT The House Ways and Means Committee tentatively vo'ed on Thursday to double the user taxes on both commercial and private aviation to help pay for a Sl4 billion airport and airways improvement programme over the next decade. The proposed taxes Included yearly federal
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  • 267 5 NEW YORK. Fri. (Reuter) New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art revealed today that it has been given the prised Robert Lehman collection, unofficially valued at more than 100 million dollars. Announcing the gift here. Museum Director Thomas Hoving said it was the largest In both
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  • 145 5 VANCOVER. Canada, Fri. (UPI) Some 3,200 longshoremen shut down six British Columbia ports Thursday when they walked off their jobs to back do- mands for higher wages. Picket lines were set up at entrance? to all deep sea cargo handling docks in Vancouver, Victoria.
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  • 263 5 UNITED NATIONS, Fri. (UPI) A trade boycott of South Africa could be effective only if ell of her mejor trading partners co-operate, e U.N. report said Thursday. The report, prepared by Elliot Zupmck. Professor of Economics at the City University of New York, for the General
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  • 61 5 WILLIAMS AIR FORCE BASE. Arizona. (UPI) Two Air Force jet trainers collided in fight on Thursday and crashed into an open fie!d Three pilots were killed and a fourth was injured when he parachuted to safety. A board of investigators was appointed to determine the cause
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  • 207 5 WASHINGTON. (UPI) The Senate, with State DeDepartment backing, passed a resolution Thursday declaring that U.S. recognition of a foreign government does not imply approval of the form, ideology or policy of that government. The measures a "sense of the Senate" resolution which has no binding legal
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  • 30 5 BERLIN*. Fri. (UPI) East German Premier Willi Stopb promised North Vietnamese Ambassador Nguyen Viet Dung yesterday comprehensive a:d and solidarity, the East German News Service ADN reported.
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  • 655 6 ADMINISTRATIVE, congressional and public opinion in the United States, for once, reach a consensus that American commitment in Asia should be reduced to a minimum or should vanish altogether. Such being the prevailing wind, it is not surprising that Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato should attempt to
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  • 226 6 TULFIKAR Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is a clever man with a modicum of the strange stuff called adventurousness. With this trait, he marches into places where other experienced politicians fear to tread. His out-of-the-way approach to the delicate game of politics plus his eagerness to fish in troubled waters
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  • 859 6 LHUM'S... WHEN the new uniforms were issued to the Regular Police Force and when they were out on the Roads in their new attire the Singapore public shovered praise after praise on the Govt, for its idea in changing the Force into this new set up. We
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  • 834 6  -  •y Jerry Okoro TRIPOLI, Libya, The night b«for« fht Libyan coup was especially cool and most of the young people of Tripoli city were enshrined at the Beach club to watch an Italian beauty contest. Elsewhere in the country, Ministers feted friends, and some
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  • 858 6  -  By JOSEPH ALSOP FIREBASE RENDEZVOUS. A Shau Valley "I wish to God you'd explain to me all this talk at home about lulls. All I know is we're up to our tails in NVA!" Considerably bowdlerized, this was the demand of Col. Robert B. Siegrist, the
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  • 593 6 WASHINGTON: Joseph Sta- lm's daughter has published her second book, a work contrasting the memory of the Soviet Union she fled and the Impressions of the America she found. Entitled "Only One Year." it was written by Svetlana Alliluyeva shortly after she asked for asylum in
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  • 12 6 SEASON often nirini mistakes, but MSMIMI nerer does. —Josh BUllsft.
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  • 114 6 NEW YORK. Fri. (UPI) York Tiire noted editorially today that the recent Indiscretion" of the American Ambassador to India could have beneficial effects. The Times said: "In applauding Prime Minister Gandhi's recent victory over the old guard of her party 1? ter diapute, the American Ambaaaador
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 347 7 By Our Market Reporter 1,0 v#f y reason, torn* mildly bullish conditions prevailed in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore late yesterday afternoon. Increased buying support appeared to stem from some weekend covering and renewed speculative interest in selective equities. After a
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    • 1048 7 BUSINESS done in and reported to the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore ri5A tlle nun,b r of shares traded in brackets in lota of 1,000 units nnless otherwise specified: INDUSTRIALS ACM A $1.87 41) $l.BB (1); Ben Co. $1.84 (1) $1 86 (1);
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    • 160 7 ISEW YORK. m. (UPI) Gold prices were mostly lower on markets here and abroad yesterday l n cautious trading as Sunday's elections in West Germany approachForeign exchange operations, including the Frankfurt gold session, were suspended by West Germany until after the elections to forestall any last
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    • 52 7 BANGKOK, frl. (X«ut«r) Thai International has decided to terminate ita service agreement with the Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) when it expires in 1975 according to Communications Minister Dawee Chullasapya Air Chief Marshal Dawee told reporters that proceedings to terminate the agreement would begin
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    • 262 7 THE lollowing is a berthing list released by the Port of Singapore Authority for Sept. 27: DEPARTURE God owns Vessels 1/2 Australasia 5 S.A. Victory 6/7 Kristin Bakke N.W. 1 Bidor N.W. 5 Giang Seng 31/32 Pat rod us 35/36 S;ngapor« Triumph 40/41 Nichiyo Maru 45 Pyrrhus
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    • 188 7 The director general of the Indonesian Forestry Department. Mr. Soedjarwo and a representative of Veneer Products Limited Singapore signed the final agreement for 120.000 hectares <300.000 acres) of virgin timberland in Riau Province. Sumatra recently. Veneer should, within the next six months, be receiving substantial quatities
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    • 134 7 XEW YORK. Frl. (UPI) Stock prices finished lower yesterday for the second day In a row. Trading was moderately active. The Searson. Hammlll Brokerage said the news background was dull and there was little incentive for traders. Shortly before the close, the UPI marketwlde Indicator showed
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    • 40 7 NEW YORK. Prl. (UPI) Dow Jones closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday: 30 industrials 829.92 20 rails 199.59 15 utilities 111 74 65 stocks 279.27 40 bonds 71.20 Commodity futures index ***** off 0.47.
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    • 286 7 THE past week hat teen prices ranging between 73} and 75} cents for current month I R.S.S. in changeable conditions, which have made it difficult for operators to work the market, state Holiday, Culter, Bath fir Co. Ltd. in their weekly report yesterday. Following
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    • 90 7 LONDON. Frl. (UPI) A British sales mission representing 20 leading heavy Industrial firms and msnufacturers of consumer goods is scheduled to arrive in Hong Kong on Oct 21. The mission, headed by J H Hamm <>* Dodwell and Co.. a firm of international trading merchants,
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    • 49 7 HONG KONG. Tri. (UPI) The Hong Kong Stock Market yesterday recorded another near-peak turnover of about three million U.S. dollars. The stock exchange report described yesterday's market as enjoying "boom conditions," with prices advancing on a wide front and the utilities section enjoying the spotlight.
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    • 302 7 October first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 pjn., in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 74-3/4 cent* per lb., down half a cent irom the previous close. The tone of the market was Quiet. After opening fractionally steadier on London advices, the market fluctuated around
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    • 77 7 HONO KONO. rn. (UPI)— Money Quotations yesterday: Hose Kong dollars 6 095 per VS. dollar. Hons Kong dollars 6.105 per Vi. dollar TT. Hong Kong dollars 14.52 per pound sterling. Hong Kong dollars 308.625 per tsel of gold 94 5 per cent fineness. Hong Kong dollars 162.2 per
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    • 148 7 LONDON. Frl. (Reuter) The closure of the West German foreign exchange markets made for fairly widespread gains In equities and fixed Interest stocks. Hopes of a mark revaluation pushed government bonds higher. Equities met a fairly selective demand Ini- tially and for the rest of
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    • 441 7 81NGAPOKE B1 dtimr told ud oth officially listed at U« buslnesa. INDUSTRIALS ACMA 1. Ben Co. i. Borneo J. Boustead J. Camel Plywood C. sugar XU 4. Chemical Co Cold storage 2. Cycle Carriage L. Dunlop \L> De\elopment Bank E. Smelting (i. EA1 t. Efcso CD
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    • 90 7 LONDON. FTI. (UPI) Rubber closed quietly steady with spot 27-1/4, 27-3/4. SETTLEMENT HOUSE Nov. 27-3/8. 27-5/8 Dec. 27-5/16, 25-5/8 Oct./ Dec. 27 nom buyer 271/4 Jan March 26-7/8. 27 April/June 26-3/4. 26-7/8 July Sept. 26-9/16. 26-3/4 Oct./ Dec. 26*7/16, 25-5/8 Jan.'March 26-5/16, 26-1/2 April/June
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    • 36 7 M A PARIS. Fri. (Reuter) The Interr.jTional Development Association, an affiliate of the World Bank, has approved loan of $55 million to India for railway development The loan will be lntereitfree over 50 years.
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    • 12 7 THE tin prut® lor y®«t«rd»y was $628.00 pear picuL up*3oo.
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    • 91 7 THE noon price# at the Stnsa~ pore Chinese fwdtw littomi j eater day were;— lv« Sailer CoroDUt Oil (FOB-) Bal* Coconut Oil MM (F.o.B) Umm w„. c r n /w r\ m Ml W Urairak WWU PepP«* (FOB.) 242 -M Sara irak Special Black ivppet if O B S.LW.
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  • 747 8  -  By MAX VANZI 6UKIT MEND!, Malaysia (UPI) At first glance, the wide clearing deep in the Malayan jungle recalls campaigns of yesteryear in the turbulent annals of Britain's fighting forces. Rugged Tommies stripped to the waist occupy a camp on a prominent knoll. Military vehicles rumble
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  • 187 8 Professional PeaceKeepers BERNE. SPR, I General Rikhye of India, one of the most distinguished soldiers in the short history of United Nations peacekeeping efTorts. has launched a scheme for training people in mediation and peacekeeping techniques. It Is all very well asking the UN to take over where there is
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  • 910 8  -  By Fred Mpanga Princes® Alexandra lives in a park fall of deer, but she had to go all the way to Mauritius before one of their kind treated her with disrespect. This is doubUess because English deer have for centuries enjoyed a special relationship
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  • 500 8  -  By NICHOLAS MOORE KARACHI* (Reutar) There are signs that Pakistan's military government wants to hold power at least until late 1970. or up to the time of a promised general election. Some observers here are speculating upon possibly two more years of the martial law
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  • 288 8 COLOGNE (DaD) Poems on plastic foil this Is the latest bit on the German literary maritet. On placing these "handy" lyric# In a transparent bag also made oat of plastic they can be used in many ways: As decoration on carry-bags, hung (m the wall as art or
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  • 378 8  -  By ISA ISMAIL JAKARTA, (UPI) The skeleton of Wisma Nusantora may still become o skyscraper. If it does, it will be one of the tallest buildings in South-east Asia, and building that took the longest time to construct. At the moment. Indonesians aptly call
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  • 47 8 THE eomptleaied surface structure of a rose petal is seen here magnified 3.500 times by a Stereosean scanning electron microscope, which has won the Cambridge Scientific Instruments Ltd a Queen's Award to Industry for exports for the third year running in Britain.
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  • 680 8  -  BT PAUL BACKSHALL LONDON, Frl. (Renter) A British war history said today that Japan might have escaped atomic bombing in 1945 if its leaders had stopped arguing among themselves about allied surrender terms. The book, published by the British Government's Stationery Office, said Emperor
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    • 132 8 LhLJlir ft sss w 51 I Pi M Ara you ready for your appendectomy?" DATELINE :DANGER! by John Saunders and Aiden MdMami NOBODy FIGHTS that WAy/yA just ABOUT BROKE. My LEGS,, y0u..../ I ONLY SPIKED YIDU A LITTLE BIT/ IF you WANT y MORE I'LL.... OKAy, LEE ROy, THAT'S ENOUGH!j
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  • 536 9  -  Ann Landers DEAR ANN: I am not a meddler in the lives of my grown children. But something happened that upset me greatly and I would appreciate your thinking. My daughter and her six-year-old son spent several days with me this
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  • 444 9 How About A Beauty Contest Minus Make-Up asks Gloria-mae "T OOK at 'em painted things; coloured charIJ coal on their faces'. In my days, a girl was always her natural self. The prettiest who won the contest was the one with the most selfconfidence attained through being natural." I overheard
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  • 576 9  -  Speaking For Myself Hn Sheilah Graham HOLLYWOOD, rn. "I feel vindicates at last." said Leslie Caron. We were taking tea In the big Spanish house she has rented in Beverly Hills with her husband. film producer Mike Loughlln. Mike was
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    • 294 9 .■SHAW LIDO Phone ***** OPENS TODAY! 11 a a.. 1 45. N, 4.39 A 9.18 p EVA RENZI u "PLAYGIRL PITOL Phone 297^9 OPENS TODAT! No Free Uat! 11 a-m., 13®. 4.99. 445 A 9 3® Tm Ivy Ling Po. Li Chmg in Shaw Productions -THE 3 SMILES" Mandarin in
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    • 1483 10 s KIM 1: CL S Div. »—4 Furs.—1. 15 pJB. ($4,000) t 700 Orio 5y 9.00 Sang Lee Stable Chong Li— 15 2 307 Scorpio Q 4y 8.13 Beng's Stable Tulloh 3 774 Hesdliner 4y 8.12 Big Seven Stable Rodgera 4. 303 Motivation lOy 8.11 Capt Moment
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    • 979 10 Going: Yielding to Soft SKIPPER II con make this thrn-in-o-row by outstaying the Closs Two Division Two field over the mile (Race Five) ot Bukit Timah today. The four-year-old is maintaining his winning form as shown in his track work on Wodnasday. Paced by Green
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    • 189 10 JMMT LAD CISCO ZODIAC RAM I JUDITH ANTON II Capital Gain 1st i mews MOTIVATION Judith Anton II Capital Gain CAPITAL GAIN Jndith Anton U Delvllle FOREIGN PORT Judith Anton II Scorpio II RACK t CHARM AN ROSE Japak Gold Medal MRNBBG JAPAK Gold Medal Invincible II JAPAK Charman
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    • 208 10 Katong Ocean did jmart workout on a soft track at Bukit Tlmah this mocnlng. With Velu astrid# the grey went wide out all the way to return 39 for 3f. or the bit. BeUendaine galloped strongly from the 5f post to clock even time for
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    • 105 10 LONDON. Fri. (UPI) Rod "Grand 81am" Laver tops the bill In the Will* Open covered-court* tennis championships at Wembley. Nov 17-22 A prize money of £20.000 will be at stake. Laver. who for tfie second time this year has won the Australian. French. British and
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    • 66 10 BUDAPEST. Frl. (Reuteri Andras Balczo. Hungary'* Olympic Silver Medallist, won the world modern pentathlon title 'or the fifth time here yesterday. He clinched the title by winning the cross-country race, the fifth and final phase of the championship. He beat Boris Onlshchenko, the Russian who had led
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    • 176 10 Sikes Graham Share First Round Lead PORTLAND, Oregon. Fri (R.uf.r) Americans Dan Sikes and Lou Graham shot three-under par 69'« ci?<S roußd ,ead in h ussi 25.000 (£52,000) Alcan Golfer of Hie Year tournament. Tied on 70 one stroke behind in the fight for the U5555,000 (£25.000) first prize the
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    • 137 10 ROME. FTI. (Reuter) Brazilian soccer star Pele was quoted here yesterday as saying that English defenders were the toughest. The Rome newspaper. Corriere Dello Sport, yesterday published a brief interview which their reporter had with Pele before last night's match between Pele's club Santos and a
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    • 67 10 MELBOURNE, Fri. (Reuter) World featherweight champion Johnny Famechon today was cleared to resume training next Monday week A specialist who examined Famechon said he would be able to exert full pressure on his injured ankle by then. Manager Ambrose Palmer said today Famechon would defend his title
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    • 39 10 BOMBAY. Fri. (Reuter) The Indonesian badminton team to Play India In the Asian Zone Thomas Cup tie at Jaipur on Sept. 28 and 29 arrived here yesterday. The six-man team fly to Jaipur in North India today.
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    • 254 10 WARSAW, Fri. (.Reutert Z" Masashl Ohuchi, a 25Tokyo policeman. tile middle-heavy-weight world record for thm snatch and won twogoM w£?ih,n!i re r last nlght at the World and European weightlilting championships. His performance raised Japan Into third place in the £h?£ «>* *****1 classification k
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    • 111 10 THE Singapore Company of Archers will be holding a demonstration shoot today at the Raffles Institution ground from 2 to 5 p.m. This shoot will show a c SB €c tion membership advanced archers, beg.nners, ladies. Juniors shooting at distances from 50 metres to 30 metres
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    • 66 11 BANGKOK. Tr\. (ATP) Thailand have selected 22 cyclists lor the Southeast Asian Peninsula Games (SEAP) to be held In Rangoon in December next, a spokesman for the Cycling Association disclosed today Thf team Include 10 farmer national cyolista and Six newcomers. The spokesman »aid the
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    • 140 11 A Swiss electronic quarts dock will be the official timer at th P World Cup roll tournament, to be held at the Bukit Course of the Singapore Island Country Club from Oct. 2 to S. A three-face tower clock ha> been placed strategically at the World
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    • 156 11 BOMBAY, Fri. (Router) New Zealand, despite an outstanding innings of 78 by Be* Congdon. today failed to consolidate their first-day advantage over India in Hie Test match here. At the close of the second day's play, the N>w Zealanders had made 204 for six
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    • 68 11 LOS ANGELES, Fri. < Renter) Hie Australian double® pair Ken Rosewall and Fred Stolle werr knocked out of the Pacific Southwest Open tenni* champion?*)ip* here today in the quarter-finals They were beaten hy Arthur Ashe of America and Spain a Gimeno 1-6, 6-2. Wimbledon champion Ann
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    • 173 11 HONG KONG. Tti. (ATP) Japan emerged here today as a serious challenger to the *uDremaey of Pakistan and India in world hockey The Japanese. with an overwhelming 5-0 victory over the strong South Korea aide, became runaway winners of a five nations regional international tournament which they
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    • 195 11 US Baseball Results Standings NEW YORK. Fri IUPI>> Result# of major league baseball matches pltvfd yesterday: AMERICAN LEAGUE Boston 4, Nevr York 3. Washington 7. Detroit 2: Baltimore 4. Cleveland 1. Chicago 2. Kansas City 1 flo inning* l Oakland 7. California 6; Seattle 5. Minnesota 1 NATIONAL LEAGIE Pittsburgh
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    • 100 11 LOS ANGILES, Fri, (UPI) Mexico's Rafoal Herrera stopped hardpunching Lenny Brico of Lot Angeles in 1:13 of the third round lost night when Hio California bantamweight suffered o badly cut loft oyo. Referee Dick Youna halted the schodulod 10-rounder on o recommendation from the
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  • 29 10 BIG BEN Judith Anton II Skipper II Warm Season Jimmy Lad Japak Shanghai Kid Joint Venture Cisco Capital Gain El Cid Kakamion Zodiac Japak Ad Valorem Kakamion
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    • 1320 11 (CHANNEL l> PM 1.00 Opening Announcement* in all Languages Woody ments in all Languages wooay Woodpecker; I SO World Tennis; 2.20 Gentle Ben Knights of tha Road; 24* Inba Nerem; 345 A.B C- Documentary Robert Scott and the Race to the South Pole; 4.35 What's Mv Line: 4.55 Singapore Youth
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  • 247 12 SINGAPORE has received e long-term order to supply Automotive parts to e buyer from the United States in the Seventh Overseas Import Fair, "Partners for Progress", currently held in Berlin. Thla Is just one of the many orders Singapore firms received at the Import
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  • 251 12 THE Minister for Social Affairs will be asked to give an oral answer on what measures will be taken to improve the standard of the National Badminton Team at the next Parliament meeting. The question has been submitted by the MP for
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  • 165 12 A Singapore restauranteur. Mr. Robert B C. Tan. had a "unusual piece of cargo" with him when he boarded the plane Thursday for London. The "unusual piece of cargo'' is in the form of several katies of vegetables, commonly known to the Chinese as "koo chai*
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  • 101 12 The secretary of the Educational Publications Bureau, Mr. Chla Hearn Chek. left for Tokyo on Thursday night to a tend the Third Tokj'o Book Production Course. The course is jointly sponsored by the Japanese National Commission for UNESCO and the Tokyo Book Development Centre.
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  • 67 12 JAKARTA, Fri. (Reuter) Three Malaysian Generals soon will visit Bandjarmasin. South Borneo, as guests of Major Gen. Sumartono. Deputy Army Chief for Borneo, army sources said today. The Malaysian Generals are the army chief for East Malaysia. Major Gen. Tunku Nazaruddln. Brig. Gen. Othman and Brig. Gen. Suleiman.
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  • 154 12 A SECOND group of local travel agents left earlier this week on UTA French Airlines for a tour of the South Pacific. Pictures shows the group (from lfft) Mr. C. Baumann. Mr. Paul Loo. Mr. Tan Chwee Gek. Mr. Abdul Rashld Khan. Mrs. J.
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  • 93 12 KUALA LUMPUR. FrL A man today told the magistrate's court that he had a. woman confined in a house in Petallng Jaya because her parents objected to her love for him Ramlee bin Hajl Ahmad. 29. today pleaded guilty to the offence. The woman, Zabedah Blnte Endut.
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  • 61 12 UNITED NATIONS. FTI. (Reuter) Malaysian Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman will visit New York on Oct. 6 and address the U.N. General Assembly the following day, It was announced today. It will be the Tunku's first appearance before the world body. He will come to New
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  • 168 12 KUALA LUMP IT?. Fri Two Malaysians will h* among the anticipates 1.523 surgeons who will be inducted as new Fellows of the American College of Surgeons in cap-and-gown ceremonie s purine the annual five-day clinical congress in San Francisco beginning Oct. 10. They are Mr. Manickavasagar
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  • 261 12 The Japanese community In Singapore will stage a grand two-hour variety show at the Victoria Theatre on Oct. 4 to raise funds for the Singapore Children's Society. T he participating members and organisations of the Japanese community are> the Japanese Cultural Society of Singapore,
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  • 75 12 The Chinese Young Men's Christian Association will hold their Flag Day, today Some 750 boys and girls will help to sell flags for the Association. Beside® small flags, there are plastic bags for car-own-ers to help Keep Singapore Clean" and also matches The collection will be used for
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  • 73 12 Three men. one armed with a knite. robbed Tan Hock Leong, IS. and his friend of their wnstwatches. worth a total of $5lO at the junction of Armenian Street and Stamford Road Thursday night. Tan, of Emerald Hill Road, and his friend were on their way to the
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  • 195 12 Far East Air Force An dove r aircraft of No. 52 Squadron, based in Change are using for the first time a jungle-line" air-drop method to supply troops operating in thicklyforested areas where tree* can grow up to 200 feet high A 2no-foot-long rope,
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  • 88 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Fri. Sarawak's Chief Minister. Dato Penghulu Tawi SU today expressed his confidence that elections in the state would be held soon. "How soon will depend on the Federal Government,'* he added Dato Penghulu Sli was speaking to reporters at the Kua!a Lumpur international airport
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  • 71 12 SINGAPORE'S 25-member contingent to Hong Kong to take part in tho Aaian Taekwon-do Tournamant loft by Malaysia-Singapore Airlines to tbe
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  • 299 12 A Bright future was predicted for the Sembawang Shipyard which was converted last year into a commercial venture. THIS was stated Thursday night by Mr. Hon Sui Sen, Chairman of tha company at a farewell dinner held at Adelphi Hotel in honour of
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  • 189 12 There is tremendous rnterest about Singapore and Malaysia among Scandinavian travel, lers and businessmen according to the Genera! Manager of Scandinavian Airlines System for Singapore. Malaysia and Brunei. Mr. John Hoyer. Mr Hover said thi« on his retum from a holiday In Scandinavia. He said the rapid growth
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  • 24 12 Thfcre were a total 52 accidents. five of which were describ £d m serious. during the 24 'hours ending at 6 a.m. yes^ierday.
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    • 87 12 Time tit Tide High Tide (Today) Singapore Town: 11.36 am. (9.1 ft), 11.67 p.m. (9.8 ft.) Naval Dockyard: 11.54 am. (10.7 ft.) Low Tide (Todoy) Singapore Town: 5.34 a.m. (1.4 ft.), 5.35 p.m. (1.2 ft.) Naval Dockyard: 5-16 a.m. (1.9 ft.), 5.25 p.m. (1.7 ft.) High Tide (Tomorrow) Singapore Town:
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