Eastern Sun, 29 September 1969

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    21 1 Eastern Sun SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1133 Monday, 29 September 1969. MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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    Lock icon Egyptian Commandos Hit Back At Israel
    457 1 TEL AVIV DISCOUNTS CLAIM CAIRO, Sun. (Reuter) Egyptian airborne commandos took Israeli forces by surprise in a two-pronged dawn attack today at Masfak area, 52 miles east of Kantara, Northern Sinai, a military spokesman said here. The Israeli forces, estimated at about 600 soldiers
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    Lock icon H.K. Buses On Strike
    112 1 HONG KONG. Sun tUPP— Nearly all the public light buses In this British Crown Colony stopped work on Sunday evening protesting the arrest of 10 light bus drivers In Saturday's near-riot Incidents. a government spokesman said on Sunday night. "Many of the buses are parked In
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    Lock icon Final Tests To Put Men On Moon Again
    254 1 CAPE KENNEDY. Fla. Sun. (UPI> Final testing begins this week for the launch of three Navy pilots Nov. 14 on an expedition planned to put two men on the moon for almost a day and a half. The latest mission plan for
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    Lock icon U.S. Info Man In V-N Fired
    155 1 LONG BINH. Vietnam. Sun. (UPl)—The Chief Information Officer for the VS Army In Vietnam, who described the Pacific Edition of 'Stars and Stripes" as the "Hanoi Herald" has been relieved of duty, an army spokesman said today. The spokesman said Col. James Campbell would
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    Lock icon Asian Airlines Reach Accord
    88 1 BANGKOK, Sun (R*ut*r> E ght Asian airline, hav> pledged to co-operate luily to develop air transport m Asia The airlines Japan Airlines, Philippine Airlines Air Vietnam China Airlines Malaysia-Singa-pore Airlines, Garuda Indonesia Korea Airlines and Thai International decided this at the four-dav annua] meeting of the
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    Lock icon Singaporean Injured In Taekwon-Do
    116 1 HONG KONG. Sun. (Reuter) A Singapore competitor was rushed to hospital today after being injured in a semi-final bout against a Hong Kong opponent in the first Asian Taekwon-Do championships here. Dicky Goi. holder of the brown belt, received injuries in the eye and abdomen He
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    Lock icon A Commonwealth Security Force Suggested
    108 1 BARBADOS, Sun iAFP> Plans lor getting up an interser vice commonwealth security force to keep order in independent and dependent Commonwealth countries were seriously discussed by African an d Asian delegates to the Commonwealth talks here prior to the International P Un d Con. ferenCe
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    Lock icon Veteran Swedish Leader Resigns
    232 1 TAGE ERLANDER STOCKHOLM. Sun. (AFP) Tage Erlander announced to the Congress of the Social Democratic Party today that he was resigning as Prime Minister and party leader. Erlander. 67. had said several times in recent months that he intended stepping down this year from both pos*s
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    Lock icon Imagine That...
    48 1 BANGKOK, Sun. (Reuter) A bulldozer stolen from a U.S. airbase a month ago has been recovered 300 miles away. Police said they are now looking in the same area for a second bulldozer stolen at the same time from the U-Tapao 852 bate south of Bangkok.
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    Lock icon POLICE in Denver, Colo., confront a man after street disturbances early Saturday in which 14 police officers were injured and one man arrested. A crowd became angry when it mistook police efforts to save a man's life by heart massage, thought the man was being beaten up, and pelted police with rocks and bottles.
    57 1 POLICE in Denver, Colo., confront a man after street disturbances early Saturday in which 14 police officers were injured and one man arrested. A crowd became angry when it mistook police efforts to save a man's life by heart massage, thought the man was being beaten up, and pelted police
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    Lock icon SOUTH THAILAND REDS SHOOT BANGKOK AGENT
    216 1 BANGKOK. Sun. (Reuter) Communist guerrillas in the South Thailand province of Songkhla yesterday machine-gunned a government intelligence agent who had earlier taken part in a gun battle with a group of guerrillas, police reported today. They said lan Petchsawat was shot while returning home
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    Lock icon Indian Army
    70 1 NEW DELHI. Sun (Reuter) —The Indian Army is to be maintained at 825.000 men under the new five-year defenre p an, Defence Secretary H. C. Sarin said today But durine the period reequipment with modern weapons will be competed in what he cal ed an improvement to the
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    Lock icon Drowned
    36 1 TOKYO. Sun (ATP) Thirty-nine crewmen of a 265-ton Azuma Maru No. 3. a Tuna-Bontto fishing boat, are feared to have been drowned early this morning In the northern Pacific. Coast Guard authorities said this evening.
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    Lock icon Germans Flock To The Polls
    281 1 BONN, Sun. (UPI) Germans Hocked to the polls today in answer to appeals by Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger and Foreign Minister Willy Brandf to turn back a Nationalistic Party hoping to fight its *dy into the new parliamanf Kiesinger's Christian Democrats and Brandt's Social Democrats
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    Lock icon Uneasy Peace Over Ahmedabad
    320 3 AHMEDABAD, Sun. (Reuter) The President of the ruling Congress Party of Gujarat State yesterday called for a day of fasting and prayers for peace as an uneasy calm reigned in Ahmedabad and other cities in the state. After a week of HinduMoslem rioting in which an
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    Lock icon Boycott Threat
    74 3 MANILA, Sun. (UPI)— Ranking Government officials yesterday moved to stop a campaign to boycott the Nov. 11 Elections spawned at the University of the Philippines. At the forefront of the boycott move was the State University Chapter of the Betrand Russel Peace Foundation which is questioning the fitness
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    Lock icon BLIND PROTEST
    44 3 RAWALPINDI. Sun. (UPI)— The Pakistani We'fare Society for the Blind will attend the Assembly of the World Council for the Welfare of the Blind beginning Oct. 8 in New Delhi i n protest against the antiMoslem riots In India, it was announced.
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    Lock icon No Renewal Of Air Bases' Treaties—Libya
    121 3 LONDON. Sun fßeuter) Dr. Mahmoud Suleiman A 1 Majhribi. Libya's new Prime Minister, said yesterday the treaties under which Britain and the United States maintain air bases in his country will not be renewed, the London Observer reported. "The people are against the bases
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    Lock icon P.I. IS RENEWING SABAH CLAIM IN U.N.
    214 3 JAKARTA, Sun. (Reuter) The Philippines is renewing its claim to Sabah at the United Nations General Assembly to set matters right on the record, Philippines Ambassador to Indonesia, Modesto Farolan. said in an interview with the Indonesian Antara news agency today. The Ambassador
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    Lock icon Mother Of Beret Officer Hits Out At The Army
    208 3 BLOOMFIELD, New Jersey. Sun. (Reuter) Mrs. Frank Marasco, mother of a Green Beret officer accused of shooting a South Vietnamese said to have been a double agent, yesterday said her son should be considered a 'hero' not a triggerman'. "I don't
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    Lock icon BIG USAF STRIKES AT LAOTIAN REDS
    273 3 SAIGON, Sun. (UPI) American warplanes carried out one of their most devastating strikes in the Laos war earlier this week, informed Allied sources re- ported yesterday. The sources said U.S. A:r Force planes struck several battalions of Communist troops in the Muon* Soui area
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    Lock icon World Record: 2 Feet Sprint In 5 Minutes
    53 3 AUCKLAND. New Zealand. Sun. (Reuter) A .snail named Pacesetter slithered to a world record in Auckland recently. Owned and trained by 10-year-old Stephen Clegg. Pacesetter slashed two minutes. five seconds from the former Britishheld record of seven minutes, five seconds for a
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    Lock icon Clifford Behind Johnson's V-N Move Last Year: Book
    508 3 WASHINGTON. Sun. (UPI) A Pentagon insider in the Johnson Administration c re d it e d former Defence Secretary Clark Clifford today with playing the decisive role in persuading then President Johnson to halt escalation of the Vietnam War last year. "It
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    Lock icon V-C Ceasefire
    43 3 HONG KONG, Sun. (UPI) Sunday PostHerald interpreted Hanoi's idea of ceasefire *3 "You Cease, We Fire." "As lone as its (Hanoi's) representatives in Paris refuse to consider any peace terms, the longer the war will drag on," the Sunday newspaper said.
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    Lock icon PAK Withdraws After Indian Boycott Threat
    438 3 NON-ALIGNED NATIONS MEETING: UNITED NATIONS, Sun. (Reuter) Pakistan yesterday agreed to stay away from a meeting of non-aligned nations after India threatened a boycott if tne Pakistani Delegation took part. India maintains that Pakistan, a member of the South-east Asia Treaty Organisation (SEATO), a
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    Lock icon Mao Attacked In His USSR Biography
    306 3 MOSCOW, Sun. (Reuter) One of the most bitter attacks ever launched here on Mao Tsetung is contained in a new biography of the Chinese Communist party leader now on sale in Moscow. The 80-page paperback, entitled. "Pages From The Political Biography of Mao Tsetung".
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    Lock icon What Is Richard Burton Like In The Bedroom?
    540 4  -  Ann Landers DEAR ANN: I was interested in the letter from the woman who listed her husband s faults in one column and his good points in the other. Under good points she wrote: "No Richard Burton in the bedroom but plenty
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    Lock icon GOMAA TIPPED TO BE NASSER'S NO. 2
    852 4 BEIRUT, Sun. (Reuter) Mr. Share wy Gomma, 49-year-old Interior Minister, has strengthened hit claims as President Nasser's number two following the recent internal shekeup in Egypt, according to reports reaching here. Mr. Aly Sabry. one of the President's closest aide* end long the
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    Lock icon Sound Barrier Test For The Concorde
    75 4 TOULOUSE. France Sun (Reuter) Concorde 001. flrst prototype of the Anglo-Frenrh supersonic airliner, will fl>" through the sound barrier n*xt week, aviation sources said last night Concorde completed the third phase of its flight tests yesterday. with its 43rd flight the sources said Concorde
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    Lock icon Train Derailed
    29 4 UDINE Italy. Sun (UPI> A passenger train derailed and overturned yesterday after hitting a truck, police said The truck driver tu killed and 33 persona were injured
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    Lock icon Queen, Philip To Meet Nixon
    294 4 SHERIDAN. Wyoming, Sun. (UPI) Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh and husband of Queen Elizabeth 11. has scheduled a quick trip through the United States in late October to meet President Nixon, attend reception In his honour in New York and visit personal friends in Sheridan.
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    Lock icon Envoy Protests Against Deportation Of UK Newsmen
    178 4 NAIROBI. Sun. (Feuter) British High Commissioner S.r Eric Norris yesterday lodged a strong protest with the Kenya Government over the manner in which three British journalist* were deported from Nairobi on Friday I* is understood this is the first time the Hgh Commission
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    Lock icon SHE DROVE TESTER INTO THE RIVER
    51 4 GUILDFORD. tnflind. Sun. (UPI) Mn. riea Parks waa doing fairly wall en har driver's test until she dreve her car and her licanse examiner into the river. "I've never been in the water before." Victor Collier the examiner, aaid simply. Beatrice Parks failed the
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    Lock icon Police Use Gas To Repel Belfast Mobs
    291 4 T> ELF AST, Northern Ireland, Sun. (lUuttr) Police firtd onti riot gas to rtptl o 200-ftrong crowd attacking a Belfast pojict itation with Molotov cocktails tarly today in ranawed street fighting be* tween Protestants and Catholics. It was the second gas fu6illade of
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    Lock icon LISA MEETS NEWSMEN
    76 4 LOVDOV Bun (UPD Chine*# actress Liaa Lu met newsmen here yesterday at a press reception on the first stop of a European V>ur Mlm Lu. who recently performed In several play* In California, stopped m London on her way to Parla. She will open her ne* film.
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    Lock icon Warsaw Pact Exercises End
    89 4 WARSAW Sun (Reuter) Week-lone Warsaw Pact manoeuvres in Poland ended last n:ght with a military parade at which Mr Rvszard Strzelecki. member of the Polish Communist Party's politburo. said the climate wa» ripening for an allEuropean security system. Soviet nuc'.ear and rocket oower was holding m
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    Lock icon Israel To Get More US Planes
    72 4 CAIRO, Sun. (Reuter) President Nixon has derided to conclude a new arms deal with Israel unde r which America will provide 25 Phantom and 50 Sky Hawk jets, the Cairo newspaper A 1 Ahram said today. A despatch from the newspaper's Washington correspondent. quoting
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    Lock icon 'MIDEAST PEACE MUST BE ACCEPTABLE TO PALESTINIANS'
    290 4 RABAT, Sat. (Aautar) Representatives of nine Moslem movement* yeaterday declared they would only accept a Middlo East solution acceptable to El Fatah and tht Palestinian people. The declaration came in a manifesto published after a meeting held here following the Islamic summit. It
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    Lock icon JORDAN HITS OUT AT ISRAEL'S BRUTALITIES
    223 4 UNITED NATIONS. Sun. (UPII Jordan complained to the Security Council vesterday that Israel was pursuing an "oppressive and brutal campaign against Jordanian CIVI- m the occupied West Bark of Jordan.** Muhammart H El-Farra. Jordan's permanent representative to the U.N.. conveyed his charges in a
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    Lock icon ISRAEL CLOSES ARAB SCHOOLS
    95 4 «TERL T SALEM. Sun (Router) Israel; military authorities yesterday closed five Arab srhools on the occupied West Bank of the Jordan after ftudenti tried to demonstrate against restrictions imposed upon the town of Hebron Several other schools in the *re« were hit by partial strikes in
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    Lock icon Laird: U.S. Might Being Reviewed
    283 5 GROTON, Conn. Sun. (UPI) Secretary of Defence Melvin R. Laird said Saturday a review was under way to determine if America's military might was adequate for the coming decade. In remarks prepared foT delivery at the launching of the >avy's 94th nuclear submarine. t'SS TTepang.
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    Lock icon Nixon's Policies Rapped
    139 5 CHARLESTON, West Virginia. (UPI) Hubert H Humphrey on Sat urday accused President Nixon of forgetting about the people who are "not rich nor poor but just in between the average American." The defeated 1968 Democratic Presidential nominee, speaking at a news conference prior to a Democratic fundraising
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    Lock icon McGovern Presses For Withdrawal
    233 5 BOSTON. Sun. (UPD—Sen. George S McGovern of South Dakota said Sunday President Nixon should withdraw all American troops from Vietnam over the next several months and offer asylum to any South Vietnamese who felt jeopardised by such a step Americans who opposed withdrawal should be permitted
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    Lock icon Bottle Of Cognac To Look At
    137 5 EFFINGHAM. 1111., Sun (UPI) The Last Man's Club will hold its annual get together her*» next Wednesday and probably will get out an old bottle of French cognac hut only to look at Thirty-five years ago. a group of 146 veterans of World War
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    Lock icon Recovered From Garbage
    131 5 BOSTON. Sun (I PI) A Chinese man stacked his belongings on the street on Saturday as he prepared to move to another apartment Then he went back upstairs for more. From a third floor window he saw a city sanitation crew pitching his cases into the sooop
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    Lock icon Missing Bolivian Airliner Located
    145 5 LA PAZ. Bolivia, Sun. (UPI) The wreckage of s Bolivian airliner missing since Friday has been found on a 17.000-foot peak in the Andes mountains southeast of here, the Air Force announced Saturday. Fescue teams were ordered to the site to determine If there were any
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    Lock icon Ousted Chief
    48 5 ARICA Chile. Sun <UPI> Ousted Bolivian President Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas landed here In exile Saturday afternoon The Bolivian Air Force plane which brought him from Santa Cruz. Bolivia, touched down at Chacalluta international airport In this northern Chile port a t 6 pm local time.
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    Lock icon Bolivia Wants Oil Firms To Pay More
    294 5 LA PAZ, Bolivia Sun. (UPI) Army Gen. Alfredo Orando Candta. who took over the presidency in a military coup Friday, said yesterday he will not nationlize foreign oil companies operating in the country but will make them pay the government a larger share
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    Lock icon EXPECTING TROUBLE?
    62 5 GERLACH Nevada. Sun. (UPI) This little town believes in bemsr prepared. Washoe County Commissioners' on Thursday authorised final plans for U. 5.511,000 to update the jail and justice court. Opponents to the plan complained that the Justice Court only collected U.S $27 in fees last year and the
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    Lock icon A TUG holds the Liberian freighter "Sagitarius" in place while bodies are recovered from below decks Saturday following a collision with the East German Ship "Schwarzburg". Damage is visible on the side of the vessel which is resting on the bottom in the narrow channel of the Rio De La Plata at the entrance to Buenos Aires. Six crewmen were killed aboard the Sagitarius, but damage to the East German ship was minor.
    75 5 A TUG holds the Liberian freighter "Sagitarius" in place while bodies are recovered from below decks Saturday following a collision with the East German Ship "Schwarzburg". Damage is visible on the side of the vessel which is resting on the bottom in the narrow channel of the Rio De La
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    Lock icon Sisco And Jordan F.M. Hold Talks
    246 5 NEW YORK, Sun. (Reuter) U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Joseph J. Sisco today met privately with Jordanian Foreign Minister Abdul Monem Rifai following major Middle East discussions between the United States and the Soviet Union last night. The discussions, carried on by Secretary of
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    Lock icon Mauritanians
    59 5 HONG KONG. Sun (AFP) A Mauntanian government delegation led by Hamdi Ould Mouknass. Minister of External Affairs, arrived in Peking by air last night to attend the celebrations of the 20th anniversary of Chinas National Day" the New China News Agency reported today. The delegation was welcomed at the
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    Lock icon HAWAIANS: DELAY N-TEST 30 DAYS
    181 5 ANCHORAGE. Alaska, Sun. (Reuter) Worried Hawaian legislators today called for a 30-day postponement of an American underground nuclear test which they think could cause a tidal wave to hit their island. The U.S. Atomic Commission (A.E.C.) Is can-Tin* out a oneplus megaton weapon* testing explosion
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    Lock icon Blast Rocks Armoury; 28 Hurt
    139 5 WINSTON-SALEM. N C. 6un. (UPI) An explosion, believed caused by sewer gas. rocked a National Guard Armoury where several hundred guardsmen were training Saturday and Injured 28 men. at least six seriously. The explosion occurred in a 20 foot square storage room while the guardsmen
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    Lock icon Haynsworth Linked With Bobby Baker
    237 5 NEW YORK, Sun. (Reuter) The New York Daily News said today that Judge Clement F. Haynsworth. U.S. Supreme Court Justice appointee, was involved in a business deal with Robert (Bobby) Baker, former influential Senate aide who was convicted two years ago of theft and income
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    Lock icon VANESSA GETS BOY
    105 5 LONDON*. Sun (UPI) Actress Vanessa Redgrave secretly has given birth to a baby boy. friends of the actress said on Saturday. "The baby was born two weeks ago," the friends said It is a lovely boy with dark, curly hair." Last April. Ms* Redgrave. 32. announcer! she
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    Lock icon Weird Chicago Trial Underway
    361 5 CHICAGO, Sun, (UPI) On Wednesday police end demonstrators battled in the streets 25 stories below the courtroom. On Thrusday one of the defendants somersaulted into the Federal Building and on Friday the Judge found four defence attorneys in contempt of court. It was not a conventional
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    Lock icon Moon Men Off Today On Tour
    148 5 HOUSTON. Tex at. Sun. (UPI) The Apollo 11 astronauts. the first to walk the moon, will set out on Monday to circle the world on a 23-natlon tour to stress U.S. willingness to share its space knowledge The itinerary will include one stop behind
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    Lock icon Dogs Lose
    75 5 CHARLESTON. W VIT.. Sun <UPI> Every dog has his day. but snmetimes the dng catchers get lucky, too. Two dogs chased a truck in suburban South Hilljs on Friday. another blocked the truck In front, and a fourth watched the proceedings from the entrance of a nearby school.
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      170 5 1. Shoot 2. Pull out film 1 m i 3. Wart one minute Forget about developing tanks and liquids. You do not develop Polaroid pictures. They develop themselves. The secret is in the film packet, which contains a developing agent. When you pull MKT the packet from the camera, the
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    Lock icon END OF MORATORIUM
    663 6 THE pretence is off and the liberals" in the United States are after President Richard Nixon's blood. Nixon in his latest press conference made a rather pathetic plea for "united support" of the American people which he said would make the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong take
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    Lock icon BOOKS GALORE
    332 6 T*HE role of books Is to widen a man's mental horizon and shape him up to fit Into a changing society. But often they land him in a sea of confusion, if not lead him to real disaster as In the case of Mein Kampf of Hitlers. Great
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    Lock icon COMMANDER CRABBIS HE ALIVE?
    1411 6  -  BY ROSS MILES THERE is frowing evidence that Ctmnißder "Buster" Crabb did not die during his mysterious look st the Russian Fleet LONDON A man has just returned to Britoin from frht Black Sea who says he saw a man dressed in the uniform of Russian
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    Lock icon SYNTHETICS GROW LIKE CRYSTALS
    129 6 LUDWIGSHAFEN, (DaD) The fact that synthetics can grow like crystals is one of the most sensational discoveries of recent times. Our photo which resembles a modern graphic work, was made with the aid of a strong microscope in a laboratory of the chemical industry and shows
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    12 6 MIND la the rreat lever of all thinrs. —Daniel Webster
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    Lock icon How Hanoi Uses U.S. Press
    758 6  -  By JOSEPH ALSOP HIEP DUC, Hanoi's cynically astute exploitation of the American press, and the resulting anger of many Americans fighting For their country in Vietnam, have become major phenomena. Frankness is In order, and Hiep Due is a good place to begin. Its scenery,
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    Lock icon AFFAIRS OF HEART VIA THE COMPUTER
    404 6 The Lighter Side By Dick West: WASHINGTON, (UPI) According to its advance publicity, a new magazine coming out next month will feature an ad-vice-to-the-lovelorn column written by a computer. If subscribers whose romances are on the blink Outline their troubles in "Dear Computer" letters,
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    Lock icon Hot And Cold Regions
    285 6  -  •y JOSEPH L. MYLER WASHINGTON, (UPI) Hottest place in the world is Aziria, Libya according to the Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA) publication climates of the world. On Sept. 13. 1922. Axlzla zoomed to a new record 138 degree* fahrenhelt. Other temperature extremes reported In cllmatea
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
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      Lock icon Stock Mart Again Confined To Routine Business
      865 7  -  The weekly market review By GOH ENG KEE OOUTINE business again marked the post week's trading in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore. Conditions reflected a firm tendency although no new factors emerged to dictate any real trend either way. There were
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      Lock icon GIRI OPENS OIL REFINERY
      119 7 MADRAS. India. Sun. fßeuter) Indian President Venkata Girl yesterday formally Inaugurated the 443million rupee (£24,600,000) Madras Oil Refinery. The refinery, a joint venture of the Indian Government, the National Iranian 0:1 Company and American International Oil Company a subsidiary of Standard Oil Company started production last
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      Lock icon I.M.F. MEETING OPENS TODAY IN WASHINGTON
      182 7 WASHINGTON. Sun. (UPI) Two distinct groups of fr®e world monetary and economic experts will convene here tomorrow for the annual meeting of the leadership of the 25-year-old International Monetary Fund (IMF) and its si# ®r institutions in the World Bank group. The IMF Is
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      Lock icon Japan To Make 118 M.P.H. Cars
      106 7 OSAKA. Japan. Sun. (UPI) Toyo Kogyo Co. will put on market on Oct. 3. "Luce Rotary Coupe.' a new model equipped wltha 1.300 cc rotary engine. Kyodo News Service reported. The engine's interior It plated with chromium, a technique the Hiroshimabased auto maker has
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      Lock icon Here She Is!
      152 7 THIS is our first 747 the aircraft that will add spaciousness to BOAC travel. She does not have the livery yet. But soon the workmen at Boeing's plant in Everett, Seattle, will be finished and she will be ready for her rollout. Groups of BOAC staff from
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      Lock icon Import Controls Hamper The Export Of Developing Countries
      229 7 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Sun. (Renter) Commonwealth finance ministers have stressed that import restrictions in industrialised countries are hampering exports from developing countries. In a communique Issued on Friday at the close of their two-day meeting here, delegates from 28 Commonwealth countries also spoke
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      Lock icon ROUNDUP OF ASIAN ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENTS
      478 7 HONG KONG. Sun. (U*l) The Shell group last week won a US$l 8 billion contract which call* for a 20-year supply of liquefied natural gas from Brunei to Japan. A Shell Company and Mitsubishi Shojl Kalsha In Tokyo signed letters of intent with
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      Lock icon Price Index Up
      59 7 TOKYO. Sun (UPI) The Government Statistics Bureau announced yesterday that the consumers price index rose by 5 per cent in the one-year period ending Aug. 31 The economic planning agency said the index will go down in October and November in part because the government will keep
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      Lock icon A Record Year For Industrial Finance Firm
      613 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The Malaysian Industrial Development Finance Berhad (MIDF) tripled the value of its loan and underwriting business in its last financial year ended March 31, 1969, when the company approved 91 applications for assistance to industrial concerns at a total value
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      180 7 NEW DELHI. Sun. (Reuter) India's food prospects are quite good this year with a buffer stock already built up of 4.000.000 metric tone ana anther 1.000,000-tons coming along, Food Minister Jagjivan Ram said yesterday. Opening a food conference of State Chief Ministers. Mr. Ram said
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      68 7 WASHINGTON, Sun. (UP!) The U.S. balance of trade for August showed ft surplus of $204 9 million, the US. Commerce Department announced. The surplus for July was $lO5 2 million. For the first eight months of the current year, export* have totalled about $36
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      411 7 AKKIV ALb ft.ee ■no MSA 029 K. Lumpur moo am. MSA 110 K. Lumpur 1015 a m. MSA 121 K. Lumpur 10 25 am. Ms.A 005 Penang. Ipoh, K Lumpur, Malacca 10.50 am. THAI 1G428 Bangkok 12 35 pm. FAN-AM PAB4I Salton. Guam. Honolulu, an Francisco 12.50 pm.
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      142 7 SHIPPING NOTICE M/S "TAIPOOSHAfr', *2.000 Ton* Crow. Sp««4 IS Kneto. PORTNIGHTL* CXPRCM SMVICt POB HONGKONG SINGAPORI PENAM. VTO 19 30 Oct 5 Not «0 81 Nn Penang 8 7 Oct tl 33 Oct <1 H NOT 22 24 No? Singapore 8 f> Oct 24 25 Oct <» 10 NOT 25
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    813 8 AN EIGHT-MAN timber mission from Malaysia/Singapore Timber Export Industry Board, headed by Mr. Lee Ka I To is currently touring $ix Cities in Australia for 21 days to consolidate timber export and tr3de expansion From left: Messrs. Goh Eng Khunn. Ong Kian Heng Tuan Haji Abd. Majid
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      728 9 PEOPLE art born naturally curious. It is, therefore, nothing to be wondered at when somebody starts at you. In this modern world of ours, most young ladies like to be stared at by the opposite sex, not excluding the young gentlemen as well. I do not
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      487 9 FACES <ri the most striking and memorable features. We can recognise a person by his or her fact or whether he or shs reismblss someone else. Faces contain the same components but yet they are different in features. If a person accidentally shaves out a small part of his
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      528 9 OLD people nowadays seem to be taking the backseats. Every emphasis Is now laid on the youths, on their care, growth and education. So to many, old people are Just old men and women, and to even some, they are Just mere puppets to be put
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      590 9 A small piece of lend laden with ge>d that it my Singapore. Founded one-hundred and fifty years ago, this small island has been tossed about many a time by the rough political tide. Four years ago. when Singapore broke away from the Federation of Malaysia
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      346 9 AS wo all know, tho An-ti-mosquito Campaign Had baan launched recently by tho Singapora Government and Hiii was to last for about ono month, Tha purpose of this campaign is to prevent tho braoding of mosquitoos. We til know that malaria It a tropical disease and it ia
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      187 9 Essay writing: Rules to observe All intrants are requeued to observe the following rule*: 1. Each entrant mutt fill in his/her own writing the entry form appended below in block letters. 2. No entry will be considered without the entry form properly filled up. 3. The entrant must attach his/her
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      110 9 AMY By J«ek Tipprt i X I f "Any© no Men my new golf slocks and my golf cop?" DATELINE: DANGER! AFTER MONTHS OF TORMENT AT THE HANDS OF HIS DROP-OUT X FRIENDS;DANNV PAVEN'S BROTHER, LESS.HAS CLEARED THE AIR IN MAN-TO-MAN COMBAT VOU'LL BE > SORRV, LEE RCRY/ THE DAVLL
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      189 11 Soles Service Television Radio REDIFFUSION TELEVISION RENTALS H P CASH Comp:«ta ranga to aull eteryona Shovrooms: Clemanceau Av» joo Chlat Road. Taman Jurong REXHFFf SIO.N REPAIRS AW >I.4EE Or TV SETS Radiophone Controlled Malntanaaee Phone ***** 8 ***** Merapora Commnoal ArrlaJ Svatasa Cloud Clrcalt TV Baclgroand Matle Installation Ph«n. Mflll
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      44 11 BIG SWEEP lit Prix* No. *****5 $4,708 2nd Prixe No. *****9 $1,345 3rd Prixe No. *****2 672 stort*r>: ($l5O «oeh) No*:— *****0 *****7 *****5 *****7 *****5 *****2 *****4 *****3 *****2 Consolation: ($lOO each) No»: *****4 *****9 *****7 *****6 *****7 *****1 *****2 *****0 *****1 *****0
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      1361 11 ?>■ i fw IjNW *i£ TV SINGAPURA (CHANNEL S> p.M 300 Opening Anncts in all Languages and Moaning Star; 3 Woman's world < Tamil'; 3.55 A Dtarv of Events in Singapore This Week <Tamil>, 4.00 It* Happening in Singapore (Tamil* (Repeat*; 4.15 Scarlet Hill <The Gate F.p.l); 440 Clw; 555
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    135 12 TEN Jaycee members yesterday morning answered the Blood Transfusion Service call for more blood donors when they sacrificed part of their Sunday morning to donate blood. The Jaycees had the morning-after feeling atter their dinner the previous night which ended very late but they still came and public-spiritedly
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    284 12 The Library Association of Singapore has set up a School Library Section with the specific aim of promoting library services in schools. This thu first time in the Association to have mom bears with intimate knowledge of the conditions and operation of school libraries In
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    234 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun A special committee has been set up to recommend the revision of the constitution of the St. John Ambulance Brigade in Malaysia to fit In with suggestions made by St. John Headquarters in London. This was disclosed today by the Minister of Health. Tan
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    159 12 A YOUTH. Llauw Khee Tong. 17, was found dead by ijie Police following a secret society clash at Jalan Merpatl, off Aljunled Road, on Saturday night. A taxi-driver who was driving along Jalan Merpatl saw Llauw's body and informed the Police Immediately Yesterday, the Police told newsmen
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    88 12 THERE were 126.358 motor cars on Singapore roads at th* end of August, In the same month there were 961.061 motor-cycles including scooters and 359.531 bicycles. These figures were leased by the Singapore Traffic Police and the Registrar of Vehicles The Traffic Police also reported that 54 'private
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    95 12 PAINTINGS in water-colour, oils, photographs and silk-screen printings were displayed at the Adult Education Board's Art and Craft Exhibition opened last Saturday at the National Library Lecture Hall by the Political Secretary, Ministry of Education, Enche Mohd. Ghazali Ismail. The exhibition of 264 pieces of art and
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    370 12 THE Political Secretary to the Ministry of Education, Enche Mohd. Ghaxali Ismail, yeitsrday blamed Malay teachers for lack of initiatives and calibre which resulted in poor results among Malay students studying in Malay stream of education. Enche Ghaxali Ismail made this observation whan he
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    142 12 KUALA LUMPUR Sun Two more forged Singapore $5O notes w*»rp discovered by two local banks here on Friday. A police spokesman *ald today the first note was discovered by Mr Chong Yuen Hoong. an employee of a bank at Jalan Klyne. Mr. Chong found the note
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    250 12 PARENTS and members of the public yesterday had a glimpse of what students of thf Singapore Vocational Institute were studving when the school opened its doors to the public yesterday The "open house* at the I Singapore Vocational Institute win continue until Tuesday at 6 p.m
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    139 12 The party in power has the responsibility to see that Singapore and develops in the collective interests of all Singapore citizens. whatever their race, religion, and culture. The MP for Alexandra, Prof Wong Lin Ken. was speaking at the joint celebrations to mark the 10th anniversary of the
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    Lock icon The Havelock Community Centre Women Sub-Committee presented Dressmaking Certificates to over 70 graduands at a ceremony in the Community Centre last Saturday night. Miss Woo Mee San, (left), one of the graduands, is seen receiving her certificate from Mrs. Lim Soo Peng, wife of the M.P. of Havelock Constituency. On right is Miss Iris Lim, Chairman of the Sub-Committee.
    60 12 The Havelock Community Centre Women Sub-Committee presented Dressmaking Certificates to over 70 graduands at a ceremony in the Community Centre last Saturday night. Miss Woo Mee San, (left), one of th e graduands, is seen receiving her certificate from Mrs. Lim Soo Peng, wife of the M.P. of Havelock Constituency.
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    248 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. A number of potential hydroelectric schemes in West Malaysia are being studied by the National Electricity Board, the Minister tor Commerce and Industry. Enche Mohamed Khir Joharl. disclosed yesterday. The schemes under investigations include the Pergau. Menggirl and Lebir rivers in Kelantan. the Trengganu
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    226 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun The Sultan of Perak this morning called for goodwill and harmony among the various races so as to maintain peace, progress nd prosperity of the country. The Sultan was speaking at the laying of the foundation stone of the $3.7 million Ladv
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      95 12 Time ft Tide High Tid« (Today) Singapore Town: 0.39 am. (9.4 ft.). 12.27 p.m. (9.4 ft.) Naval Dockyard: 0.50 a.m. (11.3 ft.). 12.47 p.m. (10.6 ft.) Low Tide (Today) Singapore Town: 6.36 a.m. (2.6 ft). 6.53 p.m (0.5 ft.) Naval Dockyard: 6.25 am. (3.2 ft.), 6.35 p.m. (1.2 ft.) High
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      33 12 TOTO DRAW Tbe numbers drawn in yesterday's $lOO,OOO Toto jackpot draw were 20: 16; 34: 15; and 7. The additional number was 3 In the circles draw, 48; S7; and 1 were picked.
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