Eastern Sun, 7 October 1969

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  • 21 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1141 Tuesday, 7 October 1969. MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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  • 574 1 TANKER EXPLODES OFE SINGAPORE FOUR men were reported missing, believed to have been lost at sea, when the 52,000-ton Swedish oil tanker, Seven Skies, suddenly blew up and sank in the South China Sea. The sea tragedy occurred just after sunrise yesterday
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  • 342 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Two sightings of Communist terrorists were reported ot Kedah and Perak near the Malaysia-Thai border, the National Operations Council disclosed today. An NOC statement said the two sightings were reported at Kampong Weng ir the Baling district of Kedah and in the district
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  • 271 1 JERUSALEM. Mon. (UPI) —Israel Monday brought an Australian sheepshearer to trial under stringent security precautions to face charges he set Al Aqsa Mosque on fire six weeks ago. Denis Michael Rohan, charged with arson In the fire which brought cries of a holy war from
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  • 357 1 Wilson Creates 2 Super Ministries LONDON, Mon. (Reuter) Prime Minister Harold Wilton created two super-ministries in a cabinet reshuffle today and appointed one of his closest colleagues, George Thomson, as Britain's chief negotiator with Europe. The shuffle reduced the number of cabinet ministers from 23 to 21 and lined up
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  • 166 1 AMMAN, Mon. (UPI) The Jordanian regime has foiled an attempt to overthrow the government of King Hussein, an official announcement said Monday. Amman Radio, quoting a statement by the Interior Ministry, said the coup plot was organised by the outlawed Al-Tahrir (Liberation) Party. It said
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  • 363 1 New York, Mon. (UN) Jacqueline Onassis went to a sexy Swedish film Sunday and judo-flipped a photographer who triod to record the event. The former U.S. First Lady went to see "I am Curious Yellow" but when she discovered newsmen in
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  • 214 1 WASHINGTON, Mon. (Reuter) U.S. intelligence experts today were trying to piece together information about Cuba's Air Force from a defecting pilot who Hew a Russian-built MIG-17 jet fighter to Florida yesterday. U.S. government sources said the intelligence officials began questioning the pilot last night
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  • 57 1 TEL AVIV. Mon. <Reuter) Several peop.e were reported hurt today when a powerful explosive charge rocked the crowded market-olace in the town of Affula in North Israel, six miles south of Nazareth. First reports said the blast went of? at about 915 a m when the market-place was
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  • 65 1 BOGOTA. Colombia, Mon. (UPI) Enrique Straessle. son of Swiss Consul Juan Straessle, was kidnapped on Sunday night, the S*iss Embassy said on Monday. News of the kidnapping was first published In the morning newspaper El Espectador. but Colombian officials refused to comment The newspaper said the elder
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous


  • 241 3 THIEU TO ASSEMBLY: SAIGON, Mon. (Reuter) President Thieu said that South Vietnam was ready to discuss a ceasetire with the other side. But he immediately made it clear that he would not accept an unconditional ceasefire before details were worked out. The 46-year-old President was speaking
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  • 55 3 ALGIERS, Mon. (Reuter) Six people died and six were injured yesterday as floods hit Western Algeria after devastating vast areas in the eastern and southern parts of the country. The official Algerie Presse Service News Agency reported yesterdav casualties and damage from Teniet El Haad. 115
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  • 551 3 TOKYO. Mon. (Rauter) Reuter's Peking correspondent Anthony Grey, speaking to the outside world yesterday for the first time since his release, asked about his golf clubs and said he was looking forward to seeing a colour film last night of Man's first steps on
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  • 258 3 P.I. LETTER PROBE: HONG KONG. Mon. (UPI and Reuter) Kaitsu Haruta, the Japanese businessman caught in a political battle between President Marcos and Opposition candidate Sen. Sergio Osmena. Jr., today said he would sue Osmena and a number of newspapers in the Philippines for libel.
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  • 95 3 Photos and captions from official Chinese
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  • 96 3 HONG KONG. Mon. (UPI> A former police inspector committed suicide in hts bathroom yesterday after excusing himself from police detectives Investigating his alleged involvement In a bank fraud case, police said today LI Hol-Kut 35. took a pill of unknown composition. Detectives waiting
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  • 77 3 The Long Short Of It BYDNEY, Mon. (Reuter)— Sydney girls wear the Shortest mini-skirts in the world, according to two Australian fashion designers who have Just completed an international survey. The length of skirts In Sydney average 13 inches to three inches shorter than skirts in London and two Inches
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  • 284 3 TOKYO Mon. (UPI) Japan's rice crop will reach 14 million tons in 1969, the third greatest bumper crop in history, but the Government ISN'T *#•7 happy about it. The Government supports the price of rice and already has 5,600.000 tons of OLD rice in storage which it
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  • 364 3 JAKARTA. Mon. (Reuter) The Indonesian Government worried by the potential power of its armed forces commanders to-day announced that the commanders would no longer be able to move troops from one area to another. Indonesian Defence Chief of Staff. Lieutenant-General Sumltro. told foreign reporters
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  • 102 3 NEW YORK, Mon (UPI) Time magazine yesterday said that Rep Mendel Rivers, a South Carolina Democrat and Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, forced President Nixon to order murder charges dropped against six Green Beret officers. Time, in the current
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  • 122 3 HAMILTON, New Zealand. Mon (Reuter) Scientists are baffled by a 42-foot diameter circle of dehydrated radio-active scrub found on farmland near here. The bushes show no sign of burning but experts say they were instantly drained of all moisture and their centres reduced to black carbon.
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  • Fotorama '69
    • 938 5 From the Editors Hypo-stained Desk That was a Month, ♦hat was! For Competitions and Exhibitions, we mean. First we had the year's most novel photo-contest, our very own TV Snapshot Contest, the first of its kind ever in this part of the
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    • 22 5 ORGANISED By The Singapore Photo-Ar* Association To Maris The 150 th Anniversary of Singapore.
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    • 226 5 Prize Winners: Agfacolor CNS Contests A-5 and A-6 You know their names and addresses and you've seen their prize-winning efforts in print because we'vp reproduced them In FOTORAMA '69 before 'see FOTOFAMA '69. August 26th and September 9th >. Now meet them in person. From left to
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    • 412 5 2nd SouthEast Asia Students' Photographic Competition 1969/70 The Singapore Polytechnic Photography Society cordially invites all students throughout South-East Asia to participate in the 2nd SouthEast Asia Students' Photographic Competition. THE PRIZES SIX STATUETTES (TWO FOR "INDUSTRY" THEME) TEN SILVER MEDALS TEN BRONZE MEDALS CERTIFICATES OF MERIT THE PANEL OF JUDGES
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    • 176 5 (1> Mr Victor Teo. 150-D Lorong 2. Blk 116. Toa Pavoh. Singapore 12. (STARE > (2) Mr. Lai Nai Shan. Alexandra P.O Box 121. Singapore (MY FAIR LADY) <3> Mr Wonr Chew Hung 8-H. Blk 1. Idrie Road. Singapore 12. (SMILING GIRL) (4) Mr. Victor
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    • 347 5 THE PRIZES 1st PRIZE: $300 CASH VOUCHER 2nd PRIZE: $100 CASH VOUCHER 3rd PRIZE: 50 CASH VOUCHER Plus Certificates of Merit to the next 10 best entries THE RULES 1. To participate In this contest, all you have to do It to submit one or mora poitcard-tite or
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • 513 6 THOSE of us in the older generation, nurtured on Carlyle in an outmoded form of education, would remember the importance of -Heroes and Heroworship". Today every hero has been debunked including Carlyle's own Frederick the Great and post-Freudian psychology has effectively determined that such 'heroes' like Napoleon, Julius
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  • 379 6 FACTB are not fancies. But imagine for a second what would be the rate of progress of Asian nations if only their leaders moved on without paying heed to parochialism. It would just be a dream to imagine this in the present democratic set-up of many nations of
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  • 57 6 It is strange and quite illogical that creatireness should... be linked to lonf hair and dirty fingernails instead of grey flannel suits and pinstripe trousers. It is not a rare human attribute...it is quite a normal quality which moat children possess in some decree A (rest many managers
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  • 829 6  -  By ROBIN PAGE, (Gemini News Service! LONDON: When Ted Heath resumes his seat after addressing the final session of the Conservative Party's annual get-together there will occur the first of two certainties and there are not many of them about politics in Britain. The 4,000 representatives
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  • 449 6  -  By JOHN IRA PETTY ALBUQUERQUE. New Mexico, (Reuter) Examples of the world's first atom bombs "Fat Man" and "Little Boy" will bo among the exhibits at a unique museum opening this month at the United States army's base at Sandia, east of here. Fat man"
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  • 447 6 THE LIGHTER SIDE BY DICK WEST WASHINGTON. (UPI) The main strength of America and the thing that has made this republic great is American's almost limitless ability to think up new kinds of taxes. Other nations have achieved greatness only to flounder, stagnate or fall.
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  • 427 6  -  By COLIN FOX LOBITO. Angola, (R«uttr) It's thirsty work in th« sun raking up salt from tka dehydration bads of Lobito, Portuguese West Africa. A great thirst comes just with watching the African labourers sweating among the whitish pyramids and the bleached pink flamingos standing onelegged letting the
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  • 837 6  -  By WILLIAM FORREST, (Gomini Ntws Service) LONDON: So if is to be the death of a thousand cuts for Alexander Dubcek, the one-time champion of "Socialism with a human face." Can there be any doubt that the Stalinists in Czechoslovakia, as well as
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 504 7  -  By Our Market Reporter The Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday drifted into last Friday's easier tendency on renewed profit-taking and lack of buying interest after a steady opening. Trading was confined to selected equities and the total volume of business done lell to
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    • 787 7 BUSINESS done in and reported to the trading rooms of the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore with the number of shares traded in brackets in lots of 1,000 units unless otherwise specified:- INDUSTRIALS ACMA 188(2); Ben L Co 187(1) 1.86(2); Borneo Bhd 178'2)' Camel Plywood 1.77(1); C.
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    • 280 7 October first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p m„ in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 722 cents per lb- d< wn one and one eighth of a cent from the previous close. The tone of the market was easier. Prices sagged some half a
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    • 87 7 TOKYO. Mon (UPI) The giant Hayakawa Electric Co will soon be exporting its electronic calculator* to Czechoslovakia, the Nihon Keizai newspaper said yesterday. The daily said Hayakawa and the Czechoslovak govern-ment-owned Business Machines Corp. (BMC) would, in a few months, finalise an agreement whereby the
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    • 13 7 The tin orice for yesterday was $633.00 per picul down $0.50.
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    • 242 7 The Port of Singapore Authority ha s announced the following berthing arrangements for todav. Tuesday, Oct. 7. ARRIVALS Gorionn V •»*<,{■! 5 6/7 Miho Pracat 15 16 Diomed N.W.I Brau s 23/24 Yamash:g e Maru 25 Kinabalu 27 28 Tamuraeverett 33 34 Radnorshire 40 41 N:chiyo Maru
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    • 267 7 TOKYO, Mon. (AFP) The Peking Municipal Revolu tionary Committee writes in the theoretical journal "Red Flag" for October that priority should be fiven heavy Industiies in the induatriallsation programme of People's China with special emphasis on inland plants to "provide against
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    • 112 7 BANGKOK. Mon. (AFP) Thailand exported a total of 102.453 tons of rice during August this year the bulk of it going to traditional markets like Singapore. Malaysia and Hong Kong. Official figures released here showed that for the first half or September
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    • 34 7 TOKYO. Mon. (UPI) Nippon Columbia Co. said yesterday It has provided the Taiwan Kilin Co. with technical know-how on colour television set production. Formosa is scheduled to start colour telecasting next Friday.
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    • 447 7 NEW YORK, Mon. (UPI) Indonesia appealed to the U.S. business world today to invest in its weak but stable economy to assure peace and economic progress in its vast island territories. Addressing the "Conference of Asia" here today. Dr.
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    • 221 7 TOKYO. Mon. (ATP) The British Government has spent about a million dollars on "British Week In Japan" exhibitions, shows and events but It hat gained about 100 million dollars' worth of publicity for Britain, advertising experts here said yesterday. Some department
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    • 158 7 MANILA. Mon. (UPI> Philippine cement makers, faced with a price slump because of a gult on the domestic market, have broken through the virtual monopoly in the Asian export market held by Japan and Taiwan. Four Philippine companies announced during the week end they have won
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    • 594 7 TOKYO. Mon. (UPl)—Japan and the United States opened three days of wide ranging trade talks today, amid signs that the campaign of American textile men to restrict Japanese cloth shipments to the U.S. market is beginning to pay off Wilting under threats that
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    • 649 7 SINGAPORE cbanrc sold and officially at l business. Btom other pr tfe« elan EXItm of IXDCBTBIALS Arm a I 8 IK •Jen A Co 1 8 6 Borneo Bhd Bou-tead i.f 19 7 1.80 1 C, Pl>HOOd i 7 g 1 1 7 7 t sugar
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    • 210 7 NEW YORK. Mon. (UPI) An Indian industrialist defended his country's economic system yesterday in a P'ea for continued American Investments. Addressing the conference on Asia, a gathering of prominent business representatives. Keshub Mahlndra. chairman of Mahlndra and Mahlndra Limited, pointed to India's poverty and
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    • 88 7 THE noon prices at the Slnrapore Cblnr»e Produce ticbarje seater day were*— Buyer Seller Coconnr oil (FOB.) Bulk Coconnt Oil 80.00 (P.O B L»mm &2-50 onr-i SI .Art Muntnk Ubite Pepper (FOB) 167.50 Sarawak White Peptfer (F O.B.) 265.50 Sarawak Special Blara Pepper (FOB.) M% NLff 185 00 Lamponr
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    • 63 7 (Manager*' Prlew for Oct 8) A I'M! TKLSlS Ma!. Invest, rand 1.30 140 SIMiAPOKt I KIT TKUSTb l»t Malayan 2 88 2nd Malayan 2.09 3rd Malayan The Com. Ind i 28xd aw LM 1.16 Tha lav. Fund xd 109 1.19 Sterling Com 5/4 H E. TRL8T FLNDS lat
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    • 56 7 HONG KONG. Mon. (UPI) Money Quotations yesterday: HK56.***** per UJS. dollar HK56.***** per U.S. dollar TT HK$l4 52 per pound sterling HK5307.5 per tael of gold 94 5 Der cent fineness. HK5163.8 per 10,000 Japanese yen HK5116.2 per 100 Philippines pesos buyers HK5117.2 per 100 Philippines pesos sellers
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    • 401 7 ARRIVALS 500 a m. MBA 029 It. Lumpur 8.00 a.m. MSA 118 K. Lumpur 9-85 a. m UARI'UA UAW» Jakarta 1615 am. MSA 121 K. Lumpur 10.25 a.m. MSA 005 Pciini, lpob. Koala Lumpur Malacca 140 p.m. SAS 8K971 Copenhagen. Tashkent. Bangkok. LlOp.m. MSA 451 Kucblnc 1-80 p.m.
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  • 569 9  -  Ann Landers f)EAR ANN: I am a 15-year-old girl who is sick and tired of being mistaken for a boy. The reason is I am flatchested. Do the creams I see advertised in the magazines do any good s Please don't
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  • 239 9 PARIS. Moil As stores prepare their Paris collections, and American manufacturers prepare their copies and adaptations. it becomes apparent that something else than hem 1 earths is Important for faU. Despite all the publicity furore about the "no-bra" look the general Impression
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  • 210 9 VAMEW necklines for jumpers. including the horseshoe, suspender, bib top. overall and waistline V. each to be matched with the right top. TOPS for jumpers in polo shirt, peasant blouse ribbed sweater crepe or satm poet shirt, turtieneck jersey, for all the varied necklines CCLOTTE dresses for school,
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  • 453 9  -  By K. S. Sidhu MISS Marquise Diamond has a natural charm that makes you feel you have known her for years after only a few minutes' chat A modest "stripper" from New York, she turned professional three years ago to see world. "Have figure will travel"
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  • 785 9  -  Sp€»€wUintf #'#>#• ,1/i/M'//... Sheilah Graham HOLLYWOOD. Mon. i asked Jimmy Stewart If his latest film. "The Cheyenne Social Club." was a comedy, and he replied 4M I hope so." Jimmy inherits a house In the west and It turns
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  • 92 9 LOS ANGELES. M on—Robert Sampson has be*n signed fo». a ton role in Freeman-Enders Production 'False Witness." starring George Kennedy. Anne Jackson and Eli Wallach. currently filming here Sampson has just completed filming "Ethan" in the Philip, pines with an otherwise allnative cast.
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  • 474 9  -  By Vernon Scott HOLLYWOOD Mon <UPI> Does acting stunts a child star's growth? Don Grady, a co-star In televislons "My Three Sons" since he was 13. says yes. A bright lad in his 20 s now. Grady believes that the abnormal life of
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  • 150 9 NEW YORK. Mon. Although Aiming of MGM's "The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart" ha* Just begun. the happy ending 15 already taken care of. Robert Westbroolc. 23. author of the best-selling novel and son of columnist Sheilah Graham, and Kate Heflln. 22.
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  • 273 9  -  *>y gloria-mae HERE'S what you can do with last night's rice, don't despair or waste! This is another of Mrs. Sylvia Gan's recipes. Fried rice is said to be a simple dish to cook but there is the ingredients and the art. FRIED RICE Ingredients 4 lb. char-siew
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  • 248 9 PARIS Mon I hope I live another 20 years I've got to Just to see the results which will be inevitable on all the young girls who may be silly enough to follow the no-bra trend. The current Pans collections featured another try
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  • 70 9 CULVER CITY. Mon—Dillon Trumbo has been signed to write the screenplay lor Evan Hunter's new novel. Sons." to be produced by Ackerman-Meredith Production for MGM Currently on best-seller lists, "Sons" is the story of the conflicts and romances of three consecutive generation* of young
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 60 9 TODAY and YOUJ Tuesday* October 7, 1969. m Syss-56-80 85 a'rjvue 2e CANCH 21 M Pram 85 Mood •4 To 97 GroctMV U E-d«ovon «9W«H 90 Cub* 10/7 2i Today 25 Woy» 26 A V An 20 To 75 Exp!or 30 B« 54 Th. 55 In 54 A 57*s*o»l 54
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 620 10  -  VICTORY ALMOST WITHIN GRASP.. By Anton Perera Sports Editor, Bangkok Post Sukree Onchum and Suchin Suvannapongse the surprise packet of the 17th World Cup Golf Championships wilted slightly under the torrid heat and power-p a c k e d pressure play of the
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    • 106 10  -  By Little Nene LEE TREVINO, 1968 U.S. Open champion, and winner of the International Trophy here on Sunday, has donated the $6,000 prize money he won to the Singapore Golf Association to help local top playing caddies to improve their games. Last Sunday's donation was
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    • 79 10 VAN ETTEN New York Mon. (UPIi "I'm Stirling Moss, officer," the sportily-dressed man told a New York State policeman. "You were speeding, sir.'' the trooper told the former racing champion after checking his driver's licence. The trooper told Moss that he could plead guilty by mail
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    • 63 10 DONDON, Mon. (Reuter) The English Football Association's Disciplinary Committee toda v suspended Bob Chapman, of Nottingham Forest, for six weeks. The suspension, which begins next Monday. wa s imposed following an incident during the F r;t Division c lu b' B League Cup match against Barrow on Sept.
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    • 422 10 PARIS, Mon. (Reuter) Irish outsider LEVMOSS carried off Europe's richest horse race winning the £153.700 sterling Prix De L'Arc De Triomphe at Long- champ yesterday. Levmoss. a grandson of 1958 Arc winner Ballymoss gave Australian jockey Bill' Williamson a rare double. Williamson won the glamour
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    • 265 10 LUCKNOW. India. Mon. (Reuter) Asian champion Muljadi, of Indonesia, beat Malaysia's number one, P. Gunalan, 15-1. 17-14 to win the men's singles title In the Gandhi Centenary International badminton tournament here today. Little went right for the young Malaysian as he took on the second-seeded Indonesian
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    • 264 10 Rudy Hartono. Indonesia's top badminton star, said here yesterday that his country's chances of wresting the Thomas Cup from Malaysia, the holders were very great. The holder of several international titles, including the All-England crown expressed this confidence in an interview with Sunsport during a 48-hour
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    • 668 10 THE Ceylon National rugby side, playing their second game of four matches In Singapore. yesterday defeated an M.I.D. Invitation XV comprised of local Services personnel by the convincing margin of 22 points (two goals four tries) to nine (one try. two penalties) In a game
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    • 33 10 MRS. SALLY LOH leads in Katong Ocean (Glynn Pretty), winner of the Singa* pore Gold Cup valued at $5O 000 at Bukit Timah on Sunday. Sunsport pix. Sunsport pix.
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    • 730 10 PENANG, Moo Following! ore height* fo r the week-end race, here: Saturday Cla«« 3, Dlv. 3 6 Furs Correct Time 9.00 Picasso II 9 00 Will top 8.12 Ramona 8 12 Trumpington 111 8.10 Advocate B(>9 Ringgit 8 09 The Tr»i n a 08
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    • 73 10 MACAO, Men (Reuter) —Mere than 120 entries have so far been received for Hie Macao Grand Prix races due to be held here on November 15 and 16, the organisers announced. The majority of the entries are from Hong Kong, but there are also a few
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    • 553 11 LUCKNOW, Mon. (Reuter) Malaysian champion P. Gunalan scored an upset win over top-seeded Darmadi, of Indonesia, to enter the men's singles final of the Gandhi Centenary International badminton tournament here yesterday. Gunalan, the fourth seed, took only 30 minutes to beat the Indonesian, who was runner-up in
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    • 262 11 ATLANTA. Georgia. Mon. (Reuter) The Cinderella New York Mets. relying on their hitting prowess rather than their heralded pitching for the second day in a row. slugged three home runs yesterday and defeated the Atlanta Braves, 11-6. to take a 2-0 lead in their
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    • 127 11 VIENNA Mon (UPI) Liese Prokop of Austria rounded ou* her sporting career today by setting a world mark in the women's pentathlon with 5.352 points —197 points better than the record recently set by Hedi Rosendahl of West Germany. Miss Prokop's individual marks were
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    • 42 11 MANILA, Mon. (Reuter) Indonesia's National champion soccer t®am. Pardedetex, left today for Singapore after playing only one game during their one-week visit here The Indonesians beat a Phi lippine selection 6-nil In the match played *t the Rizal Stadium.
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    • 244 11 HOBART. Australia. Mon. Australia s new badminton champion is 20-year-old Ross Livingston, of Hobart. who won the national title in his home town recently. Livingston beat former English international Mike Rawlings 10-15, 15-6, 15-7 to take the title. Livingston had to fight back from behind but
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    • 110 11 LONDON. Mon. ißeuter) Leading scorers in the English Football League: Division One: 10 Joe Royie (Everton) 9 Georg? <Marchester United), Hugh Curran (Wolverhampton War.derei#). 8 Geoff Hur»t 'West Ham United). 7 Jeff Astle <We« Bromwich), lan Bowyer <Mancheste r City). Brya n Robson (Newcastle United). DivUion Two:
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    • 568 11 MANILA. Mon. (Reuter) Tho Oriental Boxing Federation (OBP) have named Cho Sung Kap of South Korea as their boxer of the month of September for dethroning Yoshiaki Eto of Japan in a 12-round title fight in Seoul last September 26. Cho. the new 29-year-old
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    • 130 11 TRAVERSE CITY Michigan. Mon. (UPI) Walter Hagen. the first of the popular golf profession a la. died early today at his estate near here. He was 76. The colourful Ha;g who probably did mor* to popularise golf than anybody else until Arnold Palmer came along, had
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    • 17 11 LEEDS. England. Mon. (Reuter) Rover» beat Dewsbury 24-14 in an English Ruby League match yesterday.
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    • 177 11 By EASTERN KNIGHT For the first time. Portugal are organising a mam cheie event. This ig the Zone 1 championship which will take place from Oct. 20 to Nov 16 The venue Is Praia Da Rocha. an ideal sea-resort, in the south of Portugal. This
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    • 148 11 BUENOS AIRES. Mon. (UPI) Argentine junior welterweight champ Juan Aranda defeated British Empire champ Percy Hayles last night in a sixth round tko Hayles, a Jamaican, remained seated in his corner at the gong for the start of the sixth round Referee A'berto Valparda after telling
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    • 187 11 US Grand Prix W ATKINS GLEN. New York. Mon. (Reuter)—Jochen Rindt of Austria averaged 128.36 mph 'about 301 kirn) here yesterday to win the United Btates Orand Prix after a thrilling wheel-to-wheel duel with Scotland* Jackie Stewart. It was Rlndt's first Grand Prix victory. He
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    • 181 11 BERKELEY. California. Mon. lUPI) —US Davis Cupper Stan Smith of Pasadena. California, overpowered giant-killer Cliff Richey yesterday to win the men's singles title in the Pacific coast International tennis championships. Smith never lost service in downing Richey 6-2. 6-3 to pick up the UBS4OOO top
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    • 74 11 NEW YORK. Mon. (UPD Results of American Football League matches played yesterday SUNDAY'S RESULTS New York 23 Boston 14. Kansas City 26 Denver 13. Houston 28 Buffalo 14 (only games scheduled). Baltimore 21 Atlanta 14. Detroit 28 Cleveland 21. Minnesota 19 Green Bay 7, St. Louis
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    • 116 11 MELBOURNE, Mon (Reuter) Former world bantamweight boxing champion Lionel Rose will have his first fight as a featherweight against Mexican champion Vincente Garcia here on Nov. 1, Australian promoter Bill Long announced today. Mr. Long said he had come to satisfactory terms for Garcia in
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
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  • Page 11 Miscellaneous
    • 1301 11 (CHANNEL S» PM: 3.00 Opening Announcements in all Languages and Morning Star; 3.20 Woman"* World (Malay Version); 3.55 A Diary of Events in Singapore This Week (Malay Version'; 4 00 It's Happening in Singapore •Malay Versiont (Repeat'; 4.10 Peyton Place (Repeat* (Ch'nese Subtitles): 500 Close; 6.00 Prog Summary in all
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  • 373 12 THE Singapore Government it now examining possibilities off drafting 18-year-old youths ffor full-time National Service immediately after their studies for the Higher School Certificate course. The Minister for Defence, Mr. Lim Kim San, said this after he had met e delegation
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  • 433 12 NANYANG University will soon have leading British university consultants, external examiners and lecturers to advise and teach in the university. This is made possible with Nantah now being a member of the Inter-University Council of London. The announcement was made by the Vice-Chancellor of
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  • 172 12 KUALA LUMPUR, Mon. Three gunmen held up five employees of the Fook Soo Hin Sawmill at Jalan Cheras here this afternoon and escaped with $l,BOO, a $6O watch and a $5O gold ring. The gunmen made their getaway in the firm's car, which was found
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  • 88 12 The "jackpot" prize for TOTO is growine bigger and bigger each week. With no first and second group prize winners on Sunday's draw, the prize for this Thursday's Draw has been increased to $125,000. The Singapore Pools (Pte) Ltd. made this announcement in a news release yesterday. It
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  • 275 12 SINGAPORE'S Helicopter Squadron in the Air Defence Command, the air arm of the Singapore Armed Forces, came into being yesterday with the delivery of the first of four Alouette helicopters purchased from France. A special demonstration was held at Seletar Airbase where the ground technicians for the
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  • 75 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Men. Burglars broke into a house at Jalan Yao Kw»n Seng here during the weekend and got sway with cash and jewellery amounting to $1 300 The house owners. Madam Thanamalar told police th# valuables were in a bag plared on a dressing table. She wok*
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  • 141 12 AN exhibition displaying the varied potentialities of packaging for drawing attention and attracting customers is now on at the National Library's entrance foyer. Samples of paper and cardboard packaging together with plastic, glass, and tin containers are on view at the display. These have been attractively
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  • 361 12 KOREA is in a position to co-operate with Singapore by expanding trad* activities between the two countries for mutual prosperity. This was stated last night by the Korean Ambassador to Malaysia. Dr. Hong Kee Karl, when he declared open the flrst Korean merchandise
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  • 318 12 AN electronics firm in Singapore is launching a $lOO 000 programme to provide advanced technical training for its local staff abroad. The firm is the Societa G en e r a 1 e Semiconduttori <SGS> Singapore Limited which began operations in a Kallang Basin flatted factory
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  • 136 12 SINGAPORE and Cambodia have concluded an air services agreement yesterday. The agreement enables Royal Air Cambodge to continue its air services between Singapore and Phnom Penh and beyond Singapore to Bali. Under the provisions, the agreement also allow Malaysia-Singapore Airlines to continue its services to Phnom Penh
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 96 12 Time 4t Tide High Tide (Today) Singapore Town: 9.23 a.m. (7.0 ft.), 8.19 p.m. (7.2 ft.) Naval Dockyard: 9.32 a.m. (8.5 ft.). 8.22 p.m. (8.2 ft.) Low Tide (Today) Slneapore Town: 2.23 a.m. (2.7 ft 2.39 p.m. (4.5 ft.) Naval Dockyard: 1.52 a.m. (3.5 ft.). 2.25 p.m. (5.4 ft.) Htqii
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