Eastern Sun, 23 October 1969

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  • 21 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1157 Thursday, 23 October 1969. MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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  • 444 1 Leban PM BEIRUT, Wed. (Reuter Cr UPI) —Lebanese Prime Minister Roshid Karami today announced he was stepping down as the country plung> ed into a crisis over clashes between security forces and Palestinian Commandos. Demonstrations were reported in Lebanese cities although it was not
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  • 67 1 BOGOTA Colombia, Wed (Reuter) The son of the Swiss Consu; in the Western City of Call a Swiss Embassy official here, who were kidnapped 17 days ago by bandits. were found unharmed today A police statement said the two. 17-year-o!d Werner Jose Straessle and embassy
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  • 92 1 PARIS. Wed (AFP) The two young East Germans ho hijacked a Polish p'ane to the French zone of West Berlin Sunday will be tried bv a French court, since they have broken French law by hijacking an aircraft and woundine a man. informed sources said here
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  • 137 1 HAIFA. Israel. Wed. tUPI) .Arab guerrillas blew up a residential building containing 12 apartments on Mount Carmel in thus major port city before dawn today, an Israeli police spokesman said. first reports said at least one elderly tenant was injured. The entire three-storey building was
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  • 110 1 SALINAS, California, Wed. (UPI) A rugged, red bearded male student was elected President of the Associated Women Students yesterday at a junior college. Mark Wall, 22, received 88 votes from Association members to 66 for pert Nancy Wong, his opponent at Hartnell College. The group's constitution limits membership
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  • 462 1  -  By Peter Loke AT least 50 persons were made homeless when a raging fire at Victoria Street, between Holloway Lane and Lorong Sidin, destroyed an entire cluster of furniture and mechanical workshops. The alarm was sounded soon after 5 p.m. and within minutes,
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  • 254 1 CANBERRA, Wed. (Reuter) An Australian Labour Party government would ask the French government for permission to manufacture the Mirage jet fighter plane under licence for the Malaysian and New Zealand Air Forces. Federal Labour opposition Leader Gough Whitlam said here
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  • 38 1 HONG KONG. Wed (Reuter) A West German hag been sentenced to ten yea rs imprison, ment in Lanchow for carrying out espionage activities *o r the United States in China, the New China N«w» Agenc* reported today.
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  • 337 3 THREW AWAY MY NOTE-BOOK' TOKYO, Wed, (UPI) A Japanese businessman who slapped a Filipina while on a business tour to Manila today said he felt sorry about the affair and expressed hope that she will accept his apology. "I made an at>ology to her before
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  • 153 3 SAIGON. Wed. (UPI> North Vietnamese and Vletcong units have supply and troop replacement problems which have forced them to maintain a low level of bat-tle-fleld activity in recent weeks. Informed allied military sources said yesterday. Prisoner interrogation and Information obtained from Communist deserters Indicate the
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  • 390 3 Prince Charles Tribute To Mahatma Gandhi LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) Prince Charles. 20-year-old heir to the throne last night led Britain's Commemoration of the Birth of Mahatma Gandhi 100-years-ago. He was attending a festival in London's Albert Hall named after Albert Prince, regent husband of Queen Victoria, the first Empress of
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  • 44 3 HOUSTON. Wed. (UPI) Henrv C. Sims. 54. Dr. Denton Cooley's latest heart transplant patient, died yesterday at St. Luke's Hospital of viral pneumonia Sims, a Birmingham. Alabama. drug company supervisor. received the heart from an unidentified middle-aged woman Sept 25.
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  • 312 3 A FEATURE writer on the women's page of the Eastern Sun", Singapore, before she arrived in New Zealand, Mrs. V. T. Joseph (nee Miss Helen Tan) will take the special course for Asian journalists to be held at the School of Journalism, Wellington Polytechnic.
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  • 556 3 MELBOURNE, Australia, Wed. (UPI) Great train robber, Ronald Biggs, holed up at an Essendon motel on Friday and Saturday but fled leaving his clothes behind, police said to-day. Essendon is eight miles west of Melbourne, near the airport. Consorting squad detectives went to the
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  • 372 3 TOKYO, Wed. (UPI) The army of Zengakuren students who tossed nearly 3,000 molotov cocktails at riot police last night were directed by 'generals' from command posts in the rear. Police said to-day. A spokesman said only one known leader was seen on the streets
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  • 55 3 AUCKLAND. New Zealand. Wed. (UPI) About 300 placard-waving youths threw lavatory paper at Prime Minister Keith Holyoake yesterday to protest the planned New Zealand Rugby tour of South Africa. Holyoake was leaving the Auckland University after opening the Asian Broadcasting Union Conference when he was met by demonstrators carrying
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  • 140 3 BANGKOK. Wed. (UPI) The Government 1? planning a major reshuffle of administrative officials in Moslemdominated provinces of South Thailand, an authoritative source from the Ministry of Interior said to-day. The reshuffle will affect ALL levels of officials below provincial governors. The present governors were
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  • 48 3 SYDNEY. Wed. (Reuter) Gary Player, the South African golfing record-breaker, is about to become a recordmaker. Player told reporters of hts plans to make a LP record of ballads in England when he arrived here yesterday to compete in the Australian Open Tournament starting tomorrow.
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  • 302 3 WASHINGTON, Wed. (Reuter) A Congressman is considering a bid to cut off ALL economic aid to India, including the Food for Peace Programme, if India gives full diplomatic recognition to North Vietnam, his office said yesterday. An aide to Representative William
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  • 410 5 24 Years Of The UN Today UNITED NATIONS, (UPI) Secretary General U Thant, in a message for the 24th birthday of the United Nations, said today (Thursday) that "Current youth unrest" is a reaction to the "deplorable and steadily worsening state of affairs." Thant's message. addressed to
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  • 314 5 PALO ALTO, California. Wed. (Reuter) Police extended their protection of school buses to this university community today after a man claiming to be the "Zodiac killer" made a new threat to massacre a bus load of children. The threat was made in a
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  • 78 5 Made-to-order Riot CHICAGO. Wed. (UPI)—An undercover police detective testified yesterday that he saw folicemen "fighting their ves" with demonstrator? during the 1968 Democratic National Convention The detective, James Tobin. underwent cross-examination at the trial of eight men charged with conspiring to incite riots during the convention Tobm testified earlier that
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  • 68 5 PROVIDENCE Rhode Island Wed (UPI) —Brown University will expand :ts Asian studies programme bv creating a Department of Asian History. Lea E Williams, professor of the East Asian Language and of the East Asia Language and Area Centre at the Ivy League University, will head the new
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  • 228 5 CANBERRA Wed (I'PI) Labour opposition leader Gnash Whitlam reaffirmed todar that If his party Is elected next Saturday. Australian troops will he withdrawn from Malaysia-Singa-pore Malaysian deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Rarak had attacked Labour's policy only because newsmen 'Badgered him for comment. Whitlam told the
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  • 294 5 CAPE KENNEDY. Florida. Wed. (Reuter) Investigai tion into the eight-day orbitalflight which killed Bonny, the as*ro-monkey. last spring threaten fresh controversy here over the hazards of prolonged weightlessness in space. Informed sources say that principal lnvestiaators of the Biosateilite 111 flight will state 'hat Bonny, a
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  • 29 5 PRESIDENT Nixon (the host) is seen here with Soviet cosmonauts Konstontin Feoktistov (I) and Maj-Gen. Georgi Beregovoy (r) at the White House Tuesday. (UPI) UPI
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  • 209 5 NEW ORLEANS, Wed. (Reuter) Thousands of people were evacuated from the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico today as Hurricane Laurie with winds up to 100 mph threatened to strike the area devastated only two months ago by Hurricane Camille. Public school shut
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  • 115 5 SANTO DOMINGO. Wed i Reuter) Senor Homern Lajara Burgo prospective candidate for next year's presidential election in the Dominican has accepted a to a duel to the death frorr former President Antonio Imbert Barrera General Imbert was one of ♦he four men who assassinated Rafae' Leonida s
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  • 142 5 HONOLULU. Wed (UPD— The Pacifl- Basin Economic Co-operation Committee will hold its next meeting Mav 2023 m Kyoto it was announced yesterday. Ransom Cook, retired chairman of th*f Wells Fargo Bank In San Francisco and a member of the United States delegation. said that Korea. Vietnam and
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  • 96 5 JAKARTA. Wed (Reuter) Both North Vietnam and South Vietnam may he invited to attend the Ministerial meeting of the Association of SouthEast Asran Nations (ASEAN) to be he'.d in Kuaia Lumpur from December 15. Indonesian sources said today The sources said the meeting might
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  • 345 5  - Dee Dee Tee Your Headache By Joseph L. Myler WASHINGTON, Wed. (UPI) Maybe you shouldn't blame those vicious "tension" headaches on the spouse who doesn't understand you, the new boss who never heard of you. or the risinq tide of noise that threatens to drive you crazy. They may be
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  • 201 5 HOUSTON, Wed. (UPI) Two Soviet cosmonauts flew from a meeting with President Nixon at the White House yesterday to a special dinner held in their honour by the United States Astronaut Corps. Maj Gen Georgiv Beregovoy of the Soviet Air Force who made a space
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  • 175 5 TORONTO. Wed (ITI) Hiere was an embarrassing moment yesterday when Princr Philip and his entourage strode into the Toronto's Men's Press dub for an in formal drinks-and-talk session with members of the city's pre* ™>rps A commissioiiaJre. not too familiar with royal fares, firmly asked Philip and his
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  • 96 5 WASHINGTON Wed (TTPI) The White House said yesterday that there were no plans to reduce r S. Forces In Western Europe serving in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), allaying fears of some alliance members "We have no plans for troop reductions'*
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  • 167 5 SAN FRANCISCO. Wed. (UPI) About 200 young persons demonstrated at the Iranian consulate to protest the visit of the Shah of Iran to the United States, yesterday. A flurry of club swinging broke out when the demonstrators tried to march through a police line
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  • 146 5 WASHINGTON'. We <L UPI) The Federal Aviation Administration yesterday Issued it? annual swanwatching alert to pilots. The FAA said more than 50.000 whistling swans begin t!wlr flight south from Northern Canada during the last week In October. The migration reaches a peak in November. the FAA
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  • 850 6 ANYONE attempting to predict the outcome of the Presidential elections in the Philippines next month is either foolhardy or ignorant. In a recent issue of the "Examiner", a magazine published in Manila, a politician was quoted as saying: "Politics is the devil s game. Once you are in
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  • 501 6  -  By David Laulight PARIS, (Rautcr) France's legions of small shopkeepers and artisans art pressing their demands and complaints louder than ever just as the government is calling for national belt-tightening. Violence spread to Paris for the first time recently as hundreds of shopkeepers battled with
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  • 418 6  -  By Vicente Maliwanag MANILA (UPI) Philippine politics spares no one. not even pop singer Tom Jones. Propagandists of the Philippines* two major Presidential candidates are using hit tunes of the shaggy-haired lustyvoiced British singing idol to flood Philippine radio lanes with political jingles. Usinp
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  • 560 6  -  By John F. Barton WASHINGTON (UPI) American business firms operating in developing nations should increase their financial contributions to local school systems, the head of the U.S. foreign aid programme has declared. Dr. John A. Hannah, who was president of Michigan States University for
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  • 387 6 The Lighter Side WASHINGTON, (UPI) The other day I was looking over government Manual SMS6-7, titled "Occupations of Federal Whitecollar Workers," and as I was looking over this manual I was struck by an amusing thought. Or at least I found it amusing. You might consider it
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  • 630 6  -  By Alexander V. Ckukayeff WASH I N G TON: Another document on the suppression of human rights and religious freedom in the USSR has recently been brought to the attention of world public opinion. This time, the document came from a group of
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  • 707 6  -  By K.K. Duggal (Gemini Hews Service) NEW DELHI: Even after an official committee has recommended that kissing be allowed in Indian films in certain situations the issue is being hotly debated here. Opponents argue that the kiss is a western import and should
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 378 7  -  By Our Market Reporter Condition! eased in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday in an extension of Tuesday's profit- taking. Trading was active. THE market opened firm on the repeated pattern of selective trading which was again extended to include other speculative*. Profit-taking
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    • 1114 7 TJUSINESS done in and reported fo 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 $lBB <2» SI 88 < 1 >; Ben Co. $lBO (3> $1.78 C
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    • 147 7 SYDNEY. (UPI) Wednesd»y 5 closing Sydney Stock Ex change Selected S-ares: MINING Acmex 245 As s Mm 760 Auctra; Mm .38 Aust Dev 1.50 Barrie r 2.00 BH Sou'h 4.25 C. Norse 6 60 C. Gold 9 10 CRA 17.80 Empe r 1.60 EndUr .55 GM Kalg
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    • 68 7 THE Association of Banks in Malaysia-Singapore yesterday made the following changes m its rates to merchants (rate s quoted to the equivalent of 100 units of foreign currency): SELLING T.T. or O.D. r eady: Deutsche Marks In abeyance; Holland Guilders *85.5450; Swiss Franc s $71.3875; Belgian Francs $6
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    • 240 7 The following is a berthing list re'.eased by the Port of Singapore Authority on Oct 23: DEPARTURE God owns Vessels 5 Billv 6/7 Oriental Queen N.W. l Petaling 21/22 Mekatani-Ol 31/32 Barcelona Maru 33/34 Borussia 40/41 Jen s Maersk 44 Kyushu Maru 35/36 Star Betelgeuse 45 Bakuriani
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    • 182 7 DUNLOP Malaysian Industries Berhad has secured another eontract worth about $75#000 to supply the plush Hilton Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya, due to open early next year with Dunlopillo mattresses and cush- ions. The full order is for 450 king-size Dunlopillo mattresses, without covers for completion
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    • 206 7 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) Demand for slocks accelerated yesterday amid predictions of lower interest rates within the next few months and reports that President Nixon might be considering a unilateral case-Are In Vietnam or a sizable troop cutback. Shortly before the final bell, the UPI
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    • 40 7 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) Dow Jones closing averages on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday: 30 Industrials 846.88 20 Rail, 199.53 15 Utilities 118 39 65 Stocks 284.74 40 Bonds 70-81 Commodity futures index 142.80 up 0.40.
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    • 324 7 COPENHAGEN. Wed When Scandinavian Airlines begin* its winter traffic programmes on November 1, 1969, it will have completed a major phase in the expansion of lis cargo operations. On that date, additional intercontinental jet freighter services will be inaugurated linking Scandinavia with Chicago, Los
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    • 322 7 NOVEMBER first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 pjn.. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur yester at 68-3/8 cent* per lb., down one eighth of a cent from the previous close Th» tone of the market waa quiet alter steadier. After a slow and somewhat uncertain opening the
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    • 134 7 NEW YORK. Wed (UPI) Gold prices slipped in moderately active trading yesterday on markets here and abroad. In London, fold remained unchanged at the morning fixing but dropped 5 cents for a second fixing of 40.30 dollars a trov ounce. Gold in Frankfurt fell
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    • 121 7 VICTORIA. British Columbia. Wed. (Reuter) Foreign exchange difficulties and dwindling world prices for traditional export commodities |iave been blamed for economic stagnation in some Colombo Plan recipient countries. Economic review figures covering this decade, prepared for the Colombo Conference now under way here, also cited political
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    • 281 7 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) The market eased yesterday, and lasses were seen over a broad front. The current labour dispute In the mining Industry, and the prospect of a tightening of the credit squeeze were the main bearish influences. A lack of buyers rather than actual selling
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    • 644 7 chance sold ud other officially luieo tt the cle blUlDCM. INDUSTRIALS Acme 186 Ben Co. 177 Borneo Bhd 178 Bou*tead 19W C. Spgar 4. SO C". Plywood Chemical Co 1.77 Cold Storage 2 4ft C ycle Carriage 182 l>union *14 DtkM M Of 188 5 So
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    • 120 7 LONDON. Wed (UPI) Rubber closed with sellers reserved with *POt 26 1/4 26 3/4 nom SETTLEMENT HOUSE Nov. 2b 1/4, 28 3/4 nam Dec. 25 3/4. 2f> 1/4 Jan. 24 3/4. 25 nom. Jan/March 24 3/8. 24 9/16 April/June 24 3/8, 24 9/16 July
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    • 58 7 NEW YORK. Wed (UPI) Rubber futures closed unchanged to 75 points lower on no sales yesterday on the NewYork Commodity Exchange Nov. 28.25 28.25 Jan 25.758 26.50 26.50 March 25 508 26.00 26 00 May 25.508 26.00 25.75 July 25.75 26.25 Sept. 25.50 26.00 Nov. 25.50 2600 Locally.
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    • 14 7 The tin price for yesterday was $645.12 i per picul, up $1.125.
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    • 86 7 THE noon prices «t the Slngapore Chinese Prodtice Exchange yesterday were:Seller Bny er Cornnof OH 50 50 (FOB) Bulk Coconut Oil MOO (FOB Drum Mixed Copra 32 50 i Muni<»fc unite Pepper 227.50 (FOB.) Sarawak White Pepper 225-00 (FOB) m Sarawak Special Black Peoper (F O B.) M% 167.50
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    • 5 7 (•Hon* Eoni Currency!
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    • 58 7 HONG KONG. Wed (UPI) Money Quotations yesterday. HK56.060 per U.S. dollar HK56.0825 per U.S. dollar TT HK514.47 per pound sterling HK5303.875 per taei of gold 94 5 per cent fineness HKS 163.1 per 10,000 Japanese ven HK5120.7 per 100 Philippines pesos buvers HKS 122 7 per 100 Philippines
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    • 458 7 ARRIVALS. 5 00 a.m. MSA 029 K. LumpurOlAaro IIA LI I57A Lulled State*. Papeete Pattlt woe a m- M>A1 19 R Lnmpur. y joaiD GAKl I'A GAWK Jakarta 1015 a.m. MSA 121 R Lumpur. 10.25 a m. MSA 005 f'> nang, Ipob. K. Lumpur. Malacca. 12-85 p.m. PAN
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE ALL $5 ESSAY WINNERS
    • 400 8 THE two very beautiful times of the day are at sunrise and sunset. During the scorching day, the sun is high and everything looks common place and ordinary. In the dim light of dawn and in the gathering dust, even the ugliest
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    • 215 8 THESE are two types of light, one the sunlight and the other the artificial light which we get from the electric lamps. Sunlight is seen during the day and the electric light is mostly seen during the night. Sunlight is very important for all of
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    • Article, Illustration
      220 8 SIR Stamford Raffles founded her. In the year 1819, She is now one hundred and fifty years old. For now is 1969. Cleanest in South-east Asia!! Neat and tidy she is too, At the South tip of Malaysia she stays. Surrounded by waters and islands In her are trees
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    • 430 8 IT was a fine morning I woke up early, walked to the window and looked down on the street. The area was misty and the morning dew were covering the plants. The atmosphere was cool and fresh. The cock standing opposite on the fence was
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 465 8 NEW ESSAY CONTEST: RULES TO OBSERVE THE EASTERN SUN'S new essay writing contest for boys and girls of 14 and under appears Ui this pare every Thursday. One of the objects of this contest Is to encouri|« young boys and girls to express themselves properly. And what better way to
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
    • 120 8 By Jack JippJf I 7? "She's new fn the neighborhood, and she's okay, 1 guess. .if you like mops." DATELINE: DANGER! by John Saunters and AUanMdMhro THERE API MANY THINGS TO SCE ON THE X FARM',GENTLE MEN...I SUGGEST WE SPLIT OUR FORCES/ s MISS LASALLE CAN ESCORT TOO"/ WHILE RAVEN
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  • 479 9  -  by gloria-mae r)DAY Is Oct. 23 we are barely two-and-a-half months to Christmas. Now is the time to prepare that list of gifts to buy for the family and friends and not forgetting THE GUY. To avoid any last minute rushes let's start NOW it's never too early
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  • 558 9  -  31 if... Sheilah Graham LdNfcON. Wed The wife ot a successful actor can have a diHicult time. With movies made all over the world, she can on'y he with him at brief intervals, especial!v if they have children
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  • 538 9  -  Ann Landers DEAR ANN: My husband shoved your column under my nose this evening. "Don't miss this." he said smugly "It was written especially for you." The letter he wanted me to see was from Missouri Mule the girl who stubbornly refused
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  • 132 9 NEW YORK. Wed. (Reuter) The Beatles are back on top of American pop chart* yesterday because of rumours sweeping the country that Paul McCartney is dead or dying. No one seems to know where the reports started, but they have become the
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 286 10 BOMBAY, Wed. (Reuter) Mr. Vijay Merchant, Chairman af the Indian Cricket Control Board's Selection Committee, said here yesterday India seemed to have hit a new low in the cricket history. He admitted New Zealand were unlucky not to win the three Test series
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    • 109 10 BOMBAY, Wed (Renter) The Indian Cricket Control Board yesterday invited 27 players for an intensive practice camp here before the stan of the first Test against Australia on November 4. The move to hold a camp follows India's depressing show against New Zealand in
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    • 105 10 BERLIN. Wed. (UPI) East Germany gained an unofficial lead over Japan in yesterday's opening of a friendly two-day gymnastics meet, the news service ADN reported from East Berlin. Eizo Kenmotsu, Japan's fourth-placing Olympics tumbler. led his team in the sixevent competition with 57.95 points to
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    • 275 10 HYDERABAD, India. Wed. (Renter) New Zealand cricket captain Graham Dowling dominated the batting in the shared three-Test rubber against India which ended here Monday. Dowling's average of 40.80 total 244 was the highest for either side in this series of low scores on abnormal pitches.
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    • 118 10 TOKYO, Wed (AFP)—The fifth annual International Masters bowling championships will be held in Tokyo on Nov. 27 to 30 with the participation of amateur representatives from 38 countries or regions, it was announced here today. The so-called "Bowling World Cup" is the biggest event
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    • 311 10 SYDNEY, Wed. (Reuter) South African golfer Gary Player will be attempting to win his record fifth Australian Open when the 135 entrants tee off difficult Royal Sydney Club here tomorrow. Player, American powerhouse Lee Trevino and British Open champion Tony Jacklin head the crack,
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    • 94 10 SEOUL. Wed < UPL The World Cup soccer 15-A elimination series held Oct. 10-20 netted about 15-million Won < U5553,500 > for the organisers. tournament chairman Chang Duk-Chln said today. Chang said the profit will be Invested in a soccer foundation of Korea. Chang said Korea
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    • 30 10 GYOER, Hungary. Wed. (Reuter) —Barcelona (Spain) beat Vasas Gyoer 3-2 in their second round (first leg) European Fairs Cup soccer match here yesterday. Barcelona led 2-1 at halftime.
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    • 215 10 MOSCOW. Wed (Reuter) Northern Ireland's soccer chief launched a bitter attack against the British soccer system last night over the absence of star forward George Best from Northern Ireland's team for th#ir key World Cup clash with the Soviet Union here today. Best was injured playing
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    • 70 10 OSAKA. Wed (UPl)— Willie 'Toothpick" Kirland. 34, signed a contract yesterdav to play with the Hanshin Tigers professional baseball team during the 1970 season. His two-yea r contract with the club expired with the end of the 196f« season He came from the Hawaii Islanders in
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    • 53 10 BERNABE VILLACAMPO (left) of the Philippines hits Hiroyuki Ebihara of Japan with a left straight in the eighth round of their 15-round world flyweight boxing title match at Osaka Prefecture! gym on Sunday. Villacampo won a unanimous decision to become the new World Boxing Association's champion. UPI
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    • 207 10 BUENOS AIRES Wed (Reuteri —AC Milan were strong favourites here yesterday to win their first world clubc football championship tonight and return the prized trophy to Europe for the first time In three years. The classy Italian team will carry a three-goal lead Into their
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    • 68 10 MANILA. Wed. <UPI) Guam have withdrawn from the World Boxing Association (WBA) and applied for membership with the rival World Boxing Council <WBC>, according to the WBC headquarters In Manila The Guam Boxing Commission cabled WBC President Justlnlano Montano Jr. saying they took the move "because
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    • 622 10 TOKYO. Wed. (UPI) —By Bernabe Villacampo'* winning Sunday night of the World Boxing Association's (WBA) flyweight crown, the Philippines have replaced Japan in Asia as the country with the most world boxing champions. In addition to Villacampo. the Philippine* have two
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    • 119 10 TRIESTE, Italy, Wad. (UPl)—'World middleweight champion Nino Benvenuti changed his mind yesterday and said he does not want to delay his forthcoming title bout with challenger Luis Rodriguez of Miami. Florida. The 31-year-old champion said Monday he wanted to cut off the scheduled Nov. 22 fight
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    • 155 10 MADRAS. India, Wed. (Reuter) The Indian cricket authorities will take ut> with New Zealand the pitchmowing row which flared up in the ftnal cricket Test at Hyderabad last weekend. Mr. S. Srlraman. Honorary Secretary of the Cricket Board of Control, also claimed In a press
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    • 402 10 Clay-Frazier Title Fight LAS VEGAS, Nevada. Wed. (Reuter) Boxing promoter Harold Conrad yesterday withdrew a request for a licence to stage a world heavyweight championship fight here between Cassius Clay and Joe Frazier. Nevada Governor Paul Laxait said last week that he was opposed
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    • 122 10 BANGKOK Wed. (ATP) Thailand made a c'ean sv»ep of all fovr matches against Pakistan in the first day's play of the Asian Zone Thomas Cup badminton elimination encounter at the National Stadium here last night. Thailanc need win only one more match, out of the five
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    • 996 11 Largest Group For International Games Says Wok SINGAPORE will b« tending a contingent of 201 sportsmen, sportswomen end officials to the South Eest Asia Peninsula Games to be held in Rangoon from Dec. 6 to 13. JI'A ai y«»*erday by the Minister for Social Affairs and
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    • 47 11 A film premiere will be held to raise funds for the Singapore contingent to the SEAP Games. The film titled 'From The Highway' will be shown at the Odeon Theatre on Dec. Tickets are priced at S3. $5 and $lO and donation seats.
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    • 191 11 ZURICH. Switzerland. Wed (Reuter) The International Football Association (FIFA) said here today that no protest had been received from South Korea concerning the eligibility of seven Australian footballers. Earlier today director of the South Korean Football Association. Mr. Tuk-Jin Lhang. s aid jn Seoul tha*
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    • 80 11 OSAKA. Japan. Wed. <Uf>D Kuniaki Shlbata. top Japanese featherweight contender knocked out Philiiv pine featherweight champion Flash Basande in the third round of a scheduled inround bout tonight at the Osaka Prefectural gymnasium. Shibata was cautious in the first round but opened up in the second, catching
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    • 216 11  -  By Jimmy Lad None of the horses engaged in the only professional card at Bukit Timah were seen in action yesterday morn- ing. Only a Hand full of horses in the amateur races did track work on good going Colonel Whatnot II and Fury
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    • 32 11 COLOMBO Wed fßeuter) The Australian cricketers drew their one-day match againat the Ceylon Cricket Board President* XI here today. Score*: Australian* 301 for •even declared; Preaident's XI 110 for «lx.
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    • 149 11 MELBOURNE, Wed. (Reuter) The running of Australia's major horse race, the A 577.000 (about £36.000) Melbourne Cup, has been threatened by a union dispute over a state government plan to set up a Wages Board for offcourse totalisator workers. Trades Hall Council Secretary Mr. K
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    • 709 11 Race 1 2 p.m. MARA CI. 5 ff Murry llatchwelfhu 12 «.> 1. 6*r;m« 16 lb penalty) 6 2. Knight Templar 17 lb. penalty) 10 3 Monty <7 lb. penalty) 11 4. Kfriidi (5 lb penalty) 12 5. Tanjonf Surat <3 lb. penalty)
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    • 91 11 SYDNEY. New South Waits. Wed. Jim Pike, one of the greatest Jockey* ever seen on the Australian turf and the man who rode the immortal Phar Lap to 27 win* from 30 starts. died here recently, aged 77. One of Pike's most famoua wins was when
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    • 102 11 DAVIS CUP MELBOURNE. Vlct6ria, Wed. Australia may break away from their traditional challenge through the American ZQne and challenge through the Eastern Zone for the Davis Cup. A move in this direction is being spearheaded by former Wimbledon champion and Davis Cup star. Neale Fraser. Fraser,
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    • 1183 11 (CHANNEL 5) PM 300 Opening Anncts in all Languages and Morning Star; 120 Another Song Another Melodv iMalay Version) tßepeat*; MS It's Happening in Singapore (Chinese Ve'Sion>; (Repent); 3.50 Housewives Matinee (Part 2 of a Cantonese film. "Devoted Sisters"" i English Sub 4-55 Close. 5.55 Prog Sumrrarv in all Languages.
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  • 334 12 DEVELOPING countries are steadily losing their share of the world markets, the General Manager of the Economist Intelligence Unit (South East Asia) Private Limited, Mr. James Morgan warned yesterday. Although the developing countries had made strenous efforts to penetrate the markets of richer
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  • 123 12 ABOUT 48.000 candidates will sit for the ordinary and higher level of the Cambridge School Certificate and its equivalent examinations in four different languages next month The Cambridge School Certificate and Higher School Certificate examinations wil be taken by those using the English medium Chinese
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  • 104 12 The Ministry of Finance hag announced that from today duty exemption on sugar only will be granted to manufacturers of alchohol and condensed milk. Manufacturers of fruit cordials. syrups etc. will no longer be eligible for duty exemption on sugar used in their products
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  • 51 12 The proprietor of Sim Thye Tin Trading Company. Mr. Tan Nam Yong, reported to the Police that, thieves broke Into his office at Raffles Quay on Tuesday evening, and got away with 10 plculs of shouldering lead valued at $3,350. The thieves gained entry oy breaking a glass
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  • 566 12 THE upward revision of wages sought by 19.000 daily rated employees in the Government, the Public Utilities Board and the Housing and Development Board, was not justified the Industrial Arbitration Court was told yesterday. Mr. Herman Hochstadt, representing the Government, said, "There could be
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  • 158 12 A TOTAL of 39,989 persons visited Singapore by air or sea in the month of August, an increase of 17.2 per cent over the corresponding month in 1968. According to statistics issued by the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board, the United States again topped the list with
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  • 67 12 The Chairman 0 n the Panel of Judges for Toto Draw No. 55 Is Mr. Martin Aw, Direc-tor-cum-General Manager of a Plastic Company in Singapore. The other two members are Mr. Paul Peng, a Toto Agent and Mr. Douglas Nonis. a State Hockey Player. Toto Draw No.
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  • 100 12 THREE SINGAPORE officers (above) are among a group of trainee pilots currently undergoing a training course in the United Kingdom. They are (from left) 2/Lt. Lim Lu Hock. 2/Lt. Chan Chiow Hoe and 2/Lt. Ng Ang Keng. And the aircraft in front of them is none other than the Hawker
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  • 353 12 SINGAPOREANS would be allowed a discount up to 40 percent on travel"**? costs to Russia, the Director of the Intourist, of USSR, announced yesterday. Mr. Grigory M. Adivants, director of the Asia and Africa Department of the USSR Company for Foreign Travel, disclosed
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  • 604 12 A WITNESS in a preliminary inquiry yesterday told the court how a woman kept by his own brother pleaded with him to look after her. At that time, said Kanaka Sabai, his brother, Govindah. was in jail. He was testifying at a preliminary Inquiry in
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  • 162 12 Troop patrols which have i been providing target for si- I mulator air strikes durlns the four-nation air exercise, moved out of West Malaysia yesterday to the Asahan Range. Asahan Range was the target for the air exercises, codenamed "Caldrop", which is 30 miles from Malacca.
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  • 80 12 The Occupational Therapy Department of the Outram Road General Hospital, the Thomson Road General Hospital. the Woodbridge Ho.p:tal and the Chronic Sick Hospital will hold a combined sale of patients' handicrafts on Nov. 3 at the Occupational Therapy Department. Norris Block. Ward 53. Outram Road General
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  • 59 12 The PAP. Telok Blangah branch of the Telok Blangah Constituency will hold a Food and Fun Fair on Oct. 25 and 26 at Seah Im Road, to commemorate the 150 th anniversary of the founding of modern Singapore. The Food and Fun Fair is also held
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