Eastern Sun, 30 October 1969

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    21 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1164 Thursday, 30 October 1969. MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cent*
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    Lock icon Tunku Has 'Nixon's Post-71 Assurance'
    515 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman said here today that President Nixon had given assurance that Malaysia and other smaller countries in this region will not be left in the lurch after the pull-out of the British Forces. The Prime Minister, looking
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    Lock icon CANAL FIGHTING
    60 1 TEL AVIV, Wed. <UPI> Israeli warplanej attacked Egyptian military positions »n central sector of Suez Canal in night raid? that went on for one and half hours Tuesda v night, an Israeli military spokesman announced tonight. It wa* third tim* Tuesday that the Israeli Air Force *as i
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    Lock icon More Ties With Japan Urged
    76 1 PARIS. Wed. (UPl)—France should strengthen co-operation with Japan and extend it to mutual Investments. Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann told the French cabinet here today. Commenting on his visit last week to Japan Schumann, said he received an "excellent welcome," a government spokesman told newsmen alter
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    Lock icon Raja Has Informal Talks With Stewart
    79 1 LONDON, Wed. (Reuter) Singapore's Foreign Minister, Mr. S. Rajaratnam, had an informal talk with the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary, Mr. Michael Stewart, during a courtesy call here today. Singapore High Commission officials said the Foreign Minister was on a purely private visit and had
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    Lock icon Brandt Makes Personal Attack On Strauss In House
    342 1 BONN, Wed. (Reuter) The West German Bundestag exploded into the biggest parliamentary row in years today when Chancellor Willy Brandt launched a personal attack on Herr Franz Josef Strauss, leader of the Bavarian Christian Democrats. The r.ew Social Democratic Chancellor charged that
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    Lock icon UK Pullout Is Going On Schedule
    208 1 KUCHING, Wed. (AFP) Britain is going ahead with its agreed programme for troops withdrawal from the Far East which will be completed by the end of 1971. This was affirmed by the British Hieh Commissioner in Malaysia Sir Michael Walker here today while on
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    Lock icon Riots Over The 'King Of Spain'
    141 1 MADRID. Wed. (Reuter) Spanish police with drawn truncheon* today broke up a crowd of «e\eral hundred hlueshirted Falangists demonstrations here against the nomination of Prinr« Juan Carlos of Bourbon as future Kin* of Spain and General Francos eventual successor. There were isolated scuffles, and
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    Lock icon US To Scrap B-58 Fleet
    109 1 WASHINGTON. Wed <UPI) The fleet of Just over 80 supersonic B-58 bombers will be scrapped as a part of the Defence Department's US$3,OOO million economic programme Defence Secretary Melvin R. Laird announced today. The action, to be completed by next Jan. 31. will reduce the
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    Lock icon Sunpix shows Mr. Lee (centre) and Mrs. Lee being escorted to their table by the Chairman of the Council, Dr. Lee Kum Tatt (left).
    63 1 THE Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, and Mrs Lee last night attended the Science Ball at the Golden Lotus, Hotel Malaysia The Ball was organised
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    Lock icon Intruders In The Indian Ocean
    246 1 CANBERRA. Wed. (Reuter) India's Naval Staff cn'ef. Admiral A.K Chatterji. today deplored the use of the Indian Ocean by nations other than the countr.es around Its border. Admiral Chatterji. who is In Australia on a goodwill visit, said nothing could be done to stop the
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    Lock icon High Wedding
    38 1 JAKARTA. Wed. (UPI) Former President Sukarno's youngesr daughter, Sukmwatl Mutiara Sukarno. 18, is scheduled to get married to Deddv Suharto. 22. <>n Nov. 8. The bridegroom, a Jakarta University student, is not related tc President Suharto.
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    Lock icon PI Readies Panel To Review Treaties With US
    165 1 MANILA, Wed. (Reuter) Philippines Foreign Secretary Carlos Romulo has started organising the technical panel which will negotiate the revision of all treaties with the United States. Mr. Romulo yesterday convened the first o* a series of meetings between government officials to define
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    Lock icon PI Hopes For US$50m Loan
    115 1 MANILA. Wed (Reuter) The governoj of the Philippines Central Bank, Alfonso Calalang. hat said the Philippines had bright prospects of gettine a l'Sssom long-term loan fr«n a rroup uf European financial institutions Governor Caialang was speaking to newsmen last night after returning from the United
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    Lock icon Imagine That...
    103 1 LOCAL fancy fish breeders are having difficulty in obtaining live lava since the "Anti-Mosquito" campaign was started. This is stated by the MP for Kallang, Enche Abdul Axis Karim. in his question for an oral answer submitted to the Minister for Law and National Development to reply at
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    Lock icon U.N. KOREAN DEBATE BEGINS: JAPAN HITS OUT AT PYONGYANG'S STAND
    393 3 UNITED NATIONS, Wed. (Reuter) Japan, on behalf of 15 countries, yesterday spoke out against inviting Communist North Korea to the U.N.'s annual debate on the Korean Question until it accepts the authority of the world organisation. Japanese U.N. Ambassador Senj
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    Lock icon Indonesian Amnesty For Irian Refugees
    284 3 PORT MORESBY, New Guinea Wed. (UPI) More than 1,000 West Irian refugees being held in camps in Papua, New Guinea, will be invited to return to Indonesian territory, Papua-New Guinea Administration officials said today. The refugees crossed Into the Australian territory during the months leading
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    Lock icon 30 Million-Year- Old Skull
    66 3 30 Million-Year-Old Skull MELBOURNE. Wed. f Re liter) A 30 million-year-old skull of a whale has been found Drotruding from the side of a quarrv near Timboon. south-west of Melbourne. One expert. Professor J- W. Warren, said he estimated the whale to be 30ft long with a four-foot skull He
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    Lock icon SAIGON'S SPECIAL COURT INSTALLED
    112 3 SAIGON. Wed. (UPI) South Vietnam's President today presided over the inauguration of a new Special Court which has the constitutional power to remove him from office. The Special Court is headed by the Chief of the Supreme Court and consists of five representatives and five senators
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    Lock icon Thailand Grants Asylum To U Nu
    242 3 BANGKOK. Wed. (UPI) Thailand has granted political asylum to U Nu. the deposed Premier of Burma trying to regain power in his native land, the Thai Foreign Ministry said toaay. Informed sources at the Ministry said, however, that asylum was granted only on the
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    Lock icon FLU HITS MORE SOLDIERS
    48 3 PORT MORESBY. Wed. '(Reuter) —More soldiers of the Pacific islands regiment were thrown into the battle against Papua-New Guinea's deadly influenza epidemic yesterday. They were flown *o the Southern Highlands where more than 800 of the territory's total of almost 1900 deaths have occurred
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    Lock icon China Frees 7 W. Germans
    350 3 HONG KONG, Wed. (UPI and Reuter) Seven West Germans, detained for more than 14 months behind the Bamboo Curtain, crossed the Hong Kong —China Border at Lowu shortly before noon (0400 GMT) today, Authorities announced. The Germans include four employees of the construction company Lurgl
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    Lock icon FULBRIGHT: Big US Operation In Laos
    310 3 WASHINGTON, Wed. (Reuter) Senator William Fulbright. Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said today the U.S. is conducting a major operation in Laos, spending about 150 million dollars (about 62,500.000 sterling) a year to arm, train and transport a Laotian army of 36.000
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    Lock icon Miracle Drug Made From Mushrooms
    170 3 TOKYO, Wed. (Reuter) A Japanese pharmaceutical company today said it had developed a new drug from mushrooms to combat hardening of the arteries. The Tanabe Seiyaku Company said the drug was extracted from the Shiitake mushroom, widely used in Japanese dishes, which has long been
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    Lock icon US Denial
    57 3 WASHINGTON. Wed (Reuter)—The Defence Department sa:d last night it had received no reports that an unmanned American :py plane was shot down yesterday over th«» Chinese Main'and. The New China New s Agency reported in Hong Kong that an unmanned US military reconnaissance aircraft had been shot down
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    Lock icon Parking Meter Jackpot?
    67 3 HULL. Quebec. Wed. (Reuter) —Motorists using 80 parking meters to be Installed here may hit the jackpot when thev insert their five-cent (fivepence) piece Under a pla n approved by city authorities, the meters will give a coloured chip for every coin. The chips—some of them worth
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    Lock icon PHILIPPINES' TAAL ERUPTS: Evacuation Of 2,000 Inhabitants Begins
    372 3 MANILA, Wed. (UPl)—One of the world's smallest but deadliest volcanoes erupted today 40 miles south of Manila, spewing ash jets 1,500 feet into the air and prompting evacuation of an estimated 2,000 inhabitants from the danger zone. The 984-foot volcano, nestled on
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    Lock icon 29-Year Sentence
    47 3 DA NANG. Wed (UPI)—An American Marine Sergeant was sentenced today to 20 vears at hard Labour in the fatal shooting of an Australian entertainer. The sentence came after a military court convicted Sgt. Wayne Kil'.en 29. of shooting Catherine Ann Warnes. 20, of Sydney. Australia.
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    Lock icon Coloured Cows
    57 3 STRATHCARRON, Scotland. Wed (Reuter) —A local farmer plans to daub his cow 5 with luminous paint so thev can be seen by motorists on dark country roads Farmer John Mac Donald. worried by possible injuries to his livestock this winter, said yesterday the cow s would ?T>ort spots
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    Lock icon Pentagon Brainwave: Saigon MOAT
    117 3 WASHINGTON. Wed. OJPI) —One of the Pentagon's research projects involved a notion to dig moat around Saigon Senator Thomas Eagleton, Democrat-Missouri, said Monday. In a report to constituents, Eagleton said the Pentagon has asked for more than 500 million /Jollars for fiscal 1970 to finance research
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    Lock icon Freedom Swim
    50 3 BERLIN Wed. (TTl)—Three East German youths escaped to the west by swimming early yesterday. West Berlin police said The three—two aged 19 and the third 20 in the southern par 4, of West Berlin at about 3 a.m. They were taken to hospital suffering from exposure, police said.
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    Lock icon Moscow And Prague Agree Invasion 'A Helpful Act'
    351 4 PRAGUE, Wed. (UPI) Czechoslovakia's top leaders signed a document praising the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of their country as a helpful act of international solidarity against anti-socialist and counter-re-volutionary forces/' the News Agency CTK announced last night. The Czechoslovak leaders also bound their
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    Lock icon SEX FOR KIDS IN UK UNDER HEAVY FIRE
    154 4 LONDON. Wed. (UPI) A new sex education series for children prepared by the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) drew heavy criticism yesterday from some London residents. The series, which will be shown to eight and nine-year-olds at Britain's 20.000 Junior schools in January,
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    Lock icon Brandt's East German Policy Under Fire By Opposition
    423 4 BONN, Wed. (Reuter) Chancellor Willy Brandt today faces an opposition onslaught against his slimlybased coalition government over his plans for West Germany during the next four years. The Christian Democrats of former Chancellor Kurt Georg Kieslnger. In opposition after 20 years of
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    Lock icon 'Haggis Made 4 Pregnant'
    105 4 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) Scotsmen have been making extravagant claims for centuries about the health-giving qualities of haggis, their national dish. And yesterday, four women from the English midlands claimed it made them pregnant Hie expectant mothers all of whom say they have been trying to have
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    Lock icon Arab Leader 'Yes' To Cairo Talks On Lebanon Crisis
    490 4 BEIRUT, Wed. (UPI) Bombs and bullets riddled Beirut yesterday and Lebanon's commander-in-chief flew to Cairo for talks aimed at ending the 10-day-old war between Lebanese forces and Arab querillas. Maj. Gen. Emile Bustanl led a delegation to the Egyptian capital for
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    Lock icon Officials Fear Epidemic Among Quake Victims
    232 4 OELGRADE, Thurs. (Reuter) Civil defence D officials fear an epidemic amongst the thousands of earthquake victims living in Tents around Banja Luka. The officials are working desperately to clear rubbish and lay on washing facilities In the central Yugoslavian villages shattered by the earthquakes
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    Lock icon Keeler's Ma Hits The Headlines
    159 4 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) The mother of Christine Heeler. famous goodtlme girl whose lovellfe once rocked a British government. Jumped into the headline* on her own account yesterday. The 48-year-old Mrs. Julia Edwards played a key role In recovering a four-week-old baby boy whose disappearance last
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    Lock icon THE NAKED TRUTH...
    59 4 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter)— Housewife Jean Hewitt sent out an enticing invitation to her friends "We are throwing a strip part;. Come along." And thev did. One couple even tumea up in their nightwear. Then Jean's husband revealed the naked truth He handed out scrapers and buckets of
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    Lock icon Meir's Party Loses Majority In Parliament
    238 4 TEL AVIV. Wed. (Reuter) Israel's ruling labour alignment has lost Its absolute majority In the Knesset (Parliament). provisional election results showed today. Although emerging as the largest party the labour group appears to have suffered a severe set back. Provisional results Indicate that the
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    Lock icon Bigg's Friend Charged With Felony
    169 4 LONDON. Wed. (UPI) A London labourer, described as an acquaintance of escaped great train robber RonaW Biggs, has been committed for trial on four felony charges at London's Old Bailey Court. Jermlah Callaehan. 47 wai remained for trial last week after beln* arrested in Melbourne.
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    Lock icon Sex Fair Ends
    30 4 COPENHAGEN, Wed (UPD —The world's first sex fair closed last night after eight hectic days that finally killed Denmark's reputation as the land of butter and bacon.
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    Lock icon TEACHER DIES AFTER TAKING THE PILL
    143 4 CANTERBURY. England. Wed (Reuter) A 29-year old school-teacher died through taking the contraceptive piLL a coroner said last night. Coroner Wilfrid Mowll had been told that Mrs. Beatrix Mokonyane was taken to hospital with suspected pleurisy and pneumonia, and while there, she still continued
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    Lock icon HUNT FOR KIDNAPPERS CONTINUES
    134 4 SOISSONS. France. Wed, (Reuter) The search continued yesterday for the kidnapper* of three-year-old Sophie Duguet after three suspects were Questioner by poi:ee and then released The girl, who was abducted Ave days ago. was left near a police station overnight after her father. Philippe Duguet a
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    Lock icon GOLD PRICES DOWN
    113 4 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) Gold prices slipped In quiet trading yesterday on markets here and abroad In London, gold lost 2-1/2 U.S. cents at the morning fixing and an additional 7-1 2 U 8. cents for a second fixing of 40.05 a troy ounce. The closing range
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      47 4 TODAY a Thursday, October 30, 1969. U g u m V* 2 Won 3 Trip# 4 Try 3 T» 6 Bom 7 Donf Bo Toko 10 Too 11 *«poV 12 i»oek 13 Don'r 14 Or 15 Th® 16 Put 17 A««y it Stort If Your <5 15-15-?0~*<
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    Lock icon Apollo 12 Passes Important Hurdle
    266 5 CAPE KENNEDY, Wed. (Reuter) The first major dress rehearsal for the Apollo 12 moon landing mission was completed today with only minor problems. The test, called the Countdown Demonstration Test (CDDT), involved a simulated launch with everything done to the rocket and spacecraft, including fuelling,
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    Lock icon Hijacked
    53 5 BOGOTA. Colombia. Wed. (UPI) —A small Co'ombian air taxi plane with seven persons aboard was hijacked Tuesday in flight between the Pacific port city of Buenaventura and Bogota and ordered to Cuba. It was the 50th Hijack of the Year in the western hemisphere and the 21st of a
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    Lock icon Foreign Aid Cut Voted
    127 5 WASHINGTON. Wed. (Reuter) A Congressional Committee has tentatively cut President Nixon's $2,228 million foreign aid request for economic assistance to $1,790 million, informed sources said. The House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee Is reported to have voted the cuts in economic development loans and grants as
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    Lock icon Korea Soon Won't Need U.S. Aid
    183 5 WASHINGTON. Wed (UPT) Rep Silvio O Con'e. Republican Massachusetts, said yesterday that testimony before a House sub-committee indicates Korea will not require large-scale U.S. economic af-.er the mid-1970s Th® prediction wa s made by Robert H. Nooter. Head of the East Asi a Aid
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    Lock icon Church Businesses Face Taxation
    216 5 WASHINGTON, Wed. (UPI) The Senate Finance Committee decided Tuesday to tax the incomes of businesses operated by churches and other tax-exempt or- ganisations. For the first time in American history, the profits from church operated publishing houses, hotels, factories, radio and television stations, bakeries, restaurants and
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    Lock icon Training In Gas Warfare
    99 5 WASHINGTON. (UPI) Rep Robert W. Kastenmeler. Democrat-Wisconsin, expressed concern to the Army Tuesday that it may be indirectly encouraging countries to use chemical or biological warfare weapons against their enemies. In a letter to Army Secreta~y Stanley Resor asking a lu l explanation. Kastenmeler reierred to
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    Lock icon THANT DEPLORES MID-EAST WAR
    323 5 UNITED NATIONS, Wed. (Reuter) Secretary General U Thant warned today that the Middle East conflict could become a new 100-year war unless the U.N. made persistent efforts to reverse the present trend. In an address to the Navy League In New York, he said that after
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    Lock icon Oil Deposits Also Found In Deep Sea
    283 5 WASHINGTON, Wed. (Reuter) American scientists now say they have substantial evidence to support the theory that the earth's continents were at one time part of a super-continent which split and drifted apart. They say the land drift Is still continuing, caused by a
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    Lock icon Cosmonauts Tour Frisco
    96 5 SAN FRANCISCO Wei (UPI) —Russia's cosmonauts toured San Francisco in the best of tourist tradition Tuesday—from the Golden Gate bridge in the morning sun to dinner On Nob Hill. Maj. Gen. Georgy Beregovoy and Konstar.tin Feokistov also had their picture taken overlooking Sa n Francisco bay and
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    Lock icon Margaret Mead On Marijuana
    100 5 WASHINGTON. Wed. (UPI) Anthropologist Margaret Mead told senators Monday that marijuana should be legalised for anyone over 16 and that drinking and voting ages should match the draft age. Miss Mead. 67. said the harsh laws against marijuana use are damaging society much more than tne
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    Lock icon Colony Bases
    67 5 UNITED NATIONS Wed (UPl)—The United States Tuesdav maintained it had a a right to ke«x> military bases in the Pacific Trust Territory because this had been granted through an agreement with the U.N. Security Council and the General Assembly cannot change that arrangement. US delegate Frederick H Sacksteder
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    Lock icon Police Shoot At Violent Strikers
    228 5 YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio. Wed. (UPI) One person was shot to death and at least two others were wounded on Tuesday when 50 carloads of Teamsters Union Members tried to escort a strike-breaking caravan of trucks into the Republi; Steel Corp. plant here. Police said several other
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    Lock icon Caracas Police, Students Clash
    66 5 CARACAS. Wed. (UPI) Leftist students and police clashed repeatedly Tuesdav in anti-government demonstration at the Centra 1 University Severa- students were reported wounded by gunfire The student mob. approximately 500 members of the radical "leftist revolutionary movement. (MIR)," hurled rocks at police and burned seven vehicle*
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    90 5 WASHINGTON. Wed (UPI) —The official flag of the terntorv of Guarr will be added to the First Armoured Division Museum in Ft. Hood. Texas. Guam's representative in Washington said Tuesday. A. B w on Pat said he had been asked by a number of Guamanians who have served
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    Lock icon The Tragedy Of Lost Jody Smith
    268 5 BAKERSFIELD. Calif. Wed. (UPI) Little Jody Smith looks and acts like most 4-year-olds She's quick to laugh, talks a lot and has missing two front teeth. But no one in this central California city seems to know who Jody Smith really Is. Jody told
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    Lock icon Congress Slow On Financial Bills
    236 5 WASHINGTON, Wed. (Reuter) A leading Republican Congressman warned today the government would hav« no authority to pay its employees next month unlets the Congress acts soon on administration money bills. Gerald Ford. Republican leader in the House of Representatives. Issued the warning after Republican Congressional
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    Lock icon Chicago Judge Faces Threat
    393 5 CHICAGO. Wed. (UPI) Federal Judoe Julius J. Hoffman accused all eight defendants in the Chicago riot conspiracy trial of "contemptuous conduct" on Tuesday and warned Black Panther leader Bobby Seale he could be gagged and chained if he did not halt his courtroom outbursts. The Judge,
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    114 5 NEW YORK. Wed. (UP!) Minor violence Tuesday marked the second day of a massive strike against General Electric Co. plants across the nation. The United Electrical Workers (UEW) second largest of the coalition of 13 unions on strike, suggested that contract negotiations resume Wednesday and a meeting was scheduled
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    Lock icon Soccer War Becoming Cold War
    154 5 GUATEMALA CITY. Wed. (Reuter) The five-day war blamed on football argument® between El Salvador and Honduras in June now threatens to become an economic cold war that could undermine the ftve-natlon Central American Common Market. El Salvador, which got the better of the border flare-up
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    Lock icon Nixon Enters Va. Campaign
    89 5 ROANOKE. V& CUPI) President Nixon went camoaigning Tuesday night for the first time since his election, urging Virginia voters to el«ct their flrst Republican Governor since IRSS in next Tue»day'g voting Greeted by a crowd ©f several thousand, including a small band oi noisy anti-wa, protesters.
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    Lock icon THAI FOREIGN POLICY
    829 6 mHE foreign policy of a country, according to A the famed American political theorist Hans Morganthau, is the expression of its national Identity among other nations of the world. In other words this means that the foreign policy of a nation is not evolved in a caucus
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    Lock icon Daily Vienna State 'Comic' Opera Sessions
    750 6  -  A!DA'S Egyptian army was reduced from 200 to 6; the chorus refused to wear costumes during the dress rehearsal and the director tended his resignation. Unusual? Not at all. It's just another of those normal. FRANZ HITZENBERGER VIENNA. (UPI) Two Italian ting art hald
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    Lock icon The Other Roles Of Thai Border Police
    152 6  -  Thaung Myine BANGKOK, (Reuter) Thailand's para-military border patrol polica who bear Hie brunt of battle against Communist guerrillas and rebel hill tribes also run schools and nurse people in remote border areas. Major-Genera! Krlt •awat. secretary of the Police Department said that the
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    Lock icon INDON IRONY: LESS FOOD, MORE MOUTHS
    799 6  -  Isa Ismail JAKARTA, (UPI) Two major problems confront Indonesia today: A shortage of food and a surplus of people. Under the present «> 8 per pent annual population growth rate, there will he 240 million Indonesians by 1997 according to an estimate of the
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    Lock icon OPPENHEIMER IN REVERSE
    773 6  -  By Joseph Alsop WASHINGTON The man whose unique contribution made it possible for Americans to land on the moon has now received his reward by being fired by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is MlT's sacrifice on the fashionable altars of the New Left, just as
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    Lock icon Trying Time For Malta's Neutrality
    596 6  -  JOE SCICLUNA WHEN in mid-September Hit influential Egyptian newspaper Al Ahram claimed that world Zionists were planning to turn Malta into a strategic Israeli base, first reaction here was to laugh it off as the fable of the year. But official quarters at once saw
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
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      Lock icon STOCKS CLOSE MIXED ON RENEWED INTEREST
      450 7  -  By Our Market Reporter l™* Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday closed with a mixed outlook on better buying support. Trading was moderate. Conditions were steadier as renewed buying support pered the profit-takers who persisted after the past two days. Thus, industrials finished with
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      Lock icon BUSINESS DONE
      1052 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 <2 02 (1) $203 (2) 52.04 til); PIM S2 07 (5> $2.05 $2.06
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      Lock icon N.Y. STOCKS DECLINE
      114 7 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) S'ocks declined yesterday in moderately active trading. Shortly before the close, the UPI market wide indicator showed 3 loss of 0-13 per cent on 1.612 issues crossing the tape There were 754 declines and 601 advances. The Dow Jones industrial a\erage, which reflects
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      Lock icon RUBBER: 64 1/2 Cts.
      316 7 November first grade rubber buyers closed at 5 p.m. i n S;rw gapore an/! Kuala Lumpur yesterday at 64J cent s pe r lb., down on# and One quarter of a cent from the Previoui close. The of the market was qu:et Lower London advices and
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      Lock icon SHIPS IN PORT
      202 7 THE Port of Singapore Authority ha s announced the following berthing arrangements for ship* In port today, Thursday Oct. 30. DEPARTURES Godowns Vessels 1/2 Rita Maersk 3/4 Pando Sound 13/14 Nyanza 18 Karotua 23/24 Bonneville 29/30 Eiko Maru 33/34 Charlotte Maersk 40/41 Korei Maru 47 Melbourne Maru
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      Lock icon SYDNEY CLOSING PRICES
      165 7 SYDNEY. Wed. (UPI) Wednesday's closing Sj*dne y Stock Exchange Selected Shares: MINING Ameex 280 Ais Mi n 7.50 Austral Min .40 A list Dev. 1.65 BH South 4.12 C. Nor»« 630 C. Oold 8.90 CRA 17.50 Empe,. 1.55 Endur 65 GM Kalf 115 Ot Boulder j.70 Gt
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      Lock icon JAPAN HOPES TO CASH IN ON THE MARK
      148 7 TOKYO Wed. (Reuter) Japan hopes to take advantage of the conditions created by the West German D-mark revaluation to expand her exports of industrial plants, government officials said yesterday. The officials, from the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, said Japan should
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      61 7 THE Association of Banks in Malaysia-Singapore yesterday mad* the following changes in its rates to merchants (rates are quoted to the equivalent of 100 units of foreign currency): SELLING T.T. or O D r eady: Deutsche Mark* *33.3050; Holland Guilders 585.3950; Swiss Franc* $71.2150; Belgian Francs 56 1875;
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      13 7 THE tin pric# fOj. v«sterday was $643-25 per picul down $0.28.
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      101 7 KUALA LUMPUR. Wed. Three Malaysians have returned home after completing a one-year oflficer training course at the Chartered Bank's London headquarters and have been promoted to executive positions. They are Enche Sanusl bin Junld. Mr. Won* Hon Chlew and Mr. Ong Cheng Hye. Following
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      121 7 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) The market continued to move ahead yesterday. The apparent official change in attitude to the clearing bank's lending celling and optimism over a lessening of the credit squeeze brought buyers back into the market. Institutional support was aLso noted, and towards the
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      140 7 Multi-million Air, Sea Land Projects TAIPEI. Wed. (Reuter) Nationalist Chines* authorities are at present working or. plans for the construction of an international airport a new (seaport, an elevated Tailway system and a super highway in the next few years, the Central News Agency reported yesterday. The agency quoted the
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      71 7 HONG KONO. Wed. (UPI) Lee Hysan Estate Co., owner of the six-storev Lee Gardens Building on Hong Kong Island, said yesterday It plans to turn the office building Into a 15-storev hotel The company said the hotel will occupy tne upper five floors of the existing
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      164 7 UNITED NATIONS. Wed. (UPI) Thailand has called for a greater emphasis on free trade, rather than foreign aid, to help de"eloping nations. Klos Vlsessurakarn. Thai delegate In a committee bebate on development on Monday said: "Assistance Is needed not go much to enable the developing
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      69 7 JAKARTA. Wed. (Reuter) Private Hawaiian businessmen were yesterday reported to have offered to set up a plant to process sugar cane waste In central Java. Indonesia's Antara News Agency quoting economic officials of the Central Java Administration said the mam by-product planned was hardboard. The
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      103 7 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter) China's exports to Britain this year have reached an alltime record, the Slno-Brltish Trade Council reported. Between January and September they totalled £28,643.000. This is an increase of more than three million sterling over the same period last year and
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      40 7 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) Dow Jones closin* averages on the New York Stock Exchtage yesterday 30 Industrials 855 86 20 Rail; 202.45 15 Utilities 118.93 65 Stocks 287.85 40 Bond< 70.99 Commodity futures :ndex 142.63 uo 0.12.
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      115 7 1 rpHK 8inn»m koDbtr Broken AMCUUOO IM MWUM at 1 following information In rwpect or btulaeM tnnmefA 1B JM.RJ:I sMK &Cv (Heve»cma»D) 5MB 51. (Brreoerumbi Nov SMK H5 <H*ve*eru»b) Nor. Ho* 3MB 5 (HevetcruiBb) Nor. IWWI 3 I Pallet* P«U«ta 1 J nna PRELUM MUVI. !t cent*
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      643 7 8INOAFOU efaanrt- an id oM officially lltim at bnitiiMi MR tii« el ■M Of INDUSTRIALS ACMA B. 2 04 208 Ben CO 1.82 l-*7 Borneo Bhd. 1 80 1.82 Bo us tea <5 CO Camel Plywood C. sugars 195 1 74 4 26 199 175 4.28
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      86 7 LONDON Wed. (UFI) Rubber market closed dull yesterday with spot 25-3/4. 26-1/4 nom. seller SETTLEMENT HOUSE Nov. deleted Dec. 25-1/4. 25-3/4 seller nom. Jan. 3-7/8 24-3/8 Jan/March 23-5/8, 23-3/4 April/June 23 1/8 23-3/8 July/Sept 23-3/8, 23-9/16 Oct/Dec. 23-1/4. 23-1/2 Jan /March 23-18 23-3/8 April/June 23-1/8.
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      73 7 JAKARTA. Wed. (UFI) The state-ru r Garuda Indonesian Airways has received the first of Its two new DC9 jet passenger ©lanes to reinforce domestic and foreign routes. The plane, christened "Barito." was flown from California by Indonesian pilots. The second DC9 will arrive in Jakarta next
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      85 7 THE noon prteM at the Stnaapore Ch! n**# Produce fcicbann jesterday were> Buyer Seiier Coconut Oil (FOB) Bulk 52 09 Coconut On (FOB.) Drum 64-50 Mixed Copra S2 75 Miiniok Whit* Pepper FOB) 187 50 Sarawak White Pepper (FOB.) 235 00 Sarawak Special Biart (F O B.) 90% 172.50
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      67 7 NEW YORK. Wed. (UPI) Rubber futures closed 50 pointy higher to 5G points lower yesterday on the New York Commodity Exchange There were no sales. Nov. 27.75 A 28.25 Jan. ***** 25 00 March 2550 A 25.00 May 25 35A 25 00 July 25.20 A 25.20 Sept 25.00
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      412 7 ARRIVALS. 500 a.m. MSA 029 K. Lumpar l limn LTA lit 1676 La)ted State*. Papeete Pa(Uft y.OCam. M>Al 19 K. Lumpur. tf.3sa.in GAKI'UA GAvtu Jakarta 10.15 a.m. MSA 121 R. Lumpar. 10.25 a.m. MSA 005 Penang, Ipoh. K. Lumpur, Malacca. 1245 pjn. PAN AM PAMI MIIUD, Guam, BonoJulu,
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      144 8 CO M P E TTTION is necessary for the survival of mankind. It is important for the future of man's success in life. At times it is a means of amusement to the people. In several ways it has made human beings to destroy each
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      417 8 A PROVERB says that time is precious. This does not mean that time is as precious as diamond but time is as valuable as diamond. We can afford to lose anything but not time. Our passing seconds, once gone, are lost forever. No
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      163 8 j WHAT I love most about my father is his kindn e s s. He never uses a harsh word, or raises his voice, or uses force on any of his children. To him corporal punishment is cruelty. This man, my father, is so kind
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      150 8 rwas a sunny day. Everybody was sound asleep in bed. Suddenly I heard a loud commotion behind the back kitchen. 1 quickly ran downstairs and opened the back door. I was surprised to see a stranger climbing up by the waterplpe leading to my parents room.
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      395 8 TWO young men fell In love with a very beautiful lady and each set about In his own wav to win her heart. She understood their Intention* but she felt that she did not know them long enough. Being a considerate girl, she was kind and friendly
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      393 8 ONCE upon a time, there was a very clever woman. She lived in a village of poverty, but had very faithful neighbours. She was quite a wealthy woman. In the village there was a very deceitful Chinese physician It so happened that whenever
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      206 8 t The BLUE CROSS Contest for the young at heart Fun to enter! Fun to win! Official Entry Form To: Blue Cross Contest D Eastern Sun 23-B, Cantonment Road, Singapore, 2. I submit my entry herewith in accordance with the rules of this contest and agree to abide by the
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      185 8 NEW ESSAY CONTEST: RULES TO OBSERVE THE EASTERN SUN'S new essay writing contest for boys and girls of 14 and under appears in this pare every Thursday. One of the objects of this contest is to encourage young boys and girls to express themselves properly. And what better way to
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      89 8 AMY By Jack Tipprt to 4 4 >7. m "Agnes let us borrow her carrioge to celebrate NATIONAL DOG WEEK." DATELINE: DANGER! by John Saunden and AUen Md/VSams THIS IS CENTRAL SUPPLY, TPOY.'EVERYTHING FROM TOOTHPICKS TO SALT SHAKERS CARRIES THE ADAM'S RIBS TRADEMARK/ NR»I MR. NOBLE HAD TO EXCUSE HIMSELF...
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    668 9  -  by glorta-DIM 4 YOU must take a drive up East Coast Road, that is the Katong area. On my way to the beach at Changi, I was extra observant (my mum insists that walk around with my eyes shut). And what do you know; I was rewarded! NOTICED
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    546 9  -  Ann Landers T\EAR ANN: This might be the strangest letter you've ever received. I can't sign it because I may be in trouble with the law. My husband drank a lot and ran around with women. I don't believe in divorce
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    169 9 NEW DELHI. Thurs. (UPI) A weatherbeaten yet beaming Jane Fonda, dressed In a traditional Indian kurta pyjamas made up of a long shirt and baggy be'l-bottoms. skipped around New Delhi on Monday. The Hollywood actress arrived on Monday and within an hour was in downtown
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    132 9 HOLLYWOOD. Wed. Ann-Margret was signed recently by producer-direc-tor Stanley Kramer to star opposite Anthony Qulnn In a drama of camPus turbulence, scheduled to begin shooting lor Columbia Pictures in December. The starring assignment brings Ann-Margret back to the studio where in 1962 she scored her
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      166 9 Shop at HOUSE OF DIAMOND CHIONG SHING MANUFACTURING JEWELLERS' LTD. Rainbow Jewellery Glitter on the Ground Floor to symbolise the Splendours and variety of shops on the above Floors. THE MERANO COFFEE HOUSE on the Ist Floor of LAU'S ARCADIA feeds and quenches the thirst of the overjoyed and contented
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      13 9 YOUR VERY OWN WEEKLY PHOTO PAGE FOTORAMA '69 Everv Tuesdar in EASTERN SUN
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      343 9 b SHAW TION Sad BIG WEEK! N( frt* list I Due to films length 4 ahowa I Note Time: 11, 2.3*. t it. 9.1* M "BATTLE" Start* Promptij Michael Came. Laurence Ollvlar Christopher Plummer A Susannah York "BATTLE OF BRITAIN" Technicolor. Pana vision (DAI CAPITOL Phon. *****1 LAST DAT! 11
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      18 9 CATHAY: OPENS TODAY! SEtii FOLLOW THE CROWD FOR THE BIGGEST LAUGH IN TOWN! K9 ——sr—-|t*s A Riot!! Hi
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      462 9 HSESH V/ft ORCHARD-32U51 OPENS TODAT! Re Ft to Hat: Show* Start: IM. 4m Ml 9.14 "ALFRED" STARTS 1A». 4.19. LU IJ4 p.is So IBCTMM IB PTIQH Book NOW! UOM'l "ALTUD TBI GREAT" David Hiwlnp. OoJor, P'Vialon lrh««l CMcNtiH: tLN To Any feat st I.B* 6 AM pm Sfcowi CATHAY 334
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      141 10 Our Racing Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Snowflake looks fighting fit in a workout on heavy going here this morning. With Venga (Les Coles) for company Snowflake clocked 42 2/5 for 3f and at the finish he was a length clear of his companion. Last start winner
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      229 10 CIUDAD JUAREZ. Mexico. Wed (UPI) Bantamweight champion Ruben Olivares of Mexico knocked out Shigeyoshi Oki of Japan with vicious combination of punches last night in the third round of their non-title fight. At the 35 second mark, the champion battered his opponent to the canvas with
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      33 10 LONDON, Wed (Reuter) Results of football matches played last night were: ENGLISH DIVISION FOUR Northampton 3 Workington 0 FRIEND LIES Donoaster 1 Dallas Tornados 1 Oxford University 0 Tottenham Hotspur 2
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      1096 10 CL 2 Dlv. 1—6 Pun. 411 NMM Gift 8y 900 Hoklal Stable Lee 133 Donvllle 3y 813 Shamrock 8c Thistle Stable Heddle 934 Rim Star fly 8.13 Shsw Stable 112 Elite BpecUI 4y 8.11 ST T, Stable 061 Grand Asaiso fly 8 00 H
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      416 10 Following i s the Stipendiary Steward's report On the combined amateur and professional meeting at Bukit Timah last Sunday. A s a mark of respect to the late Vice-Chairman of the Singapore Turf Club. Mr. W. McGregor Watt, riders in the first race wore
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      299 10 LAUREL. Maryland. Wed. (UP I) Although he flnistied leaf la the 1968 race. Japan's entry in the 1969 Washington, D C. International. Takeshi ba O. may be the surprise of this year's race on Nor. 11. "He is a better horse than last
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      1339 10 WILLIAM Carmichael crowns a long career in amateur athletics as full-time Director of Organisation for the 1970 British Commonwealth Games to be held in Edinburgh, Scotland. His experience of Commonwealth Games goes back to the 2nd Games in 1934 in London. As general
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      489 11  -  Singapore Open B'ton Championships By Jimmy Lad THE 16-member Indonesian badminton team including All-England champion Rudy Hartono arrived here yesterday to compete in Singapore Open badminton championships which begin at the Singapore Badminton Hall, Guidemard Road, today. The Secretary of the Indonesian Federation, Sumarsono, said yesterday
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      129 11 LONDON. Wed (Reuter) Leeds Unites, the English Football League Champions, are to press for loyalty payments of 10.000 for players who stay with a club for ten vears. with further payments of £l.OOO for each additional year. Leeds manager Don Revie said today; "We realise some
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      325 11 The follow ng are result® of th P Close and Open Championship of the Pistol Section 1969 held recently. R*Ptd Fir® Pistol: t Closed Championship; 1 Loh Kok H«rg 572. 2. Lrkt Yun Fun 535 3. Lim SeOw Peng 551. (Open Championship): 1- Loh Kok Heng 575
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      130 11 SANTA MONICA, California, Wad. (Router) Don Drysdala. 33, ona of America's all-time baseball "greats" has ban sued for divorce by hit 30-yeer-old wife, Eula. Sha claims ha beat har 30 times during 11 years' marriaga. Tha tall former modal claimed the last beating took place
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      536 11 Forty-eight top Singapore bowlers will talce part in the semi-finals of the Singapore Ten Pin Bowling Association and Cathav Pacific Airways Championship at the Jackies Bowl, Orchard Road, on Sunday. When the seml-flnais are over, 24 bowlers will be left in to fight
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      72 11 Th« Non-Hortelitea Organisation of the Umverm T of Singapore will b e holding an interVargity bowling tournament on Saturday at tha Bowl. Orchard Road at 2 Pm. The toumamant is Organised by Jackie* Bowl and Sea Palaee Restaurant and Nit« Club and the opening ceremony mil be
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      135 11 MELBOURNE, Wed. (Reuter) South African Gary Player, winner of the Australian Opan in Sydney last week, it favourite to head the field in the A 525.000 11,665) Dunlop Golf international starting at the Yarra Tarra course here tomorrow. The clash between U.S. Open champion Orville Moody.
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      28 11 BELFAST. Northern Ireland. Wed. (Renter) Olentoran beat Bfcnfor by »er# n goal, to one to to wm the Iri?h City Soccer Cup final her# la«t night.
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      90 11 LOS ANGELES, Wed. (UPI) Five-time national decathlon champion Bill Toomey was yesterday named Southern California track and field athlete of the year by the Southern California track and field writer. Toomey. 31, a Santa Barbara school teacher, won the Gold Medal in the-de-cathlon at
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      601 11 APPOINTMENT a as a pilot officer in the SAf The Air Defence Command of the Singapore Armed Forces is recruiting young men who have the potential of becoming pilot officers. Young men between the ages of 17J4 and 23 years having a School Certificate or G.CJ2. or equivalent with a
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      1027 11 (CHANNEL 8) PM. 3.C0 Opening Announcement* in all Languages 8c Morning Star; 3 20 Another Song Another Melody Tamil; 3.35 It's Happening in Singapore Chinese; 3.50 Housewives Matinee Part 2 of a Cantonese film. "Road to Fairyland": 5.10 Close; 540 Pro g Summary in all Languages; 3.45 Peter Potumus Show;
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    387 12 "Princess Anna Louis©", a shapely artiste from Amsterdam who loves to make people happy, has two ambitions to be a housewife with "plenty of children" and a successful actress. Judging from her looks, there appears to be no difficulty as many men will
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    147 12 A 'beachcomber' wag yesterday sentenced to three months jail by the Ninth Court Magistrate. Mr E. C. Foenander after he pleaded guilty to a charge of theft. Jamil bin Jantan. 20. faced four charges of theft but two were taken into consideration. Senior Inspector Chla Cheng
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    56 12 The Singapore Ambassador to the United Arab Republic, Mr. Lee Khoon Choy. stopped here yesterday for a few hours on his way back to Cairo after attending the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York. The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Enche Rahlm Ishak met him
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    97 12 The tenth draw of the Singapore Sweep will be held on Nov. 4 at 6.30 p.m. at the Broadway Hall stage of New World Amusement Park. The minor draw for prizes ranging from $l,OOO to 53,000 will commence at 6.30 p.m. followed by the major
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    209 12 A 19-YEAR-OLD odd Job labourer. Loh Kwong Ten was stabbed tt> death by an unidentified man at Beraam Street, early yesterday morning. Loh of New Bridge Road was employed as a casual labourer by Messrs. Ah Fatt. shipwright and general contractor, in Bern am Street.
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    58 12 THE mid-week Toto Draw will be held at the Broadway Hall stage this evening. The manager of a construction company, Mr. Samuel Ho will be the chairman of the panel of officials. The other two members are Mr. Kum Tang Hock, a Toto agent, and Mr. Tan
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    46 12 THE Jurong Civic Centre will hold a Fun Fair at their centre in Taman Jurong on Saturday to raise funds for the centre. Mrs. Woon Wah Siang, wife of the Mayor of Jurong Town will officially open the Fun Fair at 10 a.m.
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    70 12 Stamp booklets, each containing one dozen 15 cents stamps, will be placed on sale at all Post Offices and the Philatelic Bureau. O PO. from Nov. 1. The booklet Is priced at $l.BO. It contains useful information on the principal local and overseas postage rates. The booklet.
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    68 12 A MAN who got off a ship by means of a rope was yesterday fined SlO. Tee Seng Teck admitted before the Ninth Court Magistrate. Mr. EC. Foenander. that he committed the offence on October 28. In the same court yesterday, a taikong. Ng Kok Hwa.
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    73 12 THE Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Nepal Army, General Surendra Bahadur Shah was yesterday received at Headquarters Far East Land Forces by a Guard of Honour mounted by the 1st Battalion, 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles. General Surendra Bahadur Shah, who flew into the Republic on Tuesday night, is
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    323 12 Son Murdered: Inquiry Day Tivo A mother, Quar Waow, broke down and wept and hod to be helped off the stand after she had testified at a preliminary inquiry in which her youngest son was alleged to have been murdered by his wife. On Tuesday the court
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    167 12 GOVERNMENT Ministers will face a barrage of questions from the floor at the forthcoming Parliament meetings on industrial health and safety and compensa- tion for workers. The latest questions submitted by Memb«r« of Parliament for oral answer* from the Minister* concerned will be related
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    39 12 A MEMORIAL service In honour of the late Mrs. Elsie Lyne will be held on Sunday at 315 p.m. at the Wesley Methodise Church in Fort Canning Rise. The memorial service is organised by the Girls Brigade.
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    133 12 British artist, Gordon Craig, will hold his sixth one-man exhibition from Nov. 5 to 9 at the National Library, Mr Craig, a former art teacher is no newcomer to Singapore art scene. He has previously exhibited in this region works which were solely concerned
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    164 12 TWO Members of Parliament. Mr. Ong Soo Chuan (Nee Soom and Enche Abdul Aziz Karim (Kallang) left Singapore yesterday to attend the 57th Inter-Parliamentary Conference in New Delhi. Mr. Ong. who is also the Political Secretary (Foreign Affairs), and Enche Abdul Aziz, represents the Singapore
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    411 12 SINGAPOREANS and Malaysians can soon visit Thailand by air-conditioned Greyhound buses ai a result of a merger by two travel companies. The two partners in the venture are Nabil International Tours of Singapore and International Tours of Kuala Lumpur. According to the General Manager
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