Eastern Sun, 17 November 1969

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    23 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY ft Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1181 Monday, 17 November 1969. ft MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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  • Article
    Lock icon Apollo Shifts To New Route
    447 1 For Pinpoint Land SPACE CENTRE. Houston. Sun. (UPI) Apollo 12' i space pilots flashed back to earth yesterday dramatic colour television shots showing the crew carrying out a key manoeuvre that lined up the spaceship for a pinpoint landing on the moon. Charles "Pete" Conraji
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    Lock icon Condition Set For Sarawak Election
    404 1 \o Bloodshpd Assurance KUCHING. Sun. Sarawakians will only qo to vote to elect their parliamentary representatives if and when the State Operations Committee can guarantee to the Director of Operations. Tun Abdul Razak that no blood will be spilt during or after campaigning. Thla was
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    Lock icon Profitless Winnings
    75 1 Thousands of punters hacked a winner at Ipoh yesterday but went home without making a profit. Reason: II installed a firm favourite, heat three other runners to pa>< S3 for a ticket The Irish geiding. ridden hv Des Coleman who is here on a four months busman's holiday,
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    Lock icon Soviet Navy
    78 1 BTDEFORD England. Sun. TReuter) A Conservative Member of Parliament warned today that the Soviet Navy was now in a position to cut off Britain's oil route round the Cape of Good Hope "Without moving a man rrr a tank in Central Europe, the Soviet Union could do severe.
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    Lock icon Employment Act Principles Must Be Followed, Says Lee
    960 1 THE Prime Minister. Mr. Lee Kuan Yew. in a pragmatic analysis told trade unionists yesterday, that it will be 1974 before Singapore could resolve economic problems created by the British military withdrawal from the Republic. Last year, he stated at the opening
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    Lock icon THOUSANDS WANT INDIRA TO QUIT
    231 1 NEW DELHI, Sun (UPI) Some 50.000 placardbearing persons chanting "Indira Gandhi resign" de monstrated Sunday in front of the Prime Minister's official residence to protest the government's abortive attempt to participate in the recent Islamic summit conference in Rabat. Morocco. In the said conference. India
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    Lock icon VIOLENCE FOLLOWS ANTI-WAR MARCH
    227 1 WASHINGTON. Sun (UPI> Shouting, paint-throwing extremists staged a wild demonstration at the Justice Department yesterday and police retaliated with tear gas The melee came after an estimated 250.000 D ersons of every age had conducted a peaceful mammoth peace march and rally through the street® of
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    Lock icon Imagine That...
    107 1 CARACAS. Sun. (UPI) A talkative parrot was arrested Saturday on charges of subversion. The arrest of the green-and-red feathered bird was carried out at the town of San Francisco in the state of Falcon. 287 miles west of Caracas. San Francisco's Prefect said the parrot, known as "Chucho."
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous
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    Lock icon Goh Recalls Prediction Of American Investment
    579 2 The Minister for Finance, Dr. Goh Keng Swee, yesterday affirmed that there is a good number of industrial projects in the pipeline to ensure that the present momentum of industrial growth should be maintained at least over the next year or two. Speaking at
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    Lock icon English Encyclopaedia To Be Published Here
    364 2 Singapore will soon be the first country In the East to produce a major encyclopaedia in full colour in English, the Managing Director of McGraw-Hill Far Eastern Publishers, Mr. Cho Jock Kim, said yesterday. The encyclopaedia will first r be published In English mainly
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    Lock icon K.L. Gets ADB Loan For Kuching
    213 2 KUALa LUMPUR. Sun. The Malaysian government and th** Asian Development Bank today signed a loan agreement in the amount of $15.3 million to finance fh e coat of the expansion of Kuching Port m Sarawak This the Bank a third loan to Malaysia and
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    Lock icon Esso Also Cuts Price
    84 2 ESSO Standard Singapore Pte. Ltd. has also reduced its petrol prices by three cents per gallon, effective yesterday. The announcement was made by the general Manager of the Esso Group of Companies in Singapore, Mr. Wm J. Wiseman. Mr. Wiseman said following reports of reduction of
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    Lock icon K.L. To Relax Some Tariffs
    144 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. The Minister of Commerc e and Industry. JEnche Mohd Kh r Johari said here today the government wil] take action to relax the import quota and tariffs on certain building products. Enche Khi r was commenting on recent appeal by the Secretary
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    Lock icon SINGAPORE UNIT TRUSTS CELEBRATES TENTH YEAR
    486 2 TEN persons in Singapore who wars complete strangers to each other met for dinner at the Golden Lotus recently to celebrate a very special occasion the 10th Anniversary of Singapore Unit Trusts Ltd. What they have in common Is that they are all subscribers
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    Lock icon Fall Off Truck Kills Man
    78 2 EN'CHE Syed Idroos bin Syed Hood of Geylang Road, died several hours later In the General Hospital, alter he fell off from a moving lorry at the Junction of Lorong 40 and Guillemard Road, on Saturday. Those who have seen the accident are requested to
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    Lock icon Two New Products Introduced Here
    226 2 Mr. Wallace Provost and Mr. George Lee of Formica International Ltd. have introduced in the local market two distinguished products. These two unique product* the Formica Vertical Veener 200 Flame Retardent grade Suede Finish and the Decorative Copper Finish are being introduced In Singapore (or
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    Lock icon Four Shops In K.L. Burgled
    133 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Bun. A gang of five In two cars, is believed to have carried out a dawn house breaking raid on four companies located in a shop house at Jalan Tuanku Abdul Kahman here today. The gang iorre<i entry Into the four stalls by
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    Lock icon Mavis: 'No More Beauty Contests
    177 2 Mavis Young, Miss Singapore 1969 has decided to calf it quits no more beauty contests or working as a receptionist, as from early next year. Mavis, who eft Singapore vesterdav for a fortnight vacation in Hon? Kong Mid that she had made up her mind
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    Lock icon Manpower Training In Malaysia
    163 2 KUALA LUMPUR Sun. The Malaysian government has drawn up a blueprint for the organising and training of manpower resource* in the country from *****973 which will eventually cost the government more than $8 million Radio Malays.a quoted a spokesman of the Ministry of Labour saying today
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      138 2 TODAY an 'fj ji/ir u 21 2-1 WW 10 Don't 11 On 12 leov* >3P«opl« 14 Your 15 Money IS Adopt 17 Personal 18 E*c>ting 19 Imtotiona 20 News 2t News 22 And 23 By 24 Tosts 25 Which 26 Moil 27 Would 26 Brightens 29 In 30 New 40
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    Lock icon 'Vietnamisation' Is Banned By Pres. Thieu
    422 3 SAIGON, Sun. (Reuter) —President Nguyen Van Thieu has ordered the South Vietnamese not to use the American term 'Vietnamisation of the war' because he says it is misleading and plays into the hands of communist propaganda. The term implies that the war has so
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    Lock icon Timebomb At US Base Dismantled
    119 3 TOKYO. Sun (UPI> A timebomb planted along the outer wire fence of the U.S. Air Force oase at Tachikawa was dismantled by demolition experts today, three minutes before It was timed to go off. The bomb was discovered by guards shortly after 9 a.m. It
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    Lock icon Wins Nehru Award For Peace
    129 3 NEW DELHI. Sun. (UPI) Abdul Ghaflar Khan, eldest living associate of Mahatma Gandhi. Saturday received the Jawaharlal Nehru award for international understanding. Ghaflar Khan has been on a visit in India since Oct. 1 in connection with the Mahatma Gandhi Birth Centenary. Ghaflar. 80, is
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    Lock icon Largest Buddha Enshrined
    170 3 HONOLULU. Sun. <UPI> B'.x Buddhist bishops enshrined the largest figure of Buddha outside of Japan Saturday at Valley of the Temples Memorial Park. The Go-Honzon Butsu. which represents Amida. the Buddha of the Western Paradise. is located in the ByodoIn Temple, a replica of the 900-year-old temple
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    Lock icon Reds Hit US 'Copter Base
    134 3 SAIGON. Sun (UPI> Communist commandos hurling satchel charges broke Into an American camp in the central highlands and destroyed several helicopters, military spokesmen said today. The raid shortly before midnight yesterday at Camp Radcliffe at the northern edge of the city of An Khe and
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    Lock icon Moon-sick?
    77 3 LONDON. Sun. (UPI) Millions followed the Apollo 12 moonshot yesterday on European and African television and a space-weary reaction :ropped up In many tongues: when you've seen one you've seen them all. Nonetheless, few Indicated they were not following the progress of the flight and many shared the view
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    Lock icon Suharto To Control Marines
    107 3 JAKARTA. Sun <IPI> The powerful Marine Corps will be reorganised to place it under direct command of President Suharto instead of local commanders, the Antara News Agency reported today. Antara quoted Marine Corps Commander Maj. Gen. Mukiiat that the reorganisation would be in line with Suharto's
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    Lock icon More Ties Through Tourism
    88 3 JAKARTA. Sun. fAFP) The Indonesian Tourist Hotel Association < ITHA» and the Singapore Hotel and Restaurant Association <SHRA> have signed an agreement on various problems of hotel and tourist industries in the two countries. Under the agreement they will try to organise bilateral consultative meetings which
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    Lock icon New Togetherness Bid Fails With Indira
    264 3 SEPARATE MEETINGS SCHEDULED NEW DELHI. Sun. (Reuter) Feuding leaders of India* ruling Congress Party were to hold separate meetings today, after the latest reconciliation attempt failed last night Congress Members of Parliament. who gave Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi overwhelming support after she was
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    Lock icon STUDENTS HOLD UP TEN FLIGHTS
    265 3 Sato's US Visit TOKYO, Sun. (Reuter) At least 10 international flights have been cancelled at Tokyo International Airport in case of student riots in protest against tne departure of Prime Minister Eisaku Sato for Washington tomorrow, airport authorities said today. A record number of 75.000
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    Lock icon Sunday Quake
    53 3 SEND AI Japan. Sun- (UPD —A weak earthquake was recorded Sunday by the Japan Meteorologies; Aeency A spokesman said the tremor which registered two on the Japanese scal<» of seven, was centred in *he Pacific Ocean off the northern prefecture of Ibaraki at 2 a.m. No damage or
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    Lock icon PI Poll Results: Time To Concede Say Papers
    417 3 MANILA, Sun. (UPI) —President Ferdinand E. Marcos has set a record-breaking margin in unofficial counting of votes from last Tuesday's presidential elections and newspapers called on the opposition today to concede to Help the nation unite. The unofficial tall? of election returns
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    Lock icon 'Squat-in' By Monks
    119 3 SAIGON, Sun (Reuter) Buddhist monks continued their siuat-in behind police barricades in a boulevard in front of Independence Palace today despite warning from President Nguyen Van Thleu that they may be forcibly moved. The President ha» agreed to meet a delegation from the monks ol Cambodian origin,
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    Lock icon Marcos' Vietnam Policy Deplored
    197 3 HONG KONG. Sun. (UPI) The decision o* President Marcos to withdraw Philippine troops from Vietnam is "a damaging action to th« unity of the Free World" and will affect the morale of the South Vietnamese forces, the Kung Sheung Yat Po newspaper said today. The Chinese-language
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    Lock icon Thai-M'sia Bridge Planned
    93 3 BANGKOK. Sun (UPI) Malaysian and Thai officials are currently meeting here to link their countries by bridge at Sungei Golok. a Thai southernmost border town. The three-day meeting started Friday and discussed the U*****,000 bridge to be jointly financed by the two governments. The bridge which is
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      348 3 rfttnitJnicvuf. SINGAPORE UNIT TRUSTS ITU. NOW OFFERS 500,000 UNITS IN THE SAVINGS FUND at A DISCOUNT of 3 cents per Unit under the daily quoted selling price (offer closes on Ist December, 1969.) The Savings Fund, which was launched on 26th June. 1965. provides an opportunity to invest in more
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    Lock icon Launch Weather To Be Reviewed
    283 5 HOUSTON. Sun. (Reuter) An Apollo 12 flight director said today he thought the Space Agency would probably not in future launch a manned space flight in weather conditions similar to those which prevailed when Apollo 12 lifted off from Cape Kennedy on Friday. The official,
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    Lock icon Dog Shoots Master
    89 5 COATEPEC. Mexico. Sun < Renter) A fox terrier killed his master with a shot from an automatic rifle In this southeast town The victim Senor Abel Garcia Cuevas. went hunting last night with his little doe. Raton (mouse). He put his prt and his run in a
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    Lock icon Parents Alter Sleep Hours
    130 5 FORTH WORTH Texas. Sun (UPI)— Mr and Mrs Arnold Bean are trving on earth to keep th<» san> hours of sleeping and wakefulness the.j son moon-bound astronaut Alan Bean, keeps > n sps^e .Man told us when he called from CapA Kennedy Thursday night to sleep
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    Lock icon Mrs. Conrad Anxious At Launch
    237 5 NASSAU BAY. Texas. Sun (UPI) Jane Conrad now calm and happy, arrived back home from Cape Kennedy with her four sons yesterday and said of her husband's moon flight: "I think we've had enough trouble I think everything e'.se is golne to go just fine.
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    Lock icon Govt. Backed Birth Control Criticized
    175 5 WASHINGTON. Sun (Reufer) United States Roman Ca'hr.lic Bishops today issued a protest against go\ernmentspor.sored birth control meatus both here and abroad T he Bishops who have been meeting a'.' week after returning from the Vatican £v? od appro\ed a sta'errert Or the subject by a
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    Lock icon Three Senators Speak To Back Anti-War Protest
    362 5 WASHINGTON, Sun. (UPI) Three Senators praised Vietnam war protesters at a mass rally around the Washington Monument Saturday as patriots leading America from hatred and war to compassion and peace. The Senators, Eugene J McCarthy, DemocratMinnesota. George S. McGovern, Democrat-South Dakota, and Charles
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    Lock icon SPACE TALK
    643 5 SPACE CENTRE. Houtton. Sun. (UPI) Here it a partial trantcript of the Apollo 12 convertatiom in their voyage toward the moon yeiterday: Astronaut Alan L. Bean, as the spaceship looked back on the earth 60.000 miles away: That earth view is really going to be something weird coming
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    Lock icon PRAVDA ON PROTEST
    100 5 MOSCOW. Sun (Reuter) The Soviet party newspaper Pravda yesterday gave a t >ast three times as much space to its report of the anti-Vietnam demonstrations in Washington as it did to the Apollo-12 blastoff to the moon It devoted Its main foreign news oage story of the
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    Lock icon Polaris Test
    63 5 CAPE KENNEDY Fla Sun (UPI' A Polaris rocket was te«* fired Saturday by the nuclear submarine Andrew Ja' kson 30 miiCs oft the Florida coast. The A 2 version of the Polaris mirsi e was fired while the sub was submerged in the Atlantic. The firing wa s
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    Lock icon Refugees Double In 5 Years
    209 5 WASHINGTON. Sun. <UPI> The number of refugees In the world has doubled In the last five years to more than 17 million persons, the U.S. Committee for Refugees said today. The fommittee report, titled "1969 World Refugee Population,' showed the biggest group to be the
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    Lock icon Spectator In Weird Dress
    170 5 CHICAGO. Sun. (UPI) Wavey Gravev adjuster hi* le-ither flying helmet brushed off his tattered khaki jump suit, straightened the parachute on his back ani nresented himself to the US Marsha at the door to the Chlcacn rot conspiracy trial Preceding him in line was Dr Benjamin
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    48 5 ATHENS. Sun (UPl)—Jacqueline and Aristotle Onassis flew to their private island o* Skcrpios yesterday The former Jacqueline Kennedy arrived in Athen s from New York Frldav to join her millionaire husband. Sources said she wanted to supervise arrangements for a party they plan to give at Skorplos,
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    Lock icon Business As Usual For The President
    170 5 WASHINGTON. Sun. (Reuter) President Nixon, despite the massive anti-war protests, conducted a business-as-usual day at the White House with a round of foreign policy conferences today. Police threw a tight security cordon around the executive mansion, sealing it off for at least a block
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    Lock icon Agnew's Attack On TV Had Nixon's Backing
    355 5 NEW YORK, Sun. (Reuter) Vie® President Spire Agnew's scathing attach on television journalism this week carried him into a new controversy less than a month after he stirred national debate by calling anti-war protesters "impudent snobs." In a speech on Thursday to a
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    Lock icon Ex-Bunny Fatally Shot
    234 5 ATLANTA, Georgia. Sun. (UPI) A nightclub entertainer and former Playboy Bunny was shot to death and left lying nurie on the floor of her southwest Atlanta apartment. poiice said yesterday. Karen Lynn Calloway. 21. was shot Jour times in the back and once in the arm Police
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    Lock icon Peru Strike
    81 5 LIMA. Sun (UPI) The Communlst-<ontrolled labour organisation in Peru Saturday ca "ed for working men to deride within the next eight days whether to support a nationwide strike The Union, confederation Gerera] de Trabajadores Del Peru (CTGP> said it would ask if there should be a strike to
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    Lock icon Rail Tracks
    69 5 BUENOS AIRES. Sun (UPT, —Saboteurs cut the railroad lin.? between Buenos Aires and r*v-i citv of La Plata early Saturdav for the second tim« within a week in the seven-day-old wildcat walkout on the st*ite owned Roca railroad line Two bombs exploded at around 2.15 ajn tearing away
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    Lock icon PROOF FOR NIXON
    380 6 IT is passing strange that the massive demonstrations during the last three days in Washington D.C. should set out to prove the crucial point which President Nixon made in his Vietnam policy speech on Nov. 3. Nixon's principal point was that there was a vast silent majority
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    Lock icon MARCOS' OPPORTUNITY
    375 6 THE re-election of Ferdinand E. Marcos as President of the Philippines puts him in a unique position. He will be the first President who will have no more worry about the voters at the end of his second four-year term. The Philippines constitution forbids him from seeking a
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    Lock icon The Gulf Engulfing The Gulf Federation
    1033 6  -  When British troops pull out of fhe Arabian Gulf, they may leave a bigger gulf behind them than they have imagined. By DARA KADVA Gemini News Service IN the international excitement over the Lebanon, a development of as muck importance in another part of
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    Lock icon DANGER LURKS AT EVERY MOVE
    786 6  -  It is all so easy to sit back and marvel at the space programme or, worser still, criticise it Yet how many realise in depth the actual risks involved that may send these courageous men to fame or to their deaths? By WILLIAM HUMPHRIES HOUSTON,
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    Lock icon ON STRATEGIC ARMS LIMITATION TALKS TODAY: THE REAL HORROR OF A N-WAR
    473 6  -  By JOSEPH L. MYLER WASHINGTON (UPI) Political and diplomatic views aside, many scientists believe the two biggest bowers simply must retrain their nuclear arms competition end soon. Developments of recent years, they feel, have made obsolete the old
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    Lock icon If The Launching Had Gone Wrong...
    460 6  -  By WILLIAM SCALLY CAFE KENNEDY. Florida (Reuter) Deep beneath the massive concrete Launch Fad 39A that bears the Apollo-12 moonship is a small bunker-like room which everyone at this space centre hopes will never be used. The room is one of a network of
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    Lock icon The 24th US Astronaut
    113 6 SPACE CENTRE Huston. (IPI> Alan L. Bean will he-om* the 24th American to hurtV into spac# aboard a spaceship when Apollo 11 clear* the launch pad on Friday Bean. a 37-year-old Texan, i* the first spa<e-bound rooki# Russei: "Rurtv Schwieckart's trio aboard Apollo 9 last March
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    Lock icon Apollo-ized
    89 6 SPACE CENTRE Houston. (UPI) The crewmen of Apollo 12 have spent more than five hours of formal crew training for each hour of the mission's flight In addition to the more than 1.000 hours over «"d above normal flight preparation, the crew receive another 1.500 hours of training as
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
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      Lock icon US-Japan Meet On Textiles Issue Today
      559 7 HONG KONG, Sun. (UPI) Japan and the Unitad States meet this week on a touchy subject which also concerns Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Koreo and other major textile-exporting countries of Asia. The Japanese arreement to talk textile trade with the Americans followed warnings that
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      Lock icon In Japan For Training
      179 7 Mr. R. A. Hassan a Labour Officer, of the Jurors Shipbuilders (Private) L.mlled left for Japan yesterday. H* will be in Jar>«n for o years and is to look after the welfare and training orogrammg of our trainees at present in Japan H«» will b4i attached
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      Lock icon New Air con System For New Hotel
      158 7 A local Company, Island Air Conditioning Company. has been awardec a contract to install the alr-corditiomn* system for a six-storey hotel-cum-shoppir.g centre now being constructed alone Serangoon Road. The air-conditioninf system will featur* an unusually small water cooled Carner condensing unit. If is
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      Lock icon Canada's Offer To Cut Tariff
      205 7 OTTAWA. Sun. (Heuter) Canada tentatively offered on Friday to cut tariffs on imports from developing countries on most manufactured and semi-manufactured soods. The conditional cut in tariffs would be one-third off the most-favoured-nation rate or »o the level of the British preferential rate, whichever n
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      Lock icon SUGAR MERGER
      54 7 TOKYO Sun (tPI) Thiee Mitsui sugar firm B h»v# aeieed to merge ear'.y next summer, it was announced on Saturday. Th# firms ar« Shibsur* Sugar Refinery the Yokohama Sugar Refinerv and Osaka Sugar Refinery. The merger when completed will b# Japar's largest sugar refinin* firm controilinj 15 per
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      Lock icon Japan Merger To Outdo US Steel
      804 7 TOKYO, Sun. (UPI) Merger of Japan's two biggest stool makers into a giant comparable to U.S. steel will add new sip to Japan's drive to build markets in the "third world". Yawata and Fuji Steel companies move under the same roof next March 31
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      Lock icon CHINA AUTUMN FAIR CLOSES
      145 7 HONG KONG, Sun. (Reuter) The 1969 autumn Chinese Export Commodities Fair has closed in Canton with exhibition officials concluding large numbers of trade contracts with overseas visitors, the New China News Agency reported today. In an account of the closing of the month-long fair yesterday, the
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      Lock icon U.K. Loan To Pakistan
      101 7 RAWALPINDI. Sun. (UPI) Britain wjll provide Pakistan with an interesf free loan of £8 million (U5514,400,000, repayable in 25 years, with an initial seven-year grace period, under an agreement signed in Islsmaba- yesterday Ar. amount of £9.5 million USJ22.Boo.noft>. representing the non-project portion of the loan,
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      Lock icon OECD Suggests Plans For Improving Trade
      379 7 PARIS, Sun. (Router) Th« world's 18 Itading non-Communist industrial notions hav« put forward a plan to improve access to their markets for manufactured goods from developing countries. Their draft proposal, fog generalised tariff preferences have been submitted by the Organisation for Economic Co operation
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      Lock icon Concorde: Quietly Going Through Her Paces
      536 7 CONCORDE hurtled through the darkness at more than 800 mph en its first night flight last Wednesday •van inf. Protoyps Ml took off from Its bate at Toulouse. Franc* lust before dusk. Test pilot Andre Tureat kept the sleek four-englned jet up for one
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      Lock icon Japan Coal Short Of Target
      116 7 TOKYO. Sun. (UPI) Coal production in -span during the first half of fiscal 1969 total ed 21,528.000 tons 272,000 tons short of the estimated target. th« Ministry of International trade and industry announced Thursday. The announcement said Kvushu was conspicuous among the coal mining areas
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      Lock icon New Product
      97 7 TOKYO Sun (UTI» Havaxawa Ele Co. Lid anno. n> cj it has put on the mar. ke- a new transis'or megaphone that double* as fire alarm. Ihp. new radget has a mail power rat.ng of 16 w«tls. er.ah ng the human vo- e to be projected over a
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      Lock icon THE Singapore Tourist Promotion Board lost week presented a powter plaque to the P & O liner for her contribution to tourism in Singapore.
      79 7 THE Singapore Tourist Promotion Board lost week presented a powter plaque to the P O liner for her contribution to tourism in Singapore. Picture shows Tan Sri Runme Shaw (left), Chairman of the Board presenting the momento to Captain P.C. Reed before the liner departed Singapore for the last time.
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      Lock icon Yen To Be Listed In Frankfurt Mart
      102 7 TOKYO Sun fUPI) The Bank of Japan yesterday approved West Germany's listing the Japanese Ten for official trading r> n the Frankfurt foreign exchange market A spokesman jf the bank said the yen wa* already being traded in New York and London without
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      Lock icon New Fears Of British Inflation
      254 7 LONDON. Sun. (UPI) Higher prices and climbing wages mainly in the government sector prompted new >ars of inflation this week and the immediate effect w*s to shoot Industrial share s sharply higher on the stock market and depress British government bonds. The bonds had been
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      Lock icon AIR MOVEMENTS
      421 7 aKKIV ALa A00am M»A (ttw K Lurrpur woo am MsA llw K Lumpur 10.15 am MaA 1X1 j. Lumpur to t# am MaA 005 Penang. lpob. K I umpur. Mafatta to AO am IHAI 1(M» Bangkok ISAApm PAN-AM PAMI Mlana. (iuam Honolulu, han tranriaeo I* Ao p m
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    Lock icon PICTORICAL SOCIAL ROUND-UP
    443 8 TOP: The Singapore Table Tennis Association held their 39th anniversary dinner at the Chinese Chamber of Commerce last Tuesday. An important announcement during the function was the choice of Singapore as the venue for the First Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships in March. 1971. An organising committee headed
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  • SUN SPORT
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      Lock icon Cox And Wade Win Dewar Cup Titles
      216 10 LONDON. Sun. (Reuter) British number one Mark Cox beat South African Bob Hewitt, the holder. 4-6. 9-7, 6-2 in the final of the Dewar Cup indoor tennis tournament here yesterday, after struggling in the first two sets. •Jox. who joined the world championship
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      Lock icon Aussies Set Out On Longest Odyssey
      283 10 SYDNEY. Sun. (Reuter) Australia's national soccer team set out today on the latest journey of the World Cup's longest and strangest Odyssey. The 18 Australians, a mixture of home-grown and immigrant players, left Sydney by air for Mozambique where they will play Rhodesia in
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      53 10 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. The Malaysian national basketball team of 12 players and manager Chong Kok Lim left by air this morning to take part in the Asian Basketball Confederation Championships beginning on Tuesday. Mr. Khaw Kai Boh, President of the Asian Basketball Confederation was among the five officials
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      24 10 SWANSEA, Sun. (Reuter) The South Afican Rugby Union team beat Swansea 12-0 here yesterday for their secon<i win of their British tour.
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      515 10 LONDON, Sun. (Reuter) Everton dung to their six-point lead in the First Division of the English soccer league yesteday when they held Chelsea, unbeaten at home this season, to a 1-1 draw. The league leaders shook off suggestions that last week's 2-0 defeat by
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      113 10 TOKYO. Sun. (Reuter) British champion jockev Lester Piggott finished third in an invitation rac e her e today behind two Japanese Piggott, riding Nitto-Eight, finished three and a half lengths behind the winner in the Ear! of Derby challenge trophy at the Tokyo race course It
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      167 10 LONDON. Sun. (Reuter) Leading League and League Cup scorers after yesterday's English League soccer matches were FIRST DIVISION Joe Royle (Everton) 14. Colin Bell (Manchester City) 13, George Best (Manchester United) 13. Jeff Astle (West Bromwlch Albion) 12. Hugh C u r r a n (Wolverhampton
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      1153 10 ENGLISH DIVISION ONE Burnley 0. Coventry 0. Chelsea 1. Everton 1. Derby 3. Sunderland 0. Ipswich 2. Crystal Palace 0. Liverpool 2. West Ham 0 Man City 4. Man United 0. Newcastle 3. Notts Forest 1. Sheff Wednesday 0. Stoke 2. Southampton 1. Leeds 1. Tottenham 2.
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      206 10 Springboks Tour SWANSEA. Sun (Reuter) Scores of people were injured as police fought running battles with antiapartheid demonstrators outside the Swansea rugby ground yesterday. At least five policemen, one with stab wounds in the chest, were taken to hospital and about 20 people were
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      206 10 SYDNEY. Sun (Reuter) Trainer Hec Watt fined AJIOO for reflect yesterday after he forgot to remove a raincoat from his champion greyhound Zoom Top before a rare at Gaulburn (New South Wiles). Zoom Too. joint favourite at even money, was unable to stretch out in
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      Lock icon HOPPIN of the Combined British clears the ball in the Singapore's Youth Tournament quarter-finals match against Burnley United at Farrer Park on Saturday. Burnley United won 7-2 and will meet Darul Affiah in the semi-finals at Jalan Besar Stadium on Saturday.
      44 10 HOPPIN of the Combined British clears the ball in the Singapore's Youth Tournament quarter-finals match against Burnley United at F arrer Park on Saturday. Burnley United won 7-2 and will meet Darul Affiah in the semi-finals at Jalan Besar Stadium on Saturday. Sunsport pix.
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      213 10 MACAO. Sun. (Reuter) —Australia's Kevin Bartlett. driving a Mildren-Alfa, today won the 1969 Macao Grand Prix, slashing almost half a minute off lap record for the event. Bartlett. from Sydney and driving in Macao for the first time, covered the 45-lap distance over the 3.8 mile
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      148 10 JAKARTA. Sun. (Reuter)— Indonesia have rejected a request by Thailand to postpone the Western Asian Zone matches of the Thomas Cup tournament. Mr Sudlrman. Chairman of the Indonesian Badminton Federation, has disclosed He said last night that Indonesia had informed the International Badminton
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      133 10 GENEVA. Sun. (Reuter) The International Football Federation (FIFA) yesterday rejected a complaint by South Korea about the eligibility of members of the Australian team South Korea, beaten by Australia in a World Cup qualifying series in Seoul last month, complained to FIFA that several Australian players
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      30 10 JOHANNESBURG. Sun. (Reuter) South African middleweight champion Pierre Fourie retained his title here last night when he stopped Johnny Wood in the last round of a 12-round fight.
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      Lock icon Currie Cup: Close Of Play Scores
      151 10 JOHANNESBURG. Sun. (Reuter) Clovr of play scores in Currie Cuo cricket matches yesterday were 'A' Section Johannesburg Transvaal v Eastern Province Transvaal 351 (Irvine 138 not out) and 117 for 1 (Bath 66 not out). Eastern Province 241 (G. Pollock 123). Durban: Naval v
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      Lock icon England RU Selectors Face Problems
      418 10 LONDON. Sue. (Reuter) Eng.and's Rugby Union selectors still had problems after the first England trial of the season yesterday The Whites, regarded as a f! 1 J??*' England team beat the Blues 19-11. but their performance was not encouraging with the international against A.rica on!v
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      43 10 KIRUNA. Sweden Sun. (Reuter) Finland's Kaar:o Kangasnlemi. the Mexico Olympic gold medallist, broke nis own world middle-heavy-weight snatch weightlifting record here yesterday. Kangasnlemi snatched 61 kilograms (355 pounds) to add half a kilogram (1.1 pounds) to his pervious record.
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    933 11  -  Pretty Scores 84th Winner By By Our Racing Correspondent IPOH, Sun. Odds-on favourite Skipper II (Des Coleman) scored his third win off the reel and paid 155 for a win ticket. This is the first time punters made no profit for backing a winner. Carrying
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    Lock icon Call To Improve Standard Of Crowd Control
    287 11 AUCKLAND. New Zealand. Sun. (Reuten The New Zealand cricket manager Gordon Burgess said here today that tours to India and Pakistan would continue despite crowd unrest. But he warned that cricket authorities in the two countries must maintain their improved standard of crowd
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    100 11 BUENOS AIRES. Sun (Reuter) Unseeded Frenchman Francois Jauffret scored a shock victory over top-seeded Roy Emerson of Australia yesterday to reach the finals of the South American Open tennis championships Jauffret. the surprise player of the tournament, breezed past an oil-form Emerson 6-2. «-4 6-3 to
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    231 11 MELBOURNE, Sun. (Reuter) Four overs from all-rounder Peter Bedford today gave Victoria a chance to force an outright win over Western Australia tomorrow on the last day of their Sheffield match at Melbourne. Western Australia, chasing Victoria's mammoth 568 for six. were 341
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    37 11 KAXPUR. Ird:a. Sun (Router) Australia were for three in reply to India'a first innings of 320 at the clos# on the second day of the jecond cr.cket Test here todav Australia *on th» first Test.
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    512 12 DEVAN NAIR TE NTUC Advisor Mr. C,V. Devan Nair yesterday bluntly told participants at the Seminar on Modernisation that they could make or break the organisation by the recommendations they come up with and the action will or will not take to implement them.
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    159 12 THREE people were rushed to the General Hospital and hau been put on the "dangerously ill list" after the car In which they were travelling skidded and rammed into a tree at Nicol Highway on Saturday night The name? of the accident victims were
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    398 12 The week-long 'Festival of One Act Ploys' which ended at the Cultural Centre here last Saturday revealed one clear fact: amateur theatrical groups in Singapore possessed talents of a remarkably high standard. During the Intervals and at the end of every evening's programme the
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    558 12  -  By PETER LOKE The success story of Mr. Chia Sui Chiang, only 24, a new face in the local ship-building and repairing community, is one that is symbolic of the new generation of nation-builders in the private sector. Long before the government nas
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    125 12 INTERNATIONAL singer and recording artiste, Brenda Lee (seen above), together with her backup group, the Casuals, will visit Singapore to entertain local audiences in two performances. Brenda Lee, acclaimed as "The World's No. One Female Vocalist", will perform at the National Theatre and the Tropicana Restaurant on
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    Lock icon H.K. TV Man Ends Visit
    102 12 MR ROBERT CHUA. Assistant Programme Manager of Hong Kong Television, left yesterday for home after accomplishing two missions here. His first mission was to scout for local talent which he achieved easily when he spotted Miss Lucy Phua YuLl. the resident singer of RTS. She
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    277 12 A NEW $ll5 000 rnarl was opened m Singapore on Saturday night by the Minister for Law and National Development. Mr. E. W. Barker. The three-mile links Ylo Chu Hang Road with Ponggol Road Speaking at the opening ceremony Mr, Barker said m the 1930's most part
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    193 12 Developing countries should show greater originality in the field of technology instead of slavishly imitating that of advanced countries, a visiting American professor said here yester- day. He Is Prof Alfred Stern of Wayne University. Detroit. Prof. Stern who was on his way to
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    386 12 ONE way of measuring the economic and social progress of a community is to look into the quality and quantity of ortistic work that the community has created, soid Mr. P. Govindaswamy, M. P. for Anson, yesterday. Mr Govindaswamv. who. wan speaking at the opening of
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      34 12 TOTO DRAW The following numbers were drawn in yesterday's week-end Toto Draw: 47 4 45 29 3 The additional number drawn was 10 In the three-circle draw, the numbers drawn were: 21 2 11
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