Eastern Sun, 1 December 1969

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  • 23 1 EASTERN SUN SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY -V Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1195 Monday, 1 December 1969. MC (P) 0737 Price 15 cent#
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  • 220 1 KUALA LUMPUR/ Sun. Floods in Kelontan have closed all roods from the state capital to oil districts and claimed its first life today. More than 2,000 people in the state have also been evacuated to higher grounds. All the roads except the Kota Bohru
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  • 180 1 AMERICAN singer Brenda Lee arrived here last night with her backing group. The Casuals, fresh from a successful night's performance in Jakarta. Only a handful of fans were at the airport to meet Miss Lee. acclaimed as "The World's Top Female Vocalist.'' Dunne her
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  • 126 1 TEL AVIV. Sun (Reuter) Israeli jets struck twice at Egyptian positions along the Suez Canal today after Egyptian Commandos crossed the waterway and made what a military spokesman said was an abortive attack on an Israeli post. The spokesman said at least Ave Egyptians were killed
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  • 189 1 ADEN. Sun. (AFP) Saudi Arabian troops supported by tanks artillery and aircraft, yesterday attacked the strategic post of Wadia. nearly 400 miles north east of Aden. South Yemen President Salem Rebaye told a mass rally here last night. President Rebaye said that there had been
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  • 106 1 AMMAN, Sun. (AFP) The Palestinian Peoples Fighting Front (PPFP) today sent a message expressing its "deep regret" and "sincerest condolences" to the mother of a two-year-old Greek boy killed in Thursday's grenade attack on the El Al Airline office in Athens. "We want to assure you that our
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  • 206 1 LONDON*. Sun <t~Pl) A ranking U.S. government official yesterday held secret talks In Cairo with two of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser's closest associates 00 the Middle East crisis. In Tel Aviv, an Israeli spokesman denied Cairo reports that 184 Americans were serving with
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  • 72 1 JAKARTA. 3un. (Reuteri— Indonesian police in Medan. North Sumatra, have arrested a woman and a man accused of being illegal agents of Malaysian lotteries and seized hundreds of lottery tickets. Antara News Agency reported today. Antara quoted the head of the criminal section of the Medan Police Command.
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  • 378 1 The National Trades Unions Congress will soon launch an island-wide mass campaign aimed at doubling its present 100.000-strong membership, it was announced here yesterday. In a press statement, the Deputy Chairman of the NTUC Modernisation Campaign Committee, Enche Hashim Idris, said: "Recruitment cards are
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  • 68 1 PANGKOK Sun (Router > —A Peking-trained Thai Communist guerrilla leader, much feared in Nakhon Sitftammarat province, 500 miles south of Bangkok, has escaped a police cordon after a brief gunflght. according to Gen Prakarn Chatnilbhand. Provincial Police Commissioner. Gen. Prftk&rn who returned from South Thailand last night, told
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  • 28 1 NEW DELHI. Sun (AFP) Kerala Interior Minister Mohammad Koya has accused mill t&nt Communist Marxists of collecting arms for an uprising in the South Indian province.
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  • 143 1 WELLINGTON. Sun. (Reuter) There would be no change in New Zealand's commitments to the Malay-sia-Singapore region. New Zealand Prime Minister, Keith Holyoake, said here today. Speaking to reporters at National Party headquarters after the results of yesterday's General Election showed he had been returned to office
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  • 130 1 BANGKOK. Sun. (Reuter) Bangkok police last night removed a funeral wreath from outside the pavilion where the week-long Miss Thailand 1969 contest is being held, police reported today. The report said the wreath, which attracted a large crowd, had attached to It a poem in the Thai
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 59 2 What, a coat for a double bass? Yes, a member of the North West German Chamber Ensemble, Prof. Alwin Bairer thought it would be a good idea to rest his coat on hit double bass while waiting for his flight to Kuala Lumpur. But he was unaware that his coat
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  • 509 2 THE week-long lull in the "murder wave" which hit Singapore wa» rudely shattered yesterday morning by the discovery of the badly stabbed bodies of two youths at the foot of People's Park. The murder of Wan Chee Chai, 18, and Tan K*ee
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  • 208 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun A proposal to set "P a regional centre for the investigation and development of tin deposits is to be submitted to the government, the Chief Inspector of Mines. Enche Mohamed Salleta bin Abdul Majid. said here today The centre, he said, would
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  • 141 2 About 450 people attended the funeral of the Rev. Bro. Noel, Principal of the St. Gabriel's School, yesterday. Bro. Noel, who served the robe for a great many years, died on Friday at the Mount Alvernia Hospital. Students. old boys, parents, teachers, relatives, friends,
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  • 404 2 Opportunity To Express The first "Model Youth Parliament" session which begins this Tuesday will prepare the first batch of 68 students from the upper secondary schools and institutes of higher learning to shoulder responsibilities as future parliamentarians. This was disclosed Saturday by the M.P. for Crawford,
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  • 174 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun The cost of power in West Malaysia has rone down by 50 percent for industrial consumption and about 22 percent for riomnUr uses. spokesman of the National Electricity Board said todar "The tariffs for commercial and industrial uses had fallen by
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  • 306 2 Fourteen-year-old Ho Koh Cheong has won again in the Blue Cross Milk Contest, but this time he has been placed right to the top, in Contest "D". Koh Cheong. a secondary two student of the Serangoon Garden Secondary School hat earlier won consolation prises in two previous
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  • 272 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. About 400 huts housing 2.813 squatters in Gombak Lane here today went up in flames when the demolition squad initiated its big operation against slum areas in the Federal Capital. What was home to the 624 families for the past 20 years
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  • 163 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun The National Union of Teachers today ursed all Malaysian teachers to take concrete st*»ps to enhance racial harmony in the country. The call was contained in the Union's annual report to be tabled at its annual delegates' conference in Seremban Dec. 4
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  • 131 2 KUCHING. Sarawak. Sun. (UPI) Se-uritv force, in Sarawak killed fovr Communist terrorists in the Sarikei district of Sarawak Friday a State Operations Committee spokesman said vesterday Act:ng on information, security for"e« contracted the terrorists who were in jungle green uniforms and resting, in the d*eo Jungle
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  • 231 2 KUALA Sun The Alcrn Malaysia Berhad will offer 2.950,000 share* at $1 10 per share to rr.eet the firm'* expansion programme. The prospectus offering the shares of $1 each for public subscription at $l.lO per share will be pub lshed tomorrow and the subscription list will open
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  • 51 2 KUCHINO Sun (Reuters A 24-hour curfew imposed on parts of the Sibil and Kanowit districts of Sarawak on Nov 21 has been relaxed. Curfew hours from today will now be from 7pm t<* 5 a m. police said Security forces have seen searching f6r Comm.urtist terrorists m the
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  • 392 3 SAIGON, Sun. (UPI) The Nixon administration already has met its goal of reducing U.S. troop strength in Vietnam to 484,000 men by mid-December, American military sources said today. The sources said the actual troop strength figure for Vietnam as of Nov. 27
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  • 92 3 SEOUL. Sun. (UPI) All male students in senior high schools and in South Korea will take military drills a* r>art of their reeular curricula beginning next year. Th Education Ministry announced thi* plan yesterday afte r studying the result* of student military training in seven big universities
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  • 100 3 TOKYO. Sun. (UPI) One tram passenger was killed and 19 others were Injured last night when their train derailed alone the national railways in the western part of Japan. The accident occurred in Shiga Prefecture of Japan's main Island of Honshu. 360 kilometres east
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  • 135 3 Perth-to-Sydney Rail Opened BROKEN HILL, new South Wiles. Sun (Renter) —-The first standard ,tr?fscontinentai railway UnWng Sydney with Perth -.641 •way across some of the most desolate countrv In Australia, has been ooened here by Prime Minister John Gorton Mr. Gorton yesterday drove a golden spike into th e ground
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  • 364 3 OKINAWA ISSUE TOKYO, Sun. (UPI) Communist Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai declared last night that the United States and Japan have entered into new military collusion wnich will bring Japan to a greater disaster than the wartime dictatorship of Hideki Tojo, Communist China's
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  • 167 3 RAWALPINDI. Sun. (UPI)— Police arrested 23 person* yesteraav for rioting and making an attempt on the life of Z A. Bhutto cha.rman of the leftwing Pakistan Peoples party, at Sadiqacad. some 550 miles southwest of Rawalpindi. The 23 were part of about
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  • 196 3 HONO KONO. Bun <AFP> Death claimed the ninth life in the local movie circle In five years when yesterday the body of popular movie actress Margaret Tu Chuan wis found with that of another girl in what appeared to be a suicide pact
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  • 53 3 VIENTIANE. Sun. (Reuter) —A British nurse and her Vietnamese driver were killed when their car was ambushed on the road from Thakhek to Vientiane, as informed diplomatic source revealed today. source said the nurse had served at the British hospital In Thakhek under the Colombo Plan
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  • 199 3 SAIGON. Sun (UPI) A government spokesman says there woul I be no new investigation of the alleged Song Mv massacre despite Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky's dissatisfaction with the original probe The spokesman declined corrment when asked if he was aware that Ky earlier
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  • 160 3 NEW DELHI, Sun. (UPI) The New Delhi headquarter of the Congress Party organisation became the scene yesterday of the bitter tiff between the two factions each led by Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi and Siddavvanahali Nijalingappa. Majority of the employees of the All
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  • 59 3 JAKARTA. Sun (UPI) Health authorities reported today that almost 50.000 persons in Central Java have caught malaria this year, a seven-fold increase over 1968. A malaria eradication drive Is being conducted in the den-sely-populated area. Officials said the big increase follows disbandment of annual eradication programmes
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  • 59 3 TOKYO. Sun (UPl)—Prince Aya todav was promised by his grandparents. Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako, a new bicycle t<> replace his hand-me-dcwn It was Aya's fourth birthday The only bicycle he has ridden was a hand-me-down from his older brolher. Prince Hiro 9. Thev are the
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  • 330 3 HONG KONG, Sun. (UPI) The wife of an American Medical Officer, captured by fhe Vietcong after a helicopter crash in Vietnam two years ago, arrived here from Phnom Penh yesterday after talking to a representative of the National Liberation Front. Mrs. Valerie
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  • 90 3 NEW DELHI. Sun (Reuter)i West Bengal Chief Minister I Ajoy Mukherjee s aid here that he was going ahead with plans to hold a mass three-day hunger strike in Calcutta in protest against the violence and grown ng Lawlessness in his state. Mr Mukherjee told
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  • 571 4  -  Ann Landers DEAR Ann: Frequently you priht gripes from disgruntled secretaries, housekeepers, salespeople. waitresses and postmen. While going through some old first editions I came across a little gem entitled "Rules Of This Establishment." I hope you will print it •for
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  • 69 4 BAIOON*. Sun (UPI> The U.B. Navy said its oldest destroyer, the 27-year-old USS Nicholas, ha* completed her final operational mission and will leave Vietnam soon to be deactivated. The Nicholas, a veteran of World War II and the Korean conflict, blasted Communist targets near the
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  • 45 4 KARACHI. Sun. (Reuter)— Pakistan is issuing a 50 palsa stamp on Tuesday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first flight from England to Australia. It will depict a Vlckers Vlmy aircraft and Karachi's airport buildings as they looked half a century ago.
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  • 283 4 VIENNA. Sun. (UPI) An 84-year-old Vienna won-an has been sentenced to six months In jail for stealing 40 shillings However, there was little sympathy yesterday for Miss Hedwiz Thoman The wisened. whitehaired woman, who has spent more than half her life in orison. i 5
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  • 102 4 GIBRALTAR. Sun (tTPI) Spanish warships yesterday steamed into Algeclras Bay off the British Colony <>f Gibraltar which Spain claims. The ships dropped artchor shortly after Spanish Housing Minister Vicente Mortes Alfonso, in a speech a t nearby Alfeclras. said under certain conditions. Spam might impose further
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  • 445 4 LONDON. Sun. (UPh The Kremlin it pushing a major fence-mending operation among dissidents of the Red bloc alignment, diplomatic sources said yesterday. The latest move to win back one time friends that have left the camp in hostility to Moscow applies to
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  • 118 4 TEL AVTV. Sun (Router) A hint that Ruaua might intervene directly in the Middle F"t dispute has been dropped bv Dr Moshe Sneh. Chairman of the Central Committee of the Israeli Communist Party "I won't take it upon myself to lull the Israeli
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  • 99 4 CAMBRIDGE England. Sun (L*Pl> Somewhere In England a min feels better n«»w after 60 years of regretting a college prank Frederick Drayton Porter. Chief Constable of the Cam-bridge-area Police Force, received a letter that attest* to thi» on Friday "About 60 years ago when I wag an undergraduate
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  • 130 4 LONDON Sun (UPI) Scotland Yard appointed an eight-man team to investigate the first corruption charge* In recent memory against its elite corps of detectives Eight detective* from the Yard s murder branch will Investigate allegations in the Times of London's Saturday morning edition* that three London
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  • 100 4 NEW YORK Sun (UPI) Academy-Award winner Bat+>ra Streisand has been gpumed in her C *****.000 bid to purchase a 20-roorn aoartment m a chic Park Avenue Co-operative Miss Streisand, who won the academy award for her portrayal of Fanny Brice In Funnv Girl." was rejected by the
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  • 396 4 ARAB COMMANDOS' ATTACK ATHENS, Sun. (UPI) Greek authorities filed murder charges yesterday against two Arab commandos accused of the bombing which tore apart the Israeli airline II Al office here on Thursday. The charees of premeditated murder, which can carry the death penalty, were filed
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  • 77 4 MILAN. Sun. (ReuW) Polio vrtlk+d Into th*. digrifled premise* of a new bank her* questioned the four director* and promptly arrested them. It w '*s nor really a bank at all. the po'.ice «aid yesterday. It h ad been opened without authorisation or licence and with intent to
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  • 43 4 MILL, HILL. England Sun. (UPI> Mountaineer Nigel HdlmoU used hi* personal climbing *err to shinny uo a 100-foot highway lamp-post when hit professional electricians ladder broke down Firemen arrived to get him dow r 20 minutes after he cilled for he p
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
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    • 6 4 TODAY a Monday, Decemb«r 1, 1989.
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  • 360 5 MARBLEHEAD, Mass., Sun. (UPI) The word Christmas" and any activity which might suggest observance of one of the Christian Church's greatest holidays have been banned from Marblehead's public schools. All reference to the word Christmas will be eliminated In group activities planned In all Marblehead
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  • 203 5 FORT BENNING. Georgia, Bun. (Reuter) The U.S. Army disclosed tonight that a new charge of murder has been brought against Lt. William Calley, already facing Court Martial in connection the alleged My Lai Massacre of South Vietnamese civilians. The new charge alleges that Lt.
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  • 160 5 BUENOS AIRES Sun <Reu«s> El Bhty-four Argentine political prisoners were released and 25 fugitives pardoned In an amnesty ordered last night by President Juan Carlo® Ongania Most of the prisoners had been held without charge for five months under the terms of the State of Seige imposed
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  • 123 5 WASHINGTON. Sun. <UPI> Whereas U.S. government maps say its Cape Kennedy, all the signs you see call It Cape Canaveral, and most Floridlans consider them signs of the future as well as the past Government officials were swept Into a name-changing fervour In the emotional days following the
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  • 65 5 LAS VEGAS. Nevada Sun (UPI> Producers of the r°ck musical 'Hair" were assured or Fridav that the' dawnlr.g of the Age of Aquarius woulri suffer no setbacks from local law officers. District Attorney Georee Franklin, who received a written renort on the oroduction on Friday from Undersheriff L'ovd
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  • 313 5 NEW YORK. Sun. (UPI) The New York Times in an editorial entitled "The Lesson of Song My", commented in its Sunday edition: "Public revulsion and official condemnation In the wake of the alleged massacre of Vietnamese civilians are proof that the national
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  • 423 5 SPACE CENTRE, Houston. Sun. (UPI) "Proud thrilled and happy/' Apollo 12 moon pilots returned home yesterday to a warm welcome. "It's great to be back and I do appreciate a'.l vou folks coming o ut here." s aid Richard F Gordon, the Yankee Clipper
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  • 292 5 NEW YORK. Sun. (UPI) An autopsy performed Saturday on the body of Steven A. Brandt, a Hollywood gossip columnist and figure in the Tate murders investigation, indicated his death had been caused by "congestion" of his body's chief organs after an apparent overdose of
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  • 241 5 BOSTON, Sun. (UPI) The Kobierski Siamese t"win j, born a week ago and separated Wednesday, under* went the first of a series of followup operations Saturday and were reported "doing very well." A spokesman at Massachusetts General Hospital said Maureen Ann and Marie Elizabeth Kobierski
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  • 172 5 WASHINGTON. Sun A Nobel Prize winning gene, j ticist. Dr .toshua Lederberg will be among witnesses who will testify on Tuesday at Congressional hearings into US policy on ehem:eal-blo-log cai warfare (CBW). Chairman Clement J Zablocki of Wisconsin, vesterdav announced his House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee
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  • 274 5 HONOLULU. Sun. (UPI) An underwater laboratory may pave the way toward "inhabited villages on the ocean floor." Gosta Fahlman, General Manager of the Makapuu Oceanic Foundations test range, was talking about the Aegis, an undersea laboratory designed to support six scientists working on the ocean
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  • 64 5 NEWPORT England. Sun fUPI) Every time John Richardson kissed his wife. Linda in their home they felt a tincle. Or rather, a painful zap of electric current Richardson hunted for the answer rather than desist. He traced the shock to a n*w nylon carpet and solves by the
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  • 410 5 WEST PALM BEACH, Flo., Sun. (UPI) Thousands of bedraggled youths tried to dry out under a cloudy sky at Florida's Rock Music Festival yesterday while undercover narcotics agents circulated among them hunting for drug pushers. They're all on LSD. All of 'em are using it/' said
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  • 148 5 WASHINGTON Bun. (UPP A chunk of the moon will add Its dull lustre to Osaka, Japan's Expo 70, it was disclosed yesterday. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said one of 15 "moon stones'* gathered by the Apollo 11 astronaut* will be put
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  • 87 5 KEY BISCAYNE. Fla Sun. 'Reuter> President Nixon and member? of his family today to Grand Cay Island in the British Bahama* 150 miles northeast of his Florida home here Nixon was accompanied by his wife. Pat. his daughter and son-in-law. Mr. and Mrs. David ES.«enhower and Miss
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    • 151 5 J r n W W J w-« V K r*l XX J?" k«i n m f ;w h J SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO THE HOUSE OF TANG On December 2nd, sth, 9th, 12th, 16th, 19th, 20th, 22nd, 23rd, and 24th. from 2.30 p.m. to 4.00 p.m. If you wish
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  • 859 6 TyTJW Zealand, like Singapore, exert* far too 1.1 much influence in this region that what one would expect its size would warrant. Its population of 2.7 million is only a little above that of Singapore and in area, New Zealand is a wee bit more than four times
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  • 785 6  -  By PETER AJAYI IBADAN Most Nigerians in fed up with the 28-month-old war They would be happv to tee its end now. Everybody hat suffered enough. Most people fail to understand why there is no solution. Can't the Federal troops take the small parcel
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  • 369 6 THE LIGHTER SIDE BY DICK WEST: WASHINGTON, (UPI) Reports submitted to the American public Health Association recently provide new evidence that air pollution causes respiratory ailments and other maladies that sometimes prove fatal. Maybe there are still some skeptics around, but I personally am now convinced beyond
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  • 572 6  -  By JONATHAN FENBY PARIS, Sun. (Router) Heaps of manure outside government offices, roads blocked with broken bottles, a Minister pelted with apples and earth these are recent signs that France's farmers are on the march again, using their traditional weapons
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  • 516 6  -  Br WILLIAM KROGER RENO. Nevada Sun. (UPI) University of Nevada scientists are studying the atmosphere of the Planet Venus in an attempt to understand some of Earth's problems, including the effect of air pollution. Dr. Patrick Squires, a Desert Research Institute scientist from
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  • 257 6 TEL AVIV, Sun. (Reuter) Following is a chronology of Arab guerrilla action against the Israeli national airlint. El Al: July 23. 1968: El Al plane with 38 passengers and 10 crew hijacked to Alriers shortiv after take-off from Rome All passengers except Israelis allowed to
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  • 31 6 proplr who are very resourceful At being remorseful. And who apparently feel that the best way to make friends Is to do something terrible and then make amends. OGPENNASH
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  • 221 6 WARSAW. Sun. (Reuter) Two minor rivers, the Oder end the Neisse, form a boundary line which has been e constant source of friction between West Germany and Poland since World War Two. Under the post-war Potsdam Agreement in 1945. they were used as th« basis
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    • 33 6 n APCK.LO 2 r ong-life A'iir Z diL aid Z TomtMUra lunarjonosphere To measure Moon's magnetic field To measure moonquakee A meterotd impacts 2S m SOLAR WIND 3kSi At? 54 IR V*t f-
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
    • 591 7 HONG KONG, Sun. (UPI) Japan on Thursday contributed for the second time 7.2 billion yen (US$2O million) to the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) Consolidated Special Funds. An egreement on th« contribution designed for concessional lending was signed by ADB President Takeshi Watanabe in
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    • 82 7 TOKYO Sun. (UPI) Nihon Aeroplane Manufacturing Co. disclosed on Friday it will soon ship five of its YA--11 commercial planes to Athens-based Olympic Airway# SA., multi-millionaire Aristotle Onassis' airline The price and dates of delivery are to be decided In talks to be held in New
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    • 327 7 NEW YORK. Sun. (UPI) U.S. Steel Corp. has shifted its pricing method on large volume flat rolled products to the "theoretical weight basis" announced earlier this month by three competitors. The change, which offers oortoe reductions of varying degrees, was initiated by Bethlehem Steel Corp.,
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    • 199 7 NEWARK. New Jersey Sun. <UPI) An American trade magazine said Fridav the Soviet Union will in 1970 or shortly thereafter surpass the U.S. in annual tonnage of raw steel produced. This 'vent will make th* USSR world leader in steel production. Said 33 Magazine.
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    • 94 7 TOKYO. Sun. (UPI) Japan exported an all-time high of 71.300 passenger cars and trucks in October. Japan Automobile Manufacturing Federation announced yesterday. The federation said this was an Increase of 9 per cent over the preceding month and a whopping 41 per cent rise compared with
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    • 220 7 KUALA LUMPUR, Sun. The director of the Tin Research Institute in England. Dr. W.K. Haore, has called for the establishment of a scientific and technical link between tin producing and consuming countries to achieve a more rapid increase in production. Dr. Haore who Is
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    • 275 7 THE HAGUE, Sun. (UPI) Common Market heads of government meeting in The Hague next week are expected to agree on a loose "timetable" for membership talks with Britain, responsible Common Market sources said yesterday. The Minister* of the "Six" are unlikely, however, to set
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    • 150 7 TAIPEI. Sun. (AFP) Nationalist China has built two more export processing sones which upon completion shortly are expected to accommodate a total of 250 plants. Official sources said that the Nantzu Processing Zone near Kaohsiung in South Taiwan would be completed at the end
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    • 742 7 Its Ali Up In The Air The world's most unusual beauty contest is being organised by a group of men isolated tor a year inside the Arctic Circle. Unusual because the contest is being held at 35,-000-feet and because the judges will
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    • 286 7 TOKYO, Sun. (UPI The third of eight supertankers being built for Chinese Shipping Tycoon C.Y. Tung will be christened on Tuesday and placed into operation in January, Tung's Island Navigation corporation said today. The 220,000-ton tanker the Inergy Generation, will be christened by Mrs.
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    • 119 7 LA PAZ, Bolivia. Sun. (Reuter) Bolivia is expected to press for maintenance of current tin export quotas during next week's meeting of the International Tin Council ln London, informed sources said here today. Alternatively, if the pressure is too great from countries seeking a
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    • 119 7 TWO more members of the Scandinavian Airlines staff will be leaving for further training in Copenhagen in December They are Miss Jenny Lee who will be taking a course in advance passenger ground service and Mr. Stephen Tav who will be taking a basic
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    • 149 7 TOKYO Sun. (AFP) Toyota. Motors Co. of Japan will be the world's fifth largest automobile producer this year, surpassing Italy's Fiat, Toyota predicted Friday. The prediction was based on a comparison of aggregate outputs of the world's six largest autombile makers during the
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    • 171 7 NEW YORK. sun. (UPI) While Japanese and American tex'ile trade bargainers we*e preparing for further talks aimed at ending the impasae over imports. American sales agents for Japanese trading companies were seeing chances of better prices after restrictions on imports of Japanese goods. With the
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  • 491 8 Vintage Costumes At 'Festival Of Diamonds' TOP: The "models" behind the giant frames are wearing clothes worn a century ago, at the recent Festival of Diamonds. From left are Miss Harbans Kaur Sandhu. Miss Pritam Kaur Sandhu. Mrs, Aminah Moktar, Datin Almenoar, Mrs. Loke Yew, one of
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE ALL TEN DOLLARS ESSAY WINNERS
    • 557 9 *T think it's time for your 1 haircut." my mother said to me one day. "Haircut?" I asked, sOmewnat astounded. Till now, I remembered that It was Just the ripe time to "harvest" my forest of half. It had now covered my forehead and was tangling
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    • 658 9 THERE were once about ten atrap houses situated very near to the sea. This was a very quiet place and the inhabitants earn their living by fishing. Thus at about four or five o'clock In the morning, the families usually set out for work. They row their
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    • 520 9 NOWADAYS, in the twentieth century, science it a very uesful asset to man. With the help of scientific research, many things which were unknown are discovered For example, during the world of yesterday, it was believed that no one could go to the moon because
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      168 9 HAVING pen-friends has aroused the interest of many younf peop:e of Singapore The word pen-friend" means a friend with whom you communicate through corresponding. Peoele use English as an international language for correspondence They use English to correspond because all ever the world large numbers of peop> know English
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      244 9 EVERYONE of us ought to have a fixed amount of Docket mon*v either weeklv or monthly, instead of being *iven a small amount daily. *»v bemr giver- the money weekly, we will d eve 100 a monev sense and realise the import a rre of money. The amount
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      622 9 TO be frank 'bravery* is known to all and has no definite definition. It is synonymous with dare-devil deeds backed with overwhelming odds which may be physical or moral, and with reference to examples it usually ends up in success or 'death'. Although the word 'bravery' seems to conjure
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    • 383 9 AS BOYS, we naturally love adventures. We hod read so many books about mountain climbing and we were so thrilled that one of the boys suggested the craxy idea of climbing Gunong Tahan. After much discussion we decided that we should go on an expedition This, in
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 268 9 Students' Essays OTUDENTS in reminded that they can continue te tend in their essays during the final-term school holidays. Winning entries will be published, as usual, in the Eastern Sun every Monday and Thursday during the school holidays. Winners of essays will receive their cheques through their respective principals when
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  • Page 9 Miscellaneous
    • 109 9 DATELINE: DANGER! by John Saunders and Aider McWifliams THAT'S THE DLiKE... THE SYNDICATE IS GOING TO TAKE OVER THE Y ADAM'S QIB3 COMPUTER NETWORK ALL BECAUSE YOU BORROWED MONEY FROM THEM TO GET STARTED...NOW EVERY UOTNT WILL BE A BKTTINa PALACE I'M SORRX SON... THERE'S NOTHING, Sw I CAN DO/
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    • 35 9 AMY By J«cl( Tippit m A" v< i) i w k I «i#A > *< it "Lost night I dreamed I was sinking In quicksand, but it turned into peanut butter ond I ote my way out."
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  • SUN SPORT
    • 1997 10  -  Johnson Scores First Winner Br Jimmy Lad AUSTRALIAN jockey Lau- rie Johnson who is here on four-month's buiman'i holiday scored hit first winner at Bukit Timah ye»torday when he landed Sound Speed an easy winner to pay $33 for a win ticket. Cairo, with Hassan bin
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    • 106 10 THE Singapore Turf Club will stage an international race on Sunday, the last day of the meeting. The guest Jockeys Lester Plggott. Ron Hutchinson. Sandy Barclay, who is expected here this week. Des Coleman and Laurie Johnson. will be pitted against resident Australian Jockeys Glynn Pretty.
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    • 269 10 Steward Orders Swab Urine Test On Lovable II Following is the Stipendary Steward's report on yesterday's racing at Bukit Timah. R\CE 1: Trainer Teh SaT Leong was fined 525 for failing to produce the correct colours for Tartanga. During the race Jessie's Delight Wilson) hung In. RACE 2: Golden Kanna
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    • 156 10 HILTON Head island. South Carolina, sun. <Reuter> Arnold Palmer was poised for his first tournament win In more than a /ear after regaining sole lead yesterday in the US$lOO,OOO Heritage golf classic with a third-round 70 here. Palmer, who shared the lead In the first
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    • 477 10 TOKYO. Sun. (UPI> Canada's Graydon Robinson, a sheet metal worker from Montreal, today won the 1969 World Cup Ten-Pin Bowling championship for amateurs by coming from behind to beat Thailand's lit Lenavat by a six-pin margin 379-373 in two gamos at the Korakuen Sugamo
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    • 201 10 MAR DEL PLATA. Argentina, Sun (L'PI) Santos football star Pele told reporter* here yesterday that he was "saturated with travelling, and because of this. I expect to play only three or four more years and t i dedicate myself to my (real ambition teaching children." The
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    • 103 10 BRISBANE. Sun. (Reuter) Queensland looked set for an outright win tomorrow in tb*ir Sheffield Shield match against New South Wales at Brisban# cricket round. At stumps on the third day New South Wales, in their sec. ond mnings. were 257 for eight. But although they
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    • 170 10 NEW DELHI. Sun. (Reuters Australia were skittled out for 107 their lowest total against India for ten years as spin bowler claimed 1" wickets on the third day of the third cricket Test here today India needed 188 runs to win with nine wickets remaining
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    • 145 10 LONDON, sun. (Reuter) Denmark's Sven Prl, rated among the top half dozen players In the world, retained his men's singles title In the London Open badminton championships at Crystal Palace yesterday. In a exciting 48-mlnute final he recovered from unhealthy looking deficits In both sets to beat
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    • 569 11 Snow Causes 24 Games Be Called T ONDON, Sun. (Reuter) Leeds United, the supreme example of professional dedication in English soccer, broke a 33-year hoodoo when they went to Maine Road yesterday and beat Manchester City 2-1 in a crucial English First Division game. This battle
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    • 374 11 LONDON. Sun. (Reuter) Harlequins won the unofficial Ut.e of London Ru#by Union champions at Twickenham here yesterday whe n thev beat London Welsh 21-9 Quins s r oreri a il their points in the first-half against a *ide weakened by Welsh tnal calls. Four tries came
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    • 1410 11 English Division One Burnley 1. Man Utd. 1 Derby 0. Nott. Forest 2. Ipswich 1. West Ham 0. Liverpool 0. Arsenal 1. Man. City 1. Leeds 2 Southampton 1. Crystal 1. Wolves 1, Sunderland 0. Postponed: Chelsea v Stoke. Newcastle v West Brom. ShefT. Wed v Coventry.
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    • 81 11 LOS ANGLES. Sun. (UPI) Alan Rudkin. the 28-year-old British bantamweight who will face Mexico's Ruben Olivares in a title fight Dec 12. boxed four rounds with Mamoru Minamy of Japan yesterday in his first American workout i n preparation for the 15-round bout. "I'm in great
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    • 182 11 LOURENCO MARQUES. Mozambique, Sun. (Reuter) Australia ended Rhodesia's world soccer cup hopes here yesterday with a 3-1 victory that puts them into the group fifteen final against Israel And the prize Israel and Australia will be fighting for Is a place in next
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    • 124 11 BANGKOK. Sun. (Reuter) South Korea beat defending champions the Philippines 95-86 to win the filth Asian basketball tournament here last night with a perfect eightvictory record The South Koreans oaced by wily forward Lee Ja Young overpowered the Filipinos in a thrilling match which was
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    • 54 11 NEW BRIGHTON, Sun. (Reuter) The south African rugby team beat a combined New Brighton and North of Ireland club combined side bv 22 points to 6 here yesterday after leading 8-3 at halftime The game was arranged after the Springviks' match against Ulster in Belfast, scheduled for today,
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    • 44 10 BIG SWEEP Ist Prix* No: *****3 $4,161 2nd Prix* No: *****7 $1,189 3rd Prix* No: *****6 594 Starters: ($l5O «ach) Nos:— *****0 *****6 *****4 *****3 *****7 *****6 *****4 *****3 *****0 Consolations: ($lOO *ach) Nos:— *****1 *****2 *****3 *****6 *****6 *****8 *****7 *****3 *****5 *****1
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    • 270 11 I TENDER SINGAPORE POLYTECHNIC TENDER TENDERS are Invited from established Arms for the following 1. Tender For Transportation A 108 69. 2. Tender For The Supply Of Books To The Singapore Polytechnic Library And Other Department* Of The Polytechnic L 109 69. 3. Tender For The Supply Of Staff Uniforms
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    • 1028 11 ■BTr/jn fgj&AaL TV SINGAPURA (CHANNEL 5) P.M 300 Opening Anncts ir all Language* A Morning Btar: 320 Woman's World (Tamil*; 3 5o A Diary Of Event# In Singapore This Week (Tamil); 3.55 Itj Happening In Singapore iTamil» 'Repeat) 4.10 Scarlett Hill 'Proof Positive*; 5.00 Close; 600 Opening Anncts in all
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  • 426 12 School children must not only be provided with good leadership but must also be given ample opportunities to be good leaders themselves, the Minister for Social Affairs, Enche Othman Wok, said yesterday. Teachers therefore have an important role to play in this
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  • 58 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. The National Union of Teachers will hold its annual dele, gates* conference at the St. Paul's Secondary School. Seremban, from Dec. 4 to 6. The Union's General Secretary, Mr. John Gurusamy, today said the conference would discuss the Aziz Commission's recommendations and that its deliberations
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  • 116 12 PENANO, Sun. Panama would explore ways and mean* of Increasing trade with Malaysia, it* Consul General here. Mr. Arnulfo Stanzlola said today. He said at present his country is looking Into the possibility of buying more "made In Malaysia" goods. Mr. Etanzlola said he would
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  • 18 12 THERE were a total of 72 road accident* of which six were classified as serious on Saturday.
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  • 490 12 Prof. Leonard Cohen, head of Nanyang University's Department of Industrial and Business Maiagement, yesterday strongly urged that Nantah be accorded a status equal with that of the University of Singapore. Nantah, he said, is one of the finest universities in the world internationally recognised for
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  • 281 12 An 11-member group of the Organisation for Industrial, Spiritual and Cultural Advancement (OISCA) International, arrived here from Japan for a three-day visit to promote goodwill and friendship in Singapore and countries in Asia. The group, which arrived Saturday led by Mr. Masayoshl Tomolko. comprises agricultural
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  • 178 12 A trial run to select the "Most Courteous Driver" was held at the Empress Place yesterday morning. The following are the winner* Motor-Cycle* and scooters: 1. Abdul Malik. 2 M«hd. Arsat. and 3. Rama Jayaram Stephen. Consolation: P>h*r«« fc'M-n. Tommy Fanf. Tay Pnh Seng. Kok
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  • 198 12 A team of Russian scientists told reporters at the airport yesterday that Singapore can expect more visits from Russian scientists. The team of 18 top Russian scientists, headed by Prof. D.I. Pantshava. Doctor of Moscow University said that during their two-day visit, they will discuss with University
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  • 87 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. The Malaysian government Is to set up four more fishing centres at Kuantan, Lumut, Kuala Kedah. and Penang. the Minister of Agriculture and Co-operatives. Dato Hajl Ghazall bin Jawl. disclosed here today Foreign experts from four nations Japan, Belgium. France and Canada have completed their surveys
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  • 100 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Bun. V> 1-known Penans->v>rn ar': r t Yeo Hoe Koon will hold his sixth one-man show at the Galerl 11 In Jalan Plnang here on Tuesday. Yeo. who has exhibited his works several times In London and Paris, would display a total of 61 oil and
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  • 39 12 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun. Four people were missing when a motor-boat carrying 10 passengers capsized In the Trengganu River this morning. Six of them were rescued. A police spokesman said today efforts to locate the missing would continue.
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  • 152 12 SEVEN robbers held up four employees of a provision store in Brighton Crescant and escaped with cash $l5 and goods worth $448, yesterday. Mr. Heng Jwee, 40, a butcher with the Liang Heng Provision Store told the police that seven robbers, armed with two knives,
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  • 270 12 THE Samaritans of Singapore open their emergency telephone service to people tempted to suicide or des- pair today. The emergence telephone number ***** will be manned round the clock by two telephone Samaritans For a start, it will not be possible to cover all languages
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    • 117 12 TOTO DRAW THE following numbers were rlrawn In yesterday'i Toto Draw> 19 3 4 20 46 The additional number drawn was 32. In the three-circle draw, the number? drawn were 23 4 27. Time Tide TODAY CVr 1 Sirgapore Town—--342 am. (7 3 ft) 8 '>s am (5 ft). 236
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