Eastern Sun, 4 December 1969

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    21 1 Eastern Sun SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY E»td 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1198 Thursday. 4 December 1969. MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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    Lock icon Israelis Smash Lebanon Base
    349 1 LONDON, Wed. (UPI) Helicopter-borne Israeli troops supported by planes and artillery struck a huge Arab guerrilla base in Lebanon Wednesday in the first major strike into that country in three months. Israeli planes hit Egyptian Suez Canal positions and artillery fire pound ed Lebanon. An Israeli
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    Lock icon Detained
    20 1 Police have detained a man In connection with a robbery In a shop at Loror.g Four. Karr.pong Bukit. yesterday
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    Lock icon Britain's Entry Talks In June
    302 1 COMMON MARKET THE HAGUE, Wed. (UPI) The government leaders of the six Common Market nations agreed Tuesday to begin tolks with Britain and three other countries before June 30, 1967. Holland's Prime Minister Piet de Jong read a statement to newsmen at the close of
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    Lock icon Abandoned
    57 1 A new born baby girl was found yesterday, abandoned at the ll m.s. Mandai Road by a wireless operator Mr G Balakrtshnar. who was returning home found the baby wrapped in a Diece of cloth, along the road-side The identity of the baby is not known She Is now
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    124 1 SYDNEY, Wed (Reuter) A baby girl was born in a ditch inside the car which her excited father overturned in his rush to get his wife to hospital early today Cec Smith, 25. put his foot hard down on the accelerator when his 20-year-old wife Doreen began calling
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    Lock icon Tribesmen Fight Police In Thailand
    125 1 BANGKOK. Wed (Reuter) Pro-Communist Meo tribesmen seriously wounded a government soldier in an attack on a village outpost about 250 miles north of Bangkok, reports reaching Bangkok today said. The reports said about 15 Meos yesterday lobbed hand grenades and poured rifle fire into the
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    Lock icon Found Dead
    42 1 Police answering a 999 call yesterday rushed to a coffee shop in Jalan Besar and found a man dead In the toi'et. The man had no papers of identification on him The dead man was about 35 years of age
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    Lock icon THE trial of 43 Vietnamese charged with treason is seen during the concluding day in the military courtroom on the Saigon Naval Base. The defendants sit at the lower left with their defence lawyers in front facing the five man military court. Vu Ngoc Nha and Huynh Van Trong, the two most prominent men in the trial were sentenced to life imprisonment.
    62 1 THE trial of 43 Vietnamese charged with treason is seen during the concluding day in the military courtroom on the Saigon Naval Base. The defendants sit at the lower left with their defence lawyers in front facing the five man military court. Vu Ngoc Nha and Huynh Van Trong, the
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    Lock icon MAMLA-K.L. TIES BEFORE DEC. 16?
    385 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. Malaysia and the Philippines are likely to resume normal dip* lomatic relations before the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting scheduled for Dec. 16 and 17 at Cameron Highlands, the Philippines former envoy here, Mr. Romeo Busuego, hinted today. Mr. Busuego who flew in here
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    Lock icon Tun Razak In Rangoon
    178 1 RANGOON. Wed. <AFP> Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdui Razak and his party arrived here this morntng by sea for a flveday official visit to Burma The Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister met Burma's Foreign Minister Col. Maung Lwln and Col Hla Han Minister of Health ana
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    Lock icon N. Korea Frees Chopper Crew
    95 1 PANMUNJOM. Korea, Wed. (AFP) North Korea today set free three American helicopter crewmen after holding them for 108 days Capt David Crawford. Warrant Officer Malcolm Loepke. and Specialist Four Herman Hofstatter crossed southward over the Bridge of No Return astride over the South-North Korean border
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    Lock icon Russia's Marshal Voroshilov Dead
    252 1 MOSCOW, Wed. (Reuter) Marshal Klimenti Vorcshilov, one-time Soviet President publicly disgraced by former Premier Nikita Khrushchev for his activities in the Stalin era, died here today aged 88. A one sentence announcement by Tass News agency did not sav how* the railwayman's son who rose to
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    Lock icon Dewi Letter To Sukarno
    95 1 JAKARTA. Wed (UPI) President Suharto has passed along a letter to former President Sukarno from his third. Japanese wife. Ratna Sari Dewi. a government spokesman said Wednesday. The letter reportedly asks Sukarno for a divorce A government source said Dewl had handed over a second 1e
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    Lock icon Tough Laws
    75 1 RAWALPINDI. Wed. (UPT) The Martial Law government of President Yahya Khan introduced new regulations Tuesday imposing stiff penalties on government employees found guilty of inefficiency, corruption, misconduct or subversive activities. The new regulations were issued amid reports the government plans' to release a list of more than 100
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    Lock icon 6th Award In A Row
    71 1 The Photographic Society o* Singapore has woo an award in a world wide competition lor camera club magazine anM publications for the sixth consecutive year, its publicity chairman. Mr. Lim Tiong Arm. announced yesterday The competition, sponsored by the Photographic Society of America drew 64
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    75 1 Two of five candidates who will be selected to go to Australia on exchange programme in promoting goodwill and friendship between the two countries in March next year, spoke at the Singapore Rotary Club's luncheon yesterday. They are Mr Chew Chin Bin and Mr. Douglas Koh Both spoke how
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    Lock icon Malaysia Must Cut Birth Rate
    249 1  -  6y Ben Variyan KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. A Colombo Plan statistics expert said here today that Malaysia would face a serious unemployment problem if her alarming birth rate was not checked. Mr. M. D. Giles, of the Australian Bureau of Census and Statistics said the country's
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    Lock icon AMONG the new students at the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok for the 21 month long course leading to the Master of Engineer degree is Mr Siew-Koon Ho from Singapore. Before enrolling in AIT, Mr. Ho graduated from the Royal Melbourne Technical College in Melbourne, Australia. He is studying Water Science & Engineering.
    53 2 AMONG the new students at the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok for the 21 month long course leading to the Master of Engineer degree is Mr Siew-Koon Ho from Singapore. Before enrolling in AIT, Mr. Ho graduated from the Royal Melbourne Technical College in Melbourne, Australia. He is studying
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    Lock icon Vietnamese Minister Due To Strengthen Friendship
    331 2 THE Vietnam Minister of State, Dr. Phan Ouang Dan, is scheduled to arrive here this morning on a tour to strengthen the bonds of friendship with Singapore. During his present trip abroad. Dr. Dan is also visiting Laos. Thailand, Burma. India and Malaysia. On
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    Lock icon 2 Robbers Sentenced
    139 2 A gardener, Goh Joo Nfl. 28. and a hawker. Tang Lek Kia. 21. were sentenced to two years' jail by the Second District Court Judge Mr. Dor.aM Yeo Hock Chwee, yesterday after they p'.eaded guilty to robbing two Indonesians o* $6,700 at knife point. The Court was
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    Lock icon Ex-Actress Acquitted
    84 2 Former actress. Norma bte. Abdullah, accused of having committed criminal breach of trust by selling her car while It was still under hire purchase. was acquitted and discharged yesterday. When the Fifth District Court resumed after a flveday adjournment, the Judge. Syed Alwl bin Ahmad Aslree. recalled Ng
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    Lock icon Malaysia Plans For '70 Census
    425 2 KUALA LUMPUR, Wed. The government is to employ o total of about z2,000 enumerators to carry out a nation-wide population and housing census starting from June 23 next year. This was disclosed at a press conference here today by the Chief of Civil Affairs and
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    Lock icon About People In Singapore
    508 2 MR Edwin Bailey. First Secretary «Information» of the British High Commission and Mrs. Bailey are having a cocktail party tonight at their home in Calrnhlll Mansion. o o o Swami R Sattyanand, is giving a public lecture tonight a* the Theosophlcal Society premises at 8. Calrnhlll
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    Lock icon Accidents
    19 2 Traffic Police recorded a total ©f 37 road accidents of which seven were classified as serious on Tuesday
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    Lock icon Housewife Stabbed
    99 2 A heated argument led to the fatal stabbing of a 55-year-old housewife at a hou*e in Kampong Soo Poo yesterday. Police who gave her name a« Chloy Siow. said that .«he was stabbed to death, follow, ing an argument with a subtenant of the house Ilia Sz Wow
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    Lock icon Jim Clark's Cousin To Strike It Rich
    146 2 A cousin of Britain's racing ace, the late Jim Clark, made a brief stop-over at the airport yesterday, on his way to a new life as a farmer in Australia. He is Scottish farmer. Hamish Niven. who took farming aa his career four
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    Lock icon Children Enjoy Christmas Spirit
    127 2 HUNDREDS of children from four Homes were given a once a year treat at the Wonderland Amusement Tark last evening. i.iis was all in the «plr!t of tne c iir stTias sea.%or This "X'mas Tovland" was organised by the Chrtstma> Fair Committee to raise funds for
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    Lock icon CHIT FUND
    47 2 The Gemini Ch:t Fund Corpoi ation Ltd vhl-h has ach.eved remarkable progress sir.ee its beginning with a staff of five lr. 1964. opens its latent branch in .Turong todav TTT» chairman of the Corporation. Mr VKS Narayanan. will off c.al y derlare the branch ooen
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    Lock icon Con Men Get Two Years
    155 2 Tan Kha: Lim. 32. and Tay Huat 27. were both sentenced to two years' tall by the Fust District Judze. Mr. D C. D'Cotta alter he found 'hern guilty of six counts of cheating. Tan Khai Lim. 32. and sentenced to two years' Jail for
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      1054 2 mm >* (CHANNEL 5) PJH 300 Opening Annr.ts. in all Languages and Morning Star; 3J20 Another Song Another MelodV (Malay) (Repeat). 3.40 It's Hapoening In Singapore (Chinese* (Repeat); 355 Housewives Matinee (Sword Of Twin Wan chapter I Part 2 of a Cantonese Film'; 505 Close; 5.50 Opening Anncts. in all
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      77 2 Time Tide TODAY SINGAPORE TOWN: 6.31 a m (7.5 ft) 12 44 pm. <4.3 ft). 6.34 p.m (7 ft). NAVAL DOCKYARD 6.35 ltd (8.9 ft) 12.31 p.m. (5.3 ft). 645 p.m {8 4 fti TOMORROW SINGAPORE TOWN: 12 48 am. (3.9 f.)t 7.21 a.m. (79 ft). 1.50 p.m. (3.7 ft).
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    Lock icon Veteran Officer Disputes 'Massacre' Story: My Lai Women, Children Were Professional Killers
    383 3 SONG MY. Vietnam. Wed. (UPI) An Australian officer today said the women of My Lai hamlet "knew how to cut throats and the children could strip down a weapon like professionals." Capt. John Nelson. 26. a special forces
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    Lock icon The Start Of The Big Squeeze
    152 3 MANILA, Wed (UPI) The Foreign Office, following tle belt-tightening order s of President Marcos, today all senior officials and Philippine ambassadors t® economy class. A memorandum issued by Foreign Secretary Carlos Romulo also banned Filipino diplomats and department personnel from sending Christmas cards friends
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    Lock icon Hanoi Rejects Her Own Sick Troops
    409 3 BIEN HOA, South Vietnam, Wed. (UPI) In a barren, sun-punished square of barbed wire huddle the unwanted refuse of the North Vietnamese Army, some hopeless, some still defiant, all stoic. Since 1968, the South Vietnamese Army has been trying to return to North Vietnam
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    Lock icon UNC HANDS IN 'APOLOGY': North Korea Frees 3 US 'Copter Men
    568 3 PANMUNJOM, Korea. Wad. (UPI) North Korea today freed three American soldiers, wounded end captured 108 days ago when their helicopter strayed over North Korea and was shot down, after an apology from the United States. Specialist 4 Herman Hofstatter,
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    Lock icon US Court Rejects Petition: Bailey May Sue The Press For Libel
    321 3 WASHINGTON, Wed. (UPI) Attorney F. Let Bailey threatened libel suits last night against publications that don't retract stories alleging that Capt. Ernest Medina wantonly killed South Vietnamese civilians at Song My. The Boston lawyer said he has sent requests
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    Lock icon 'Talkathon' To Protest Against PI Elections
    201 3 MANILA Wed <UPI> A former Philippine Ambassador to the United Statp yesterday began a ftve-day "talkathon" protesting the "rape of democracy" in the presidential election Nov. 11. Amb. Amelito Mutuc. in a letter to President Marcos and read during a rally In downtown Manila,
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    Lock icon Changing Times
    40 3 LONDON. Wed <UPI) Miss D A Hawkins of Upper Tooting. London, wrote to the 'Times* of London yesterday the following, quoted in full. "Has anyone else noticed that the expression of the 'Man in the Moon' has changed?"
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    Lock icon Bomb Hoax
    63 3 LONDON. Wed (UPI) Police evacuated the United Arab Airway's building in Piccadilly yesterday when an anonymou* phone call said a bomb had Mn Dlanted inside As detectives searched the Arab offices, other poli<> cordoned ofT a nearby hotel and cleared the street outside. Th«» search proven fruitless and
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    Lock icon Bishop Resigns
    40 3 VATICAN CITY. Wed. (UPI> —Pope Paul VI yesterday accepted for reason* of age the resignation of Bishop Dominic Senvemon Fukahon of Fukuoka. Japan. The Pope named the 75-year-old Fukahori to the honorary post of Titular Bishop of Credpedula.
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    Lock icon Wild Flying Spree Ends In Tragedy
    142 3 AUCKLAND. Wed < Router) Kenneth Wiles took a light aircraft from an airport near here and bur/ed Auckland In a series of power-dive* tor nearly four hours Th**n the plane crashed into Manukau Harbour. 15 west of here, early today. Police said A rescue
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    Lock icon God Forbid!
    54 3 NEW DELHI. Wed. (UPI) The question. 'Does God exist?" arose in India's Parliament on Monday when an Opposition Member objected to judicial oath* In the name of God. Voting on his motion that Jurists and witnesses be made onlv to affirm instead of swear, 110 members were for
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    Lock icon Suharto Asks For US Aid If Other Creditors Let Him Down
    229 3 JAKARTA. Wed. (Reuter) President Suharto of Indonesia has asked the United States to help out if western creditor countries do not meet Indonesia's aid needs of 600 million U.S. dollars next year, a Palace spokesman said today. The President's
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    Lock icon Okinawa: Poison Gas Removed Next Year
    290 3 WASHINGTON, Wed. (UPI) Poison gas will b« removed from Okinawa and returned to the United States in five shiploads to be delivered by next spring. Army Secretary Stanley Resor announced yesterday. Defence Secretary Melvin Laird promised the removal last July when 33 persons on
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    Lock icon Record Price For Opal
    89 3 ADELAIDE. South Australia. Wed. (Reuter) A world record price of 168.000 Australian dollars (78,325 sterling) has been paid here for the largest opal ever found in Australia. The money went to four miners who walked into an Adelaide buyer's office last month, made him swear not
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    Lock icon Not With THAT Tour In Mind
    73 3 JAKARTA. Wed. (Reutcr) —Twelve Indonesian legislators. given 200 sterling each to tour the country, spent the monrv instead on a Joy-trin to Singapore and Kual a Lumpur. Antar a news agency reported today. The agency quoted local authorities as saying the legislators han violated
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    Lock icon Big 4 Agree On Swift Settlement
    500 4 ARAB-ISRAELI UNITED NATIONS, Wed. (Reuter) Russia, the United States, Britain and France have boosted Middle East peace hopes by agreeing to work out a settlement to the Arab-Israeli crisis as swiftly as pos- sible. After four-hour long talks which ended one minute before midnight
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    Lock icon Churchill Statue Unveiled In House
    258 4 LONDON". Wed (UPI) Sir Wir.ston Churchill stood awesome]v yesterday in the House of Commons his bulldog chin thrust forward, hands on hips, scowling defiantly i n bronze permanence Churchill was at home again He had once said "I am a child of the House of
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    Lock icon RC Priests May Strike
    129 4 DETROIT W#d IUPI) The Association oi Detroit Prints < ADP i postponed a threat- d strike againgt the archd-.0. ce* e of Detroit yesterday became "we have received prompt and po*iUv e response from cardinal (Johm Dfarden" to establish pi ievanc> procedures by the end of
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    Lock icon C-MART SUMMIT HAILED A BIG SUCCESS
    411 4 THE HAGUE. Wed. (Reuer) The two-day Common Market summit here is being hailed as a major success not only for clearing the way for entrv negotiations with Britain but also for having averted a crisis threatening the community's internal development As the Common Market
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    Lock icon Starving Amidst Abundance
    110 4 WASHINGTON. Wed (Reuter President Nixon, opening a White House conference, called today lor a concerted national effort to banish malnutrition from the United States. "The world's richest nation, boasting an agricultural abundance that rank* a* a miracle of the modern world, cannot long continue to live with
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    Lock icon No Red Power In Italy
    80 4 ROME Wed (UPI> The secretary of Italv's ruling Christ.an Democratic Party warned vesterda.v he will not allow the communists to tiptoe into a share of power. Flammio Plamlr.io Piccoll sa-.d in an editorial in the newspaper Ladige his party desires to restore centrele't alliance that
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    Lock icon The House Supports Nixon's V-N Policy
    316 4 WASHINGTON Wed. (UPI) In Congress' first statement on South-East Asia Policy since Lyndon John* son's 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, the House has passed overwhelmingly a resolution supporting President Nixon's Vietnam efforts. i A broad-based group of Republicans, southern Democrats and middle-of-the-road Democrats combined
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    Lock icon NATIONALIST CHINA'S President Chiang Kai-shek addresses to the Fifth General Assembly of the Asian Parliamentarians' Union, which opened in Taipeh recently. During the opening ceremony he said: "All of you here are defenders of freedom and democracy. For a long time you have been assuming the sacred responsiblity of assuring liberty for all the people, of independence for your countries and of peace and security for mankind ... Asia belongs to the Asians.
    76 4 NATIONALIST CHINA'S President Chiang Kai-shek addresses to the Fifth General Assembly of the Asian Parliamentarians' Union, which opened in Taipeh recently. During the opening ceremony he said: "All of you here are defenders of freedom and democracy. For a long time you have been assuming the sacred responsiblity of assuring
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    Lock icon Now, The Pill For Both Sexes
    152 4 LONDON. W>rl (Rrutrr) The International Planned Parenthood Federation plana to test in Britain a revolutionary contraceptive that can be used by either men or women. According to today's Issue of the World Medicine ma jail ne, the Hungarian-made contraceptive called C-fllm is the first
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    Lock icon Red Leaders Meet In Moscow For Summit Meeting
    355 4 MOSCOW. Wed. (Reuter) Communist party leaden. Prime Ministers and top foreign ministry officials from six East European countries have arrived in Moscow for a summit conference on international affairs expect- Ed to formally open today. Main topic a* the conference. which will
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    Lock icon SALT TALKS RESUME
    62 4 HELSINKI. Wed (LTI) United States and Soviet neeotiator* met asain vesterday in their effort to find common ground on which to has* talks next year on limiting the strategic nuclear weapons rare Although America ha* a fair'v clear oicture of Moscow's general thinking it has not yet
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    Lock icon Mayor Opens Fire To Scare Away Strikers
    161 4 MTLAN Italv. Wed. <UFI> A village .nayor fired a i shotgun to srare away strl- kers ye<terda v tn the latest I violent reaction to labour un- rest, police said They said four strikers suffered ll<?ht facial injuries from pellets. Ulisse Canton! 52.
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    Lock icon Rogers: US Moving Toward The 'Era Of Negotiation' With Soviet Union
    244 4 BRUSSELS, Wed. (UPI) U S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers said last night America was moving toward the "era of negotiation" with the Soviet Union but said the United States would keep "substantial" forces in Europe. I In
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    Lock icon Expert To Brief Nixon
    69 4 WASHINGTON. Wed (UFI> Sir Robert Thompson, who wa* Britain's expert <\n guerrilla warfare in Malavsia. wi'l report to President Nixon todav on a recent t ri P he made to South Vietnam. The White House said Sir Robert met with the President Oct. 17 before going
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    Lock icon Newsmen Change Beatle's Mind
    75 4 BRISTOL England Wed. (Reuter) —Beatl e George Harrison dro\> inn miles to Bristol last night to play with American por» stars De'.aney and Bonny but changed his mind when he saw the audience packed with reporters and photographers Harrison soent the evening in a dressing room
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    Lock icon Marijuana Students Sacked
    62 4 LONDON, Wed (Router) Rugby School, the setting for the famous 19th century English novel "Tom Brown's Schooldays," has expelled three boys for smoking marijuana. All the boys were from Kilbracken House which overlooks the field where the game of rugby was first played. Rugby School was founded
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    Lock icon £410 For A Doll Named Sarah-Jane
    126 4 LONDON. Wed (Router) Sarah-Jane is one costly doll, literally. She stands Just 18 inches (45 centimetres) high and is on sale at a shop in London Heathrow Airport for £4lO, including her complete wardrobe. The blonde, blue-eyed doll's clothing costs as much or more
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    Lock icon Workman Repairs Electric Heart And Saves Boy
    85 4 ROME Wed Reuter An unidentified electricity board workman who repaired a complex electric heart, valve mechanism and saved a boy's life has become Italy's overnight hero The boy's father. In desperation. had dialled 113. the •e.ephone emereercv number, bf?: ns for help because
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    Lock icon UN 'Yes' To Seabed Talks
    84 4 UNITED NATIONS New York (Reuten The UN Assembly's mam political committee decided in favour yesterday of asking SecretaryGeneral U Thant to sound out member states on the desirability of calling a conference on the law of the sea By 58 vote* to 13. vtth 4>>
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    Lock icon Police Battle Demonstrators
    60 4 ABERDEEN. Scotland. Wed. <UPI) Police battled demonstrators who fought their way onto the ground at the start oi the South African Springbok's Rugby Union team's first match in Scotland yesterday. Officers arrested 30 of the scores of anti-apartheid demonstrators who poured onto the ground, disrupting .the game
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    Lock icon Jumbo Jet Makes Coast-To-Coast Debut
    331 5 NEW YORK, Wed. (UPI) The world's biggest airliner, the 400passenger Boeing 747, introduced a new age of aviation travel Monday and another headache for the crowded airports. The 700.000-pound jumbo Jetliner, with a five-storey-bigh tail. 14 stewardesses and m US$2O million price tag. brought 191
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    Lock icon State Alert As 50-Foot Waves Lash Hawaii
    318 5 HONOLULU, Wed. (UPI) Giant waves as high as 500 feet struck the Hawaiian island Tuesday. Destroying homes and forcing the evacuation of hundreds. Three persons were missing and a dozen injured. The worst hit area was Sunset Beach about 25 miles north of
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    Lock icon US Violence 'Impresses" Visitors
    163 5 SAN" FRANCISCO Wed (UPI) Violence in the United S r ates i# like the weather according to a group of journalists touring the country "Everybody seems concerned but nobody does anything about It." The 19 journalists, from New Zealand to Bangkok, T»re at a cocktail party
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    65 5 HAVANA. Wed (Reuter) Cuba gave a ga'-a welcome to five South Vietnamese fu*rnllas and five North Vietnamese workers who arrived here to cut cane In the nation's crucial 197f) sugar harvest The svmbolic North and South Vietnamese labour forces were met at the airport last r.i?ht by Cuban President
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    145 5 WASHINGTON, Wed. (Reuter) Obscenity on television may Have to be controlled by Special Government Action, Mr. Dean Burch, the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (F.C.C.), said today. He told a press conference that some action should be taken because films on television came
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    Lock icon Clay Tries Stage
    208 5 NEW TORE. Wed «R«uter> Former world heavyweight champion Cassius Clay, wearing an African hairstyle which overflowed into a beard, made his actin* debut one block off Broadway on Monday night starring in the premiere of the musical Buck White. Clay, clad in ankle length robe s with
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    Lock icon Birdsong Taken For A Ride
    210 5 LOVG BEACH. California. Wed (Reuter) Cindy Birdsong. 30, a member of The Supremes" was abducted at lcnlfe point from her Hollywood flat last night but managed to escape an hour later by lumping from a speeding car. The singer was taken to Long Beach wfemonal
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    Lock icon More Pullout Coming Soon
    76 5 WASHINGTON. Wed. (Router) Senate Republican Leader Hush Scott said today President Nixon may be coming close to the time for announcing another troop withdrawal from Vietnam. He told reporters at his daily press briefing that the decision and timing of any announcement was up to the
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    Lock icon $Million Divorce For Groucho Marx
    157 5 6ANTA MONICA. California. Wed. 'Reuter) The third wife of Groucho Marx. 78. former fashion model Eden Marx, 38. announced through her >awyer here that she had reached a million dollar divorce settlement with the actor. Following the agreement. Mrs. Marx is expected to get a
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    Lock icon TROOPS and an injured man run for cover at Bu Prang. South Vietnam, Monday, at the U.S. Special Forces camp here gets its daily shelling. The outpost, near the Cambodian border, has been under virtual siege for five weeks. Reports from the camp said only sporadic mortar and rocket barrages hit during the night following the 200-round barrage. One of the heaviest in the 35 days of bombardment.
    70 5 TROOPS and an injured man run for cover at Bu Prang. South Vietnam, Monday, at the U.S. Special Forces camp here gets its daily shelling. The outpost, near the Cambodian border, has been under virtual siege for five weeks. Reports from the camp said only sporadic mortar and rocket barrages
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    Lock icon Manson Family Hippie Pack Roamed & Killed
    568 5 Manson Family Hippie Pack Roamed Killed The Tate And LOS ANGELES, Wed. (UPI) A weird hippie cult known as "The Manson family" invaded the home of actress Sharon Tate and killed everyone inside because it was a "symbol of rejection" to their leader, a member of the commune said today.
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    113 5 WASHINGTON Wed (UPI) President Nixon has signed legislation to Increase the interest rate on V S Savings Bonds to 5 r*r cpnt. retroactive to last June 1 It is the first time th* rate has been above 4 25 per cent on such governments bonds
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    118 5 WASHINGTON. Wed. (Reuter) President Nixon today designated the birthplace and boyhood home of former President Lyndon Johnson, his predecessor in the White Housa. as national historic sites. The two site® near Johnson City. Texts, will be maintained by the National Park Service under legislation passed
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      144 5 Congratulations to GEMINI CHIT FUND CORPORATION LTD. on the official opening of their branch in Jurong. NATIONAL GENERAL SUPPLIERS LTD. SHIP CHANDLERS 32-A, Pekin Street, SINGAPORE. Congratulations to Gemini Chit Fund Corporation Ltd. on the official of their Juron T. M. MAJEED LIMITED 161, MARKET STREET. SINGAPORE. 1 AIR K!*J<3
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    819 6 r[E hopes of Britain joining the Common Market in the near future are considerably higher after the summit meeting of the Inner Six at The Hague which concluded Tuesday. French President Georges Pompidou's opening remarks that cast a gloom over possible chances of Britain entering '.he Market
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    483 6  -  By RANJIT de SILVA WASHINGTON, (Reuter) The plight of the Indian. America's firtt and moit authentic eitiaen, it to ba tha last citisan as far as employment, education, income and a chance for a full and rewarding life are concerned. These are the
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    416 6 THE LIGHTER SIDE BY DICK WEST: WASHINGTON, (UPI) The two moon-landings this year have given rise to something that I call the "Apollo paradox." I first encountered the Apollo paradox in the utterances of public figures after the Apollo 11 flight last summer. And now. following the
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    277 6  -  By Edmund Runswick LONDON. English it the most widely used language in the world. As a mother tongue, or a second and official language, or simply as a foreign language it is spoken by hundreds of millions. But will this position continue in
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    772 6  -  Bv WILLIAM FORREST Gemini News Service LONDON The days of grace arc running out for the military junta led by Colonel Papadopoulcs who have held Greece under their dictatorial rule sine* April, 1967. Greece is one of the 18 member-states of the Council
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    558 6  -  By DMITRI NESTEROFF ISTANBUL. (Reuter) Turkish authorities believe that severe punishment in certain cases even th# death penalty I- most effective deterrent to drug trafficking and the use of narcotics. Under the present lews, the manufacture, import or export of narcotics is punishable
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      336 8 People all over the world drink coffee every day. However, there is a substance in the coffee which keeps some people from sleeping. Nations differ in the amount of coffee they drink and in the way in which they prepare the drink. The main countries
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      363 8 LAST Sunday. I went to a theatre to see a cinema show. As It was a very good film. I decided to go there early to get a ticket because I knew that It would be very crowded at the ticket-counter later on. I reached the
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      351 8 ALTHOUGH w cannot see air. there i« air around u« If you wave your hand your face, you can feel the air moving as your haud through If you blow or to <• bark of vour hand, you can feel the air coming out
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      349 8 ANE night, I hod a very bad tooth-ache. It was to painful that I could not oat or sleep. The poin become greater and I could not sleep the whole night. On the next day. my father took me to the dental clinic. When we
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      147 8 I WAS a Christmas tree which was made in in England I was exported to Singapore by ship I was very proud of myself because I was a very pretty tree My leaves were silver in colour and looked very bright Two months before Christmas I was put
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      183 8 ONE day, when all my brothers and sisters returned home from school, my mother said that since the following day was a holiday we could all go to the beach. The next morning all my brothers and sTsters woke up very early feeling very happy.
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      281 8 Students 9 Essays CTUDENTS are reminded that they can continue to send in their essay* during the final-term school holidays. < winnina entries will be published as usual, in the Eastern aun every Monday and Thursday during the school holidays. Winners of essays will receive their cheques through their respective
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      292 8 -I 0 I m m m m u m m 2 RULES REGULATIONS 1. This If a bi-monthly contest appear.ng weekly Thursday on this Dae* 2. Every participant la required to fill in the "balloon" spa-e(a) what be or she thinks is being said by the character* In this cartoon.
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      89 8 AMY By Jack Tippif TP Daddy, it's Saturday, OUR day.. .and I've decided YOU can choc*e all the games we play today!" DATELINE: DANGER! by John Saunders and AUenMcVWSams OLD MAN NOBLE WA3 SCREAMING ABOUT RUINING HIS SON'S CAREER...SOMETHING ABOUT GAMBLING AND FOOTBALL/ P»U_ ME IN, DANNY WHAT HAPPENED BETWEEN
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    598 9  -  Ann Landers T)EAR ANN: Every now and then yOu irritate me with your oracular pronouncements You make a statement and expect people to accept it just because you said it I decided the next time you presented as tact something which was
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    755 9  -  SiMHiiiiiiff lor I#| fst'h. .Iff, Sheilah Graham HOLLYWOOD, wed. James Mason paused in Hollywood to visit his son Morgan before going on to Hong Kong to star in "Touch ar.d Go" Daughter Portland is remaining In California to spend Christinas with her mother.
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    892 9  -  By Razla Bondrey 4 PAKISTANI dren designer who ••111 in the US showed traditional Pakistani outfits in New York and no one knew they weren't made in America. Today there is little difference between the latest London dress and pants
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      77 9 —IOHBMMM'S—I COHTIST NOTICE TO CONTESTANTS There are minor changes in the rules and regulations in the above contest Item I Instead of the contest b»ing open to Singapore Citizens only, it is now changed ae •Singapore Citizens and persons of any country residing in Singapore" Itam II: Instead of 16
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      1195 10 THE STEWARDS CUP. CL 1 Div. 1 1 M. 118 312 151 Katoof Ocean Nes« Lane Loonshiang 7y 9 00 Lucky Stable E Breuk 9 00 Conflux Stable Spencer 4y 8.10 Auric Stable R. Breuk Tulloh 041 237 680 1 170 040 Desert Apache
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      470 10  -  Cairo Keeps Winning Form By Jimmy Lad pOLD VASE winner Loonshiang looks a picture of fitness when out in a workout with Air Marshal at Bukit Timah yesterday morning. They matched strides over 3f in 40 4/5 with Loonshiang finishing strongly at the finish The going
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      33 10 LONDON. Wed (Reuter) Results of football matches played last night were ENGLISH DIV. THREE Rotherham 2 Bamsley 0 SCOTTISH DIV ONE Kilmarnock 4 st Johnstone FRIENDLY: Dunfermline 0 w olves 4
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      98 10 FOR Australia's Jan Koiaki, the agony begins after he has rolled the bowling ball and watches its progress toward the pins during the final* of the 1969 World Cup bowling tourney in Japan on Sunday. Using both facial and body movements, Kosaki tries to urqe the ball to
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      218 10 LONDON. Wed. (Reuter)— Nobby Stiles, pint-sized defensive destroyer of English soccer, was brought back into the international limelight yesterday when manager Sir Alf Ramsey named his 30-strong squad for next Wednesday's match against Portugal Stiles played his first League game of the season for Manchester
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      176 10 NEWMARKET. England. Wed (Reuter) Records were smashed on the second day of the Newmarket, December bloodstock sales yesterday as two lots were sold for 29.000 Guineas (US$73.080> each the top prices so far. Impudent, an 11-year-old by Owen Tudor, was the first to register the top
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      26 10 LONDON. Wed (Reuter)— Results of last night's rugby matches. Rugby League Floodlit Cup Semi-Final Castleford 11 Leigh 12 RCGBT UNION Mosleley 42 Old Edwardian*
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      98 10 PAL M A. Majorca. Wed (Reuter) The 17-year-old Brazilian prodigy Henrike Costa Mecking played well against world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union in their ninth round match here yesterday in the Grand Masters chess tournament. The Brazilian played the Queen's Gambit which was answered
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      391 10 By Eastern Knight This year, the Singapore Chess Club championship has a record number of 38 entries which are divided Into three classes. In class one. all the ten participants are amongst the top players In Singapore. The defending champion, Tan Llan Quee. will And
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      254 10 JOHANNESBURG, Wed (Reuter) The newlyformed South African Tennis Players Association have asked the government to let American Negro Arthur Ashe play next year. The association's inaugural meeting here, attended by most of South Africa's ranked players including Bob Hewitt and Cliff Drysdale.
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      168 10 ABERDEEN. Scotland, Wed. ißeuten The South Afnc?n«Lug^y team s trouble tour of Britain was hit by another spectacular anti apartheid protest and another wave of arrests here. Defying police warnings, demonstrators invaded the pitch three times held up play for at least 10 minute* and seriously
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      59 10 Singapore Armed Forces Sports Association 'A' won the Toto trophy when they beat Burnley United Sports Club by two goals to one after extra time at the Jal&n Besar Stadium yesterday Scorers: Arshad and Redza for Forces, while Urn Kok Liang netted for the losers .Jarrer
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      1182 11  - Rangoon Bound Full Of Hopes By R. Nathan SINGAPORE'S contingent of 160 competitors the largest contingent ever to represent the Republic in an international meet left here yesterday full of hopes for the Fifth SEAP Games which starts on Saturday in Rangoon. Together with 41 officials, they left In two
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