Eastern Sun, 29 December 1969

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    21 1 Eastern Sun SINGAPORE'S OWN NATIONAL DAILY Estd. 1966. Vol. 4 No. 1221 Monday, 29 December 1969. MC(P) 0737 Price 15 cents
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    Lock icon Sato Increases Party Majority
    623 1 TOKYO, Sun. (UPI) —Prime Minister Eisaku Sato drank rice wine toasts to his pro-American parts election triumph Sunday, and said, "The Japanese people have just chosen their route into the *****." Complete returns from Saturday's general election showed Sato's Liberal-Democratic PGrty won 288 seats in the
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    Lock icon Playboy Trujillo Killed In Accident
    214 1 MADRID, Sun. (UPI) —Rafael Leonidas "Ramfis" Trujillo, 40, the former playboy and son of the late Dominican dictator, died today of injuries he suffered in a traffic accident Dec. 17. He died at the "Covesa"' Clinic where he was admitted after his Ferrari crashed head-on
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    Lock icon 'Hot Pursuit'
    74 1 BANGKOK. Sun. (AFP) Thai and Malaysian authorities will meet in Bangkok by the end of January to discuss the possibility of widening the present mutual "right of hot pursuit" of Communist guerillas into each other's territory, it was learned here today This decision follows a recent increase of
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    Lock icon Dayan Warns Lebanon Against Guerrilla Acts
    351 1 TEL AVIV, Sun. (Reuter) —Israel mounted a combined commando and oir assault against Egypt during the night and Defence Minister, Gen. Moshe Dayan, warned Lebanon its villages would be destroyed if Arab guerrillas used them as bases. In one of the hardesthitting warnings yet
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    Lock icon Oslo On Boats
    62 1 OSLO Sun <UPI) The Norwegian Foreign Ministry said Sunday that there would be no Norwecim oro*' i connection with the five French-built gun boats which left Cherbourg on Christmas Day. Investigations made by th» Ministry have established that the vessels did not fly Norwegian flags when they
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    Lock icon Imagine That...
    128 1 MOSCOW. Sun. (UPI) Greek Shipowner Aristotle Onassis married Jacqueline Kennedy as part of his plan to become President of Greece, a Soviet youth newspaper said Sunday. Under the heading "The Most Unpopular Woman in the World" a title it attributed to th e Italian weekly Epoca—the paper said.
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    Lock icon Purser Vanishes From S'pore Ship
    241 1 MANILA, SUN. (UPI) —The purser who refused to leave the grounded freighter s.s. King Bay has vanished from the ship, a Filipino salvage team reported yesterday. Forty-nine others aboard the crippled 3.000-ton vessel W9K9 rwufd by the Philippine Navy last Tuesday. The salvage team boarded
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    Lock icon Brunei Won't Join Malaysia
    84 1 BRUNEI TOWN. Brunei. Sun UPI) Malaysian reports that Britain had asked Brunei to Join Malaysia during recent talks are false, a message read over Rad.o Brunei today said. The message, from former Sultan Sir Omar All Saifuddln. refuted an article in the Utusan Melayu which said
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    Lock icon Little Summit
    91 1 KHARTOUM. Bun. <UPI) The Tripoli little summit meeting of the Heads of State of Egypt. Libya and the Sudan has created a solid Arab front against Imperialists and Zionists. Major Gen. Gaafar Numelrl. tht Sudanese Head of State, said on his return Saturday night. The Tripoli meeting was
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    Lock icon Thai Missile Battery In '71
    129 1 BANGKOK. Sun AFP) Thailand's first battery of American-supplied Hawk surface-to-air missiles will be installed in 1971. Air Chief Marshal Dawee ChuUasapya. Chief of Staff of the Thai Armed Forces announced here yesterday. The battery of SAMs provided by the United States under the military aid
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    Lock icon Value Of Rouble In Danger?
    185 1 MOSCOW, Sun. (Reuter) A Soviet newspaper has discounted rumours sweeping Moscow that the rouble is about to be internally devalued and condemned them as silly. The consensus of the rumours is tnat the government is about to decree that all existing money in circulation must
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    Lock icon Bengal Premier Fasts Once More
    99 1 CALCUTTA. Sun. (Reuter) West Bengal's Chief Minister AJoy Mukherjee. today began his second hunger strike this month to protest against violence and lawlessness in West Bengal. He said his Bangia Party, a major partner of the state's Marxist-dominated 12-party United Front government was using the
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    Lock icon Raja Says More Jobs Provided
    179 2 THE Minister for Foreign Affairs and Labour, Mr. S. Rajaratnam, said last night that more employment has been provided for the people in the Republic since the Employment Act was passed a year ago. He was speaking at the dinner of the Singapore Tobacco Employees
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    Lock icon Malik For Marcos' Inauguration
    93 2 JAKARTA. Sun. (AFP> Foreign Minister Adam Malik will leave here for Manila tonight as the personal envoy of President Suharto to the inauguration ceremony of President Marcos. Mr. Malik will be accompanied by the State Secretary Major General Alamsjah and Brigadier General Supadjo, the Foreign Affairs
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    Lock icon New Rift Plot Alleged
    116 2 PATNA. Sun. (Reuter> The leadership of the right wing Hindu Party, Jan Sangh. has accused Pakistan of working for another partition of India and called for action against Moslems living in this country. A resolution passed by the party executive here yesterday said 93 per cent
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    Lock icon Armstrong Star Of Hope Show In South Vietnam
    387 2 LONG BINH, Vietnam, Sun. (UPI) Comedian Bob Hope's Christmas holiday show troupe closed out a week of touring U.S. bases in Vietnam on Sunday with a rollicking, swinging, fast-moving variety performance before a standing room only crowd of about 20,000, largest of
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    Lock icon Hungarian And Polish Newsmen Held In Peking
    136 2 WARSAW. Sun. (UPI> A Polish newsman and a Hungarian newsman were held by Chinese police for six hours in Peking because thev allegedly entered a prohibited zone in a Peking park the Polish news agency. PAP. reported from Peking yesterday. A correspondent of
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    Lock icon Hungary-K.L. Ties Established
    48 2 KUALA LUMPUR. Sun The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced today that Hungary and Malaysia will establish dip'omatic relations as from tomorrow. Hungarv will be the flfth socialist country to set up diplomatic ties with Malaysia Yugoslavia Soviet Union. Bulgaria a nd Rumania are the others.
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    Lock icon China Airlines-Brings First 707
    208 2 China AirlinesBrings First 707 CHINA Airlines yesterday made its first Boeing 707 320 C flight with the first batch of passengers from Taipei into Singapore. The airline which took delivery of the first of it's two new Boeine 707s on Dec. 20 is using the Boeing 707s to expand it's
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    Lock icon Thanat Not For Asean Enlarging
    155 2 BANGKOK Sun. <AFP> The five-nation* Assoc.at.on of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN") should consolidate itself ann increase co-operation among jts current members in ail fields be:;re admitting new members. Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman declared here yesterday Thanat was commenting on reports that some members vere in
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    Lock icon PAL Strike Settled
    131 2 MANILA. Sun. (UPI) A strike by flight attendants and stewards of Philippine Air Lines (PAL> which threatened to paralyze International and domestic flights of the airline ended at 5 pm. yesterday when union officials reached agreement with the PAL management over their differences. At noon Saturday some
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    Lock icon Police Seal All Escape Routes
    296 2 POLICE have sealed off all possible escape routes out of Singapore in an all-out attempt to track down the three young men who pulled off the year's greatest bank robbery when they escaped with $235,000 from the Taman branch of the Hong Kong Shanghai Banking
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    Lock icon SHEILA SCOTT SUSPECTS PLANE WAS SABOTAGED
    659 2 DARWiN, Sun. (Reuter) Solo British pilot Sheila Scott said tonight she is looking into the possibility that her plane in the LondonSydney air race was sabotaged, but Sydney air race was sabotaged, but accusation at the moment. Miss Scott told this to officials at
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    Lock icon Milan Police Chief Is Sued
    123 2 MILAN, Sun. (Reuter) A defamation suit was lodced yesterday against Milan Police Chief Marcello Guida by the mother and widow of an anarchist who fell to his death during police questioning about a bomb attack on a Milan bank two weeks ago. Giuseppe Pinelll. was
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    Lock icon Tourist 'Invasion' Expected
    108 2 MACAO. Sun (I PI) Macao Is expecting a "bij invasion" of Japanese tourists next \*rek with a number breaking all previous one- week period records. Alberto Pereira Maga'.haes. managing director of "Macao Tours." said yesterday a "very conservative guess" indicates Macao would have a least 1.200 tourists
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    Lock icon Christinas Gifts Wait In Bangkok
    91 2 BANGKOK. Sun (AFPi American rr.il Ross Perot is waiting j n Bangkok for the official green I'ght'* c* the Soviet government allowing him to Ay to Moscow to deliver a olareload of fts for American prlscner, of vv ar in North Vietnam The 30-year-old Texas
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      37 2 TODAY and YOU..! J- 1 Monday, December 29, 1969. mm r. T> AQUARIUS JAN. 20 jw r» 1-32-34-54 8-M-Btfl9 28 r.na 55 Art 88 Reouiremtf 29Tidt 59 For 89 Individual 30 Your 60 Repairs 90S** Good Neutral
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    Lock icon US V'nam C-in-C In Hospital
    62 3 SAIGON. Sun. <IPI> Gen Creoghton W. Abrams. commander of American Forces in South Viet, nam. entered an Army Hospital todav for treatment of pleuritis, as inflamation of the lungs. l .S. spokesman said. The four-star Generals rendition was described a* "good.'' Spokesmen said he would
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    Lock icon Bob Hope Brings Cheer To GI's At Thai Base
    209 3 KORAT. Thailand. Sun. (UPI) Half of the 5.000 United States airmen at Friendship Camp cheered Bob Hope and his 18-girl troupe during the two-hour show at the military base here last night. But the big standing ovation and a thunderous cheer
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    Lock icon Japan Socialists Do Post- Mortem On Polls Defeat
    336 3 Japan Socialists Do PostMortem On Polls Defeat TOKYO, Sun. (Reuter) Japan's main opposition party, the Socialists, today began the post morhems into their crushing defeat in yesterday's general election. It lost seats in every direction to the ruling Liberal Democrats (Conservative) to the Buddhistbacked Komeito (Clean Government) and the independent
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    Lock icon Election Violators
    72 3 TOKYO. Sun. (Reuter) Prlice said they had arrest warrants for 250 persons accused of violating Japan's tough election campaign laws. The charges Include vote buying, entertaining voters and house to house campaigning, which is banned. Police with search warrants began visiting premises throughout Japan, looking for evidence, soon
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    Lock icon Miss Universe On Way To US
    106 3 MANILA. Sun. (UPI) Gloria Diaz. Miss Universe of 1969, left Manila last night aboard a Philippine Air Lines jetliner after spending her Christmas vacation with her family in Paranaque. a suburban town. She is en route to Honolulu and will later proceed to the
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    Lock icon Marcos To Revamp Tourist Industry
    237 3 MANILA. Sun. (UPI) President Marcos expressed a determination yesterday to press the development of Philippine tourism as he predicted more tourists coming to Asia in the coming decade. The President said that among other steps, he is considering the reorganization of Philippine Tourist and Travel
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    Lock icon Canada Protest
    78 3 OTTAWA. Sun. (UPI) A tmv bank of protesters including an Australian, vowed vesterdav it wi;] continue to camp on the front lawn of an Ottawa church unti] Jan 12, when parliament reconvenes after the Christmas recess, to show its members have had "enough with shillyshallying over the Vietnamese
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    Lock icon Bad Transport System Generally In ECAFE Zone
    192 3 BANGKOK. Sun. (UPI) Highway experts from 17 member nations of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE) Friday issued a report criticizing the existing system of mass transportation in most of the ECAFE region countries. The report was prepared after
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    Lock icon Sato Paints Victory Eye
    57 3 TOKYO. Sun (Reuter) —Prinv Minister Eisaku Sato celebrated hi* sweepinj election victory hv painting an eye on an ancient Japanese doll The roly-poly D arum a doll i* a traditional JapancN> rood luck symbol. One fTf is naintcd in when a wish is made the second
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    Lock icon RED MORTARS KILL SEVEN U.S. TROOPS
    309 3 SAIGON. Sun. (Reuter) Vietcong guerrillas today blasted an American camp with mortars in a 10-minute attack that killed seven US troops and wounded five, an American military spokesman reported. The mortar barrage was followed by a ground probe, but the guerrillas failed to breach
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    Lock icon Thais Have No Pullout Of Vietnam Schedule
    151 3 MANILA. Sun. (UPI) South Vietnam's Foreign Minister Dr. Tran Van Lam said today Thailand had not yet decided to follow the United States, the Philippines and Australia In withdrawing troops from Vietnam. Tran told newsmen he i r- p-,, n no fi rrn
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    Lock icon Indira Plans Assault On Princes' Purse And Privileges
    251 3 BOMBAY, Sun. (Reuter) Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's ruling Congress Party has made a radical assault on money, privilege and power at the party's conference in Bombay. Home Minister Y. B. Chavan told the Subjects Committee that the privy purses and privileges of
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    Lock icon Dr. Zhivago Publisher's Books Seized
    140 3 CAGLIARI. Sardinia. Run <Reuter> Police investigations into the activities of millionaire publisher Glangiacomo Feltrinelll took a new turn yesterday when the public prosecutor here ordered the seizure of two of his publications Slgnor Feltrinelll. first man to publish Dr Zhivago.' has already been ordered to
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    Lock icon Rock Festival
    68 3 HOLLYWOOD. Fla <UPI> A knife-wielding youth was arrested yesterday after police said h* attempted unsuccessfully to lead 300 musiclovers In a charge on officers who were searching patrons of the troubled Miami rock festival for narcotics. The festival, which promised 72 hours of continuous music for 20 US.
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    Lock icon Indonesian Debt Payment Deferment
    132 3 JAKARTA. Sun. (AFP) Foreign Minister Adam Malik and the West German Ambassador to Indonesia Mr. Hilmar Bassler signed an agreement here last night on the postponement of the repayment of Indonesian debts to West Germany. The postponement agreed upon concerned debts due this year amounting to
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    Lock icon More Tourists To Honolulu
    86 3 HONOLULU. Sun. <UPI> Travel officials have predicted that tourists from Japan will start coming to Honolulu In record numbers next week, because of a new bulk air fare. the npw rate effective Jan. 1. 1970. travellers will pay 250 dollars in roundtrip air fare and 500
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    Lock icon 'Zodiac' Killer Says He Can't Control Himself
    484 5 SAN FRANCISCO Sun. (UPI) The zodiac killer of five persons 5 sent Attorney Melvin Belli a Christmas message asking for help, accompanied by a bloody piece from a victim's shirt. I cannot remain in control tor much longer," the letter said. "Please help
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    Lock icon U.S. Holiday Death Toll
    97 5 CHICAGO. Sun (UPI) —'The The Christmas holiday traffic death toll ran be'ow expectations Saturdav A National Safety Council spokesman said it appeared the final count for the four-dav ho.idav would fall be'.ow or n lower end of the council's estimate that R on to 920 persons
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    Lock icon 'Stop Your Jamming And Save Money'
    217 5 WASHINGTON. Sun. (UPI) U.S. Information Agency (USIA> official has suggested to Soviet officials they might save money If they stopped Jamming Russian language broadcasts by the Voice of America. The suggestion by USIA DeEuty Director Henry Loomls as not received any constructive response from
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    Lock icon New Jersey Pier Gutted
    187 5 ATLANTIC CITY N J Sun. fUPI> A general-alarm fire, ravaged Atlantic City's fa*rous *teel pier yesterday, destroying rrore than a quarter of the amusement cen're. Fir* Chief Warren Corover said heat and winds up to 45 m'.les an hour hampered fire fighting pfforts He estimatPd damage
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    Lock icon Militant Students Urge Revolution
    276 5 FLINT, Mich., Sun. (UPI) Leaders of the "Weatherman" faction of the Students for a Democratic Society called last night for "Revolution in the *****" and predicted pitched battles between militants and police. They spoke at a sparsely attended "War Council" which convened here to discuss the
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    Lock icon CREWMEN of a U.S. Air Force rescue plane made this picture of the stern section of the crippled ammunition ship, the S.S. Badger State, after the crew abandoned it on Friday. The ship was rocked by explosions in mid-Pacific. Blackened area on starboard side apparently is from the fire that followed the blast.
    55 5 CREWMEN of a U.S. Air Force rescue plane made this picture of the stern section of the crippled ammunition ship, the S.S. Badger State, after the crew abandoned it on Friday. The ship was rocked by explosions in mid-Pacific. Blackened area on starboard side apparently is from the fire that
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    Lock icon Moon Rocks Show Volcanic Residue
    331 5 BOSTON, Sun. (Reuter) Scientists workinq on rocks brought by Apollo 12 may have their first physical proof of volcanic activity on the moon particles of volcanic ash and pumice. Some of the rocks brought back to earth contain a layer of ash and pumice Ilk*
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    Lock icon Agnew Ends Hawaii Visit; Due In Manila Today
    578 5 HONOLULU. Sun. (UPI) Vice President Spiro T. Agnew left tor Guam on Saturday on his 10-nation Far East tour to test reaction to the "Ntxon Doctrine" of self-reliance for America's Asian allies. Agnew's blue and whi'e Air Force took off from Hickarn
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    Lock icon Six Killed In Montreal Fire
    140 5 MONTREAL. Sun. <UPI> Six persons, four of them children, were burned to dea»h in a blazing apartment house Saturday as a rash of fires broke out around ■to rat-lashed Montreal. At least 24 families were burned out of their homes in rtres Friday and Saturday
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    Lock icon Mexican Appeal
    69 5 MEXICO CITY. Sun <UPI» The Mexican Red Cross ha* sent a cable to the North Korean Red Cross asking for the release of a plane hijacked last Dec 11. its crew and 47 passengers. It was announced Saturday The Mexican request came as Seoul reported that the South
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    Lock icon GIRL SHOT
    60 5 MEXICO CITY, Sun. (Reuter« A 10-year-old girl is being sought by police here after another girl, aged eight, was injured by a gunshot. The injured girl. Rosalba Moreno Solario. told police who questioned her In hospital that a playmate shot her during an argument. "The pistol was so
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    Lock icon Whv People See Flying Saucers
    186 5 BOSTON. Sun (UPI) Two Harvard scientists believe Tnat the frequency 0 f sightings unidentified flying objects (UFO; may be due in part to the stresses of everyday life. In a paper presenter yes-tr-dav to the opening of the 136 th convention of the American Assertion
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    Lock icon Transplant
    58 5 NEW YORK. Sun. tßeuter) Edward Falk. who received the heart and both lungs of a 50-year-old woman in a multiple transplant operation here on Thursday, continues to make satisfactory progress. New York hospital said. The operation on 43-vear-old raik was periormed bv 13 doctors He was given the organs
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    Lock icon Hopes Fade For 25 Missing Sailors
    317 5 HONOLULU. Sun. (Reuter) Hopes of finding alive 25 American seamen missing in mid-Pacific from an abandoned Vietnam-bound ammunition ship receded with each passing hour today as towering seas hampered search operations by four freighters and a U.S. Air Force plane. I The missing sailors
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    Lock icon Massacre Accused Says 'Not Guilty'
    273 5 WASHINGTON, Sun. (UPI) StaW Sergeant David Mitchell, protesting "I'm not guilty." testified for one hour and 45 minutes on Saturday before the special Army board investigating reports of a U.S. massacre of South Vietnamese civilians at My Lai hamlet last year. Mitchell, a St. Franclsvllle.
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    Lock icon Aldrin Says Space Probe Must Go On
    192 5 BOSTON. Sun. (UPI> Ap illo 11 HrWttt Edwin Buzz' Aldrin, the second man to walk the moon, warned iwterdaj Hf rlfi'i programme could become a casualty of the Vietnam war and domestic crises. Aldrln. speaking to the American Association for Advancement of Science
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    Lock icon Optimistic
    84 5 SAN FRANCISCO Sun (UPI) The wife of a Green Beret missing in Vietnam is home from a talk with the North Vietnamese peace delegation In Paris, optimistic that Hanoi eventually will release more Information about U.S prIMMCS of war "I think we got as much as we expected to
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    Lock icon Massacre Probe Team In Saigon
    297 5 SAIGON. Sun. (UPI) The Army General Investigating the alleged My Lal massacre arrived in Vietnam Sunday and said he hoped to make an on-site Inspection of the hamlet. Lt Gen William R Peers told newsmen at a plane side news conference he had come to
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    Lock icon Tax Leak Said Pro-Reagan
    90 5 SAN FRANCISCO. Sun. (UPI) A Democratic leader Saturdav accused the Nixon administration of releasing private income tax information in a conspiracy to discredit San Francisco Mayor Joseph L. Alioto. Robert L Coate. former Democratic State Chairman in California, said it was clear "even Federal officials" in
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    Lock icon CONFESSIONS OF AN EX-PRESIDENT
    889 6 rM "eoeSeeetowT' which former President Lyndon Johnien made over television are remartoable not only because of the extent of their modesty but alee because of their bitter honesty. It Is teo cleee In time for historians to put Johnson In the peeper perspective In America® history,
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    Lock icon Italy Again On The Brink Of Revolution?
    828 6  -  By WILLIAM FORREST ROME It Italy, undir Hi# vuk minority Christian Democrat government of Signor Rumor, heading for revolution? If you believe in omens, as many Italians do, you can expect the worst. In March 1921 anarchiats in Milan, protesting against the imprisonment
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    Lock icon Ayub's Comeback In '70?
    286 6  -  By LEMMY PINNA KARACHI (UPI) Formor Prasidant Mohammad Ayub Khan's political futura in Pakistan is a big question mark. His close associates say he apparently wants to stage a comeback as Pakistan prepares to resume full political activities this Thursday. But within his own party, the
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    Lock icon The Hope And The Risk
    784 6  -  By Joseph Alsop WASHINGTON In the government's inmost recesses, an argument is now going on, in a desultory way as yet, but with almost awe-inspiring potential consequences. It is best to begin with the hopeful aspect. In brief. It is now clear that the news
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    Lock icon IRONY OF HUMAN EPITAPH: Man May Be Extinct From Overpopulation
    945 6  -  Bv RICHARD HALL LONDON In the Sixties. the world came face to face with a gigantic paradox: the people who could best afford to have more children were producing lest and lets, while the legions of the poor were raising
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  • COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL
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      Lock icon Joint Ventures By Jacks And Philips Kickoff January 1
      284 7 MR. J. C. TOLLENAAR has been appointed general manager of two new joint venture companies which will begin operations in Malaysia and Singapore on January 1, 1970. i I V. The companies are Electronic Supplies (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. and Electronic Supplies
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      Lock icon US Paves Way For More Trade With Reds
      305 7 ROUNDUP HONG KONG. Sun. (UPI) The U.S. Congress on Tuesday passed a bill that paves the way for an expansion of trade between America and Communist nations. Under the new bill, the U.S. President continues to enjoy discretionary power to prohibit and
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      Lock icon US Steel Men Still Unhappy About Foreign Imports
      411 7 NEW YORK, Sun. (UPI) Although foreign steel producers trimmed their exports to the American market by a respectable 4 million tons, or 22 per cent, in 1969, domestic steel producers still want legislated import quotas. The drop in steel imports r was
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      Lock icon Iraq To Expand Trade Centres
      82 7 BAGHDAD Bun (Reuter) Iraq is considering opening 14 trade centres in Arab and other countries to hand> Its exports, a spokesman for the state-run General Exports Organisation said today He added that recommendations to establish such centres had been received from the Iraqi embassies in
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      Lock icon Inventor's Rubber-tyred Rail Coach
      172 7 MR. CHARLES SADLER-ASHBY tests the controls 0 f prototype rail coach that ha has dasignad and built In the heart of Hampshire, southern England. The coach is self-powered, air-conditioned, very fast and comfortable and all the wheels are fitted with rubber tyres to assure smooth travel
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      Lock icon Market Enjoyed A Steady Week
      906 7 The weekly market review STEADY conditions prevailed in the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore the past week. Trading was practically confined to the industrial section or to b« more specific the few popular speculative industrial counters including a new issue. Otherwise, the market was
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      Lock icon Better Processing For Export
      117 7 SEOUL Sun tUPI) Park Dong-Myo. former Agricul-ture-Forestry Minister, ha* recommended that South Korea improve methods of processing and packaging to boost export* of farm and fishery products. Park, now a member of the government's Economic and Scientist Council, made the recommendation in a report on hU
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      Lock icon Emphasis On Electronics
      55 7 HONG KONG. Sun. (ATP) Many industrial enterprises In Shanghai, one of China's major manufacturing centres, have now adopted e'ectronic techniques and automation. Radio Peking reported today The r*dio mentioned in particular electrical machinery, metallurgy, shipbuilding, textiles. precision instrument manufacturing an<j various light industries. where automation of advanced
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      Lock icon P.I. Budget For 1970
      295 7 ROUNDUP HONG KONG. Sun (LTD The Central Bank of the Philippines Friday approved a 1.54 billion l .S. dollar foreign exchange budget for 1970 reared to boost the country's dwindling dollar reserves by US$l5O million The budget covers import r.eecs, payment of foreign debts, travels and
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      Lock icon SAS Shows US$16.1m. Profit
      149 7 SCANDINAVIAN Airlines worldwide made i profit of US$l6.l million for the financial year ending September 30 according to the SAS General Manager for Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore, Mr. John Hoyer, recently. The profits were half a million US dollars less than last year due to an
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      Lock icon AIR MOVEMENTS
      400 7 AKKIV ALB A 00am- MSA 020 K. Lumpur »oo a.m. MSA 110 K Lumpur 10 15 am- MSA 121 K. Lumpur 10 25 am. MSA 005 Penang. lpob. K. Lumpur. Malacca loao am. THAI TG423 Bangkok. 12 35 p.m PAN-AM PAB4I Baigon. Guam, Honolulu, ban Francisco 12.50 p.m.
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    Lock icon PICTORIAL SOCIAL ROUND-UP
    620 8 TOP: Singapore's SF.AP Games contingent mere feted to a buffet Innrh by the sports-loving Minister for Social Affairs. Fnrhe Othman Wok. at the Istana on Boxing Day. Seen here from left are: Mr. Chan Che* Feng. Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry for Culture and leader of the
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  • STUDENTS' PAGE ALL TEN DOLLARS ESSAY WINNERS
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      Lock icon Love Is The Greatest Gift Of All
      466 9 the tihiest baby t<S the oldest man in the world every living creature Aeeds love. But what actuailv is love** Love in the dictionary is defined as warm affection or a case of physical passion When one is vounf, he or she needs
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      411 9 TRILLIONS of years ago. I*l glaciers dominated the the earth Slowly, due to the continuous changes of the earth, they began to break up. After some time, the sea*, oceans lakes and rivers were created A river is made up of several or many trbutories The size and velocity
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      Lock icon An Imaginary Journey To The Moon
      789 9 ONE dOy, Ah M#i, Ah Choo, Ah Lins, Ah Lan and I decided to travel to the moon. x Ve decided to take the path of Apollo 11. Preparations for the j&urney were made ready. One sunny morrting, we started for the journey. My
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      Lock icon FEAR IS EVIL
      519 9 FEAR Ilk* anxiety. :s an emotional disturbance It LS the result of such profound and constant change in one a accustomed way of life. Fear ls a rather complicated matter And experts have been called upon professionals doctors, psychologists, marriage guidance counsellors and social workers to study
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      Lock icon Responsibilities Of Road Users
      416 9 JN the world of today there are many democratic governments and communist governments who, in order to prevent accidents and deaths, have put up a council called road safety or safety first. Members of this council have tried their best to prevent accidents and deaths by
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      Lock icon A Walk By The Sea Shore
      445 9 AFTER a hard day's work, nothing is more refreshing than a quiet walk along the shore of the sea While the exercise is good for our bodies, the presence of the ocean seems to hav« a peculiarly tranquillizing influence upon our minds. Every sight
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      345 9 Students Essays CTUDENTS ir« reminded that they can continue to send in their essays during the final-term school holidays. Winning entries will be published, es usual, in the Eastern Sun every Monday end Thursday during the school holidays. Winners of essays will receive their cheques through their respective principals when
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      102 9 DATELINE: DANGER! by John Saunders and Alder McWliams a AS THE MOBSTERS PUN PROM THE BURNING HOUSE, DUKE AND OANN"/ CALL ON THEIR FOOTBALL TRAINING/ WATCH IT/ > DAN...HE'S HEADING FOR. THE SIDELINE/ m i: AT THAT MOMENT- IN THE HOSPITAL WHERE TRC ft AWAITS WORD OF ADAM N08LE.... I
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      27 9 AMY By J*dc TippH m. £r '/fZ, 7] WW 1 m "I dreod this evening...My folks ore going out, ond I'm breaking in a new sitter I"
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      Lock icon MOONBEAM'S GOLD
      1043 10 Coleman Boots Home 4 Winners By Our Racing Correspondent PENANG Sun. Moon-1 beam, with Moses Lee riding a well-judged race, won the last classic of the season the Penang Gold Cup worth $25,000 here today. A backmarker in the early stages of the race Moon-1 beam moved up
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      Lock icon Sheila Determined To Beat Deadline
      343 10 DARWIN. Sun. (Reuter) British solo flyer Sheila Scott arrived here today from Bali ill and exhausted but still unbeaten. After seven days flying to and fro in the remote Indonesian Archipelago, she immediately said on arrival here she was determined to fly to Adelaide and
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      Lock icon Sighting Of Sharks Changes Her Ditching Plan
      430 10  -  By Hugh Lunn BALI. Indonesia, Sun. (Reuter) British pilot Sheila Scott at one stage of her weather-battered flight across Indonesia considered ditching in the ocean near a tiny island but changed her mind when she sighted huge sharks below. In an interview before
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      Lock icon Tasmania-NZ Match Ends In Draw
      101 10 TasmaniaNZ Match Ends In Draw HOBART, Tasmania, Sun. (Reuter) Tasmania. set an improbable target of 256 runs in 155 minutes for victory, plodded to 130 for five before their three-day cricket match against New Zealand ended in a draw here today. Half-centuries by skipper Graham Dowling (57), Glenn Turner (67)
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      Lock icon Krishnan Pulls Out
      99 10 NEW DELHI, Sun (Router) India's Ramanathan Krlshnan. the top seed, has withdrawn from the Asian lawn tennis championship starting here today. No reason was given for the withdrawal of India's top player, but he has been out of the game for the pan year for personal and
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      Lock icon SA Derby To Lightning Path
      59 10 JOHANNESBURG. Sun (Reuter) Lightning Path, the 5/2 favourite, made nearly all the running to win the 12.000 Rand (£7.000) South African Derby over one-and -a half mi here yesterday Second was Vulcan (8/1). four-and-a-half lengths behind, with the second favourite. Home Truth (3/1). a neck
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      Lock icon Toss Of Coin The Deciders
      73 10 TELOK Kurau won the FAS Division Two title by the toss of a coin, when they were held to a scoreless draw, despite extra time, by Kamr*ong Kapor at the Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday The Division Three final between Vigilante Corps and Dun man Pioneers
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      Lock icon Sikhs Recapture Keshminder Trophy
      97 10 HONG KONG. Sun. (Reuter) —The touring Malaysian Singapore Sikhs' hockey team recaptured the Dr. Keshminder Singh troBhy when they beat long Kong'* N a v Bharat Club 1-0 here today. There wet no acore at half-time. The lone goal was scored by inside-left Hamihal Singh who
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      Lock icon Whites Outplay Blues In Trial
      499 10 LONDON. Sun. (Reuter) The Whites (Probables) outplayed the Blues (Possibles) 23-8 in the Irish Rugby Union trial in Dublin yesterday to ensure that Ireland's line-out will be much as expected in the international against South Africa on January 10. But there was a turn-up in
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      Lock icon 2 Yachts Battle For Lead
      135 10 SYDNEY, Sun. (Reu-j ter) The Crusade, skippered by British publisher Sir Max Aitken, and the West Australian Ketch Siska were today battling for the lead in the Sydney to Hobart ocean race. Sir Max's 62-foot cut--! ter today moved up through the fleet of 79
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      Lock icon NSW All Set To Beat Victoria
      151 10 MELBOURNE. Sun. (Reuten New South Wales looked set for victory over Victoria after a great fight-back in their Sheffield Snleld cricket match here today. Victoria were still 74 runs behind with only two wickets left In their second Innings after being set a target
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      Lock icon Australia Clinch Test Series
      247 10 MADRAS Sun Australia clinched a 3-1 series triumph with one match drawn when they beat India by 77 runs with more than two days to spare In the fifth cricket Test here today. India resumed today in a position of strength needing 167 runs for victory
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      133 10 Australia Ist Inning* 258 India Ist Inning* 163 Australia ?nd Innings 153 India 2nd Innings: C. Chauhan c Redpath b McKenzie I A V Mankad c Redpath b McKenzie 10 A Wadeka r c Stackpole b Mayne 55 G. Vishwanath c Redpath b Ma'.lett 59 F.M. Engineer c and
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      Lock icon Springboks Win Scrappy Game
      291 11 EXETER, Sun, (Reuter) The South African Rugby Union team scraped a nine points to six win over South-western Counties here yesterday with a penalty goal two minutes after halftime. The Springboks, who scored two tries and a penalty goal to the Counties' two penalty goals, showed
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      Lock icon LEEDS HOT ON EVERTON'S HEELS
      591 11 T ONDON, Sun. (Reuter) English League champions Leeds United see the New Year in hot on the heels of First Division leaders Everton following their 2-1 victory over the Merseysiders in their top-of-the-table battle yes- terday. Everton's defeat whittled their lead down to only one
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      Lock icon Toto Cagers Win In HK
      105 11 HONO KONG Sun. <AFP) —The visiting Singapore Toto women's basnet ball team last night beat Hong Kong Sev*nUp 66-48 in the first of their three-match Hong Kong tour. Half-time score was 22-22. Hong Kong Seven-Up went ahead from the start and led the scoring frequently
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      Lock icon Richey In Final
      50 11 NEW ORLEANS. Louisiana. Sun. <UPl)—Defending champion Cliff Richey of San Angelo Texas, beat Gene Scott. 6-1. 6-2. yesterday to move into the finals of the U554.200 Sugar Bowl tennis tournament. Richey. the No. 1 seeded player, will meet second-seed-ed Jim Osborne of Honolulu in the finals t^ay
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      1345 11 The Results Tables English Division On* Arsenal 0. Newcastle 0 Crystal Palace 1. Chelsea 5 Derby 2. West Bromwich 0 Ipswich 2 Tottenham 0 Leeds 2. Everton 1Southampton 0. Stoke City 0. Sunderland 1, Manchester L West Ham 1. Notts Forest l. Postponed: Liverpool v Sheffield Wednesday. Manchester City v
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      219 11 TOKYO. Sun. (UPI) Australia'* Johnny Famechon la In top condition to retain his World Boxing Council'* featherweight crown against Japan's Fighting Harada on Jan. 6 in a return title match, trainermanager Ambrose Palmer said today. Famechon did road work this morning at a park
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      47 10 BIG SWEEP TOTAL POOL: ($23,280) 1»t Prise: No. *****7 ($7,682) 2nd Prise: No. *****1 ($1,920) 3rd Prise: No. *****8 ($960) Starter* ($l2B each) Not:*****2 *****0 *****4 *****8 *****3 *****5 *****6 *****8 *****2 *****0 Consolation: ($96 each) Nos:. *****0 *****8 *****7 *****2 *****0 *****1 *****2 *****5 *****3 *****7
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