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Incirharmani's safety equipment was rendered useless by the speed of the disaster: methane gas built up to critical levels in a mere 20 seconds, too % fast for automatic detectors to signal the danger. Only last month, Ishak Alaton, an Istanbul businessman, petitioned the government to close the aging mine, where four previous explosions have claimed 107 lives since 1945. Said Alaton: "It is a savage way of exploiting human life and human health...
...Nationalists are not eager to become entangled in the alliance that they believe Moscow is trying to foster between the Soviet Union, Japan and India. Taiwan could indeed reflect well on the advice given last week by Singapore's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Rahim Ishak. He warned that, in the new multipolar world, the smaller nations should be more wary than ever of being "caught in the cold embrace of the giants...
Died. Yusof bin Ishak, 60, Singapore journalist who served as his city-state's first President after it gained independence from Britain in 1963 and from the 14-state Federation of Malaysia two years later; of a heart attack; in Singapore. Founder of the newspaper Utitsan Melayu, which was in the vanguard of the struggle for independence, Yusof was rewarded with the largely ceremonial presidency, serving alongside Prime Minister Lee Kuan...
...that despite Singapore's overwhelmingly Chinese population (Chinese outnumber Malays six to one), the island's future lies in joining the Federation of Malaya. With this in view. Lee has made Malay the official language, has appointed as chief of state a Malay personage, Inche Yusof bin Ishak. So far, the Federation itself has been wary: Singapore's 1,200,000 Chinese would upset the Federation's racial balance, put the Malays in a minority...
...most bulbous, most famed, was Mrs. Myrtle Huddleston (240 lbs.), who last year remained afloat for 54 hours in a Bronx pool, finally being pulled out in a state of limb-swollen collapse. Worthy water-mates for her roamed also about the beach-an Egyptian, black and gigantic, named Ishak Helmy and a German whose name everyone forgot. All then, male and female, proposed to swim to Dover-and back, said Fattest Myrtle; but the press of France, of England, of the U. S.. of the world, would give neither a fig nor a fish for their story...