The Straits Times, 22 March 1972

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    25 1 AVERAGE DAILY CERTIFIED SALE EXCEEDS 225,000 The Straits Times le National Newspaper Estd. 1845 TpV WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1972 20 CENTS M.C. (P) No. 5776
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    Lock icon Commando terror swoop
    572 1 Commando terror swoop 62 killed, 129 wounded in biggest rocket attack Many shot and stabbed in homes PHNOM PENH, Tuesday NORTH Vietnamese forces today launched their biggest-ever assault against Phnom Penh, shelling a residential district to ashes and massacring civilians in a commando raid on the radio station. Military police
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    Lock icon Greek Premier is Regent
    68 1 ATHENS. Tues. Greek Prime Minister George Papadopoulus was sworn In here today as the new Regent of Greece, but he will retain his post as Premier. An announcement Issued by the Prime Minister's office said the Government had decided to replace Gen. George Zlokatls as regent
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    Lock icon HOTEL ROOM BUGGED? IT WAS A
    671 1 HOTEL ROOM BUGGED? IT WAS A CANBERRA. Tuesday mHE Counsellor of the 1 Malaysian H 1 g h Commission here, Walter Ayathurai, said tonight there had never been any suspicion that the Malaysian room at the Hotel Canberra Rex had been "bugged" during the 1969 fivepower defence talks. He said
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    Dodgers: Property grab to pay tax
    204 1 SINGAPORE, Tues. The Government will take action to recover Income tax from property held here by tax dodgers who have escaped abroad. Extradition is not possible because this is revenue and not a criminal case, Mr. Tang See Chim, Minister of State for Finance,
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    Barber slashes taxes
    211 1 LONDON, Tues gHITAIN slashed its taxes today in a double move to boost a stagnant economy and prepare the nation for entry into the European common market. The changes were announced In a packed House of Commons by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Anthony Barber, when
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    Lock icon RELIEFS WILL COST BRITAIN £1,200 m A YEAR
    679 1 RELIEFS WILL COST BRITAIN £1 ,200 m A YEAR The most spectacular tax concession was a raising of the automatic tax-free allowances for Income tax payers a move calculated to reduce the average man's tax bill by about one pound a week. Cost of this concession amounted to £960 million
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    Lock icon S. Korea backs Indonesia
    48 1 JAKARTA. Tues. South Korea supports Indonesia's claim of a 12-mlle territorial sea limit. South Korean Foreign Minister Yong Shik Kim said today. However. South Korea would leave the issue of the Malacca Straits to the countries concerned, he told a press conference here. Reuter.
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    27 1 TAIPEH. Tues. Britain today formally cloMdj down Its consulate In Tamsul, cutting off official relations with Taiwan that date back to the mldnlneteenth century. UPI.
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    70 1 INCOME TAX RELIEFS (8M this column I MR. BARBER «tM there would be no change in the rate of income Ux but there would be C1S5 increases In both ainf le and married peoplc'i allowances. ESTATE DUTY RELIEFS: Any property bequeathed by a huiband to his wMow,
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      164 1 LJ U L 1 Wk I THE PfNINSUIA SMOPPIN* COMPUX. GROUMDfLOOR '6-7), COtIMAN STRUT SINGAPORE a TILIPMONI M7M. NIXON: Total war on drug menace Pate 3 GUNMEN rob goldsmith of $57,000 5 FLOATING nightclub damages claim 7 PARLIAMENT 8, 9 RALPH CASE: Submission by defence counsel 11 DON'T rush into
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      New attack on Britain over Rhodesia
      122 2 New attack on Britain over Rhodesia ITNITED NATIONS, Tues. Britain today came under fresh attacic over the proposed AngloRhodeslan settlement. with UN. delegates insisting the solution terms had been rejected by most of the African population. When the UN. 'a decolonisation committee resumed 1U debate on Rhcdecta. Syrian delegate Rafic
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      464 2 Indira, Mujib and Bhutto must meet says Home LAHORE, Tues. British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home today called for an early "summil" between the leaders of Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. 'Without It there Is a danger of the Issues becoming frozen," Sir Alec told a news conference
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      Lock icon Indian troops 'now back in Bang la'
      249 2 DACCA, Tuesday. |NDIAN troops have returned to Bangladesh and are in action against tribal rebels in the Chittagong hill tracts of Southern Bangladesh, according to reports reaching here Two battalions of the 57th Indian Army Division, began moving back In again from the
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      Lock icon A royal bite of 'forbidden fruit'
      122 2 A royal bite of 'forbidden fruit' \IAHE. (Peycheles). Tues. Queen El.zabeth and Prince Philip yesterday lunched on the fruit of the Coco-de-Mer, believed by the Islanders to have aphrddlslac properties. This unique palm cf The Seychelles has a seed resembling a women, encouraging the legend that The Seychelles L« the
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      Teenager sought in Chinatown slaying
      87 2 CAN FRANCISCO, Tues. A Chinese youth between 15 and 17 years old in being sought In the mysterious slaying on Monday of the proprietor of a Chinatown selfdefence school. Harry N( Yin Ming, 60. was shot three times by a youth who came In asking
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      Lock icon Agnew keeps them guessing on polls race
      213 3 Agnew keeps them guessing on polls race I OS ANGELES, Tues. Mr. Spiro Agnew said yesterday he has not made up his mind about seeking a second term as VicePresident this year. He has also not made any decision about running lor President four years lrom now. Asked at a
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      Lock icon Big 'Yes' for Gierek
      62 3 WARSAW. Tues. Communist Party chief Mr. Edward Oierek was returned almost unanimously in Poland's elections, but most Government and party leaders unexpectedly finished well down among the winning deputies, official results showed today. Sunday's elections to the 460Man Seim (Parliament) were presented as a vote of
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      31 3 WASHINGTON. Tues. The US Information Agency has received requests from China lcr pamphlets on how to teach English. Mr. Frank Shakespeare, Director of the US agency said today.— Reuter.
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      Lock icon China and US get down to talks
      110 3 pARIS. Tues The IS and China yesterday held their first round of substantive talks aimed at promoting trade and paving the way for normal diplomatic relations. Their ambassadors here, Mr. Arthur Watson and Mr. Huang Chen, had a 70-minute meeting at the U.S.
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      Lock icon Nixon wants total war on drug menace
      315 3 Nixon wants total war on drug menace NEW YORK. Turn PRESIDENT Nixon yesterday called for a "total war" on drug addiction, which he labelled the nation's domestic "public enemy number one." He had talks with Governor Nelson Rockefeller, law enforcement officials, Judges and nar- colics rehabilitation specialists. Mr. Nixon, who
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      Lock icon America seeks arms aid goslow on Suez
      183 3 WASHINGTON, Tuesday. PRESIDENT Nixon will seek a mutual U.S.- Russian reduction in arms aid to the Suez when he visits the Soviet Union in May, Assistant Secretary of State Mr. Joseph Sisco said yesterday. "I think this is one subject that will again
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      Four die in gun-battle
      60 3 KARACHI. Tues. Pour people were killed, 38 Injured including nine policemen. In an exchange of fire between police and mill workers In the Mardan In the Northwest Frontier Province on Sunday. The trouble started when workers locked the mill and policemen came to reopen the gates.
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      20 3 HOLLYWOOD. Tue«. Actress Marilyn Maxwell was found dead In her home yesterday, police said. She was SO. AP.
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        95 3 ARAFAT GETS PLEDGE TO FIGHT HUSSEIN QEIRUT. Tues. Iraq has promised the Palestinian guerillas "all kinds of material and moral support" to fight King Hussein's plan to make the occupied west bank of Jordan a semiautonomous State linked to his kingdom. The promise came In a joint communique after guerilla
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        23 3 WASHINGTON: Senator Edward Kennedy said, in the Senate yesterday he was drafting legislation to re-impose the U.S. embargo on chrome Imports from Rhodesia.
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        46 3 BOGOTA: Four million school children were Idle yesterday because of a nationwide teachers strike demanding better salaries and a more favourable promotion system. The strike by 1C0.OOO teachers as enforced in most of the State schools, but had not been extended to the private establishments. A.P.
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        31 3 PERTH: Teenage motorist Kevin Braden was fined ASIOO after he admitted to a charge of aggravated assault leaning out of his car and smacking a passing girl on the bottom. Reuter.
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        27 3 WASHINGTON: U.S. Treasury Secretary John B. connally ordered secret service protection yesterday for five Democratic Presidential candidates, but not fo r Senator Edward Kennedy, who Is eligible.
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      297 3 nnuiouj CHINESE IBf Mill MEDICINE ■■j PI 'LA- J^k J r^^aS r r Jf"" Also in this week's issue— DR. MAHATHIR'S RETURN TO UMNO... SINGAPORE BUDGET Looking better than ever From Leading bookshops, news-stands or Marican Sons (M) Sdn. Bhd. Tel. Singapore— 3s3sB. Kuala Lumpur— *****/t. BEECHAM PHARMACEUTICALS PTE. LTD.
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      TORIES DEFEAT LABOUR MOVE ON ULSTER
      223 4 TORIES DEFEAT LABOUR MOVE ON ULSTER IONDON, Tues— The British Government repulsed a Labour Opposition attack in P a r 1 i a merit on Its Northern Ireland policy, defeating a protest vote by a majority Of 37 (294 to 257). Labour critics had sought to condemn the Government for
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      41 4 CAIRO. Tues. Egyptian Presidential Adviser for Foreign Affairs Mr. Mahmoud Rlad left here for Peking last night on a five-day official visit to China Hr is carrying a written message from President Sadat to Premier Chou En-lal. Reuter.
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      Lock icon BLAST THAT KILLED SEVEN
      74 4 BLAST THAT KILLED SEVEN B E LFAST. Tue«. Debris outside the office of the Protestant newspaper. The Belfast Newsletter, after a bomb explosion yesterday. Seven people including two policemen, were killed and 146 others Injured in the blast the worst in Northern Ireland. A sniper in Londonderry killed during yesterday's
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      Onassis offered to pay me off, photographer claims in court
      308 4 Onassis offered to pay me off, photographer claims in court NEW YORK. Tuesday fRELLANCE photographer Ronald Galella said yesU-iday Greek shipping millionaire Aristotle Onassis had ofiered him "a settlement" of his US$1.3 million harassment suit against Jacauellne Kennedy Onassls. Judge Irving Ben Cooper ordered this testimony stricken from the record
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      Lock icon Britain's abortion law under fire by royal physician
      193 4 Britain's abortion law under fire by royal physician LONDON, Tues. The controversial Abortion Act was criticised yesterday by Queen Elisabeth's gynaecologist Sir John Peel, who said it encourages permissiveness. Most of the 120,000 abortions carried out every year since 1968 were for social or economic reasons rather than to save
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      58 4 BIRMINGHAM. Tun Britain's hard-pressed Post Office, operator of UM nations telephones, sought to change Its luck by Introducing a new dlaly our- f.r tune service today. A well-known c ai> voyant. Maurice Wocoruft. launched the first of his dally record prediction sessions for the star struck
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      Lock icon Bigger defence role now for Japan
      358 4 Bigger defence role now for Japan- WASHINGTON, Tues SECRETARY of Defence Melvin Laird says the U.S. -Japan defence treaty requires an increased Japanese contribution to security "within their country and witnin their area, particularly in view of the Okinawa reversion." In a copyrighted interview in U.S. News and World Report
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    3 5 SHOT HALTS CAR
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    Gunmen rob goldsmith of $57,000
    152 5 K. LUMPUR. Turn. THREE highway A gunmen fired a shot frpm their car before robbing Penang goldsmith Chan Ah Men?, 56, of jewellery valued at $57,000. near the 27th mile Kuala Lumpur Ipoh road yesterday. The ballet whizzed past the goldsmith's nephew, Chan Hone Seng,
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    Don't sabotage trade unions warning to employers
    333 5 Don't sabotage trade unions warning to employers SINGAPORE, Tun. MR. Fong Sip Chee, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour, has warned employers that action would be taken against them by the ministry if they were found trying to "sabotage" trade unions. He sounded the warning when he spoke at
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    Charity ball by Apex Club
    59 5 SINGAPORE. Tues. The Apex Club of Singapore will hold a charity ball and fashion show cum-dlnner to raise funds for the Singapore Cancer Society at the Singapore Hilton on Saturday. The First Lady. Mrs. Sheares. will be the patron for the function, and the Health
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    Death crash: Man charged
    50 5 SINGAPORE. Tues Yeo Chew Liang, 29. yesterday denied causing the death of a 12-year-old boy. Leow Khum Wei. by driving dangerously and colliding into him in Jalan Toa Payoh on Feb. 17. The case will be mentioned again on March 26. Ball of $1,000 was allowed.
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    Electronics course
    42 5 Electronics course SINOAPORE, Tues. The University of Singapore's Department of Extramural Studies will conduct a 12-lecture course on "Basic Electronics" for those In the electronics Industry at the university's Physics Room 1 from April 3 at 7.30 pm The fee is $26.
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    Istana meeting
    27 5 SINOAPORE. Tues. President Sheares will attend the first meeting of the Red Cross Appeals Committee for 1972 at the Istana on Thursday at 5 p.m.
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    Fifteen to climb Kinabalu for -charity
    232 5 Fifteen to climb Kinabalu for -charity CINOAPORE, Tues. Plfteen people from various walks of life here will embark on "Project Cllmbathon" a climb -amountaln charity scheme —from June 5 to 19. Expedition leader Mr. Johnny Chiew, a teacher from MacPherson Primary School, said: "We intend to scale the 13,455 ft.
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    Visit by Lord Provost
    66 5 SINOAPORE. Tues. Sir Donald Liddle. the Lord Provost of OUssow. Scotland, will arrive here on Sunday for a six-day visit a* guest of the Royal Highland Fusiliers. Sir Donald, a knitwear manufacturer, is also chairman of the Cumbemauld New Town Development Corporation. He served In Singapore
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    Work is started on another jumbo approach route
    141 5 SINGAPORE, Tues. rpHE Public Works De--1 partment is preparing another approach route for Jumbo Jets taxiing to their parking lots in the Jet apron at the Pay a Lebar airport. At present, there is only one approach route to the apron for
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    Father- – in-law blamed for marriage break-up
    264 7 Father- in-law blamed for marriage break-up SINGAPORE, Tues. A father-in-law was blamed in the High Court today for breakIng up the marriage of an electronics firm operations manager by "always interfering" in his affairs. Rajlnder Pal Singh Narang, who Is suing his wife, Ladi Narang, for a divorce on the
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    Thieves break into Holland Road home
    68 7 Thieves break into Holland Road home SINGAPORE, Tuea. Thieves broke Into a house In Tan Boon Chong Avenue, off Holland Road, yesterday and escaped with $100 and Jewellery worth $1,080. Mrs. P.M. Laycock. 40. a housewife, Mid the money and Jewellery were kept In a handbag which she placed on
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    'GRANDMA SICK' APPEAL TO MISSING DAUGHTER
    136 7 'GRANDMA SICK' APPEAL TO MISSING DAUGHTER SINGAPORE. Tues. A father today tearfully appealed to his missing daughter to return home for the sake of her 80-year-old grandmother. Mr. Tng Ah Gong, 45, a painter, said his daughter Doreen, 16 (above), left their Buklt Teresa home in Kampong Bahru two months
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    Lifts contract for UK firm
    74 7 SINGAPORE. Tues. A British firm. Marrayat and Scott Ltd., of Hounslow. England, has won a £1 million (about $7.3 million) contract for the supply and installation of passenger lifts for the Housing and Development Board. The contract, the largest single contract ever placed by the
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    Clerk found hanged
    51 7 SINOAPORE. Tues. A 47-year-old clerk who disappeared from a hospital ward at the weekend was found hanged In a school's compound 48 hours later. Mr Tan Kim Tay, a father of seven, was admitted to Outratn Hospital on Saturday at 9 a.m. He was missed two hours
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    Grace period to verify citizenship certs
    95 7 KUALA LUMPUB, Toes.— More than 150.000 holders of citizenship certificates under Article 30 have not yet sent their certificates for verification. They will be given a six-month grace period from April 1 to do so, the Ministry of Home Affairs announced here today. Holders
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    'NO SAFETY MEASURES ON SEA DRAGON'
    549 7  - 'NO SAFETY MEASURES ON SEA DRAGON' T.F. HWANG: Woman tour agent testifies I By Singapore. —Tuesday A WOMAN travel agent told tin- High Court today that the owners of the Sea Dragon, a floating restaurant, had neglected to provide safety precautions for patrons attending a party aboard the vessel three
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    New Red gimmick: Mao's thoughts in pictures
    174 7 New Red gimmick: Mao's thoughts in pictures IPOH. Tues. The latest Malayan Communist Party gimmick is Chairman Mao's thoughts in pictures, with accompanying slogan appropriate to the scene depicted. The photographs, in black and white, the size of playing cards. were among documents seized over the weekend by security forces
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      242 7 Invest in SINGAPORE PROGRESS FUND if you want to have an interest in a portfolio of blue chip shares. LIFE OF FUND: Singapore Progress Fund has an indeterminate lite. REINVESTMENT OF DIVIDENDS: Reinvestment is available should you wish to have your net dividends ploughed back into Singapore Progress Fund. FIRST
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  • BUDGET DEBATE... FINANCE MINISTRY
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      36 8 No 13th month payment for pensioners 0 Countering the brain drain to the privatesector In defence of the Government's accounting system 0 Holiday bungalows for aided school teachers Warning to shopmen: Don't jack up prices
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      EXPORT UNIT TO PUSH OUR GOODS
      1249 8 Keeping the bright man in the service By OUR PARLIAMENTARY REPORTERS NEW ex port promotion unit has l>ccn formed in the Trade Division of the Ministry of Finance. The unit will carry out studies on export markets and take full advantage of the preferential
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      Ministry's $10,000 to foil rise of 'Ugly Singaporean'
      636 8 THE Finance Ministry is all for preventing the rise of a generation of Ugly Singaporeans but cashwise it is only prepared to pitch in with $10,000 this year to help cultural enthusiasts to take counter-measures against such a generation coming up. The
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      Tang: No tax exemption for societies
      271 8 Tang: No tax exemption for societies rE Minister for State for Finance. Mr. 'rang See Chlm. rejected a suggestion by Mr. Ho Kah Leong (Jurong) that societies registered under the Societies Act should be granted exemption from Income tax. Mr. Ho had argued that these societies took great pains and
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      Dole: No change in decade
      1031 9 Dole: No change in decade THE Finance Ministry is now reviewing the rates of public assistance and a decision is expected soon. This was disclosed by MR. CHAN CHEE SENG, Parliamentary Secretary (Social Affairs), after several MPs urged a revision of the dole and took the Social Affairs Ministry to
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      $29 mil project at P. Brani
      163 9 PULAU Brani is to be developed to provide coastal wharves for the Mlndef Maritime Commands and the PSA oil storage and bunkerlnc facilities, and other uses. Reclamation of about 86 acres of Pulau Brani's foreshore and about 30 acres at Brani Shoal for this
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      Film classification: Exhibitors satisfied with the present system says Sha'ari
      610 9 Film classification: Exhibitors satisfied with the present system says Sha'ari MINISTRY OF CULTURE QINGAPORE, Tues. The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Culture, INCHE SHA'ARI BIN TADIN, said that no decision had been taken so far about class iflcatlon of Alms. The Issue was raised by MR. TEONG ENG 8E0NG
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    Saber Air accused of violating labour laws
    682 10 SINGAPORE, Tuee gABER Air Pte. Ltd. was accused in the Industrial Arbitration Court today of having "grossly contravened" Singapore labour laws simply because it is a governmentowned company. "The management of Saber Air seemed to have thought that being the management of a
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    PUB to pay overtime dues of $145,000
    221 10 SINGAPORE. Tups The Public Utilities Board has agreed to pay Its daily-rated electrical workers some $145,000 In backdated overtime payments within a fortnight. About 950 workers will benefit from this payment for 105,000 hoars of overtime over the last two years. Decision to
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    'CHOUDHURY BOUGHT SBIC's SHARE OF BEN RIGHTS'
    1476 11  -  CHRISTINA CHEANG: Counsel for Ralph closes defence case and submits: By Singapore, Tuesday Wee: If Ben chief is involved my client is entitled to an acquittal g E N and Co. managing director, Mr. G. C. K. Choudhury, had bought South British Insurance
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    Govt acquires 68 acres of land for HDB
    127 11 Govt acquires 68 acres of land for HDB QINOAPORB, Tues.— The O Government la to acquire a total of about 68 acres of land In the Kallang area for use by Housing and Development Board. The land comprlm 190 IoU belonging to various owner*. Their names an published In the
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    Job week in June
    45 11 BINOAPORK, Tues. The Soouis' Job Week 1913 will be from June 4 to I Instead of In April is In previous years. The change Is necessary because of the change In the school vacation period. Last year, the scouts raised $04,439.
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      281 11 Straits Times Crossword ACROSS 0 Stun in 16 (4). 'Ie 7»> Ut<nrer to ta M D^unea »»U» dignity T (6. 4). 10 One of the blue*— by himself 15 A goat only In II (10). i*>- 17 Chiefly how one may feel on 11 Show great Interest thus In a
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      PREMIERS MEET
      471 12 Singapore's Prime Minister begins today his first official visit to Kuala Lumpur since Singapore left Malaysia. It is a visit postponed. Mr. Lee Kuan Yew was to have been the Malaysian Governm ent's guest in August 1970, reciprocating visits to Singapore made by Tengku Abdul Rahman, then Malaysia's
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      UNCERTAINTY IN MOSCOW
      296 12 Russia's concern and suspicion over President Nixon's talks with Chinese leaders last month has gone even deeper than was first assumed. Communist Party Chairman Leonid Brezhnev reflected the continuing anxiety in the Kremlin about what was said and agreed in Peking when he told an important gathering
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      AND WHO WILL PAY?
      233 12 The United National Front is the first of the opposition parties in Singapore to publish an election manifesto. Listed are all the grouses heard in coffeeshops and on the cocktail circuit. But social grousing is one thing, deciding how to vote is another. Some of the
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    Dr. Mahathir returns to a new Umno
    1033 12  -  SAMAD ISMAIL FROM THREE YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS BY KUALA LUMPUR DR. Mahathir's return to Umno seems not to have caused any great stir. Yet a year or even six months ago, this would have attracted excited comment. A lot of water has
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    Lock icon INDIRA CALLS THE SHOTS
    622 12 BY A CORRESPONDENT TtfEW DELHI. A year after the start of the Bangladesh crisis which focused world attention on the subcontinent, India Is flexing its muscles as the dominant power of the region and many South Asian analysts are wondering what comes next. Through last year's
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    825 12 NET CLOSES ROUND FORMER NAZIS 1>UENOS AIRES D Time may be running out for a number of former Nazis believed to have lived since the end of World War II in Latin American hideaways. Three major exNazis have recently been the object of intensive searches, in three different South American
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      225 12 By ALBERT BLACK HEIWA DISHED END Ll fc^^Bi^^fc^BSSSSSSst HEIWA STEEL IRON PRODUCTS CO., LTD., OSAKA, JAPAN is a company of engineers, technicians and craftmen who apply a large part of their means to development and processing of pressed and spun formed, products since 1938 and who are always seeking better
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      More income pouring in than going abroad
      558 13  - More income pouring in than going abroad AUSTIN MORAIS By SINGAPORE'S recent Gross National Product (GNP) figures have been published for the first time, bringing the Republic into line with most countries in the world in this respect. GNP and GDP (Gross Domestic Product) figures from 1966 to 1971 are
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      CITY TALK
      191 13  -  CROESUS By Why so high? rE extraordinary leap In Centra] Properties share price should be causing; the Exchange some concern. Since the beginning of the year this normally dormant counter haa leapt in market value by 76 per cent, from 88 cents to last night's close of $1.41.
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      More job seekers but no cause for anxiety
      403 13  - More job seekers but no cause for anxiety SOH TIANG KENG By SINGAPORE'S unemployed rose slichtly to 37,104 in January an increase of 1,979 since November when the number plunged to its lowest level for the past decade. In November last year, there were 35,125 in the "1 I v
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      Singapore-built tug launched
      163 13 nPHE Singapore-built motor tug Norton Beta slides into the water after her launching at a shipyard in Tanjong Khu on Sunday by Mrs. G. Bourreau, wife of the managing director of Bureau Veritas of France, the oldest established classification society in the world. The vessel is the
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      Lock icon Slater's interest in Haw Par behind recent gains of Aussie company
      288 13 SYDNEY: Slater, Walker chairman Jim Slater said the main purpose of his visit to the Pacific area was to familiarise himself with group operations in Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Australia, and he was currently having talks with executives
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      Lock icon TAIWAN PLANS GLOBAL TRADE OFFENSIVE
      115 13 rpAIPEH: Taiwan will X launch a global trade offensive by sending seven trade missions to dozens of countries In three continents next month, the (Nationalist) China External Trade Development Council an nounced last week. The missions will visit Western Europe, Latin America and Africa to
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      84 13 from Singapore or Kuala Lumpur! Operated by British Overseas Air Charter Ltd. (a subsidiary of BOAC). Departure dates From Siniaporc From Kuala Lumpur March 23, 27, 30. April 9, 16. 28 4, 6. 11. 13. 18. 20, 25. 26 Flights from Kuala Lumpur opera id id codjubc lioi with Malaysian
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      177 13 INSIDE Boom behind Singapore'! rtaluc trend la b-.ldini eMte; Expert* on tear to teach improved foundry know-how; Shipping column; People In baslneaa. Page 14. Company newt; Share market report; CoounodiUea; CloeJnf price* and business done; Overseas markets New York. Melbourne, Hong Kong. Page 15. First Oversea Credit Limited finances industry
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    Experts on tour to show improved foundry know-how
    267 14  -  AUSTIN MORAIS By pOUR experts from Fos c c o International are now on a tour of Singapore and Malaysia to lecture and demonstrate Improved foundry techniques. They are Mr. T. Wlnt (the leader). Mr. T. Sakurayama, Mr. M. Davles and Mr.
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      PSA to introduce a computerised information system
      222 14 PSA to introduce a computerised information system gOME knotty problems of communication will crop up when Singapore ticks as a complete container jK>rt. To bridge the "communication gap" between container ships and port, the Port of Singapore Authority will introduce a computerised Information system. The computer, an IBM Customer Information
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      Sad and regrettable
      227 14 IT SEEMS incredible that the days of the great white P Si O ships sailing from Australia to Britain are numbered. but chairman RT.M Rose of the Australian group says the writing is on the wall, according to a report by our man in Sydney KINSLEY WOOD.
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    Boom behind S'pore rising trend in building costs
    433 14  - Boom behind S'pore rising trend in building costs GEORGIE LEE By gOOM conditions in Singapore's building industry Ikivo resulted in a marked but steady annual increase in building costs .since 1960, according to the building cost trend chart compiled by Asian Appraisal, a firm specialising in the valuation and appraisal
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    Lock icon Overseas ads by UK stockbrokers
    132 14 Overseas ads by UK stockbrokers T ONDON: A majority of La stock-brokers favour the new ruling which will allow members of the I ondon Stock Exchange to advertise abroad, according to a survey conducted by Leo-Burnett-L.P.E. The survey, conducted among senior partners In the 50 largest U.K. stockbroking firms, says
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    PEOPLE IN BUSINESS
    180 14 PEOPLE IN BUSINESS Mr. W. J. Huntsman has resigned from the boards of Parit Perak Holdings. Ulu Benin, and Olenealy Plantations with effect from March 11. Incbe Aiman bin Hashim, executive director of Malayan Banking, has left for Hong Kong to attend the International Financial Forum at the invitation of
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    Lock icon Japanese steel price hike proposed
    171 14 TOKYO: Japanese Steel mills are asking local car manufacturers to agree to an increase in their prices of steel sheet for car produc tion use from next month, in an effort to correct the declining steel prices. Toyota Motor said it had received a proposal
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        Rises
        50 15 Bkt Semb $5.80 +.40 LOB $5.85 +.28 M. Brew $7.75 +.25 V. M. Flour $2.15 +.16 S. Darby $8.55 +.15 S. Times $8.60 +.15 Hume (F. E.) $2.16 +.14 H. S'pura $2.00 +.12 C and C $4.28 +.12 C. Dev. $0.89 +.10 T. Cement $4.00 +.10 Inchcape $6.05 +.10
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        Falls
        32 15 M. Cement $2.30 —.28 E. N. E. $4.70 —.18 Haw Par $6.00 —.10 W'wide Hold. $2.52 —.03 Raleigh $128 —.07 F'patricks $3.82 —.03 C. Store $390 —.C 3 Fusan $161 —.05
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        Most active stocks
        22 15 Most active stocks City Dev. 592.000 Spore Land 475.000 San Holdings 226.000 Central Prop 214.000 Total Turnover 5.03 M Delayed Percentage 28.96
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        INDICES
        39 15 Mar. to Mar. 21 Industrials: 221.07 222.32 1 Hotels: 83.83 84.39 Properties: 173.09 180.03 t Tins: 106.73 10C.73 t S rubbers: 141.38 141.45 Dec. 30, 1966 100 1 Dec. 31, 1968 I*o t Dec. 29. 1962 s 1M
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      CLOSING PRICES
      1005 15 810 AND OFFM PRICIt OFFICIALLY LISTID AT TNI CLOW or auiiMHi in tni sincapom r ANO KUALA UIMPUR TRAOINO ROOMS OF TNI STOCK IJCCMANCI WITH MIICI MOVIMIHTS Ml BRACKETS VISTIROAV WIRI I INDUSTRIALS I CLOSING TONE: All sections except tins closed very steady. TURNOVER: Official total turnover as
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      BUSINESS DONE
      1631 15 Bos^t-oii in and reported to the Singapore and Kuala Lumpur trading rooms of the Stock Exchange yesterday with the number of shares traded shown In brackets In lots of 1 000 unless otherwise specified U MA (7) 2.10. Vjinomoto (1) 2.26. (1) 2.28. (2) 232. (5) 2.29. Alcan
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        MELBOURNE
        276 15 MELBOURNE. Tues. Overall rises again outnumbered (alls during moderate trading on the Melbourne Stock Exchange today, but there were quite a few weak spots In the mining and oil sectors. Today* closing middle price* In Australian dollars and cent* with the differences on Friday's close INDUSTRIALS P Ampol T54
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        Asian dollar
        60 15 rpHESE rates were quoted on x the Asian dollar market yesterday. The rates are for deposits of U5535,000 and above. 1 mth 5 1/16 to 5 r 2 mths 5 3/16 to 5 3 mths 5 Vi to 5 H% 6 mths 6 to 513 16-' 9 mths
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        Exchange rates
        156 15 'THE Association of Banks In Malaysia-Singapore announced these best agreed merchant rates as at March 21. Local dollars to one unit Selling Buying Sterling Pound Australian Dollar .'anadlan Dollar 'few Zealand Dollar S Dollar i-ocal doUan to 1(X) unit. if Foirljn Cvneney Belgian Francs 3urmese KyaU >ylon Rupees
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        NEW YORK
        219 15 YEW YORK. Mon— Bausch and I.omb, un traded since last Thursday. fell sharply amid reports that recent trading In the nock was being Investigated by the New York Stock Exchange and the securities and Exchange Commission. Today'! elMlng prices In U.S. dollar* followed by the difference* on Friday*
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        Indices
        90 15 FINANCIAL TIMES TINS Monday 90.05 Priday 88 94 Week ago 59.79 RUBBERS Monday 285.86 Friday 288.58 Week ago 285.77 OILS Monday 292.34 Friday 297.50 Week ago 295.63 INDUSTRIALS Monday 509.5 Friday 508.1 Week ago 505.1 DOW JONES AVERAGES INDUSTRIALS Monday 941.15 Priday 942.88 Week ago 928.88 LONDON DOLLAR PREMIUM
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        HONG KONG
        217 15 TJONO KONO. Tues. Open--11 In? c-"<-Uy, the market later on In the morning saw certain counters spurt ahead. Crocodile came up 25 cents to HK88.40. Empress Hotel continued to move up adding on 15 cents to $5.90. Total turnover value for the day was $9.16 million. Today'! doing
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        Hong Kong rates
        38 15 On UM fra* tithang* market In Ron* Kong yesterday th« U.S. *«ll«r wu quoted at VST for T.T. aod 5J57S (or iMk. tttrltni wu quottd mt 14.50 and mm iwi i*id waa quoted at 134.
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      Tasek at half-time
      265 15 TASEK Cement at the half way mark looks set to surpass last year's record. After tax profits are modestly up and on Monday the company announced a one-for-flve bonus. The net profit for the six months ended December amounted to $2,427.000 compared with {2.352.000 in the previous
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      HIGHLIGHT
      91 15 KLUANG RUBBER <M) saw pre-tax profits In the six months ended December 1971 drop to $92,727 from $116,594 In the previous corresponding period. The rubber crop for the six months was substantially higher at 872.000 lb against 766.000 lb before and the dip in profits is largely due to
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        Tin price declines
        180 15 T^HE Straits tin price in 1 Penang yesterday fell $2 75 to $645 per picul on an official offering up two tons to 306 tons. The local market was softer, influenced by the overnight fall of £3 to £1,481 per metric ton in London. The tone of
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        Copper prices
        32 15 London copper price* on Monday (previous In brackets). Wlrebar Spot buyer {444.50 (£445.00) seller £445.00 ({445.50); Three Month* buyer £452.50 ({452.00) seller {453.00 ((452.50). Market tens: Irregular Sale*: 3,323 ton*.
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        CLOSING PRICES
        22 15 MAR. 21. RUBBER: 81.25 cents (down 0.50 cent). TIN: $64 5.00 (down $2.75). Official offering 306 tons (up 2 tons).
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        PRODUCE
        106 15 C MINIS! PRODUCE IXCMANCE, SINCAPORE NOON CLOSING ••RICES Pin PICUL VESTEROAY. Csssnut Oil: bulk »39 sellers, drum 141 seller*. Csavs: Wised loose UK Cont $21 B. r>«pp«r: Muntok AST A white fob. 100, NL.W 1190 sellers. Barawak white fob W; NLW SIM Kller*. Sarawak ipeclal black fob. M<% NLW
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        Gold markets
        57 15 Monday Saturday •U.S. SU.S. London Uneh 48.373 B«lrut 48.75 45.55 HonKkon* 49. 80 49.90 Zurich 48.50 B 48.35 B 48.45 8 44.45 8 P»rl« 49.05 49.51 Spore (1) 49*25 49.925 B'por* (2) 173.80 173 10 (1) Export price In non-iterllnc MM in U.S. dolltrs per ounce. (2) Local
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        PALM OIL
        40 15 In London on Monday the palm oil price* of Malayan 5 per cent CIF UK/N European port* In the bulk ■terllng per lons ton July Auk w»* quoted at UK ftt (ellers (unchanged): Sept. Oct. £87 »eller» (unchanged).
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      318 15 rVPENING quotations In the rubber market yesterday were marked down slightly on lower overseas advices and the market was very slow to form. A little more interest developed towards noon which steadied the market marginally. Conditions were thin and turnover was small. Long liquidation brought the market lower
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      SMR BUSINESS
      76 15 and Rubber Association of Singapore at noon yesterday: MARCH APRIL (Current Month) (Forward Month Buyers Sellers Bayers Sellers Cents per kg- Cents per kg. 5CV (1-ton pallet) 90.00 90 50 N 90 25 91 00 N 5L (1-ton pallet) 89.00 89 SON 89 25 90 00N 6 (1-ton
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      Record market turnover
      247 15 A FIRM opening trend was J\ heM in check by pro-fit-taking on the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore yesterday. On balance, however, most stocks retained small gains at the cose when light support was evident in selective counters. Observers described the market as still technically strong.
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      667 16 Singapore polytechnic SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY Applications are invited from suitably qualified persons for the following poM*> (1) Lecturers/ Assistant Lecturers In Mechanical Engineering (2) Lecturers/Assistant Lecturers tn Production Engineering (3) Lecturers Assistant Lecturers tn Electrical Engineering (4) Lecturers/Assistant Lecturers in Civil Engineering Si Building (5) Lecturers/ Assistant Lecturers In
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      957 16 LEMBAGA KEMAJUAN PAHANG TENOGABA JAWATANS KO8ONO Permohonana ada-lah di-pelawa dart Warganegara Malaysia 41 Jawatana yang berlkutNama Jaw a tan: a) Betla Usaha/Jurutrengka* TlngkaUn II b) Jurutrengkas Rendah /Jurutrengkas c) Jurutalp d) Operatcr/Penyambut Pegawal Keranl TlngkaUn II ft Pegawal Keranl TlngkaUn in g) Penyelenggara Setor b> Tukang Pelan TlngkaUn II 1)
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      970 16 PERBADANAN KEMAJUAN BUKIT FRASCR. PAHANG PermohonanS ada-lah di-pelawa daripada Ra'ayat Negeri Pahang atau Warganegara Malaysia yang ber kelayakan bagi memenohl Jawatan berlkut 1. PKNGURUB LADANG: Kelayakan Diploma daripada Maktab Pertanlan atau berkelulusan yang setaraf dalam bahaglan pengurusan Ladang dengan sekurang2-nya 3 tahun pengalaman prakUk tetapi pemohonJ yang melebehl had umor
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      386 16 SUROHANJAYA PELABOHAN PULAU PINANC JAWATAN KERANI DAN PENOLONG PEGAWAI KESELAMATAN Heselamatan:A. JAWATAN KERANI (a) Kelulusan Pelalaran Mesti-lah mempunyai Sljil S.P.M./ J MCE. dengan mendapat Kepujlan dalam Bahasa Melayu. 1 (b) Tangga O.J1: l«/8*.Un P-^baan/ Pepereksaan/300 x 15 5360. Elaun Sara Hidup dan Elaun Rumah Juga di-bayar mengikut kadar yang di-pakai
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    Stripper La Rose: Sorry for all the trouble
    225 17 pENANG. Tues. I American stripper Carol (La Rose) Ballard today apologised (or all the trouble and anxiety she had caused when she disappeared from her hotel In Kuala Lumpur three days ago. She expressed her regrets through her business manager. Mr. Sandrl
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    Jail, rotan for robbing couple
    94 17 Jail, rotan for robbing couple 8INOAPORE. Tues. Two youths, arrested after they had robbed a couple last month were jailed by a district court yesterday. Tan Buck Hoe. 30. and Tan Meng Chin, J4. allaa Vincent were also o.dered to receive three strokes of the rotan each (or robbing Mr.
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    Blood stocks above average
    39 17 SINGAPORE. Tues. The Blood Transfusion Service today reported that reaervt blood stocks In the blood bank were above average. Reserve stocks of all groups rose from 848 units last week to M 4 units yesterday.
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    DON'T rush to join chit funds: Lawyer
    487 17 DON'T rush to join chit funds: Lawyer PLA V SAFE, WAIT-AND-SEE. SINGAPORE. Tun. SINGAPOREANS should play safe and adopt a wait-and-see attitude instead of rushing to join chit funds just because the Chit Funds Act has been introduced to give subscribers protection. This advice came today from a lawyer and
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    NIXON'S TRIP FORUM ON TV TONIGHT
    64 17 NIXON'S TRIP FORUM ON TV TONIGHT TELEVISION Singapore 1 will telecast a special d scussion programme "Back from China" on President Nixon's recent China visit over Channel 5 at 9.20 p.m. tonight. Taking part in the discussion will be five American news correspondents who covered the tour. They will analyse
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    Ganja fine
    32 17 SINOAPORE, Tues. Labourer Sadly bin Odik, 31. was fined $25 today for having some ganja In a half-burnt cigarette leaf at Jalan Masjtd. off Changi Road, yesterday. He pleaded guilty.
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    Dearth of news during strike: An MP's -grouse
    169 17 Dearth of news during strike: An MP's -grouse- SINOAPORE. Tues.— Radio and TV Singapore are only "poor substitutes" for newspapers for they do not keep the public fully Informed, an MP said in Parliament today. Mr. P. Oovlndaswamy (Anson) was complaining that the Engllsn-speak-lng public were deprived of their dally
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    3 drown as car dives into river
    64 17 TELOK ANSON, Tues. Two women and a boy were drowned when their car plunged into the Bernam River from a ferry, 19 miles from here this morning. They were Siah binte Osman, 60, Sarlah blnte Haji Kadir, 35, and four-year-old Lajin bin Zanl.
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    Not joining
    31 17 KUALA LUMPUR. Tues. The 6,000-member Malay Teachers Union of West Malaysia will not Join the new union formed two weeks ago to cater for all teachers In the country.
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    S'pore may be Hq of new UN anti-drug service for S-E Asia
    456 17  - S'pore may be Hq of new UN anti-drug service for S-E Asia ARTHUR RICHARDS: By Singapore, Tues A UNITED Nations anti-narcotics regional advisory service will be set up in South-east Asia later this year to control the sale and abuse of drugs in this region. Announcing this, an expert of
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    Paper permit
    21 17 SINGAPORE. Tues. The Ministry of Culture today Issued a permit to the Workers' Party to publish its party newspaper.
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      661 17 On your TV and Radio 3 M ML Opening and Housewives' 7.41 News, Parliamentary Report Summiry „«K E g rr, 3 s Ksr* 3 4.1S A Diary of Events in Singa- IN News and Parliamentary nnf» Thk Wset iri Reoort (E) '°8 a or H 6 1 1 Late News
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      669 18 '^^^fe^ BIASISWA ANGKATAN t>J A TEHTERA MAUYSIA PfNOAHULUAN 1 Angkatan Tentera Malaysia melalui Kementerian Pertahanan menawar dan membuka beberapa biasiswa kapada pemuda? Yang mempunyai kelayakan yang sesuai bagi mengikut kursus2 yang membawa kapada kelayakan? berikut di-bawah diUniversiti2 di-dalam dan di-luar negeri a. M BBS b. 8.E./B.E. Hons. c. B.Sc., Dip.
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    Deaths
    92 22 MRS. PUIY TIANG HWII, Be* Ong Foon Neo. (Jepun) aged 68. passed away peacefully on 21.3.72 at 12.40 a.m. leaving behind son. seven daughter.. six sons-in-law. on. daughter-in-law, twenty four grand children. on* grand son-in-law, several adopted grand children aud one gnat grand son to mourn her loss. Cortege
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    Acknowledgements
    68 22 THI FAMILY OF the Ut* Mrs. Ooh bin Seng nee Loes Bte Saoebln of 8. Carmlchael Road, thank relatives, .'rlends. doctor, and staff of Thomson Road Oeneral Hospital for their assistance, visits, condolences, donations aad wreaths In their resent bereavement. THE FAMILY OF the late Fong Chong riven* thank
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    26 22 V.F.C. PRESENTS PALERMO BROTHERS 2 night, only Adult concert 30th March 8.00 p.m. Teetuucera Rally 31st. March 7 30 p.m. Victoria Theatre. AU welcome.
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      824 22 LITRONIX VPORE (PTI) LTD. require, a male shipping/inventory control supervisor. Appllcanu should be accountlrg orientated with workIng experleice In Inventory control and ahippint procedures. A good educational lacktround Is essential. Send your upplleatloa to BUt. 3 4th floor. Tioog Bahru Flatted Factory. Lower Delta Road. B'pon 1. STABLISHID COMPANY has
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      1361 22 EXPERIENCED FITTER REQUIRED RECEPTIONIST RIOUIRIO for Airby eatabluuted building contractor*. port Hotel Reservation Counter. Applicants po««aa*lng Fitter. Quail- Knowledge of foreign language* an flcsttcn. would be an advantage. advantage. Apply with recent passAttractlv* aalary for successful appll- port-sised photograph (non-return-cant. Writ* to P.O. Box 1674 S'pon able) to Box ASBOI
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      1774 22 GENERAL AMAH WANTIO. Live-In. DISTRICT IS. Two vacant anMrnlahBboutd have experience with child- ed aaailsasiiW. Available lmren. Oood salary. Apply 1 Bishops- mediately at Taman Nakhoda with sat* B' par* *****1. 3 bedrooms. living /dining room. GET YOUR 00MMIRCIAL/ACADI- garage. servant'a an. provided. MIO training from Raja* College Ipora Tel:
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    Applause as Shaw gets award
    142 24 APPLAUSE all round for the chairman of the Tourist Promotion Board, Tan Sri Runme Shaw (left) after he received the insignia of Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic on Monday night. The presentation was made by the Italian Ambassador to
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    Hit-and-run victim dies
    43 24 SINGAPORE. Tues. See Kay Huat. 11. died In Out ram Hospital an hour after he was knocked down by a car along Chong Pang Road this afternoon. Eye-witnesses to the accident are asked to contact the Sepoy Lines police station.
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    $400 fine for theft of petrol from van
    108 24 SINGAPORE, Tues. A man who stole petrol from the fuel tank of a van at a petrol kiosk was fined $400 or four months Jail today. Ang Kang Chwee, 23, who admitted stealing two gallons of petrol worth $4.40 in Commonwealth Avenue
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    Found dead at flats
    37 24 BINOAPORE. Tues. Tay Pan Chta. 43. unemployed and a former Woodbridge patient, was found deal at the foot of Block 172 Stirling Road at 6.20 am. tod^y. Police do not suspect fcul play.
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    Why executives need a union —by Seah
    283 24 Why executives need a union —by Seah SINGAPORE, Tuesday T^TUC leader Mr. Seah Mvi Kok, said today that the main aim of the proposed organisation for managerial and executive staff was to form them into a big group to avoid "peanut unions." "These management personnel are sometimes faced with problems
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    PERNAS BOSS STICKS BY APRIL 21 DEADLINE
    492 24 K. LUMPUR. Tutt. OERNAS Is set to channel all Chinese goods from April 21, its executive director, Inche Abdul Rahman Hamidon, said today. To ensure a smooth takeover, Pernas has processed more than 4.000 applications from existing Importers for the Import of $110
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    Six youths acquitted after charge is dropped
    97 24 Six youths acquitted after charge is dropped SINGAPORE. Tues. Six youths were yesterday acquitted of armed robbery after the charge against them was dropped. Senior Inspector M. Amaladass, prosecuting told the First Magistrate Court that he had received Instructions to withdraw the charge. He gave no reasons. They are Teo
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    Lock icon UN centre for Malaysia
    66 24 BANGKOK. Tues. Kuala Lumpur has been chosen as the site for the new Asian Centre for Development Administration. UN officials reported here today. The officials said the choice was made by heads of delegations meeting at the current UN Economic Commission for Asia and the Par
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    Masterly technique from Bulgarian pianist – Boukoff
    177 24 Masterly technique from Bulgarian pianist Boukoff- SINGAPORE. Tues. Donald Moore presented Yuri Boukoff at the Shangri-La tonight In his "Concert of the Year." The Bulgarian pianist has a formidable technique, nothing unusual in itself, but with a peerless tonal range that is quite incredible to hear. The first half had
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    Ya'acob to launch gotong royong project
    99 24 Ya'acob to launch gotong royong project CINGAPORE, Tues. Hajl J Ya'acob bin Mohamed, Minister of State In the Prime Minister's Office, will launch the Kampong Ubi constituency's gotong royong project from the Pakatan Setla Badminton Party court at Jalan Chendawan on Sunday at 8 a.m. More than 1,300 voluntary workers
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    'Mining firms not keen to invest in Malaysia'
    229 24 KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. Foreign mining companies are reluctant to invest in Malaysia because areas granted them lor mining purposes are not large enough. This was said today by Dr. Dennis Taylor, organising chairman of the regional conference on the geology of South-east
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    Youth accused of robbing 3 men
    80 24 Youth accused of robbing 3 men SINGAPORE, Tues. An Indonesian youth, Moai bin Tara, 17, was charged today with robbing three men at knifepoint at an urcompleted block of flat.s in Towner Road at 11.15 p.m. yesterday. Moan was alleged t> have robbed Madek Warang. Rablln bin Hadji Sulalman and
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      170 24 I DuBaRRY I offers to make jj you look 2 t beautiful! W lth«rntliuptoyoul) V 3 Enrol now for Dv Barry's special 3 beauty classes conducted by Miss Eileen Seah J (Dv Bsxryi Chief Besuty Consultant) *t 37 Robinson Road (2nd Floor) Singapore 1 *r Wednesday to Thursday 290>t0 30th
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      44 24 Bugs Bunny By Ralph Heimdahl /...YEK GONNA 1 ...AN' YW* IN LINE be cuectec? CINAML fer a bk» promotion PIPESIDCNT j "TSJ6SY AT OFFICE j— THAT WAS A"\ It PONT BELKVC A> S W*APING, 9UQ6J J UP MV M*OfJ MY PLEASURE, I WtTYv Ji
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      Time to organise a general health campaign
      108 25 Time to organise a general health campaign rriHE annual Dental Health 1 Campaign and Exhibition Is only a few weeks away. As dental health is one of the man? branches of medical science which everybody snould know something about. I suggest that Instead of having Just a dental health campaign,
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      Why not get them to invest those millions?
      261 25 Price spirals and that 13th payment I REFER to reports of concern amongst union leaders and consumer champions about the possible effect on the price level of the million of dollars that are to be taken on a spending spree, shortly, as
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      The need for zero growth rates
      233 25 The need for zero growth rates qiHE judgment of your feature writer, Soh Tiang 1 Keng, and other advocates of a Mass Rapid Transit system for Singapore is vitiated by an uncritical acceptance of the conclusions of industrialised countries. They start off with the faulty premise that the number of
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      Parental discipline and the naughty child
      256 25 REFER to the 1 article headlined "If your child. Is naughty just do nothing" (S.T.. March 14). The sorest way to rain Sincapore is to follow the advice of Dr. Rudolf Dreikus and do nothing, if your child is naughty. To do nothing If
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      The touts still make a fool of them
      156 25 The touts still make a fool of them CINEMA touts are still making a mockery out of the police and the management of most of the theatres In Singapore, big and small alike. Despite all those police actions, touts not only continue to resell tickets at very much higher prices
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      72 25 I READ your report on Ang Keong Sim (ST.. March 17> with great concern. As a mother of a child with previous acute nephritis, the news of the failure of one of the three transplants was disturbing. I understand that kidney transplants, like other transplants, may be rejected by the
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      Some of us do not even earn $1,350 a YEAR!
      204 25 Some of us do not even earn $1,350 a YEAR! JP "Executive" (B.T. March 16) would stop for a moment to think of hl» fellow citizen, perhaps he would not moan so mucn. Take the man who earns $250 a month. At present he pays CPP of $25 a month,
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      122 25 THE good Intention of the CPF Board to Increase the percentage of CPF contributions of workers Is indisputable. However, I wish to point out that not all employers will imnlement a "recommendation" of the Wages Council which Is not legally binding. The more the profits to employers, the happier they
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      Parliament told: Racing circuit is still top priority
      214 26 THE Social Affairs Ministry attaches the highest priority to the proposed provision of a permanent multipurpose racing circuit. But a number of factors delayed a final decision, and the proposal is still at the active consideration stage. The Minister for Social Affairs.
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      Season's first to Sakai
      66 26 GOTEMBA. Tues. Japan 1 motor racing season opened here on Sunday with Tadashl Sakal of Japan winning the first race of tbt Fuji Orand Champion series. Qreg Young, American CanAm racer and the only foreign driver In the 300-kllometre 1 180 miles) race, was fifth The
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      'MISSING ATHLETES' GET SAAA PARDON
      318 26 SINGAPORE Amateur Athletic Association's Vice-president Lau Teng Chuan yesterday reminded athletes ot their national responsibilities and not to let-up in their preparations for the 1973 Seap G*mes here, reports ERNEST FKIDA. Mr. Lav said: "As host country for the Qames we are expected to do
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      SAIMO HATTRICK FOR PUB
      79 26 PUB produced their best form yesterday to eliminate their Electricity Department by 5-1 in their Government Services junior knockout soccer replay at Farrer Park. The first match ended in a 2-2 draw. A hattrlck by Salmo and two goals by Ayub gave PUB a commanding margin.
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      Schuppan—he is MSA's ace in the pack
      455 26 Schuppan he is MSA's ace in the pack yERN SCHUPPAN, the Australian professional racing driver, who took Britain by storm in 1969, is MSA Racing Team's "ace in the pack" for the Singapore Grand Prix at the Upper Thomson Road circuit from March 30 to April 2. A former Australian
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      K.L. ONG WINS MacD -TROPHY
      210 26 K.L. ONG WINS MacD -TROPHY- 1(1. ONG won the Maex v Donald Trophy golf competition of the SICC yesterday when she carded a nett 67 for a three-roand afirefate of 204 to beat S. Koyama by two strokes over the Bukit course. Her nett 67 yesterday also won her the
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      FREE FOR 8 JUNIORS
      94 26 SINGAPORE Lawn Tennis Association lias allowed eight junior potential player* to compete free in the Open Hardcourt Championships at Tanglln Club on April 8. The players Robin Tan, Seah Huay Slang. Mali Poh Soon. Simon Seah, Mahader Hassan. Tan Pel Ling and Seah Huay Keng are
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      BAS orders Seap Games players to attend training
      285 26 BAS orders Seap Games players to attend training ■OASKETBALL Asso- elation of Singapore has ordered its 15-men Seap Games team and its women team to report for training at Chung Hwa Girls' School rrom this Saturday, reports PETER SIOW. Several promising schoolgirls and members of the Toto team, the national
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      Lock icon Another Celtic-Rangers final on the —cards –
      256 27 Another CelticRangers final on the —cards fiLASGOW, Tues. The draw for the Scottish F.A. Cup semi-finals yesterday has produced the possibility of another final between the ttvo great Glasgow rivals, Celtic and Rangers. Celtic beat Ranters in last season's final but they needed a replay to do so. Both were
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      Lock icon Jacklin now 8th on money list
      173 27 VEW YORK. Tues. Britain's Tony Jacklln has Jumped from 16th to eighth place In the list of golf money winners this season after pocketing the US$ 25.000 first prize In the Greater Jacksonville Open According to the PGA, the 27-year-old British player has now
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      Lock icon European Cup: Tough test today for Ajax
      504 27 LONDON, Tues. HOLLAND'S Ajax Amster11 dam, reigning European champions and regarded by many as the most exciting club soccer side in the world, face their toughest test In this season's European Cup when they defend a onegoal lead against Arsenal tomorrow The English
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      Affection set to score maiden win
      460 27 Affection set to score maiden win RACING with EPSOM JEEP AFFECTION did a sparkling gallop on a gjood track at Penang yesterday. Ridden by apprentice Masruhen Masjuay, the Romulus six-year-old sprinted smartly over 3f in 36-4/5 sec. Affection, who has yet to win after 19 starts, has a good chance
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      Evonne heads Aussie team
      56 27 PERTH. Tues. Wimbledon champion Evonne OooUgong and Margaret Court, who gave birth to her first child last month, head a five-member Australian team announced yesterday to meet the U.S. In a challenge match at Cleveland, Ohio, on July M-M. Others In the team are Helen Oourlay.
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      Lock icon Red Mask 6 to 1 fancy for Lincoln
      108 27 Red Mask 6 to 1 fancy for Lincoln LONDON, Tues. Price* at last nights Victoria Club callover on the English -Spring Double" the Irish 8weepe Lincoln Handicap and the Grand National were: Irish Sweep* Lincoln, to be run over 8f at Doncaatcr on Saturday 6-1 Red Ma*; 7-1 Sovereign BUI;
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      Lock icon Indons too good for the Thais
      198 27 Indons too good for the Thais OANGOON, Tues. Indonesia beat Thailand 4-0 yesterday In an Asian Zone Two Olympic Games qualifying round soccer match. Leading with a 12th minute goal headed In by Jacob Slhasale, the Indonesians went all out in the second half to score three more goals against
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      FEDERATION CUP: EASY PASSAGE FOR TOP SEEDS
      182 27 FEDERATION CUP: EASY PASSAGE FOR TOP SEEDS JOHANNESBURG. Tues. There were no surprises on the opening day 01 the Federation Cup women's tennis team competition here as the top seeds cruised comfortably Into the second round to Join holders Australia, who had a bye. France, seeded third, gave one of
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    58 28 AOIRL is carried in hysterics to a waiting ambulance outside a Protestant newspaper office following an explosion In Belfast. The blast on Monday smashed through a downtown street crowded with shoppers. At least six people, including two policemen, were killed. Yesterday three huge bomb blasts rocked Londonderry. Eight
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