New Nation, 21 January 1971

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  • 16 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE, Thursday evening, January 21, 1971 No. 4 Price 15 cents INKW NAT RAM
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  • 32 1 MELBOURNE TEST STACKFOLE c Lever b d'OHveira 30 LA WRY retired hurt 38 REDPATH not oat 52 I. CHAFPELL not o at 79 Extra* 12 Total 211 (for 1 Wicket).
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  • 429 1  -  First time in history by JACKIE SAM A score of sleepy-eyed heads of government left Singapore's Conference Hall at four o'clock this morning after an unprecedented all-night session on the arms-for-South Africa dispute. It is the first time in the chequered
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    • 67 1 London, Thursday—Communist affairs expert Victor Zona said today the Khrushchev memoirs were a forgery in which both the KOB and the CIA played a part In an article in the Guardian. Zona said the memoirs have been described as the publishing sensation of ths decade. But there
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    • 65 1 Copenhagen, Thursday— A Danish Government official yesterday suggested death clinics be established where potential suicides may go when they are tired of life. People fed up with life, especially the chronically and incurably sick, should be able to go to a clinic to discuss their problem
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    • 55 1 Guatemala City, Thursday —Four armed youths broke into the British' Consulate here yesterday and shot to death the personal bodyguard of the Consul. Police said the youths shot a military policeman assigned to guard the Consul, Mr. John Weymes, and fled after stealing his submachlnegun, a
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    • 36 1 Tokyo, Thursday. —An agreement on Cuba's nonrefund economic aid to North Vietnam and a protocol' on goods exchange between the two countries for 1071 were signed in Hanoi yesterday, the Vietnam News Agency said.
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  • 199 1 New Nation Foreign Service Cape Town, Thursday The South African Navy has reported that a Soviet cargo ship with a missile-carrying fast patrol boat aboard entered the Indian Ocean six days ago via the Cape route. The patrol boat was of a type which,«ank the Israeli
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  • 217 1 As strikers ask for overseas support More than 300 bags of sea mail and 11 bags of air mail bound for Britain have banked up at the General Post Office because of the British postal strike. All mail normally sent through London is being diverted to other
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  • 137 1 New York, Thursday The Finnish government will support any move to propose its permanent united Nations Ambassador, Mr. Max Jakobson, for the post of UN Secretary-General. The Finnish Foreign Ministry has "said in Helsinki that Mr. Jakobson, 47, enJoys the general respect of uN member countries
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  • 246 1 The British Prime Minister, Mr. Edward Heath, made an impassioned midnight appeal last night to his Commonwealth partners to have faith in Britain's integrity in the clash over arms sales for South Africa. Britain, he said claimed only one privilege: "Acceptance of our word, trust in our
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  • 235 1 President. Julius Nyerere of Tanzania said today he did not expect a British decision on the sale of arms to South Africa until the eight-na-tion study group had reported back to all Commonwealth governments. Addressing his first Sihgapore Press conference, Dr. Nyerere said that either the
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  • 61 1 Commonwealth heads of government began flying home today, and at least six of them will leave Singapore tomorrow. They are: Dr. Hastings Ban da (Malawi): 6 p.m. today; Dr. Julius Nyerere (Tanzania): -8 ana. tomorrow: Mr. Hud-son-Phillips (Trinidad and Tobago): 12.35 pjn. tomorrow: Mr. Edward Heath
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  • 360 2 M a 1 a y s i a-Singapore Airlines is sending a top team to the 20th annual conference of the Pacific Area Travel Association (PATA) in Manila from next Monday to January 29. The 14-man team will be headed by MSA's
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  • 66 2 Miami, Thursday.—Parts of a man's body were found yesterday stuffed in a suitcase that had been shipped by bus, and officials said three other bags in the same shipment apparently contained other parts of the body. The four pieces of luggage came from New York,
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  • 177 2 President Sheares and Mrs. Sheares will give a dinner for the heads of Commonwealth delegations and their wives at the Istana today at 8 p.m. General Sir Geoffery Baker, Chief of the British General Staff, who arrived here today, will visit 200 Provost Company
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  • 83 2 Australian air hostesses Wendy Scully, (left) and Tammie Longden, both from Sydney, hold a Thai doll and a golden Thai carriage. They are on show in a display of exhibits from some of the countries which took pirt in Osaka's Expo '7O.
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  • 346 2 Police issue Do's and Don'ts to prevent crime during Chinese New Year festival The Chinese New Year is here again. And most Chinese firms are paying out annual bonuses to their employees. While the gay season— Chinese New Year falls on January 27 and 28 nears police headaches
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  • 351 2 Singapore is a multiracial society in search of an identity. Dr. J. B. Tamney, a lecturer in the University of Singapore Sociology Department, said this today as he presented a paper on "The scarcity of identity" to the seminar on modernisation in South-East Asia organised by
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  • 246 2 A booklet on "Modernisation" prepared by the Singapore Teachers' Union is being distributed with two of its pages blotted out. On another page, a part calling for a teachers' se- minar on a "dynamic STU through modernisation" has also been scored.
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  • 133 2 Hong Kong's noted pipa exponent, Mr. Lui Pui-Yuen, 37, is to give a recital at the Victoria Theatre on Sunday week. His performance will be sponsored by the National Theatre Club as part of its promotion of Chinese music. A spokesman for the club
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  • 222 2 Singapore can face the world with self-res-pect only if it can build up its own armed forces and be prepared to defend its independence. Dr. Chiang Hal Ding, Member of Parliament, said this today at a national service send-off party at Ulu Pandan community centre.
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  • 34 2 La Paz, Thursday.—The Bolivian President, Gen. Juan Jose Torres, swore In a six-man commission yesterday to draft a new constitution for Bolivia which would be its 15th In 145 years of Independence.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 48 2 Weather cast from noon to midnight —Fair. The weather for the past 24 hours up to 8 a.m. today: Max. Temp. 86.1 Min. Temp. 74.0 Rain faU in inches Nil Total rainfall for to date (ins.) 2.99 Total raindays for month to date 11 Hours of Sunshine 8.65
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  • 304 3 Australia's migration policy could emerge as an issue in future Commonwealth conferences if Australia became unpopular among the Commonwealth on other issues. Professor Bruce Miller from the Australian National University gave this warning this morning in an interview with New Nation. He is now in
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  • 170 3 Indian grown fruits will soon find their way in large quantities on to the local market long the monopoly of Australian, Western and Chinese varieties. For a start, four tons of Indian Coorg mandarins have been Imported through the State Trading Corporation of India and a
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  • 124 3 It's the 'official' story-teller at work You might call National Library officer Miss Khoo Lee Eng an official story-teller. That's the job she and her colleagues at the library have three times a week. And these awed listeners captured by our cameraman show just how magical and popular
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  • 374 3 Malaysians say professional passes refused Two University of Singapore law graduates from Malaysia claimed today that the Immigration Department has barred them from practising here by refusing to give them professional visit passes. Both men said that the Immigration Department told them "not to waste their time"
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  • 270 3  -  By Siva Choy Something strange has been happening at the Fort Canning Christian cemetery tombstones have been taken away and no-one knows why. About four months ago the cemetery, one of the oldest historical sites in Singapore, was crowded with tombstones and crosses. Today all
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  • 189 3 MSA jet's airport collision incident A team of experts beSji a full-scale inquiry to last night's accident in which the wing tip of a Malaysia-Singa-pore Airlines Boeing 707 was ripped in a collision with a Seaboard Western DCB. The MSA investigators were at the airport early thin
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  • 176 3 Choo Kang Fah, alias Shanghai Kia, 30, was jailed for a total of four years today after he admitted breaching police supervision and commiting armed robbery. A First District Judge, Mr. Abdul Wahab Ghows, ordered him placed on two years police supervision after his
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  • 41 3 The Red Cross Society will hold a Chinese New Year party for the aged today at 5 p.m. at its headquarters in Clemenceau Avenue. Mr. Jeanette Sim Kee Boon, chairman of the society's appeals committee will distribute gifts.
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  • THE WORLD
    • 475 5 Egypt's six-point peace plan for Middle East In a note to the UN special envoy. Dr. Jarring, Egypt rejects Israel's plan for a settlement and puts forward one of its own. In Jordan, Iraq is pulling back its troops. New Nation Foreign Service New
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    • 195 5 United Press International Cairo, Thursday Iraq is withdrawing an estimated 36,000 troops from Jordan, the semi-official newspaper A 1 Ahram said yesterday. It said the pullback, expected to be completed by tomorrow, was going on in secret. The move would leave a single Iraqi
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    • 23 5 Madrid, Thursday.—Police in Madrid last month arrested about 200 people, including students and outlawed left-wing workers' leaders, informed sources said yesterday.
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    • 364 5 New Nation Foreign Service Saigon, Thursday. Dug -in Communist troops are clinging to the slppes of the Pich Nil pass on Cambodia's rout? 4, despite losing 83 killed in two battles with allied troops and American planes. Military spokesman said the nine-day battle to.
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    • 339 5 Mayor asks for names of those involved Reuter New York, Thursday Mayor John Lindsay moved yesterday to impose loss of pay penalties on New York policemen who took part in the illegal sixday strike. Under the State's Taylor Law, which forbids strikes by public
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    • 58 5 Sydney, Thursday The Queensland Attorney-Ge-neral and Justice Minister, Dr. Peter Delamothe, said here yesterday that industrial espionage was rife throughout Australia. He said his department had uncovered significant evidence on the spread of spying on rival firms. He said the greatest incidence of industrial espionage occurred between Australian
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    • 204 5 Agence France Presse Jakarta. Thursday Mr. Gil J. Puyat, chairman of the Philippines Senate, said here yesterday that he supported the proposed plan for the neutralisation of South-East Asia and the Indian Ocean. Mr. Puyat, who is leading a three-man delegation on an official visit,
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    • 43 5 Beirut, Thursday Th« Lebanese Deputy Premier and Education and Information Minister Mr. Ohassan Tueni, submitted his resignation yesterday to the Prime Minister, Mr. Saeb Salam. There was no immediate explanation for his resignation, and no indication If it was accepted.
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    • 357 5 United Press International Paris, Thursday The French State Security Court today hears the third case against "the good-life spies" three men who police say betrayed Nato secrets for wine, women and fine food. Yesterday the court sentenced a former North Atlantic Treaty Organisa.tion clerk to
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    • 47 5 Bonn, Thursday.—A tip from a security officer in Communist East Germany led to the arrest of four West Germans on charges of spying for the Communists, a West German federal prosecutor said yesterday. The four—two men and two women—were arrested on Monday.
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    • 167 5 Reuter Tel Aviv, Thursday An Israeli organisation for action against Nazi war crimes yesterday offered a US$5O,OOO reward to any person who could identify and arrest Nazi war criminal, Josef Mengele. Mengele, former doctor of Auschwitz concentration camp and the most wanted Nazi war
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    • 224 6 Reuter Moscow, Thursday. The Soviet Oil Industry Minister Mr. Valentin flhashln, predicted yesterday Russia would outstrip present American oil production within three or four years and would be the world's greatest oil power. Russia was closing the gap annually against the current
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    • 78 6 United Press International Chicago, Thursday Pakistani scholar Eqbal Ahmad was ordered bound over to the Federal Court in Harrisburg. Philadelphia, yesterday to face charges of plotting to kidnap presidential advisor Henry Kissinger and blow up heating systems in Washington government buildings. U.B. Commissioner James Balog denied
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    • 393 6 New Nation Foreign Service Manila, Thursday Student leaders yesterday pledged to hold the biggest demonstra~ tion seen in the Philippines when President Marcos delivers his state of the nation speech before Congress on Monday. One student group Issued a statement which said: "The national
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    • 46 6 Calcutta. Thursday. The death toll in political clashes and street violence In India's West Bengal State this month rose yesterday to at least 70 with the fatal stabbing of two men. At least 24 Bengalis have been killed in violence this week.
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    • 267 6  -  Still optimistic about his goals By Helen Thomas United Press International Washington, Thursday President Nixon reached the half-way mark in his term yesterday optimistic that he will fulfil in the next two years the goals he set in his inaugural address. He marked the anniversary by
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    • 118 6 Reuter Munich, Thursday Three Hungarians were sentenced to 2Vz years' jail last night for hijacking a Rumanian airlines plane to Munich last September. A fourth, Mrs. Piroska Biro, 24, was given a sixmonth suspended sentence. All four were on trial on charges of forcing the pilot of
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    • 112 6 Reuter Washington, Thursday Ecuador has fined US fishermen nearly US$5OO,OOO ($1.5 million) and rejected a protest over its seizure of American tuna boats the State Department said yesterday. The United States is considering deducting the amount of the fines from economic aid to Ecuador
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    • 108 6 Reuter Jakarta, Thursday Indonesia and Malaysia have agreed to mark their territorial boundary in the Straits of Malapca by a middle line dividing the narrow waterway equally, the Indonesian Foreign Minister, Dr. Adam Malik, announced yesterday. Dr. Malik told Parliament the agreement was
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  • COMMENT
    • 870 7  -  By Pakir Singh The riots that broke out in. January, 1970, in the Philippines are still continuing. The latest was last week when thousands of striking jeepney drivers joined by militant youths staged a mammoth demonstration which forced the closure
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    • 832 7 Commonwealth anxieties over Britain's entry By a New Nation special writer The British Prime Minister. Mr. Edward Heath, has been assuring his Commonwealth colleagues this week that their vital .trade interests will be protected if Britain joins the European Economic Community (EEC). British officials have
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    • 825 7  -  By S.M. Ali All, our roving foreign editor Bangkok's cantious reappraisal of Thai-US relations has progressed to a genuine search for a somewhat independent and certainly flexible foreign' policy. The Foreign Mnister of this nation of 32 millions, Dr. Thanat Khoman, has
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  • 287 8 An agreement to defer not one to differ The Commonwealth has survived for the time being, but it is a compromise that leaves the main question unanswered. The Study Group proposal does not bind Britain to &ct within its recommendations or even to defer a decision on the issue of
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  • 570 8  - Most urgent —a rota scheme for the call-shy doctors JACKIE SAM A suggestion for the Singapore Medical Association's convention agenda: Put down as Item One a discussion on a rota scheme of night-duty doctors available to the public. This is urgent. Imperative. It can be a matter of life and
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  • Letters
    • 214 8  -  Q. PANG I wonder what happened to the new opposition party that was due to be launched last month? I am not sure that it was being organised on the right lines. From all that I could gather, it was to be a rather eclectic group
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    • 84 8  -  W.O. MBAT As a fully assimilated multi-racial Singaporephlle after three weeks on this verdant island of lush green foliage and fumeladen air I have only one complaint (apart from the traffic and the unending red tape involved in getting myself, my luggage, my family, my everything
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    • 150 8 Is Mr. Alex Josey right in condemning what he calls speculative writing in the newspapers as "unrewarding", "space-filling" and a privilege to be "carefully exercised" in developing countries? If the speculation Is wrong it can be officially denied by the parties concerned, and provided that the
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    • 97 8  -  ELIOT BENG Why has Singapore TV missed the great opportunity presented by the Commonwealth Conference to give more publicity to Commonwealth countries? There were many officials in each delegations and even a simple conversation with them about the position, problems, outlook and attitudes of the various
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    • 429 8  -  S.M.B. A.TJS.'s letter in your paper on Wednesday, pleaded for the preservation of traditional buildings in Singapore. One wonders how many citizens found the time to look in at the exhibition of maps illustrating the master plan for the State of Singapore which was on
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    • 141 8  -  AVID READER Your paper is a welcome change from the Scylla and Charybdis of our daily fare. I am referring to a certain colourlessly conservative paper on the one hand and a childishly petulant or provocative paper on the other. We were either frozen into indifference or
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  • 1029 8  -  From Peter Osnos South Vietnam's Presidential election next October is already taking shape, with the US Embassy anxiously looking to President Thieu's non-Communist opposition to give the contest badly needed credibility. In other words, how the
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  • 1481 9 PART FOUR: New Nation's best-seller serialization Ml EVE FOR THE DRHGOII SOUTH-EAST ASIA OBSERVED 1954-1970 DENNIS BLOODWORTH OEYOND the colourful D cast of egotistical overlords and ambitious generals, of corrupt officials and pious bigots of Communist guerillas and nationalistic mob-raisers who strut across
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  • 794 9  -  By Brian Parkinson It is difficult to accept or even to explain the logic of the recent Malaysian budget and its uncritical acceptance by the local Press. As it stands, the 1971 bud. get appears to offer very little by way of a solution
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  • EDUCATION
    • 525 10 THE STUDENTS COME FROM THE ANGLO-CHINESE SCHOOL STUDENT FORUM TODAY POSES THE QUESTION: Mr. Pierre Trudeau of Canada. He is quite trendy compared with the other Prime Ministers. He is athletic and more appealing. There is a playboyIsh quality about him
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    • 608 10 C. Dion reports on the campus reaction The announcement of the change to the twoterm system at the University of Singapore has provoked a number of reactions on campus. Some of the student responses spilled over into the campus newspaper, the Singapore Undergrad, but
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    • 258 10  -  Creative writing for teachers C. DION The Ministry of Education is initiating a stint of creative writing, choral speaking and dramatic improvisations for an enthusiastic group of English language and literature teachers. The programme the most unusual inservice course launched by the Ministry will include talks
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    • 1164 10 Despite special problems, a student can still lead a happy life From a special writer in London Much has been written recently about overseas students in Britain, who are the subject of investigations by sociologists, psychologists, doctors and educationists who try to interpret the life
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  • WOMAN
    • 436 11  -  Women's movement with a difference From Margaret Kilgore South Vietnamese women, not to be outdone by their American counterparts, have begun their own version of the women's liberation movement, with an accent on peace. The movement is headed by Mrs. Ngo Ba Thanh, a petite, 39-year-old Saigon lawyer
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    • 469 11 9mmm Blair shows die way to those who despite dieting Call to shed that extra weight The need for exercise these days is more and more emphasised. With the trend towards national fitness the overweight person is made more conscious of being out of condition. .And,
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    • 112 11 Here If one of a those double-life trouser suits that everyone 14 wild liKmt nowadays. They art flood numm you get tWO 100K5 irom ate outfit, and they are ldgU.for that ilttt bf*ve step into the Sttdi r. .or for convincing the ten In jmfllfe
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    • 369 11 7 ho Doctors guide V) tx I well remember as a young general practitioner listening to a grief stricken mother who was convinced that her child had leprosy. The little boy had developed a number of flat reund white patches on his face and body but was otherwise
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  • CINEMA
    • 709 12  -  'l've discovered you dont need make-up and bleached hair. You have no-one to please but yourself From Lana Wells The blond crushed velvet Qn the walls of Faye Dunaway's Manhattan apartment simply has to go. 1 It's pretentious and unrealistic... "and awful" laughed the
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    • 196 12 Mandarin swordflghting films seem to have come a full circle. After four years of stomach-s 1i 11 in g and limb- chopping, producers have apparently exhausted all the possible variations on a now hackneyed theme. The latest trick is barehand brutality. 'The Unparallel Judo Knife"—the
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    • 529 12 Edgar Koh reviews 'The Challengers' and finds the same old story on a cheap backdrop After the Frankenheimer spectacular "Grand Prix" with its supercinerama screen and its colourful array of Formula Ones, all other films that pin their hopes on motorracing must try very hard indeed.
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    • 361 12 Film sweeps US off its feet—and is set to do the same round the world "Love Story," the picture which has broken every record in the history of the American flim industry, has been selected for the Royal Film Performance in London. The
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  • Finance page
    • 165 13 Prices of selected shares on the Sydney Stock Exchange today in Australian dollars were: Allied Chem Am Brands AT 4 T n —7» A P 11U Anaconda Beth Steel 'I Boeing 17 it Caterp Trac Coca-Cola Control Data Corn G1 Wks 15«2 E Kodak 74U 66% Gen Dynam
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    • 144 13 JAKARTA, Thurs. —Indonesia is seriously studying a Soviet proposal to Import large quantities of rubber from this country as an alternative If the United States Insists on releasing its rubber stockpiles. Trade Minister Mr. Sumitro told newsmen after a limited Cabinet session on Tuesday that the Soviet
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    • 91 13 WASHINGTON. Thurs.—The Treasury Department yesterday launched sn investigation to determine if sheet glass from Nationalist China is being sold in the United States at less than its fair value in Taiwan in violation of the U.S. "AntiDumping Act." Assistant Treasury Secretary Mr. Eugena Rossides announced the Bureau of
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    • 70 13 SAN FRANCISCO, Thurs.— Oil has been discovered in an exploratory well off the shore of northeast Sumatra, the Naomas Company announced nere yesterday. The well yielded 5.500 barrels a day. Oil was discovered in limestone at depths ranging from 2,682 to 2,974 feet. This was a
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    • 56 13 WASHINGTON, Thurs.—The White House yesterday made It clear that the next more was up to japan in the search *<* voluntary agreement to limn tn# Inflow of cheap Japanese textiles. "We have made our position very clear," Presidential press secretary Mr. Ronald ZJegler said. "I
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    • 38 13 COPENHAGEN. Thurs. The National Bank yesterday lowered the bank rate from nine to eight per cent. The bank rata had jumped from seven to a European record high nine P® l cent in May 1989.
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    • 508 13 By CHRISTOPHER MATTHEWS Reuter Brussels, Thursday Rising world energy consumption will lead to price increases for fuels, particularly oil, during this decade, the six-na-tion European Coal Association says in a report published yesterday. It estimates that world needs will rise from the present 7,000 million
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    • 224 13 United Press International New York, Thursday The stock market extended its easy money rally in brisk trading yesterday. At the final bell, the Dow Jones industrial average was ahead 0.48 at 849.95. Advances led declined 785 to 622. A volume of 18,330,000 shares compared
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    • 190 13 United Press International London, Thursday The post office strike made stock market trading a low key affair yesterday, but growing hopes of an interest rate cut to follow the U.S. and Japanese pattern buoyed British Government bonds. Industrial shares tended to mark time and not
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    • 1056 13 ALL YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE STOCK EXCHANGE COUNTERS AN analysis of yesterday's closing prices: INDUSTRIALS 1970-71 1 wk. 4 wks. Closing Price last DiVld. P/E TnrnHigh Low ago ago Stock Buyers Sellers Sale Yield Ratio Over 4.50 2.60 2.90 2.65 Allied Chocolate 2.90 4.3N 18.4
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    • 189 13 i SINGAPORE j EXCHANGE TODAY The Stock Exchange of Singapore this morning ruled generally steady in quiet trading. The traded volume at tiie close of the morning session was estimated lower at 400,000 units of which about 25 per cent was recorded in time bargain dealing.
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    • 88 13 The rubber market opened quietly steady at 48} cents for February Ones and fluctuated narrowly between this level and 49} cents. Conditions were thin with both buyers .and sellers reluctant to trade. Some modest China acceptances were reported last night. Activity was mainly of a short-covering nature and
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    • 840 13 BID AND OFFER PRICES AT LUNCH TODAY Bid and offer levels with the price of the last sales at lunch today on the Btock Exchange of Singapore and Malaysia. INDUSTRIALS a. S. LS. ACMA 1.30 1.42 AJinomoto 1.85 ▲lean 1.43 1.43 Allied Choc. Ben 1.15 1.17 1.18 B.
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    • 73 13 Reuter Tokyo, Thursday Japan had a record surplus of US$4OO million in her balance of payments for December, owing to a sharp rise in exports and a slowdown in imports. The Finance Ministry said the trade balance had a huge surplus of US$74O, million, the largest ever,
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    • 11 13 STARLITE CERAMIC HOLD ACTIVE INTEREST ABOVE OVERNIGHT LEVEL 90,000 UNITS TRADED
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    • 171 13 SINGAPORE WALL STREET MID DAY PRICES Csso MARKETING DEPARTMENT has vacancies for Hi i 4 ;MI *l*l, U QUALIFICATIONS Position A.—Applicants must AND DESIRED possess University degree in EXPERIENCE: Economics, Commerce or Business Administration. They should be between the ages of 24 and 30 years. Two years business experience in
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    • 328 14 From Blue Peter in Koala Lumpur Sungei Wang 11, a Gold Cup prospect next week, did an attractive Ridden by Sublan Dalwee, Sungei Wang broke Into a gallop at the four to run the last Sf in 39. He was full of running at the
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    • 476 14 SATUaOAT Scratching*—Race 1: 2.00 CI. 4 Div 7 6f—President's Adviser. Race 2 2.30 CI 4 Div 6 6f Three Aces. Race 3: 3.0S CI 4 Div 5 Of—Sword of Flame. Race 4: 3.40 CI 4 Div 1 Of—Excuse Me IL Race 5: 4.15 CI 1 Div 2
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    • 69 14 Out on the basketball court training yesterday at the River Valley Government Chinese Middle School were (from left) Ho Jee Luan, Yeo Seok Choo, Tay Boon Sang, Chua Wee Hoon, Yong Mee Hiong, Chuas Siew Bee and Tan Soo Huay. BELOW: High flyers in the team are Ho Jee Luan,
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    • 186 14 Melbourne, Thursday Australian captain Bill La wry won the toss and elected to bat in the Fifth Test against England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground today. La wry and Keith Stackpole opened up slowly and took nearly two hours for the first 50. The slow pace
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    • 95 14 The draw and starting times for the quarter-final round of the Keppel Club Basten Cup golf competition at the Buklt Chermin course on Saturday: 2 p.m.—Stephen Wee (9) and Robert Chong (18) v D.O. Harwood (16) and D. Russell (18); 2.06 pjn.—D. Mitchell (14) and Anthony
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    • 30 14 Dayton, Ohio, Thursday.— Muhammed Ali still plans to fulfil his obligation to put on a boxing exhibition here, according to the promoter of Friday's cancelled event
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    • 20 14 The SCC Nomads will plajr the SRC in a rugby matcn at the Padang at 5.15 pjn. today.
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    • 34 14 •MSTULU Ist Mfi Stackpole not out ..30 Liwry not out 29 Extras 5 Total 64 {for no wicket) NVLMI Snow 7-3-264); Lever 6-0-20-0; d'Oliveira 5-2-9-0; Willis 3-2-1-0; Underwood 2-1-1-0. Latest score page 1
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    • 28 14 London, Thursday Results of last night's Rugby Union matchee were: COUNTY CHAMP Leicestershire 19 East Mid. 12 Warwickshire 1? Nth Mid. 6 CLUB Birmingham t Army
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    • 290 14  -  By Jeffrey Low Singapore's top schoolboy tennis players "secretly" underwent centralised training at Farrer Park during the third-term vacation last year.. .and found five new players. The thrice-weekly training was aimed at preparing the boys for the SingaSDre Lawn Tennis Associaon's championships this year. Already
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    • 663 15  -  By Jeffrey Low Canagasabai Kunalan the sprinter, has turned Kunalan the coach. Kunalan, who retired from competitive athletics after the Asian Games in Bangkok last month, has already begun coaching boys at the Dunearn Technical where he teaches. After eight years of painful struggles on
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    • 268 15 BOXING ROUND-UP London, Thursday British and European heavyweight boxing champion Henry Cooper" was offered "in excess" of £45,000 by two rival promoters to defend his titles against Joe Bugner. Manager Jim Wicks told promoters Harry Levene and Mike Barrett, both of Shorn have bid for the
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    • 151 15 Reuter London, Thursday Britain's Graham Hill, twice world champion driver, will lead the Brabham Formula one team in the coming motor-racing season, taking over from Australian Jack Brabham, who retired last year. Hill, world champion in 1962 and 1968, made a remarkable comeback to Formula
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    • 28 15 Manila, Thursday New World flyweight- champion Erbito Salavarria of the Philippines has been named "Athlete of The Year 1970" by the Philippine Sportswriters Asscoiation.
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    • 341 15  -  By Sonny Yap The Amateur Fencing Association of Singapore will support any move to include the littleknown sport in the Sixth South East Asia Peninsular Games at Kuala Lumpur later this year. Although their own efforts in this direction have proved futile, the AFAS
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    • 120 15 London. Thursday—Marilyn Neufville, the World 400 metres record holder, meets her British coach Norman Hurst here today in a bid to clear up the uncertainty regarding her plans to compete in the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. The 18-year-old coloured girl chose to run for Jamaica
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    • 43 15 Cannes, France, Thursday —French Airline steward Jean-Pierre Marquant, 82, yesterday water skied 106 miles from Corsica to this Riviera resort on one ski. His comment after the five hours, 35 minutes marathon "This is too hard. I wont do it again."
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    • 46 15 London, Thursday.—The Rugby League international committee today decided that Great Britain's first two Tests against the New Zealanders next season will be at Balford and If a decider is necessary it will be at Headingley. If not, Leeds will meet the New Zealanders instead.
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    • 20 15 Schruns, Austria, Thursday. Michele Jacot, of France, won the women's World Cup downhill ski race here yesterday.
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    • 25 15 Montevideo, Thursday Veles Saxsfleld of Argentina defeated International of Bratislava, Chechoslovakia. 2-1, tonight in the second round of the "Montevideo cup" soocer tournament.
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    • 88 15 Paris. Thursday The Government-backed Academy of Sports yesterday chose Brazil's Pele as the world's supreme sporting personality of 1970. The academy, a grouping of some 50 French and foreign sports administrators and ex-cham-pions headed by the Count of Beaumont, gave the Brazilian footballer the annual President's
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    • 341 15  -  By Lim Kee Chan An American motor racing firm is keen to send five cars to the Singapore Grand Prix in March. One of the likely drivers in the team is Graeme Lawrence of New Zealand, twice winner of the Singapore and
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    • 102 15 Tokyo, Thursday—Yokozuna (Grand champion) Tamanoumi quickly drove out Hawaiian wrestler Jesse Kuhaulua yesterday for his 11th straight win on the 11th day of the 15-day sumo tournament at the Kokugikan Stadium. Jesse, better known as Takamiyama with Komusubl rating, suffered his ninth setback against two wins.
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    • 142 15 Reuter Seoul, Thursday Oh-Yun Cho, an 18-year-old Seoul highschool boy who won two gold medals at the sixth Asian Games swimming event in Bangkok last month, has been offered a scholarship by the Alema State University of the United States. The Korean Swimming
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    • 70 15 London, Thursday.—Mohammed Yasin of Pakistan clinched the runner-up position in the £3OOO Benson and Hedges international round and Robin squash tournament with a five game victory over Rainer Ratlnac of Australia at the L&nsdowne Club last night. Yasin won his final match 0-1, 9-10, 5-0, 0-6, 0-0.
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    • 87 15 Boston, Massachusetts,, Thursday—Chico Maki and! Bobby Hull, both of the Black Hawks, tonight scored the first period goals that gave the west team a mild upset 2-1 win over the east in the National Hockey League's 24th annual allstar game. It was the only NHL
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    • 30 15 New York 117 San Dfcfo 113? Detroit 106 Seattle 102 Chicago 123 Portland 111 Cleveland 111 Buffalo 79 Lob An*. 134 Phi la 114 San Fran. 11« Cinel. 108
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    • 79 16 AH POOS: Well, they certainly raised the flags over Singapore for the Commonwealth conference. But did you notice that there's no Commonwealth flag? You'd think they would have a symbol of some kind to show that the nations belong to the one family. MEI LIN: Not at all!
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    • 481 16 Real estates prices and hotel room rates appear to be galloping ahead-in-hand, offering luxury at previously undreamt of fantastic rates. Private bouse owners, cashing in on the current land boom, are asking for higher prices while hotels are reaping luxury on luxury to earn the
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    • 7 16 Mr. Heath and friend yachting In Singapore.
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    • 138 16 A woman columnist in London has told Britain's bachelor Prime Minister, Mr. Edward Heath, that he should try harder to find himself a wife. Jean Rook, writing in the Dally Sketch, was commenting on a picture published in London of Mr. Heath with a bikini-clad
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    • 164 16 Some enterprising Britons aren't having much luck trying to beat the postal strike. At Barstaple, printing company manager Peter Vernon tried a homing pigeon He microfilmed letters at his plant, strapped the film to a pigeon named Concorde and sent it on
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    • 274 16  -  By Siva Choy I would never have guessed that they were pickpockets if my travelling companion had not warned me. So when I got off the bus at Newton yesterday after work, I decided to stay and watch them operate. There were four
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    • 69 16 Sweet independent Cynthia. Sixteen yearold pixie-faced schoolgirl Cynthia Chan is pondering her future while she waits for the results of her School Certificate. Her parents wanted to send her to boarding school in Australia, but Cynthia would rather stay in Singapore. Cynthia's ambitions are to work
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    • 80 16 Insurance magnate Clement Stone's "positive mental attitude" philosophy is going to give women convicts across the United States a chance for positive social betterment. The Clement Stone Foundation plans to teach female prisoners in 14 states the "ins and outs of social graces," including skin care, wardrobe
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    • 181 16 Sophia Loren upstaged the matchstick mannequins and frontrow Italian countesses at this week's Biki collection in Rome, the last of the big Italian spring and summer high fashion showings. Last week Miss Loren drew <me of the top places in an American designer's annual tongue-in-cheek list
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    • 338 16 5 Singiperi 6.00 Opening and Dr. Who 6.30 News in Brief 6.35 Cattanooga Cats 7.15 This is Your Lung 7.40 News in Chinese 8.00 What Others Say (Chinese) 8.30 Here's Lucy Lucy Takes Over 9.00 News and Newsreel in English 9.30 The Rado Show 10.20 Teochew Opera —The Case of
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    • 398 16 Trust your lucky star IF irs YOUR BIRTHDAY Born today, you have a fine sense of the ridiculous and often find It difficult to take seriously what to others may seem matters of life and death. You automatically Inject humour into much that you say, even when the subject at
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