New Nation, 26 January 1971

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    18 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE, Tuesday evening, January 26, 1971 No. 8 Price 15 cents Mipwafl^ircigi SINGAPORE TUESDAY, JANUARY 26
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    LATE NEWS
    36 1 Australia Ist innings 493 for 9 dec. 2nd innings 269 for 5 dec. England Ist innings 392 2nd innings BOYCOTT not out 8 EDRICH not out 2 Extras 2 Total 12 (for no wkts.)
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    US worried about plane
    82 1 Christchurch, Tuesday. United States naval officials said last night they were worried because they could not confirm that a navy Hercules bound for the Antarctic with VIPs aboard had in fact landed safely at Williams Field, Antarctica. A sudden communications blackout between New Zea- land and
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    Lock icon Manson guilty
    257 1 Three face gas chamber over Tate killing Reuter Los Angeles, Tuesday Hippie leader Charles Manson and two of his girl followers, Patricia Krenwinkel and Susan Atkins, were yesterday found guilty of killing actress Sharon Tate and six others in August, 1969. Another member of Manson's "family," Leslie Van
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    Test scores at lunch
    54 1 Melbourne, Tuesday—Australia were 169 for four wickets at lunch on the final day of the Fifth Test here today. This gave them a lead of 270 runs on England's first innings. Play was brisk this morning with the Australian batsmen forcing the pace, particularly the Chappell
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    Intelsat-four launched
    34 1 Cape Kennedy, Tuesday. —A huge new communications satellite designed to handle 12 television channels or between 3000 and 9000 telephone calls at the same time was launched towards earth orbit last night.
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    Work gets under way to split MSA
    564 1 Staff told jobs are safe An independent firm of accountants has been recruited and two executive committees set up to dismantle the Malaysia Singapore Airlines partnership. The first meeting of gove r n m en t representatives from Malaysia and Singapore to discuss
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    Lock icon Obote's not talking
    220 1 Deposed leader in seclusion New Nation Foreign Service Nairobi, Tuesday Uganda's deposed President Milton Qbote went into seclusion in a city hotel last night after his arrival here from Singa- pore. No statement was issued by the 46-year-old President or his party on the military coup which
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    Lock icon 3 flee from blazing car
    101 1 Three people fled from the car in which they were travelling when it burst into flames in Stevens Road last night. Suhak bin Yusof, 42, of Chancery Lane, and his two passengers were not injured in the blaze which left the Toyota sedan a wreck.
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      36 killed in plane crash
      74 1 Caracas, Tuesday. An Aeropostal Viscount aeroplane carrying 43 passengers and a crew of four crashed yesterday in the Andes Mountains. Thirty-six people were reported dead. The Communications Ministry's search and rescue branch said a DC3 aircraft was dispatched to the scene -of the crash. A
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      Left wing demo at Commons
      85 1 London, Tues. About 40 leftwlng members of Parliament last night halted a sitting of the House of Commons by staging an angry demonstration in front of the speaker's chair. The MPs left their seats in the Opposition benches to gather in the gangway in the
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      UNICEF fund
      34 1 New York, Tuesday. The United Nations Children's Fund plans to spend a further US$lO million on emergency relief and reconstruction projects in Peru. Jordan, Pakistan and Nigeria, It was announced here yesterday.
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      Moscow visit
      31 1 Vienna, Tuesday. The Czechoslovak Communist Party leader Mr. Gustav Husak, and the Prime Minister, Mr. Lubomlr Stronugal, left Prague yesterday for Moscow for "an unofficial friendly visit" to Russia.
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    Lock icon Mine blasts train: 10 die
    95 1 Reuter Saigon, Tuesday Ten Vietnamese were killed and 13 wounded when a train running between Danang and the country's second city of Hue ran over a mine, a Government spokesman said today. The train had completed about half Its 65-mile Journey on to Hue when
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    Lock icon Six New Year wishers
    166 2 Ail dressed and ready to usher in the Year of the Pig All dressed up and ready. The Lee family of Mei Lin Street in Queenstown is one of thousands in Singapore which has been looking forward to this day to usher in the Year of
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    Lock icon Peking tries to dampen holiday enthusiasm
    508 2 New Year's Eve in China, Hong Kong Reuter Hong Kong, Tuesday Authorities in Pekingare issuing traditional warnings against extravagance during the Spring Festival which ushers in the Lunar New Year, beginning tomorrow. At midnight tonight the year of the Dog gives way to the
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    Yemen agrees to summit
    46 2 Cairo, Tuesday.—Yemen yesterday became the ninth country to agree to attend the Arab summit conference sugyested by Kuwait. The mOve left only five nations in the 14-member Arab League yet to support, the summit. They were led by Saudi Arabia and Iraq.
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    Istana grounds open to public
    130 2 President Sheares has ordered the Istana grounds to be open to the public tomorrow Chinese New Year's Day from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. The month-long United Nations Industrial Development Organisation workshop on financial analysis and planning for industrial projects will close on Friday at
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    TV tonight up to 1 a.m.
    40 2 Television Singapore will be on tonight up to 1 ajn. over both Channels 5 and 8. Channel 5 will open at 9 a.m. and Channel 8 at 1 p.m. during the next two days.
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    Lock icon Mrs. Gandhi has poll victory
    138 2 United Press International New Delhi, Tuesday Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi's ruling Congress Party has scored a thumping by-elec-tion victory m Uttar Pradesh. The poll In Mrs. Gandhi's home State and India's most populous is seen as a strong pointer to the national election In
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    Govt gives assurance over bond scheme
    385 2 Adequate time to be granted Government Officials said today that there was no need for parents to panic about the bonding scheme for sons now studying overseas. The government would give parents adequate time to make necessary arrangements for the scheme. "This Is particularly
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    New outfits for TV news
    88 2 Women move into line with the men Women news readers on television have taken a new 100k sombre and uniform. Before the change, the four women news readers on TV Singapore usually appeared in all types of attire. The change is pro- bably to keep
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    Chamber says health law is outdated
    149 2 The Chinese Chamber of Commerce is planning an innuiry into "the outdated law" which quarantines Singaporean deck passengers returning from China for 48 hours. The secretary of the chamber, Mr- C. M. Wong, said today that some of the chamber members felt that the
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    Shipyard men on bribery charge
    171 2 Two directors of Ho Ah Lam Shipyard this morning claimed trial when they appeared in a Magistrate's Court on a charge of giving a bribe of $11,002.50 to a former naval architect of the Marine Department. The naval architect, Laurence Mllner, was charged with corruptly
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      189 2 world 92-75. 91-71. 90-72. 59-50. 87-71. 58-53. 32-23. 51-35. 57-55. 50-41. 52-43. 38-32. 47-32. 52-40. 80-89. 98-88. 79-64. Temperatures in capitals yesterday: Jakarta Kuala Lumpur Bangkok "Hong Kong Manila Taipei Seoul Tokyo Naha London Paris Moscow New York San Francisco Sydney Melbourne Perth Singapore Singapore's weather forecast from 1 p.m.
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    Electronic alarm against crime
    268 3 20 police dogs for Singapore Singapore's hotels, banks, offices and shops are being connected to an electronic alarm system in an effort to stem the rising crime rate. The electronic alarm is based on a system which is widely used in Australia. Business premises and other
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    Food prices shoot up for New Year
    142 3 With Chinese New Year only a day away, prices of foodstuffs have shot up. A Chinatown shopkeeper, for instance, is selling a pair of waxed ducks imported from China at $l9, an increase of $5 on the normal price. Locally prepared sausages have
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    Booklist out
    39 3 Teenaged readers can now pick their choice of science fiction from a book"list issued by the National Library. The list, compiled by the Library's Young People's Committee, is given free to members, secondary schools and libraries abroad.
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    Walk prizes
    30 3 Mr. LP. Rodrlgo, MP for Serangoon Gardens and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Home Affairs, last night gave certificates to competitors of the Serangoon Gardens charity walk.
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    $590,000!
    174 3 Jurong corporation is spending this to beautify golf course The Jurong Town Corporation will spend about $590,000 to beautify the Sentosa golf course and its surroundings. The contract has been awarded to a leading contractor who is expected to begin work soon. Only two tenders were submitted when JTC
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    $60 fine for traffic offence
    180 3 In the courts Ong Teck Chee, 43, was. fined $6O in the ninth Magistrate's Court yesterday for driving his car without reasonable consideration for others using the road at Clemenceau Avenue in November, 1966. In the same magistrate's court a watchman, Ragunath Ram Balak Singh,
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    Two killed in road accidents
    93 3 Two pedestrians, a man and a woman, were killed in separate accidents yesterday. The woman, aged about 60 and believed to be a Malay, was killed when she was hit by a vehicle while she was standing at a bus bay at the Macßitchie Circus
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    Court frees five on protest charge
    117 3 Five of the 12 people charged with demonstrating outside the Conference Hall on January 19 were acquitted in the First Magistrate's Court today. The prosecution withdrew charges against Pang Tee Bin, 56, the only man, Ho Ying, 70, Hum Yoke Lam, 48, Pan Pheng
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    YMCA dance
    25 3 The YMCA Young Adults' Group will hold a social and at its hall in Orchard Road on Saturday to celebrate Chinese New Year.
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    Cleansing groups to be integrated
    246 3 More than 1000 Emergency Cleansing Corps members are to be integrated with 700 be integrated with 7000 daily rated workers in the Cleansing Department from February 1. The move is part of a major re-organisation of the Cleansing Department in order to streamline Singapore's daily
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    NTUC blacklists COMFORT driver
    85 3 The COMFORT bus driver who was caught pirating has been blacklisted by the National Trades Union Congress. According to NTUC sources, his name has been given to the Registry of Vehicles and soon will be circulated to all private transport companies. This could mean cancellation of
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Gorton: Arms issue not over
      468 4 The decision is one for Britain New Nation Foreign Service Sydney, Tuesday The Australian Prime Minister, Mr. John Gorton said last night that the Commonwealth conference in Singapore had not resolved the question of arms sales to South Africa. He was "a bit disappointed" that
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      Lock icon 58 executed in Guinea aver invasion plot
      268 4 Radio says hangings were a carnival, bodies stoned Reuter Conakry, Tuesday Fifty-eight of the 92 people condemned to death after last November's abortive seaborne invasion of Guinea were hanged yesterday, Radio Conakry reported last night. The radio said the 58 were hanged in
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      Lock icon A warning as oil crises eases
      296 4 United Press International Teheran, Tuesday Threats by Middle East petroleum producing countries to cut supplies to western oil companies receded yesterday after tentative agreements were reached to resolve price differences. Western oil operating countries would not insist on a global agreement on prices with
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      Lock icon Bonn, Paris economic accord
      109 4 Reuter Paris, Tuesday Hie West German Chancellor, Mr. Willy Brandt, and France's President Pompidou agreed yesterday to proceed pragmatically towards an economic and monetary union in Western Europe. Mr. Brandt is in Paris for two days of talks within the framework* of the regular Franco. German
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      Dean still on remand
      88 4 Johannesburg, Tuesday.— The Dean of Johannesburg yesterday remained in police detention awaiting word of the charges he will face as the British Consu-late-General here decided co seek another visit to him. South Africa's security police chief, Brigadier Pieter Venter, said the Dean, a British subject, would
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      Tornado kills one, hurts 10
      46 4 Paris. Tuesday—A Tornado with winds cf up to 75 miles per hour hit an industrial suburb of La Ro chelle. an Atlantic port city yesterday, killing one man and injuring 10. The Tornado left the Industrial suburb of Chef-de-Bale heavily damaged.
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      Lock icon Callas' mum: Why did Onassis wed 'ugly' Jackie?
      235 4 United Press International Athens, Tuesday Opera star Maria Callas' mother said yesterday she could not understand why shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis married Jacqueline Kennedy. "She has the skin of a hen," the newspaper Thessalonika said quoting Mrs. Lltsa Kalogeropoulos. "She has ugly
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      Lock icon Train crash: Vandals blamed
      165 4 Reuter New York, Tuesday Young vandals were blamed by police yesterday for the derailment cf a train on Long Island on Sunday night in which 48 people were injured. The engine and three of the eight carriages overturned when the train, aporoaching Brentwood, near here, with
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      350,000 sign for Chinese
      50 4 Hong Kong, Tuesday— The campaign to promote Chinese as an official language here has ended with 350,000 signatures, the campaign chairman said yesterday. Urban councillor, Dr. Danny Huang, said the iigure fell short of his target of 500,000. but nevertheless, "we are quite satisfied with it"
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      Quake rocks island
      54 4 Washington, Tuesday—A moderately strong earthquake has struck an island group east of New Guinea, the National Earthquake Centre reported yesterday. It said the quake registered 0.5 on the open-ended Richter Sealo, occured at 0018 GMT. It was central in the D'entrecastaux group of islands, about 300 miles
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      Lock icon UK postal strikers turn down 'peace' offer
      380 4 United Press International London, Tuesday Britain's post office workers yesterday rejected an offer of arbitration, in their six-day old strike which has halted the nation's mail service. The offer was thrown out on grounds that Mr. Bill Ryland, acting head of the post
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      MSA film tops
      36 4 Manila, Tuesday.—Films from Macau, British Columbia, Malaysia-Singapore Airlines and a private tourist agency were regional winners in the Fifth Annual Film Festival of the Pacific Area Travel Association (PATA), it was announced yesterday.
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      Lock icon $ 1200m urged for cancer
      213 4 1200m urged for cancer United Press International Washington, Tuesday Senator Edward Kennedy yesterday proposed legislation for a "moonshot" approach to the cure of cancer that would establish a new federal agency and spend US$l2OO million over the first three years. Mr. Kennedy said the Bill would establish a national cancer
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      Lock icon Indian official expelled
      287 4 United Press International Rawalpindi, Tuesday The Pakistan Government has expelled, Mr. B. L. Joshi, First Secretary of the Indian High Commission, to Islamabad for "indulging in espionage and subversive activities in Pakistan," it,was announce# last, night. Islamabad Is the administrative capital of Pakistan. Earlier, India expelled the
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      Lock icon Hanoi's, top peace talks negotiator breaks into verse
      203 5 Reuter Paris, Tuesday Hanoi's chief negotiator to the Vietnam neace talks read one of his poems as the ma<r> fea_ ture of his address to a Press luncheon here yesterday. He described the colour and atmosphere in Vietnam th® coming New holiday
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      Lock icon 2 convicts, 3 police shot dead
      202 5 Reuter Rome, Tuesday Three police and two prisoners were killed when prisoners aboard a prison railway carriage rebelled, police said in Novi Ligure yesterday. The prison carriage was attached to the TurinRome Express, in which eight prisoners were being transferred from a Turin jail
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      Lock icon 4000 Obote prisoners await release
      345 5 Detained after big power struggle Agence France Presse Nairobi, Tuesday More than 4000 political prisoners were today awaiting release from Uganda's jails, informed observers said here after Africa's 25th coup in eight years. The head of the new Ugandan "Caretaker Government", Army Chief, Major General
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      Lock icon Cambodians pull back into capital
      351 5 Fourteen battalions defending city against new attacks Reuter Phnom Penh, Tuesday Fourteen battalions of Cambodian troops have been pulled back into Phnom Penh to defend the capital against possible Viet Cong, attacks according to diplomatic sources here. The Premier, General Lon Nol, and senior Cambodian
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      Lock icon Laporte killing trial starts
      171 5 Agence France Presse Montreal, Tuesday The four Quebec .liberation Front members charged with the kidnapmurder of the Quebec Labour Minister, Mr. Pierre Laporte, went on trial yesterday. One of the accused, Paul Rose, 27, asked to be defended by a lawyer who is in jail. The
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      Lock icon 20 face apartheid sex charges
      217 5 Reuter Cape Town, Tuesday Five white men and 15 African women will appear in court In Excelsior a small farming town later today on charges of contravening South Africa's strict immorality laws, which bar sex between people of different races. The case has dragged on
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      Lock icon Polls in India: Big two get new symbols
      245 5 Reuter New Delhi, Tuesday India's Election Commission yesterday allotted new election symbols to the two warring Congress parties for the March general elections on the directive of the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court had ruled that neither Congress party should have the
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      Quieter jet engines by Rolls soon
      144 5 London, Tuesday Rolls Royce is designing two revolutionary jet engines which could virtually eliminate the noise nuisance at airports. The area affected by serious noise on take-off hiight be reduced from 30 square miles to half a square mile. Pianes using the engines would
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      That you, Horst?
      35 5 Bonn, Tuesday Telephone communications between West and East Berlin will be resumed at the end of this month for the first time in almost 19 years, the Postal Ministry here announced yesterday.
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      Lock icon US nun must testify
      252 5 Judge rules in 'rebel priests' case United Press International Philadelphia, Tuesday A Federal judge ruled yesterday that a Kpman Catholic nun named as a co-conspirator in, an alleged plot to kidnap Presidential Adviser, Mr. Henry Kissinger must testify before the Grand Jury investigating the case. The
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      Lock icon Countdown for Apollo 14 mission starts
      140 5 Reuter Cape Kennedy, Tuesday The first stages of the countdown for next Sunday's Apollo 14 moon mission began on schedule yesterday. Officials said everything was going smoothly, for America's third moonlanding mission. Shortly after the preliminary countdown started, astronauts Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell, and
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      Lock icon Pollution warning in soap adverts proposed
      210 5 United Press International Washington, Tuesday The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) yesterday proposed that advertisements and packages of phosphate detergents carry a mandatory water pollution warning. A consumer advocate, Mr. Ralph Nader, praised the proposal, likening It to the haalth warning required on cigarette packets.
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      Lock icon Black market is Saigon's necessary evil, way of life
      557 6  -  Authorities' hands are tied ?y. Margaret Kilgore Washington Post Saigon. Tuesday Everybody whispers about the black market in South Vietnam. But few people want' to talk about it. For military and civilians stationed in Vietnam who are realistic about it, the
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      Lock icon US views of China get secret review
      554 6  -  reports from Washington Stanley Karnow Washington Post One of the best-kept secrets in Washington at the moment is the fact that the Nixon Administration is currently conducting the most extensive renew of An*erican policy towards China since the communists established their regime in
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      Lock icon Red robots may beat US in race
      550 6  -  Look out planets, the Russians are coming! From James O. Jackson United Press International in Moscow Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune look out, the Russians are coming! Not real Russians yet, but mechanical ones, a menagerie of machines that will fly, hop
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      Lock icon Behind the show of strength... trouble
      246 6 Reuter London, Tuesday The African leaders' show of strength In Singapore would be more Impressive but for increasing evidence that it derives from distinct feelings of uncertainty back home. The student rebel "takeover" of the Sierra Leone High Commission in London last Thursday—spectacular as
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      Lock icon Russians help plan Calcutta's underground
      94 6 New Nation Foreign Service New Delhi, Tuesday Soviet experts are helping to plan India's first underground railway in Calcutta. They have sent their preliminary report to the Indian Ministry of Railways, saying that the project Is technically and economically feasible. The project is part of
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      Lock icon Polish workers end strike
      89 6 Reuter Warsaw, Tuesday Workers have returned to their jobs in the troubled Baltic port of Szczecin after a meeting with Polish Communist Party leader, Mr. Edward Gierek. port was the scene of bloody riots last month. A* assistant manager In the Adolf Warski shipyard, where a
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      Lock icon Japan eases China policy
      367 6  -  To address Peking by its official title From Gregory Clark Reuter Tokyo, Tuesday In the face of growing pressure for Peking's admission to the United Nations, the Japanese Government has made its first "official" move towards a two-China policy. The Government has disclosed that in future
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  • COMMENT
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      Setting UMNO's future course
      961 7  -  The unseen candidature of Dr. Mahathir From John Hoffman The future of UMNO arid the government 3 which its party organisation will shape increasingly was marked by an unseen candidature at the general assembly session here at the weekend. Some of the most alert and. experienced
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      Indonesia's draft budget shows little shift in priorities
      702 7 From a New Nation correspondent in Jakarta "Projects in the framework of ASEAN are receiving proper attention. The financing of these projects is to be integrated into those of the respective ministries concerned." President Suharto in his budget speech on January 6
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      Bridging the gap between East and West
      897 7  -  Or trying to render the labels out of date From Ian Adie About 1200 Orientalists from all over the world swarmed this sun-backed January to Canberra, Australia's garden capital. They were sweating out lectures and seminars and exchanging ideas informally—some would say more
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  • Article, Illustration
    When a fact is no more merely a fact and 'race' is a myth
    661 8  -  GERALD de CRUZ That a rose is a rose is a rose, and a pig is a pig is a pig, and a faet is a fact is a fact, is unreservedly true only in a
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  • Letters
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      Arrests at the Hall
      305 8  -  NG CHUI KING I refer to the arrest of 12 demonstrators in front of the Conference Hall on Jan. 19. I am not a member or a supporter of the Barlsan Socialis. Nor am I inclined to disagree with the allegation that the Barlsan Socialis is
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      Horror on the road
      338 8  -  GLADYS M. ROBINSON In New Nation of Jan. 18, "How do we beat road smashes" I read the same old rhetorical questions with a few complacent negative answers which are asked day after day in the dally press in Singapore. Is there a fear among Singaporeans
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      Why not Lee for UN?
      88 8 IT was reported on the front page of New Nation (Jan. 19), under the heading "Finn may get UN post," that Finland's Ambassador to the United Nations, Mr. Max Jakobson, has emerged as the possible successor to UN SecretaryGeneral U Thant. Did not someone recently
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      Tribute from a Mandarin
      117 8  -  WEE BOON CHWEE I enjoyed reading the cinema page in the fourth issue of the New Nation, and Edgar Koh's article on the Mandarin flim« was certainly superb. We never have reviews of Mandarin films In other English-language newspapers, and I hope New Nation will publish
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    Issues the Commonwealth summit in Singapore have left in mid-air
    792 8  -  By Shiri Mulgaokar Though the overwhelming feeling must be one of relief that a worse ending did not attend the Commonwealth "summit" at Singapore, it was a thoroughly messy conference. That the Commonwealth has not broken up Is after all
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  • Article
    The Malays are on the move
    322 8 The outspokenness and extremism of some of the proceedings and votes at the UMNO General Assembly last weekend may have dismayed some other Alliance members and observers abroad, especially in Singapore. On reflection the dismay may seem exaggerated. The determination of the younger generation
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
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    Verdict on the big, big bank...
    1546 9 With $320 mil. at its disposal and a finger in 130 pies... Once upon a time, businessmen trembled at the mere thought of Government invading the sacred pastures of commerce and industry. Central planning |nd state control were endowed even by their staunchest enemies
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    While Gorton stood up on race issue, Australia yawned
    743 9  -  By Robert Duffield "Kindly provide Australian public reactions, progress and outcome Singapore conference debate." That request, to an English colleague who represents a big British newspaper in Australia, came in early this week. The colleague dutifully went out and spoke to
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  • SHOPPING
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      Two-timing toys for the children
      654 10 THE SMALL SCENE -A on today's junior scene are two-timers. Gone are the days of strictly cuddly teddybears and only ornamental dolls. If they just look cute, that's not enough. They have to do something; even a toy has to serve a definite purpose. Dolls,
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  • WOMAN
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      364 11  - INTERVIEWED BY ELIZABETH CHOO Mrs. Elaine Pagnutti, 30, is the local born wife of an Italian diplomat. This mother of three has much more than good looks. She does quite at job as director of her father's travel agency. A picture taken by her husband a few montfrs ago proclaimed
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      Just a taste of honey
      165 11 Did you know that you can give yourself an inexpensive, amazingly effective range of beauty treatments with a jar of honey? U£ing the runny kind of honey, put a tablespoon of honey into a saucer and, if it is thick, stand the saucer over a
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      Fencer for beauty
      229 11 Today Roma Blair tolls you... Tighten those stomach muscles Today we continue with our "into spring" exercises to tighten stomach muscles, lose weight, and tighten the tops of the thighs. You must practise these exercises daily to get the full benefit from them. Today's exercise is called
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      The boring hemline poser!
      670 11  -  Why all tUi song and danaa ovar taw indies on or oft the bottom ot a dress? ROHANI WEE Frankly, this whole midi versus mini question is beginning to bore me stiff. Why are we all making such a song and dance over the matter of
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  • EDUCATION
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      WILSON'S OPEN VARSITY PLAN PICKS UP
      194 12 Some 25,000 Britons have begun catching up the education they missed in their youth at a university without lecture rooms or campus. They were taking part in an experiment known as the Open University a formal course of studies undertaken through television, radio and
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      Does Singapore deserve to be called a cultural desert?
      598 12 STUDENT FORUM PUTS THIS QUESTION TO THE GIRLS OF RAFFLES SECONDARY SCHOOL: The answer is no. I feel that the four ethnic groups here have rich cultures. Although I appreciate each on its own, I would welcome the assimilation of all
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      Elite groups and the power they can yield
      690 12 Should the State encourage their growth? Professor Remigio E. Agpalo, of the Political Science Department at the University of the Philippines, commented on political and cultural elites and student activism in a recent interview with New Nation. The profesqpr was in Singapore
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    Even crooks can be heroes
    602 12  -  Unrealistic film set against the charm of Iran CINEMA By EDGAR KOH The fact that it was shot entirely in Iran gives this otherwise uninteresting film some qualities which will appeal to those who appreciate something more than just blood, bullets and dead bodies. "The
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      Wall St.
      203 13 Allied Cham Alcoa Am Brand* 6BV4 Am Caa ZZAT T A P 52% Anaconda IT-, Avon Pd aX% Beth Steel Boeing 7* Caterp Trac WVJ Chrysler Si* Coca-Cola Control Data Corn Q1 Kka m Dow Chem DuPont i E Kodak Fed Dept 8t r» 76% Ford Mot ui/
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      Far East is the third
      178 13 The Far East ranked as the third largest area of capital investment in the petroleum industry in 1969, outside the United States. This is stated by the Capital Investments of the World Petrol Industry report just released by the Chase Manhattan Bank. Outside the UJS.
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      Accord on tin pact
      94 13 Tokyo, Tuesday.—The Japanese Cabinet yesterday decided to sign the fourth international tin agreement designed to stabilise tin prices, the Foreign Ministry Announced. The Ministry will later today instruct Japanese Ambassador to Britain Mr. Morio Yukawa to sign the agreement In London to replace the .current third
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      Joint bid for $84 m. loan
      71 13 FRANKFURT, Tues. —JJJ® Deutsche Bank and the Japanese City of Kobe are n«otta»tng on the raising of a 100 inn lion mark. (US$27 million) tow> on the European capital martet, a spokesman fojt the West uerman finance house eaid yesterday. The loan which la
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      Africa trade bid by Japan
      465 13 SPECIAL REPORT BY THOMAS LAND Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry is expected shortly to declare Africa south of the Sahara as part of Tokyo's "priority investment region" which has been hitherto confined to South-East Asia. Japanese Investment in Africa is already pouring the
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      Lock icon US: Money pours in from the sidelines
      197 13 United Press International New York,- Tuesday Investors continued to drive stock prices higher in heavy trading-yester-day. The Dow Jones industrial average was up about points at 865.83 near the final bell. Standard and Poor's 500 stock Index was up 0.36 at 95.25. Of
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      Lock icon UK: Pound and Wall St. boost markets
      157 13 United Press International London, Tuesday The strength of the pound and W3II Street pushed stock markets higher yesterday as the postal stoppage entered its second week. By mid-afternoon the Financial Times index had risen 1.8 to 342.5. Trading was slack for a Monday,
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      Daily share analysis
      1070 13 ALL YOU WANT TO. KNOW ABOUT THE STOCK EXCHANGE AN analysis of yesterday's closing prices: INDUSTRIALS a 1970-71 l wk 4 wks. i s I i P/E TurnHigh Low •CO •CO Stock Bayers Sellers Sale Yield Ratio Over 1.50 2.60 2.90 2.65 Allied Chocolate 2.80 2.90 2.90
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      US exports double to set new record
      208 13 Washington, Tuesday American exports exceeded imports by US$27OO million last year, more than double the US$l3OO million favourable trade balance recorded in 1969, the Commerce Department reported yesterday. The department said exports for the year totalled U5542,700 million, an increase of 14 per
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      Quotas on textiles
      162 13 WASHINGTON, Tues. The administration still supports quotas on textiles and the other proposals It submitted to the last Congress but is undecided about submitting a trade bill this year, the White House reported yesterday. W*Mte Fcuoe Press Secretary Mr *»cr.ald Ziegler told newsmen th' the administration's position
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      Now cracks show in a boom economy
      753 13 FROM GREGORY CLARK IN TOKYO Profit setbacks for Toyota and Matsushita the two glamour companies in Japan's two glamour industries, cars and electrical appliances have deepened Japanese pessimism over the state of the economy. Increasingly. the ugly word "recession" is replacing "adjustment" and
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      11 13 JAPANESE INDUSTRIES NOW ALL GEARED FOR BIGGEST ECONOMIC DRIVE INTO AFRICA
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      315 13 WALL STREET LONDON APPOINTMENTS omimMmES for permmert careers Opportunities for permanent careers in the Singapore Armed Forces arc now available. Vaconcies exist in the:— Infantry and Support Aran; Technical Services; Air Defence Command, and Other Services. 2. Terms of Service. Either permanent regular service until retirement or service for a
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  • SPORT 1
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      819 14 PHONE 37-4488 ACCOMMODATION VACANT COMPORTABLB FURNISHED ROOM, quiet surroundings, good location, preferred single working person. $155/- p.m. Tel: ***** S'pore. AUDIO EQUIPMENT START RITE BY JOINING THK KEF FREEDOM MOVEMENT instead of buying beautiful multiple speaker system and finally graduating to KEF at a tremendous cost. Cell AUDIO SERVICES, 12
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      276 14 I Diethelm Furniture Pte. Ltd. have openings for a 1' i Applications are invited from imaginative and dynamic young men between 25 35 years of age with proven sales experience possessing sound education bockground and prepared to meet a challenging and rewarding sales career. Preference will be given to Singapore
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      280 14 New Nation Crossword No. 8 11 Contestant for the America's Cup: 2 words. 12 Anatomical Item. 13 Cup: French. definition of beauty. 21 One: German 24 Pre nil ed. 26 g|^J° rk b Sket b OT 27 Mountain range 28 Tuxedo: 2 words. story awards. 31 Man s name. 33
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      132 15 DR KILDARE by Ken Bald THIS IS YOUR ROOM. YOU'RE A LITTLE AHEAP OF TIME. THE OTHER INTERNS WON'T REPORT FOR A FEW DAYS. J h SINCE I'VE SOT SOME TIME BEFORE I'M SUPPOSED TO REPORT TO THE SALT MINES DON'T CALL ME. I'LL < CALL YOU. > a rzk
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  • Back Page TUESDAY
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      TALKING POINT
      74 16 AH FOOK: I see that the luxurious cars used by the Commonwealth heads are being sold off at big discounts. I wonder whether the .total cost of holding the conference was money well spent. MEI LIN: Of course it was. It brought great prestige and world attention to
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      Church has no more interruptions from above
      270 16 Peace and quiet at a cost of $60,000 The Chinese Presbyterian Church in Guillemard Road looks small and humble, but it has one feature that no other church in Singapore has it's fully airconditioned. The reason for this has nothing to do with
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      Canteen fare turns sour
      295 16  -  Abby Tan Had a staple in your steak? Some housewives have and they've protested. The supermarkets retreated and have promised to heat seal the plastic packages to prevent the risk of staples dropping In. Staples are one thing but what about the kind of fare that
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      Lock icon Food for thought
      78 16 Now here's a dish to set before any gourmet. Eighteen-year-old Mary Rose has the smouldering beauty which comes of her Greek and white Jamaican parentage. Mary arrived from London a year ago and in that time has become one of Singapore's top models. In two weeks she
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      Where marriage stands a 50-50 chance
      369 16 Indonesian couples are divorcing each other at an alarming rate. According to statistics, about one in every two Indonesian marriages sooner or later ends up In divorce. The divorce can be initiated by either the husband or the wife, and once they have made
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      To clap or not to clap?
      233 16  -  —by Siva Choy I know absolutely nothing about classical music so I guess that puts me on par with 95 per cent of the audience that turned up tiie other night to watch Rosalyn Tureck play Bach. I gathered from my attractive but knowledgeable
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
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      358 16 5 Singapore 6.00 Opening and Woobinda 6.30 News in Brief 6.40 For the Family (repeat), 7.25 It's Happening in Singapore (Chinese) 7.40 News in Chinese 7.50 Commonwealth Conference Review (Chinese) 8.30 My Favourite Martian —When a MaHiftn Makes his Violin Cry 9.00 News and Newsreel in English 9.25 Slattery's People
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      26 16 vbo kkjovutubt flock OF DOCK'S BVTHe FOOD WUATUAPPEIO6O? luev UAD A GOIUG Aww tartv last MIGHT in V, fmt .s L"-« m 4% vr.c vm///////// LS
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      395 16 Trust your lucky star IF irs YOUR BIRTHDAY Born today, you are a highly emotional person with a tendency to confuse minor and major Issues when faced with too many things going on at once. You will have to learn early In life to keep things around you simple, to
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