New Nation, 3 February 1971

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  • 17 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Wednesday evening, February 3, 1971 No. 14 Price 15 cents SINGAPORE WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3
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  • 41 1 ADELAIDE TEST England Ist innings 470 2nd innings 233-4 dec. Australia Ist innings 235 2nd innings STACKPOLE not out 126 LA WRY c Knott b Willis 21 I. CHAPPELL not out 78 Extras 9 Total: 233 (for one wkt.)
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  • 198 1 The charred body of a man believed to be a taxi driver was found tied to a rubber tree at Ponggol this morning. The only identifiable object on him was a cab driver's badge with the number 9931. Near the body were two cans
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  • 107 1 City Hall protest 11 women in court Eleven women were charged in the First Magistrate's Court this morning with being members of an unlawful assembly at City Hall yesterday afternoon. The charge alleged that they were members of an unlawful assembly whose "common intention was to make false statments likely
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  • 219 1 Next task Is check on lunar lander United Press International Houston, Wednesday Apollo 14's astronauts awoke last night, bid earth a cherry "good morning," and were told their aim on the moon was so good they would skip a course correction. "Jolly good," responded the command
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  • 465 1 Secrecy clamp-down United Press International Washington, Wednesday The US Defence Secretary, Mr. Melvin Laird, has refused to say anything about allied operations in Laos except that no American troops are being used and none will be. His statement came as -tha US
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  • 107 1 Moscow, Wednesday The Soviet Premier, Mr. Alexei Kosygin has expanded his accusation that a US-backed invasion of Laos is underway. The official Tass news agency quoted Kosygin as saying: "New reports are coming in today showing that the South Vietnamese puppets on orders and with
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  • 127 1 Reuter Amsterdam, Wednesday Thirteen children aged between 10 and 15 died when fire gutted three wards of a Roman Catholic mental home in the town of Rblde in north-east Holland early today. There was no word whether anyone was Injured in the blaze, which
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  • 168 1 Another Singapore lawyer, Mr. David Marshall, has applied for ad hoc admission into the Malaysian Bar to take up a case. Singapore lawyers wanting to appear in legal cases in Malaysia have to apply for special permission because new regulations brought into force late last year prevent
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  • 55 1 The number of typhoid cases in the Geylang Serai area has risen to 33. There were no further reports today but two suspected cases have been confirmed since yesterday. Public health official* are still patrolling the area and people are warned not to eat uncooked food or
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  • Briefly...
    • 69 1 London, Wednesday. Secret British Government documents about the abdication of King Edward VIII in 1936 will not be released for publication for 100 years, the Prime Minister, Mr. Edward Heath, said yesterday. King Edward abdicated in December 1936, to marry a twice-divorced American woman, the former Mrs.
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    • 48 1 Paris, Wednesday.—Seven workmen going home in a panel truck were killed yesterday when their vehicle was hit by a private car r.nd spun off into an approaching tanker truck. The driver of the private car was injured but the tanker driver escaped unhurt.
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    • 92 1 Detroit, Wednesday A millionaire businessman. Mr. Ralph Wilson, has agreed to pay his wife US$2.5 million under a final divorce settlement which also Includes season tickets for life to Detroit Lions football games. Mr. Wilson owns the Buffalo Bills professional football team. But his wife,
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    • 38 1 Detroit, Wednesday. One of the shortest national car strikers on record began and ended yesterday within three hours when Chrysler Corporation and the United Auto Workers (UAW) reached an agreement In principle covering 10.000 workers.
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    • 39 1 Rio de Janeiro, Wednesday.—Five people died and 30 were injured yesterday when a bus bound from Recife for Goiania went over a precipice while the driver was trying to avoid hitting a woman on the road.
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  • 524 2 Many workers left only with CPF cover About 120 private company provident funds are expected to be wound up in the next few months because of the new Central Provident Fund rate, which came into force on January 1. The funds most of which were
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  • 26 2 Kuchlng, Wednesday—The Federal Government has approved $B,OOO for the construction of two Roman Catholic chapels at Lubok Bemban and Nanga Sikat in Mukah, Sarawak.
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  • 117 2 Mrs. Chou Chung Shih arranges plum blossoms, a floral exhibit for the "Japanese Cultural Week" beginning today at the National Library. Fresh flowers in blossom in Japan were flown out for the exhibition. They include plum blossoms, bird of paradise, mustard flowers, iries and sweet
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  • 123 2 The Singapore Post Office is not planning to suspend the mail service to Paris because of the French postal strike. A Post Office spokesman said today: "We have heard nothing official and in any case, traffic from Singapore is negligible." The French embassy
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  • 204 2 Paya Lebar International Airport is to have an up-to-date conveyor belt system for speedy clearance of passengers' baggage. Work on the system will begin in July and is expected to be completed by the beginning of next year. The belt, imported from England, will
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  • 143 2 rpHREE OFFICIALS of the After Care Association have been charged at the Central Police station for writing out false payment vouchers. They are expected to appear in court soon. The officials were detained by the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau recently. After being charged they were
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  • 327 2 Plans are underway for this year's Singapore Grand Prix the annual event that boosts the speed limit on a three-mile section of the city's busy roads from 30 m.p.h. to well over 100 m.p.h. For four days each year the "Thomson mile" and the
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  • 157 2 Jurong Town Corporation will spend about $207,000 to beautify the landscape of the Japanese Garden in Jurong Park. The contractor under- taking the job will in addition plant trees and turfs around the garden, which is under construction since last month. A spokesman for JTC
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  • 66 2 Kuala Lumpur, Wednesday.—Mr. Tom Crehan, engineering director of Tamco Electrical Engineering Company (Malaysia) has left for Australia. He will discuss business development projects with leading manufacturers of electrical and electronic equipment in Sydney and Melbourne, to extend the company's manufacturing activities. Tamco, now manufacturing motor control
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  • 165 2 Kuala Lumpur, Wednesday The Rubber Industries Replanting Board, Fund B, is carrying out a census throughout West Malaysia to determine the extent of damage done to rubber trees in the recent floods. Smallholders who suffered losses are asked to report to replanting inspectors In
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  • 107 2 Kuala Lumpur, Wednesday.—Malaysia plans to send a 20-man delegation to the Asian Association of Management Organisations' fourth conference to be held In New Delhi in November. The six-day conference, under the auspices of the International Council for Scientific Management, will begin at the Plenary Hall of Vigyen Bhavan
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  • 68 2 Kuala Lumpur, Wednesday.—Malaysia's first ammunition factory—Sharlkat Malaysia Explosive Bdn. Berhad—will announce the names of six officers to head division in a Hie six, who will be selected from more than 100 candidates, will begin work in the company on March 1. All of them will later be
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 174 2 Weather Temperatures in world capitals yesterday: Jakarta 92-75 Kuala Lumpur 84-72 Bangkok 88-72 Hong Kong 54-48 Manila 84-72 Taipei 53-46 Seoul 82-14 Tokyo 42-31 Naha 57-52 London 41-32 Paris 37-28 Moscow 36-32 New York 18-5 San Francisco 52-41 Sydney 85-65 Melbourne 71-61 Perth 98-77 Singapore Singapore's weather forecast from 3
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  • 515 3 Professor's remarks open old wounds The University of Singapore's local staff association met this morning to discuss the controversial Puccetti report on university conditions. Later today it will issue its reply to the professor's report. In his annual presidential report to the university's
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  • 155 3 Construction work on the Sentosa Gun Museum on the western tip of the island will begin within the next few weeks Announcing this today, a Jurong Town Corporation spokesman said that some old rifles and cannons recently were brought down from Brunei as exhibits.
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  • 36 3 Jakarta. Wednesday Four pupils died and 35 were injured when a school building collapsed at *Pati, in central Java. The accident followed a storm which damaged 61 houses In the town.
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  • 162 3 The Senate of the University of Singapore has amended the examination regulations for second year Arts/ Social Science and Science studqpts. A second year Arts student will now be allowed to sit for a supplementary examination if he passes at least: two principal
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  • 180 3 Hundreds of residents at a village in Potong Pasir daily risk a soaking in a muddy, marshy pondr True to spirit, they defy a warning sign about a rickety handrailed bridge and use it on the way either to work or market. Built
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  • 343 3 Kuala Lumpur, Wednesday .The public should be made aware of the value of Malaysia's antiquities so that they will stop selling them to foreigners. The archaeologist of the Museum Negara, Inche A 1 Rashid bin MohamecT Ibrahim, said yesterday' that this was one way that
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  • 40 3 Winners of the NTUC Dental and Recreational Donation Draw are requested to collect their prizes on or before February 28. Any prize not collected by that date will be forfeited, a spokesman for the committee said.
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  • 133 3 The Adult Education Board begins enrolment of students for Tamil secondary four classes at Victoria School today from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. The enrolment will continue tomorrow at the same time. A spokesman said if there was sufficient response, classes would start on Monday.
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  • 66 3 Mexico City, Wednesday A Bill tightening Mexico's divorce laws was sent to the Mexican Senate yesterday. Swift approval was e *¥he te< Presidential Initiative, passed last week by the Chamber of Deputies, requires foreigners to live in Mexico for at least six months before instituting divorce
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  • 61 3 London, Wednesday A Kenyan Asian immigrant smiled and stuffed a £*252,000 cheque in his pocket here yesterday for scooping a British football pool. Mr. Thakorbhai Patel, 40, a bus conductor who came to Britain two years ago from the town of Nakuru near Nairobi, got
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  • 152 3 Doctors criticise Professors Kuala Lumpur, Wednesday The Malayan Medical Association today criticised professors who were afraid to mix with students for fear of "intel- lectual pollution." Heads of departments had their coffee in the seclusion of their sanctums while the juniors frequented the coffeeshops, the MMA said.
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  • 186 3 The Government is to introduce a new commuter service a shuttle bus service from Xallang to the City at peak hours to ease traffic congestion in the heart of the city. The Government intends to provide an efficient bus service to cater for motorists who park
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  • 208 3 Singapore and Malaysian Government officials began a second round of talks on the administrative details of the MSA split early this morning. Items for discussion include a timetable for the gradual break-up of MSA, a formula for the division of assets and
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  • 76 3 A 35-member cultural troupe from Pakistan will arrive here next Tuesday from Malaysia. A spokesman for the Pakistan Embassy here said this morning: "It is most unfortunate that the troupe cannot perform here because of the time factor." "I have rung up the National Theatre but failed
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  • THE WORLD
    • 168 4 Reuter West Berlin, Wednesday The Western allies yesterday cancelled a meeting with Soviet officials to prepare for the next round of four-power Berlin negotiations. The move was seen here as a gesture of annoyance at. East German harassment of access roads
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    • 125 4 United Press International Canberra, Wednesday Australia will hold a nine-week international conference in July to train and advise developing countries on how to deal with natural disasters, a Foreign Affairs Department spokesman said yesterday. The spokesman said the establishment of the course was prompted by recent
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    • 110 4 Vatican City, Wednesday —The Vatican newspaper L'osservatore Romano yesterday described abortion as a crime in some ways even more wicked and execrable than concentration camp death ovens, mass deportations and geneocide. The comparison was made in a front-page article by theologian Father Glno Concetti commenting upon Pope Paul's
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    • 293 4 COUNTDOWN: Two days to go New Nation Foreign Service New York, Wednesday The United Nations Secretary General, U Thant, has appealed to Israel, Egypt, and Jordan to extend the Middle East ceasefire so that the Jarring peace talks can continue. He did not
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    • 209 4 New Nation Foreign Service Tel Aviv, Wednesday Panic buying is emptying food stores in several areas around Jerusalem as Arab housewives began to horde supplies fearing a sumption of Arab-Israeli hostilities on Friday. Arab sources in the Israeli-occupied Jordanian territories also said people fearing the
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    • 157 4 Reuter Stockholm, Wednesday A Portuguese Army captain, who fled to Sweden because he opposed the war in Mozambique, is likely to be given the same status here as US army deserters. Government sources said yesterday the officer, captain Jaime Morals, 34, would probably get
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    • 21 4 Bonn, Wednesday—President Gustav Helnemann of West Germany will pay a state visit to Rumania between May 17 and 19.
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    • 207 4 Reuter Calcutta, Wednesday Fresh fighting flared in West Bengal yesterday with police reporting six more deaths as the Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, launched her ruling Congress Party's election campaign in the turbulent state. The six deaths, three of them Marxist Communists and
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    • 42 4 Shield-carrying riot police charge into the Rome University law school building to free two of their £tatf£Ttte by le Wi s stunts- The students captured the policemen when they occupied the building during a political protest demonstration.'
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    • 266 4 Mother's testimony Reuter Los Angeles, Wednesday One of the girls convicted in the Sharon Tate murder trial was, according to her mother, once a fun-loving schoolgirl who played a saxophone in the school brass band. Mrs. Jane Van Houten, a schoolteacher, speaking in court
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    • 278 4 Resolution seeks end to opposing entry New Nation Foreign Service Washington, Wednesday Ten senators yesterday tabled a resolution urging the US to end its opposition to China's admission to the United Nations. The resolution, sponsored by Republican Jacob Javits of
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    • 133 4 Reuter Stockholm, Wednesday The Nobel Foundation yesterday declined to confirm or deny a report that Soviet writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the 1970 Literature prize winner, had asked that his prize money be put in a bank account. "This is the prizewinner's own private matter," foundation
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    • 213 4 Melbourne Herald Paris, Wednesday The Australian government has refused to give visas to two members of the Viet Cong's delegation to the Paris peace talks who have been invited to visit Australia The invitation came from the Australian national coordinating committee of the Vietnam
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    • 204 4 Mecca, Wednesday King Faisal of Saudi Arabia last night hosted a banquet for all delegations and leading religious and political personalities of the Muslim world now in Saudi Arabia for the traditional pilgrimage to Mecca. Among the foreign officials at the banquet, which was broadcast
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    • 116 4 United Press International Washington, Wednesday President Nixon yesterday called for increased international co-operation in space exploration and the application of "spacerelated technology to the critical assessment of our environment and to the effective use of our resources." "We should also promote international co-operation in
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    • 65 4 London, Wednesday Eric Newby made two mistakes when he broke into an auctioneer's office and carried away old paintings and coins. First, he took his pet Alsatian dog with him. Second, he accidentally left the animal behind. When police turned up the next day, they simply followed
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    • 119 5 Reuter Jakarta, Wednesday President Suharto said yesterday that Indonesia's second national census in 15 months would be held in September to check progress on the five-year development plan. In a written speech' to a working conference of senior officers of the statistics bureaus
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    • 412 5 Gulf States may cut off supplies New Nation Foreign Service Teheran, Wednesday, Negotiations between international oil companies and the oil-pro-ducing Persian Gulf States collapsed last night, bringing the threat of almost certain reprisals against Western Europe's oil supplies. The form of retaliation will be
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    • 560 5 Wooing of Peking adds to fears New Nation Foreign Service Taipeh, Wednesday President Nixon has been a major disappointment in an unhappy year for the leaders of Taiwan. The man who stoutly defended each article of America's involvement here as vice president and a Republican
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    • 226 5 United Press International Calcutta, Wednesday Women in the fashionable south district of Calcutta may return to sleeveless, backless dresses, now that the "mad slasher" has been captured. For the past eight months, scores of women travelling on buses and trams in the area have had their
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    • 148 5 Reuter Sydney, Wednesday Trade unionists yesterday prevented a chartered jet taking 150 merino rams which are the lifeblood of Australia's prosperous wool industry to Soviet and East European buyers. The men, complying with an Australian Council of Trade Unions ban on merino ram exports, refused
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    • Article, Illustration
      150 5 Reuter London, Wednesday The British Prime Minister, Mr. Edward Heath, was yesterday accused in the House of Commons of being prepared to jeopardise the existence of the Commonwealth in order to sell arms to South Africa. The attack came from a Labour Opposition MP, Mr. Robert Sheldon, during
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    • 130 5 United Press International Washington, Wednesday The US Civil Aeronautics Board has proposed a regulation that would allow any group of 50 or more people to join together for the purpose of chartering an airliner. If the rule is approved it could mean, for instance, that neighbourhood
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    • 165 6 Reuter Tokyo, Wednesday A Japanese doctor yesterday claimed success with an animal test using a magnet to concentrate cancer arresting drugs for treating malignant tumours. Dr. Shlro S&ito of Jlkei Medical College here said the newly-discovered method required neither large equipments nor any large
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    • 26 6 Tokyo, Wednesday. Six patients were killed in a fire at a hospital near here yesterday evening while about 140 others escaped unhurt, police reported.
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    • 186 6 United Press International Rome, Wednesday The long, often bloody revolt of Reggio Calabria in Southern Italy took on a comic touch yesterday when different parts of the city declared themselves independent of Italy. One section of the city announced Its Independence with a quotation from
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    • 350 6 Children duck as troops fire at Obote men New Nation Foreign Service Kampala, Wednesday About 80 terrified nursery school children lay on the floor of their classroom as Uganda troops poured machinegun fire into a suburban house yesterday. Two British teachers comforted the children
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    • 322 6 Melbourne Herald From Kenneth Joachim: London, Wednesday Banish any exotic imagery of President Nyerere riding at the head of his troops from Tanzania to crush ursurper General Idi Amin and re-instal Mr. Milton Obote as President of Uganda. Invasions of one African state by
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    • 133 6 United Press International Kampala, Wednesday Uganda's new leader, Major General Idi Amin, has assured all deposed President Milton Obote's legislative power and privileges. General Amin has named himself Head of State and head of the armed forces, and dissolved Parliament. In the moves yesterday, he also
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    • 114 6 United Press International Jakarta, Wednesday Indonesia's Foreign Minister, Mr. Adam Malik said yesterday that the country's membership in the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) is to create a "sphere of goodwill" in the region, including Australia and New Zealand. Mr. Malik was addressing
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    • 58 6 Pretoria, Wednesday. More than 100 angry Africans yesterday stoned a bus depot north of here the second attack in 24 hours in protest against poor transport facilities. An African driver and a small child were injured and several houses damaged in the attack on the
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    • 374 6 Preference will be given to Singapore Reuter Brussels, Wednesday Britain and the Six yesterday agreed on broad solutions to the problems po6ed by British membership of the Common Market for Hong Kong, the Asian Commonwealth, and the three independent African nations. For the Asian Commonwealth India,
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    • 28 6 Washington, Wednesday —The United States postal service plans to raise its international postal rates more than six per cent from July 1, it was disclosed yesterday.
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    • 246 6 United Press International Hong Kong, Wednesday The Ming Pao ChineseLanguage newspaper reported yesterday that the fourth Communist Chinese People's Congress will be held on March 20. The newspaper said the date had been announced by the Congress' organising committee in Hunan province. The
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    • 141 6 United Press International London, Wednesday Anonymous callers yesterday threatened to blow up the official residences of the Prime Minister, Mr. Edward Heath, and Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Anthony Barber, the Evening News said. Scotland Yard could not confirm the report. The newspaper said
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    • 143 6 United Press International London, Wednesday The British Government said yesterday available evidence indicates smoking pipes or cigars is less harmful than cigarettes. But it said Swiss and German researchers have found pipes and cigars to be equally dangerous. The Social Services Secretary,
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    • 234 6 Reuter Cape Town, Wednesday The South African Government yesterday published a Bill which will effectively tighten the country's already rigid censorship laws. The Publications v and Entertainments Amendment Bill, which is expected to be passed by Parliament during the newlyopened current session, is aimed
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  • COMMENT
    • 529 7  -  From Joe Alex Morris The West German chancellor, Mr. Willy Brandt, is getting the first faint smell of success in the most difficult and perhaps decisive sphere of his efforts at reconciliation with Eastern Europe. Last week, 75 ethnic Germans arrived in West
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    • 1198 7  -  By Malcolm Caldwell Gunnar Myrdal might have laboured in vain (not to speak of Baran and Sweezy!). Hla Myint seems to me largely to abstract from socio-economic realities in tendering economic advice for the 1970s in his "Overall Report," South East Asia's Economy
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    • 812 7  -  By S.M. Ali Foreign Editor The first round of direct talks between Pakistan's two leading politicians, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto ended in Dacca last weekend on a note of disagreement, with signs of another deadlock developing in the country's fluid political scene.
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  • 334 8 The South Vietnamese offensive into southern Laos is a measure of the rapid deterioration in the military situation in Cambodia for General Lon Nol and his allies. South Vietnamese forces have come under increasing pressure in guarding Phnom Penh's lifelines. One way
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  • 522 8  -  DICK WILSON Something happened to me on the way to the Lion City Hotel a few days ago. Although I learnt to drive a car only after first coming to live in Singapore a year and a half ago, I
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  • Letters
    • 145 8  -  CHAN CHOON KOK As was expected, the split of MSA was bound to take place sooner or later because Singapore and Malaysia are two independent countries. The split, in my opinion, is good for both countries. Malaysia, being a big country, can expand not
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    • 180 8  -  GERALDINE HENG I would like to address my letter to New Nation writer, Siva Choy. Pray tell, what EXACTLY do you mean by those words "I gathered from my attractive but knowledgeable companion (New Nation, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 1971)? Note the word "but". Note
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    • 89 8  -  N. SANDYS First notification of typhoid was on January 15, but nothing appeared in the Press until a few days ago. Since then, TV, radio and the newspapers have been most assiduous in warning the public of the dangers of typhoid. Why was this not done on
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    • 239 8 As an expatriate, I admire very much what various ministries in Singapore preach. Unfortunately, I am not quite so impressed by what they practise, or allow to be practised. During the antl-mosquito campaign, some very helpful government servants came round and helped me take measures against
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    • 263 8  -  T.R.K. KHENG Gerald de Cruz brought a wave of sanity and rational common sense to the debate about education and censorship in his column on Tuesday. I, too, had wondered whether anyone in the government or among our teachers were fully aware of the effect of
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    • 112 8 Your paper has a lot to say about the University of Singapore and about the problems of expatriates, etc. Can we come to know more through your columns about the Chinese-language life of Singapore? More about Nantah, for Instance (or as much about Nantah as about
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    • 87 8 Why so many complaints about the STB? As a person who detests taking exercise but knows she needs it, I find I get all I need by the simple expedient of keeping the telephone at the top of a short flight of stairs in my house. Yesterday
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  • 940 8 OW WEI MEI TAKES A LOOK AT THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN SINGAPORE-PART TWO Like a pond which has been drained and is now empty, the Singapore Jewish community in the last decade lacked a vital communal life. And linked
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous

  • 1594 9 Concluding a world exclusive g v to New Nation... Copyright 1971 Alessandro Casella and New Nation. In this exclusive interview with Alessandro Casella first Western journalist to interview the former Cambodian leader at length in Peking, Prince Sihanouk about the Americans and the possibilities of
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  • The voice of the Press
    • 180 9 What the papers are saying: We know that judging from Japan's long-term economic interests that its 37-member economic mission's visit to South-East Asian countries has the profound significance of taking precautions. Should a slump become really inevitable, the South-East Asian region will provide at least a way
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    • 122 9 T he Times The question of how much of the national product should be set aside for collective purposes, the proper priorities between conflicting claims and how these should be financed envelopes the greater part of politics. Far this reason the steady progress towards more open discussion of public expenditure
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    • 102 9 For members of UMNO, especially leaders of the party, the time for talk Is over with the conclusion of the UMNO General assembly, and it is now time for work. A wind *)f change has swept the party and new ideas have emerged. With the wma of change
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    • 86 9 This is a time when Australian has reason to be thankful that It is one of the few countries with a tradition of wage arbitration, however imperfect sometimes in its operation. In an era of industrial anarchy when countries like the US and Britain have the unprecedented spectacle
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    • 100 9 For established cigarette addicts, the Government h&s a moral and practical duty to support research aimed at helping people break their psychological and chemical dependence on tobacco. At present nothing but will-power really works, and that not often. There Is also the question of finding a substitute for
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    • 94 9 All efforts in the made by the Malaysian government to achieve prosperity were merely at a probing stage. Now that the probing phase is almost complete, it Is time for the Government to initiate a fresh drive to bring stability to the "probed areas of prosperity." One of
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  • ARTS
    • 482 10  -  Ng Eng Teng draws his themes from social problems and feels art belongs to society ARTHUR YAP What do you say to a person who tells you that he does his drawings in his bedroom? Especially when he has three rooms which constitute his studio?
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    • 427 10  -  THEATRE Merry Andrew The YMCA Sceneshifters have begun rehearsals for "The Land of Smiles," to be produced at the Victoria Theatre in June. Because of the pullout of British military forces the society urgently needs new singers. Both the producer,
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    • 404 10  -  40 paintings fall into two main categories—but hardly representative of nation's art By Siva Choy One of our readers, Mr. Foster Donaldson, recently invited me to view some 40 Filipino paintings in his private collection. The paintings are hardly representative of Filipino art. There are
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    • 511 11  -  Long necklaces and Ms brooches look wrong with the new hemline—just a ribbon round the neck makes yon Miss 1971 By Rohani Lee I'm getting all choke d-up now have you caught on to this craze? Every time I buy a new dress I don't
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    • 1209 11  -  Don't opt oat of a mother's unique moment By Trish Sheppard New Nation writer Our youngest child is three years old today. I don't usually go for old wive's tales, but there seems to be a degree of truth in the
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    • 318 11  -  -by Hayley Mills It is not easy to grow up in public. One of the important requisities for successful living is learning to make your own decisions. People are always trying to make them for you, especially 11 you have a career as a child.
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    • 57 11 One of the most comprehensive culinary guides ever published. Contains recipes for soups, fish, meat, poultry, eggs, vegetables, salads, pasta and rice, desserts, cakes and biscuits. Every occasion is covered and the scope is truly international with spicy dishes from Mexico to Oriental delicacies and Australian specialities. 256 PAGES. 58
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    • 463 12 A record hard to beat even by the standards of the big names With only two years under its hat, the Government owned Neptune Orient Lines has proved its financial viability. It is expected to make a profit in its second financial
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    • 398 12 The basic problem with containerisation in Australia last year was that there was not enough time to fully test and perfect facilities and systems before business swamped them. This is the opinion put forward by the Melbourne Harbor Trust Commissioners in an editorial
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    • 310 12 Exporters face a static charter market at present with rates still high but continuing to slip below the boom levels of four months ago. Rates began to slip last October, but industry sources expect a modest recovery within the next three months with the Japanese
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    • 179 13 Allied Chem A Icoa Am Brands Am Can AT T A P Anaconda Beth Steel Boeing Caterp Trac Chrys'er Coca-Cola gg a. Control Data Corn G1 Wks Dow Chem DuPont E Kodak Fed Dept Strs Gen Dynam Gen Elec Gen Foods General Mot Gen Tel El Georgia Pac
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    • 132 13 LONDON, Wed.—Britain's stockpile of gold and dollars grew so much last month that the Government was able to pay off some overseas debts months before they were due. The reserves still show a gain of £73 million, it was announced yesterday. The £1,251 million now in the
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    • 112 13 JAKARTA, Wed.— Indonesia expects increased interest from smaller foreign companies for investment possibilities, a Mining Ministry official said. Dr. Siglt. chairman of the Technical Committee for Mining Negotiations of the Mining Ministry In Jakarta, said smaller companies are gradually replacing big capital Investors interested in the
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    • 125 13 ISLAMABAD, Wed. Pakistan's State Bank announced and increase of at least two per cent above current bank rate for interest on borrowings. It was reliably learned that a quota system had also been introduced with immediate effect to further restrict credit. Two per cent extra will be
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    • 344 13  -  TEAM OFF FOR LONDON TALKS DAVID BAIRD Hong Kong, Wednesday Two of Hong Kong's leading Commerce and industry officials are in London for higher-level talks in connection with British entry into the Common Market. They are eager to protect the colony's interests particularly as the
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    • 191 13 United Press International London, Wednesday The stock market worked irregularly higher yesterday and British Government bonds advanced after news of another gain for the gold and dollar reserves which reached their highest since the November 1967 devaluation of the pound. The postal strike, the Ford Motor
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    • 238 13 United Press International New York, Wednesday Money poured into the stock market in record proportion yesterday as volume boomed past the previous high of 21,680 000 shares traded on January 22. The final tally was 22,030,000. At the close, advances led declined by 760 to
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    • 67 13 JAKARTA, Wed.—The Indonesian Government has given permission for a joint DutchAmerican shipping line to operate in Indonesia, a spokesman of the Communication Ministry said. Under the permit given by the Communication Minister Dr. Frans Seda, Holland-Ameri-can Lines has provided two ships for tourists visiting Indonesian Islands.
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    • 1098 13 ALL YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE STOCK EXCHANGE AN analysis of yesterday's closing prices: INDUSTRIALS 1970-71 1 wk. 4 wks. Closing Price last Divid. P/E TurnHigh Low •go ago Slock Buyers Sellers Sale Yield Ratio Over 4.50 2.60 2.90 2.70 Allied Chocolate 3.00 3.00 4.1N 19.0
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    • 170 13 SINGAPORE j EXCHANGE today] Generally quiet conditions ruled on the Stock Exchange of Singapore this morning. Operators were mainly adopting a wait and see attitude. Industrials recorded mixed trend. At the end of one and a half hours of trading the total turnover
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    • 80 13 WASHINGTON. Wed. The World Bank has decided to maintain Its uniform Interest rate on all lending at 7*4 per cent, at least until the summer. The rate was set last August When Interest rates were at considerably higher levels Internationally than now. The decision
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    • 35 13 LONDON, Wed.—The pound stayed near Its highest for three years in moderate trading on foreign exchange markets yesterday despite uncertainty about the outcome of the Ford Motor strike affecting sentiment, dealers said.
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    • 712 13 BID AND OFFER PRICES AT LUNCH TODAY INDUSTRIALS B. S. L.S. ACMA 1.41 AJlnomoto 1.85 Alcan 1.44 1.40 1.45 A. Chocolate 2 99 3.10 A. Bricks Ben 1.11 1.12 1.12 B. Kawat 1.24 1.25 B.M. Trusts... 1.20 Borneo 1.88 1.85 1.84 Boustead 2.00 2.02 Camel 1.40 C. Sugars
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    • 293 13  -  -by ANIL BHATIA DRC Investments Limited, an Australian company which owns the Jakarta Turf Club, will raise $6 million through a public issue of shares in Australia. The Jakarta Turf Club has signed an agreement with the Indonesian authorities to build the first race
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    • 117 13 The rubber market opened a quarter cent lower and eased off again on March liquidation especiall by upcountry dealers. Some selling pressure on July-Sept was noted late yesterday evening after the official close and there was a carry-over of this type of selling into this morning. Godown supplies
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  • 151 14 The Singapore Karate Association will hold a grading session for karate students from the American School and the Holy Family Church on Sunday. The school will start at 8.30 a.m. The chief judge for the grading ceremony will be Mr. T. Yoneda a seventh dan
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  • 56 14 ABOVE: N. Wainwright of the RAAF (Butterworth) lines up a putt in the Far East Air Force annual golf championships at the Bukit course. LEFT: M. Appleyard, RAF Changi drives off. Leaders today were: Squ. Ldr. D. Bromley Changi (77); Cpl. Peter Collins, Changi, Flt. Sgt. Plant and Sgt. Hogan,
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  • 117 14 From Blue Peter in Penang Shanghai Kid worked surprisingly well on a good track at Penang this morning. Ridden by Subian Dalwee, Shanghai Kid sprinted smartly over 3f in 39 4/5. Royal Mark who was a trifle unlucky when going down by a nose to Prime
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  • 92 14 Results of the school's badminton championship for the Katong district are as follows: 'A' Boys— Dunman Sec. bt St. Pats 5-0; Geylang Serai Vocational Institute d. Slglap Sec. s—o; Chung Chlng High Sch d. Broaderick Sec. 3-2. 'A' Girta— Chal Chee Sec. d. Tun Seri Lanang 5-0; T.K.G.S.
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  • 984 14 But bout between 'age' Cooper and 'beauty' Bugner unlikely to end search London, Wednesday Boxing must surely be the only sport where a mediocrity can be lapped up and loved by the crowds for his size, where a smaller man, be he ever so
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    • 328 14 APPOINTMENTS ARMED FORCES OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERMANENT CAREERS Opporturnr.e* +or permanent careers in rhe Singapore Armed Forces are now available. Vacancies exist in the:— Infantry and Support Arms; Technical Services; Maritime Command; Air Defence Command, and Other Services. 2 Terms of Service. Either permanent regular service until retirement ot service for
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  • 454 15  -  By Jeffrey Low The planning stage to introduce a rugby league in Singapore has been completed. The new league is expected to start this year. At a management committee meeting held last night, the Singapore Rugby Union received many proposals on the various formats of
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  • 137 15 London, Wednesday The British secretary of the International Table-Tennis Federation, Mr. A. K. Vint, confirmed yesterday that the South African TableTennis Board, a nonwhite organisation, applied to compete in the Commonwealth table tennis championships in Singapore next month. But the Board were unable to obtain passports
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  • 34 15 Tokyo, Wednesday A total of 260 foreign participants, including 51 women will take part in the winter pre-Olympic Games which opens in Sapporo on Sunday, the organising committee announced yesterday.
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  • 34 15 Ontario, California—Curtis Sifford of Los Angeles and Bobby Grenwood of Clarksville, Tennessee, shot four-under-par 67s today to take medalist honours as 19 players qualified for the US$2OO,OOO Hawaiian Open which starts tomorrow.
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  • 236 15 Taipei, Wednesday Nationalist China will do its utmost to keep China out of the Asian Table-Tennis Federation and to retain its own membership, a top sports official said last night. But Mr. Lo Shiu Yuan, secretary-general of the Nationalist Chinese TableTennis Association, said his country
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  • 101 15 Manila, Wednesday The Philippines yesterday named two brothers in the Davis Cup tennis team to play Japan in their Asian zone tie here in April. The Philippine Lawn Tennis Association selected Raymond Deyro, his younger brother Frederico, Eddie Cruz and Alexander Marcial. The Deyro brothers
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  • 116 15 Caracas, Venezeula, Wednesday.—Roberto de Vicenzo of Argentina will head the field of 96 professional golfers from eight nations in the US$2O,OOO OM Open starting here tomorrow with US$7OOO as first prize. Among players from the United States, Canada, England, Australia, Argentina, Colombia, Puerto Rico and Venezuela,
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  • 307 15  -  By Jeffrey Low When it comes to ballet, sturdy 15-year-old Yat Swee Eng can skip along with the grace of a swan. After all, she has been training for more than seven years. But when it comes to gymnastics the ballerina is immediately transformed into the
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  • 65 15 Capetown, Wednesday— The South African sloop Albatross n breezed along at spanking pace yesterday to head the field in the Cape to Rio yacht race both for line honours and on handicap. Albatros 11, and another South African yacht, Mercury, which was lying second, were favoured by stronger
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  • 103 15 Melbourne, Wednesday.— Australia's Davis Cup hopes have crashed with the withdrawal last night of two of the country's top amateurs. Promising young player Phil Dent confirmed that he had signed a professional contract with the World Championship tennis group and veteran Mai Anderson, whose recent
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    • 452 15 New Nation Crossword No. 14 IB 11 Rushed about wildly. 12 Living being. 13 Engineer, builder of New Orleans jetties. 15 Large container. 21 Make wrathful. 24 Poetic forms. 26 Type of surfaced road. 28 Locale. 31 Letter. 33 Friend of FalstaS. 34 By means of. 35 The birds: ZooL
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    • 70 16 AH FOOK: The film censors are coming in for their usual amount of criticism, but I must applaud them. It's essential in this permissive age to have some protection for minors. MEI LIN: What about adults? Are we to be treated like children for ever? I don't believe
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    • 265 16 A man of some repute and fame, Dr. E. B. Foote of New York, has written a book, Plain Home Talk, which makes some sensible comment on the length of women's dresses. The health of women demands reform in dress, says the gooddoctor. The long skirt
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    • 469 16 The poor man's bank moves into the affluent age The big white limousine drew up in front of the shop. A middleaged woman in a shimmering white pants suit stepped out from the driver's seat and walked briskly into the shop.
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    • 148 16 Hiroshima yesterday lost the last of its atomic bomb "shadows," the outlines of human forms burned into stone walls by the searing heat of the 1945 atomic bomb explosion. Workmen demolished the Hiroshima branch of the Sumitomo Bank building, on whose outer wall a "shadow," believed
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    • 132 16 A jailed man who protested his innocence by going on a hunger strike was freed yesterday in Northampton, England, after 375 days without solid food. Ronald Barker, 29, refused every meal given to him sincp he was convicted of burglary in January last year. Prison officers kept
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    • 152 16 Inspector Samsuddin bin Mohamed Yusof, Bn3 PPH Ipoh, has come up with a recipe for love in the latest publication of the Royal Malaysia Police Magazine. The Ingredients are: Two fruits of love. One cup of understanding. Two cans of faith in God. Tomatoes
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    • 93 16 A LITTLE bit of the beauty of Singapore will be lost when longhaired Jacque Rodriguese leaves. Mistyeyed Jacque has fallen to the lure of foreign lands and is off to misty old England. Jacque, a 19-year-old receptionist with a Singapore law firm, will do a
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    • 318 16 5 Siagapara 6.05 evening and Huckleberry Hound 6.30 News in Brief 6.35 What Others Say 6.50 Another Song Another Melody (English repeat) 7.05 Dragnet: D.H.Q. Missing Person (Dialogue in Cantonese) 7.40 News and Newsreel in Chinese 8.05 Ironside: From Kruska with Love (Chinese subtitles) 9.00 News in English 9.10 The
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    • 385 16 Trust your lucky star IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY Born today, you are a courageous person with high standards and Iron-clad convictions. Not one to back off from your stated point of view simply because there Is opposition, you can be counted on to hold up your end of any dispute
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