New Nation, 18 March 1971

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  • 16 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Thursday evening, March 18, 1971 No. 51 Price 15 cents Bnkw nation 1
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  • 11 1 There were 71 traffic accidents yesterday. Seven were serious.
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  • 128 1 Trading remained quiet on the Stock Exchange this morning. Gammons was slightly traded from $1.15 to $1.16 to $1.14 on news of proposed reorganisation and recapitalisation of the company. Blue chips and the better class stocks quietly steady. Straits Traders and Slme Darby had business passing unchanged
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  • 68 1 LATE NEWS Saigon, Thursday—North Vietnamese anti aircraft iwImIU crews fired three times early today at US 852 bombers over southern Laos, but missed, the US military command reported. A spokesman said the bombers were striking near the northwest border of South Vietnam just below the
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  • 429 1 Moscow alleges Peking policy plot Reuter Moscow, Thursday Soviet experts believe China Is prepared to rome to terms with the United States on a division of spheres of Influence and that it provoked border clashas with the Soviet Union to help diplomatic manoeuvres towards this goal. This Is
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  • 365 1 Support at home slips to 51 per cent Washington Post By a special correspondent Washington, Thursday President Nixon is in trouble politically. His poll ratings have slipped to 51 per cent and signs of public discontent over his policies at home and abroad are
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    • 46 1 Jakarta, Thursday.—A 30mile, two-lane expressway linking Jakarta and Bogor, costing some U8523.5m. will be built starting next year. A Public Works Ministry spokesman said the US Agency for International Development will extend credit of UBsl6m while the Indonesian Government will supply the balance.
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    • 36 1 The body of a young woman was found at the mouth of Kallang River this morning. She was clad in brown slack and blouse. Police are still trying to trace her identity.
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  • 214 1 ACTRESS PUTS AMBITIONS INTO A BACK SEAT She stars with Barbra Streisand in the film On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, which opens in Singapore today. On any day, clear or otherwise, you can see that actress Linda Westover Is plain happy as
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  • 127 1 The principal of Buona Vista Secondary School has been queried in connection with suicide of one of his pupils. Miss Teo Lay Teen, 17, a secondary four student died in hospital yesterday, after taking a botttle of medicated oil. Her twin sister Miss Teo Slew Teen
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  • 90 1 Philadelphia, Thursday.— World heavyweight champion Joe Frazler has denied reports that he planned to quit the ring. "They gonna bury me," he joked In his room in St. Luke's Hospital here. He was admitted to the hospital on Monday for treatment of
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  • 238 1 United Press international Washington, Thursday President Nixon has decided to submit to the Senate a treaty approving the return of Okinawa to Japanese jurisdiction. However, the U8 and Japan still have to reach agreement on major points to be included in the treaty. A State Department
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  • 265 1 Is the killer stag which gored to death a 62-year-old factory worker on Tuesday, alive or dead? The question remained unanswered this morning. One newspaper report this morning said the stag had been transferred safely to the Singapore Zoological Gardens in Mandai, while another
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  • 36 1 La Paz, Thursday. The Bolivian Government handed its resignation to President Juan Jose Torres yesterday. An official announcement said the move was to allow General Torres complete freedom to form a new Government.
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  • 167 2 Kuala Lumpur, Thursday A total of about 2.2 million people in West Malaysia and Singapore saw last week's telecast of the world heavyweight boxing title fight between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali. This was revealed in a television audience survey carried out In
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  • 253 2 Kuala Lumpur, Thursday Toddy, the drink that is as old as the palm tree itself, has taken on a new dimension. It is now available in attractive bottles in bars, restaurants, night clubs and coffee shops. Hitherto, the drink, sometimes called The Poor Man's
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  • 498 2  -  By Abby Tan I had to see to believe it. The fantastic world of Charlie See. The world of beautiful women, glamour and bright spotlights he dabbles in. Trying to talk to Charlie was no
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  • 300 2 Kuala Lumpur, Thursday The Zoo Negara is looking into the possibility of breeding the almost extinct Sumatran Rhino to keep the species going. There are just about 100 of this species left In the world today with only 20 In Malaysia: The president of
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  • 62 2 Brisbane, Thursday—Two children were killed and 23 injured when their school bus rolled 190 yd down a mount a i nslde 60 miles north-west of Brisbane yesterday. All of the children were thrown from the bus and only the driver was still in the
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  • 360 2 Government plans 700-acre estate The Housing and Development Board is to acquire 700 acres of squatter land between the fifth and sixth mile Upper Thomson Road for a new housing estate. Sources In the Ministry of National Development told Neto Nation today that the main reason
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  • 196 2 The Ministry of Social Affairs is quite satisfied that the national fitness exercise (NFX) campaign has caught up with the public. "NFX Is part of a whole concept of sports and we feel tnat we have Instilled the spirit in the public. It's now up
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  • 301 2 Activity here impresses wine and food man Travelling from one country to another to study the food and drink market Is the job of Mr. Claude Morny, 57, secretary of the International Wine and Food Society based in London. Mr. Morny who is on a stopover
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  • 31 2 Tokyo, Tnursday. A delegation of the Japanese National Railways Labour Union, led by Mitsutoshl Ikda, has arrived in Hanoi for a friendly visit, the Vietnam News Agency reported today.
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  • 202 2 Kuala Lumpur, Thursday The Commonwealth Medical Association has appointed the medical associations of Singapore and Malaya to form a Joint committee to look Into the ethics of medical practitioners. The committee is expected to sumbit Its repent at the next CMA meeting next year.
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  • 46 2 Tokyo, Thursday—Mr. Klnya Niiseki, newly appointed Japanese Ambassador to the Soviet Union, said today the first thing he would do is to persuade the Bovlet Foreign Minister, Mr. Andrei Oromyko, to visit Japan "to promote the exchange of visits between Japanese and Soviet leaders.
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  • 190 2 Kuala Lumpur, Thursday The push-button telephone which was introduced in January is not catching on with the public. It cannot be locked. The Director of Telee tones and Telegraphs, che Buyong bin Abdullah, said subscribers had no way of finding out If an
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  • 103 2 The Hague, Thursday The World Court announced yesterday It had deferred a decision on South Africa's proposal to hold a plebiscite in the territory of Southwest Africa (Namibia) to enable the population there to express views on its political future. The announcement to defer the decision
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  • 221 2 Instruments in all new aircraft imported into Singapore after 1975 should be calibrated in the metric system. This Is one of the proposals submitted by the Department of Civil Aviation to the Metrication Board in its attempt to completely adopt the
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  • 61 2 Talpeh, Thursday—Henry Karns, president of the US Export-Import Bank, has promised his continued support for Nationalist Chinese economic development projects. Karns, who arrived here on Monday, told the American Chamber of Commerce in Talpeh his bank is prepared to "play a much more important role in
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  • 99 2 Moscow, Thursday. Europe'B highest mountain, Mount Elbrus, is getting hotter and may explode into volcanic life In coming years, Soviet Scientists said yesterday. Tass, the Soviet news agency, said volcanologlsts found evidence of" rising temperatures in bowels of the 18,510 ft mountain in the Soviet Union's
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  • 24 2 Manila, Thursday—Heavy pollution of the principal waters around Mann* has deprived thousands of «n*n fishermen of their livelihood, according to the Fisheries Commission.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 104 2 Weather Temperatures in world capitals yesterday: Hong Kong 68-63 Tokyo 59-54 Manila 87-73 Taipei 78-61 Jakarta 88-75 Bangkok 91-74 Kuala Lumpur 88-72 Naha 66-57 London 53-41 Paris 50-37 Moscow 32-27 New York 49-35 San Francisco 60-42 Sydney 77-67 Melbourne 73-53 Perth 85-53 Singapore Singapore's weather forecast from 1 p.m. to
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  • 254 3 The PAP could voluntarily abstain from contesting a few constituencies In the next general elections to allow some opposition members in Parliament. This suggestion was put up by Mr. Chen Yu Fu a retired executive director, at a forum on Singapore's future
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  • 169 3 The world's smallest electronic calculator is on the market here. It is made in Japan and has the size of a small transistor radio. Operated by a bullt-ln battery, which is re-charge-able, the calculator is three inches in height, four inches in width and six
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  • 77 3 Tel Aviv, Thursday—lsrael's Labour Minister Yosef Almogl left here yesterday for a fortnight's tour of the Far East, during which he will visit Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand and Japan. Mr. Almogl will visit Australia and New Zealand on a fund-raising mission but meet
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  • 33 3 Brussels, Thursday. The European Common Market is to set up a permanent mission in Washington to help improve deteriorating trade relations with the United States, a Common Market spokesman said yesterday.
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  • 48 3 A special parade was held at the Tanglin Hall of the Far East Land Forces to celebrate St. Patrick's Day yesterday. Here, the Chief of Staff, FARELF, Brigadier R. E. Worsley, presents shamrocks, the emblem of Ireland, to Irish Guardsmen now serving in Singapore.
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  • 180 3 Mr. John Gorton, the former Australian Prime Minister and now Minister of Defence, left Singapore on an Air Vietnam commercial flight for Saigon this morning. Mr. Gorton, who was deKied from the leadership t week on his own casting vote following a stormy controversy between himself
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  • 342 3 Houseowners in Tampines Woods, a three-year-old middle-class housing estate to be acquired by the Government for the airport expansion, are preparing themselves for a long drawn battle with the authorities in their fight for fair compensation. The estate's pro-tem action committee has obtained
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  • 126 3 Mr. Ho Kah Leong, MP for Jurong, will open the Transworld Marine Limited in Jalan Semulun, Jurong town, this evening. The president of the Federation of Swiss Watch Manufacturers, Mr. Gerard Bauer, will arrive in Singapore tonight for a twoday visit. Mr. Bauer will
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  • 114 3 Lido: Which Way TO The Front—l.4s, 4, 6.30, 9.15 pjn. Capitol: Scars Of Dracula—l.4s, 4, 6.30, 9.30 p.m. Bex: Vengeance Of A Snowglrl (Mandarin)—l.4s, 4, 6.30, 9.30 pjn. Sky: Vengeance Of A Snowglrl (Mandarin) —1.30, 4, 6.30, 9.15 pjn. Boxy: Vengeance Of A Snowglrl (Mandarin) —1.45, 4.15,
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  • 139 3 A local industrialist today reacted favourably to the suggestion in Parliament by Mr. Lawrence Sia, MP for Moulmein, that amendments should be made to the labour legislation giving workers a five per cent "built-in" wage increase all round. Mr. Richard Lee Yih Jin, managing director
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  • 182 3 A number of shareholders today welcomed the move by the Bovis and the Commonwealth Development Finance Groups to inject technical and financial assistance to revamp Gammon South-East Asia. One shareholder said the move was made in the right direction as the company was a target of
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  • 393 3 Non-stop work on container complex The Port of Singapore handled a record number of 7000 containers last year and the PSA is now speeding up construction of its $77.6 million East Lagoon container project to handle an even greater bulk of cargo. With the present round-the-clock
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  • THE WORLD
    • 128 4 What could be Russia's answer to the giant American Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet is the new TU-154, now under production at the aircraft plant at Kuibyshev. The new aircraft, seen here, is 50 metres long and has a wingspan of 37 metres. It will
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    • 173 4 Agence France Presse Washington, Thursday Supersonic flights may produce a noticeable increase in the incidence of skin cancer, according to three scientists here today. Large numbers of supersonic flights across the United States would diminish the quantity of ozone in the stratosphere, they claimed. Ozone
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    • 97 4 Reuter Seoul, Thursday President Chung-Hee Park, who has ruled South Korea since 1961 as junta leader and elected President, was nominated yesterday to seek a third consecutive presidential term. A national convention of the ruling Democratic Republican Party attended by more than 2000 delegates nominated
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    • 435 4 North Vietnamese artillery pounds bases inside Laos New Nation Foreign Service Saigon, Thursday North Vietnamese forces yesterday inflicted heavy casualties on a 1600-man Saigon force withdrawing in disarray from a battered artillery base in southern Laos. A South Vietnamese spokesman said that 66 soldiers were killed
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    • 147 4 Reuter Jakarta, Thursday The chief editor of the Muslim daily newspaper Abadi, Mr. Soemarso Soemarsono, has resigned as a candidate for the July general elections in protest against "undemocratic measures." Mr. Soemarsono was approved as one of the candidates for the Indonesian Muslim Party
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    • 109 4 Reuter Tripoli, Thursday Libya is likely to announce next week a date for cutting off Medltterranean oil supplies IT Western oil companies fail to accept minimum price demands, informed sources said here yesterday. The price Increases for crude oil are being sought by
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    • 175 4 United Press international Copenhagen, Thursday About 300 Danish chemists have signed a protest against the use of chemicals by the United States in the Vietnam war. The protest also touches the moral question of the role of science in the world today.
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    • 180 5 Reuter London, Thursday Between two million and three million workers are expected to strike today in the second blow to British industry within three weeks. The one-day stoppage, spearheaded by engineers with support from dockers and transport workers, was calculated to cost the country
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    • 187 5 Reuter The Finnish Prime Minister, Mr. Ahti Karjalainen, last night handed the resignation of his coalition Government to President Urho Kekkonen. The Prime Minister resigned after the Communists, members of his five-party coalition, had voted against a Bill to free 15 items from
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    • 68 5 port Moresby, ThursdaySeven people have died in fierce tribal fighting In the remote Western Highlands of Papua, New Guinea, not far from where the Duke of Edinburgh is to visit a bird sanctuary next week. The trouble started on Sundax over a border dispute between two tribes,
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    • 317 5 United Press international Dacca, Thursday President Yahya Khan last night conceded one of the tour demands made by East Pakistan leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman after their second round of talks in three days in an attempt to end the constitutional c r is is
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    • 355 5 Golda: We cannot trust Rogers' offer New Nation Foreign Service Jerusalem, Thursday Israel's Prime Minister, Mrs. Golda Meir said last night that Israel could not trust what the US Secretary of State Mr. William Rogers, offered. Her Impassioned speech served as the strongest reaction yet to
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    • 86 5 TV»ic 12in EjrvDtian eun helped to precipitate the 1967 Middle East war. Now it is rusting, broken and Slogans for an Israeli girl soldier as she took, out over the Steaite of Tiran The gun was moved there in 1967 as part of Egypt's moves
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    • 171 5 Reuter Athens, Thursday All prison camps for political detainees in Greece will be dismantled by next month, the Under Secretary for Press, Mr. George Georfalas, said here yesteray. Mr. Georgalas told a Press conference the remaining 3OP Communist political prisoners would be released next
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    • 126 5 Reuter Rome, Thursday Italian police have seized large quantities of weapons in raids on a number of rightwing extremists who now face charges of attempting to overthrow the State by force. Members of the political branch of Italy's security police swooped on houses in Rome
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    • 24 5 Taipeh, Thurs. —An overloaded truck ploughed Into a group of children crossing a Taipeh street on Tuesday killing two and Injuring another.
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    • 156 5 Uprising over cut in fish ration 40 hurt Reuter Taipeh, Thursday Peasants and fishermen have staged two anti-Communist uprisings, injuring more than 40 officials, in the South China province of Kwangtung, the Central News Agency reported. Quoting informed sources, the agency said Kwangtung. was plagued by turmoil and unrest. Forty
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    • 295 5 Reuter Colombo, Thursday Ceylon's Prime Minister, Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike, has said that extreme leftwing guerrillas known as Che Guevarists are trying to plunge the island into chaos and bloodshed. "We shall not allow any dissident elements bent on creating chaos by acts
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    • 222 5 Reuter Perth, Thursday Western Australia's state Premier, Mr. John Tonkin, announced yesterday that a deaf mute he believed innocent of murder will be released soon after serving 10 years of a life sentence. "I believe myself he is Innocent," said Mr. Tonkin, announcing that Darryl
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    • 307 5 Premier expected to take in new blood Reuter New Delhi, Thursday Mrs. Indira Gandhi, confirmed as India's Prime Minister for another term is expected to form a new government today, following her massive victory in this month's general elections. The premier is expected to retain most
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    • 189 5 Reuter Ankara, Thursday Deniz Gezmis, alleged leader of a terrorist gang which kidnapped four American airmen on March 4, will face charges carrying up to 107 years' jail, Ankara's Chief Prosecutor said yesterday. Gezmis, a former member of the extreme leftwlng revolutionary youth
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    • 187 5 Reuter Vienna, Thursday A senior member of the Soviet delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SIALT) is seriously ill in hospital here. Mr. O.A. Grinevsky, a top adviser from the Soviet Foreign Ministry, appa-' rently collapsed after attending an official func-. tion here on Monday
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    • 132 5 Reuter Bonn, Thursday East and West Germany are slowly but surely making progress in talks aimed at improving relations, chief West German negotiator, Mr. Egon Bahr, said yesterday. After their ninth rouncf of talks, lasting more than four hours, the two delegations agreed to meet again
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    • 261 6 Absence of Lon Nol helps it into step Reuter Phnom Penh, Thursday The Cambodian army has not reached the 200.000-man target set for the end of 1970 but a weeding out of inflated battalion lists, new arms and stepped-up regional autonomy has increased its efficiency. Before
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    • 395 6 'A man who stayed too long as Premier* Reuter Paris, Thursday General Qe Gaulle has given his long-awaited posthumous judgment on his successor, President Georges Pompidou, picturing him as a capable, practical man who leans towards caution. The General's judgment while praising Mr. Pompidou in measured terms, lacked some
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    • 35 6 Egyptian frogmen seen during recent exercises "somewhere In Egypt" The exercise lasted 48 hours. The United Arab Republic forces have been undergoing intensive training since the August, 1970 ceasefire with Israel.
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    • 255 6 Tel Aviv, Thursday Much to the astonishment of the Israeli army, the Egyptians on the West bank of the Suez Canal have started reconnoitering its positions on the East side with some outdated and unusual de-vices-observation balloons and a fire engine
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    • 102 6 Rome, Thursday. Mr. Lulgi Longo, Italy's 71-year-old Communist Party chief, appeared in court here yesterday seeking a divorce from his wife Teresa, from whom he has been legally separated since 1949. Mr. Longo married Teresa Noce who became a Communist parliamentary deputy after the Second World War
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    • 233 6 Melbourne Herald London, Thursday Fishermen of England and .Scotland, never lost for a rough word when they need one, are attacking British entry In Europe with all the lung-power and political pressure they can raise. Their counterparts In the Faroes and Iceland are also
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  • COMMENT
    • 1034 7  -  Sihanouk's enemies, March 18, 1970, ended a drawn-out campaign By Malcolm Caldwell The National Assembly of Cambodia met a year ago today in rather unusual circumstances. For one thing, it was surrounded by tanks and armed soldiers. The Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, General Lon Nol,
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    • 756 7  -  From Lee Lescaze For South Vietnam, the invasion of Laos has been described as a critical test of military capability and morale. The US commander, Oen. Creighton W. Abrams, calls it critical to American plans to withdraw from Vietnam. For
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    • 916 7  -  Colony's precarious existence between conflicting ideologies From David Baird Hong Kong has often been accused of living only for today, of never thinking about tomorrow. But this, according to residents, is because there may never be another tomorrow for the colony. Recent events have demonstrated once
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  • 333 8 When Britain's Tory Government presented its case for the renewal of sale of arms to South Africa embargoed by the previous Labour Government in response to a UN resolution condemning apartheid its central argument was the potential menace of a Russian naval presence in
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  • 810 8  -  By Al Shahab Aldous Huxley's Island, set in the Pacific in the current cold war period, featured the Palinese, a people who lived according to a code expounded by the Old Raja of Pala in "Notes on
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  • 680 8  -  JACKIE SAM A circus with a difference came to the town last week with no animals, of course, but a dozen clowns. I have not been to one lor a good many years, and a circus without animals, I must admit*
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  • 696 8  -  Letters KWA CHONG GUAN "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts." So wrote Shakespeare and so argues A 1 Shahab as to how
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  • The voice of the Press
    • 103 8 What the other newspapers are saying: ASEAN Foreign Ministers at their recent conference expressed concern over the Indo-Chlna war situation, and therefore appeared to be more cautious and pragmatic in their approach towards the implementation of regional co-opera-tlon projects. Frankly speaking, the future development of ASEAN is
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    • 112 8 The Malaysian Deputy Premier. Tun (Dr.) Ismail, has stated that his country has abandoned the old policy that only five countries Malaysia. Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore and the Philippines should be members of ASEAN. Other ASEAN members too will welcome this suggestion because it paves the way for all
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    • 143 8 Mrs. Indra Gandhi's Congress Party now holds more than two-thirds of the seats In the Indian Parliament. But Mrs. Gandhi's troubles, far from being over, are Just beginning. At the weekend the Indian Chief Justice, Mr. S. M. Sikrl, warned Mrs. Gandhi that she would not get her
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    • 79 8 Allegations made by certain circles that there is religious persecution in this country are more slanders. This Is because —although Islam is the official state religion—there Is complete freedom of religion in the country, and this is guaranteed by the Constitution. The Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, himself
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous

  • 2341 9 This two-part study of the overseas Chinese and the power and wealth that they hold first appeared in the March 1971 issue of Fortune magazine. Louis Kraar says that despite racial hostility in some countries and even massacres in others, this scattered nation
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  • SHOPPING
    • 466 10 MOD^RJMLTVTNG Speakers these days are so designed s that they not only help in giving hours of listening pleasure but blend in beautifully with home decor The soothing, lyrical sound of music is indeed a gift for the ears and no other stereo equipment can reproduce
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  • WOMAN
    • 485 11  -  Mm men won batik and the woman came In gay dresses DOING THE ROUNDS WITH C GRACIA TAY-CHEE The invitation said Dress Informal, No Ties. So the men all wore their most comfortable batik, Hawaiian or latest see-through's! But the women! They knew they
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    • 1006 11  -  Swap from home routine makes them happy By Helen Howard With a broad smile on her face and cheerfully humming to the soft music coming from the loudspeakers on the factory floor, the nylonoveralled woman reached up, pulled down a lever... then
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    • 843 11 And some of their bites eaa be dangerous The Doctors guide x to tea.. /GOOD) Si Not uncommonly among kampong dwellers I see patients complaining of painful bites on their hands or feet which have been inflicted while they were asleep. I saw one the other
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  • Finance and business
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    • 72 12 STOCKHOLM, Thurs.—Sweden will officially announce today it does not want membership of the European Common Market because this would imperil her traditional neutrality, Government sources said. Prime Minister Mr. Olof Palme and Trade Minister Mr. KJell-Olof Feldt spent yesterday with the leaders of the three
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    • 91 12 TOKYO, Thurs.— A factory to produce activated carbon from rubber trees will be set up in Malaysia by Joint Japanese and Malaysian Interests. The factory will be built at Fenang under the venture, to be undertaken by the TUceda Chemical Industries Company In co-operation with the
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    • 201 12 United Press International New York, Thursday The stock market finished lower yesterday, although well above early morning levels. Trading was fairly heavy. After being down nearly 6 points at noon, the Dow Jones industrial average was off 0.62 at 914.02 at the final bell. Of
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    • 170 12 United Press international London, Thursday Anxiety about disruption in industry stemming from the one-day strike planned for engineering workers today countered any benefit from Wall Street's strength on the stock market yesterday. The strike to protest the government's labour reform iws can hit a
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    • 102 12 JAKARTA, Thins. The United States has extended U5556.6 million long-term credit to Indonesia In the form of wheat, wheat flour and raw ootton to be shipped within this year. Ambassador Mr. Francis Galbralth signed the new loan agreement for his government, while Foreign Minister Mr. Adam
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    • 215 12 The decision by Mr. Henry Ford not to put more capital into Britain could mean a loss of about $321 million a year in investment and an even bigger eventual loss on exports. Mr. Ford has invested more than $1613 million in Britain in
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  • 468 12  -  ...In this disturbing pollution story CINEMA By EDGAR KOH NO BLADE OF GRASS starring Nigel Davenport and Jean Wallace. The "couldn't care less" attitude adopted by man towards pollution of his environment is clearly reflected in No Blade of Grass, a disturbing drama directed by Cornel
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    • 498 13  -  CAMERA ON SCHOOLS Words: Sonny Yap For a school where the main emphasis is on trade and vocational training. Gey lane. Serai Industrial Training Centre is making big strides in the sporting scene. Only a year old, the centre has produced a winning streak which shows no
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    • 61 14 DEATH MIL CSOL ARMANIS VAUNTINI PINTO, 61, passed away pioeifully on 18th March '71 at 2.00 a.m. leaving behind his beloved wife, 4 sons, 3 daughters, 3 sons-in-law, 2 daughters-in-law and 7 grandchildren to mourn his loss. Cortege leaves Singapore Casket on 19th March '71 ot 10.00 a.m. for St.
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    • 566 14  -  By Peter Koh She stormed her way into the finals of the 1967 Seap Games table tennis tournament like a thunderbolt. Her swift tactics and smashing power impressed officials and representatives from the seven participating countries. In the finals, she thrashed her opponent
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    • 78 14 New York, Thursday Floyd Patterson, former World heavyweight champion, has agreed to fight Terry Daniels of Dallas in a 10-round main event on April 14 at Cleveland. Since ending a two-year retirement to take another shot at gaining the title, Patterson, 36, has knocked out two
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    • 149 14 London, Thursday. A beautiful Danish blonde with waist-long hair has been chosen by Ford to be their first full-time woman professional racing driver since Britain's Anita Taylor retired from the circuit. At 23, Miss Mette Kruuse has about 85 trophies to prove her tigerish dedication
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    • 27 14 Valencia, Spain, Thursday France drew 8-2 with Spain, after leading 1-0 at half-time, in .their friendly soccer international before a 30,000 crowd here last night.
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    • 103 14 New York, Thursday.— Austin Carr of Notre Dame, only the second player In the history of college basketball ever to score over 1000 points In two seasons, has been named player of the year and winner of the third annual James A. Nalsmlth Trophy. Carr,
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    • 91 14 The Karting Club of Singapore yesterday confirmed that three karters will represent Singapore in the Sixth Asian Karting Prix at Luneta Park in Manila on Saturday and Sunday. The three karters are: Anthony Loh, Francis Lee and Philip Seow, President of the KCS. Francis Lee is
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    • 332 14 London, Thursday The search for Superfoot got under way In Britain today. When he la finally discovered, Superfoot's life will never quite be the same again. > o Waiting for him is .a hero's welcome in the United States, an income pi more than US$6OO
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    • 443 15 By Blue Peter Ness Lane worked with great gusto on a yielding track at Bukit Timah this morning. Ridden by apprentice Salri, Ness Lane sprinted smartly over 3f in 37. Floral Mile (Wadi) again attracted attention when fie galloped attractively ;over Sf in 37 1/5.
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    • 43 15 Veteran trainer Teh Say Leong of Penang has decided to call it quits in his career as horse trainer. His son, Choon Beng, has Just been granted a Grade A licence, and has over his powerful string of horses.
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    • 557 15 SCRATCHINGS 1 Saturday RACE 1: 1.45. Clam 4 Dir 5 61 Yankee Clipper, Gala Ben; RACK 2: 1.15. Olmm 4 -Dir 6 61 Nil; RACE 8: 2.45. Class 4 Dhr. 4 Cf Arhhem. r. Forever Years; RACE 4: 2.15. Class 4 Dir 3 «f Another Bob,
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    • 126 15 London, Thursday Hot favourite, Bula, became undisputed top fyurdler in the British Isles when he scored a •comfortable victory in the champion hurdle at Cheltenham yester- day. The Captain E. EdwardsHeathcote's brilliant six-year-old, who is now unbeaten in his 12 races, won by four lengths
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    • 300 15 Reuter Paris, Thursday Challengers for the America's yachting cup are to meet in London in April to thrash out rules for the elimination races between the seven challengers, a spokes- man for the Societe Nautique de Marseille said here yesterday. The Societe Nautique Is one of
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    • 330 15 Copenhagen, Thursday Asian players demonstrated their complete supremacy in the badminton world when they won all the semi-finals in the four main events in the Danish Open international championships here last night. The Danish tournament la a "dress rehearsal" for the All-England championships in London
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    • 72 15 W. Williams (No. 8) of the 1st. Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment jumps with H. Limbu (No. 12) of the 10th Gurkha Rifles from Hong Kong in an attempt to hit the ball to their team-mates. Waiting are S. Davis (No. 5) of the 1st RNZIR and L. Gurung (No.
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    • 63 15 Thirty-two schools have qualified for the semi-final round of the national volleyball tournament for primary schools now in progress. They will be competing for four titles "A" Boys, "B" Boys, "A" Girls and "B" Girls. The meet which began on March 8 will end on March
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    • 214 15 Reuter London, Thursday The English Football League won their annual encounter against the Scottish League for the sixth successive year at Hampden Park here last night, but few of the England "fringe" players in the ranks have improved their prospects of regular international football. It was
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    • 228 15 New Delhi, Thursday The 1971 Indian Open golf championship, fourth leg of the Asian golf circuit, starts at the Delhi Golf Club today. The picturesque 6972-yard 73-par course, site of ruined tombs of the 17th century princes and kings of India, presents a challenge to the
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    • 60 15 Raffles Institution, the national senior softball runner-up and > Junior champion last year showed that It was just as good in the "C" division when it beat Bukit Merah Sec. 3512 yesterday. Other results "C" Boys Dunearn Tech d. Telok Kurau 9-8. American School d. Maris
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    • 33 15 BV7GBT LEAGUE Qmt Brit. 14 FMIM I BUGBT LBAGUE TTlliaw 11 W«VIN T. 4 BUGBT UNION AbcniM IS AbertOlefT Brietel 14 Beyal N»tt It 2STU 5 S2S? Nrwyert t Araqr f
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    • 312 15  -  By Jeffrey Low Officials of the inaugural Commonwealth Table Tennis championships organising committee will begin their hectic rush to give VIP treatment when delegates and players from the 14 competing countries arrive today and tomorrow. They were caught unawares when two Australian players Stephen Knapp and
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    • 142 15 Filipino riders will be making a challenge for the first time in the Singapore Grand Prix mo-tor-cycle events next month. They are: Rene Ner and Nanding Villanueva, ranked as two of the best riders In the Philippines who will be accompanied by racing car driver,
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    • 525 16  -  FINE IF YOU CAN QUIT WITHOUT HURTING ROSALIND CHAN People who give up smoking, it seems, can get out of one trouble right into another. Smoking may hurt your health; quitting may hurt others. I heard an alarming story about a couple who
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    • 59 16 AH FOOK It is a pity that so many girls in Singapore are beginning to wear the midi. Nice legs are a pretty sight. MEI LIN Don't you men ever think of anything else? Anyway, midis will not be popular in Singapore as the climate is too hot.
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    • 245 16 Singapore now has a dial-a-meal service which caters for officeworkers who are tired of eating out and have no time to go home for lunch. Just ring 641-492 and a home-cooked lunch packed in a polythene bag and a carton will be delivered to your
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    • 35 16 WHO says we need a reason to publish a picture of a squirrel sitting on a fence? Animal lovers of the world, unite! That's what we say.
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    • 55 16 Here's a girl who works high up in the clouds. And when she's not up there, she's usually down on the ground slicing away at the golf course. But air hostess Inderpal Kaur, 22, will soon be permanently grounded she's getting married to her Mr.
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    • 449 16 Trust your lucky star IF irs YOUR BIRTHDAY BOBN today, you are an exceedingly direct, straightforward person. You wouldn't know bow to be devious even If such were demanded of you. Never, tbelees, though you know little of deceiving, you are not one whom it would be easv to fool.
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