New Nation, 19 March 1971

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  • 14 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Friday evening, March 19, 1971 No. 52 Price 15 cents i-:»u
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  • 25 1 LATE NEWS Jakarta, Friday—Military authorities said today that they had captured IS Communists in west Java and south Sumatra and charged them with sabotage.
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  • 254 1 Saigon troops pulled out after threat to surrender United Press International Saigeti, Friday Crack South Vietnamese back-up troops have been flown into Laos to replace battered infantrymen who told their commanders yesterday that they would surrender to the Communists rather than fight any more. The infantrymen, members
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  • 195 1 1 The killer stag of the Sin Heng Chan feedmill died from injuries received when it crashed into the roof of a pigsty while trying to escape its captors, the company manager, Mr. Heng Kwan Yam, paid today. He denied that thto Stag was
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  • 229 1 The Russian Embassy here today welcomed the Singapore Government's move to establish an embassy in Moscow as a step in the right direction to further improve the friendly relations between the two countries. The Charge d'Affaires, Mr. O. V. Bostorin, told New Nation today: "Flans to upgrade
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  • 306 1 Officials of Chinese temples throughout the island are keeping a close watch for a gang of thieves that specialises in stealing statues of gods and then remoulding them flpr sale. Since the beginning of this year, at least four temples have lost more
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  • 100 1 The Stock Market was very quiet this 'morning. Lower priced Issues were largely untraded except for United Motor Works with business at $1.2) and M O Holdings at SOft cents. Investment stocks were barely steady with Shell Ordinary done at $1.14. The announcement of better profits by
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  • 181 1 Col—ifco, Friday Sweeping emergency powers allowing the Ceylon Government to prohibit meetings, take over property and impose curfews were announced yesterday. The Prime Minister. Mrs. Btrimavo Bandaranalke, explaining on Wednesday why a state of emergency was declared last Tuesday said leftwlng extremists called "Che Guevarists"
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  • 57 1 New York, Friday Jan trumpeter Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong Is in a critical condition in hospital with a heart ailment. Dr. Gary Zucker, his personal phy«fa»<*w said Armstronf was confined to an' intensive carp «nit at NewYork's Beth Intel hospital. "He Is responding to treatment, but Is
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  • 29 1 Amman, frl.—Public security patrols have started a campaign against local hippies. They arrested an' unspecified number of youths, cut their locks and shared off their sideburns.
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  • 36 1 Tokyo, frL—The 3,860ton T7B nuclear powered submarine Tatttac arrived at the UB naval port In Yokosuka yesterday, for a two-week rest ana recreation tor its crew and tor take on supplies.
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  • 180 1  -  RAIN DAMPENS CHAMP'S CHANCES By Scrutineer RAIN HAS somewhat dampened the chances of trainer Eddie van Breukelen's champion, Katong Ocean, in Sunday's $30,000 Singapore Derby. Last night's rain turned the Bukit Timah track to yielding. The overcast sky today promises more rain. Katong Ocean, a
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  • 14 1 Police reported a total of 55 traffic accidents yesterday. Nine were serions.
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  • 172 2 Kuala Lumpur, Fridij Malaysia is willing to fUtffld Its of friendship to any country irrespective of its political ideology which respects her sovereignty and lnteEty, the Malaysian ng said yesterday. He said this when he received the credentials of the Ambassador. Dr. Pier MarceDo
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  • 491 2 Death of boy unable to cope given as example The principal of St Andrew's School, Mr. Francis Thomas, last night blamed what he termed "social isolation" for the death of a 15-year-old boy who fell from the ninth floor of a block of flats in
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  • 37 2 Koala Lumpur, Saturday —Pilot Officers, Jalludin Meran of the Royal Malaysian Air Force, Kuan tan, and, Ignatius Lim of RftCAF, left yesterday to attend a one-month radar course at the RAF, Shawbury, Bigland.
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  • 305 2 Koala Lumpur, Friday The Malaysian Institute of Architects has explained why it thinks a minimum fee scale is necessary when an architect is called upon to do a lob. It It the best means of ensurlnc that a client secures the mtntmnm services ssssntlsl tor the
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  • 353 2 REPAIR THEM FOR A NEW LIFE The thought of stately old cars lying neglected In garages or compounds is a source of sadness for vintage car enthusiast Mr. Mike Hawke. He would like to see them In running condition. Mr. Hawke, the editor of
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  • 28 2 The inaugural meeting of the Singapore Press Club will be held on Saturday, March 27, at 2.45 pjn. at the Shell Theatrette, Shell Building, Collyer Quay.
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  • 81 2 The president of United Press International, Mr. Mima Ibomaaon, and his wife flew into Singapore from Manila last night. Mr. Thomason is iwH"r a Dur4n *5 three-day stay here he will meet the rame Minister, Mr. Ue Kuan Yew. Picture shows Mrs. Thomason receiving a boofoet
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  • 192 2 The Jurong Bird Park is getting another tram-car and hiring more drivers to ease the congestion of visitors using the vehicles. At present, two tramcars take people round the park. Visitors nave to pay 40 cents for a ride which includes commentaries given at
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  • 202 2 Kuala Lumpur, Friday The $lOO deposit which people must make to gamble In a casino should be waived In the case of foreign tourists, It was suggested today. "This la the only change we can aogtest to the Common Gaming House* Bill paaaed
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  • 405 2 Kuala Lumpur, Friday Two Orang Asli tribes have found a way out from getting into mo-ther-in-law trouble. The director of Orang Asli medical department, Inche Ruslan bin Abdullah, said here yesterday: "The Negrito and Semai who practise mother-in-law avoidance do not have trouble. "They
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 98 2 Weather Temperatures in world capitals yesterday: Hon* Kong 72-61 Mtniif 87-70 Koala Lumpur 92-71 Taipei 74-59 Seoul 43-28 Tokyo 55-42 Bangkok 96-75 Naha 68-59 Jakarta 95-79 London 50-48 Paris 53-46 Moscow 30-25 New York 44-27 San Francisco 60-50 Sydney 75-62 Melbourne 72-59 Perth 73-70 Singapore Singapore's weather torecast from 1
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  • 229 3 Singapore's new national telex exchange which is due to begin operation in August, will be almost fully subscribed as soon as It opens. The director of the Telecommunications Department. Mr. Goh Seng Kim said this today adding that JrfL "SSJ exchange would Initially open with about
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  • 67 3 Dr. Wong Lin Ken, Minister for Home Affairs, will open the March Art Exhibition at Victoria Memorial Hall at 5.30 p.zxk today. Thirteen top German jazz musicians who arrived here recently, will give a public performance at the National Theatre at 8.30 tonight. The Singapore
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  • 93 3 But four-year-old more Interested in our cameraman Here's a pair of hot-pants (left) that really put the heat on last night's fashion show at the Orchard Theatre. The casual and simple style in brilliant pink jersey teamed up with a delightful, detachable see-through overskirt with lots
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  • 342 3 Board's plan to beat freight rise The Joint Timber Export Industry Board of Malaysia and Singapore has decided to set up a booking centre to cater for all timber exports of the countries. The Intention is to beat the Increased freight rates to be introduced
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  • 141 3 A grand fun fair will be held on April 3 at the British Army's Dover, Road stadium to raise funds for locally-employed British Army staff who will be demobilised at the end of the year. Claimed to be the biggest fun fair ever to be
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  • 279 3 All passed new course Thirty eight police officers have passed their interviews for promotion to the rank of assistant superintendents and jieputy superintendents. They are among the 75 police officers who appeared before a Fublte Service Commission selection hoard ta^eJr ek names has been flrtven to the
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  • 243 3 Nine Malay students, the largest group ever, has graduated from the Nanyang University Malay Studies Department. All are trilingual as they did their final year subjects in Malay and English and offered Mandarin as one pf the subjects iifthe first and second year at Nanyang
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  • 135 3 The newly-formed Institute of Public Relations will hold its inaugural meeting today at the Shell Theatrette to arrange suitable courses and conduct examinations for those who are still novices in the profession. The institute was formed early this year to promote the development of
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  • 151 3 The Singapore Institute of Management is inviting applications from qualified Singaporeans for post-gra-duate study awards leading to the degree of Master of Business Management. The awards regional fellowships offered by the Asian Institute of Management and the Starr Foundation International Scholarship— are tenable at
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  • 274 3 By a correspondent London, Friday An old controversy over whether Singapore's founder, Sir Stamford Raffles, was also the founder of the Tendon Zoo appears to have been solved. For many years some scholars have disputed his claim, saying that the honour belonged to Sir Humphry Davy,
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 156 3 At the cinema ORCHARD: Ori A Clear Day You Can See Forever 1.30, 4, 6.30, 9.15 p.m. CATHAY: Darker Than Amber 1.30, 4, 6.30, 9.30 p.m. ODEON: No Blade Of Grass 1.30, 4, 6.30, 9.30 p.m. ODEON-KATONG: Zatoichl And The Roving Swordsman (Mandarin) 1, 330, 7, 9.15 p.m. UDO: Which
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  • THE WORLD
    • 329 4 United Press International Jakarta, Friday The Singapore ambassador, Mr. Lee Khoon Choy, yesterday Issued a statement intended to clarify "misconceptions" in the Indonesian Press which hinted that Singapore was being hurt by a lack of Indonesian raw materials and resorting to Industrial smuggling.
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    • 133 4 Reuter Washington, Friday Leading world scholars began a two-day conference here yesterday to examine the So-, viet naval presence in the Indian Ocean and came up with a wide range of theories about its effect. Some expressed alarm at Soviet naval warships
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    • 184 4 US cites detection problems United Press International Qvntpra, Friday The "tfiiited States said yesterday it could produce 10,000 tons of nerve gas, or enough for three million artillery rounds, by diverting just one per cent of annual phosphorous production. A factory in which to manufacture
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    • 153 4 Reuter Manila, Friday President Ferdinand Marcos yesterday proposed the setting up of a sugar commission to look into the problems of the Industry in the Philippines. The President told a convention of the Philippine Sugar Industry here that with a projected production of more than two million
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    • 433 4 Reuter New York, Friday Delta Airlines, one of the biggest customers for the Rolls-Royce powered Lockheed Tristar airliner, yesterday announced it had ordered five DC-10 jets from the competing McDon-nell-Douglas Company. The Delta purchase Is the first by a Trtstar customer and though Delta did not
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    • 34 4 Hong Kong, Frfctoy. Presidents and representatives Of rvtirmal copal conferences of 14 countries yesterday began discussing on setting of a Central Secretariat and a standing committee to coordinate church work in Asia.
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    • 26 4 Bonn, Friday—West Oermany and CsecbodoTalda will start preliminary gnndlnw in Prague on March SO aimed at negotiating a treaty to norment spokesman said yesterday.
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    • 170 4 Reuter Bangkok, Friday The Thai Prime Minister, Field Marshal Thanom Klttlkachorn, yesterday visited Government troops fighting against Communist guerrillas in northern Thailand. The Prime Minister returns to Bangkok today from the flying two-day visit north. Informed sources said such high-powered visits
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    • 426 4 Vorster's call to Africans Agence France Presse Cape Town, Friday South Africa is prepared to engage in dialogue without preconditions with other African countries that are prepared to talk and agree not to interfere in South Africa's internal affair§, the Prime Minister, Mr.
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    • 98 4 No, it's not aTV aerial of gigantic proportions... though it does have striking symmetrical similarities. Actually ft is an that receives from meteorological Sputniks and is an important part of the newly-built aerological station. Hie 150 and more meteorological and hydeologiori stations in Georgia, Russia, have
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    • 307 4 House votes against funds for S.S.T. Reuter Washington, Friday The House of Representatives yesterday voted against further government funds for an American supersonic airliner. The TOta—2lB to 204 seriously Jeopardised the future of the project to build a 300-passenger supersonic transport (8J3.T.) to rival the
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    • 181 4 Reuter Tokyo, Friday A draft programme released by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry yesterday called for investments of 700,000 million yen (£810.2 million) for the exploration and 'development of crude oil sources in the 1972-76 period. The programme also provides
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    • 120 4 Reuter London, Friday The British Government announced yesterday it has decided to support participation by a number of British companies in the proposed Sues Mediterranean pipeline. The decision la conditional on certain arrangements relating to financial guarantees. contribution U estimated at between Si!
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    • 248 5 Reuter Jakarta, Friday t u f opean countries tend to buy rubber from Malaysia rather t.h. n Indonesia because the Prices of Malaysian Roods were more compatible to those quoted Jn international markets, Antara news agency said yesterday. The agency said in a reH
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    • 56 5 East Berlin, Friday. Chile has agreed to extend full diplomatic recognition to East Germany within a month, informed sources said here yesterday. Chile, now under a socialist Government headed by President Salvador Allende, would become only the second Latin American country after Cuba to recognise this
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    • 35 5 Los Angeles, Friday.—A proposal to set aside a strip of beach for nude swimmers near the Western White House—President Nixon's home in San Clemente —has been turned down by the state of California.
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    • 396 5 Saigon's battered crack troops pour out New Nation Foreign Service Riifon, Friday More than 1000 dazed and shellshocked South Vietnamese troops, some clinging to the skids of helicopters, poured out of Laos after four days of the bloodiest fighting of the campaign. The battered remnants of South
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    • 43 5 Air traffic has been so heavy at this landing zone near the Laotian border that these helicopters appear to be stacked on each other as they wait to land. The helicopters carry supplies to South Vietnamese troops operating inside Laos.
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    • 157 5 Reuter Belfast, Friday Britain yesterday assigned 1,300 more troops to keep the peace in Northern Ireland, but stopped short of the kind of crackdown demanded by restive Protestants. The new moves were announced by Mr. James Chichester Clark, the Northern Ireland Prime
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    • 135 5 Reuter New Delhi, Friday Asians living in Britain are to begin a civil disobedience movement over Britain's new Immigration Bill, according to a leader of the country's Asian community. Mr. Praful Patel, secretary of the British AllParty Parliamentary Committee on UK citizenship, made the
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    • 321 5 Russia alleges secret agreement with US United Press International Moscow, Friday The Chinese long ago promised the United States they would not intervene in the Vietnam war, a Russian review of Chinese foreign policy said. The well documented study said Peking's position was motivated by the
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    • 478 5 Mujib rejects Yahya's concessionary move Reuter Dacca, Friday The crisis over a threatened split between Pakistan's two wings appeared at a stalemate today after Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's outright rejection of what was seen as a concessionary move by President Yahya Khan. Talks to settle the differences between
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    • 273 5 Reuter New Delhi, Friday Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi's new cabinet has met for the first time to thrash out the contents of next week's presidential address to parliament. The speech is likely to define closely the political direction »e taken by the goven of this
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    • 314 5 Reuter Cairo, Friday Egypt has started preparing for a new Middle East war, according to political observers. At the same time a political storm has blown up over a warning by a close adviser to President Nasser that Egypt would face a bitter
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    • 110 5 Reuter Jakarta, Friday A visiting Muslim senator said here that Muslims in the Philippines are fighting for equal rights and Justice, the Muslim daily newspaper, Abadl, reported yesterday. It said Senator Sallpada Pendatun from the PhilipPines told a gathering of Muslim scholars writers and parliamentarles here
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    • 324 6 New phraseology coined to justify environs New Nation Foreign Service Washington, Friday Probably nothing has served more to obfuscate the realities of the Indo-China conflict over the years than the steady stream of novel terms and phrases put out by the US bureaucracy in order to describe, explain
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    • 249 6 Reuter Darwin, Friday With hla slouch hat and official silver badge, Bennett is one of the full-blooded Australian aborigines who track down criminals for police here. He helps constable Roy Harvey to cover a beat of 3,000 square miles In Australia's
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    • 417 6 Mishima's pupils charged for aiding him in suicide United Press International Tokyo, Friday Japan's post war military philosophy, a mixture of pacifism and righteous self-defence, as well as time-hon-oured Japanese traditions will be on trial in a bizarre court case opening here next week. Basically on
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    • 297 6 New Nation Foreign Service Hong Kong, Friday Anyone can make mistakes but It is not like Hong Kong's financial colossus to do so. Yet this week the colony's Financial Secretary, Sir John Cowperthwalte, has virtually been accused by prominent dtlsens of cooking the books. The cause
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    • 71 6 Jakarta, Friday Indo-nesian-made light machineguns had been successfully field tested and the weapons were now in general use here, the Army Chief-of-Staff, General Umar Wlrahadkusuml, said yesterday. General Umar told reporters after seeing President Suharto that the weapons were used by soldiers in a field test
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    • 296 6 Japanese bosses offer incentives to keep staff New Nation Foreign Service Tokyo, Friday Employers in labourshort Japan are being forced to fined some ingenious ways of keepa staff including days in Hawaii Japanese companies lone known for their ccadle-to-grave paternalism have found i§ not enough hi a
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    • 45 6 Israel has consolidated Its Hwk to the strategic town of Sharm el Sheikh which overlooks the Straits of Ttran with this highway through the Sinai desert. Hie road connects Sharm el Sheikh and the Israeli port of EQat 120 miles away.
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    • 347 6 Reuter Moscow, Friday The face of Josef Stalin was back on the Soviet cinema screen yesterday. Btalin, a taboo figure for Soviet mass media after he was disgraced by his successor Nikita Khrushchev in 1956, has begun to receive some cautious treatment
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    • 98 6 Jakarta, Friday. Indonesia will modernise Its •ir force, the Air Force Chief-of-Staff Air Suwoto Sukendar said yesterday. Marshal Sukendar told newsmen that he had reported to President Suharto on the present situation of the air force but did not elaborate on how It would
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  • COMMENT
    • 864 7  -  Saigon has halted Its drive Into Cambodia but there are no signs that its troops are about to leave From Peter Osnos The South Vietnamese Army (ARVN) drive into eastern Cambodia has come to a virtual halt The main ARVN combat units are now in "staging
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    • 636 7  -  From Pakir Singh A report that Governor All Sadikin of Jakarta had threatened to resign if his request for a 5 per cent, share of the tax proceeds in the capital city was rejected by the Central Government caused quite a stir among
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    • 556 7  -  East-West trade ties urged From Robert E. Wood America's restrictive stance on trade with Communist nations "is incoherent and outdated," according to Mr. Samuel Pisar, international lawyer and trade negotiator. He argues that opening up new trade channels with the Eastern Bloc countries if it were done
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  • 393 8 By its own admission, the People's Action Party needs an opposition. Presumably, this must be an opposition with no ambitions, in the foreseeable future, of capturing power but merely content with an ombudsman's role. Given the PAP success and the conditions that prevail, it
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  • 371 8  -  By Kealy Ho Water pollution in Singapore has become a serious problem. Residents beside many streams are affected by foul-smelling waters, caused largely by the uncontrolled discharge of waste Into the streams. The Government has emphasised the dangers of this unhygienic practice, but we
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  • 793 8  -  SHIRI MULGAOKAR The massive mandate that Mrs. Indira Gandhi has won changes a lot of things for India. A sense of a loss of direction had steadily settled cm the country since the debacle of the Chinese invasion of 1962.
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  • Letters
    • 209 8  -  NG POH CHUEN Administrative Assistant for Public Relations Officer. Singapore 10 I REFER to the report In your newspaper of March 17 concerning the transfer of the University of Singapore Society which Is an association of graduates from Its present premises known as Guild House at 5
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    • 293 8  -  R.G.M. I don't imagine that one small drop will make much difference to the stream of criticism directed against RTB. and Mr. Doral in particular, but I should Hke to try. To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln: "You can please all of the people some of
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    • 109 8  -  K. H. ANG May I point oat to you that the photograph you printed of the squirrel In New Nation yesterday at- tracted far more attention and Interest than all the girls you have been featuring on the back page. Photographs should have a human Interest
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    • 146 8 I read your article "A Singaporean living abroad —ln the March 15 Issue, and admire your pride ana prejudice r Firstly, you are very right to be proud of your clean city which was forced to be cleaned up recently—to be the cleanlinest and the greenest—just to
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    • 165 8  -  LEE FOO NAM After reading through a few copies of the New Nation, I was very Impressed by its interesting and highquality articles I wish to congratulate you and your staff for being so successful in running and publishing this new and novel newspaper, which, I
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  • The voice of the Press
    • 168 8 What the other newtpapers are saying: Mrs. Indira Gandhi has won a landslide victory in India's general elections, which will probably enable her to form a strong and efficient central government out of the disparate, disorganised and turbulent political situation in India since the death of Nehru.
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    • 120 8 For the second time in a decade the Turkish army has acted to save Turkey from anarchy. The army has forced Prime Minister Suleyman Demlrel and his Cabinet to resign after accusing them of having failed .to control the situation. The present crisis developed because the extremist circles
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  • 2340 9 KUOK MADE A NEAT $6 MILLION PROFIT BY GAMBLING IN SUGAR LAST YEAR WHEN HE CORNERED A HUGE SUPPLY AND SOLD OUT FAST WHEN THE WORLD PRICE SHOT UP PART TWO—ALL ABOUT THE WEALTH AND POWER OF THE OVERSEAS CHINESE This study of the overseas
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  • SHOPPING
    • 449 10 MODERN LIVING Lighters these days come as decorative pieces that to enhance evne non-smokers collect their home setting TT'S funny how cigarette lighting has changed throughout the years. First it was the firewood that kicked off a puff. Then it progressed to matchsticks which are
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  • WOMAN
    • 859 11  -  By allowing men mad wo—a patients to ntagh ftn hospital wards, iipiin bfm wo win make araehqulskor recoveries from lUmm... By Helen Howard Coming round from a minor operation, the woman in the hoiyttal ward thought she was hearing thing* when caught
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    • 505 11  -  SUp breakfast it you are Solas to the Mag tor that afternoon meal EATING OUT WITH DIANNE The secret for eating and enjoying a Chinese luncheon at the Ming Palace restaurant is simple don't eat breakfast! You would be wise to miss out dinner the
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    • 275 11 Ideal for a Singapore night All talk of fashion falls apart when we consider the practical side. Often, while on my rounds of the boutiques in town, I see clothes admittedly super outfits of the latest craze which, to my mind, are totally
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    • 222 11 Finance for women's lib tight Publisher Hugh Hefner's Playboy Foundation is interested in financing American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) court fights on behalf of women's liberation causes. The Chicago-based foundation's director, Mr. Burt Joseph, said he is considering about 40 women's rights cases forwarded to him by ACLU
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  • NEW NATION'S Finance and business
    • 524 12  -  SHAREHOLDERS MEET SOON ANIL BHATIA Gammon South-East Asia will receive a badly needed shot In the arm > If shareholders approve the $l5 million Increase In authorised capital on April 2. This will open the path for financial help of $5 million from the Commonwealth
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    • 224 12 Allied ChB ITK Alcoa aa Am Brands £0 An Can MIL Am Motors AT T 40 A P 22 Anaconda 21 it A yon Beth Steel 22% Boeing 2SK Caterp Trac 67% Chrysler M Coca-Cola MU Control Data lit at Corn Ol Win Dow Cfcem 87% DuPont
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    • 51 12 McCulloch Corporation International, pioneer manufacturer of chain saws, has now set up Its Far East regional head office In Singagpore. Mr. John Ricks, McCulloch's director of International operations, Is on a two-day visit to Singapore. Accompanying him Is Mr. L. J. McCarthy, the Far Eastern regional
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    • 1112 12 ALL YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE STOCK EXCHANGE COUNTERS INDUSTRIALS 1876-1871 1 wk. 4 wki k Closing Friee last OMi F/E Tl inHigh Lew M* **o Stock Bayers 8 .n... cucn Sale TieM Ratio Orer 4.60 8.60 8.85 3J8 Allied Chocolate 8.87 3J3 4.4N 17J 1J0
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    • 264 12 United Press International New York, Friday Stocks closed higher in fairly active trading yesterday. The Dow Jones industrial average was ahead 2.81 at 916.83 at the final bell. Advances topped declines, 794 to 581, on 1,679 issues crossing the tape. A turnover
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    • 315 12 United Press International London, Friday The stock market worked irregularly higher in quiet trading yesterday and investors appeared to shrug off the gloom spread by the one-day strike protesting labour reforms and staged by the engineering union. The total workless also rose to 753,810
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    • 278 12 London, Friday British Ley land Motor Corporation (BLMC) which makes Jaguar, Triumph, Rover, Austin, Morris, Daimler, MO. and Wolsely cars and assembles them In 70 countries, plans to export more than half Its total output by the end of the 1970 s, chairman
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    • 51 12 Stockholm, priday sweaen on announced a one-half per cent cut In Its 5JjJ* W 64 per cent to wring the country into line J"*} u S h weetem EuSSLfiS booit industrial ham. 5221 iSL a credit rre«e last year. gmontht wllhSftSierS today from a record poetPer
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  • EDUCATION
    • 224 12  -  Conference at university PATRICK DE SOUZA. A conference at the University of Singapore, organised by the Malaysian and Singapore student Christian movements, will examine society and the individual. The conference opens on April 26. An organiser of the conference said many people are blind to the
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    • 214 12 Impressed by growth... Singapore is doing an amazing Job in the balanced development of her economy and industry, Professor Andrew Schultz, Dean of Engineering at Cornell University, said here recently. "At the present pace," Prof. Schults said, "Singapore would be doubling growth In the private industry
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  • SPORT 1
    • 568 13  -  CAMERA ON SCHOOLS Words: Sonny Yap When It comes to training, the volleyball coach of St Gabriel's School Mr. Lim Kok Kee doesn't know the time. What with two teams under hi* charge and the competition getting keener each year, he has to drill In hi* players
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    • 895 14  -  From Don Petersen in New York Attending the weighin for the Clay-Frazier international spectacular, George Foreman pulled what must rank as the contemporary boxing world's most modest switch. "I want the loser," said the man ranked as the number one contender for the
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    • 250 14 "The standard of our National table tennis team could be considered as mediocre when compared with world standard," National coach, Mr. Koiji Kozone, said today. Mr. Kozone, 23, a west Japan champion and one of the leading players from Tokyo, has been coaching the National
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    • 91 14 London, Friday—Joe Bugner, who won the British, European and Commonwealth heavyweight boxing titles on Tuesday, will defend the British title against former champion Jack Bodell In his next contest. Bugner, 21-year-old Hun-garian-born boxer, became champion with a controversial points victory over Henry Cooper on Tuesday. Cooper
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    • 27 14 Tokyo, Friday—Venezuelan flyweight champion, Retullo Gonzalez, arrived here yesterday to challenge World Boxing Association flyweight CTiampion, Masao Ohba, of Japan in Tokyo on April 1.
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    • 94 14 Hong Kong, Friday—A 60 member Communist Chinese table tennis team, due here yesterday on its way to the 31st World table tennis championship in Nagoya, Japan, has not yet crossed the border, a Government spokesman said. Entry visas for the team are ready for collection
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    • 33 14 Tokyo, Friday.—The St. George Budapest soccer team of Australia yesterday defeated the Hitachi company's headquarters squad 2-1 at the Omiya soccer grounds. The score was 1-1 after the first half.
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    • 231 14 Bonn, Friday It was enough to make Gerd Mueller, Germany's most famous goal-scorer, hang his head in shame. For modern technology revealed that the man who topped the scorers' list at last year's World Cup soccer competition In Mexico, has the weakest shot in
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    • 416 15  -  Jeffrey Low The early arrivals for the inaugural Commonwealth Table Tennis championships the Ghanlan team and two Australian men players wasted no time yesterday in their efforts to get familiar with the tournament venue. First thing yesterday morning, they, took to the Singapore. Badminton Association hall
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    • 86 15 London, Friday Tony Clayton, runner-up in the English closed table tennis championships in January is to fly to Singapore today to Join the England squad for the Commonwealth table tennis championships which start tomorrow. Clayton, a university student has been called Into the team following
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    • 274 15 Melbourne, Friday American world reoordholders, Jim Ryun and Mel Pender, both Uroke down at the first athletics meeting of uieir Australian tour Here last night The manager of the. Three-man American team, Will Kern, of Los Angeles, said that It seems certain that Ryun and Pender
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    • 110 15 Mouse" athletic singlets for Australia's women Olympic and Commonwealth Games competitors are out—beeui» they look bad on television. Hie ruling was made by the Australian Women s Amateur Athletic union which criticised toe ringlets worn by the athletes at the Commonwealth ,in Edinburgh last year. "They
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    • 201 15  -  By Sonny Yap The Singapore Hockey Association has invited 36 players to join the national squad in preparation for this year's big engagements. They include 16 from the contingent which went to the Fifth Asian Games at Bangkok last year. For the younger set however, they
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    • 454 15 Reuter Copenhagen, Friday Japan's Ippei Kojima came near to cresting a major upset in the men's singles fina' of the Danish Open badminton tournament here last night. The sturdy-built Japanese put up a terrific tussle before he was finally beaten by Indonesia's Rudy
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    • 179 15 United Press International New Delhi, Friday—Graham Marsh of Australia broke the course record by two strokes when he turned in a dazzling seven under par 66 to lead after the first round of the Indian golf championship here today. Another Australian, David Graham and To
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    • 39 15 Lahore, Friday The Pakistan team to face Malaysia In their Davis Cup eastern zone section "B tennis tie later this month will be: Munlr Plrzada (non-playing capt.), Haroqn Rahlm, Munawar iqbal, Arif Elahl, Mir Mohammad.
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    • 23 15 Baltimore 111 CbfckaA its B—t-i IIS Lot Aactlca i 1M Baa Flan 11* Cincinnati ss SuDkn 106 Detroit ss
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    • 67 15 New York, Friday.—Amateur Steve Melnyk climaxed a superb round with a birdie on the last hole and startled the world's leading professionals by sharing the firstround lead with Lee Trevino in the >US$l25 t OOO greater Jacksonville Open in Florida yesterday. He and Trevino hold a
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    • 40 15 London, Friday Hie Cambridge University boat race crew Installed themselves as firm favourites for their annual clash with Oxford here on March 27. after slashing 38 seconds off the Oxford practice time for the mile (6.75 kilometres)
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    • 85 15 Jakarta, Friday Singapore is among seven countries that have agreed to take part in the anniversary cup football tournament to be held in Jakarta from June 5 to 17, secretary of the Indonesian Football Federation, Mr. Jumarsono, said today. The other countries are Malaysia, India, Burma,
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    • 47 15 Naval Base Secondary School won all three games In the Bukit Tlmah district hockey championships yesterday. Its "B" boys beat Whitley 1-0 while the "C" boys edged' Upper Thomson 3-1. The "B" girls completed the rout with a 1-0 win over Whitley.
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    • 381 15 By Blue Peter Katong Ocean, trainer Eddie van Bruekelen's Derby prospect showed Impressive form at Bukit Tim ah this morning. Ridden by Mat Shaarl, Katong Ocean strode out fluently over 3f in 39 3/5 on the sand track. Despite carrying 9.3 Katong Ocean, winner
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    • 98 15 London, Friday Irish-trained L'Escargot yesterday scored his second successive victory 1 in the slowly run Cheltenham Gold Cup, Britain's steeplechasing championship. L'Escargot, owned by American, Mr. Raymond Quest, won by 10 lengths from another Irish-trained, American-owned challenger, Leap Frog, with English hope The Dlkler
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    • 95 14 KILDARE by Ken Bald THE REASON HARRY APLEY IS FORSAKING PIAGNOSIS AT WHICH VOU TCU. ME HE'S A WHIZ— IS BECAUSE HE'S GOT A MOTHER AND A HALF DOZEN SIBLINGS TO FEEP/ NO QUESTION ABOUT IT. #y DOCTOR'S GOT TO BE SAVEP FROM A LIFE OF INSTANT LUXURY I HE'LL
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    • 68 16 MEI LIN: I'm having the first word today. I'm so fed up with that TV programme It's Happening in Singapore. It is nothing but dreary stuff that doesn't really reflect what is happening. AH FOOK: Now you're not being fair. Who wants all that imported rubbish? I am
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    • 36 16 New Nation photographer Brian Culley has just completed an assignment ft* Indonesia, where he was struck with the beauty of their women. Today mi begin an occasional series of portraits from his portfolio...
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    • 72 16 She's Balinese, she's beautiful and she's 16. What more would you like to know? Her name. It's as exotic as she looks. Tjempaka Blanco. She Is the daughter of a famous Balinese artist, Antonio Blanco. Like most Balin- ese girls she is an accomplished dancer. At the
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    • 369 16 Dignified way to collect debts With a blast of its oldfashioned horn, the Model T Ford clatters to a stop in an upper middleclass residential neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, the largest in the southern hemisphere. Although It's high noon, the man behind the wheel Is dressed In white
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    • 154 16 PATROL CARS TOO SMALL FOR POLICEMEN Big feet in small cars. That, according to the British Police Federation, is the reason for a spate of accidents involving police patrol vehicles. The Federation was trying to explain the reason why 144 of the 290pollce vehicles In County
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    • 192 16 A mere trifle like winning the biggest-ever pools pay-out in Britain just over 751,000 wasn't going to get nine laconic Lancashire laddies all het up. Not on your nelly. "W're not going to get drunk or anything" said syndicate leader Frank Reed, 57, pouring
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    • 331 16 5 Singapore 6.00 Opening and Lucky Dip 6.30 News in Brief 6.35 Children's Corner (C) 7.05 Sports Parade 7.40 News in Chinese 7.55 Chinese Variety Show 9.00 News (E) 9.25 Green Acres 9.55 Name of the Game 11.10 The Don Knotts Show 12.05 Close 8 Singapore 6.05 Opening and Here
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    • 457 16 Trust your lucky star IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you have been gifted with a very great power, Indeed the power to persuade the young Into or out of whatever you see fit. Without trying, you have the ability to influence youth and because of the ease with which
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  • GO RACING
    • 931 17 By BLUE PETER Scan will take a lot of beating in the Class 4 Division 4 6f handicap at Bukit Timah tomorrow. After running some fair races, this son of Wilkes found his right form at Penang last month when he
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    • 127 17 BLUE PETER EPSOM JEEP MARUDA Race 1: ALWIN AJtea K. CHANTER rakaenonoh ALW1N Eastern Dm— MT*>n Never Mini TARSENONOH AHni Bait t: LO. DIAMONDS L. QUINTUS A.O. DIAMONDS BABEICA P*s Mibu Prise ilia's Lave ri Adviser Aee 4 Pi ■■on lis Kmc S: SEAN Shanttn Park SEAN
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    • 12538 21 msnasMMm 145 Cl 4 Div 2 6f ($BOO0 —$5600 to winner) I 36 JOLLY SOOD a (Mafraa) Spacer 311 SaH 9 SIXTH: <l6 started) 14-8-71 S'pore 8-4 carr. 8-1 6F (Sairi) a. 4 Dir. 1: Ist. Light Burden 8-4 carr. 7-11; 2nd. Grenadier 8-8 carr. 8-1; 3rd. Soutien
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    • 254 18 m a? 4 Six Anthologies chosen by Helen Riley This is a new series of poetry anthologies, attractively illustrated with black and white line drawings, for the enjoyment of children aged 10-13. Poets of several centuries (Shakespeare, Clare, Auden, Hopkins, Wordsworth) are represented, the emphasis being on poets of this
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    • 231 23 PROSE-POETRY-DRAMA PROSE Good Stories: a treasurohouse of really good modern tales Sec. 2. Prose of Spirit and Action: extracts from all time favourites such as "Peter Pan" and "Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea" Bks 1 2 for Sec 2 and Sec 3 respectively. Short Stories for Girls: ten absorbing
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