New Nation, 20 March 1971

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  • 13 1 NEW NATION SINGAPOfS Saturday evening, March 20, 1971 No. 53 Prica IS etfits
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  • 343 1  -  By Blue Peter Local trainer Garnet Bougoure should M a treble with Sean (Race 3), Spotavana (Race 4) and Bernadette Bunty (Race 8) at Buklt Timah today. His three runners were freely tipped at the course this morning. Handsome n anj Beluda, who were both
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  • 34 1 Ice-water seller Wee Bak Seng, 56, and his son Lai Seng, is, were taken to Thomson Road Hospital with head Injuries today after their tricycle and a car crashed in Balestier Road.
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  • 406 1 More troops come out of Laos New Nation Foreign Service Saigon, Saturday South Vietnamese troops pulled out of Laos came under heavy Communist artillenr and rocket fire at the Khe Sanh base yesterday. The US command said 65 rockets and artillery shells slammed into Khe Sanh
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  • 79 1 It's Derby weekend and Jockey G. Podmore had his mount Keep Going out on the track in preparation for the biff event The Singapore Turf Club expects a record crowd at Bukit Thnah for tomorrow's nine-event programme. The $30,000 Derby is Race Seven. Mr. D. R.
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  • Briefly...
    • 62 1 San Juan, Saturday San Juan, Saturday—A bankruptcy court in Puerto Rico yesterday freed singer Eddie Fisher of neahy US$l million in debts. Fisher, 42, filed a bankruptcy petition here on August 14. He listed U*****,300 in debts and US$4O,OOO in assets in municipal bonds
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    • 61 1 Dacca, Saturday.—Sheikh Mujlbur Rahman, the East Pakistani leader, has accused the aim? of opening fire yesterday on civilians near Joydevpar, 25 miles north-oast of Dacca. At least M people -were reported killed and several others wounded in the shooting. Sheikh Mujibur said that he might caned
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    • 29 1 Brasilia, Saturday.—Thirteen people were killed and 21 Injured yesterday when a bus collided with a truck loaded with Iron ore near Paracatu, 135 miles from here.
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  • 244 1 Reuter Lima, Saturday About 600 people are feared dead In a landslide which has destroyed the small mining village of Chungar, 150 miles north of Lima. The town, which has a population of more than 1000 was burled by an avalanche of mud and rocks after
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  • 243 1 Bus company bosses will meet shortly to discuss a suggestion made in Parliament yesterday that season tickets be introduced for commuters. The president of the Singapore Bus Owners Association, Mr. Tan Kong log said today: "We were asked by the authorities a few days sco
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  • 260 1  -  By Patrick de Souza The daughter of Professor R. Kanagasuntheram, Professor of Anatomy at the University of Singapore, is the only student to get first class honours in chemistry in the recent university examinations. Mitt P&ng&jav&Ui Kanagasuntheram, 19, who has grown used to topping
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  • 163 1 Three physics students all formerly from Chinese Secondary Schools obtained first class honours in the recent University of Singapore examinations. They are Llm Slak Piang, Ho Fatt Slang and Lua Kim Teng. An old boy of Catholic High School, Siak Piang said he
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  • 199 1  -  By Ping Cheng Lian Singapore may soon have another new political party. New Nation was reliably Informed that one of the leaders of the new party will be Mr. Leong Mun Kwal, author of Death and Protest, a Chinese novel of contemporary Singapore. Mr. Leong
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  • 41 1 New York, Saturday. Jazz trumpeter Louia Armstrong, In hospital here with a heart condition, was yesterday reported to hare spent a comfortable night and to be responding well to treatment. The 70-year-old musician was admitted to hospital on Monday.
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  • 14 1 Police reported 68 accidents yesterday. Seven were serious and one was fatal.
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  • THE WORLD
    • 284 2 Reuter New Delhi, Saturday newer Indians cast their ballots In this month's general elec- tlons than In 1967, though the total electorate In the world's largest democracy increased by over 22 mil- lion to 272,700,000. The Prime Minister Mrs. 2ndtea Gandhi's ruling Congress Party, swept
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    • 461 2 British govt intervenes to prevent crisis New Nation Foreign Service Belfast, Saturday Northern Ireland's Prime Minister, Mr. James Chichester-Clark last night decided against resigning after a dramatic intervention by the British government. There were strong rumours throughout the day that the 48-year-old Prime Minister would
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    • 160 2 United Press International Washington, Saturday Brigadier General George H. Young yesterday accused the army of making him a "political scapegoat" in the My Lai case by proposing to demote him. In a statement Issued by his lawyers, he said that far from facing
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    • 70 2 Japanese Prime Minister, Mr. Ehiku Sato raises a hand of Tokyo governor candidate, Mr. Aldra Hatano, former superintendent of the Metropolitan Police Department, as he rives a supporting speech on the first day of election campaigns for the April 11 Tokyo governor's election. The present
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    • 187 2 Reuter Los Angeles, Saturday Talks on saving the Rolls Royce RB-2U engine for the Lockheed Airbus opened here yesterday amid signs mat American Tristar customers are losing patience with the protracted negotiations. When they arrived on Thursday, the five British team was greeted
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    • 134 2 Reuter London, Saturday A London surgeon was yesterday found guilty of serious professional misconduct in canvassing for abortion patients through taxi drivers who collected foreign girls from London's Heathrow Airport. Dr. Derek Segall, 43, was ordered to be struck off the medical register by a Medical
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    • 31 2 Belgrade, Sat. Rumanian vice-Premier Qheorghe Raduleacu arrived In Peking by special plane yesterday heading a government delegation on a short visit, the Yugoslav news agency Tanjug reported from Peking.
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    • 193 2 Reuter Colombo, Saturday About 100 people have been arrested In various parts of Ceylon for insurgent activity, a Government official disclosed yesterday. The arrests were made over the past three days for possession of dangerous weapons, manufacturing handbombs, printing subversive literature and incitement,
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    • 84 2 Hong Kong, Saturday. The Government has provisionally fixed the rice import quota for the second quarter of 1971 at 88,000 metric tons, the Commerce and Industry Department announced yesterday. A spokesman for the department said this British crown colony lihported 57,750 metric tons of rice
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    • 304 2 Reuter Washington, Saturday The American supersonic airliner yesterday won suport from the Senate Appropriations Committee leaving the plane's fate to an -increasingly uncertain Senate vote next Wednesday. The White House said yesterday the administration still hopes to get the money from Congress for the
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    • 63 2 Colombo, Sat. Ceylon will soon have family courts to all cases concerning family matters. The Justice Ministry's Permanent Secretary, Mr. Nlhal Jayawickema, said yesterday there were enough cases to establish separate courts for handling family matters. He said the family courts will hear divorce cases, apniiraHnrm
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    • 256 2 London to meet tourist glut Reuter London, Saturday Guests at London's city centre hotels will face a 50 pence a night bed tax under proposals to cope with the capital's booming tourist industry suggested here yesterday. The Greater London Council warned in a report that with
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    • 33 2 Hong Kong, Saturday The Chinese vice Minister of Foreign Affair. Chlao Koan-Hua, yesterday feted kttncj 3S warmly welcomed Mr. Sun r JSLi 4ip t,iotlc actkm in crossing over to flfrin*
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    • 309 2 Reuter Western petroleum companies have offered a "package deal" to four Mediterranean oil exporting companies aimed at breaking deadlocked price talks here. Informed sources said the offer was believed to have been made yesterday during a meeting between the companies' chief negotiator Mr.
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    • 97 2 Prague, Saturday Sixteen young radical leftists, whosaid they were opposed to Communist bureaucracy but not to Communism, were convicted of subversion yesterday and sentenced to prison terms of one to four years. The stiff est sentence of Jour years was handed to Professor Peter Uhl, 29,
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    • 21 2 Karachi, Saturday a Air vvwoe Z57 bomber crashed into a mosyesterday mornins at mlles_outslde central Karacrewmembers were reported killed.
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  • 303 3 A "continuity of life" highlight of which will be a graphic display of the development Of human Uf e using life-sized models, is being planned for the National Museum. on of two which the Museum Board is planning following the allocation of $300,000 in
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  • 164 3 The Hawkers' Department has started a campaign to enfore health laws in eating places throughout the city. Special squads of hawker inspectors are now frequenting popular night eating spots such as Bugls Street and Albert Street. About 100 summonses have been issued to the
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  • 106 3 Three nuns who have undergone a three-year course at the Canosslan Convent will take their first vows tomorrow. The three nuns. Sister Mary Lau from Malacca and Sisters Elizabeth Tham and Cecily Pavrl from Singapore, are now In retreat to prepare for their vows
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  • 74 3 Cape Town, Saturday. Drastically Increased penalties for drug offences—including 15 years Jail for drug pushing are recommended in a report of a committee of Inquiry into the abuse of drugs tabled in the South« African Parliament here yesterday. The present maximum oenalties are a fine
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  • 115 3 The third national medical convention of the Singapore Medical Association will begin at the Allen Lecture Theatre at the Outram Road General Hospital at 2.30 p.m. today. The convention will be opened by Dr. B. R. Sreenivasan. It will end next Saturday. The Minister
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  • 464 3 High Court accepted. excuse, he says Kuala Lumpur, Saturday Mr. Lim Kit Slang, the DAP Secretaxy General who faces disqualification as an MP on a claim that he failed to make an expenses return in time, said today that his excuse about them being late was accepted
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  • 60 3 The children at Nee Soon Primary School all want to be the pet of their sweet-voiced teacher Christine Darby. But soon they'll be saying good-bye. Long- haired Christine, 24, is going home to Britain in July because of the British forces' withdrawal. Still, she's fancy-free. Says
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  • 176 3 A Royal Marine stationed in Singapore, whose two younger brothers were murdered in Belfast on March 10, has returned to his home in Scotland to be with his grief-stricken family. The soldier, Ivle McCalg, 20, has been granted compassionate leave and will not return to
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  • 238 3 The Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Education, Inche Mohd. Ghazali, Ismail, today warned that Singaporeans must never blind themselves to the fact that modernisation could also lead to the disintegration of many old and cherished ways of life. Speaking at the opening of a
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  • 87 3 Hannover, Saturday Tuna fish oil canned in Japan, Cuba or Malaysia is unfit for human consumption. the food and Agricultural Ministry of the State of Lower Saxony declared yesterday. A communique said tests showed the quicksilver content of more than 50 per cent of the
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  • 170 3 Good student response The closing date for submitting entries to the Talentime for Schools 1971 has been extended to next Saturday. This la because of the good response received, the organisers-—Boys' Town Old Boys' Association disclosed today. The association's rice- chairman, Mr. Goh Lay Seong said: "Entries
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  • 203 3 The Going Thing, the Australian pop group currently appearing in Singapore, will give a 45-minute cabaret performance at the premiere show for the 1971 Singapore Grand Prix in the Palace Theatre next Saturday. Other attractions at the premiere, at which the motor racing film
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  • 63 3 Vienna, Saturday—Thousand* of angry farmers invaded this elegant capital with their mud-spattered tractors yesterday, tying up traffic for eight hours In protest at Chancellor Bruno Krelsky's farm policies. Main aim of the demonstration the biggest in Vienna since the 1950 Communist riots—was to win higher prices for milk
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  • 286 3 The $7 million scheme to "tame" the floods along Bukit Timah Road during downpours might not be completed for at least another three months. Ihe flood alleviation project to deepen and widen the canal—stretching from Upper Bukit Timah to Sungel Ulu Pandan
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  • 218 3 Kuala Lumpur, Saturday A cleanliness competition for the whole of Kuala Lumpur will be launched this year to give it a facelift. The competition will Include all the buildings In the residential, commercial and industrial areas within the municipal boundary. A municipal spokesman said
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  • 24 3 Moscow, Saturday The Boviet Union will produce about 1.3 million passenger cars annually by 1975, the Minister for Automobile Production said yesterday.
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  • 139 3 The first customer has yet to walk into the Shangrila Hotel in Orange Grove Road but already the 800-odd Junior staff are reporting for work daily. But 'work' for them mean classroom sessions aimed at giving them a more rounded training In the hotel trade. According to
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 192 3 Weather ~~j cast from 1 p.m. to 6 D.m. Isolated showers in late afternoon. The weather for the 24 hours to 8 a.m. today Max. temp. 84,2 Min. temp. 73A Total rainfall for the month to date 1.13 Inches. Total ralndays for the month to date 7 Hours of sunshine
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  • SATURDAY
    • 653 4 There seems to be a latent feud between women in their over-30's and the under-SO's. If It's not about fashion, It's about the office, mottjer-son-fiiifriend relationships and behaviour of the two groups'in general The mature woman, who "has seen all there Is to
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    • 546 4 The first time I learnt about smoking was when I stood guard at the bathroom door while my two 13-year-old cousins puffed and coughed inside. I was nine years old and was too afraid to try one for fear I might choke to death.
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  • 558 4  -  (Simm ON SINGAPORE 30,000 each week find spiritual haven in Novena WORDS Elizabeth Choo Every Saturday Protestants, Hindus, Buddhists and those without any professed creed come together in their thousands for a pilgrimage of prayer and petition at the Mother of Perpetual Succour Church
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  • 339 6 Hie Government has to walk a tlgfat-rope on the wage question. The groundswell for wage increases is unmistakeable. and it is both politically and technically impossible for the government to stem it completely. But il the law of the labour market is allowed to
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  • 643 6  -  AL SHAHAB Bird adoption? That is a little too much to pass through my gullet though I have heard of all kinds of adoptions among human-beings. After all, my capacity is only human, all too human. Perhaps, bird adoption makes
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  • Letters
    • 306 6 Mr. Geoffrey Abisheganedan has completely misread my letter. I did not say there was no protest against the Abortion Act before the debate in Dec. 69. I meant there was no protest after the debate. This difference Is Important Before the debate everyone was
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    • 333 6 When is this eternal double standard which going to cease? rules the exhibiting of films I cannot see a film like "Midnight Cowboy" in its original form without massive cuts—because the authorities feel it may corrupt me. Yet I can watch a Chinese film with so much
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  • 809 6  -  By Patrick de Souza The Education Ministry has prudently sidestepped the full report on Tamil education by Mr. K. Govlndaswaxny, the Colombo Plan expert, published in New Nation on March 10. It has, Instead, levelled a thorough attack
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  • The voice of the Press
    • 146 6 What the other newspapers are saying: Since our aircraft-re-pairing industry Is mainly a US Investment and the aircraft it repairs are US war planes, does it mean that Singapore may gradually become a US air base? This question requires a very clear answer because Singaporeans, like the
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    • 121 6 The FAO has sent three fishery experts to this country to train our fishermen in modern techniques of fishing. The training will be conducted at the Fishery Centre at Batu Maung. Such training is very Important as the fishing industry is one of the important industries of this
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    • 111 6 Pointing out that they were not given the opportunity to speak during the debate on the King's speech, the 13 members of the Democratic Action Party are boycotting the current Malaysian parliamentary sessions. The Speaker of Malaysian Parliament has Issued a statement on the issue and has assured
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    • 110 6 The Japan Atomic Industrial Forum forecasts that more than half of the nation's power In 1990 will come from atomic power plants. The forecast is based on two assumptions: (1) the demand for power will continue to increase rapidly, and (2) the present major source of power, thermal
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  • SATURDAY REVIEW
    • 589 7  -  Occupants accept the fact that they have to make sacrifices —it's something necessary because of the demands of progress By JEAN WEE Resettlement of Chinatown enters its second phase with the proposed demolition of Smith Street, with it goes the nostalgia and aura of everything "Chinesy." Smith Street
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    • 1076 8 ChallMigtng and controversial gold* explodes cherished myths BRITAIN IN THI CENTURY OF TOTAL WAR by Arthur Morwick. Pelican, 463 pages, 60 new pence. CM. TURNBULL Ftofesaor Marwlck's ambitious and important study on the relationship between war and social change invites controversy from the first paragraph as
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    • 528 8 Experts in exciting discussions EDUCATION FOk ,nt SEVENTIES, Edited by Hugh Anderson, John Hipkin and Maurice Plaskow. Heinemann Educational Books, 134 pages, 75 new pence. MAHBUBANI KISHORE In 1969, the Cambridge Debating Union decided that debates, though very useful in delineating broad disagreement, were not always conducive to
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    • 160 8  -  By Arthur Yap yesterday you were at kJ., the day before you were somewhere else; now; you are here trying out our telephone lines and the airconditioning system, saying that our system is more adequate thqn that in new york where you come from, but you are so
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    • 750 8 A big gap divides their cultural values and JAPANESE AND WESTERN LITERATURE A COMPARATIVE STUDY by Armando Martins Janeiro. Tuttle, US$lO OW WEI fAEI. Polite -sounding and vaguely cultured phrases like "the dissimilar cultural values of East and West" occur* often enough to leave us quite indifferent. It
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    • Article, Illustration
      656 8 Economies not linked to ecology ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY: Council on Environmental Quality,Washington, D.C., 1970, 326 pages. THE BIOSPHERE Scientific American, September 1970, 266 pages. MALCOLM CALDWELL Development is never net. "Development", socalled, is simply a redistribution of wealth which is finite. The "veil of money" (Plgou) tends to obscure
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    • 424 8 No barge pole for Mary SELECTED .POEMS, by Mary Wilson. Hutchinson, AS 1.75. ELIZABETH RIDDELL I was always given to understand that the most popular of contemporary British poets was John Betjeman, with his hymns of praise of old railway stations and* Joan Hun-ter-Dun. Now I learn that he
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    • 604 9 ASEAN envisaged as foree to eounter-balanee China TOWARD DISENGAGE. MENT IN ASIA by Bernard K. Gordon Prentice Hall Inc., New Jersey, 183 pages, U555.95. JOHN F. BARTON. The United States must provide for SouthEast Asian security in a way that will not provoke China or encourage
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    • 154 9  -  By R. Yeo Cheng Chuan Our careful scanning Of the cloudy sky Presaged, at worst, some rain. So when it "burst We three were soaked Out of doors Playing Unprepared For this hasty hurricane. The soU on which 1 stared My just getting to know you soil
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    • 514 9 Political elites come la for eautdo eridetsm THE NEXT AUSTRALIA by Donald Home. Angus and Robertson, 238 pages A 54.25. PAKIR SINGH. Setting out to revise and update his earlier book, The Lucky Country, Donald Home found himself writing a new book. The Next Australia is not
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    • 593 10 CARE MUST BE TAKEN STAMPS PHILATELIST Quite a number of philatelists in Singapore find difficulty in maintaining their stamp collections. Mint, unused stamps are particularly prone to developing rust stains and browning of the gum. In many old albums, one finds these stuck to the page in which
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    • 589 10  -  LAYING HEARTS INSTEAD OF DIAMONDS BKinoi: E.P.C. COTTER My first hand is from a recent team of four contests: South dealt at Game to North-South and bid one diamond. It is normal with three four card suits to bid the suit immediately below the singleton.
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    • 562 10  -  A BRILLIANT SUCCESS BY ROBERT BYRNE AGAINST LARRY EVANS CHESS ANDREW EE Grandmaster Robert Byrne of the U.& was not convinced that Fischer's line against Tringov (see last week's article) spelled the defeat of classical theory. So he made a deep study of
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    • 875 10  -  BEHIND THE SCENES FOOD DRINK LI PO Tankers from Algiers, Chile and Australia and who knows where else are on the high seas at this moment all heading for France where their contents will be blended with Rhone wines, Provencal wines and other vins ordinaires,
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    • 358 11  -  ...AND A TOUCH OF GLAMOUR EDGAR KOH BORSALINO starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon. Marseilles in the *****: the Bonnies are just for show. The Clydes take over and we have a beau-tifully-done movie: Borsalino, the first-ever to re-capture that humour-and-horror atmosphere since
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    • 378 11  -  ...AND A FEAR ALLAYED THEATRE ONG CHOO SUAT Curtain Call '7l is a fine effort by amateur theatre groups to present something worthwhile for Singapore audiences. It should allay fears that amateur theatre will die a natural death when the British Military Forces, with their theatrical talent, pull
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    • 474 11  -  ...THEY ARE ALL SO SCATTERED ART SPECIAL WRITER ONG CHOO SUAT The March Art Exhibition opened by the Minister for Home Affairs, Dr. Wong Lin Ken, at the Victoria Memorial Hall yesterday has proved one important point that there is no lack of artists in Singapore,
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  • business news
    • 489 12 A GOOD GUIDE FOR THE FUTURE COMPANY PROFILE A growth stock is often defined as one which has increased its per-share earnings for some time in the past at faster than the average rate and is expected to maintain this advantage for some
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    • 271 12 United Press International New York, Saturday Prices closed lower In moderate trading yesterday. Volume slowed to around 15,150,000 shares compared with 17,910,000 shares traded Thursday. The Dow Jones industrial average was off 3.91 at 912.92 at the final bell. Declines led advances,
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    • 433 12 United Press International London, Saturday Strikes and labour unrest kept the stock market on a tight rein this week and industrial share prices moved irregularly when gloom gave way to signs of optimism at the end of the week. Dealers said
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    • 1087 12 ALL YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE STOCK EXCHANGE COUNTERS industrials 1976-1971 I wfc. 4 wks. Ctoejtni Price last DhrUL P/E Ti Yield Ratio ■rn* Hifh Lew HO •CO Stock Bayers 1 toilers Sale hrsr 4.50 130 2.60 034* 2.88 1.28 2.88 1.26 Allied Chocolate Ben Co
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    • 508 12 SEARCH FOR MORE BUYERS Indonesia had no part in the OPEC (Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries) negotiation, but it has been able to get a price hike of 30 per cent for all crude sold to Japan, as from April 1. The price
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    • 234 12 Allied Chem 36* Alcoa 65% An Brudi 48 Am Can 36% Am Motors AT T 48% A ft P 32 Anaconda 31* A*oo Pd Beth Steel 22% Boeing 21% Caterp Trmc 47% Chrysler 27% Coca-Cola 94% Control Data 65 Corn Ol Wks 2391 Dow Cbem 87% DuPont 144%
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    • 27 12 LONDON, B*.— Anrtrattui mtntng ttarn starred on a Una •tack market ywNrrtey whan Mineral* Ulggewd a minor nickel rah wtth news of ft metal find.
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    • 229 12 JAPAN EMBARRASSINGLY RICH Japan is literally suffering from an embarrassment of riches as it struggles unsuccessfully to check the rise in its gold and foreign exchange reserves. Preliminary figures released today show total reserves passed the US$5OOO million level about March 8. The surplus
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    • 340 12 By Our Market Correspondent Conditions on the Stock Exchange of Malaysia and Singapore were generally quiet. Trading was of a routine nature and confined largely to a selected handful of counters in the industrial section. The volume of turnover recorded in both trading rooms was
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    • 91 12 LONDON, Sat.— An American banker yesterday called the Eurodollar market a wonderful money machine produced by mankind and Judged the of the market in medlUm-term borrowing of Eurocurrencies probably was more than US$B,OOO witiHftn in 1970. Mr. Evang. Oalbraith, man- aging director of the London- based Bankers TYust
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    • 25 12 MANILA. Sat. The Asian Development Bank will sell two-year bonds totalling U5520,000,000 to Its member countries in the Asia and the Pacific regions.
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  • 684 13 REPUBLIC SCORES A FIRST IN SPORTING FIELD FIRST COMMONWEALTH TABLE TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS Singapore will score a big first in the sporting field when the inaugural 14-nation Commonwealth Table-Tennis Championships begin at the Singapore Badminton Association hall today. It la now becoming increasingly apparent
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  • 332 13 STAR PLAYER AT 14 The mixture of excitement and nervousness that fills the mind of a sportsman on his first overseas competition can sometimes be beyond words. Especially if that person is 14 years old, and Is taking part in a big event like the 14-nation Commonwealth
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  • SPORT
    • Article, Illustration
      467 14  -  Words: Sonny Yap A water-fountain grayed trying to bring bade life and greenery to a small field almost parched-dry with holes and empty patches. Wot the students and staff of Gan Ens Bens Secondary, It is a constant reminder of the great odds they face in promoting
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    • 403 15 By Scrutineer Asia Stable's Landmark, a tough staying eight-year-old by Irish sire Rustam, has a good chance of winning the $30,000 Singapore Derby (Race Seven) tomorrow. The Derby distance of 12f looks Ideal for Landmark, and he handles any going. In January he put up
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    • 742 15  -  4£Eh W with DAVID KRAAL Step up to the ba11... take your swing... and then watch the ball really whiz down the fairway, straight as an arrow.— 50 yards, 100 yards, 150 yards, even 200 yards further than you have ever driven a golf ball
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