New Nation, 30 June 1971

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  • 17 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Wednesday evening, June 30, 1971 No. 140 Price 15 cents SINGAPORE WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30
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  • 401 1 t .u L General Duong Van Minh, a prospective presidential candidate, yesterday urged the United States to use its influence with the Thieu administration to ensure that the forthcoming election was fair and honest and held in an atmosphere which was free from pressure
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  • 288 1 LAND IS SHORT FOR TRAINING AND EXERCISES, REPORTS A NEW NATION CORRESPONDENT, THEREFORE THE GOVERNMENT IS LOOKING SOUTH... I Singapore is actively seeking military training facilities in Australia, possibly for both.tanks and aircraft. Neither Government will confirm this, but it has become an open
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  • 196 1 The stern Ministry of Health warning to its staff not to discriminate against nonEnglish speaking members of the public, is not being followed by other ministries. The Immigration Department. for example, believes In regular monthly staff meetings at which all problems of staff. Including
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  • 26 1 Rome, Wednesday.—Police used tear gas and fired shots In the air to subdue about 200 prisoners who rioted at Catanala Jail In Sicily yesterday.
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  • 33 1 Warsaw, Wednesday Searchers have found a total of 33 bodies In the debris of a south Polish oil refinery devastated. by fire last weekend, It was officially announced here yesterday. 1
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  • 48 1 Paris, Wednesday It took Michel Santin, 22, one hour and 13 minutes to eat an omelette on Monday, but It helped him win a bet The omelette was made from 60 eggs and one of the conditions was he was not allowed to drink while eating It.
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  • 178 1 Reuter Manila, Wednesday The Philippine Senate will investigate a big property deal between Filipino businessman, Felipe Ysmael, and a government bank after allegations that it was a conspiracy involving President Ferdinand Marcos. i. Senator Benlgno Aquino, in a speech In the Senate on Monday, charged
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  • 473 1 From today they will be arrested on the spot The police are to make on-the-spot arrest of < pirate taxi drivers In their crackdown on this $2O million-a-year racket. This was announced today*** Communications. Mr. Yong Hyuk Un. when he visited the empty Police
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  • 152 1 Malayan United Industries, a Malaysia-based company, came on the trading board this morning, its $1 share opened at $1.27. Buying support boosted the price up to $1.38. The company's total paid up capital is $3 million following a private placement of 935,000 ordinary shares of $1 each
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  • 428 1  -  By Fred Bridgland Reuter New Delhi, Wednesday Indian Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi has taken the unique step of appointing a central government cabinet minister with special responsibility for one of the states 'of the Indian Union, trouble-torn West Bengal. Mrs. Gandhi's announcement In the Lok
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  • 54 1 Water consumption rose yesterday to 99.4 million gallons, the highest for the past fortnight. This is 500,000 gallons more than Monday's consumption and 8.9 million gallons more than the 90 million gallons target/set to avoid water rationing. No rainfall was rerecorded at the
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  • 16 1 Police reported a total of 46 accidents yesterday. Two were serious and one fatal.
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  • 41 1 LATE NEWS Canberra, Wednesday Police rushed to Parliament House today after a threat was made to till Australia's Prime Minister, Mr. William MdMahtm. •j The Prime Minister's office was put under heavy guard. No other details were available. Un-
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  • 71 1 Hong Kong, Wednesday. —The Australian opposition Labour Party leader Mr. Gtough Whltlam, disclosed yesterday he had turned his visit to China into a broader survey of East Asian developments. Mr. Whltlam said he planned to fly to Tokyo for a week after leaving China
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  • 343 2 Singapore publishers welcome news The Singapore Book Publishers' Association today welcomed the news that the Taiwan government is to suppress the mass pirating of copyright books. "This is Indeed very good news," said Mr. Donald Moore, president of the association which represents about 35 publishers
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  • 189 2 They say that half a loaf is better, than.nojie but Rollo doesn'jt agree. His "younger sister," Topsy, is back home after being lost for three days but while Topsy snuggles up to owner Mrs. D. Marr, Rollo was still worried about his mother Tinker, who Is
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  • 184 2 Reuter New York, Wednesday A Los Angeles documentary film maker yesterday called for a congressional investigation into tne assassination of Robert Kennedy. He claimed that a man with right-wing connections was the assassin, not Sirhan Sirhan. Mr. Theodore Charach told a Press conference here
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  • 175 2 The Australian Council of Trade Unions is planning to expand its consumer co-operative movement to public insurance and transport. This was revealed by the council's president. Mr. Bob Hawke, during bis one-day stopover here yesterday on his way to Itfraei. He had discussions
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  • 135 2 Australia's Army Minister, Mr. Andrew Peacoci, will here later this afternoon for a.five-day visit. He will be met at RAF* Changl base by the Australian High Commissioner, Mr m. F. Parkinson, and Brigadier Whitelaw, Commander of the ANZUK Support Group. An Australian Army spokesman said
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  • 50 2 Moscow, WednesdayDogs are being trained in the Soviet Union to sniff out valuable ores and minerals from emeralds to pyrite, the Tass news agency said yesterday. Tass said dogs are so good at the work they may "rival modern instruments In the compilation of detailed geographical maps/'
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  • 291 2 Chiu Liew Chuang, an accomplished young violinist with the Singapore Youth Orchestra is among six youths who have been granted American Field Service Scholarships this year. Liew Chuang, who started learning the violin eight years ago with his brother, will attend Redlands High School in
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  • 218 2 $l4 mil. project puts n it in the big league Far East Levingston— Shipyard will enter the big league of the offshore oil industry when it completes construction of two oil rigs costing $l4 million by October. The yard's general manager, Mr. Larry Baker, said
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  • 83 2 Caracas, Wednesday Plainclothes detectives and uniformed police armed with submachine and teargas guns last night occupied the Central University after rescuing the dean of the engineering faculty from rioting students. A university spokesman said at least 15 students were injured after police combat squads, firing in the
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  • 31 2 Seoul, Wednesday. Riot police yesterday fired tear gas and chemical pepper fog to disperse about 200 students demonstrating against the visit here today by Japanese Prime Minister, Mr. Eisaku Sato.
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  • 105 2 Paris, Wednesday The average French girl has her first sexual experience before reaching the age of 21, but more than half of them find this Initial love-mak-ing unsatisfactory. This Is revealed yesterday In a national opinion poll on French sexual habits. The French-style Kinsey
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  • 230 2 The contract for a $2OO million oil refinery at Pulau Merlimau, off Jurong, will be awarded sometime next month. It will be Riven to one of the two Japanese engineering giants shortlisted from the original six bidders. To be known as Singapore Petroleum, the refinery
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  • 77 2 Rome, Wedne s d a y.— Stolen: a five-ton steel railX bridge. police said that someone dismantled and carried away the bridge spanning a stream near Dobbiaco in northern Italy. The bridge had not been used since the picturesque Cortlna-Dobbi-aco railroad line was replaced by a
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  • 182 2 Twenty-four girls of the Mandarin Hotel went back to "school" yesterday to learn all over again things like general knowledge, geography, spelling and poise and confidence. It was because their "master" Mr. Luc Van Den Heuvel. the restaurant and banquet manager, wasn't
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 97 2 Weather Temperatures in world cities yesterday: Taipei 96-78 Kuala Lumpur 90-72 Manila 88-75 Hong Kong 85-81 Tokyo 77-69 Seoul 82-70 Bangkok 91-77 Jakarta 92-81 Naha 90-81 London 66-57 Moscow 77-63 New York 84-67 San Francisco 73-60 Sydney 66-46 Melbourne 52-48 Perth 70-48 Singapore Singapore's weather forecast from l p.m. to
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  • 267 3 Engineering plant planned One of India's industrial giants the Tata Groyp of companies will iroild a multi-million dollar factory here to ma nufacture engineer ing appliances and equipment. This is the result of negotiations between a four-man team from Tata and officials of the Economic Development
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  • 214 3 The rlewly formed Junior Flying Club is meeting soon to decide on the number of girls to be taken in for its first six-month training course due to begin in December. The girls are among the 3000 students from various schools
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  • 263 3 GOOD HUBBY AND HOME SWEET HOME HER AIM Dimple-laced Miss Lee Lai Sin, 22, is one songbird who doesn't believe In soaring too high. All she wants for the future is to get a good husband and settle down to a homely life. '1 hope to
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  • 23 3 Washington, Wednesday. —The US Senate yesterday called for a 10-year international moratorium on the killing of whales of all species.
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  • 136 3 A club for staff of the People's Association has been formed to meet their social and recreational needs. Called the P.A. 'Staff Club, its aims Include giving opportunities for the staff to get together for mutual discussions and take part in recreational activities. The club
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  • 142 3 Mr. Lee Kay Hong has been elected orgaganising chairman, of Rochore Community Centre's National v Day Celebration Committee. The advisers appointed are: Dr. Toh Chin Cnye. Mr. Fong Sip Chee, Mr. Albert T-ftm and Mr. Qouh Koh Boey. k Nine vice chairmen elected are; Messrs Goh Khai Poh,
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  • 162 3 Weekly classes in Yoga will be held at two centres In Singapore from next week. Miss Roma Blair, wellknown for yoga, revealed this yesterday at a Yoga lecture-cum demonstration at the Kamala Club in Moulmein Road. One class will be held at the Kamala Club and the
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  • 155 3 Reuter London, Wednesday Britain's National Gallery was yesterday officially offered on loan one of the world's costliest paintings the Titian masterpiece The Death of Actaeon bought by American billionaire Mr. Paul Getty. For a decade the painting has hung In the National Gallery
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  • 43 3 Bandar Seri Begawan, Wednesday Stormy weather and radio trouble has forced the 25-ton British schooner Marie Christina, to abandon its trip to Manila. The skipper, Captain Paul Edge, said here the Marie Christina would return to Singapore when weather cleared.
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  • 208 3 Wheels, radios and recorders stolen Car-owners living in Tiong Bahru Estate have been having sleepless nights since a gang of thieves began operating in the area three months ago. The thieves have been stealing magnesium wheels, tape-recorders, radios and hub-caps from parked cars. Some
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  • 48 3 Washington, Wednesday. —The Democrats yesterday chose Miami Beach as the site of the 1972 Presidential nominating convention. The site selection committee, meeting at the Democratic national committee headquarter in Washington, decided that the convention would be held in the week of July 9, next year.
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  • 73 3 SEOUL, Wednesday. Seoul district criminal court yesterday acquitted 10 students charged with illegal assembly and infringement of the freedom of election. The students, all of the National University's law and liberal arts and sciences colleges, were arr l rested after they, with! some 20 others, visited the* headquarters
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  • 19 3 Tripoli, Wednesday.—Libya is opening registration offices to recult volunteers over 18 years old to fight ln> Palestine.
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 92 3 At the cinema Lido: The Golden Seal (Mandarin) —1.45, 4, 6.30, 9.15 Capitol: Eyewitness—l.4s. 4, 6.30, 9.30 Bex: Legends of Cheating (Mandarin) —1.45, 4, 6.30. 9.30. Sky: Legends of Cheating (Mandarin) —1.45, 4, 7.30. 9.15. Boxy: Legends of Cheating (Mandarin) —1.45, 4.15, 7. 9.30. State: The Tramplers—--1.45, 4, 7. 9.30.
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  • THE WORLD
    • 365 4 United Press International Moscow, Wednesday The Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr. Andrei Gromyko yesterday discounted reports that the Soviet Union and Israel are negotiating a resumption of diplomatic relations. Mr. Gromyko,- at Moscow's Sheremetvevo Airport to greet Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad, was asked by
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    • 245 4 Reuter London, Wednesday C un a r d, Britain's prestige shipping group, revealed yesterday that talks were going on with an unnamed bidder to take over the company whose Queen liners brought it world fame. Sir Basil Smallpeice, the company's chairman, said the discussions were In
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    • 87 4 Reuter Rangoon, Wednesday Burma will revert to a prime minister as head of-government, a report by the central organising committee* to the first Socialist Programme Party congress revealed yesterday. The report by the party's secretary-general, Brigadier Yu San. said Burma would In future have a
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    • 368 4 United Press International Washington, Wednesday The Supreme Court worked in private on its momentous Times-Post decision yesterday as yet another newspaper published excerpts from Pentagon papers disclosing that the United States planned troop withdrawals from Vietnam as early as 1962. The Christian Science Monitor reported
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    • 78 4 Manila, Wednesday A gang yesterday barged into a house in a town in the troubled province of Cotabato and hacked to death a family of four. The latest incident in the southern Philippines province brought to 121 the number of deaths since the latest fiareup of
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    • 278 4 Indian protests over continued arms shipments Reuter Washington, Wednesday Four or five ships carrying licensed US military equipment would be leaving for Pakistan during the next month or two. US officials said yesterday. One ship sailed for Pakistan last week. However. State Department
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    • 657 4  -  Four British MPs hove just completed o fact-finding tour of East Pakistan and are now visiting refugee camps in India near the East Pakistan border. Reuter correspondent lan Mackenzie interviewed them in Bongaon, West Bengal. His report: Ian Mackenzie Reuter "This Is
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    • 67 4 Washington, Wednesday. —President Nixon said yesterday that teenagers are infinitely better informed on public affairs now than when he was young. Mr. Nixon told a teenage group visiting the White House that "I was a pretty fair student" but his daughter knew far
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    • 159 4 Reuter Jakarta, Wednesday The growing Communist threat in Malaysia should serve as a warning to Indonesia to be more vigilant, Parliamentary Defence Commission chairman Mr. Imron Rosjadi said. He warned the Indonesian government to pay more attention to Communist influence
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    • 115 4 Reuter London, Wednesday Cassius Clay, the former world heavyweight boxing champion is negotiating to do a series of TV "chat shows" London Press agent Mr. Chris Hutchins, said yesterday. Mr. Hutchins, who Is &lso Press agent for pop stars Tom Jones and Engelbert Humperdinck,
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    • 641 4 United Press International Seoul, Wednesday Bringing American wishes for a "bright and enriched future," Vice President Spiro Agnew, yesterday joined leaders from many nations arriving tor the third term of South Korea's President Park Chung-hee. Mr. Agnew's plane landed under rain-laden clouds as he
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    • 172 5 Reuter Washington, Wednesday The Senate yesterday rejected an. attempt to limit US defence spending in the next fiscal year. Senator William Proxmlre (Democrat, Wisconsin) proposed »iTii«n g military spending in the fiscal year beginning tomorrow to USs6B,OOOmilflon. He said his budget ceiling was a
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    • 66 5 Bonn, Wednesday. A court In Frankfurt yesterday sentenced Konrad Hanzlicek to 14 years' jail for an attempt to have his wife murdered which resulted in the death of his unborn child. Hanzllcek's accomplice, Turkish-born Ahmed Gebes, who shot Mrs. Hanzlicek five times, was jailed for 3
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    • 424 5  -  Saigon generals say 16,000 troops poised to attack south By Kim Willenson United Press International Saigon, Wednesday Two Saigon generals have said that about 16,000 North Vietnamese troops are poised just above the demilitarized zone for possible infiltration into South Vietnam's northern quarter later this
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    • 220 5 Reuter Tokyo, Wednesday The Japanese Prime Minister, Mr. Eisaku Sato, has said that he would make a major reshuffle of government and party posts following the poor performance of his ruling Liberal Democrats in an Upper House election. Mr. Sato is expected to make an
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    • 367 5 Reuter New York, Wednesday Notorious Mafia boss Joe Colombo was still in a coma and "very critical" condition in Hospital here yesterday after being shot down by a black gunman on Monday. Police are investigating three lines of inquiry as to why Jerome Johnson, a 24-year-old
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    • 178 5 United Press International Tokyo, Wednesday The Japanese government yesterday formally decided to remove the US $1 million ceiling set for direct investments abroad by Japanese enterprises. The government decision. It was disclosed, becomes effective tomorrow. The decision will apply not only to
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    • 74 5 Helsinki, Wednesday A woman was disarmed by an air hostess when she attempted to hijack a Finnish airliner to Cuba yesterday. A police statement said the woman was mentally disturbed. It added that she was Finnish-speaking, but did not identify her. She was reported to have made
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  • WORLD COMMENT
    • 762 6  - Hundreds still pack the railway station—but not for trains IN GROTESQUELY CROWDED CITY OF CALCUTTA From Lee Lescaze Washington Post Among the crowds that pack Calcutta's Sealdah railway station are several hundred who are not waiting for any train. They are East Pakistani refugees who have found their way into
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    • 710 6  -  The failure of successive US policymakers to shake off the legacy of the Eisenhower era From Stanley Karnow Washington Post For all their revelations, the secret Pentagon papers only partially answer one fundamental question: What motivated the architects of America's Vietnam policy to embark on so disastrous
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    • 1148 6  -  Recognition of China's sovereignty over Taiwan a 'must'—Chou This is another in a series of reports by Newsday publisher William Attwood, who went to China to visit Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the former Cambodian Chief of State who is now living in Peking. William Attwood At a
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  • LOCAL COMMENT
    • 831 7  - 'Indonesia cannot afford to dismiss Singapore At a Press conference here on Monday, Mr. Rosihan Anwar, President of the Indonesian Journalists' Association, answered many ques- tions about the forthcoming Indonesian general elections. He also had some interesting things to say about the present state of relations between his country and
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    • 1304 7 Nanyang University is to be congratulated for the Occasional Papers which have been put out by the Institute of Business Studies directed until recently by Professor J. Panglaykim (who has now moved to take the chair of Business Administration at the University of Singapore). The
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    • The Voice of the Press
      • 148 7 Chief Executive Yara of the Ryukyu Government, in his administrative address delivered on Saturday to the Okinawan Legislature, expressed objections to the Self-Defence Forces deployment programme for Okinawa after the revision. Since Okinawa is supposed to revert to Japan under "homeland-level" conditions, it is quite natural that the
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      • 183 7 What is noteworthy is the relationship between the UJS. government and the New York Times. Frankly speaking, the New York Times has been bold and adventurous. Should the incident have taken place in any other country, the consequences would be inconceivable! However,the US government, in its action
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      • 114 7 What other newspapers are saying: The Okinawa Reversion Treaty is a new dangerous step on the road of collusion between Washington and Tokyo in the service of Nixon's aggressive policy in Asia'and the Pacific. The treaty is a deception since it allows the US to maintain sine
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    • 612 7 Minister of State in an off-the-cuff speech The English language should be mastered in the interest of scientific and technological progress, but Chinese in Singapore should also know their own mother-tongue to maintain psychological ballast. Therefore, far from suppressing the Chinese language, the Singapore Government has
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  • 489 8 In a map the five northern states of Malaysia look like a rajah's tanjak or head*dress, with one peak in Kangar and the other in Kota Bharu. It is in this area that the Malaysian Prime Minister, Tun Razak. has now declared the Communist
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  • 'WHISPERS' by ISPY
    • 118 8 There is" more politics going on in Singapore than meets the eye. Another coalition or merger of two parties is now apparently being negotiated. v A friend tells me that talks are going on between the United People's Party and the Workers' Party to work out a
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    • 43 8 A Mend just back from London tells me that the latest laugh around Westminster Is that the .weekly magazine which the British Labour Party Is putting out, partly tb replace the demised Dally Herald, Is to be called The Weekly Harold.
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    • 86 8 Indonesian friends tell me that llr. Rodhan Anwar, the President of the Journalists' Association In Jakarta, is likely to be nominated by the government to fill the firm nlort ed journalist's seat in the Jjftelature after the elections. Rodhan Anwar is well- known in Singapore and was here
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  • 944 8  -  DICK WILSON I listened a few days ago to an American talking to a group of his compatriots about the relationship between the Press and the government in Singapore. He presented a, highly critical assessment of this sensitive
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  • Letters
    • 443 8  -  SUTARSO, Information Officer, Indonesian Embassy. Singapore I refer to the letters by Mr. Chua Seng Koon and Mr. John Axelbank Sr. of June 17 and 24 respectively on the status of the Chinese community In Indonesia, despite the Embassy's definition printed in the Sunday Times and Sunday
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    • 123 8  -  MAN FRIDAY, Sinrapore 9. I am anxious to know what views Mr. Alex Josey has on the present Press situation in America where nation's very Top secrets are being published openly by various newspapers. If I am not mistaken and after listening to all v hls
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    • 166 8  -  PETER B.T. CHANG Trade Mission of the Republic of China. An article by Miss Pang Cheng Llan (April 14) on her Interview in Taipei with Dr. Tsal Wei-ping, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China, appeared in your paper. On the question of any
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    • 152 8  -  TIRED. Singapore, 10. I read with Interest the letter headed "The noise of Singapore" (New Nation June 24.1971), as my family and I are among the sufferers referred to. I fully agree with the writer when he states that the extensive noise, from two major sources,
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    • 240 8  -  JOHN Y.T. TAN There's an equally Important function that sports has in Singapore apart from the one of "developing healthy bodies" stressed by Mr. Rajaratnam: it can help mould the various races together. It's encouraging of course to sportsmen to see the National Stadium and other facilities
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous

  • 1331 9  -  From Terry Coleman Artur Rubinstein, at the age 83, has just finished a concert tour of England. He has been playing the piano for 80 years. Between concerts, in his suite at the Savoy in London, I asked him if it had been
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  • 942 9  -  In the village where the V Viet Cong HQ was New Nation's top foreign writers S.'M. Ali and Pakir Singh are on a fact-finding tour of SouthEast Asia. Today their second reports from South Vietnam examine the progress of pacification and reconstruction of this war-ravaged land. by S.M.
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  • 723 9  -  Step towards building an industrial capacity by Pakir Singh As a first step towards building up an industrial capacity, the South Vietnamese government has planned the construction of six large industrial sites all over the country. Mr. Kbuong Had Dleu, managing director of the Industrial D e v
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  • CAREERS
    • 917 10  -  Shortage of local men in this trade •By Patrick de Souza Cooking can be an extremely profitable career If you have a sensitive palate, skill, originality and experience in prestige hotels and restaurants. At the top rung of a cooking career
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    • 394 10 There is always room at the top in any field of human endeavour. This is one of the more important lessons the managing director of a travel agency, Mrs. Gek Wee, learnt while she was in school. Mrs. Wee who manages
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  • 769 10 EDUCATION Student's Forum today takes you to the University of Singapore where Elizabeth Choo interviews six students. Sherry. Vanderput, 19, second year law: Mild ragging has been traditional in a university's orientation programme and I feel it would be very
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  • WOMAN
    • 440 11  -  Informal parties can mislead you By Elizabeth Choo As wives of executives or in their own career capacity, women these days attend various social functions, both formal and informal. After one has accepted, the next question that crops up Is: what Is the right thing
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    • 824 11 antiques Legend would have us believe that in 1743 Thomas Bolsover was wedging a piece of copper in his vice by using a silver sixpence to take np the slack. When his work was finished he found that the pressure of the vice had fused
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    • 824 11  -  'Do not adjust your mind, reality is at fault' is the message By Trish Sheppard "Do not adjust your mind, reality is at fault." I recently saw this message to mankind scrawled on a wall inside a derelict bunker in Hong Kong.
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  • NEW NATION'S Finance and business
    • 464 12  -  ANIL BHATIA There has been a tremendous improvement In the quality of advertising generally, and In particular, new heights in creativity have been achieved in the last few years in Singapore and Malaysia. This is how Mr. Eugene H. Kummel, President of McCann
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    • 68 12 Ambassador Hotel of Singapore has acquired Turnbuk Estate from Tholech Berhad for $2.5 milling Tumbuk Estate consists of 988 acres in Kuala Langat, Selangor, planted with oil palm. There is also a palm oil factory. Net operating profit of the estate for the year ended December 31,
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    • 163 12 Ford, .General Motors and Volvo may soon offer models fitted with the revolutionary Rotary Wankel engine. Both Ford Motor Company Both Ford Motor Company of the United States and Volvo AB of Sweden are negotiating engine licensing agreements with Audl-NSU Auto Union AO. Although Audl-NSU Auto
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    • 1158 12 ALL YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE STOCK EXCHANGE COUNTERS 1076-1971 1 wk. 4 wk*. Closing r Price last Divid P/E TurnHigh Low ago ago Stock Buy en i Sellers sale Yield Ratio Ovet industrials 2.63 1.79 1.82 1.84 Allied Chocolate 1.75 1.78 1.82xall 6.9N 13.2 1.90
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    • 324 12 The World Bank has approved a $57 million loan to Malaysia for a $3OO million telecommunications project to improve and extend local and long distance telephone and telex services. and expand international services. The project is part of the Second Malaysia Plan (1071
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    • 121 12 A new $7B million cement production plant will be set up near Jakarta by 1974 by P.T. Semen Greslk, an Indonesian Governmentowned cement company in collaboration with the Internatinal Finance Corporation and Kaiser Cement and Gypsum of the United States. The new plant will be the
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    • 177 12 United Press International New York, Wednesday The stock market turned higher in stepp-ed-up trading yesterday. After declining for three consecutive sessions, the Dow Jones industrial average showed a gain of 9.20 at 882.30. Standard and Poor's 500 stock index was ahead 1.09 at 98.83.
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    • 273 12 Reuter London, Wednesday The market drifted lower in quiet trading. Monday's speech by the Chancellor of the Exchequer was termed disappointing by dealers, who had expected some mention of reflating the economy. Wall Street's downtrend and the latest figures on UK clearning bank advances
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    • 638 12 ctonc JZ* A senior Singapore personnel manager with long experience in an interna- tional firm discusses the important function of personnel management in a business organisation. Readers are invited to send in their topics for discussion. Someone in search
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    • 338 13  -  CAMERA ON SCHOOLS By Peter Koh Within a stone's throw from the Times House is the Kim Seng Technical a new school that is noted for producing potential shuttlers. Even during the postseason now, the school auditorium is pulsating with non-stop activity from dawn to
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    • 1665 13  -  SOCCER SCENE WITH JEFFREY LOW Something positive must be done, if it is not already being pursued, about the fast falling standards of Singapore soccer. Last week alone provided the public with a jumbo sale of snide remarks when two national debacles (1-4 against Negri
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    • 191 14 Mahesh Kumar will make his final appearance in the MCA un-der-23 cricket tournament when he leads the Singapore team in the three-day final against Selangor at Kuala Lumpur from Friday. Mahesh. who has represented the Republic since the inception of the series In 1966. will be
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    • 337 14 The Singapore Cricket Association will hold a knockout tournament in conjunction with the Pesta Sukan celebrations from July 10 to Aug. 7. The ten teams entered for the tournament are: Singapore RC, Singapore CC. Naval Base CC, Police, Singapore Chinese RC, the Army, Port
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    • 181 14 London, Wednesday. Peter Oosterhuis, 23-year-old British golfer In his third year as a professional, equalled the Royal midSurrey course record when he shot a flve-under-par 65 here yesterday to win the 4000 sterling Sunbeam tournament. Oosterhuis, who equalled the record set by fellow Briton Lionel Platts,
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    • 46 14 Auckland, Wednesday World Cup holders In rugby, league, Australia, were beaten 15-14 by Auckland after trailing 6-10 at halftime. It was the touring team's second defeat In four days following their 24-3 drubbing by New Zealand in the first Test last Saturday.
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    • 58 14 London, Wednesday British Prime Minister, Edward Heath has qualified as one of Britain's three representatives in the Admiral's Cup yacht rate series, the organisers announced here last night. His yacht, Morning Cloud, will line up with Prospect of Whitby (Arthur Slater) and Cervantes IV (R.C. Watson) at
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    • 15 14 National letfue Chicago S Los Angeles 2 American league New York Cleveland 2
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    • 130 14 Martha Young scored a total of 40 points to win the Singapore Island Country Club Ladies stableford "A" division competition from Jean Read (39) over the Island course yesterday. Martha also won the first nine ballsweep with 24 points. The second nine was shared by Jean and P.
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    • 542 14 London, Wednesday Lax fielding and an ultra-c a u 11 o us approach thwarted the touring Indian cricketers' hopes of saving their match against Essex here yesterday when they were beaten by six wickets in the final over. The Indians, resuming their uphill struggle
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    • 222 14 One of the American basketball "giants" will be seen in action here when the visiting US Ambassador team begin their three-match tour of Singapore at the Gay World Stadium tonight. He is six-foot-ten Dennis Lord who is a member of the nine-man team and
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    • 125 14 London, Wednesday—The draw for the Über Cup, made yesterday at the International Badminton Federations' (IBF) annual meeting, has given defending champions Japan the toughest possible task. The inter-zone draw paired Japan in the semi-finals with the European representative, probably either Denmark or England.
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    • 74 14 The Pesta Sukan Organising Committee will hold its third meeting at the Conference Room, Ministry of Social Affairs, Empress Place tomorrow at 10 a.m. The various sub-commit-tees and sporting bodies will submit their progress reports and programmes for the month-long festival of sports from Aug. 7to Sept.
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    • 66 14 Madrid, Wednesday Spain's sporting Prince Juan Carlos yesterday won the Spanish national Dragon class yacht championships and raised speculation that he might be included in the Spanish Olympic team. The Prince, designated by General Franco to succeed him as Chief of State and eventually occupy Spain's vacant
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    • 2403 15 For full details of the weekend's racing, get your free lift-out guide on Friday and Saturday. SATURDAY V ft CLASS 2 DIV 2 9F ($11,000 $7,700 "TO WINNER) '***** THE TACTICIAR a (Chens) Tulloh 4 9.00 ****** SCHIEDAM a (J Breukelen) R Breukelen
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    • 212 15 By Blue Peter Pharever did a splendid gallop at Bukit Timah this morning. Ridden by Peter Moran Pharever sprinted smartly over 3f In 36 3/5.. The going was good. Mid son (Morah) and Right Combination (Lee) went over 3f in 38 3/5 with Right
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    • 352 15 London, Wednesday Ken Rosewall, 36year -old Australian tennis maestro, turned impending defeat into glorious victory on the centre court last night when lie beat 24-year-old American Cliff Richey to reach the Wimbledon semi-finals. Rosewall won by 6-8, 5-7, 6-4, 9-7, -7-5 in a match which
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    • 126 15 United Press International Wednesday Former British race car champion Stirling Moss, who has been testing cars In the United States, is forbidden to drive on British roads. He lost an appeal today •gainst a six-month driving ban. x Moss, 41, was banned in April after
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    • 100 15 Adelaide. Wednesday Police have stopped all leave here In preparation for tonight's big rugby union match expected to be the most testing time sn far for the touring South African Springboks who are under constant harassment from anti-apartheid demonstrators. Adelaide's police superintendent, Mr. M. Evans, said
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    • 38 15 Bonn, Wedftesda y Franz Jozer Kemper of West Germany ran the fastest 1000 metres in the world this year when he clocked two minutes 18.9 seconds at an international athletics meeting here last night.
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    • 292 16 Armed with long poles scores of barefooted boys can be seen loitering around street corners and In playing fields with their heads looking up at the sky a sign that the kite season is on. On seeing a kite floating aimlessly in the sky
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    • 89 16 With such long tresses, pretty Jackie Melson, 17, could very well have taken the part of Lady Godiva in any play. And she did in the John Calvert Show when it was in town not too long ago. But then her black hair wasn't of much
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    • 380 16  -  Hotels do it by dressing up their staff By ABBY TAN A he a d lay the lamasery of Shangri-la. It was superb and exquisite a delightfully favoured place." Ahead... as one approaches Singapore's version of that fabled place that is Shangri-la, even those familiar
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    • 50 16 AH FOOK: The teachers' union is out to raise professional standards, but I'm not sure whether our present lot of teachers want to improve themselves. MEI LIN: I'm sure they would if they do not have your kind of attitude. What do YOU think? Write to the Editor.
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