New Nation, 24 May 1972

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  • 15 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Wednesday evening, May 24, 1972 No. 413 Price 15 cents NEW NATION
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  • 12 1 Police reported 68 accidents yesterday. Eight were serious, one fatal.
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  • 96 1 Trading was moderate and selective In the share market this morning. Prices were generally moving up during the first 45 minutes. Haw Par Increased 15 cents to $5.75, General Ceramic three cents to 89 cents, Sanyo three cents to $1.42, C.C.M. one cent to $2.61 and Cycle
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  • 27 1 Two men were seriously Injured last night after they were attacked by a group of youths armed with daggers and bearing scrapers in Canal Road.
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  • 36 1 LATE NEWS New York, Wednesday. Early returns showed Senator George McGovern the winner of the democratic Dresldentlal primary In Rhode Island. Senator McGovern looked likelv to win by a comfortable margin over Senator Hubert Humphrey.
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  • 448 1 Nixon and Brezhnev expected to sign pact on Friday UPI, Reuter Moscow, Wednesday Russia and the US are expected to sign a nuclear arms limitation agreement on Friday. Soviet and American sources said the Dact was likely to lmDose limits on both offensive and defensive strategic
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  • 360 1  -  By Edgar Koh Film distributors here are extremely confused over what they describe as the Ministry of Culture's "re-reversal" of its attitude towards nudity on the screen. Commenting on the Ministry's denial that nudity would be aUowed in certain films, members of the Kinematographer Renters'
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  • 107 1 President Nixon and President Podgorny sign the agreement for Joint action against cancer, heart disease and air and water pollution at a Kremlin ceremony yesterday. Mrs. Nixon goes for a ride on the Moscow subway. With her is Mrs. Gromyko (right),
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  • 90 1 United Press International New York, Wednesday. Five people were killed yesterday when an ambulance on an emergency call crashed into an oil tanker truck in Danville, Virginia. The two vehicles careered Into a power station, causing a transformer to explode. Witnesses said the explosion apparently touched
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  • 46 1 Oslo, Wednesday Norway's 20,000-strong civil servants union began the first strike in its history yesterday to back a demand for higher wages. About 400 members dealing with weather forecasts, driving licences, car registrations and domestic air services went on strike at midnight.
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  • 48 1 New York, Wednesday Astronauts Edgar Mitchell and James Irwin, who both landed on the moon last year, yesterday announced that they will be retiring from the space agency within the next few months. Their departure will leave 43 active astronauts in the 178 space programme.
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  • 220 1 Reuter Quito, Wednesday A hijacker was shot dead here last night after forcing an Ecuadorian airliner to land at Quito Airport and threatening to blow it up with its crew of six if he was not paid a ransom of $110,000 and given
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  • 338 1 UPI, Reuter Saigon, Wednesday. Major fighting has erupted on three fronts inside South Vietnam and the U.S. Command reported another step-up in air raids on North Vietnam. A third consecutive day of fighting south of the My Chanh River defence line above Hue
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  • 24 1 CID men last night arrested six men, believed to be secret society members. They recovered bearing scrapers, daggers, and several wooden poles.
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  • 95 1 A 37-year-old man from Cheow Kheng Road this morning woke up to find a piece of red cloth soaked In kerosene burning In his bedroom. Police said that the man, Wong Soon Mono. 37. got out of bed and saw his window was on fire as well.
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  • Page 1 Advertisements
    • 113 1 inSIDE TODNV PACE 4 Y our dog s date in August. PACE 5: Seamen urge Cov trnment to tell all PACE 6. Suharto visit to Tokyo brings new misgivings. PACE 7: Nixon and Brexhnev expected to sign pacts S Dick Wilson on how China will ease relations with SouthEast Asia.
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  • 194 2 Taiwan's top singer of 1971, Miss Wu Ching Sian, 24, finds her mother indispensable even on overseas tours. Miss Wu is one of the seven Taiwan stars who will be appearing with artists from Singapore and Malaysia in two shows tonight and tomorrow night at the
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  • 24 2 Victoria School will hold its annual speech day and science exhibition on June 2. Dr. Toh Chin Chye will open the exhibition.
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  • 213 2 But don't treat the addicts as criminals Drug pushers should be flogged in public, if necessary, to pay for the harm they are doing to society. This call was made by the YMCA in an editorial in the latest issue of its
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  • 463 2  -  Huge investment predicted By Patrick de Souza The visiting vicepresident of the Chase Manhattan Bank, Mr. John Winger, has predicted that Singapore would develop into a centre for the petroleum industry in the region. He cited several reasons for this. ONE: there will be
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  • 245 2  -  By Pang Cheng Lian The Barisan Sosialis looks like having an even tougher time at the coming general elections. The split within the party over participation at the polls is likely to widen following a call for an election boycott by the clandestine radio
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  • 33 2 The Sngapore Air Transport Workers' Union will celebrate its 25th anniversary on June 19. A series of activities has been planned, including a Grand Silver Jubilee Anniversary Ball on November 25.
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  • 413 2 Reuter London, Wednesday A Singapore woman told a court here yesterday how a British army staff sergeant lan Reed ripped off her pants when she went to visit him in an army prison cell. Mrs. Joan Ismail said Sgt. Reed, her brother-in-law, asked
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  • 108 2 There will be no delivery of correspondence or parcels on Saturday, Vesak holiday. Tne General Post Office will open from 9 a.m. to noun, and otner post offices from 9 a.m. to 10.30 a.m. with the exception of the following post omces: Chin Swee Road,
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  • 26 2 Sir Sam ralle, the British High Commissioner in Singapore, will talk on Britain in Europe at the Rotary Club's luncheon at Shangri-La Hotel today.
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  • 25 2 The YMCA at Orchard Road will conduct an eightweek course in black and white and colour photography. For further details ring ***** or *****.
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  • 122 2 The Singapore Junior Safety First Council today announced the names of 10 schools which will compete in the finals of the safety first English oratorical contest to be held at the CulThey are the AngloChinese Secondary School, Catholic High School, Dunearn Secondary School, MacPherson Secondary School,
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  • 42 2 In yesterday's New Nation report the authorised capital of the Italian merchant bank to be set up in Singapore was quoted as $600 million. This figure is the expected annual turnover of the merchant bank. The error is regretted.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 449 2 HPPPEnmcs WHAT'S ON TODAY The SINGAPORE MANUFACTURE'S ASSOCIATION will hold Its annual general meeting at 5.15 p.m. today in the Peacock Room at the Ming Court Hotel. The SINGAPORE ARMED FORCES will conduct an internal security islandwide exercise from 6 p.m. today to 6 a.m. tomorrow. During the exercise there
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    • 161 2 weatherl in world Kuala Lumpur 33-23 C Bangkok 35-26 C Hong Kong 25-23 C Manila 33-23 C Se:;ul 25-12 C Tokyo 19-11 C Naha 27-19 C London 17-13 C Moscow 24-16 C New York 24-14 C Paris 20-lOC San Francisco 22-11 C Sydney 20-9 C Melbourne 14-9 C Perth 24-14
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  • 169 3 The police today again appealed to householders to Improve the security measures around their homes by adding protective fixtures to doors and windows to help cut down the number of housebreaking cases. The police said it was regrettable that some landlords refused to take such
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  • 29 3 Kuching, Wednesday, Pelandok Airways Sendirian Berhad will inaugurate a weekly Charter flight between Kuching and Kuala Lumpur on June 5. The one-way fare will be $125.
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  • 493 3  -  By Bosco Gomez A cross-section of the population, including student leaders, have endorsed the view of the Dean of the University of Singapore's Law Faculty, Professor Tommy Koh, that the voting age should be lowered to 18. Professor Koh explained at a recent student
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  • 244 3 The level of air pollution over the Jurong industrial estate has dropped slightly despite an increase in the number of factories there. This was stated by the Minister of State (Prime Minister's Office) Tuan Haji Ya'acob bin Mohamed yesterday at the press conference after touring the
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  • 229 3 This trisha looks like any of the others on Singapore roads. But in two or three years' time, this one will have a new lease of life. Not in Singapore, but in an entirely different environment. The trisha will be making the "long
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  • 439 3 Students make multi-applications Students seeking tertiary education are applying to more than one institution of higher learning at the same time. They are doing this in order to be as sured of a place in at least one of them. This state of affairs exists
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  • In Person
  • 655 4 THE AUGUST 13 SHOW IS NOT VERY FAR OFF f i From the DOG HOUSE By PG The next dog championship will be held on August 13. You may say it is a long way off and if you do, that is where you
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  • Article, Illustration
    68 4 Jodie and Samantha (the white one) are two "sisters" looking for a home that is large enough for them both. They have lived together all their 18 months, and were recently separated from their English masters who went back home. Now they may have to separate unless sonjeone
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  • 213 5 The Singapore Organisation of Seamen today caled on the Government to make public their investigations into the sinking of at least seven vessels owned by locally established companies. The secretary of SOS, Mr. Urn Keng Ho, said that most of these ships sank during
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  • 130 5 Champagne with your breakfast. This will be one of the unique features of the revolving restaurant at Hotel Mandarin when it opens its doors early next year. Perched on the 40th floor of the hotel, one of the tallest buildings in SouthEast Asia, the
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  • 71 5 A fleet of five Indonesian Navy ships will call at Singapore for a four-day goodwill visit on June 9. The fleet, led by a 6000ton tender followed by three frigates and a tanker will anchor at the Man of War Anchorage in the Eastern Roads. The
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  • 32 5 The Adult Education Board will conduct French, German, Japanese and Mandarin courses at the Mounbatten LGPD Centre. Application forms are available at 126, Cairnhill Road or at the Cultural Centre.
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  • 209 5 Kuala Lumpur, Wednesday.—Law graduands from the University of Singapore will soon be able to begin reading in Chambers immediately after their results. An amendment to the Advocates and Solicitors Ordinance has been presented to Parliament for its first reading. Legal circles say the
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  • 203 5 Day by day, Rashid Mohammed Noor strikes the chords of the piano, and wishes that he were doing so as a guest artiste before a real audience. And day by day, the blind boy's hopes of temporary employment appear dimmer and dimmer. Eighteen year old
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  • 124 5 Two youth leaders from the People's Association on a study tour of Australia have said they are impressed with the constructive spirit of young Australian farmers. Mr. Yeo Jui Chew, organising secretary of the Geylang Serai Community Centre, and Mr. Lim Hai Hua of the Tan
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  • 278 5  -  By Patrick de Souza An Asean committee will meet in Bangkok next month to clarify the stand that Asean countries will take when they face delegates from the European Economic Community in Brussels later this year. A source at the Ministry of Foreign
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  • 61 5 The Chinese YMCA is organising a day camp for children between five and eight, and an outdoor camp for those between eight and 12. The day camp will be held on June 5 to 9 at the Chinese YMCA at Palmer Road and the out-door camp on
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • Page 5 Miscellaneous
    • 349 5 illMlJlWff HOW WEIL DO YOU KNOW SINGAPORE? Ms W< v i V t <r J in Last Friday's quiz photograph showed part of the Jamaak Queenstown Mosque in Margaret Drive. The first prize of $15 goes to Miss Jenny Lim Poh Geok, a clerk, of Geylang Road. Her entry was
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  • BEHIND THE NEWS
    • 1161 6  -  Another instalment in a series of exclusive reports to New Nation on the contemporary political scene From Denis Warner Japan is the Britain of the Far East, but will Britain ever become the Japan of Europe? Not long ago, in the course of this
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    • 544 6  -  From B. Ronquillo PHILIPPINES Fear of involvement in a third world war arising from America's escalation of its efforts to save the Saigon Government from communist takeover has revived the Issue of whether or not the Philippines should scrap Its bases
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    • 731 6  -  From R. Muntu INDONESIA Despite the apparent success of President Suharto's visit to Tokyo, resulting among other things in a $600 million loan for development of Indonesia's oil resources, there were still some voices of misgiving and uneasiness in Jakarta. At first questions
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    • THE VOICE OF THE PRESS
      • 661 6 What other newspapers are saying: NEW GAINS FOR THE MCA: Within one week four leaders or the Democratic Action Party have quit the party to Join the Alliance. Two of them are Members of the Malaca State Legislative Assembly while the other two are Members of Parliament. This
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      • 446 6 non-aligned nations in THE PRESENT STAGE: Representatives of 16 non-aligned nations begin their meeting In Kuala Lumpur on May 23 to prepare th* agenda of their Ministerial conference In George Town, Guyana In August. The term "non-alignment" came Into being only after the Second World War. The
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      • 419 6 EXPECTED ACHIEVEMENTS OF NIXON'S VISIT TO RUSSIA. Today, Moscow has put up a new look to welcome the first American President going there for a visit. According to a report from Moscow published by the New York Times, elaborate preparations have been made in Moscow to
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  • 376 7 Space and trade deals United Press International IVfcscow, Wednesday President Nixon and tie Communist Party general secretary, Mr. Leonid Brezhnev, were expected to sign an agreement to stage a Joint space exploration nission in 1975 in a teremony today and to Sut signatures to a
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  • 133 7 Paris, Wednesday. The British Overseas Aircraft Corporation (BOAC) and Air France will order the Franco-British supersonic Concorde transport plane within the next few weeks, the French and British Transport Ministers said yesterday. They will be the first airlines to make a firm order. Mr.
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  • Article, Illustration
    26 7 The Soviet leader Mr. Breihnev and President Nixon talk face to face during their historic summit meeting in Moscow.—UP I radiopicture. UPI radiopicture
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  • 403 7 United Press International Paris, Wednesday. Hanoi's top negotiator at the Paris Deace talks. Mr. Le Due Tho. said yesterday that the North Vietnamese people, guided by military experts, were clearing US mines from their harbours as fast as they were dropped in. The mining
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  • 304 7 United Press International Saigon, Wednesday. US military sources In Saigon believe that American retaliatory raids Inside North Vietnam are reaching saturation point. "Main transport and supply networks feeding the Communist offensive have been destroyed and we are now concentrating on blocking the repair of
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  • 19 7 New Delhi, Wednesday Pre-monsoon showers have ended a two-week heatwave in eastern India which killed 400 people.
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  • 476 7 Reuter New York, Wednesday Both the Cunard and Italia shipping lines are to ban visitors and bon voyage parties aboard their vessels because of the mid-Atlantic bomb scare aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2 last week and similar threats to the line Leonardo Da Vinci on Monday.
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  • 263 7 Reuter Guatemala City, Wednesday Police yesterday released the man they arrested on Monday on suspicion of hijacking a US airliner earlier this month, collecting a ransom in Washing, ton and then parachuting out over Central America. Police sources said the man. who was not Identified, turned
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  • 328 7 UPI, Reuter Salisbury, Wednesday Premier lan Smith last night called the Pearce Commission report naive and inept. He said he could not believe it would contain so many misinterpretations and misconstructions of the true position. In a nationwide radio and television broadcast, Mr. Smith said:
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  • 180 7 Reuter Washington, Wednesday Senator George McQovern, reported to be increasingly confident of winning the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. wants Senator Edward Kennedy as his vice presidential running mate, sources close to the McOovern campaign said yesterday. Senator Kennedy, who shares the anti-Vietnam war convictions of
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  • 135 7 Reuter New York. Wednesday. An American liauor dealer, Mr. Joseph ZeneL yesterday paid US$92OO ($27,600) for a Jeroboam of Chateau Mouton Rothschild 1929, a world record price for a single bottle of wine. llr. Zenel said he would save the Jeroboam which is
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  • 176 7 Reuter Washington, Wednesday. Arthur Bremer, the 21-year-old porter arrested after Alabama Governor, George Wallace was shot and wounded last week, was charged yesterday on four counts that could send him to prison for 40 years. "Hie indictment charged Bremer with violating the 1968 Civil Rights Act
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  • 61 7 Manila, Wednesday A powerful explosion believed set off by a hand grenade killed eight members of a family and wounded five others in a village house in La Union province at dawn yesterday, the Philippine News Service reports today. An unidentified man hurled the grenade into the
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  • 422 8 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's insistence on the staging of war crimes trials is an escapist manoeuvre that will not help to unscramble the horrible legacy of the tragic events which led to the creation of Bangladesh. His temptation is understandable. The immense problems Bangladesh faces are not
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  • 127 8 VYTYYWi^l 'JjjJj/rjji? by ISPY Fresh off the Press has come the Rt. Hon. Malcolm Mac Donald's book, Titian and Others, biographies of seven prominent world leaders including Jawaharlal Nehru and Achmad Soekarno. In the biography of Churchill, Mr. Mac Donald, a former British CommissionerGeneral in South-East Asia, recalled'
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  • 882 8  -  DICK WILSON I liked the phrase which Mr. Kenneth Young, the former US Ambassador to Thailand, used In an Interview in Bangkok last month. "China," he told a leading Thai editor, "Is not a big elephant stamping on grasshoppers." Mr.
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  • Letters
    • 177 8  -  HO KOK CHEONG Deputy Secretary, Singapore Land and Housing Developers' Association. Singapore. I refer to Mr. Lee Chin Chuan's letter (NN May 16) regarding your Press report on "Singapore to be a centre of $1000 mil. business" (NN May 5) and would like to raise a few points.
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    • 134 8 On May 15, a programme entitled Vesak Prelude 72 was staged by a number of Buddhist organisations in conjunction with the forthcoming Vesak celebrations. I found that the items were presentable and oriental. Especially the Buddhist hymns. I was overwhelmed with the cheorographlng of the Indian ballet
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    • 107 8 I wish to draw the attention of the Traffic Police to the chaotic condition at the junction of Upper Thomson Road and Thomson Rise Estate/Clover Rise Estate. Upper Thomson Road Is one of the major roads in Singapore and traffic along it is heavy during peak
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    • 184 8  -  KOH LIAN HWI Af. Registrar of Vehicles, Singapore 7. I wish to comment on the letters by "hopeful" and "considerate" (NN April 10 and April 15) on long queues at Maxwell Road driving test centre and driving test problems. About 800 people are being attended to
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    • 78 8  -  LIM JOO HAN Hon. Secretary. Cairnhill Constituency Citizen's Consultative Committee Singapore, 9. On the subject of renaming the present New Cemetery Road, I wish to mention that after further consideration, the Committee on Street Names has now decided that New Cemetery Road will be renamed Cavenagh
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    • 116 8  -  M.S. VASUDEVAN The United Bus Company Service No. 159 from Toa Payoh to Outram Park is very disappointing. Many of us working in Great World Park, Shaw Renters, the River Valley Road areas and Outram Road Hospital cannot reach our work places In time. Some of us
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    • 177 8 I refer to the series entitled Dialogue with the Spirits in general and the second of the four part series in particular. I severely protest against the publication of the fact that a sorcerer can "help you dispose of or take revenge upon any enemy." The
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    • 119 8  -  LIM HENG TOW Public Relations Officer, RTS, Singapore, 1L I refer to Tom Mix's letter (NN, May 11). Our Saturday afternoon TV programme offers a balanced variety cartoons, juvenile shows, science fiction, situation comedies, educational/ adventure features and sport. We have been running 'festivals' of feature films
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    • 95 8  -  TAN SIEW LING for Public Relations Officer', Ministry of Health, Singapore, 2. Your correspondent's grouse over the $2 specialist fee (NN, May 10), needs clarification. Hospital clinics, referred to as specialist clinics charge a consultation fee of $2. Doctors at these clinics could be consultants, senior registrars,
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  • GOVERNMENT AND BIG BUSINESS
    • 979 9  -  In the previous two instalments New Nation took you into the heart of two American controversies the ITT conglomerate and pyramid selling. Today, in the third of the four-part series, we bring the story home. Who are the multinationals in Singapore, how do
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    • 436 9 Rollei came to Singapore to save itself. In the mid-1960s this famous German camera firm saw its sales dropping in the rich North American market while its Japanese competitors doubled their earnings in five years. Labour makes up over half the cost of
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    • 507 9 Mr. Lim Soo Chla, 28, is Rollei's chief accountant Educated at the Oldham Methodist School and the Singapore Polytechnic, he regards Rollei as "a life-time job." "I don't believe in being a rolling stone," he explains. He is a bachelor. Why
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  • SHOWBIZ
    • 178 10  -  Peter Ong It's all a family business, really. Or that's what the Biarge family thinks show business should be. It's handed down from their grandfather. Now, their business is carried on by the father, son and daughter. And together they make a fantastic set. The
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    • 252 10 Three former members of King Crimson have joined Alexis Korner and Peter Thorup to form a band called Alexis. They are Mel Collins (sazaphone), lan Wallace (drums) and Boz (bass). The five have already started work together. They supported Humble Pie In a concert recently.
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    • 334 10  -  By Violet Oon The love affair which Singapore began with the Vienna Boys Choir in 1959 is still going strong after four visits. They are returning for a fifth concert engagement on June 19 and 20 at the Conference Hall. It is most unlikely that
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    • 144 10 Paris and shows from the famed Crazy Horse nightclub will be brought to life when the Les Sphynx begins their stint at a leading theatre restaurant and nightclub tonight. Billed as one of the greatest and most captivating shows ever to come to Singapore, The Les Sphynx
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    • 630 10  -  From Ivor Davis The Melbourne Herald Life has been tough for Hollywood's No. 1 tough guy Steve McQueen lately. He's lost his wife, a bundle on the stock market and Just as he was talking about the pressures of being who and where he is,
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  • TREND
    • 776 11  -  Guns and war machines breed aggression TRISH SHEPPARD "Oh Wow! Fantastic!" my four-year-old son exclaims every time he sees an army truck full of soldiers in camouflage uniforms carrying guns. And I wince. Children are always presenting their parents with dilemmas and this is one I
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    • 152 11 London, Wednesday Every housewife has asked herself how much she'd be worth 11 she were paid for every meal cooked, every button sewn, every room cleaned and so on. Today the average British housewife knows. A management consultant firm, commissioned by the British Broadcasting
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    • 460 11  -  pattern BY M CORDEIRO Almost every woman today owns at least one pair of trousers, and the number each possesses has nothing to do with femininity or the lack of it. Besides being practical with regard to the sort of activities women are
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    • 338 11 It's normal for babies to cry for no reason at all New York, Wednesday. It is normal for Infants to cry sometimes for no reason at all, two American psychiatrists reported. Reassuring worried mothers who sometimes fear they are not taking care of the Infants properly,
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    • 42 11 Italy has plenty of bomb hoaxes, but this one was different. Police charged 16-year-old Claudlo Mattel with telephoning a bomb threat to a girls' school so a 14-year-old chum of his could meet his girl friend two hours early.
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    • 295 11  -  Presented by Mary Lee Men's fashions in Singapore can only be described as dull. They seem to think (they are the men, of course) that bright shirts and even brighter ties can be colour fully clashed to put some with-it-ness into
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    • 176 11 The Melbourne Herald London, Wednesday According to the English Consumers' Association, we girls are wasting our money on "intimate" deodorants. In the latest issue of the Association's magazine, Which, vaginal deodorants get a thumbsdown sign. Following a survey of the most popular brand* available in
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  • BUSINESS AND FINANCE
    • 141 12 Gloom persisted yesterday on share market with marginal declines in industrials, properties and hotels. Trading was generally thin, with the total turnover rising slightly to 2.1 million shares valued at $4.7 million. For the second day in succession, delayed deals were down to less than 200,000 shares. Property
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    • 61 12 New products... New self-drilling fasteners are available for those in the construction business who have to fix roofs and ceilings. They drill, tap, fasten and seal in one operation, the distributors claimed. They also reduce labour time and the requirement of tools for roof
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    • 238 12 Allied Cbem 33% Alcoa 54 Am Brands 48% Am Can 38 Am Motors AT T 43% A A P 7% Anaconda 21 Avon Pd Beth Steel 31% Boeing 23", Caterp Trac 5614 Chrysler 33 >4 Coca-Cola 129 67 Corn G1 Wks 250 Dow CI) em 91% DuPont
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    • 138 12 United Press International New York, Wednesday Stocks closed lower yesterday in moderate trading as investors awaited developments from President Nixon's trip to Moscow. At the end of trading, the Dow Jones industrial average of 30 selected blue-chip stocks was off 3.01 points at 962.30.
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    • 154 12 Reuter London, Wednesday Equities were easier again yesterday but some issues closed above lowest levels. At 3 p.m. the Financial Times index was down 3.4 at 533.1. Beechams touched 322 following final figures but rallied towards the close. British Match and Glaxo were others to
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    • 349 12 Reuter Tokyo, Wednesday Japan yesterday told eight South-East Asian nations it would take more imports from the region and step up its investment there. The Japanese assurance came during the first planning meeting of the SouthEast Asian Promotion Centre for Trade, Investment and Tourism.
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    • 505 12 Reuter Brussels, Wednesday Common Market industrial production is expected to show a relatively slow expansion in the first half of this year but could pick up in the second six months, according to the latest EEC monthly economic bulletin. For
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    • 134 12 Reuter Washington, Wednesday. The US government last night forecast its laigest trade deficit in history this year, despite last December's devaluation of the dollar to make American goods more competitive in world markets. In a speech prepared for delivery before the Dallas World Trade
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    • 306 12 United Press International Manila, Wednesday Regional fleets of bulk tankers and timber carriers and a tourism marketing board for South-East Asia were recommended yesterday by a South-East Asian regional transport survey sponsored by three international agencies. The Asian Development Bank (ADB), which implemented
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    • 425 12 Mr. David Rockefeller, chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank, called on multinational corporations to clear away suspicions about their motivations by becoming truly international in ownership and management. Speaking before the Economic Club of Detroit recently, Mr. Rockefeller urged the corporations to extend
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    • 160 12 DOLLAR GAINS AGAINST United Press International _London, Wednesday The dollar turned into a mixed performance when trading resumed in European centres yesterday after the holiday weekend. The dollar gained against sterling but lost a little ground in terms of the West German mark and Swiss franc. Swiss bankers said the
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 251 12 NEW NATION CROSSWORD i: 8 One who hesitates. 9 Type of domicile. 10 Cheese hollandalse. 11 Youth of today. 12 Dissipate. 13 Maker of abridgments. 16 Church festivals 21 Deciding. 24 Devil. 26 Sterness. 29 Great—. 31 Shakespearean setting. 34 Layer of skin. 36 Railroad center In Utah. 37 Type
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  • SEA SPORTS
    • 972 13  -  LEISURE-MINDED SINGAPOREANS SHOW THE WAY By Sonny Yap When Harry Belafonte crooned the famous song, Island In the Sun, he was not referring to Singapore, but it would be as well if he had. For the Republic, blessed by the tropical sun and
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    • 793 13 Any sea enthusiast who ventures into the power-packed world of outboard motoring should be armed with a mine of tips at his fingertips if not for anything but to keep his engine tip-top. For these valuable knowhow may well meau the difference between years of
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    • 795 14  -  They're not only for the wealthy By Dennis Chia You don't need to be a wealthy man to own a speedboat. Nor does it cost much to own just a motor too. With more and more people taking to the seas, a wide range of
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    • 239 14 Stiletto, is the name of the latest type of speedboat from Borneo Company. It is 14 ft. long, weighs 6201b. It is built in Singapore under licence from Australia. Besides the Stiletto, Is the Falcon O.T. also built under licence from Australia. It Is of flbreglass. It measures
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    • 216 15 Any form of boating or skiing would be incomplete without a trip to the bottom of the sea. And to do so, one would need the necessary equipment. Outboard Marine Corporation has a range of equipment for your day at
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    • 577 15 USE CREAMS AND LOTIONS Nowadays to be considered to be in the "in" crowd, you need to have a good suntanned complexion. And all it takes is a lot of sunshine and plenty of good care. Whether you are sun- i tanning by
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    • 167 16 The Singapore Ski School is the Republic's first (and only) water skiing school, and specialises solely in water skiing. The School was founded with three objectives: To enable more people to water ski. To raise the standard of water skiing. To propagate safety standards.
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    • 822 16  -  ALL BECAUSE OF RISING INTEREST IN WATER SPORTS Dennis Chia Boatels in Singapore are at present enjoying an unprecedented boom with the increasing interest in water sports. More and more boatels are mushrooming and centre of interest in boatels is at Ponggol where
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    • 378 13 t cap ■W Boats are mainly made for pleasure. But Yamaha have built a whole lot into their unique breed of sea-going 'beauties'. Special qualities that you'll find in all their boats from the 12 ft. rowboat to the 20 ft. and 25 ft. cabin and sports cruisers. Yamaha make
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    • 228 14 The naked truth D%/ M v. if* a m m a t: K c VOLVO PENTA Aquamatic range: the inboard/outboard beauties fißVaisfi mP&i iSF 130/270 D 130 h.p. 4 cyl petrol t. 170A/270C 170 h p. 6 cyl. petrol 210 A/2708 210 h p. V 8 petrol D2IA/270D 75 h.p.
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  • Page 15 Advertisements
    • 341 15 1 > *3 k i y m a I r 4 f. << Wi mm M i V r p I a r B M£ 1 i x 9 i&* !i ~u >fc 19 x r For the first time in SingaporeAll your marine needs under one roof! Everything for
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    • 131 15 Hamilton Jet 52 ■S: v:V RID€ A HIGH-POWERED, SUPER-SENSITIVE JETSTREAM. NO RUDDER, PROPELLER OR OTHER UNDER-WATER MOVING PARTS. NO RISK OF HURTING ANYONE IN THE WATER. SHALLOW-DRAFT. HIGHLY MANOEUVREABLE. A 40 KNOT 16 FOOT JET-POWER-PACK (FOR ONLY 5513,450) Wallem Shipping Singapore Pie. Ltd. 'J. UNDERWATER DIVING EQUIPMENT, 0 v o
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    • 335 16 rules the under world Jantzen spins a few sea,yarns, stretching things here and there, so that you're always in the swim. In all the right places JANTZEN AUTHORISED DEALERS: Chotirmall Chosen Hong Shertg Co. Isetan Little's Shop Metro Metrotex Metro Supreme Melwani's Peking Robinson's C.K.Tang Tanglin Silk Store Tharoomal's I
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    • 162 16 Refined f r om top to prop! Beginning with a fun-loving 3.6 h.p. Topping it off with an ocean-splitting 130 h.p. Self-cleaning water pumps Drip-proof carburettors Top to prop corrosion protection Fast acceleration Softer silencing Extra muscle and life. VO/PER THORNYCROFT PTE. LTD. RMU SiMGAPOHI lj TEL 499UM-U PO BOX
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    • 548 17 "to-™ CLASSIFIEDS PHONE *****8 <1 .1 A Wa ANNOUNCEMENTS MARGARETTAS' beauty shop in Hilton Hotel for hoirstyling perms, tinting, facials, body-mas-sage. For appointment. Tel: Singapore *****4 open Bam daily. AT YOUR SERVICE HOME/OFFICE Renovation. Painting, mosaic/terrazzo tiles, ironmongery and floor carpeting/ cleaning/waxing. Reasonable charges. Phone Eastern Sun *****/*****0 (evening). VICTORIA
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    • 444 17 INTERNATIONAL AIRLINE SALES MANAGER with wife and child wishes to lease accommodation in residential districts—either detached bungalow or modern apartment. Prepared to wait—if accommodation found suitable. Furnished unfurnished. Property owners contact *****0 S'pore. WANTED A DOUBLE storey bungalow in district 10, 11, 21. 4 bedrooms and study room with aircon.
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    • 463 17 FOR SALE SPECIAL OFFER MARANTZ 56wott AM/FM stereo tuner amplifier with HECO Sound-Moster speaker system and Thorens turntable with Shure cartridge only $895/- Nam Cheong Electronic Centre 2-36, 2nd Floor Peninsula Shopping Centre Tel: ***** S'pore. CLEARING BELOW COST!!! New Italian Adding Machine $168/Switzerland Typewriter only $105/Electronic Calculator only $345/Electric
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    • 448 17 Rapidly expanding firm of Marine Industrial Contractors specialising in sand/shot blasting, painting, tank coatings and scaffolding requires a TECHNICAL MANAGER JOB FUNCTION:— To negotiate contracts with shipyards and other clients, prepare quotations/tenders and plan work schedules. QUALIFICATIONS:— This is a responsible position and applicants should ideally have an engineering or
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    • 560 17 BALI HEALTH CENTRE for your mossoge. Sauna both, weight reducing treatments, hairdressing (cutting trimming), facial massage, manicure. Attractive young ladies at ytour service: Arcode, Victoria Street. Telephone: (Singapore). *****. TV/RADIO SALES ft SERVICE SERVICING ALL KINDS Television, Tope-Recorders Amplifiers, Television For Rental. Reasonable Charges DAY/NIGHT SERVICE PHONE: SCIENCE TECHNICAL T.V.
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    • 308 17 NG KEONG CAR TRADERS Pte LIMITED, 14, Peterson Hill *****4 *****9 offers 1971 F/Escort, T/1200, Escort/S/Woflon, Mercedes/200, Cortlna/6XL, A/1300/GT VW/1300, F/Cortina, Cortino/GT, 1970; Datsun/ SSS, T/Corona/MK 11, F/Cortina, Datsun/1300, F/Escort, Datsun/ 1400, Escort/Super, T/1200, A/ Mini/MK 11, T/1000, Copri/ 1600, Cortina/1600E, VW/1300. 1969 V/Victor Mercedes/200, V/ Viva, F/Capri, F/Escort, M/Cooper,
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    • 94 17 1969 FORD FAIRLANE 500 many extras excellent cond. reg. till Oct. White vinyl top candy apple red AM-FM radio power brakes steering cruise-o-matic trans. air-con. Owner transferred $8500/- S'pore or equipvalent $US.. Phone 66-7371. 1970 CHEVROLET IMPALA automatic airconditioned power steering, immoculated condition, 1 careful owner. Pacific Motor Credit Pte.
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    • 141 17 WHERE TO STAY CAMERON HOTEL air-conditioned bedrooms, bathrooms attached. Bed and Breakfast $12/- upwards. 547 Upper Changi Road 9 m.s. (16) Telephone: *****6/*****8 Also Main Agents for Singapore Sweep. Sub Agents Are Welcome. AT YOUR SERVICE Crown Pacific Ltd. The International Packers Overseas Moving 0 Door-to-Door Service Packing Commercial Storage
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  • 329 18  -  By Sonny Yap Singapore is likely to compete in the first A s i a n Table Tennis Union championships to be held in Peking, China from September 2 to 13. The Singapore Table Tennis Association will call a meeting soon to decide. STTA's vice-president,
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  • 378 18 New York, Wednesday. For a man who is due to step into the ring tomorrow night and raise his fists against world heavyweight champion Joe Frazier, Ron Stander appears singularly unconcerned about risking his life and limb. Stander,' the 27-year-old challenger from Council
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  • 108 18 Rose Badminton Party won the Singapore Badminton Association's junior inter-team champions when it beat Armed Forces 4-1 in the finals. In the semi-finals, Rose defeated Standard BP 4-1 while Armed Forces upset defending champion, Jasmin BP with a 3-2 win. Full results of finals (Rose
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  • 31 18 Raffles Institution will meet St. Joseph's Institution In their second annual soccer match for the Ortega cup at SJl's ground, Bras Basah Road on Friday starting at 5 p.m.
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  • 237 18 Jakarta. Wednesday—Star players from Thailand, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, the traditional big five badminton countries of Asia, will compete in the first Jakarta open tournament starting here today. Indonesia's five times allEngland champion Rudl Hartono is regarded as unbeatable in the men's singles. and Indonesia
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  • 81 18 Djakarta, Wednesday. Indonesia has named an eight-member squad for the women's Über Cup badminton finals to be played in Tokyo from June 8 Jo 12: Utami Dewi, who is Rudy Hartono's sister, Tati Sumirah and Intan Nurtjahja will be Indonesia's main singles players, with Retno Kustiah
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  • 40 18 Tokyo. Wednesday—Result* of kut nlfht'i Japanese professional baseball (antes follow: CENTRAL LEAGUE Talyo 4 Chunlehl 2 Hanshln 4 Hiroshima t Yomlari 3 Yakolt 2 PACIFIC LEAGUE Toel 4 Kintetsa 0 Lotto 4 Hankyn S Nishltetsn 7 Nankal 3
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  • 172 18 Osaka, Wednesday. Defending champion Peter Thomson of Australia seeks his third biR win of the season on the Japanese circuit as he faces 130 Golfers from seven countries in today's opening round of the 12 million yen (15,000 sterling) Dunlop International. Thomson, five times British
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  • 83 18 Zurich, Wednesday. The International Football Federation (FIFA) announced yesterday that 15 national associations had been suspended for not paying their annual subscription fees. According to the FIFA rules, associations under suspension are not allowed to vote at FIFA congress meetings or play matches against other member Associations.
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  • 86 18 Honolulu, Wednesday. The city medical examiners office reported yesterday that Mexican featherweight boxer Porfirio Cruz-Perez, 27, died from brain injuries, cause unknown. Cruz-Perez last fought in the ring here on May 9, winning an eight round decision over Ely Axinto of the Philippines. There were
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  • Article, Illustration
    281 18 A scintillating unbeaten century by K. S. Vaidyanathan for the Combined Colleges staff team was easily the main highlight of the thrill packed drawn match against Indian Association at Balestier Road, yesterday. The game ended in suspense with I_A.'s last batting pair Abdul Rashid and Heyzer Pereira
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
    • 504 18 NOTICES SINGAPORE ISLAND COUNTRY CLUB TENDER NOTICE PROPOSED NEW SWIMMING POOL COMPLEX AT UPPER THOMSON ROAD, SINGAPORE Tenders are invited from P.W.D. registered Contractors under Financial Group exceeding $750,000/- for the erection and satisfactory completion of the above-mentioned works. Tender Documents, Bills of Quantities, Specifications can be collected from and
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  • Back Page WEDNESDAY
    • 268 20 United Press International Lovers of British sausages known almost universally as bangers want the government to ban the import of garlic sausages from Europe. The reason: British sausage addicts accuse garlic sausages of causing traffic jams. Officials of the Banger Eaters' Association announced
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    • 55 20 Marina O'Mally likes to get that floating feeling as she daydreams of wonderful things to come. The fun-loving 17-year-old student hopes one day to break into the professional modelling world. Her favourite past-time is browsing through shops. She likes her boyfriends to be masculine, courteous and
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    • 167 20 Today is Wednesday, May 24, the 145 th day of 1972 with 221 to follow. THE MOON: Between first quarter and full Dhase. THE MORNING STARS: Mercury and JuDiter. THE EVENING STARS: Venus, Mars and Saturn. Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. Queen Victoria
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    • 485 20 The Melbourne Herald In America anything goes That is if you don't lock it or tie it down. For Instance my next door neighbour in the swanky suburb of Pelham had her front lawn stolen last year, less than two hours after she
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    • 164 20 Thomas "Amarillo Slim" Preston, 42, a lanky Texan with nerves of steel and a gift of talk, won $180,000 last week in Las Vegas to become the world's champion poker player. "We are still buddies, ain't we" the 6ft. professional gambler drawled as he shook
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    • 56 20 AH FOOK: Have you noticed that cholera and the imported mango season always coincide? I never believed those old folk tales but it seems they might be right. MEI LIN: It also coincides with the hot dry season, May Day and my aunt Teng Kim's birthday. So I'm
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 473 20 5 Siagapora 3.00 Opening and Housewives' Matinee —Double Matrimony (Cantonese film, Pt. I—English subtitles) 3.55 A Diary of Events In Singapore this Week 4.00 Persembahan Ku Featuring: Salamah Mohd. 4.10 Days of Our Lives 4.55 Close 6.05 Opening and Space Angel 6.30 News In Brief CE) 6.35 What Others Say
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    • 470 20 Trust your lucky star IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you have great determination which, coupled -with your natural instinct for intuitive thinking, enables you to move ahead on any given project with the kind of confidence that very often results in the wrenching of success from failure, fulfillment from
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