New Nation, 28 November 1972

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  • 15 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Tuesday evening, November 28, 1972 No. 572 Price 15 cents NEW NATION
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  • 10 1 Police reported 74 accidents yesterday. Two were serious.
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  • 175 1 Trading was hectic and concentrated on selected counters in the stock market this morning. City Development was the star attraction. Its price rose dramatically to a new high of $2.89 before coming down to 12.81. still 11 cents up. Sime Darby was temporarily suspended when trading started
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  • 30 1 LATE NEWS Paris, Tuesday Postal employees went on strike across France today in an attempt to gain higher wages in the face of rapidly rising Inflation.
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  • 250 1  -  Row of shop windows smashed By Abby Tan, Sunny Wee Nine shop windows at the Woh Hup shopping complex in Beach Road were smashed by two rival gangs in a running battle early today. The brawl started in the Golden Mile Cabaret Restaurant and Nightclub
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  • 311 1 Gang clash planned An incident between two rival secret society gang leaders at the Reformative Training Centre earlier last week sparked off the jail-break by the 33 inmates. It is now known that the two leaders organised the mass break-out from the prison
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  • 78 1 Rome, Tuesday The Italian authorities rushed 200 tents to the central Italian city of Ascoli Plceno yesterday in the first move to house people made homeless by a violent earth tremor on Sunday. Dozens of houses were made uninhabitable when the quake, which measured eight points on
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  • 178 1 Samples of the dead fish from Seletar Reservoir have been sent to several laboratories for testing. A PUB spokesman said today: "We want to know whether the fish are suffering from some bacteriological infection. Over the past four weeks about 2000 katls of
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  • 83 1 Washington. Tuesday. President Nixon said at Camp David, Maryland, yesterday he would begin announcing the Cabinet for his second administration today and the composition of the entire Cabinet would be disclosed by the middle of next month. He ruled out any Cabinet posts or full-time administration positions
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  • 67 1 Washington, Tuesday Freak ocean waves, rolling down the Pacific Coast from an Alaskan storm, were yesterday blamed lor eight deaths in Washington, Oregon and California. One of the killer waves engulfed 44 people and 11 cars near the beach at 111waco, Washington. Ships off the Washington coast
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  • 435 1 Lee: Getting to know EEC countries quickly Reuter London, Tuesday Singapore's Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, said here last night that since Britain was joining the enlarged European common market he had to get to know the member countries quickly. Mr. Lee, who arrived here
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  • 234 1 Sime Darby Holdings today announced bumper group profits of £5,268,000 before tax for the year ended June 1972. This compares with a forecast of not less than £4,200,000 made at the time of the bid for Cllve Holdings last August —bettering it by 25.4 per
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  • 35 1 New York, Tuesday. President Nixon yesterday met for the third day In a row with Dr. Henry Kissinger on the Vietnam peace negotiations. The talks were held at Camp David, Maryland.
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  • 79 1 Who are the top pop stars as far as Singaporeans are concerned? Well, the votes have been counted and the answers will all be in a special Showbis page in tomorrow's New Nation. New Nation's Pop Poll drew a a landslide of votes. There will be stories,
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • 289 2 Life as wife of the chairman of the Rollel optical group of companies is just a whirl of housework, hobbles and travel—little of the jet-set style of living and garish tinsel. Mrs. Ursula Peesel who is on a four-week holiday-cum-business
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  • 129 2 The National Book Development Council and SAYA magazine are organising poetry and short story competitions In English for Singapore secondary school students In conjunction with the International Book Year. There are two sections for each competition a junior section for secondary 111 and IV
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  • 182 2 'Get right ones 0r...' The Registry of Vehicles today warned motorists against using yellow number plates which do not give the reflective luminosity specified by tiie Singapore Institute of Standards and Industrial Research.. Those who go against this order will be prosecuted. A ROV spokesman
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  • 122 2 Shipyards in the Kallang Basin are still hopeful that the government will consider their suggestion to build a tunnel across the basin instead of the proposed drawbridge. It Is understood that the shipyards have sent another memorandum to the Ministry of National Development for a
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  • 146 2 Mum comes in every week to make Christmas decorations and toys for a charity sale and little Alison Beard, 3, believes in helping her and her friends by testing the toys. The hobby horse she is trying out is only one of the countless items made
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  • 153 2 Jurong Port last year experienced an Increase of 27.3 per cent of cargo handled compared to the previous years total. Although only 956 vessels berthed alongside the wharves last year compared to 1020 In 1970, they handled an overall cargo throughout of 1,755,534 tonnes compared
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  • 318 2 Much of the financial risks in real estate development are borne by the purchasers and institutional financiers, according to Mr. Lee Eng <Leun, secretary of the Singapura Building Society Ltd. He said: "The developers in practice require very little equity capital to
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
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    • 152 2 TOURS LOWEST FARE TO LONDON 6 Times A Week Hongkong/Mocau/Bongkok 8 Days $860 Daily Departure /Taiwan/Japan Hongkong 14 Days $1470 Taiwan/Hongkong (Mocau)/ Bangkok 12/14 Days, $1110; $1190; 2/12, 9/12, 18/12, 24/12, 1/1, 20/1, 3/2, 17/2, 3/3. 10/3, 12/3, 26/3, 31/3. Taiwan Korea/Japan/Hongkong Bangkok 21/19/15 Days $1990, $1890, $1790 2/12, 20/1,
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 127 2 Today's winning number *****2 If the last six digits of your Singapore identity card number are those shown above, you can claim a $300 Post Office Savings Bank Gift Voucher. Your voucher will be paid into a Post Office Saving Bank account in your name. Call with your identity card
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    • 379 2 HBPPEnincs wh t^y on The Acting Prime Minister, Mr. 8. Rajaratnam, will give a talk to the FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH EAST ASIA at a dinner at Shangri-La at 7.30 p.m. The SINGAPORE PRESS CLUB will hold its weekly lunch at the Imperial Room, Capitol Building, at 12.45 p.m.
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    • 95 2 rMiTfll Temperatures in world cities yesterday: Jakarta 35-26 C Kuala Lumpur 32-23 C Bangkok 31-23 C Hong Kong 21-16 C Manila 28-22 C Taipeh 18-16 C Naha 20-17 C Seoul minus 1-minus 7C Tokyo 17- 5C London 8 5C Moscow minus 6-minus 9C New York 9 4C Perth 29-24 C
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  • 310 3 Father gets 3 years Butterworth, Tuesday A man and his daughter were found guilty yesterday of having drugs, which the Sessions Court president said, could have been supplied to half a million people. Goh Teow Chew, 45, a musician, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment.
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  • 119 3 The Singapore Chinese Middle School Teachers' Union is to offer more incentives to attract more teachers to join its fold, its president, Mr. Ho Kah Leong said. Mr. Ho, who is M.P. for Jurong said his Union had so far arranged with the emporiums for special
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  • 201 3  -  By Pauline Khng The answer to "cheeky" male security guards is a woman security guard and the first to be employed in an electronic firm is Che, Rahmah binte Bakri. Che Rahmah, 26, came to the "rescue" after complaints from female workers about the embarrassment
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  • 251 3  -  By V.K. Chin Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday. Leaders of political parties, which have formed coalition governments with the Alliance, will attend the grand Alliance meeting here on Dec. JJ. They include the Minister of Technology, Research and Local Government, Dato Ong Kee Hul (chairman of the
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  • 45 3 The University of Singapore Society's Drama Group will stage Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot at the Cultural Centre on Dec. 7, 8 and 9. Tickets at $4. $3 and $2 are available at Cold Storage, C. K. Tang and by ringing tel: *****.
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  • 24 3 The Lions Club of Singapore (Host) luncheondeetlng has been postponed from Wednesday to December 6. The time and place remain unchanged.
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  • 108 3 The first Y's Men's clubs District Conference will be held in Singapore on December 2 and 3 at the Shangri-La Hotel. About 70 delegates from Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Singapore are expected to attend the conference, together with observers from Hong Kong. Inche Othman
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 320 3 Teacher takes the first prize Last Thursday's quiz photograph showed part of a plastic water decanter. The first prize of $15 goes to Mr. Terence Tan, a teacher, of Yuk Long Avenue. His entry was the first correct one opened by the Editor last night. The next correct answers from
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  • In Person
    • 678 4 And that meant time to eelebrate ONE might expect cymbals to crash and drums to roll for British Malayan Trustees Limited when they finally moved Into their very own office preSises for the first me after 48 years of operation. There might not have been as much
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
    • 322 5 Important news from -v ZzWL ti* -W »v m Si m m w *3F X 2? IV < IS JK m &L WMm P -.x: v >* 4' r i MM* •itf uflwwßE?; 77)e Glengoyne Distillery, now a showpiece of the industry, still looks much as it always has. recently
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  • BEHIND THE NEWS
    • 830 6  -  From William Drummond Washington Post BANGLADESH The shadows from the banana trees and coconut palms were getting longer as our helicopter churned across the flat, wet delta of southern Bangladesh. Next to me on the seat was a radio receiver transmitter, a precious
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    • 587 6  -  From Robert Pullan Melbourne Herald AMERICA Notoriety is a highly perishable commodity. Lieutenant William L. Calley, who murdered a score of unarmed Vietnamese civilians at My Lai and whose conviction sparked waves of protest strong enough to move the White House Is now, 18
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    • 1031 6  -  From Bernard Nossiter Washington Post EUROPE In the cold light of the post-summit dawn, sober Europeans are waking up to the fact that achievement of the Common Market's proclaimed goal—economic and monetary union by 1981 —Is virtually Impossible as that union Is presently
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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  • 349 7 United Press International Oslo, Tuesday. The Norwegian government yesterday faced an indignant Press and sceptical members of Parliament after having allowed an intruding foreign submarine to escape from the Sognetiord on Norway's west coast. The submarine, which highly-placed naval sources identified as
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  • 335 7 London, Tuesday, Britain's 'inveterate gamblers, who bet on everything from pancake races to political elections, put their money on an Australian blonde and a British brunette to win the 1972 Miss World title. The country's three biggest bookmakers reported wagering was heavy yesterday as
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  • 165 7 United Press International Stockholm, Tuesday.—The nations of the world spent more than US$l5,OOO million on military research and development in the last 10 years, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said yesterday. The United States and the Soviet Union accounted for about
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  • 243 7 Bonn, Tuesday Two armed men yesterday shot and wounded the owner of a gun shop in Trier, took his wife hostage and demanded a 100,000 mark (about $95,000) ransom. Police said the two men. about 25-year-old. entered the Weber Weapons Shop, shot the owner
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  • 75 7 A big smile from little Dar.ny Boten, though his story is a sad one. Danny, 6 months old, has lost his left kidney, his right one is working but may fall at any time and his skull is enlarging due to hydrocephalus. His parents, ot Portland,
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  • 440 7 'Using 1967 pretext to attack' United Press International Damascus, Tuesday Syria yesterday accused Israel of planning an attack on Egypt and Syria with the same pretext it used to justify the 1967 six-day war. A commentary on the state run Damascus Radio said Israel
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  • 172 7 Reuter Rome, Tuesday. Police said yesterday that four Libyans who dumped a small arsenal of submachine guns and grenades at Rome airport may have been Arab terrorists planning to hijack four planes heading for London, Paris, Belgrade and Madrid. The plot probably failed
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  • 205 7 United Press International Budapest, Tues d a y— Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev began a twice-post-poned visit to Hungary yesterday. Mr. Brezhnev, Secretary General of the Soviet Communist Party, was in high spirits as he kissed a woman worker and joked with the diplomatic
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  • 472 8 A major complaint among the countries in this region is that Japan has been taking back with its left hand what it gives out with its right because of Tokyo's Insistence that its aid and loans to the developing states should be used to purchase
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  • 119 8 yI ill i i^ilp by ISPY Madame Anna Chen-well-known Vice-President of the Flying Tigers, has long had the reputation of being a diplomat par excellence. After one dinner with the distinguished lady, I am more than convinced that this reputation is not Illfounded. Asked what her
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  • 880 8  -  DICK WILSON It is not often that I venture to disagree with my courageous fellow journalist, Mochtar Lubis. But his speech at the Third International Conference on the Modernisation of Asia at Penang a few weeks ago
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  • Letters
    • 223 8 Will the proper authority enlighten us shift workers on our basic right? There are workers who are forced to work double shifts without being paid extra, and without being able to take leave to rest, as a result x>f shortage of staff and the necessity of operating at
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    • 125 8  -  ALI TAMBY It I refer to The Saint's letter, Rough Security Guards in New Nation dated 21st November. In his fourth paragraph he says, "I believe most security guards are either ex-police personnel or exdetainees. Their past experience in brutal fights Is still in their blood." I
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    • 77 8  -  LAWRENCE S.H. LOH Public Relations Officer, Singapore Police Force, Singapore, Z. I refer to the letter by Citizen published in your newspaper on November 13. We would like to Inform your correspondent, that the Police Force Including the Special Constabulary are issued with leather boots with
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    • 89 8 On Monday, 20th November. I bought a set of Ellzabeth Arden skin care products from Metro at High Street. It costs almost $50.00. I then visited Metro's garment's section, Hilda's and then Tharoomal's. To my greatest dismay, I later dlscoverd that I had misplaced the plastic bag
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    • 113 8  -  YEONG KUM KEE Public Relations Officer, Ministry of National Development, Singapore, 2. Please refer to the letters by Mr. Chiang Ging Sing and Resident <NN, October 10 and November 8 respectively) concerning the construction ■of an overhead bridge across Jalan Toa Payoh near Ah Hood Road. I
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    • 110 8 One day, I accompanied my friend to a post office In Queens town to withdraw money from the savings bank. I asked for the withdrawal form, and havlna completed it we returned it to the man at the counter together with the book. He gave
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    • 124 8 On 21st November at 0.00 p.m. I had the unfortunate experience of driving behind a huge lorry carrying a bull-dozer. The lorry was travelling along Clementi Road towards Ayer Rajah Road at about 10 km/h and there was a long queue of traffic behind me.
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    • 98 8  -  YEONG KUM KEE Public Relations Officer, Ministry of National Development, Singapore, 2. We refer to the letter by Arodem (NN, November 14) captioned Lorries Block Junction. The developers of the building project have already been served with notices to remove the debris and building materials on
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
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  • 3039 9 Attempts to absorb community into the Indonesian racial mosaic AN EXAMINATION OF THE CHINESE COMMUNITIES IN INDONESIA, MALAYSIA AND THE PHILIPPINES Once the loved in the court of Soekarno, the Chinese Indonesia suffered persecution when the Indonesian Communist Party failed in its attempt to wrest political power
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  • SHOPPING
    • 851 10 rjOING some place for holiday lately? If so, go prepared. It is now winter in the northern hemisphere and spring in the southern. Everyone knows that winter is cold, even if there is no snow but do you know that spring can be quite chilly too,
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  • Page 10 Advertisements
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    • 293 10 DIAMONDS AT WHOLESALE PRICES! We have recently received a large shipment of diamonds from Belgium and England. In connection with our diamond promotion, we are offering them at wholesale prices. These stones vary in weight from J to 4 carats and are being displayed in our windows. We invite you
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  • TREND
    • 388 11 home One of the most remarkable developments in home furnishing is the water-bed. This large rectangular vinyl bag containing up to 200 gallons of water was developed for maximum comfort but has given rise to much pessimistic speculation about its dangers. One very commo:.
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    • 207 11  -  Presented by Mary Lee You'd think that with .17 boutiques in one shopping centre and twice as many along Orchard Road, there would be no problem finding a dress for a gala occasion. But you're wrong. Most boutiques find it easier to survive if
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    • 477 11 Melbourne Herald Could it be that the beloved Paris personality Coco Chanel was a Nazi sympathiser? Coco Chanel, the most original woman in the history of Paris fashion designing died last year aged 88. Since then several books on her life have been published and
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    • 128 11 London, Tuesday. Forget long hair, men. Forget pants-suits, girls. That's if you want to make it to the top of the British establishment ladder. And buy a hat. The hat lives yet. In Westminster Abbey at the Royal silver anniversary thanksgiving service last week, there wasn't
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  • BUSINESS NEWS
    • 88 12 Market sentiment continned to improve on the Stock Exchange yesterday, with widespread rains being made, mainly by second-line industrials. Certain bine chips also received strong support. United Overseas Bank rained M cents to |12.40 while Matsn advanced 35 cents to $9.20. Bukit Sembawang, was the star performer in
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    • 141 12 London, Tuesday—Joseph Lucas (Industries), Britain's largest motor component and motor and aircraft electrical firm, reports that sales by its overseas businesses plus direct exports from the British parent were worth £63 million in the year ended July 1972. Sir Kenneth Corl e y. chairman, says in his
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    • 454 12 With Sime Darby Holdings due this week to report its achievements for the year ended June 1972, the shares in the local market have been held consistently well above the $8 level over the past eight trading days. Since Oct. 19 when the Sime
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    • 214 12 United Press International New York, Tuesday—Pro-fit-taking and negative Vietnam news took the steam out of the stock market as prices closed broadly lower yesterday. The Dow Jones industrial average was off 7.45 at 1,017.76. Standard and Poor's 500 stock Index was off 0.54 at 116.73.
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    • 97 12 The Malaysian mission comprising 69 importers to last month's Trade Fair in Canton bought about $25 million worth of Chinese goods. The general manager of Pernas Trading, Inche Mohamed Shahar, said this was $9 million more than the purchases made at the spring
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    • 307 12 The Industrial Bank of Japan is now working out a plan to provide for more local participation in its future ventures overseas. Its president, Mr. Isao Masamune (above), who was in Singapore recently to open the bank's representative office, said: "We are aware of mounting
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    • OVERSEAS STOCK EXCHANGES
      • 56 12 Closing prices (in yen) yesterday: Hitachi 244 Nippon Steel 146 Mitsubishi Heavy Ind. 239 Japan Mail Steamship 299 Isuzu Motor 185 Tokyo Oas 205 I H I 180 Nippon Express 205 Tokyo Shibaura Electric 145 Toyobo 203 Tokyo Tokei Selzo 220 Oriental Terminal Products 136 Sankyo Tokushu Nejl 120
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      • 280 12 Prices at 11,30 a.m. today (Australian time). A baleen 14 15 Do opts* nil 07 AOD 15 16 Allstate ctg 27 30 Amad 15 16 Aurora 15 18 Do opts 04% 05 Aust Ant nil 15 Bamboo 09 11 Beach 42 45 Bounty Oil 01% 02 Bridge 26 27
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      • 197 12 Closing prices (In francs) yesterday: Parisbas 212.50 (211) Indochine 279 276.50) Foncier 407 407) Printemps 167.50 (165.40) CGE 479 (483) Bull 73.50 72.40) Royal Dutch 191.50 (191) Michelin 1719 (1690) Thomson 159.80 (161.60) CFP 203.50 202.10) Rhone 178.60 (181.50) Air 341 (339) Philips 86 85.60) Suez 362 (365) Citroen
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      • 189 12 Allied Chem Alcoa M Am Brand* Am Cfcn 44* Am Motors AT T 52»; A A P Anaconda Avon Pd Beth Steel Boeing Caterp Trac Chrysler Coca-Cola Control Data Corn G1 Wks Dow Chem DuPont E Kodak Exxon Fed Dept Str* 7% 18% 31 '4 26 68% 39
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      • 40 12 The Dow Jones closing stock averages on the New York stock exchange yesterday were: 30 Industrials 1,017.76 (Off 7.45), 20 Transport 231.47 (Off 1.16), 15 Utilities 123.37 (Off 0.77) and 65 Stocks 332.05 (Off 12.17). Volume 18,790.000 shares.
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      • 66 12 Kuwait, Tuesday. Kuwait and the westernowned Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) yesterday reached an agreement on prices at which KOC will buy back the government's share of crude oil under a recent participation accord. This was announced by the Assistant Under-Secre-tary of the Ministry of Finance and
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    • 381 12 Central Sugars whose profits have been deteriorating because of the high cost of raw material, expects another bad year If the Malaysian government does not permit adjustment in the price of refined sugar. Company chairman Tan Sri Dato Tan Hian-Tsin In
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    • 198 12 Austral Enterprises has made a pre-tax profit of $1,079,798. for the year ended June 1972 9 per cent more over the previous year. The chairman, Dtto Yeap Hock Hoe, who describes the increase in profits as "moderate," anticipates a good future for th* company. He attributes
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
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  • BUILDING INDUSTRY
    • 540 13 BUILDINGS SOAR HIGHER AND HIGHER In the last five years Singapore's skyline has changed so much that even a regular visitor finds it difficult to recognise it through the haze. Old structures have been torn down and In their place now stand highrise apartments, skyscraper office blocks
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    • 1031 13 Earnings have gone up to about $600 mil. By Staff Writer Building and reconstruction activity in Singapore has increased by nearly five-fold during the last decade. Expressed in terms of hard cash, the value of this line of economic production is estimated to be more than $600
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    • 723 14 Aluminium was hardly ever used as a building material in Singapore 15 years ago. Now, no post-boom skyscraper that has been constructed to be a landmark is complete without window frames, sliding doors or even ornamental faces made from the metal. Aluminium which is
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    • 990 15 To meet the varying tastes of owners The current building boom in Singapore has created a huge and continuing demand for a wide range of construction materials. New materials, which have already been used in building Industries In the West, are gradually being tried
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    • 436 15 Stepl is the most important of all the building materials. Its enormous tensile strength is essential if buildings are to be of any height. Steel bars form the essential superstructure for a multi-storey building. The Republic's only steel mill produced a record of 146,000 tons of the metal
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    • 476 16 The Singapore Government is promoting home-ownership in a big way. The Government's policy of allowing the use of Central Provident Fund savings for the purchase of Housing and Development Board flats has enabled many citizens to become home-owners. With the increase in CPF contributions over
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    • 297 16  -  E.K. For greater speed in construction, a constant supply of concrete mix is essential. Concrete mixers in the past required several workers to be on hand when they were in operation, A gang of labourers was required to feed the mixer with
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    • 678 17 What the private developers offer In present day Singapore you need a big bank account to live in style. If you can dish out anything above $100,000. private housing developers offer you a variety of homes. Cost is the over-riding factor. Creative architects
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    • 811 18  -  Builders take to new techniques E.K. More advanced building techniques are gaining acceptance among local builders now than at the start of the building boom. Bigger and taller buildings mushrooming all over the island have brought about little revolutions especially in piling methods. Foundation work
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    • 943 19 Shopping centres spring up to cope with demand From the ninth century onwards Singapore has been known as the paradise for shoppers. It continues to be so, attracting mil- lions of visitors who quickly "grab" the wares put up in the Republic's shops. And with the economic
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    • 1067 20 Nearly everywhere in Singapore housing estates are springing up. Prices have nevertheless kept going up because of the great demand for private houses. And the way things are going it is unlikely that the building of housing estates will slow down or prices will
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    • 570 21 The physical development of Singapore is a continuing task and consequently provision is made for a review of the Republic's Master Plan every five years. Developers have to pay utmost attention to the specifications laid out in the Master Plan for it ensures the growth
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    • 16 21 Houses —old and new... A pre-war bungalow Twin bungalows with unusual roof design A modern bungalow
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    • 412 22 Worksite mishaps have been cut down drastically Better safe than dead! Many construction workers are 'heeding this advice and have taken it. to be the maxim for industrial safety. The building construction industry because of its boom, experiences one of the highest number of
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    • 264 14 Suppliers of Ordinary Portland Cement to the Building Industry of the Republic: ASIA CEMENT (M) PTE. LTD. 601, C.C.C. Building, 47, Hill Street, Singapore, 6. Tel: *****3. PAN MALAYSIA CEMENT WORKS (S) PTE. LTD. 17, Tanjong Kling Road, Jurong, Singapore. 22. Tel: *****3,*****3. SINGAPORE CEMENT MFG. CO. PTE. LTD. 144,
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    • 229 20 SHING KWANG HOUSE is fully air-conditioned Equipment by SIME DARBY mt <;y> tRANE AIR-COOLED COLD GENERATOR TRANE HERMETIC 2-STAGE CENTRIFUGAL WATER CHILLERS Trane your building right from the start! Trane is the world's most advanced manufacturer of air conditioning equipment. More than just cooling, Trane air conditioning means total comfort
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    • 460 22 Towering 31 storeys ot the heart of Singapore's commercial contra, the High Street Centre is strategically locatod ot tha confluonca of the Singapore River and the main north south city thoroughfare. Dispensing modo shopping amanitias and la tost office premises in the araa, tha H.S.C is just a stona throw
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    • 1705 23 NEW NATION CLASSIFIEDS PHONE *****8 FURNITURE FURNITURE SUPPLIER Complete fully Furnished for oil kind of furniture and special discount for Housing Agency PLEASE CONTACT: LONDON WOODWORKING COMPANY 18 Tiverton Lone Singopore 9. (Welcome for rental) FOR SALE CURTAINS, UPHOLSTERY Fabrics, Carpets, Carpet-tiles, Wallpapers, Furniture, Interior Designing Etc., G.S. Interiors, 401,
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    • 538 23 VEHICLES FOR SALE TENDERS AM INVITED for the purchase of one 1967 Lond Rover, May be viewed ot Phoenix Pork, Tanglin Rood. Tender Forms obtainable from Mr. Chan. Telephone: *****1 S'pore. mo VOLVO 144S first owner leaving. Tropicool aire on, $10,500 0.n.0. For appointment viewing call Mr. Von Holten's secretary
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    • 766 23 VEHICLE WANTED REQUIRED GOOD USED CARS ot reasonable price. Contact Chan Telephone: ***** Singapore. WANTED immediately Ford Capri 1300. Contoct Patrick ***** after 6.00 p.m. WHERE TO EAT IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS in booking your wedding dinners, please call at Singapore Kitchen Cocktail Lounge 14—18 Battery Road Singopore 1. Tel:
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  • 322 24 tominc to grips j More than 200 exponents of San Cheen Do underwent their first grading test over the weekend. They were the first batch of students to enrol in the San Cheen Do Institute at Haig Road which opened three months ago. San Cheen
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  • 44 24 Melbourne, Tuesday. Victoria beat the touring Pakistani cricketers by six wickets in their four-day match which ended here yesterday. Victoria were set 335 runs to win in 280 minutes after Pakistan declared their second innings closed this morning at 309 for five.
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  • 173 24 London, Tuesday. The New Zealand All Blacks rugby union team have begun the build-up to th«ir international against Wales on Saturday by "getting away from it alj" at the seaside resort of Porthcrawl. They will stay there until Friday—but first they face a possible tough
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  • 153 24 Hong Kong, Tuesday. Malaysian badminton players won only two of the five men's matches played in Peking yesterday, New China News Agency reported today. Before a capacity crowd of 10,000 at the workers' indoor stadium Khoo Choong Meng of Malaysia beat Chin Hsin-Hui of China 15-11,
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  • 162 24 Cardiff, Tuesday.—Hiddy Jehan, a 22-year-old Pakistani student, won the Welsh Open squash rackets title for the second successive year here last night. Jehan, who is ranked the world's number two amateur behind Can Nancarrow (Australia), beat professional Mohammed Asran (United Arab Republic) 3-9, 7-9, 9-3, 9-3,
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  • 23 24 London, Tuesday A Japanese buyer paid U5555,000 for the mare Crucial Moment at Tattersall's December blookstock sales which opened here yesterday.
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  • 391 24 -THEY'RE ALL 'PLAYERS' London, Tuesday The council of the English Football Association voted here last night to abolish the distinction between amateurs and professionals in the sport in England. There was near-unani-mity for a proposal to drop the term "amateur" and class all footballers, paid
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  • 330 24 New York, Tuesday. America's top distance runner, Olympian Steve Prefontaine, says he is 100 per cent for professional track plans as outlined by the International Track Association headed by Michael O'Hara of Los Angeles. The university of Oregon senior, who still has collegiate eligibility remaining,
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  • 150 24 Auckland. Tuesday—Australian Eddie Charlton and New Zealand's Clark McConachy won the the opening sessions of two first round matches in the inaugural Open World billiards championship at Pukekohe near here yesterday. Charlton took a narrow 538 points to 535 lead over Jim Fryer of Britain, and 77-year-old
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  • 45 24 Brisbane, Tuesday Rain washed out more than half of the scheduled programme for the opening day of the Queensland grasscourt tennis championships yesterday. Only two prominent players had matches, Jun Kuku of Japan and Colin Dibley of Australia. The Davis Cuppers both won.
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  • 158 24 Barcelona, Tuesday. Eight of the world's top men tennis stars will line up here today to compete in the £20,000 Commercial Union masters tournament. The eight, who will be divided into two groups of four playing each other in round-robin matches, gained a place In the
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  • 166 24 Lagos, Tuesday. Mexican Davis Cup player Joaquin Loyo Mayo left Lagos last night for London suspecting that he had taken a drugged soft drink while playing in a tennis tournament at Benim in Nigeria over the week-end. The 27-year-old Mexican beat Toomas Lejus of the Soviet Union
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 108 24 DR. KILDARE by Ken Bald I I yy Y+r K3 4 I I m i THAT'S ROUGHU/ WHAT THE STATIONAAASTER SWP. BUT NO ONE'S OOTHEREP TO TELL MfcWH* J 7? Pi I fMiy m RIP KIRBY m m as <g a ißi MACTtONTO A PHOTO /3 i fS 7/H by
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    • 267 24 NEW NATION CROSSWORD 10 Airport necessity. 11 Xenophon's classic 12 Pomfret cake ingredient. 13 Syrup flavoring. IS Assault 20 Cut. 23 Likes very much: Slang. 24 Tutors. 27 Type of opera 28 Dve. 30 Cham. 32 Word with cake or punch. 33 Aria from "Rigoletto" 34 Raccoon's cousin. 36 In
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  • 303 25 By Blue Peter Ming Derby looks hard to beat In the Class One Division Three 8f handicap on Saturday. The Alcimedis six-year-old, who finished a gallant second to wonder horse Jumbo Jet in the Derby here early this year, Is picking up again after a
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  • 336 25 Follow the horses marked with a Diamond Spear set the pace and was nicely clear into the straight from Tolstoy. Nett Premium, in the rear early, made up ground. Finishing strongly Nett Premium swept past Diamond Spear close home to win easily. Third was Tolstoy. El Chino
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  • 413 25 New York, Tuesday. William J. Bowerman, head coach of the US Olympic track team, said yesterday treatment of Americans at the Munich Games so upset him that he considered quitting the US Olympic Committee. "I was so frustrated that I considered resigning when I
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  • 57 25 Wellington, Tuesday New Zealander Graham Mcßae, winner of the trophy this year, heads the list of Formula 5000 drivers nominated for the Tasman Cup motor-racing series to be held in Australia and New Zeland early next year. The strongest challenge to Mcßae looks likely to come from Alan
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  • 705 25 London, Tuesday. Gordon Banks, acclaimed last week as Britain's Sportsman of the Year, Is still wondering whether he will ever again be able to perform on the soccer pitch In the style that has earned him the title of the World's Number One
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  • 90 25 Brisbane, Tuesday. Sheffield Shield holders Western Australia crashed sensationally to defeat here yesterday as Queensland bowler Tony Dell ripped through their second innings batting line up to bag six wickets for 17 runs. Western Australia, with Test stars John Inverarity and Rodney Marsh in hitherto sparkling
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    • 42 26 Viven" Chia, 18, simply loves being photographed and enjoys going to beaches and coffee houses. This pretty lass hails from South Taiwan and has taken up a singing contract in a leading nightclub. Picture Picture by Michael Kwan
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    • 185 26 Today is Tuesday, November 28, the 333 rd day of 1972 with 33 to follow. THE MOON: Between its last quarter and new phase. THE MORNING STARS: Mercury, Venus, Mars and Saturn. THE EVENING STAR: Jupiter. Those born on this date are under the sign of Sagittarius. British poet
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    • 114 26 By the noise coming from Janet Huxley's bedroom the neighbours thought she was being brutally attacked. But Frank Sammes' wellmeaning efforts to help cost him £40 in a court in London the other day. For the screams and moans turned out to
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    • 83 26 It was a real goodbye party In Los Angeles, and the guest of honour had to leave. suddenly. The FBI saw to that. Relatives and friends talked John Cayetano, 31, into giving himself up when they learned he was wanted for three Los Angeles area bank robberies,
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    • 76 26 Dorothy Wilson of Gabbs. Nevada, gambled for her job as Justice of the Peace and won. She and Bill Wyer each received 146 votes In the general election for the judicial post. Rather than go to the trouble of a runoff, they told county clerk
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    • 298 26 A treasure hunt by skin divers has found an unusual ending in a small lake in the Karkonoszy mountains of lower Silesia, Poland. The hunt was triggered off by persistent rumours that some mysterious treasure had been burled In the lake at the end
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    • 37 26 Erlne Marshall has changed the name of his new restaurant from Ernie's Eatery to the Epicurean after the local municipal council said the former would not be "In keeping with Dartmouth's image."
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    • 21 26 Vienna city administration recently distributed questionnaires asking citizens what they wanted improved. "My five children," said one reply.
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    • 34 26 AH FOOK: It's good news that Robinson's may be back in business soon. MEI LIN: Yes, it looks like it won't be such a black Christmas for the 350 employees after all.
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    • 46 26 It took firemen, police and ambulancemen 20 minutes the other day to free housewife Marylln Reader from her new electric cake mixer. Mrs. Reader, 21. said her waist-length hair got caught In the mixer's blades when she was making a cake—UPl.
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    • 80 26 Construction workers dug up something different recently while clearing a building site near Poznan—an entire bulldozer. The weekly Polityka said the three-ton vehicle had been buried in a plot of ground designated as the site for a new cement factory. "We consulted an archeologist
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    • 24 26 Police in Naples said 40 motorist trooped to headQuarters the other day to report windshields were stolen overnight from their parked cars.
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    • 398 26 5 Singapore Opening and Where the Heart Is For the Family (M) A Diary of Events in Singapore this Week <M) Health in the Home: Early Post-Natal Exercises (M—Rpt) Peyton Place (Rpt) Close Opening and Times Slip News in Brief Hogan's Heroes Big Record The Spice of Life (Mandarin Play
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    • 393 26 Trust your lucky star IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you are one of those persons who very early in life will already be considered set in his ways. Not one to change your mind or habits easily or even after being subjected to considerable persuasion by someone else you
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