New Nation, 14 February 1974

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  • 22 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Thursday evening, February 14, 1974 No. 948 Price 20 cents M C. (P) 20/74 SINCAPORE THURSDAY FEBRUARY 14, 1974
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  • 57 1 The Housing and D e v e lopment Board's first balloting this year will take place in March. For sale will be 1,000 flats in the popular seaside estate in Marine Parade. But priority to resettlement cases will mean disappointment for many high on
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  • Article, Illustration
    44 1 One of the most stirring chapters in South East Asian history is vividly recorded in an Indonesian author's account of Soekarno's march to Independence in the third and final instalment of our series on the late President. Read it in Page 5.
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  • 34 1 Two million striking German workers are back at work today after they accepted a compromise 11 per cent pay rise. The full story of the short-lived strike is in Page 3.
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  • 731 1 Economy remains robust in third quarter The Singapore economy remained essentially robust with a high export growth of 40 per cent in the third quarter of last year. However, growth in the manufacturing sector was slowed by widespread shortages and high prices of raw
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  • 21 1 Washington, Thursday. President Nixon was pronounced fit and well after his annual physical check at Bethesda Naval Hospital yesterday.
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  • 20 1 The body of an unidentified middle-aged woman was found washed ashore at the 13th mile along Nicoll Drive yesterday.
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  • 252 1  -  By Morris John Last week this was "rubbish road." Today it will probably make a clean sweep in any keep Singapore Clean and Pollutionfree competition. Only a few days ago. Tiwary Street, off Jalan Besar, was cluttered with litter and buzzing with flies. The few
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  • 347 1 'Unpleasant tensions may arise' Reuter Vienna, Thursday A senior official of the 12-nation Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries warned last night that the Washington energy conference could produce "unpleasant tensions" between oil producers and consumers. Mr. Abdul Amir Kubbah, acting chief of OPEC's
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  • 274 1 Reuter Washington, Thursday Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said last night that the United States did not consider itself in a confrontation with France. He told a Press conference that he had read articles In the European Press about a divorce between the
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  • 59 1 Singapore will send a delegation to the Ecafe meeting to be held from Feb. 25 to March 4 In Bangkok to discuss the energy crisis. The Government has not yet chosen the members of the delegation. The Ecafe office In Bangkok has sent out invitations to
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  • 78 1 In dull trading prices hovered at overnight levels for the first 45 minutes on the Stock Exchange of Singapore this morning. BUSINESS DONE: Consolidated Plantations (3) 3.38. Northern Serendah (2) 3.10. San Holdings (1) 0.93, (1) 0.92 1/2. Sentosa (1) 2.30. Harimau (1) 0.92. Haw Par London
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  • 26 1 Brisbane, Thursday. Prime Minister Oough Whitlam returned yesterday from his South-East Asian tour and immediately began a high-level conference on the Queensland floods disaster.
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  • 10 1 Police reported 99 accidents yesterday. Six were serious.
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  • 113 1 Lee Hsien Yang, 16-year-old son of the Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, has scored six distinctions making him one of the top 10 students in this year's GCE "O" level Chinese examinations. Hsien Yang, of Catholic High School, is the youngest of the Prime
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  • 342 1 $100 rise for 600 All police officers from the rank of inspector and above will get a pay rise of about $100 each soon. The Ministry of Home Affairs is expected to announce the Increase in the next few days. The pay increase is
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  • 44 1 Mexico City, Thursday —At least one person was killed yesterday and as many as 20 Injured when a riot broke out in the national auditorium during a closed-circuit television showing of a World Cup soccer match between Yugoslavia and Spain.
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  • 174 1 The Ministry of Education this morning said it was stili investigating the cause of the explosion in the chemistry laboratory of the Upper Thomson Road School which injured eight students yesterday. One of them, Chua Thye Ho, 14, is still in hospital for treatment of his
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 200 2 Officials of the Federation of Singapore Petroleum Dealers have accused oil Arms of attempting to adopt "divide and rule'* tactics. They were commenting on Press reports that the oil firms would be prepared to negotiate with the dealers for a revision of their
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    • 41 2 The Civil Service Talentime finals will be held at the Singapore Conference Hall on March 25 at 7 p.m. This is the first time such a contest has been organised fc.r civil servants including statutory board and dailyrated workers.
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    • 40 2 The Australian and New Zealand Association of Singapore will hold its annual meeting at the Singapore Cricket Club on Feb. 20 at 8 p.m. It will also donate ***** to the Singapore Leprosy Relief Association at the meeting.
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    • 304 2  -  By Rav K. Dhaliwal Naval architecture with all Its technicalities may not appeal to women, but it holds great Interest for Mrs. Judith Najy (above). "Ships have always intrigued me—they are rather nice things and have character." she said. "Besides. I have always liked mathematics. engineering and
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    • 385 2  -  First 1000 flats will be sold By Sunny Wee The Housing and Development Board will be balloting the first 1000 flats for sale at the Marine Parade Estate on March 28. This will be the HDB's first balloting this year as well as the
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    • 99 2 The Singapore Adventurers' Club intends to write to the Nepali Embassy in Bangkok for help in tracing the club's patron Sherpa Tensing Norkay. The club is planning to send a 10-member team to the Himalayas Mountaineering Institute in Nepal this year in preparation
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    • 34 2 Mr. Ho Tat Bin, 33, a technical and sales executive of the Photographic Department of Behn, Meyer Co. (Pte.) Ltd., has returned here after two and a half months' training In Europe.
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    • 31 2 About 40 manufacturers and distributors of electronic and photographic equipment will take part in a five-day audio visual exhibition at the Singapore Confer ence Hall from April 19 to 23.
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    • 356 2 The men in white doctor smocks on commercials and advertisements for some medicated products are merely characters on a stage, the Advertisers' Association has pointed out. The latest issue of the Association's Bulletin urges the public to be aware of such advertisements. "The appearance
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    • 438 2 The proposed match between Thai kick boxers and 10 top local pugilists, originally sche duled to take place In Bangkok early this year, has been shelved. According to a martial art exponent and editor of the Bushido, a martial arts magazine, Mr. Anthony
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    • 25 2 The Blood Donation Centre at Oat r a m General Hospital will be open on Sunday between 8 30 a.m. and 12.30 p.m.
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    • 95 2 A total of 100 firms were prosecuted for contravening labour laws in 1972. They were fined $77,305. The number of firms prosecuted represented a 300 per cent increase over 1971, when court action was taken against 33 employers. In 1972, the Labour Inspectorate conducted a total
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 478 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you are one of those extremely conscientious persons who enters Into every activity, mental or physical, with all his faculties sharpened by interest, study, and the determination to succeed. You leave no stone unturned when your efforts are In the Interest
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    • 293 2 NEW NATION CROSSWORD 7 Attraction. 8 Wedding words. 9 Systems of interlacing channels. 10 Flyer Earhart. 11 Cold weather personified. 12 Together: Mus. 13 Rise high. 18 Jack Sprat, for instance. 23 Lawyer: Abbr. 25 Particle. 26 Heavenly bodies. 28 Gardener's machine. 29 Former formerly. 30 Palm fruit. 31 Hairdo.
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  • WORLD NEWS AND BEHIND THE NEWS
    • 270 3 Agree to 11 p.c. wage rise Reuter Bonn, Thursday Union leaders representing some two million West German workers last night called off a series of localised strikes which have shut down commuter transport and other services in most cities after reaching agreement on
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    • 120 3 Reuter Washington, Thursday Newspaper millionaire Randolph Hearst, speaking to his kidnapped teenaged daughter through reporters, said yesterday her captors' ransom demand for a massive food handout to California's poor was impossible to meet. He said he was trying to work out a counteroffer. The Revolutionary
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    • 123 3 Bangkok, Thursday— Thai politics received a shot in the arm yesterday when the Interior Ministry submitted a Bill to the cabinet which would officially sanction political parties. Political parties have been virtually non-exist-ent since 1971 when for- mer Prime Minister Field Marshal
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    • 181 3 Reuter Frankfurt, Thursday —Rebel Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn was banished by the Kremlin yesterday and deprived of his citizenship. Barely a day after security men burst into his Moscow flat and forcibly too* him away, the 55-year-old Nobel prize winner was flown to West
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    • 566 3  -  ASIAN DIARY From Leon Daniel United Press International Some of the nations ill the region would like to dub the Indian Ocean a "zone of peace." The problem is that lot of warships are sailing around in it and more are sure to come. India
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    • 280 3  -  From Lionel Tsai Reuter The world energy shortage has renewed official interest in Taiwan's ailing coal Industry, bringing government promises of various forms of assistance to boost production. Coal reserves In Taiwan are officially estimated at 260 million metric tons with about 100
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    • 99 3 Islamabad, Thursday.— More than 100,000 Bengalis will have been transferred from Pakistan to Bangladesh by the end of this week under the United Nationssponsored repatriation airlift, it was revealed here. A Foreign Ministry spokesman said Pakistan hoped to complete repatriation from this end by the
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    • 285 3 Reuter London, Thursday. British membership of the European Common Market burst tc. the forefront of the general election campaign yesterday, with the Labour Party pressing for an early and decisive renegotiation of entry terms. Mr. Harold Wilson, the Labour Party leader, said that Prime Minister
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    • 271 3 Golda's fate in the balance Reuter Tel Aviv, Thursday Month-long negotiations to form a government coalition broke down yesterday, threatening what political sources said might be Prime Minister Goida Meir's refusal to form Israel's next cabinet. One source in Mrs. Meir's Labour bloc said a failure
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    • 28 3 La Paz, Thursday About 18,000 victims of Bolivia's worst flooding for 50 years, which has claimed at least 26 lives, today faced a new danger—poisonous snakes.
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    • 21 3 New Delhi, Thursday— Four Indian soldiers were killed and several others injured when they were ambushed by Naga guerrillas yesterday.
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    • 113 3 Washington, Thursday Defence Secretary James Schlesinger said yesterday his top officials were considering proposed major changes In the organisation of American military forces. He acknowledged that a review was underway when asked about a story in the Detroit News yesterday that a major
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 174 3 WHAT'S ON Dr. Tay Leng and Dr. Moses Yu will speak on STREPTOCOCCAL TYPING AND THEIR CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE" at the Pathology lecture theatre, Outram Road General Hospital, at 4.30 p.m. A PAINTING AND DRAWING EXHIBITION by Thai artists Is on at the Alpha Gallery, Alexandra Road, until 6.00 p.m. An
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  • OPINION
    • 535 4 That the energy crisis can only be resolved by concerted actions of all the countries in the world can hardly be disputed. Because of the growing interdependence of the nation states and because of the importance of oil as an energy resource, it
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    • 113 4 4 WHISPERS' by ispy Catholics are not the only ones to practise exorcism. No less a person than Hong Kong's Commissioner for Transport, Mr. Brian Wilson, has participated in a Buddhist ceremony to soothe evil spirits in his department's new offices. The ceremony was ordered after two
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    • Letters
      • 321 4  -  TAY SOON HOE Registry of Vehicles, Singapore. 7. I refer to Law's letter Subllshed in the New ation on 14.1.74 suggesting that the "licensing authority should cancel the licence of any irreparably damaged vehicle, withdraw the licence of unroadworthy vehicles and in the interest of road safety
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      • 177 4  -  J.K.L. KUJOYO Aa a resident of Hillcrest Road, I am quite appalled and terrified at the possible danger resulting from the overcongestion of school buses, private vehicles and students near the Dune a r n Secondary School in the late afternoon. When the students are being let
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      • 80 4  -  CHRISTINE LIM Bus service No. 91 plies between Shenton Way and the Paya Lebar Airport. I am sure that many commuters would like to thank the drivers and bus conductors of this service. I am a resident in Aljunied Road and a re- gular commuter of bus
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      • 60 4  -  YEONG KUM KEE Public Relations Officer, Ministry of National Development, Singapore, 2. Please refer to the letter by B.A.KM. (NN, 14.1.74) entitled Widen the Bridge. The suggestion to widen Cavenagh Bridge is not recommended by the traffic authorities. However, studies are being made with a view to
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    • 955 4  -  The world, Fakir Singh, complains, is in danger of turning sex into a boring thing. Undoubtedly, there is a strong tendency to exploit man's interest in sex these days. Every advertisement on the cinema screen, for example, inevitably features a sexy woman giving
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    • 790 4  -  By Ronald L. Soble Los Angeles Times At least half a million more Americans will find themselves out of work this year and, depending on which forecast one believes, the unemployment level could jump much higher. President Nixon's economic report projects an
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    • 394 4  -  By William J. Drummond Los Angeles Times The recent warming treha In Indo-U.S. relations has summoned American scholars back to India in record numbers. Their ranks were drastically depleted during the last academic year because India was severely limiting visas to Americans for research
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    • 672 4 VOICE OF THE PRESS REORGANISATION OF BUS SERVICES AND FARE INCREASE. The complaint about the bus service has become even more widespread following the rerouting which took place on February 3, Judging by the outpouring of grievances by the commuters through the newspapers or In their conversations
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  • SPECIAL FEATURE
    • Article, Illustration
      2968 5  -  Concluding the series He had no respect for others THE DANCER... by Dr. Abu Hanifah Soekarno in my opinion only loved himself and he could not care less about people around him. He Judged people according to their usefulness and loyalty to him. He was so vain that he
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  • 718 6 TODAY'S infants, A toddlers and children are a fortunate lot. Uplike those of yesteryear, the young ones of today are a pampered bunch, with their every whim satisfied. It isn't hard to understand why they are doted on. Their parents are better educated and more affluent
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    • 174 6 Visit our New Premier Store at G-36 High Street Centre a snip of information on QORMEUJL Lots of quality suitings are locally available. But. did you know that Dormeuil is the top manufacturer in the entire world for fine suitings 7 When only the very best will suffice, make your
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  • FOR YOUR PLEASURE
    • 508 7 I had expected to meet a calm self possessed Japanese lady in traditional costume when I went along to interview a hostess at the Daikoku restaurant at the Equatorial hotel. But I certainly wasn't prepared for the likes of Katsuko Seo, 34, the head
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    • 405 7 MUSICIIINBI Yes, the singer in Musicomer Poser No. 5 was Bill Withers. The following win. LP and poster: Miss Deborah Yzelman, Mr. Ho See Keow, Mr. Alec Lim Sbon Kok, Mr. Suen Kwok Kong, and Miss Pel Alh Wah. The winners of a 45 rpm
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    • 628 7 The motor-bikes of Bali, perhaps more than anything else, reflect the modern tourist invasion of this sacred island. The tourists themselves have not brought them, but local youths have, and they do brisk business in hiring them to foreigners wanting to tour Bali economically. Hippies with
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    • 299 7 United Press International A Hollywood film company that taught Americans "S ay onara" meant goodbye in Japanese is making a film to show cinema audiences that the "Yakuza" in this country is more violent than the Mafia. The picture being filmed In this ancient Japanese capital
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    • 592 7  -  Album has misleading title POPS ■Y JEAN LI GREGG ALLMAN: LAID BACK (Capricorn Records): The title on the cover can be a very misleading one. What's inside is very far from being "laid back," a wellworn cliche meaning mellow and subdued. In fact, It is a
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    • 391 7 Jennifer's diary I'D HAVE always been under the impression that markets are generally rather messy places to visit, but a necessary evil to obtain food. That is until I went to the Orchard Road market. The floors are not sloshed with murky water, but more amazing
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
    • 133 7 DR. KILDARE BEFORE. YOU SPEAK, HEAR ME OUT... BECAUSE A LOT OP WHAT I'M SOING TO SAY WILL STRIKE you ...TO SAY THE LEAST... AS RATHE* BIZARRE. FIRST.. my husband likes you... ANDThATS the first danser you face by Ken Bald HIS AFFECTION FOR YOU WILL TURN TO JEALOUS HATE...
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  • EDUCATIONAL BROADSHEET
    • Article, Illustration
      3380 8 DECLINE OF THE EMPIRE... THE STRUCTURE OF ROMAN GOVERNMENT: The government of Rome was carried out by officials or magistrates who were elected annually by the people. The most important magistrates were the consuls. who held the supreme civil and military power. Two were elected for each year. Under
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  • FINANCE
    • 389 9 A leading Japanese bank has called on the government and people to work together as one body and correct the economic Ills now facing the country. This came in the January issue of the Mitsubishi Bank Review which says curbing inflation and
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    • OVERSEAS STOCK EXCHANGE PRICES
      • 235 9 Affected by the report of a prolonged tight money by Bank of Japan, wait-and-see mood pervaded the market. The market continued bearish yesterday. The market opened firm centering on specu lative small sized stocks and shippings. However, large capital stocks, slackened, especially shipbuildings, which saw decreased orders compared with
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      • 200 9 Closing prices (In francs) yesterday faribas 176 50 +1.40 Indochine 208.40 +3 Foncier 374.50 —,50 Prin temps 106 50 +1.50 CGE 420 —6 Bull 63 .70 Royal Dutch 166.60 +2.60 Michelin 1175 +5 Thomson 228 +7 CFP 195.10 +1.10 Rhone 139.80 +.80 Air 323 +4 BSN 1025 —18 Philips
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      • 251 9 Closing prices at 11.30 am (Australian time) Aberleen susp Do opts susp Allstate 08 10 Amad 03 nil Aurora nil 13 Do opts 00% Ol'ii Aust Ant 06% 07 Bamboo 04 05 Beach 26 30 Bounty susp Bridge 16 17 Cleveland 38 40 Cosmos susp Do CtR SUSP Eastmet
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      • 81 9 This service comes from the union Bank of Switzerland. Closing prices (in francs) on the Zurich Stock Exchange yesterday: UBS 3945 +20 SBC 3470 +10 Credit Suisse 3375 +25 Swissair B. 543 1 Swiss Relnsur. 2310 —30 Winterthur B. 1820 —10 Zurich Ihsur. Juvena B. 2280 +20 Nestle B
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      • 366 9 Stock prices gained slightly in some of the slowest action in months on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday. Bargain- hunting among recently depressed glamours and blue chips acounted for much of the market's strength, according to analysts. There is some hope, according to analyst Harry Laubscher of
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    • 205 9 A new agreement enables two airlines to offer their passengers one-ticket bookings, conveniently linked services among six key cities ip Britain and 25 in the US as well as airport interline facilities on both sides of the Atlantic. The two airlines were brought closer
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    • 160 9 Share prices were barely steady on the Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday. The market opened and closed quiet. Trading was slow, dull and uninteresting the whole day. Even bargain hunting was slack. Uneasily prices drifted fractionally lower on a wide front. Trading in United Overseas Bank shares resumed
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    • 373 9 United Press International London, Thursday. Profit taking pushed gold and sliver prices lower yesterday in trad ing on London's big bullion exchanges. The US dollar rose against four major European currencies, but declined slightly against others. Gold prices plummeted US$2 to sell at US$l44 an
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    • 150 9 Inter ocean EAC Agencies Pte. Ltd. (INTEAC), local agents for ScanDutch, report a substantial increase in shippers using the full container load (FCL) concept of trapsportation following a month-long campaign in November last year. Westbound FCL container figures released by the marketing department of
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    • 124 9 High raw sugar price has brought about an unaudited loss of $57,000 to Central Sugars Berhad for the first half year to November, 197 S against $455,000 the last time. Secretary Loy Yet King tells shareholders that the loss could have been greater If
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  • TREND
    • 402 9  -  VIOLET Oon I am always waiting for my friends to have babies so that I'll have an excuse to go out and buy baby gifts. There's such a wide choice of beautiful clothes and accessories for babies that you can go wild choosing
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    • 541 9  -  JANET ON m job She has no time to be lonely as she flies into town on a mission B.L. KHOO It is another town, another area to survey. But the job is the same for Janet Low as she
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    • 172 9 Melbourne Herald The travelling salesman and his young wife had a communications problem. He was on the road five days a week and relied on the telephone to keep In touch with her. But their phone was hardly ever out of her hand. She
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  • SPORTS
    • 417 10  -  But nowadays...'only a little cricket' By PERCY SENEVIRATNE Gordon Rorke, the Australian "blond bombshell" who Intimidated batsmen with his tremendous pace about 14 years ago, is in town. He looks a lot different since we last saw him In action on the SCC strip In December
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    • 202 10 30 teams to battle for title Thirty teams have entered for the Intert Constituency sepak takraw tournament which begins tomorrow. The preliminary rounds will be played in three different venues—- the Badminton Hall, Sang Nila Utama Secondary School and the Broadrick Secondary School. The tournament is jointly organised
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    • 820 10  -  BOWItNG with Jeffrey Low The Singapore Tenpin Bowling Congress are attaching a lot of importance to the forthcoming InterAssociation league competition which has in the past been considered of little significance. STBC President Peter Choo said yesterday: "We must place a lot of
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    • 74 10 Toronto, Thursday. Top-seeded Ilie Nastase of Rumania came from behind last night to defeat Bc.b Maud of South Africa 4-6, 6-2, 6-1 in the Toronto International tennis tournament. Nastase now meets Raul Ramirez of Mexico in the second round. In another singles match. Bob Hewitt of South
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    • 25 10 The Kampong Kebangan Constituency Sports Association will hold their annual meeting at the Kampong Eunos Community Centre on February 24 at 10 a m.
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    • 16 10 New York, Thursday.— Utah beat Indiana ***** in an American Basketball Association match yesterday.
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    • 406 10 Kingston, Thursday An elegant century by Lawrence Rowe forced the MCC cricketers to settle for a draw against Jamaica here yesterday in their last game before the Second Test starting on Saturday. The compact opening batsman made 118 in 217 minutes as Jamaica, who
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    • 258 11 By BLUE PETER Winslow Boy (George Podmore) and South Pacific II (M. Masruhen) did a splendid trial at Bukit Timah this morning. Galloping from the 4f, they raced stride for stride over the last 3f in 36 3/5 on good going. Charlie Brown (Laurie Johnson)
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    • 113 11 London. Thursday. Secretariat and Riva Ridge, the 1973 and 1972 Kentucky Derby winners, will be allowed to cover a full quota of mares this year despite having failed to pass fertility tests, the International Racing Bureau announced here. Secretariat, who won the U.S. Triple Crown last year,
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    • 233 11 Frankfurt, Thursday Yugoslavia clinched the 16th and last place in the 1974 World Cup soccer finals when they beat Spain 1-0 in their qualifying play-off match here last night. Katalinski scored the 13th minute goal which propelled Yugoslavia into the finals for the first
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    • 35 11 Belfast, Thursday. Chimney Corner and Cliftonville drew 3-3 in an Irish Football Association Cup first round replay here yesterday. The winners are at home to Larne in the quarter finals on March 2.
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    • 1142 11 Saturday RACE 1 2.30 Mara CI 2 2f 2 Twilight 12.09 12 592 Berbrldge 12.07 10 1 Ameer 12.07 1 53 Cyrus 12.05 13 019 Megat 12.04 9 2 Impala 12.02 3 020 Bukit Kepong 12.02 7 645 Kilau 12.00 14 908 Attila 12.00
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    • 80 11 Bologna. Thursday.— Colin Dibley of Australia upset Czechoslovakia's Jan Kodes 3-6. 6-3, 6-4 yesterday In the third round of the world tennis championship As tor Cup competition. Kodes looked like the winner over the first set. which he took easily, and at the outset of the
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    • 259 11 Tel Aviv. Thursday. The Asian Tennis Federation have assured the Israel Lawn Tennis Association (ILTA) that Israel will receive an invitation from its Indonesian opposite number for the Third Asian amateur tennis championships. scheduled to start in Jakarta on March 6. The event
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    • 331 11 The lAC Open, sixthleg of the local golf circuit, will be played at Warren from tomorrow to Sunday. The last-leg. the Rolex Masters, will be at Buklt Course from February 22 to 24. The draw for the first round of the lAC Open. 8 a.m.—Jaafar Yacob
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    • 42 11 Denver (Colorado), Thursday The Denver Boxing Club offered third ranked heavyweight Jerry Quarry about *****,000 plus expenses to fight the winner of the February 28 bout between Ron Lyle of the United States and Oscar Bonavena of Argentina.
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    • 415 11 Almost ready to form a NOC Lausanne, Thursday China will almost certainly take part in the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games as a result of a decision this week by the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The decision itself was a minor one
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    • 296 11 Los Angeles, Thursday. —Muhammad All put Ken Norton on the world boxing map by giving the former marine corporal a crack at the big time. Now. George Foreman Is laying his heavyweight title on the line against Norton at Caracas, Venezuela on March Norton doesn't
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    • 154 11 Tokyo, Thursday. World Boxing Council junior lightweight champion Ricardo Arredondo of Mexico will arrive tomorrow to defend his crown against Kuniaki Shibata of Japan on February 28 in Tokyo. Arredondo succeeded in his fifth title defence when he stopped Morito Kashiwaba of Japan in the
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  • 119 12 TODAY Is Thursday, Feb. 14, the 45th dav of 1974 with 320 to follow. THE MOON Is between Its last quarter and new phase. THE MORNING STARS are Venus and JuPlter. THE EVENING STARS are Mercury, Mars and Saturn Those born on this date are under the sign of
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    • 823 12 SINGAPORE 5 3.00 OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by HOUSEWIVES' MATINEE Family Doctrine: Part 1 of a Mandarin film (Rpt) 3.50 ART APPRECIATION (C) (Rpt) 4.00 GENERAL HOSPITAL Daytime serial starring John Bernadine as Dr. Steve Hardy and Emily McLaughan. Stories involving the staff, the doctors and the patients of a busy
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    • 480 12 frmms] I (4) Thursday,! -2-74 TODAY'S LETTERS: I *****001 ■*****0' I Total points: I c imnumrma. /JXEnVCDSKUODGXr MAKES THE DIFFERENCE I VfS 7)* EXAMPLE TOTAL POINTS: 45 Point* THE RULES AND HOW TO TAKE PART: Etery issue of the New Nation for the duration of the contest will carry a
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    • 827 12 AT THE CINEMA EDGAR KOH HARRY IN YOl'R POCKET: James Coburn In the title role as the omnipresent phenomenon of the crime world, the pickpocket or "cannon" as he is called, working together with his "flnger man" (Walter Pidgeon) and recruiting a young couple (Michael Sarrazin and Trish Van Devere)
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