New Nation, 16 February 1974

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  • Title Section
    Masthead
    22 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Saturday evening, February 16, 1974 No. 950 Price 20 cents M.C. (P) 20/74 new?sXtion SINGAPORE SATURDAY FEBRUARY 16, 1974
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon When death is only a leap away
    253 1 r lire i ROVING For scores of youngsters, this is their tower of fun during weekends. But little do they realise that it may well be their springboard to death. For sweeping unseen beneath the choppy waves are currents strong enough to pull
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  • Article
    Cigarettes: Shock price increase
    334 1  -  Vendors charging 20 cents more for packet of 20 By Sunny Wee, Morris John Stallholders in certain parts of Singapore were this morning charging $1.20 for a packet of 20 cigarettes —up 20 cents in anticipation of a price increase. Angry readers rang up the New
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    Lock icon JULIET BREAKS INTO MALE DOMAIN...
    528 1  -  By Judith Holmberg Pint-sized Juliet Yuet Cheng, a 22-year-old undergraduate, has created history at the University of Singapore. She has broken the university students' union's 25-year-old male dominance by becoming its first girl president. A fourth year architectural student, Juliet is now the leader of
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  • Article
    Lock icon China to free 43 more
    292 1 Reuter, UPI Saigon, Saturday China will release another 43 South Vietnamese prisoners held since the battle for the Paracel islands about a month ago, the High Command said here today. A spokesman said the men would be set free either today or tomorrow at the
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  • Article
    Cheap food clubs to fight inflation
    236 1 All government ministries have been asked to form consumer clubs for civil servants and their families in the latest move to fight inflation. Every ministry has been asked to manage its own club and make its purchases from Singapore Food Industries, a company set
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    OUR ROADS
    10 1 Police reported 102 accidents yesterday. Fourteen were serious.
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  • Article
    Lock icon Oil embargo against US to continue
    485 1 Arabs want Golan pullout breakthrough Reuter Algiers, Saturday The Arab oil embargo against the United States and other Western countries will be maintained for the time being pending a breakthrough in crucial negotiations for a disengagement of forces on the Syrian front, Arab diplomatic
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  • Article
    Kennedy: US stand on Solz may affect detente
    197 1 Washington, Saturday. Senator Edward Kennedy yesterday hit out at the United States stand on expelled Soviet author Alexander Solxhenltsyn saying it might affect the future of detente with Kremlin. In a statement he said: "But my own view is that detente, especially
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    Lock icon GM sued for $1 million by US govt
    180 1 United Press International Detroit, Saturday Federal transportation officials yesterday filed a US$4OO,OOO 1 million) suit against General Motors Corp. and asked that the company be forced to notify owners of 1959 and 1960 Cadillacs of a steering control defect. The suit, filed
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  • LOCAL NEWS
    • Article
      Zoo to get four new animals
      85 2 The Singapore Zoological Gardens will have four new animals soon. They are a giant tortoise, a female racoon and two llamas. The zoo at present has about 300 animals. All /the four have been ordered with one thing in common to keep their male
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      Film show
      34 2 The Singapore Industrial Labour Organisation and the Pioneer Industries Employees Union will hold a film show, Adventure of the Talent, at the Kong Chi an Theatre, Toa Payoh, tomorrow at 8.30 a.m.
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    • Article
      New plan to train more architects
      398 2 Bid to beat the present acute shortage The Government has launched a new scheme to encourage more students to take up architecture as a career because of the acute shortage of architects here. A Ministry of National Development statement issued yesterday said that there
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      RICE UP AGAIN
      791 2  -  By Rav K. Dhaliwal Housewives have hardly had enough time to recover from the soaring prices of rice a few months ago only to find them on the upswing again. The price of Thai 100 per cent rice rose by 10 to 20 cents a kati to
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      Flag day
      19 2 The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will hold its flag day on April 6.
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    • Article
      $13 mil super market, store planned
      236 3 A $13 million supermarket cum department store, Yaohan Singapore Pte. Ltd., will open in September. A joint venture between the Development Bank of Singapore, Yaohan, Singmanex, Singapore Nomura Merchant Bank and Tiger Pte. Ltd, the project will occupy more than two floors of the
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      Vandals on the increase at varsity library
      450 3 200 volumes were mutilated during 1972-73 period Certain st u d en ts from the University of Singapore are in the habit of mutilating books from its library. During the 1971-72 period, 2,385 pages from 178 volumes of books were mutilated. The figure
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    • Article
      Multi-skilled worker idea hailed
      302 3 Manufacturers here welcomed the suggestion by an Industrial engineer that assembly line production firms should build up a corps of multiskilled workers. The chairman of the Singapore Manufacturers' Association, Mr. Ong Leng Chuan, said the idea was a good one and would benefit both manufacturers and
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      Lock icon Portisch has a chance
      90 3 LKA Lajos Portisch of Hungary and Tigran Petrosian of the Soviet Union adjourned the 12th Game of their match, last night. Petrosian is leading 2-1 in the last of the quar-ter-finals of the world chess championship Candidates' Tournament on the island of Majorca, Spain. Portisch had
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    • Article
      New sports PRO
      34 3 The Singapore Sports Council has appointed Miss Ng Poh Chuen as public relations officer. Miss Ng graduated from the University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Arts honours degree in 1970.
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      Three films
      22 3 The National Museum will screen three films on music and art at its lecture hall on Wednesday at 7.30 p.m.
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    • Article
      Dangerous drivers now jailed
      429 3 More than 25 dangerous drivers have been jailed during the past 13 months. And about 30 others have been banned from driving for up to 10 years in addition to heavy fines. This is the result of the latest tough tactics adopted by the Traffic Police
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      New post office
      37 3 The new Queenstown Post Office situated at 510 A Commonwealth Avenue will open for business on Monday. It will replace the present one at Margaret Drive which win cease to function from that day.
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      Art courses
      35 3 The Chinese YMCA will conduct two art courses for children between eight and 12 from March 16. Outdoor painting and drawing sessions wUI be held at the Botanic Gardens and Singapore Zoological Gardens.
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      SEND IN YOUR ENTRY BY NEXT FRIDAY
      281 3 FBIZEWOBDS Your entry coupon for Prlzewords is published below. This is what you must do to compete (or the big prises that must be won; Clip together all six (Monday to Saturday) Prixewords boards each of which must show clearly all the words
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      Institute looks for staff
      108 3 The Institute of Education has begun conducting Interviews In Its first major recruitment drive for academic staff. The recruitment exercise for lecturers in the four schools of studies—professional, curriculum, continuing and technical is expected to be completed by next month. Applications were first called for last
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      105 2 NMRMIDr plus 4 Boeing 737 flights every day Starting 18 February, SLA. offers you a daily Boeing 707 Superjet service between Singapore and Jakarta. Depart Singapore at 8.15 am, arrive Jakarta 9.15 am, any day. In addition, you also have the choice of SIA Boeing 737 flights leaving Singapore daily
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
      Page 2 Miscellaneous Column 1
      1019 2 AT THE CINEMA with EDGAR KOH HARRY IN YOUR 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 "finger man" (Walter Pidgeon) and recruiting a young couple (Michael Sarrazln and Trish Van
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • Miscellaneous
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      293 3 NEW NATION CROSSWORD ai ass s 7 Works over a manuscript. 8 Regret deeply. 9 Warm or cold. 10 Weapon: Colloq. 11 Mountains in Kirghiz. 12 Intimate. 13 and Cromarty, Scot's county. 18 Man's name meaning watchful. 19 Be deferred to the future. 23 Philosopher Immanuel. 24 Chatter. 25 Metric
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      9 3 Address: MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY GRAND TOTAL
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  • WORLD NEWS
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      Lock icon SPRATLYS: CALL FOR TALKS
      213 4 Reuter Manila, Saturday The Philippine President Mr. Ferdinand Marcos, yesterday called for "Immediate friendly consultations" among the countries involved in a dispute over the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. Information Secretary Mr. Francisco Tatad, told a Press briefing that the President had reiterated the
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      Lock icon Pakistan told: Don't stir up trouble
      104 4 Reuter New Delhi, Saturday —Indian Foreign Minister Mr. Swaran Singh yesterday warned Pakistan against using this month's Islamic summit In Lahore for "raking up" affairs relating to India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Mr. Swaran Singh who was speaking to reporters at Delhi airport after returning
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    • Article
      Lock icon Three climbers trapped in 800 ft crater
      206 4 Reuter Caracas, Saturday Three members of a "Lost World" expedition including a British mountaineer are trapped at the bottom of a 250 metres (800 ft) deep crater in the Venezuelan jungle and have so far failed in efforts to climb out, according to
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      Lock icon More fuel for the mine strike
      416 4 Support from 10m Reuter London, Saturday Leaders of Britain's striking mineworkers said yesterday they would seek to mobilise 10 million labour union members to back their blockade of power stations and industry. With the strike of 269,000 coal miners now in its sixth day
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      Lock icon Syrians the main stumbling block
      383 4 Dayan tells all about Oct. war Reuter Tel Aviv, Saturday Defence Minister Moshe Dayan in a secret briefing to Israeli editors on the fourth day of the October war, published here yesterday. admitted the Egyptians could not be thrown across the Suez Canal until the
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    • Article
      Fast by 200 doctors
      64 4 New Delhi, Saturday.— About 200 doctors today launched a 24-hour fast here to draw attention to their demands for higher pay as thousands of their colleagues across the country Joined their strike. A plan of action calls for doctors and interns in different states to strike
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      IRAN AND IRAQ EXCHANGE AGGRESSION CHARGES
      173 4 New York, SaturdayIraq and Iran exchanged charges of aggression before the United Nations Security Council yesterday but neither proposed any specific measure by that body to ease their tense relations. Iranian Ambassador Mr. Fereydoun Hoveyda said his government had left open the door to
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      Dean Burch
      38 4 Washington, Saturday President Nixon yesterday named Mr. Dean Burch, a conservative Republican and chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), to a high White House post In an apparent gesture to the party's restive right wing.
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      Bangkok troops wiped out village charge
      206 4 Bangkok, Saturday Prime Minister Sanya Dharmasakti yesterday met four villagers who have alleged that government forces killed four people when they burned down a village in north-eastern Thailand and then tried to blame the incident on communist insurgents. The village, Ban Na Sai in
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      Strike threat
      27 4 London, Saturday Britain's ballet dancers and opera singers have said they will strike if the Government goes through with a threat to cut their wages.
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      Lock icon Why Nixon refuses to hand over any more tapes
      318 4 Reuter Washington, Saturday President Nixon yesterday refused to back down his refusal to give special prosecutor Mr. Leon Jaworskl more tape recordings and documents for his Investigation of the Watergate scandal and gave two reasons for his decision. According to his
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      742 4 advertisement feature Katong Shopping Centre— the shoppers' choice High Class Tailor Air Conditioned. Specialist in Made to Measure Suits Can Be Made Within 24 Welcome HENS CHHWB TAILOR n%£Ma B-45. Lower Ground Floor Katong Shopping Centre Te1:*****4 vided. Whether you are a career girl a housewife, a parent, a successful
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      20 4 IffllSEX FASHIOAS B 20/53. Lower Gr. Fl. Katong Shopping Centre Singapore. 15. B 10/11. Basement. Supreme House, S pore 9.
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  • FINANCE
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      Standstill share market
      204 5 By S.V. Suppiah The share market remained somewhat stagnant this week. Dally fractional movements did not enhance prices but on balance most counters ended marginally easier. The market standstill is partly because it is widely feared that the Budget due to be presented soon in Parliament may
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      Lock icon UK-Caribbean accord on sugar supply and price proposals
      277 5 Reuter London, Saturday Britain and Commonwealth Caribbean sugar producing countries yesterday reached agreement on proposals about the price of sugar supplies to the Upited Kingdom. But a brief statement after the two-day negotiations here did not disclose any details of the proposals.
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      Lock icon A 'deficit' shock by Japan
      191 5 Reuter Paris, Saturday Japan yesterday confounded recent international {jredictions over the likey impact of higher oil prices on its balance of payments by forecasting a current account deficit this year of only US$45O million, Japanese sources said. This forecast, made at a meeting of international
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      THE SHARE MARKET
      2060 5 1973/1974 4 wks. Stock Closing Price Week's Week's High Low ago Buvers Sellers Last TurnSalt orover INDUSTRIALS 6.30 2.42 2.59 Acma 2.50 +0.01 1 4.60 1.08 1.25 Adhesive Tape *2.85 -0.05 1 6.80 2.75 3.00 AJlnomoto 5.90 2.16 2.55 Alcan 2.75 2.00 1.20 1.70 Alexandra Holding 1.55
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      New forklift truck in use at port
      93 5 A new Hyster Electric forklift truck has been recently introduced in the Singapore market by the East Asiatic Company (EAC). EAC, Hyster's sole distributors, feas placed a unit of the forklift truck model E6OAS at the disposal of the Port Authority for a
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      $120 m profit for bank
      79 5 The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation announced an unaudited profit of HK5240.4 million (about $120 million) for the year ended December 1973 against HKJ175.1 (about $87 million) for the previous year. The bank is to capitalise HK$ll2.l million to make a bonus issue of one
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      Final dividend of 7 1/2p.c. by Hytex
      271 5 Hytex is to pay a final tax-free dividend of 7i per cent for the last fiscal year 2i points less than promised in its prospectus because of the current worldwide shortage of pe-tro-c he m i c a 1 products. The chairman Tan
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      Lock icon Gold hits new record
      181 5 United Press International London, Saturday Gold's price set new records in London and Zurich and moved even higher in Paris yesterday in what dealers said was a speculative flight from paper money. London's pace-setting bullion market pegged gold's price at US$l49 an ounce in the morning,
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    • OVERSEAS STOCK EXCHANGE PRICES
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        New York
        476 5 Speculation the Arab oil embargo might be lifted or eased in the near future helped stock prices rally on the New York Stock Exchange, but trading remained light yesterday. At the close, the Dow Jones industrial average was ahead 10.40 to 820.32. Standard and Poor's, 500stock index had
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        Paris
        201 5 Closing prices (in francs) yesterday: Paribas .80.90 (175) Indochine 206 50 (205) Foncier 380 (378) printemps 113.80 (112) CGE 417 (422) Bull 62.50 (64.50) Royal Dutch 166.70 (166.50) Michelin 1189 (1175) Thomson 232 (228) CPP 204 (203) Rhone 138.10 (139.30) Air 323 (.320) BSN 1020 (1025) Philips 58.70 (59.80)
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        Tokyo
        373 5 The market rallied for the first time in three days, supported by investment trust buying on reaction, increased investment money, and investors' buying. The market opened firm, as investment trust buying pushed blue chips up under bargain hunting. Spurred by the sharp rise non ferrous metals edged up, headed
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        Zurich
        82 5 This service comes from the Union Bank of Switzerland. Closing prices (in tfancs) on the Zurich Stock Exchange yesterday +20 UBS 3910 SBC 3460 Credit Suisse 3360 —6 Swissair B. 543 —a Swiss Relnsur. 2300 10 Winterthur B. Zurich Insur. 6725 +76 Juvena B. 2220 Ntstle B. 3720 —40
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  • OPINION
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      The 10-cent hike in bus fares
      533 6 One can hardly blame bus commuters for griping. Not only do they have to suffer long waits at the bus stops, overcrowding in the buses, and often ill-treatment from the bus drivers and conductors; they now have to pay more for their discomfort. Since
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      Conscious of safety
      118 6 'WHISPERS' by ispy Our safety first campaigns must be succeeding. The other day a colleague heard his three-year-old son telling the servant: "You are supposed to put the Clorox on the top and not on the bottom shelf." When she asked why, he said, "So that I
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      Ending the profitsyndrome
      956 6  -  Government leaders, Ismail Kasslm complains, are taking a negative approach to the problem of inflation. Most of their recent speeches tend to emphasise that there is nothing that Government can do to alleviate the situation and that it If i| to the people themselves to cope with
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      SIN CHEW JIT POH
      565 6 VOICE OF THE PRESS THE THREE CONFERENCES ON OIL. Following the holding of the conference of the Foreign Ministers of 13 oil-consuming countries In Washington, the conference of Oil Ministers of the Arab countries begins today In Tripoli. According to news agency reports, the Washington authorities
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      Lock icon Egypt is all prepared to reopen the Suez Canal
      1229 6  -  From Jim Hoagland Washington Post Reduced from its once lofty stature as the world's most strategic artificial waterway to what Israeli generals disdainfully called "the best anti-tank ditch on earth" the Suez Canal Is on the verge of regaining much of
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    • Letters
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        Noise from the planes
        282 6  -  R.TAN "Hie number of tourists to Singapore has brought happiness and prosperity to many people here. But with an increase in tourists come an increase in air traffic, and with the introduction of noisier aircraft* the noise pollution along the approach corridor is intensified, particularly in
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        The queue-up campaign
        188 6  -  YAP SOON HOE Secretary, Bus Services Reorganisation Committee, Singapore. 6. Your front page story illustrated by a photograph of a crowded bus stop and headlined The Peak Hour Pile-up (NN, 19.1.74) asks the question: Whatever Happened to our Queue-up Campaign? The queue-up campaign was not a success
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        Prepared to stand
        92 6 According to a newsKper report the latest ses will have more space for standing room and fewer seats so that more commuters can be accommodated. Perhaps the Ministry of Communications can explore the Idea of persuading the bus company to dismantle some seats of the existing buses
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        Trees can be a nuisance
        70 6  -  TRES BIEN It is certainly very good to have plants and trees In the Housing and Development Board's estates as they give shadow and fine breezes, But If they are allowed to overgrow breadthwise, as the one near the bridge In Boon Tiong Road has,
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        Slow-moving vehicles
        75 6  -  YEONG KUM KEE Public Relations Officer. Ministry of National Development, Singapore, I. Please refer to the letter by M. Yeo (NN. 21.1.74) headlined Preventing a Jam. There Is a scheme to alleviate traffic congestion at the Bras Basah Road Nicoll Highway junction by channelling slow moving vehicles like
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        Bus fare hike
        129 6 The hike In bus fares had been anticipated for some time and when the announcement was made, most people were not caught unawares. One point I wish to raise however Is: Must the fare Increase be 10 cents? Surely a five cent Increase would have sufficed. bearing
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        Smoking in the bus
        100 6 On February 8, at 12.35 p.m., I boarded a service No. 190 bus at Robinson Road. I noticed several commuters smoking in the bus. The conductor himself was smoking. Beside me was a school boy In half uniform who held a halfprlce bus ticket In one
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        Animals in the Zoo
        132 6 Thank you for your heartwarming editorial entitled Safeguarding the Animals in the Zoo In Tuesday's (sth February) Issue of the New Nation. It is such a pity that the people who are dealing with the Zoo animals did not exercise more love and patience in recapturing
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  • SATURDAY REVIEW
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      DISCOVERING MANILA
      1129 7  -  Haven for diners and dancers By A. G. Low Sit out an evening at Manila's bay, watching the sunset putting the waters ablaze and the random play of city lights fighting the descending darkness, and you will never believe that the Filipino capital is actually 300 years old.
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      MY 'MAGIC NIGHT' AT THE SUEZ CANAL...
      938 7  -  By Angela Daugharty The prominence of the Suez Canal in the news these days sent me looking through a journal I kept the one and only time I went through that waterway. It was my first trip abroad and I was travelling on
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      SATURDAY SMILES...
      191 7 AN AWARD for outstanding swimming achievements at Ilkeston, Derbyshire, has been won by 62-year-old Mrs. Winifred Shepherd. She regularly swims a mile at the town's swimming baths and has also notched up 134 lengths non-stop. Her prize: A trophy and a year's free admission to the baths. BUCKINGHAM
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      A balanced look at Bach's life
      583 8 THE MASTER MUSICIANS: BACH by Eva and Sydney Crew Aldine Paperbacks/).M. Dent fir Sons Ltd. 239 pages, with eight pages of plates and music examples in the text. £1. C. S. WANC. There is a growing number of Bach lovers In Singapore and their
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      The Burgess wit and humour
      726 8 New Nation continues with its weekly series on famous writers. Today we introduce Anthony Burgess, whose A Clockwork Orange was made into a controversial film with the same title. Other writers and literary figures who will be featured in this column include D. H. Lawrence,
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      Edgar Snow's last visit to China
      443 8 THE LONG REVOLUTION by Edgar Snow (Hutchinson 1973 £3.50)—H0 SOO KAM. "No book about China today can avoid grappling with the subject because it is still in a process of 'becoming'" wrote Edgar Snow in his last book. But no western sinologist could grapple
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      Not for the Saint of heart
      717 8 THE EYE OF THE STORM, by Patrick White (The Viking Press, 608 pp., USSB.9S)—MAXWELL GEISMAR. Patrick White is that rare thing on the literary scene of the Englishspeaking world an oldfashioned novelist working steadily to create a large and solid body of work. In
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      Karpov: The 6th game was my best creative effort
      742 8  -  CHESS BY LIM KOK ANN After he won his quarter-final match in the world chess championship Candidates' Tournament, Anatoli Karpov gave an interview reported by Soviet Sport. Asked if he had found Lev Polugaevsky an easy opponent to beat, Karpov replied
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      Honour for Malawi anglers
      436 8  -  STAMPS BY ANDREW LAU Malawi has announced that it will issue a set of four stamps to mark the 35th anniversary of the Angling Society next Wednesday. These stamps depict the Sporting Fish of the Republic and will appear in the usual 3, 8, 15 and
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      Cover of the week
      73 8 An important new novel by an outstanding young American writer, Listen Ruben Fontanez, gives an unforgettable picture of the tenements of West Side New York and the destructive insecurity of the conditions under which its youth grow up. But the characters refuse to be merely victims,
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      Barnaby joins the TV sleuths
      736 9  -  New series to start next month SIGHT SOUND »Y EDGAR KOH We are moving towards the end of the current TV season and one of the last new series RTS has managed to obtain before the American networks go into reruns for the summer is
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      First big concert bid by Siew Lian
      671 9  -  She has planned unusual programme THEATRE BY VIOLET OON Over the last few years soprano Yeoh Slew Llan has grown from strength to strength on the concert stage. And she has finally decided to give her first big concert In which she will
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      Soo Keat's works reflect his passion for colourful birds
      439 9  -  ART ■Y GENE TEO Having been brought up in the open country, it was natural that Penang-born artist Ong Soo Keat took an interest in wild-life. Combining this with his love for paint and brush, Soo Keat has brought out beautiful
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      A golden trumpet and the sound of sadness
      743 9 When he played his trumpet, something magical would happen. His sound was so different from that of other trumpeters poignant, but with a hint of muscle; clean, but with a subtle, liquid blur. And sad. Tinged with a sadness that the music
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  • Page 7 Miscellaneous
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      40 7 DR. KILDARE by K*«i BaM RIP KIRBY by John Pr»ntic« and Frmd Dlclmiwm yes.' v&j MH.L M forruNATB OJK I SOMfTWIHS-y' Jfl? t--IfcSLl/ by Frank ONmI c J m lis a >▼< by Q«orgm F«tt GD 'M'.l rr r 't p
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      505 7 WHAT'S ON Mr. E.W. Barker, Minister for Law and Development and member of the Income Board of Trustees, will be guest of honour at the buffet dinner to mark the Inaugural forum of the 1974 INCOME SUMMIT CLUB at the Apollo Hotel at 7.00 p.m. The Pari lamentary Secretary to
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      S'pore need a morale boosting win
      590 10  -  By JEFFREY LOW Singapore open their Malaysia Cup campaign with an important away game against Negri Sembilan at the Station Padang, Seremban tomorrow (kick-off 7 p.m.). Away games have always been our national team's biggest worry and a win tomorrow will raise their morale
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      Australia to host Pacific Games
      130 10 Canberra, Saturday. Australia will stage the third Pacific Oames In 1977 with strong government support, Mr. Frank Stewart, Minister for Tourism and Recreation, said yesterday. He said Canberra had been selected as the site by the Amateur Athletic Union of Australia. Mr. Stewart said the
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      D-Cup tie
      35 10 Bogota. Saturday Chile and South Africa will meet here on March 8 to 10 at the American Sports Club in the semifinal of the Davis Cup's North American zone. It was announced yesterday.
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      Ali may tour Virgin Islands
      296 10 St. Thomas (Virgin Islands). Saturday. Negotiations for former world heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad All to conduct a goodwill tour of the Virgin Islands are now underway, Lt. Gov. Athnlel C. Ottley said yesterday. Ottley said plans would call for the popular prize fighter to speak
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      India score a double
      54 10 Katmandu. Saturday.— India, Japan and China won both men's and women's team matches in an International table tennis tournament here yesterday. Result: Men's team China bt Burma 5-1; India bt Malaysia 5-1; Japan bt Thailand 5-0. Women's team China bt Nepal 3-1; India bt Burma 3-1;
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      Bosley hits 76 to tie with 11 others
      442 10 Manila. Saturday—Bill Bosley, Singapore's leading amateur improved his score by one stroke yesterday when he carded a 76 in the second round of the Philippines Golf Opens championship. This gave him a 36hole total of 153 together with 11 others, 14 strokes
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      Lock icon Boh Heng gets 'hot'
      211 10 Toh Boh Heng (right) got "red hot" with his putter yesterday as he chalked up a recordequalling round of 65 to lead In the first round of the lAC-sponsored Warren Open by three strokes. Boh Heng could have broken the record but he missed a four-foot
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      Irina tops the list in Russia
      630 10  -  From MURRAY SEEGER Moscow, Saturday In picking the most popular athletes of 1973, Soviet journalists passed over most of the best known names for younger performers, taken for granted in previous years. The list, recently published, underscores that 1973 was not a good year
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      Lock icon South Pacific looks set to score hattrick
      738 11 Richie Rich a good bet By BLUE PETER South Pacific II can score a hattrick by winping Race 8 at the pro-am meeting at Buklt Tim ah tomorrow. He scored a brilliant double In Class 2 at Ipoh In December. Carrying 7.12, he
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      St. Pat's trounce Dunman
      135 11 St. Patrick's School trounced Dunman Government Chinese 5-0 to win the Katong District "A" division boys badminton tournament at Changi yesterday. St. Pat's singles champion Stanley Teo had to fight hard for 50 minutes before he won the opening match agalrot Tsal Kok Ing 15-9, 11-15,
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      BT TIMAH pro-am card for Sunday
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      England Test team hit by injuries
      465 11 Kingston, Saturday. England's selectors, after sorting through a sheaf of medical bulletins, yesterday named 12 players for the second Test against the West Indies at Sablna Park today and put John Jameson on stand by. The selectors had already drawn up their side for
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      Leed 5-2 favourites
      58 11 London, Saturday Leeds United, beaten finalists last season, were quoted by a leading London bookmaker yesterday as 5-2 favourites to win the English Football Association Cup. Prices on the eve of the fifth round of the competition 5-1 Liverpool; 11-2 Leicester City; 10-1 Newcastle United; 11-l Burnley;
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      125-108 win
      30 11 New York, Saturday— Results of the American Basketball Association matches: New York 125 Carolina 108; Utah 121 Kentucky 117; San Antonio 88 Indiana 83; Memphis 106 Virginia 102.
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      Lock icon 'Big Five' rule in women's hockey
      653 11  -  pis WORLD by Nancy Koh Women's hockey here appears to be In stagnation. The same five clubs have dominated the leagues and friendly matches year in and year out. And despite attempts by the Singapore Women Hockey Association to popularise the game among various
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      Lock icon S'pore invited by S. Africa
      457 11  -  Bid for racial breakthrough By PERCY SENEVIRATNE The first South African Open athletic championship to be staged at. Pretoria this April Is the latest and certainly the boldest —move by the country In their bid to rejoin the international sporting fold. Singapore is one of
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      Debbie is both, a model and a 'death rider'
      287 11 CHICAGO, Saturday. When Debbie Lawler scratched her face, dislocated her shoulder, broke three ribs and sprained her arm in a> spill in a motorcycle race, she had to make a choice. The agency employing her as a model told her she
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      Laver shocks Taylor
      52 11 Bologna, Saturday Top seed Rod Laver of Australia suffered a shock 7-5 6-1 defeat by Britain's Roger Taylor In the quarter-finals of the World Championship tennis tournament here. In another quarterfinal Arthur Ashe of the United States ended the run of Britain's Graham StlUwell with a 6-4,
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      3-1 victory
      28 11 Moencheng ladbach (Germany), Saturday. Borussia Moenchengladbach yesterday defeated Werder Bremen 3-1 in the West German First Division soccer match. Werder were 1-0 in front at half-time.
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      Marty wins
      33 11 Toronto, Saturday American Marty Rlessen rallied from a one-set deficit to defeat Bob Hewitt of South Africa, 4-6, 7-6, 6-1, yesterday to enter the semi-finals of the Rothman's international tennis tournaqprat.
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      Kono's call to China
      52 11 Tokyo Saturday—Mr. Kenzo Kono, president of the Japan Amateur Athletics Federation, has urged China to express willingness to rejoin the international swimming and ath&le* federation! Mr. Kono hoped thai China would take part in all events at the seventh Asian Games to be held in Teheiaii
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      291 10 BUNGALOWS/ MOUSES/ PLATS available any district. Rental: >500 $2,500. Dhanu's Agency, *****0/ *****9 (S'pore). TWO FURNISHED ROOMS to let. Suitable singles/ couples. Reasonable rental. Contact *****1 S'pore. AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY DIST. 10 3-storey furnished town house 3 alrcondltloned bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, lounge, separate kitchen, dining room, servant's quarters, tetephone, large garden.
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    TODAY
    115 12 TODAY is Saturday, Feb. 16. the 47th day of 1974 with 318 to follow. THE MOON is between its last quarter and new phase. THE MORNING STARS are Venus and Jupiter. THE EVENING STARS are Mercury, Mars and Saturn. Those born on this date are under the sign of
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      14 12 Cinema In Face 2, ComJttb What's On, WorH i Wtatkfr and Tides Face 7.
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      17 12 REDISURANCE YOUR TV SET CAN BE A let Rediffusion worry about your repairs •F REDIFFUSION ►13'=; TttT:
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      1576 12 All yiir weekend vlewiig aid listening RADIO SATURDAY 1.99 OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by Sesame Street Secondseason renewal of entertainment information series for young children 2.90 CARTOON FAVOURITES 2.20 SATURDAY MATINEE Lure Of The Wilderness: The search for his lost dog takes a young trapper into a mysterious swamp. Starring: Jean
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      869 12 BACK PAGE YOUR LUCKY STAR IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you have abiding Interest In avant grade notions. As You have no fear of failure and not the slightest expectation of loss; Indeed, quite the opposite, for you fully expect to succeed and. In succeeding, to make gains. TOMORROW...
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