New Nation, 4 May 1974

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  • 24 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Saturday evening, May 4, 1974 No. 1016 Price 20 cents M.C. (P) 20/74 NE^^ATION J*' 1 SINGAPORE SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1974
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  • 77 1 World Cop fever Is in the air. This soccer spectacular will draw thousands to Munich next month and millions more will watch the fames on television. For football lovers in Singapore, New Nation plans a spectacular of Its own a five-part special feature on the World Gup that
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  • 13 1 Police reported 95 accidents yesterday. Six were serious and four fatal.
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  • 431 1  -  Finance company boss is killed in early morning fight over gambling win By Bharathi Mohan A 2.30 a.m. knock on the door of a Siglap terrace house ended in death for finance company managing partner Tan Lye Huat, 39, today. Tan was knifed to death 200
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  • 403 1  -  Sentosa bones find By Richard Lim I went to Sentosa yesterday and was handed parts of a human skeleton including a 4 Jaw bone with a shining tooin and several pieces of the vertebrae. The grisly parcel was pushed into my hands by
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  • 30 1 London, Saturday Conservative candidates scored gains yesterday In elections to London's local government and party chairman Lord Carrlng ton proclaimed: "We have started the climb back."
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  • 226 1 Damascus, Saturday US Secretary of State Dr. Henry Kissinger and Syrian leaders have reached no agreement on Issues connected with a possible Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement accord, US Ambassa- dor-at-large, Mr. Robert McCloskey said here. Dr. Kissinger arrived here earlier yesterday from Jerusalem as part of
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  • 258 1 From Blae Peter Ipoh, Saturday Little M e st e r should give punters a flying start in the Apprentices' Bpecial in Race 1 at Ipoh today. The six-year-old by Mystery showed a glimpse of his old form at Kuala Lumpur in March when
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  • Article, Illustration
    62 1 THE ROVING EYE^D Food and rubbish should not mix. But customers at these stalls In Sims Avenue don't have much choice. For right In front of them Just across the road Is a row of litter bins overflowing with refuse. It Is in fact, the dumping spot
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 769 2 'Pay more attention to West Asian affairs' Foreign Minister Mr. S. Rajaratnam has said there hatl been mutual ignorance between Singapore and West Asiavi nations in the past but the mutual interests now have created opportunities for improving political and economic ties. In
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    • 45 2 The University of Singapore's School of Postgraduate Medical Studies will hold the Primary Master of Medicine (Surgery) Examination beginning on June 25. Entry forms for the examination can be obtained from the secretary of SPMS and are to be returned by May 11.
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    • 48 2 Mr. A.N. Balagopal has been re-elected president of the Hoover Park and Nelg h bo u rhood Residents' Association. Other officials Include vice-presidents Mr. Yue Hock Yin and Mr. Paul Neo; general secretary Mr. TX. Ooi; treasurer Mr. D.J. Raj, and auditor Mr. Yeo Chow Hoon.
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    • 500 2 Installing chains on doors Major hotels on the island have started installing security chains ip all their rooms following a recent spate of robberies and a murder at the Hilton Hotel four days ago. The hotels have also Increased the number of guards
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    • 243 2 Singapore Airlines and the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board will embark on more ambitious joint promotion programmes this year. This was announced at a joint Press conference today by the two bodies. It was held In conjunction with a special film preview of Team Spirit,
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    • 51 2 The National Museum school service will screen two films for students at its lecture hall on May 11 at 11.30 a.m. The films are Portrait of Prans Hals, one of Holland's most famous painters and Vincent van Vogh (colour) featuring the famous post-impres-sionist painter and his
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    • 42 2 The National Museum school service is organising a rour3e for qualified teachers on Woodcarving for Beginners by Mr. Jimmy Ngui Kim Choo at its lecture hall every Tuesday beginning from July 9 to August 13 from 2.30 pjn. to 4.30 pm.
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    • 204 2 House owners are advised to consult the relevant authorities before carrying out any repairs or other work in their homes. This Is because under the Building Control Act no person should drect, reconstruct or even repair a building without the prior approval of the
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    • 220 3 The Biology Practical Paper for the GCE 'O' L®vel Examinations may be marked locally for the first time this year. A group of 24 senior science teachers have just completed a thorough two week course, conducted by three examiners from Cambridge University, according to
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    • 40 3 The Mangala Vihara (Buddhist Temple) and Singapore Buddhist Pall Society will hold a threeday Vesak celebrations at the Mangala Vihara premises at Jalan Eunos tomorrow commencing at 3 p.m., Monday at 6 a.m. and Tuesday at 2 p.m.
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    • 294 3  -  By Sunny Wee The Port of Singapore Authority has rejected the appeal of lighterowners to allow their vessels over 100 feet In length free access to Keppel Harbour. The PSA said that lighters and towing vessels are not prohibited lrom using the Keppel Channel so
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    • 472 3  -  Now he is jobless with a big handicap By Bharathi Mohan The proposed Motor Insurers Bureau to help compensate hit-and-run accident victims may be heartening news for Singapore's road users, but not for Mr. M. Samy, 38, a father of nine. For him, it is
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    • 173 3 The already decreasing farming area in Singapore has shrunk further with the government acquisition of more than 55 acres of land in Kranji and Lim Chu Kang for the Pandan water scheme. Some of the biggest hatcheries and experimental farms belonging to two feed mills company,
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    • 331 3 The government Is streamlining road lanes along main thoroughfares to ensure a smoother flow of traffic. The streamlining Is being carried out along roads with reserved bus lanes. The scheme Is also to create more space for pedestrians along the roads and
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    • 937 3 The University of Singapore has announced the results of the Final Examinations for the degree of Bachelor of Accountancy and Bachelor of Science held in March. The following candidates have passed the B-Acc. exam: Ang Koon San, Arumugam Rohinl (Miss), Asha Kumari d/o Bhajan Singh
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    • 166 3 LKA Anatoli Karpov Is on the verge of winning hla match against former world chess champion Boris Spassky after beating the latter in their 9th game in Leningrad last night. Twenty-two-year old Karpov increased his lead to 3-1 in this semifinal of the
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    • 36 3 President Shear es will review the Singapore Red Cross Society parade to be held at the old Raffles Institution grounds in Bras Basah Road tomorrow at 4.30 p.m. to mark World Red Cross Day.
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    • 265 3  -  By Teresa Ooi The first blind girl at the University of Singapore, Deborah Ng Wai Cheng, 25, has won another award this time it's the Singapore Airlines gold medal for being second best student' in the second-year examinations. "It's all God's grace, a lot of other people's
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 443 2 lucky stars IF ITS YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you are a highly organised Individual who has lile so scheduled that there is seldom any need for adapting or accommodating to the unexpected. On the other hand, when such need arises you are ready and able to meet it tor as
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    • 267 2 NEW NATION CROSSWORD 8 Small amount 9 Musical works 10 Glengarry 11 Biblical mountain 12 Flavoring agent 13 Lone Btar state 18 Pronoun 23 Pine fellow 26 More untidy 27 Joins up 29 Of an epic poem 30 Elec. units 31 Blood 33 Bound of disbelief 36 Phone aides 37
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 119 4 Reuter Washington, Saturday The Air Force apparently routinely destroyed orders which created a deceptive bombing report procedure used to conceal 1970 air strikes in Cambodia. Senator Harold Hughes said yesterday. The lowa Democrat, reporting on an eightmonth effort to pinpoint the sources of the
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    • 318 4 500 killed in four-day battle Saigon, Saturday Government troops have broken the communist siege of a ranger base near the Cambodian border after a four-day battle which left more than 500 dead on both sides, the Saigon command announced. The command spokesman said
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    • 35 4 Washington, Saturday. President Nixon yesterday named Robert Ellsworth, a former Kansas congressman and a key figure In his 1968 campaign for the presidency, to be Assistant Secretary of Defence for international security affairs.
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    • 147 4 Reuter Adelaide, Saturday Prime Minister Gough Whitlam told a news conference here yesterday that many foreignowned mining companies In Australia were paying lower rates of tax than their employees. He said the foreignowned companies paid an average of 12 cents In the dollar.
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    • 185 4 Reuter New Delhi, Saturday The Indian Government yesterday unveiled a national development plan for fiscal 1974-75 projecting a growth rate of five to six per cent on Its Gross Domestic Product. The blueprint for the first year of India's fifth five-year plan was
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    • 314 4 Angola acts after Lisbon coup Reuter Luanda, Saturday. Angolan authorities have released about 1200 political prisoners from a detention camp In a remote southern area of this Portuguese West African territory, official spokesmen said yesterday. Altogether about 4000 people have left the Sao Nicolau detention
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    • 154 4 London, Saturday— Foreign Secretary James Callaghan has summoned British ambassadors in about 20 Middle East countries, including Egypt and Israel, to a meeting in London from May 13 to 17 to discuss the new Labour Government's policy towards the region. The Foreign
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    • 281 4 United Press International Washington, Saturday The House Judiciary Committee has gathered evidence which apparently links President Nixon to the decision to raise dairy price supports in return for a UBS2 million ($4.8 million) pledge for political, contributions. Several references to "material in the possession
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    • 291 4 Reuter Bonn, Saturday. Chancellor Willy Brandt's personal aide, Guenter Oulllaume, who is under arrest as a communist spy, was officially stated yesterday to have had relations with a wrman secretary also working in the chancellery. The official government spokesman. Dr. Armln Qruenewald, said the
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    • 235 4 The MP for Chua Chu Kang, Mr. Tang See Chim, will officiate at the MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE REAPPOINTMENT CEREMONY AND VARIETY SHOW at the Lam Soon Community Centre at 8 p.m. The Singapore Girl Guides' Association will hold a ceremony at. Its Clemenceau Avenue headquarters at 3 p.m. to
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  • Page 4 Miscellaneous
    • 338 4 Send your entries in by Friday totaL Malaysia by C and E MivnMfflM cfc'ss.n'.^rs r |tlu£| Mf UiyJu considerable inconveni- and seventh priie win- ence will be caused ners. which may Jeopardise There will also be five Your entry coupon for jour chances. prises of beautiful Pan Primewords is published
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    • 442 4 B 5 E 2 PA/) MAKES TMC DIFFERENCE CONTINENTAL Super- Rotax Fountain pen Made in West Germany TOTAL POINTS:49 points THE RULES AND HOW TO TAKE PART: Every issue of lite New Nation for Ike duration of the contest wil carry a blank board made ap of IB vertical aad
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    • 75 4 TUAT4 AMOTW&R "THVKiC? X U>i& ABOOTWM..,, LTUE uAv we AACV&S HIS LIPS .US READS' I RIP KIRBY by John Prentice and Fred Dickenson PO YOU |IT IS MOT POSSIBLE FOR HIM see who ;to be in r*ris/^ —«>. > I SEE < SOMETHING \4 TALKING HAS GONE V OVe RE
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  • FINANCE
    • 1864 5 (NDUBTUAL 1 W73/W74 Hlfk Lwm 2.70 2.00 1.30 1.18 2.75 2.75 3.14 2.30 1.70 1.15 2.20 1.40 1.01 0.05 *4 1.35 1.00 3.70 3.38 2.46 1.50 l.SO 1.15 5.70 4.54 2.13 1.82 1.30 0.83 4.60 3.24 2.44 2.02 4.78 2.08 1.30 0.78 Vt 3.32 2.38 3.00 2.52
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    • 308 5  -  By Florence Tan The demand for more sophisticated carpets in the domestic market has prompted Singapore Carpet Manufacturers, mak- ers of the world famous Tal Ping carpets, to open a new wholly-owned subsidiary dealing In Imported carpets. The subsidiary, House Mart, which started business
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    • 117 5 Promet Pte. Ltd. has launched a 74-foot tugboat the first vessel built in the Far Bast for an American company. "Hatta Jacks" is among five vessels which the company, Jackson Marine Corporation, has contracted Promet Pte. Ltd. to build. Three of the vessels are for use in
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    • 30 5 Voi p e r Thorny croft will launch Its fast patrol boat. KDB Perwlra, for the Royal Brunei Malay Regiment at 200 TanJong Rh«>on Thursday at 1145 p.m.
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    • 98 5 Reuter Islamabad, Saturday. Libya and Pakistan have agreed to establish a joint development bank with headquarters In Karachi, an official announcement said here yesterday. The decision was taken In the framework of the Libya Pakistan joint ministerial commission for mutual co-operation set up when Libyan
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    • 103 5 Steeiwood Carriers Inc. is starting a new service to transport steel from Belgium to Port Kelang and Singapore. The service--the inward Steel Service Is aimed at alleviating the shipping space problem faced by steel exporters In Europe. The first ship, 15,000ton vessel Selten Ifaru, carrying
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    • 356 5  -  By Rav K. Dhaliwal Has the longawaited upturn on the Stock Exchange of Singapore finally come? The signs of recovery are all there. yesterday, genuine buying support, helped by covering activity, pushed up prices in a market which had long been characterised by Jittery selling.
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    • 61 5 Two senior sales representatives for HapagLloyd, in the offices of the Anglo-French Trading Co. in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, will leave tomorrow for a two-week training programme at the Hapag-LJoyd headquarters in Hamburg, Germany. The representatives, Mr. Edward K.S. Ang and Mr. Peter Slngham. will attend
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    • OVERSEAS STOCK EXCHANGE PRICES
      • 301 5 Stocks dec 1 i ned in quiet-trading on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday, hit by profit-taking and the prospects of continued rises In various Interest rates. Turnover totalled 11.080,000 shares, compared with 13,620,000 exchanged on Thursday. Stocks on the American exchange fell in light trading. Closing prices
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      • 363 5 The paint Industry is likely to breathe a little easier In the later part of the year with the anticipated lowering of the high cost of production. This is the picture of the industry's prospects painted by Mr. Etlc Chan, president of the Federation of
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      • 38 5 The Dow Jones rang? of Stocks on the New Tork Stock Exchange yesterday were 30 Industrials 847.31 (off 5.16), 20 transport 175.06 (off 1.36), 15 utilities 73.06 (up 0 06), and 65 stocks 258.78 (Off 1.44).
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      • 110 5 This service comes from the Union Bank of Switzerland. Closing prices (in francs) on the Zurich Stock Ex- No quotations from Tokyo Stock Exchange ye iter day due to holiday in Japan while Paris Stock Exchange was again closed because of exchange employees' continued strike. change yesterday: —10 UBS
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  • OPINION
    • 471 6 The United States' eleventh hour decision to withdraw its US$4OOO million pledge from the controversial United Nations aid programme is likely to aggravate further the growing sense of cynicism among developing countries. The prospecis of the new world economic order which was approved by
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    • 'WHISPERS' by ISPY
      • 59 6 The approach of election is not without its dangers as the folks of Southern Thailand have found out. According to the Bangkok Post, an official report compiled by a high ranking Yala police officer said bandits and separatists have staged nearly 20 abductions so far this year
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      • 56 6 As a golden rule In Journalism Is to use simple words whenever possible, no newspaperman would resist pointing out Instances of misuse of words. A colleague recently spotted a signboard at a car park in the former Raffles Institution grounds which reads "Operation Hours" (time given). Wouldn't
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    • 1025 6  -  Our cohwnnbt Edgar Koh toadtfi on a sore point locally. Why oar film faro generally poor or sab-standard? Sore to the moviegoers, among others. The cinema owners also have a problem, he says. Find ns the andienee and we will show yon the films, they
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    • 468 6 United Press International The October War put a sharp dent In tourism In Israel, especially In the first three months after the fighting, but tourist officials hope the trade will recover suffl-„ ciently to make 1974 a--record year. It wont be easy. For one
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    • VOICE OF THE PRESS
      • 542 6 What other newspapers are saying: LABOUR DAY WISHES Labour Day has once again arrived. It it celebrated all over the world as a day which symbolises the solidarity of the working class and marks their successful struggle for the rights and Interests that they are entitled to.
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      • 242 6 PROBLEM OF BUMIPUTRA PARTICIPATION The Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister, Datuk Hussein Onn, stated a few days ago that some statutory boards and Government agencies had deviated from the policy of Increasing Bumlputra participation in trade and Industry. And the President of the Malay Chamber of Commerce and Industry;
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    • 1271 6  -  From From Sam Jameson in Tokyo Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka last summer wound up a seven-day visit to the United States by comp 1 a i ning that "many people in high places" were unaware that Japan had opened its
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
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  • SATURDAY REVIEW
    • 1517 7  -  The valley that's hidden from man, not Nature By Abby Tan A monument of Jose Rizal, the Philippines national hero stands guard in the town of A 1 aminos at the entrance to the Hidden Valley Springs. A signboard points to the right and the beginning of a
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    • 516 7 SECRETARIES in Scotland have been praised by the chairman of a public authority because, he said, they are better workers than the "dolly birds" in London offices and they don't cost so much. The praise came from Mr. Charles Meek, head of the White Fish Authority, which moved
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    • 1418 7  -  By 1 William Jones Washington Post At an antique shop in Summerside, near Long River, Prince Edward Island, recently the proprietor was overheard lamenting the changing times. "This place Just does not look the same anymore," he told a visitor, describing his resort city ol
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    • 524 7  -  By Paul Majendie Reuter Where in Paris can you find a theatre that actually pays the audience to see the show, or a woman who gives opera singing lessons for nothing? Where, In this most expensive of European capitals, can you have a
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    • 550 7  -  SWITZERLAND OF THE EAST WILL SUIT THE TASTE OF MOST TRAVELLERS By O.N. Ganju United Press International Kashmir, the showplaoe of India's tourist industry, expects a tourist boom this year despite the high cost of travel. Abont 210,004 Indian and foreign tourists
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    • 1454 8 PRIVATE LIFE SECRET EVEN AFTER HIS DEATH "GREAT TOM: NOTES TOWARDS THE DEFINITION OF T.S. EUOT," by T.S. MATHEWS (Harper Row, publishers. 219 pages., illustrated. US$B.95) Reviewed by W. J. WEATHERBY. Los Angeles Times Thomas Stearns Blot distinguished between public faces and private
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    • 261 8 Five Take* is the collection of the works of five local poets Chung Tee Chong, Sng Boh Khim- Arthur Tap, Teo Bock Cheng and Robert Teo. The anthology goes on sale In Singapore shops next week. It Is expected to arouse considerable Interest for these five
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    • 564 8  -  STAMPS •Y ANDREW LAU Gibraltar has issued a set of three commemorative stamps to mark the Centenary of the Universal Postal Union (UPU). The stamps are in the 2p, 6p and 14p denominations. Designed by Mr. A.G. Ryman, a local artist, It depicts the pillar boxes
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    • 158 8  -  by ARTHUR YAP when you have painted yourself into a corner and there's no way out except by leaving a trail of prints, wetly breaking the surface of the floor: think sometimes of yourself as a parochil champion who is editing the footprints systematically, pointing out a path
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    • 259 8 DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON, by George Orwell (Penguin), 190 pages—Orwell's lively and factual record of his experiences among the poor of two capital cities. Pew writers have possesed a greater gift for spotting the personality behind the rags, or described the reality of poverty with so
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    • 808 8  -  Moorhouse's course of action By Leslie Hansoom Los Angeles Times The factual literature of arduous adventure in faraway places is fewer than it used to be because the faraway places are fewer and getting there demands little that is arduous. To duplicate the heroism of
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    • 198 8 Following is the MPH best Sellers List for the week ending last Thursday, with the positions of the previous week in brackets. The list compiled from sales records reflects to some degree the reading taste of the Singapore public with regard to general books, that is, non-text
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    • 958 8  -  CHESS BY LIM KOK ANN The international computer chess tournament proposed by the Singapore Chess Federation for World Chess Week in July provokes some discussion about computer chess and its implications. Computers, strictly speaking, can no more play chess than bill you for
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    • 1034 9  -  RTS to screen 1970 World Cup StGHT SOUND it KOH Doing its part to feed football fever during the triumphant series of matches by the Singapore team here and at the approach of the World Cup in Munich. RTS has never been more indulgent
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    • 859 9  -  THEATRE BY VIOLET OON Don Burrows is a musician who believes in giving an audience what it wants entertainment even if it means stifling his musical strengths. A modest Australian jazz musician. Burrows' stature in his own country can be judged by the
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    • 1118 9 Los Angeles Times Way back when the "hoss" was the girlfriend in movies, Roy Rogers the cowboy, was the hero of millions of girls. Now the western, as a cliche and the American we st e rn must be a cliche is defunct. Last spring, the
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    • 575 9  -  interest growing* ART ■r GENE TEC He is an "old hand" at the game. Brother Joseph Connelly started sculpture in 1943, switched to painting, and returned to sculpture again seven years ago in New York. What made him come back? He said: "The
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    • 98 8 F.I.D.E. GOLDEN JUBILEE 1974 WORLD CHESS WEEK Patron: Mr Jek Yuen Thong Minister for Culture IcrtepcisticKial Bo«[wt6P Qhess Toopasflßedt Singapore Conference Hall July 20 to 24 The Tournament will be played between Computer chess programme submitted from abroad using computers in Singapore, as in a tournament between human chess players
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  • SPORTS
    • 89 10 Off to a rood start Lob Kwan Boh pots his head in front of Azhar Mohamed and Goh Scow Hone on his wax to a record-break-ing win in the Post Secondary 200 m event at the Outram School athletics championships at Queenstown yesterday.
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    • 257 10 Tuan Mong High and Hwa Chong College have emerged as the st x o ngest challengers for the National Schools Post Secondary table tennis championship. Yesterday, they scored smashing victories over Raffles and Victoria respectively at Chung Cheng High School. Hwa Cheng led by
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    • 327 10 London, Saturday Black market tickets for today's English F.A. Cup final were reported to be rocketing in price as London braced itself for a soccer invasion from the north. According to one national newspaper, £6 stand tickets for the Wembley clash between Liverpool and Newcastle
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    • 162 10 London, Saturday. Somerset and the Indian cricket tourists drew their match at Taunton yesterday when rain restricted play to only about three hours. Scores: Indians 175 and 147-7 (Patel 53 not out) Somerset 249. Other results: At LORDS: Middlesex tt Hampshire by 100; Middlesex 300-4
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    • 492 10  -  WOMAN'S WORLD by Nancy Koh Women's squash in Singapore will take a big leap forward with the start of an Open find a Novices league tournament. For with the Introduction of an annual league competition, standards will surely go up. Credit should go to
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    • 29 10 Warendorf (West Germany), Saturday.—Hungary yesterday won the first European Cup in modern pentathlon by a decisive margin of 579 e)lnts from the Soviet nlon. with Poland third.
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    • 18 10 Madrid, Saturday Scotland beat Czechoslovakia 3-1 In a Group "A'* European Nations Cup hockey match yesterday.
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    • 343 11 Louisville, Saturday—A record field of 23 horses, headed by the favoured stable coupling of Judger and Cannonade, are entered for today's Kentucky Derby, first leg of the Triple Crown Classics for three-year-olds. A crowd of more than 130,000, Including Britain's Princess Margaret and
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    • 101 11 Bangkok, Saturday Thailand's first open bowling championships start today at Bangkok's 52-lane Star Bowl with over 500 competitors from 12 countries contesting the 13 events. Singapore, with a 32member contingent, are the largest foreign entry in the five-day tournament. Impressive In practice yesterday were Honey Ng
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    • 91 11 Dallas (Texas), Saturday. Jim 81 mon s, former winner of the Arnold Palmer golf scholarship at Wake Forest University, bolted from the pack yesterday with a slx-under par-65 to grab a two-stroke lead over Homero Blanc as midway through the Byron Nelson golf tournament. Simons, who
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