New Nation, 13 May 1974

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  • 22 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Monday evening, May 13, 1974 No. 1023 Price 20 cents M.C. (P) 20/74 NEwSsATION SINGAPORE MONDAY, MAY 13, 1974
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  • 369 1 ...but it was not a goal —and super Singapore take a bow for a great win These dramatic sequence p i c t u res (above) vividly recapture the controversial moment of suspense for over 45.000 people last night during the vital Malaysia Cup match
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  • 410 1 Yugoslav residents fear to return home Belgrade, Monday Thousands of people fled from their homes In panic last night when the Southern Yugoslav city of Skoplje was hit by a strong earthquake. The Yugoslav news agency, Tanjug, said there were no immediate details of
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  • 290 1 Reuter Jerusalem, Monday Dr. Henry Kissinger and Israeli leaders last night reported progress towards a Golan Heights disengagement agreement. and said the US envoy and the Israeli Cabinet would meet today. After almost three boon of talks with Dr. Kissinger at Premier Oolda Me It's office,
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  • 71 1 Selective trading marked the Stock exchange of Singapore this morning. BUSINESS DONE: City Dev. (1) 1.25, (1) 1.27. (4) 128. 8. Darby (4) 3.96. U.O. (5) 3.96, (1) 5.94. Haw Par (1) 2.96, (33) 2.94, (14) 2.95. D.BJS. (3) 2.89, (6) 2.87, (13) 2.88. M. Credit (4)
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  • 66 1 Pari*, Monday Finance Minister Valery discard D*estalng has opened up a three per cent lead over Socialist leader Francois Mitterrand In the French presidential race following their televised debate last Friday. According to the first opinion poll taken after the debate, Mr. Oiscard D'estalng will get
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  • 13 1 Police reported 115 accidents yesterday. Four were serious and two fatal.
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  • 23 1 Hong Kong, Monday.— China yesterday warned South Korea that Its fishing boats must immediately stop interfering with Chinese fishermen.
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  • 143 1 More and more prises are being offered to the winner of the New Nation-Lufthansa World Gap Contest, making it traly a dream trip for two. Here Is what yon will get if yon come oat tops in the Grand Finals: Double return air
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  • 26 1 Madrid, Monday. King Hussein of Jordan arrived here yesterday for a two-day state visit to Spain amid tight security precautions at Madrid's Barajas Airport.
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    • 55 1 MINOLTA MEANS BE TTE R PIOURf S Jeffrey Low's report: Page 11 Now serving the garden city... JAL's 747 Garden Jet I i. /A >r r Departing Singapore for Tokyo via Bangkok every Tuesday and Thursday at 9.00 am. Wfe never forget how important you are. JAPAN AIR UNES^mZ Anson
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  • Page 1 Miscellaneous

  • LOCAL NEWS
    • 268 2 Price gap small Singapore motorists will find It unprofitable to cross the Causeway to fill up their tanks following the increase in petrol prices announced by the Malaysian Government last week. The difference between the price of premium petrol is only 13 cents
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    • 69 2 A staff nurse, Cik Tengku Durlah binte Saharaom, 38, told police she was robbed of Jewellery worth $610 in a lift at Henderson Crescent at 3.30 p.m. yesterday. She was returning home after a wedding reception when a young man followed her into the lift. He pointed
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    • 59 2 The Government has acquired more than five acres of land belonging to the Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation in Mandal for the Bukit Mandal booster station and water towers project. The land is in the rural zone. Last week, the Government also acquired more than 50 acres of
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    • 241 2 Setron Limited has received orders for 500 colour television sets from dealers who attended their convention last week. This figure was released by Mr. S. K. Huang, general manager of the company. He said: "Part of the reason for the high orders was
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    • Article, Illustration
      158 2 A large crowd watched as the dismembered body of Madam Kwek Lee Ehg, 53, was carried into a hearse in Upper Perak Road on Saturday evening. The two bundles contained pieces of the woman's torso. This was the follow-up to the police Investigations earlier that morning after
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    • 307 2 An all-time record of 4878 marriages in January An all-time record of 4878 marriages were solemnised at the Registry of Marriages in January. Of this, 4668 marriages were between Chinese couples, 150 betweep Indian couples, 15 between couples in the other ethnic groups, and 45 were inter-marri-ages.
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    • 184 2 The Singapore Tourist Promotion Board Is hosting the Singapore Conference Seminar, to promote Singapore as a convention centre, which began at the Regional English Language Centre today. About 30 British and European top-level executives of international organisations and corporations are attending the three-day seminar. Hie
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    • 29 2 Three men forced a welder, Mr. Lau Sooi Cheng, 22, into a car in Home Road on Saturday, and robbed him of $180 in cash and valuables.
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    • 315 2  -  CHESS SY LIM KOK ANN Alphonsus Chia, 15, who finished third in the 26th championship, took one look at the challenge trophy and told Prof. Lim Kok Ann the first winner in 1946 beside him: "I shall collect It one day." Alphonsus
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    • 280 2 The public can help speed up the delivery of mall by using standard size envelopes for their letters, according to Acting Postmaster General Mr. Wong Lee Hoong. And as the postal services become Increasingly mechanised the need for using standard size envelopes become even more important, he
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    • 24 2 Dr. Tham Seong Chee will speak on Youth and Recreation at the ftfacpher so n Community Centre on May 24 at 8 pan.
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    • 164 2 The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has urged cat owners to sterilise their pets. In its latest Monthly Letter, it said: "About 8000 cats and kittens had to be destroyed last year. SPCA staff have been collecting 50 to 60 cats
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    • 131 2 The Port of Singapore Authority's flreflghtlng boats were this morning still fighting the flames inside the pilgrim ship, Malaysia Klta, as It lay on its port side off Katong. Tongues of flames could still be seen below the deck of the ahlp which caught Are
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    • 137 2 The Singapore Metrication Board has invited daching manufacturers to submit their prototypes to the Board before June 1. This invitation follows a move by the Board to replace the existing daching as it Is calibrated in katls and tahils. A working committee has explored the
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    • 35 2 Housewife Madam Yaw Moy Dian, 33, told police a man on a bicycle snatched a gold chain with a Jade pendant worth $600 at the Junction of Lorang 24 and Geylang Road yesterday.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 221 2 NEW NATION CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Glide along 5 Fictional deer 10 Army meal 14 Of aircraft: Prefix 15 Hamburger trim 16 Con 17 Actor 19 Old English coin 20 Musical group 21 Completely 23 Fish dish 24 In other times 25 Reporters 29 Jason, for one 33 Jot 34 Game
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  • WORLD NEWS
    • 155 3 Belfast, Monday Becurlty officials said yesterday 19 people were Injured in a weekend wave or incendiary bombs across Northern Ireland At Londonderry, British army troops neutralised a 200 lb (90 kg) bomb planted at the weekend, the army said. In Belfast, security
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    • 580 3 Polls: Majority want him out Washington, Monday The rising clamour for President Nixon's impeachment was fuelled yesterday by two public opinion polls showing 49 per cent and 53 per cent in favour of the President's impeachment and removal from office. The surveys were disclosed amid
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    • 33 3 New York, Monday.— President Anwar Sadat of Egypt said In an interview with Time Magazine yesterday "I am Kd that for the first in 40 years we have no concentration camps."
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    • 113 3 Lusaka, Monday—President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia broke down and wept yesterday as he attacked apartheid at a meeting of 500 African church leaders. The 50-year-old leader, a deeply religious man, wept for almost five minutes during his opening speech to f .he third assembly of the
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    • 178 3 Rome. Monday Italians yesterday voted In a topsy-turvy referendum in which they have to vote "110" if they are in favour of divorce or "yes" if they are against. Confusion was widespread as more than million voters flocked to the polling stations
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    • 375 3 United Press International Washington, Monday— A new study of comparative naval power in the Indian Ocean by the Congressional Research Service shows that the Soviet Union has acquired a vast advantage over the US there since 1969. The study was published on Saturday by Republican
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    • 16 3 Athens, Monday. Former Vice President Spiro Agnew arrived here yesterday on a "business" trip.
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    • 227 3 UPI, Reuter Peking, Monday. An Indian diplomat walked out of a banquet honouring Pakistan Prime Minister Zulfikar All Bhutto last night during a speech in which the Vice Premier of China declared firm support for Pakistan. The walkout came during a speech by
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    • 229 3 Mozambique, Monday. —Thousands of angry White settlers massed outside the Governor's palace here last night to protest to Portugal's Chief of Staff about peace terms offered to African Guerrillas. There were cries from the crowd of "arms, arms" and "down with Frellmo" as General
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    • 102 3 Sydney, Monday A document signed by 85 Christian church leaders urging their followers to vote Labour in Saturday's general election has drawn strong criticism from ot*her churchmen. The Catholic Bishop of Sale, Victoria, Bishop Fox said yesterday: "It would be disastrous if the Socialist Labour government
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    • 119 3 San Francisco, Monday The father of kidnapped heiress Patricia Hearst said yesterday he wasn't surprised by reports that his daughter's abductors have tied a blindfold over her eyes. The Federal Bureau of Investigation earlier refused comment on reports that a Specially trained dog indicated the blindfold
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    • 300 3 Reuter New Delhi, Monday— The Indian government has claimed a marked Improvement In the movement of passenger and goods trains on the strike bound national railways. "A major breakthrough In goods movement to and from Bombay has taken place, and freight operations In and around
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  • Page 3 Advertisements
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  • FOR YOUR PLEASURE
    • 580 4  -  CINEMA vr EDGAR KOH C I N DERELLA LIBERTY directed by Mark Rydell, with James Caan, Marsha Mason, Kirk Calloway and Ell Wallach (Orchard: next change). "Well, a sucker Is born every minute," would likely be a masculinlst's response to
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    • 423 4  -  Peita comes from a famous family too Jennifer Schoon Peita Toppano is much more than Just a lovely face atop a slim beautiful body—she has loads of talent to boot. All this combined with a free outgoing nature, sunny smile and an impish sort
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    • 900 4  -  By Florence Tan As a little girl, Pllita Corrales had a most unusual ambition. "I actually wanted to be a circus acrobat" she recalled. "You see, one of my favourite games when was young was climbing trees and swinging from
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    • 362 4 Melbourne Herald The more privileged a Kl the earlier she is ely to reach puberty. For more than 100 yean, girls have been maturing some three years earlier than they did In the past. And puuerty In boys Is now taking place two years
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    • 303 4 Tons of books on board flume's diary HERE is good news for all book lovers. The floating library Logos is In Singapore again. And along with it are tons and tons of books from all over the world. The Logos, owned by Educational Book Exhibits
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  • OPINION
    • 422 6 Economic considerations had Drompted the Labour Government in 1968 to announce a shock decision to pull out its forces east of Suez, including those in Singapore but excluding those in Hong Kong and Brunei by March 1971. So it is hardly surprising that Mr.
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    • 'WHISPERS' by ISPY
      • 53 6 The most Interesting dish in town, I hear, is a $150 soup called Buddha Jumps Over the Wall being offered by one Chinese restaurant. Why the name? "It's supposed to be so good," one friend who has tried it said, "that Buddha would even Jump over a
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      • 80 6 Having the right contacts is always useful, even when it is a matter of shopping in the market. A colleague knows someone who Is helping to sell fish balls in the market. Everytime he wants to buy some fish balls, he starts by asking "How are
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      • 102 6 The intention was undoubtedly good, but the result was quite the opposite. A group of seminarians who had been attending a conference at Oxford, England, were taking a coach ride back to the university town after seeing a plav at Stratford-upon-Avon. It was a beautiful moonlight
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    • 1174 6  -  Art the high expenses diverted to the building iptf i o—nttj's aimed tones really justified? This is the question Alex Jose? poses today. To answer this «uestion, however, one mast first decide on the likelihood of war. What an the prospects of war? The possession of
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    • Letters
      • 280 6  -  G. KRISHNAN In the last few weeks the people of Singapore, have been treated to the screaming headlines of daring, daylight robbery in our Jewellery shops, gruesome murders of visitors in our glittering hotel rooms and the innumerable slaylngs on our roads. It Is not unthinkable that
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      • 97 6 I am an applicant for admission to a part-time course in the Polytechnic. I possess GCE "O" and M A" level passes in Physics. To my surprise, I have been asked to sit the Polytechnic Entrance Test. If I understand the prospectus correctly, the Entrance Test
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      • 113 6  -  YAP SOON HOE Secretary, Bus Services Reorganisation Committee, Singapore, I I refer to the letter by Commuter Ang (NN, 17.4.74) requesting for a bus service from MacPherson Estate to Thomson/Upper Thomson Road via Jalan Toa Payoh, Kim Keat Road and Balestler Road. Commuter Ang would appreciate
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      • 97 6  -  TAN BAN HUAT Public Relations Officer, Hooting and Development Board, Singapore. S. Please refer to your report about a heap of building debris at the lift entrance on the Bth floor of Block 18, Holland Drive. We wish to Inform that the building debris referred to has
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      • 187 6  -  B.S.R. When the P.CJ. decided to use one meter for the consumption of domestic electricity whether lighting or power, the block system was Introduced. Now with the energy crisis the P.U.B. bills since March 1974 have In red print Save Electricity. However if this Is the aim, the
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      • 166 6  -  K.M. I regularly go for an early morning walk around Katong. The number of dogs that one comes across along the road Is frightening. Some of them are obviously strays, but a majority of them appear to have been let out by owners for exercise.
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      • 64 6 The design and layout of 5-room HDB flats is well planned as seen from completed projects. But may I comment that the bathroom door which directly faces the dining room is very unsightly. Could modifications please be made to the flats that are coming up In Telok
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    • 640 6  -  From Michael Getler Washington Post While sales of expensive American military equipment to oil-rich Persian Gulf countries—especially Iran are booming, they may also be driving up the price of imported oil as those countries seek still higher revenues 'to pay for their expanding arsenals.
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    • 433 6 excerpts from editorials Straits Times (Malaysia) Milestones measure the journey, but are not necessarily tributes to progress. "Hie Jakarta conference of the Foreign Ministers of the five members of the Association of South-East Asian Nations. Is certainly another milestone, described by one Minister as the
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    • 213 6  -  Asahi Shimbun As a result of the French president election Sunday, Socialist leader Francois Mitterrand and independent conservative Valery Giscard d'Bstaing are to fight it out for the French presidency in a two-man runoff scheduled for May 19. Gaullist candidate Jacques Chaban Delmas
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous

  • SPECIAL FEATURE
    • Article, Illustration
      1185 7  -  Beginning 2-part series by Florence Tan Why they take the death dive... A frantic '999' call—and then an ambulance races to the scene. It's another... Florence Tan Every week we read about people wlio, defeated by the challenges and agonies of llving,end their lives by committing suicide. Are they
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    • 550 7 Nearly every week newspapers carry stories of suicides or attempted suicides. Often there are pictures of the victims and interviews with relatives and friends. Of coarse, sometimes the reports are given little prominence. Bat where there is intense tragedy and drama, lone accounts are normal. Just
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    • 527 7 Studies have shown that 60 to 80 per cent of the people who commit suicide announce their Intentions beforehand, and they can therefore be persuaded to cons 1 d er constructive, alternative solutions. There is no doubt that suicides can be prevented. But the
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  • Page 7 Advertisements
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  • TREND AND BEHIND THE NEWS
    • 222 8  -  ANGELA LOKE Many years ago, choosing materials to complement the skin seemed a common sight at textile shops. This Is less noticeable nowadays. The younger generation seem little bothered if colours don't match their complexions as long as the texture of the material and style of
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    • 209 8 Dear Ros,. I am so worried about my Job that my health has been adversely affected. I have just completed my probation but I have not been confirmed yet and I far that I may be sacked or my probation extended because my supervisor is displeased with
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    • 280 8 Dear Ros, I think I have fallen in love with my Arab neighbour but I am unsure of his feelings towards me. I am 17 and he is 23. I have known him for over three years. I address him as uncle. He
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    • 217 8 Dear Ros, My romance with my cousin is distracting me from my studies. I am sitting for the OCE advance level exam this Sear and find it very ard to concentrate. I was a serious student until we met at the beginning
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    • 240 8 Dear Ros, I feel guilty about an Infatuation I have for a boy who is studying in a neighbouring school, yet, I would like very much to know him i am 16. I don't have the courage to approach him partly because I am a
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    • 318 8 Dear Ros, My father's overprotective and possessive attitude Is making my sister and I very unhappy. I am 19 and she Is 24. He has never allowed us to mix around with anyone except our relatives. W e stay at home
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    • 1028 8  -  INDONESIA SOUTH-EAST ASIA REPORT From R. Muntu Iu the fiscal year 1973/74, which ended on March 31, Indonesia's Inflation rate was 47 per cent, reportedly the highest In the world with the exception of Chile In the chaotic post-Allende period. And although Jakarta officials were quick
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    • 936 8  -  MARCOS NEEDS AMERICAN PRESENCE IN PACIFIC Dm mnaurr nrnjmwts From B. Roaquillo President Marcos of the Philippines disclosed In a speech marking the 32nd anniversary of the fall of Bataan that the Philippine government had entered Into a contract with the US govvernment for
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    • 332 8  -  From Alan Dawson United Press International The rate of North Vietnamese troop Infiltration Into the south has more than doubled since the beginning of 1974, government military sources said yesterday. The sources said Intelligence officers have estimated that more than 52.000 North Vietnamese troops
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  • Page 8 Advertisements
    • 206 8 THE oECHANRM ORGANISATION presents the cdax/id mcpr~ r- is collection of jewellery for the Ist time in Asia. DAVID-MORRrS, a name that ranks with Asprey, Gairard, Cartier, Tiffany's, Bucheron, and other equally famous jewellers. If you are one of the fortunate few who have visited the elegant DAVID MORRIS Rooms
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  • MOTORING
    • 510 9  -  But the future still uncertain MOTORING 1 Jim Watkins After a disastrous start to the year when sales fell to an all-time low in January and February following the new tax increases, things have apparently begun to recover a little in the motor
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    • 414 9 Having spent the last few weeks searching unsuccessfully throughout Singapore for an aerosol tyre inflator I was delighted to receive a telephone call asking me to attend a demonstration of one of the latest of these very ingenious and time saving devices. Essentially it consists
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    • 675 9  -  [MOTOR-CVClfl Le Chiu San Recently I was Invited to try the new Vespa Sprint V, luckily at a most appropriate time, during the five rainiest days of April. i I must confess that I am basically a motor- cyclist and not
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  • FINANCE
    • SHARE ROUND-UP
      • 513 9 Sapplying this service are the Alfemene Bank of Nederland N.V., the Commersbank of West Germany, the Union Bank of Switzerland, the Credit Lyonnais of France, Banco di Roma of Italy, the Lloyds Bank International Limited and DBS-Dai wa Securities International Limited. Roundup of stock markets for the week ending
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      • 205 9 International air fares may be jacked up by four per cent in July. Japan Airlines has already taken the initiative in asking for the increase. It has applied to the Japanese Government to increase fares on its South-East Asian, Australian and trans-Paci-fic
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      • 172 9 Activity on the equity market increased while prices showed an irregular trend. Upon the news of Mr. Brandt's resignation, prices moved up. Later, profit-taking set In not the least influenced by the imposition of import restrictions of some Common Market countries. Commerzbank index: 591 602 597 590,70. In the
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      • 567 9 Equities started the week by drifting downon small selling. Their decline accelerated on Tuesday, on the news that the engineering union was calling a national strike In protest against the sequestration of union funds by the National Industrial Relations Court in order to pay a flne ordered by that
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      • 228 9 The Italian Stock Exchange registered a negative performance during this week, on the way of the previous week's downtrend. All the sessions registered a continuous decline, particularly on Monday (-3 per cent) and Thursday (-2.4 per cent) when heavy losses characterised the market, even if the volume of sales
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      • 183 9 The market finally reopened on Thursday after a six-week closure something never seen before. In view of the political circumstances and the technical factors (l.e. accumulation of Imperative selling orders), the first day of dealing did not really give grounds for pessimism. The technical and political factors will continue
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      • 288 9 The bull market Is continuing with largescale stocks gaining momentum. Steels are representative of largesized stocks. Out of total 873 companies listed on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, steel companies number 34 (below 40 per cent). But they constitute 5 per cent In terms of market
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      • 405 9 United Press International Washington, Monday The key to India's chances of avoiding a severe food pinch late this year lies with the summer monsoon rains expected early next month, an Agricult u re Department specialist said yesterday. If the monsoon Is poor,
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      • 71 9 Bonn, Monday Farm Ministers from the ninemember Common Market meet today in Bad Wlessee, the small South Bavarian lakeside resort, for talks which could vitally affect the future of the EECs embattled common agriculture policy. Their Informal twoday meeting comes less than a week after
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      • 474 9 The downtrend observed in preceding weeks continued during the period under review and the Zurich stock market again closed lower compared with the previous week. Buying Interest was almost totally absent, so even modest selling pressure led to lower quotations. The subscription results for the federal bond issue of
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      • 228 9 OVERSEAS I STOCK J Prices at 11 SO ajn. (Australian time): Aberleen susp. Do opts susp AOD 07 08 Allstate 10 12 Amad 03 04 Aurora 11 nil Do opts nil 00% Aust Ant 08 10 Bamboo 03 03 Beach nil 30 Bounty susp. Bridge 14 16 Cleveland 48
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  • SPORTS
    • 336 10 Bfiion>Mjr moved up at the 4f to take the lead from Gallant Son. Stwuci!? was well clear at the home turn, with MtUwnl closing In. Hot Money made up ground Seasonably ran on strongly to win by three lengths from MaUsani. Third was
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    • 692 10 r 3 POS'i SGRIPTI by [SCRUTINEER! y Consortium will be hard to beat next time out. Racing after a long spell, he ran a splendid second to President's Adviser at Ipoh yesterday. Bmartly into stride he made a breakaway with Ovation. They were four lengths clear of
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    • 715 11  -  Gamble pays off in victory over S'gor By JEFFREY LOW The Are of hope was burning brightly again last night when Singapore beat Selangor 2-1 in a Malaysia Cup tie at the National Stadium. To stop the Cup holders' unbeaten run of 10 matches
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    • 309 11 Uk lAIM 74 Santiago, Monday Ireland scored the first victory of their South American soccer tour here last night, beating Chile's provisional World Cup team 2-1. The scorers were Hand (43rd minute) and Conway (87th) for Ireland and Valdes (86th) for Chile. Ireland have
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    • 387 11 London, Monday—England allrounder Chris Old followed up his century for Yorkshire against the Indian cricketers on Saturday, by helping to shoot the touring team out for 102 runs at Bradford yesterday. Old, who started the Indian collapse by taking two wickets overnight,
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    • 102 11 New York, Monday.-— Ivory Crockett of Peoria, Illinois, set a world record of nine seconds for 160 yards at Knoxville last nifht bettering by 6.1 see. the mark first set by Bob Hayes in 1963. Five other sprinters equalled Hayes' record of
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    • 71 11 New York, Monday US Major League baseball games: National League Montreal 3 St. Louis 1; New York 6 Chicago 3; Ban Francisco 8 Atlanta 7; Houston 4 Cincinnati 2; Phlladephla 3 Pittsburgh 1; Los Angeles 9 San Diego 6. American League Boston 8 Detroit 5; Oakland 4
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    • 42 11 Brussels, Monday. Emerson Flttlpaldl of Brazil In a McLaren fought off a strong lastlap challenge from the Ferrari of Niki Lauda of Austria to win the Belgian formula One Grand Prix motor race by a hair's breadth at Nivelles yesterday.
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    • 371 11  -  SQUASH by Eric Cooper "Hie Dona players from Len Alexander's courts at Bssendon, Australia arrived In Singapore lasf Friday and have already played matches against SAFSA and the Police. They lost both. Len, whose party visited here last year, was unable to make the trip, so
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    • 211 10 ■.-> DIST. 1« VACANT UNFURNISHED FLAT available Immediately at Taman Nakhoda 2 bedrooms, bathrooms attached. Living dining room with mosaic tiles. Servant's quarters provided. Please contact *****9 (S'pore). YORK FLATS, IWAKT PARK. S'pore 10. Fully furnished 3 bedrebms with o»r--cond. attached, 3 balconies, terrazzo flooring throughout. Servant's amenities. Available immediately.
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    • 468 10 RADIO. TELRVIRION, AIRCONDITIONING A REFWQERATtON Servicing Courses conducted by experienced, qualified instructors. Enrol at: Hong Kong Radio A Television Institues 398, North Canal Road B'oore. INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC PRACTICE*. Intensive TV Ser-j vicing Course In the afternoon. Limited vacancies. Call Rm. 210, Maxwell House, Maxwell Road, S'pore 2. Tel: *****9.
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    • 582 10 r iiiii FIRM Or RBttSTUU 4 SSCftITAKRS require o Secretarial Clerk wiith a good dammand of English and ability to type. Apply with full particular! to The Secretory, President Secretarial Services (Pie.) Ltd., New Notion Box N 2531, Singapore. PERSONAL S.O.S. SAMARITANS OP SINGAPORE Troubled? Discouraged? Ring 91-44-44 or *****
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    • 70 10 TIME M MOMCYI An you buying or celling your c*r, repairs •or wrrietngt WHY not entrust your motoring problems to us. we offer you expert services at minimum charges. Contact FRANKIE or Kasvan Automobile Engineering Works, 560A, Kavelock Road, B'pore 3. Tel: ***** *****. POM CORTINA IMtL first registered May
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    • 47 10 WAvmcr oukt housc Tastefully furnished with panoramic seaview. Only 10 minutes ton Jureng. Weekly with breakfast: singles from $415.00, dbubies from $120i00, 298 Pasir fan. Jono Rood <6%m) Tel: *****5. STATION HOTEL. Slot I* Rooms: 917.04 up Double Rooms: 130.00 up. Bp«cui BtiUnm Lunch: <3.50 Oxuil T
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    • 182 10 In vie a of the energy crisis, the Government recently put out a statement urging architects a*'.d aeveloi>ers m Singapore to select suitable insuta'ion materials which w'K 'contribute appreciably «n the reduction of heat transmitted imo buddings' S saiation and Refiec'o Shield ate two insulation rjioducts which p'ay an inport
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 584 11 4 s M 2 JJ* *#n# WE n s 3f r w»: WEEK, FOUR, MONDAY 13. WORLD CUP CONTEST NEW NATION Lufthansa THE RULES AND WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO 1. The contest will run from April 22 to June 1. 2. From Monday to Friday, for the first five
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    • 621 11 M4r i Where you can buy your next new car in Singapore CHAMPION MOTORS rrt. Ltd. 304 Orchard Rood, Singapore 9. TW: 3753 M. MODELS: I.S S.per V Sup*', 1400 6T Junior, 2000 Bertine. 3000 GT V.kK. 2000 6TV Spider. CITY MOTORS (S) rrt. LTD., 28 Covenogh Rood. Singapore 9
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  • 149 12 TODAY is Monday, May 13. the 133rd day of 1974 with 232 to follow. THE MOON la approaching Its last quarter. THE MORNING STARS are Mercury, Venus and Jupiter. THE EVENING STARS are Mars and Saturn. Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. British composer
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  • 62 12 AH FOOK: Well done, Singapore. You have once again proved the soccer pundits WRONG by surprising mighty Selangor with a 2-1 win. Keep it up. MEI LIN: Don't let this victory get to your head and think the world is at your feet Now prove the pundits RIGHT
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  • 93 12 There is nothing wrong in being too ambitious, says Penang-bom Miss Betty Ooi. In fact, experience has taught her that ambition is necessary for success. A sales promotion officer at the Southern Restaurant and Nightclub, Betty, 26, said: "My ambition is
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
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  • Page 12 Miscellaneous
    • 998 12 RADIO SINGAPORE 5 3.00 OPENING ANNOUNCEMENTS followed by SIRUVAR POONGA (T)—A locally produced show to cater for young children. 3.25 DIARY OF EVENTS (T) 5.30 LOVE IS A MANY 8 P L E NDOCKED. THING Daytime serial on the trials and tribulations of three families in San Francisco. 8.50 MAGAZINE
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    • 897 12 THE SEVEN-UPS: Roy Schelder takes over from Gene Hackman and Clint Eastwood as a relentless cop. head of a dirty tricks squad which comes Into a life-and-death struggle with the Mafia In mean New York; a fast-paced suspense thriller—even the compulsory car chase is exciting. Odeon: 1.30, 4. 8.30, 9.30.
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    • 569 12 YOUR LUCKY STAR IF ITS YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you are a persistent individual whose loyalty to people and to causes may be something of a legend by the time you have reached maturity. Once you have become friends with others, once you have espoused some cause or other, nothing
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