New Nation, 29 January 1971

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  • 13 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Friday evening, January 29, 1971 No. 10 Price 15 cents
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    • 68 1 London Friday Princess Margaret, taking a travel tip from her husband, yesterday flew economy class to Barbados to join Lord Snowdown for a holiday. As did her husband, last week, Princess Margaret left London as an economy class passenger aboard a regular BOAC flight. By rubbing
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    • 56 1 London, Friday Forty employees at an engineering firm in Andover turned up for work on Wednesday, but found the factory gone. The factory was a U5552,800 inflatable structure. Police said that during the night there was a storm with gale-force winds and the 75ft high
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    • 45 1 Rome, What do Sou do when you meet a unary wolf? Maria CeUuccl did the first thing that crossed her mind she poured a bucket of milk over it. It worked. The wolf licked up the milk, then ran away.
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  • 35 1 ADELAIDE TEST (Lunch) (England Ist innings) BOYCOTT not oat 37 EDRICH not oat 26 Extras 7 Total 70 (for no wkts). BOWLING Thomson 7-2-0-16; Lillie 5-0-0-11; G. Chappell 0-0-0-16; Gleeson 3-0-0-13; Mallett 1-0-0-3.
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  • 312 1 Young driver dies from injuries in road horror The death toll in yesterday's horror smash in Sembawang Road rose to six today when a 19-year-old youth died in the Thomson General Hospital. He was Phua Leng Heng, of Lorong Akar, Sembawang, the driver of a yellow
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  • 419 1 Obote's men told to go home without fear Reuter London, Friday The British Government is "ready in principle" to recognise the new regime of MajorGeneral Idi Amin in Uganda, officials said today. The new regime is considered here to be in
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  • 67 1 Cape Town, Friday.—The South African Sloop Pioneer was hit by a whale, and sank in the Atlantic yesterday while taking part in the Cape-to-Rio yacht race. The 10-metre sloop was about 1250 miles northwest of Cape Town when it sank. Crew members were picked up from
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  • 272 1 The president of the National Trades Union Congress, Mr. Phey Yew Kok, was a victim of "a conspiracy" which led to a gang waylaying him and slashing him in the face last July. This was said today by DPP, Mr. I. P. Retnam, at
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  • 153 1 Compensation for the family of Private Robin Edward Jorce to be willed to the Prime Minister. Mr. Lee Kuan Yew is likely to amount to $lOOO. A national serviceman of his rank averages just under $lOO a month. Compensation is normally about a year's
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  • 182 1  -  By S. M. Ali Kuala Lumpur, Friday A reshuffle in the Malaysian Government is now almost certain, political observers here said today. The Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, la expected to Twnkf his first move towards reorganising his Cabinet on the*eve of the reconvening of the
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  • 257 1 Some Singapore University students are complaining about ghosts in the university's compounds and corridors. A number of girls in the university say they have seen moving white figures and ghostly shadows. One girl claimed that she bumped ipto an Invisible body near the Science Tower
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  • 29 1 Washington, Friday Ecuador has seized three more American Tuna boats off its coast for a total of 17 since January, 11, the State Department said yesterday.
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  • 165 2 Cymbals, drums but no firecrackers Taking a little of the bang. out Every Chinese New Year, the Kwok Wei Association goes "carolling" with drums, cymbals and firecrackers. But this year their carolling was a little quieter because of the ban on firecrackers. A lion
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  • THE WORLD
    • 105 2 United Press International The giant American car manufacturer Mr. Ford, said yesterday motorists preferred cheaper cars to safety cars. Mr. Ford, chairman of the Ford Motor Co., said that as an example motorists would prefer a cheaper car to the cost of standard safety headrests at
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    • 186 2 Reuter New Delhi, Friday Measures should be taken to ensure the survival of more first babies if developing countries are to avoid the threat of being swamped by over-population, a top United Nations official said here yesterday. TviS:*. Addeke Boerma, Director-General of the
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    • 21 2 New Delhi, Friday.—The Prime Minister of Guyana, Mr. Forbes Burnham, arrived here yesterday on his four-day visit to India.
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    • 238 2 Scuffle in court Reuter Los Angeles, Friday Hippie Charles Manson, convicted in the Sharon Tate case murders on Monday, was removed from court yesterday after he punched his lawyer Irving Kanarek in the stomach. The scuffle took place as the jury of seven men and five
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    • 232 2 Reuter London, Friday The Anglican Dean of Johannesburg wrote home before his arrest in South Africa saying his car had been burnt and bullets fired into a colleague's office. rThia was reported yesterday by the London Evening Standard. The pqper said the Dean's letter was sent to
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    • 212 4 United Press International Manila, Friday The Minister of Tourism of the Khmer Republic (Cambodia) appealed yesterday to members of the Pacific Area Travel Association to support efforts to save the historic monuments and temples of Angkor Wat. The world's largest travel association passed a resolution
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    • 296 4 United Press International Washington, Friday The US Secretary of State, Mr. William Rogers, denied yesterday that the US intended escalating the air war over Cambodia or sending ground troops into the country. He made the denial during a three-hour briefing before the Senate
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    • 238 4 New Nation Foreign Service Saigon, Friday The Fifth Special Forces Group the last of the Oreen Berets will be among the next US troops to be withdrawn from £kiuth Vietnam. The US command said yesterday that the group would be reduced to a colour
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    • 27 4 Washington, Friday—The US Senate yesterday confirmed the nomination of Mr. Roger Morton as President Nixon's new Secretary of the Interior. He replaces Mr. Walter Hlc-
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    • 264 4 Reuter Cape Kennedy, Friday The Apollo 14 prelaunch countdown continues yesterday with no interruptions as the three astronauts Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell and Stuart Roosa practised in the crucial manoeuvres for their moon trip. Not one major problem has so far disrupted the
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    • 312 4 United Press International Washington, Friday Democratic Senator Mike Gravel yesterday introduced a resolution calling for US support for the reunification of China and Taiwan through direct negotiations. The resolution also called for admission of the People's Republic of China to the U&lted Nations,
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    • 112 4 Inche Safian bin Ismail is the- first Singaporean to teach Malay in South Australian high schools. Inche Safian, of Tanglin Halt Road, Queenstown, is sponsored by the South Australian Education Department under a two-year contract. In Singapore, Inche Safian taught Malay language and
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    • 345 4 Coup people must die, says leader Reuter Abidjan, Friday President Sekou Toure of Guinea has refused to pardon those condemned to death for taking part in last November's abortive coup against his regime, Radio Conakry reported yesterday. "All those who wanted to assassinate must be assassinated,"
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    • 106 4 Reuter Washington, Friday Shoplifting charges against the former U8 Interior Secretary, Mr. Stewart Udall, were dropped yesterday at the request of a lawyer for the store from which he was alleged to have walked off with a box of cigars. Mr. UdaH, who served under Presidents
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    • 236 4 New Nation Foreign Sendee Washington, Friday President Nixon asked Congress 'to approve big pay increases and other new benefits for servicemen to achieve his goal of an all-volun-teer army by mid-1973. A request for more than US$lOOO million to life more attractive In the
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    • 151 4 United Press International Cairo, Friday Egypt began preparing its population yesterday for possible resumption of fighting when the Suez Canal ceasefire expires on February 5. The creasefire again dominated discussions between Egyptian Foreign Ministry officials and diplomatic envoys in Cairo, sources added.
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    • 47 4 London. Friday. There were 3.888 strikes In Britain last year a 25 per cent increase on 1969. The Minister for Employment and Productivity, Mr. Robert Carr, said yesterday that about 95 per cent of last year's industrial disputes were without official union backing.
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    • 62 4 Pyfr FtUm, postman soared away from Paris in a maillot? iff 0011 yesterday In Post office stunt to mark toe centenary of the balS?*!K*S? *2?ee treated J2 Pnissisn siege of Paris la 1871. postmen, last seen floating towards eastern ranee, planned to land about 125 miles from
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    • 39 4 Grenoble, Friday A 29-mr-old French schcwl-* Jeaeher gave birth to quinnear here vestwday. The children, three boys and two girls, were rushed: 2® 1 ©entre here for the care of premature babies and pat In incubators.
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    • 336 5 Commonwealth group will study dossier on ocean security Reuter London, Friday Secret studied on South i Atlantic and Tnrilnn i Ocean security will be made available soon to Britain's Commonwealth partners, authoritative sources said yesterday. A British dossier, containing detailed information previously regarded
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      257 5 We wbnt pull out i 1 over arms, says Trudeau Reuter Colombo, Friday The Canadian Prime Minister, Mr. Pierre Trudeau, said yesterday that Canada would not leave the Commonwealth if Britain sold arms to South Africa. "We liiink It wduld be regrettable and- would cause tensions he
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    • 202 5 Reuter Paris, Friday France and Algeria reached agreement last night on the problem of back taxes to be paid on oil taken from the Sahara. This was one of the thorniest questions in the oil negotiations the two countries have been carrying on since last
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    • 275 5 Long-term aid needed for survivors Only now is the full toll emerging from Pakistan's cyclone disaster Reuter New York, Friday Between 15,000 and 20,000 children were orphaned in a few hours when last November's destructive cyclone struck the coast and off-shore islands of East
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    • 332 5 Reuter New Delhi, Friday India's Swatantra Party yesterday appealed to voters in the March General Election to turn out Mrs. Indira Gandhi's government "before it is too late and the lights of liberty are finally dimmed." The party's manifesto accused Mrs. Gandhi's ruling Congress
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    • 255 5 Reuter London, Friday Traffic holdups on the access routes to West Berlin yesterday brought sharp warnings from the West that East Germany's harassing tactics are imperilling moves towards peace in Europe. Officials in London said yesterday that the United States, Britain and France have
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    • 116 5 United Press International Moscow, Friday The Soviet Union said yesterday it will soon begin production of a" central time con* trol system that will keep every clock in the country set exactly right. The Soviet Tass news agency said precise time signals will be transmitted
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    • 33 5 Wellington, Friday—One climber was killed and another Injured early yesterday when an ice avalanche swept down on a six-man party climbing a 8,500 ft peak in New Zealand's rugged Southern Alps.
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    • 66 5 Reuter London, Friday Union leaders of the 2500 engineers whose two-day strike crippled Britain's second largest airline, yesterday made their first peace move. After a 90-minute meeting of shop stewards, the union called for talks with the management of British European Airways iBEA)
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    • 132 5 United Press International New York, Friday The world refugee problem intensified in 1970 and is expected to get worse in 1971, a major organisation working in the rescue field reported. The International Rescue Committee (IRC) said the malor refugee groups it helped in the past
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    • 142 5 Reuter Alexandria, Friday A former Egyptian senator has sued the government for nearly £6.5 million for allegedly stealing an entire railway network. The bizarre court case was brought by Mr. Hussein Higab, a former member of the Senate under the late King Farouk. He
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    • 47 5 Canberra, Friday Britain's decision to retain a military presence in SouthEast Asia should make recruiting easier, Britain's retiring Chief of the General Staff, General Sir Geoffrey Baker, said yesterday. Servicemen. in Britain were attracted by the prospect of service outside Europe, he told reporters.
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    • 401 6 Abacus still the answer New Nation Foreign Service Moscow, Friday The Soviet Union is anywhere from five to 15 years behind the United States in the use of computers. The lack of Soviet computers, both in quantity and sophistication, is one of the nation's critical shortcomings
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    • 361 6  -  From Thomas O'Toole New Nation Foreign Service Houston, Friday The US Space Agency is considering a plan to continue lunar exploration with unmanned robots after the last crew of Apollo astronauts lands on the moon in the summer of 1972. The plan would involve
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    • 654 6  -  Officials deny a change in policy From Robert C. Toth Washington, Friday While officials have denied any change in Administration policy on Cambodia, the political effect of recent US air strikes in close support of allied troops there appears to increase America's commitment to survival
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    • 270 6  -  From George McArthur Saigon, Friday Reports coming from Cambodia's countryside in recent weeks indicate the harried peasant population is increasingly voting with its feet against the Communists. The problem is that frequently no-one is there from the government of General Lon Nol to count the
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    • 438 6 Los Angeles Times Washington, Friday The Soviet Union has created awkward problems for the Nixon administration, both within the government and in domestic and international politics, by positions they have taken in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. Its willingness to limit anti-ballistic missile
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    • 325 6 —But arms flow goes on Los Angeles Times Saigon, Friday While the Soviet Premier, Mr. Kosygin, is offering on one hand to mediate the Vietnam war, the Russian military hardware is pouring into North Vietnam at record levels. American reconnaissance planes making sweeps over the port
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    • 197 6  -  From David Baird Hong Kong, Friday On the theory that the punishment should fit the crime, Hong Kong's Chief Justice, Sir Ivo Rigbv, has urged that criminals guilty of violence or threats of violence should be flogged. Backing up his view that corporal punishment is an
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  • 264 3 Cracker injury toll stands at seven Despite police patrols during the past 48 hours to enforce the stringent firecracker regulations, seven people, including six children, have been injured in separate cracker incidents. The six children and a 24-year-old man were treated at the Outram Road
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  • 59 3 The Goodwood Group of Hotels will hold a children's party at the Golden Lotus, Hotel Malaysia at 3.30 p.m. next Thursday. About 700 underprivileged children from various charitable organisations will be given rt ang pows," delicacies and soft drinks. They will also Be entertained to a
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  • 55 3 Manila, Friday The Pacific Area Travel Association (PATA) will hold its 23rd annual conference in Indonesia in 1974 and the 25th meeting in Hawaii in 1976. The 24th meeting site for 1975 will be decided at next year's annual meeting in Kuala Lumpur. The 1973 conference
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  • 70 3 Tunis, Friday.—The executive bureau of the Association of Islamic Universities yesterday decided to devise a study system to propagate Islamic thought and civilisation. The bureau, meeting here for its second congress also decided to draw Sfa list of publications dealing with all areas of Islamic thought
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  • 71 3 Rome, Friday"— Traffic police here brought even j- greater confusion to the city's crowded streets yesterday by staging a 48- hour strike in a campaign for better condition and higher pay. The police turned up as usual on point duty, aress- ed in their white helmets
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  • 27 3 London, Friday.—Florence Jennett celebrated her 103 rd birthday ywteqtoy--70 years after she had been refused a life assurance r alley because of a baa heart
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  • 132 3 Crowds stream north and south on New Year outings Getting away from the crowded city for a peaceful day in the country sounds pleasant, but it can have its problems. The biggest problem is getting there, especially when everyone seems to have the same idea.
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  • 235 3 The two probationary inspectors from Kandang Kerbau police station, who were dismissed from the force last week after a house-breaking investigation in Newton Court, this morning sent a letter to the Police Commissioner seeking an explanation. A letter was handed to the Commissioner of Police,
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  • 121 3 An award winning, locally produced tourist brochure is helping boost Singapore's tourist image abroad. The brochure, promoting Singapore's new Imperial Hotel, won a certificate of merit for popular photography at the recent American Society of Travel Agents' awards programme held in Amsterdam. A total of 30,000
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  • 204 3 Brunei is likely to be invited to invest and take part in both the Malaysian and Singapore airlines when they are finally set up after split nas physically taken place. Informed sources believe that this will be the best solution to Brunei's wish to
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  • 194 3 The Singapore Polytechnic will introduce a full-time course for draughtsmen when the new term begins later this year. The two-year course will have a common first year of full-time study followed by a second year In which some degree of specialisation in either architectural or engineering
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  • 205 3 Another Fellow of the Eusoff College Senior Room Committee has submitted her resignation to the principal of the college, Dr. Nalla Tan. She is Dr. Choo Yon Sen, a lecturer in the science faculty who holds a PhJD from Monash University in Australia. Dr. Choo was not
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  • 277 3 Mr. Chay Kok Fun, 33. a marketing officer with the Australian Trade Commission in Singapore, will leave for Australia today for a six-week trade familiarisation tour. His tour will Include a visit to the head office of the Department of Trade and Industry in
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  • 108 3 A travel agency manager today said that as Singapore society became more sophisticated, more people would go on organised group tours of foreign countries. Mr. Roland Ang, who heads the Slme Darby Travel Agency, in Jurong, said: "This trend is very popular with the
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  • 143 3 The National Trades Union Congress dental and recreational fund donation draw, with the first prize a MercedesBenz saloon, will be held at Trade Union House this afternoon. The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Labour Mr. 8. Rajaratnam, will be £uest of honour at the
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  • 168 3 Shipyard warns workers taking extra days off Sembawang Shipyard has warned its employees that it will take drastic action against those who habitually take more than their due days off. The management has sent warning letters to at least 20 people who have been constantly
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 124 3 Weather Temperatures in world capitals yesterday: Jakarta 93-75. I Kuala Lumpur 91-70. r Bangkok 90-72. Hong Kong 57-52. Manila 87-72. Taipei Seoul ?7-14. Tokyo »0-3 Z. Naha 61-50. London JB-45. Paris 46-39. Moscow 36-32. New York 18--4. San Francisco 35-61. Sydney 87-73. Perth 97-71. Singapore Singapore's weather fore- cast from
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    • 102 3 At the cinema ORCHARD: Tora Tora Tora—2.3o, 5.45, and 9 p.m. ODEON: The Invincible Six—l.3o, 4, 6.30 and 9.30 pjn. CATHAY: Dirty Dingus Magee—l.3o, 4, 6.30 and 9.30 pjn. ODEON KATONG: The Living Sword (Mandarin) —l, 3.30, 7 and 9.15 pjn. LIDO: Cannon For Cordoba—l.4s, 4, 6.30 and 9.15 pjn.
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  • COMMENT
    • 940 7  -  10 million German refugees see in him a Chamberlain who appeased Hitler From Joe Alex Morris Like Woodrow Wilson, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is conducting a dramatic and imaginative foreign policy at the risk of being shot down at home. Wilson
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    • 680 7  -  From Maxwell Brem The strategic character of the Kra peninsula in south Thailand has made it the object of many ambitious schemes over the past 100 years. But none has captured the imagination firmer than the idea of cutting a grand canal through the
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    • 682 7  -  From Don Cook France is boosting its arms sales around the world by highly efficient business methods and low credit terms. The full returns for 1970 are now in. French arms sales soared to US $l3OO FFJ 011 last year, almost triple the 1969
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  • 381 8 More doctors are resigning from the medical service. In all probability this will continue for some time to come. To put all the blame on the government, as most doctors who leave are wont to, seems a bit hard on the government. In the first
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  • 834 8  -  SHIRI MULGAOKAR The ability of Cambodian guerrillas and their North Vietnam allies to strike at Phnom Penh itself has highlighted the sharp deterioration in the position of General Lon Nol's regime and the deepening of the American dilemma. The concerted effort to
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  • Letters
    • 237 8  -  W.L. CHIEN SIR, The P.W.D. is to be commended for doing a good job along the stretch of Grange Road between Tanglin Circus and Irwell Bank Road. Unfortunately however, they have given no thought to the pedestrians and have not provided for a footpath. Instead flower
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    • 89 8  -  ARTHUR CHEW SIR, One look at the 'New Nation' and I fell for It hook, line and sinker. I hope it will be an enduring relationship. The format is indeed a refreshing innovation and the articles are educational, entertaining and thought provoking. The 'New Nation' is
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    • 112 8  -  T. WILLIAMS SIR, Mr. Mulgaokar feels that the Commcmwealth Heads of Government spoke in public too much during their conference. He feels that the former habit at these functions of keeping quiet and not talking to reporters was better. His regret comes too late. The reality of the
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    • 137 8  -  KEONG CHIN WAH SIR, The Government does not seem to have responded to your revelation that historic tombstones have been moved from the Fort Canning Cemetery. May a reader ask the authorities, through your columns, what the explanation is? Do not let us get
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    • 183 8 SIR, Your two judges who gave their verdict on the Development Bank of Singapore last Tuesday, Messrs Anil Bhatia and Malcolm Caldwell, end their article with a comment that I find difficult to understand. They seem to imply that the distinction between private and public enterprise is less
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  • 772 8 OW WEI MEI TAKES A LOOK AT THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN SINGAPORE-PART ONE Take a growing, dynamic industrial and commercial centre like Singapore, with its broad laissez-faire outlook. Include within it a community of about 500 Jews who are
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous

  • 919 9  -  The riders are living hand-to-mouth and many may be mixed up in prostitution, says a special study of the problem by students at Nanyang By Jackie Sam The trishaw, known variously as the rickshaw, jinrickshaw, samlor and betjak, is the oldest of the "modern"
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  • 865 9  -  By Pang Cheng Lian The 37-member Japanese South-East Asia Loan and Investment Mission, which is looking into the possibility of increasing the country's aid and investments in the region, arrived here recently. The Asia Bureau of the Asahi Shimbun, one of
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    • 333 11  -  Eating out —with Dianne Wood Any dish that sounds even vaguely French sets my taste buds tingling. It was with this In mind that a friend and I decided to dine at the Rouge et Noir at the Hotel Equatorial. We discovered that although the Rouge et
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    • 584 11  -  4 Ofi course Job and home combine' OW WEI MEI Most educated women in Singapore hold a job even after marriage and babies. Unlike their sisters in the West, women here can choose not to work. Cheap domestic help is available. Yet, for all this,
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  • SHOWBIZ
    • 880 12 Just no applause, he says Singapore audiences are the worst he has ever played to, according to Peter Nelson, lead singer with Renaissance, the pop group which this week leaves the Singapore Hilton after a seven-month season. I asked whether the reactions of Asian and
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    • 303 12 But music is the balm that eases all Marini's hurts Marini's mother is Dutch, her father Indonesian. Her former husband was an Indonesian businessman. Marini wants to marry again, but she views it cautiously and a little suspiciously. She has formed a close relationship
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  • 683 12  -  PqPSCENE By JEFFREY LOW John Kay, leader, singer, harmonica player and spokesman for the American group, Steppenwolf, is perhaps one of the terrible political bores to emerge from the rock industry today. Every word he utters during interviews seems to express his discontent
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    • 86 12 Be a Whunter i ;Tionern one that O:"' th ,j keen t.isttnot';, oniy it 'i the foods Like the knd offer in The Hunters L> Truly rr. njnificen: chou i. s' mejfs exrju'.si prep.iM-d t To on wi'h thf 1,"-r M:v ve'lon, ;r no f /rthef onee ,0.. ki own
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    • 180 13 MM Chw JMeea AM lUdi AM dan iMAQ54« Cater Tim amur O— Cola Control Data On Ol Wks Dm Cbem •i Tan DuPont IMU m V|^k fid Boat Mn m PM Mot (Ma ftnu Q«B IN Oea roods aaac General Mat mat Ola TW tk K1 n owm
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    • 204 13 JAKARTA, Frt. Atlantic announced last night that groat production from Its oil discoveries In the Java Sea N miles northwest of hera should reach 75,0MJarrels a day by the end of fVCT. Jtr. Thornton Bradehaw, president of gthntto Rlchmtkl Awwfianv toM a QM|g COUfCToBoe here this
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    • 54 13 JAKARTA, Frl.—Japanese and an American company are studying posifhltttss of reopening and emending the Ombilin coalxtSam in central Sumatra and export the coal to Japan. Wert Java Governor Harun Zetn fald the Japanese Maru-debnl-Xda and American Klssr Got) Companies are expected to results of thwr
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    • 235 13 WORLD'S HIGHEST INTEREST LEVEL AT 7 PER CENT Reuter London, Friday Britain's seven per cent bank rate —one of the world's highest In Interest levels—ls to rewtrin unchanged for the time being. This was confirmed yesterday when the tradition-al-weakly time for fixing the rata passed
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    • 138 13 London, Friday.—British shipowners are hoping for clearly stated stand .by Japan and European shipping nations at the coming Tokyo talks on their opposition to flag discrimination by certain nations and agreement on the code of v conduct for the shipping conference system. Ifee president of the Chamber
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    • 467 13 FIRST ON THE GLAMOUR BANDWAGON Poseidon was just another unknown mining company with four cent shares when Mr. Boris Oanke scooped up 100,000 at a forfeited share auction. He made hasty flight to Adelaide four yean ago to be the first on the glamour
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    • 189 13 United Press International New York, Friday Early profit taking evaporated on Wall Street yesterday, enabling the stock market to close higher for the tenth time in 71 days. Trading was heavy. At the final bell, the Dow Jones Industrial average was ahead 4.31
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    • 206 13 United Press International London, Friday Share prices turned down on the stock market yesterday due to the impact of the postal strike and the break In Wall Street's upward run which hurt Issues like Unilever, Rank and Philips Lamps. Trading stayed tiny and
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    • 34 13 TOKYO, Frl.—Japanese Finance Minister Mr. Takeo Pukuda said today the strength of Japan's economy did not warrant revaluing the yen currency. There had recently been romours of yen revaluation.
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    • 50 13 TOKYO, FTL—The ExportImport Bank of Japan and IS foreign exchange yesterday extended 488 million yen worth of loans to Malaysia for Its construction of a microwave and television network. The loans, with an annual Interest of 5.75 per cent, are repayable In 18 years with a grace
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    • 95 13 HONG KONG. FrL—Hons Kong's domestic exports Jumped by 17.4 per oent in 1970 to HK112.347 million despite adverse trade conditions, a Government spokesman said yeater--exports for the year Increased 7.9 per cent to HKI2.BM million, imports rose 18.3 per cent to mu|l7,ao7 million. Ur. Jack Cater, Director
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    • 404 13 APPOINTMENTS Leadng Marafadarng Organisation Xlt I invites applications from suitably qualified Male Singapore Citizens for positions of l&'il Applicants must have passed their full Higher School Certificate in Science subjects and have completed their full time National Service. Previous working experience is desirable but not essential. Preference will be given
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    • 342 13 rtirawMg:Junior Engineer with experience in pipelaying and Water Treatment Plant Preferably with knowledge of Malay. Salary commensurate with qualification and experience. Please send full particulars to:— LARA CORPORATION PTt LTD. 49-A, TELOK AYER STRUT, SINGAPORE 1. THK BANK UMK LTD. REQUIRES A CERTIFICATED SECOND ENGINEER (MOTOR) FOR EMPLOYMENT END JANUARY
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  • 512 14  -  By Sonny Yap When Justina Tseng was only seven-months-old she swallowed her first mouthful of pool water. Mother was alarmed to see her spluttering badly, but father was determined to turn heir into a waterbaby. And so it was. foi within a year
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  • 511 14 FOXBRIDGE, a person with many years experience in horse breeding, now living in Asia, tells of the New Zealand yearling sales where many horses racing here started their careers. Some of the world's top racehorse trainers, breeders and owners have packed the sale ring in
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  • 41 14 Paris. Friday—Austrian girls Wlltrud Drexel and Ann-Marie Proell pulled off a surprise one-two victory in the Women's World Cup downhill ski race at Pra Loup yesterday. They broke the French domination of downhill cup racing this season.
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  • 164 14  -  By Lim Kee Chan Graeme Lawrence, the New Zealand motor-rac-ing ace will race in the American Formula "B" here next month. Mr. Fred Opert, the Managing Director of a motor firm in America told New Nation that Lawrence is purchasing one of his Formula
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    • 611 14 v A} PHONE ***** a AUDIO EQUIPMENT START RITE BY JOINING THI KEF FREEDOM MOVEMENT instead of buying beautiful multiple speaker system and finally graduating to KEF at a tremendous cost. Call AUDIO SERVICES, 12 St. Gregory Place, Tel: (S'pore) *****/*****3 for a sound demonstration. BARGAINS/CHEAP SALES MUST CLEAR! A-Go-Go
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    • 265 14 FLEMINGO Steomboth Mossoge (air-conditioned) 248C-5 Orchard Road, S'pore. T.I: *****1. TUITION MATHEMATICS SUBSIDARY, odditional, elementary by experienced mathematics graduate. Tel: (S'pore) *****. MALAY LANGUAGK: All levels home study course available. Write Katong P.O. Box 96, S'pore Phone *****. INGUSH: Secondary and preuniversity classes. Tel: S'pore *****4. TRAVEL GUIDE t 1
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 272 14 New Nation Crossword No. 10 ACROBS 1 Remove. 5 Opera stars. 10 Health resorts. 14 "Can do." 15 Hole 2 words. 16 Month in Jewish year. 17 Symbol of ugliness. 18 Foretell. 20 A North African pirate. 22 Heretofore: Poet. 23 Bicycled. 24 Two of a kind. 25 Get out.
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  • 475 15  -  By Lim Kee Chan It will be a sad day far .''Jim Mclnnes, the Aus- tralian professional gol- fer when he leaves for home next month. Mclnnes, residential or© with the Singapore IsaSd .Country dub since 1962. -has finished his' contract--1 'after nine years.
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  • 186 15 Day of birdies for Charles —Garrett San Diego, Friday Bob Charles of New Zealand and Bill Garrett of the US shot four under par 32s today to share the early first round lead in the US$l5O,OOO Andy Williams San Diego open. With a warm sun beaming and hardly a trace
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  • Article, Illustration
    329 15 LEARN TO SWIM The second lesson in New Nation's four-part L series of Learn-to-Swim freestyle lessons gets the learner waterborne. The lessons are the basis of tuition of formal classes used by teachers. These Illustrated lessons are meant for parents who •are unable to get their to swim
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  • 151 15 WORLD SPORT London, Friday. Gay Trip, winner in 1970, has been allotted top weight of 12 stones (168 pounds) for the Grand National, the world premier steeplechase, to be run at Aintree, Liverpool, on April 3. This is only nine pounds more than he
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  • 93 15 Melbourne, Friday. Japan's top woman Kazuko Sawamatsu caused a major upset when she downed second foreign seed, Olga Morozova, in the women's singles quarter-final of the Victorian Open tennis championships at Kooyong yesterday. Former Australian Bob Carmichael. now based in France, was the
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  • 115 15 Monte 'Carlo, Friday Sweden's Ove Andersson in a French Alpine Renault clung to his lead in the Monte Carlo rally last night as both Frenchman JeanLuc Therier and Sweden's BJornp Waldegaard made determined bids to overtake him on the final stage. With two of the seven
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  • 52 15 London, Friday.— Young British prospect Don Faircloth leaves for Japan tomorrow. determined to win his first overseas marathon ran. Faircloth, 22, will compete in the February 7 International Kyoto marathon, an event which has so far eluded the British who are renowned for the class of their
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  • 25 15 Adelaide, Friday Hungarian grand master Lajos Portisch suffered his second drawn game in the Karils Lidums international rhrss tournament here yesterday.
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  • 29 15 Glasgow, Friday The Scottish Football AModatlon Cop first round second replay between St. Mrren and last Fife win be played on Monday, It was an noonced yesterday.
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  • 73 15 Hob art, Friday. The Sundelln brothers of Sweden, sailing Debutant, go into the seventh and final race in the World Dragon class yacht championship here today with a good chance of overall victory after winning the sixth race yesterday. Helmsman Peter Sundelln made an Impressive start
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  • 30 15 Amsterdam, Friday.—The Dutch Table-Tennis Association yesterday announced it would definitely send a team to the World championships in Nagoya, Japan, from March 28 to April 7.
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  • 272 15 From Blue Peter In Kuala Lumpur Hole-in-One did a sparkling gallop here this morning when he ran 3f in 36 1/5 on the bit. He was ridden by A. Ismail. The going was good. Katonff Ocean, a fancied runner in the Tengku's Gold Cup on Sunday,
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  • 173 15 England wins toss —bats Adelaide, Friday England captain Ray Illingworth won the toss and elected to bat on the first day of the sixth Test against Australia at the Adelaide Oval today. Geoff Boycott and John Edrich opened for England and settled down early to the opening attack of Alan
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  • 104 15 About 150 bowlers are expected to take part in the Mixed Doubles charity bowling tournament at Jackie's Orchard on February 13. Organised by a group of American and local bow- lers, the competition is the first charity bowling event to be held in Singapore. The tourney
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  • 100 15 New York, Friday. Not too long ago. Jacksonville was considered only a scrimmage for Florida state. The Dolphins had managed to beat Florida State only three times in 14 meetings before this season, backbone of Jacksonville's losses In last year's 27-2 record game against the Seminoles.
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  • 68 15 A two-day yacht regatta organised by the Royal Navy will be held at the Naval Base over the week-, end. About 100 boats from I all the yacht clubs in the* Republic will compete in I the open meet onSaturday and Sunday. Races\ start at 2 p.m.
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 119 15 DR. KU.DARE by Ken Bald IN MY BOOK, WTERNING IS STRICTLY FOR THE BIRDS. THEY'VE GOT NOTHING HERE I DON'T KNOW. AND IF 2 WON'T KNOW SOMETHING, KILQfcRE'S PROBABLY THE LAST MAN IN THE WORLD I'D LEARN a FROM. rnmm mm mi v m APLEY-IN THE CASE OF ACUTE VASCULAR
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    • 80 16 AH FOOK; So MBA is splitting up. I cant see why it couldnt go on as it was. Why should a country as small as ours try to operate its own international airline? MEI LIN: You don't understand the reasons behind the iplit. Of course Singapore should operate
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    • 63 16 Here's a collector's item, Christine Gabriel. She's 18, a part-time model, the Miss Personality Teenage Queen of 1968 and she likes collecting match boxes as a hobby. She has friends scattered around the world sending her their latest match lx)x finds. When vshe's not counting
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    • 351 16 Most people who are forced to work whether by economic pressure or boredom do it in offices. And those offices, whether Victorian and gritty or space-age and draughty, have peculiar effects on people, so Jilly Cooper has
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    • 309 16 THERE WAS Duke Ellington, there was Earl Hines, so it was only natural that when a jazz musician of remarkable calibre called Basie came along he became Count Basle. And Count Basle, worldfamous band leader from America, is due to set foot in Singapore at
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    • 324 16 Chinese New Year will never be the same again. And Singapore's young population just cannot understand it. Most children, especially those under 16. have just experienced the most UNHAPPY New Year during their lifetime. "I feel sad. It is not like before." a
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    • 356 16 5 Singapore 6.00 Opening and Lucky Dip A Cartoon series 6.30 News in Brief 6.35 Sports Parade 7.15 Chern Recital by Chen Louise 7.40 News in Chinese 7.55 Chinese Variety Show (Chinese New Year edition) 9.00 News and Newsreel in English 9.25 Green Acres The Milk Maker 9.55 Name of
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    • 55 16 SNIFFY -iwcttioa; WAISTS -TO »Aio\NiPTMer ARRAW6eMgMT IS pefcMAueur /ilr< wwrwcxSs SHORT RIBS A to 6bOD OJEAT/ CW£ MOR£ UK£ "THAT AND 2'UMOCKWRT&TUOuT 5®3 1 1 15 a iVv i a is iiiijlllll!l|i|| is: by George Fett i <» ff f 1 WT\ By Frank O'Neal *HJ WOMF. SSfr m m
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    • 378 16 Trust your lucky star IF IT'S YOUR TOMORROW Born today, you are an honest and at the same time extremely tactful person who Is especially capable of recognising the problems of others. Your ability to spot trouble In what to others may well appear to be unruffled calm should make
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    • 1017 17 __By BLUE PETER Identical has been going great guns on the track and should open winning account In the Class 4 6f handicap at Kuala Lumpur on Saturday This six-year-old mare by Carbon Copy did a winning
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    • 142 17 1 SCKUTIMEEH i BLUE PETER fclPMI.'i iKKF 1 MAKUDA j MR. ED Kmc 1 iTU FA SIMRA SIMBA rrrrrwrrr* DELLARM Mastermind Undefeated Undefeated Undefeated Undefeated Hacr t A. O. DIAMONDS JULINDA JULINDA JULINDA JULINDA Papatol Sltl Lawn Papatol Sluweu MMte W* Race 1 BONA SERA BONA SERA
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    • 78 19 another fetation We assist the development of industry end shoulder part of <the responsibility to the growing economy of pur island It's our business to turn dreams Into reality. It's good to see more and more foundations being laid by our clients. FAR EASTERN RANK LTD. HEAD 137/138. CEOL ST,
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    • 51 21 1 Now sell yom unwanted furniture, toys, bicycles, typewriters, fridges, aircons, radios through NEW NATION CLASSIFIEDS Phone 3?4488 Only 20c a word: Minimum $2 v V ST, m N It fc 4 I w 4 V IS "A </ i m- X «-A 5 tf:"'/? A c 7" V' f/L
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    • 236 23 PROSE-POETRY-DRAMA in THE WORLD OF ENGLISH PROSE Good Stories: a treasurehouse of realty good modern tales Sec. 2. Prose of Spirit and Action: extracts from aft time favourites such as "Peter Pan" and "Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea" Bks 1 2 for Sec. 2 and Sec. 3 respectively, Short
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