New Nation, 16 February 1971

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  • 14 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Tuesday evening, February 16, 1971 No. 25 Price 15 cents NEW^nONB
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  • 45 1 SYDNEY TEST England Ist 114 Australia Ist in nines 264 England 2nd Innings ILUNGWOBTH Ibw LiUee v > 29 D'OLIYEIEA c Chappell b Lillee 47 KNOTT b Dell 15 BNOW not oat 18 LEVER not oat 17 Extras 9 Total 298 (for 7 wkts.)
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  • 72 1 Jakarta, Tuesday.—Two British naval vessels will visit Indonesia next month, the British Embassy announced yesterday. The patrol submarine H.MJ3. Orpheus at present serving with the Far East Fleet will arrive at the Jakarta port of Tandjung Priuk on March 3 for a five-day visit. The
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  • 497 1 The bride who lived just next d00r... An Australian bachelor came to Singapore to find a bride and searched high and low before he found the right woman living in the house next door. But for Mr. Hector de Luca, a Government employee from
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  • Briefly...
    • 64 1 Canberra, Tuesday—Australia should aim at a maximum population of 100 million, to be reached in about 100 years' time, according to Sir Mark Oliphant, a research scientist at the Australian National University here. In the latest Issue of the Medical Journal of Australia, he said he
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    • 32 1 Jakarta, Tuesday Fifteen people died of cholera in Indonesia and 16 of smallpox in the first six weeks of this year, the independent Indonesian National News Agency KNI reported yesterday.
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  • Article, Illustration
    207 1 Fierce fire leaves express a burnt-out wreck; short circuit suspected A Singapore Traction Co. express bus burst into flames today at a traffic junction outside Raffles Institutions. The fierce fire left the bus a burnt-out shell. A fire engine from' Central fire station fought the fire for
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  • 240 1 Bus companies will know only after six months of operation under the re-organised services whether they stand tcf galn or make a loss. The Wilson report, which recommended the changes, has suggested that overall fare-taking will Increase by IS per cent Although the report does not say
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  • 114 1 Mr. Erik Llm, 24, organising secretary: "The new system Is more organised will be less confusing than the present one. The new fares are very reasonable. The move will also cut down travelling time." Mrs. Tew Jee Lang, 24, housewife: "The present bus system is satisfactory
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  • 115 1 London, Tuesday The British government reacted strongly yesterday to a press suggestion that it dou-ble-crossed the US Administration over an assurance to save the Rolls-Royce RB-211 engine lor the Ameri- can Lockheed Tristar Jet. Spiralling costs in- the production of the engine forced Rolls Royce into bankruptcy.
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  • 215 1 More than 4500 Malaysia Singapore Airlines workers in the Republic. Malaysia and Brunei are to get a bonus this year. But how much etch employee will get will not be disclosed before the end of the current financial year on Jane 30. The bonus payments were
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  • 55 1 Madrid, Tuesday Two heifers yesterday contentedly munched a pile of a hey after operations substituted their normal heart functions with artificial replacements. Argentinian surgeon Domingo Liotta successfully implanted a plastic heart into eight-month old calf, Alice, five days ago—the first implant of its kind in
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  • 50 1 Manila, Tuesday. The five-day Colombo Plan officials' meeting opens here today. The meeting of 200 delegates from 24 member countries, plus observers from France, West Germany and the Netherlands, will prepare recommendations for a ministerial meeting, the first held in the Philippines starting on February 23.
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  • 44 1 Sydney, Tuesday.—A 19-year-old Indian who imported AslB,ooo ($54,000) worth of hashish with the the aid of a Congolese diplomat was jailed for four years yesterday. Manjit Singh, of New Delhi, pleaded guilty to importing hashish into Australia on August 6 last year.
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    • 28 1 JAL jets take off for the West Coast of die USA 5 times a week, Singapore-Tokyo, with 16 onward trans-pacific connections. MRAN AIR LINES worldwide airline of Japan
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  • 15 1 ported that were a total of 17 accident 8,11 •erious in Singapore yesterday*
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  • 94 2 Few small boys can resist a navy ship—and there was a special bonus today for three-year-old Azman bin Jummat when he was taken to see the visiting Pakistani navy destroyer Jahangir. He was given an officer's cap to wear and a lift up by seaman
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  • 210 2 Protest by union A leading foreign life In- surance company which has recently attempted to retrench a handful of Its staff •Is facing strong opposition from Its staff union. According to Mr. Charlie Koh, general secretary of the Singapore Insurance Companies Employees' Union, the volume of the
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  • 82 2 The Postal Services Department will continue selling—for the time beingexisting types of British postal orders even though British currency has gone decimal. A spokesman for the department said today that although the British Post Office had already issued the new type of decimal postal orders in Britain,
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  • 24 2 Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday. The latest 1971 West Malaysia telephone directory is now available at regional telecommunications offices, telegraph counters and telephone exchanges.
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  • 367 2 There's a good five years to get used to the system, they say The man in the street and business people today brushed aside suggestions that there might be difficulties in Singapore's switch to the metric system. Many people were not aware that metrics
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  • 361 2 The exodus of British servicemen and civilians from Singapore is underway, but there is no blowing of trumpets or marching through the streets. They are leaving at night, unseen and unheard by the local population apart from a fleeting glimpse of a departing VC-10
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  • 310 2 Registrar's check on road worthiness There is no indication that the government will ban the importation of unsafe and unroadworthy vehicles. Such a ban may he considered unecessary at present because after the vehicles are imported there is still the check of registration, which authorises them
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  • 81 2 Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday. —Twenty members of the University of Malaya Economics Society will leave on a Far East goodwill mission on Saturday. They will visit four countries—Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong. The president of the Economics Society, Mr. Leong Yoke Weng, said: "The ParEast Research Goodwill
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  • 137 2 Dealing with people's rights may not be your cup of tea. But this is what the League of Women Voters in the United States is fighting for. Formed more than 50 years ago, the league is a non-partisan organisation devoted to promoting political responsibility
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  • 64 2 The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Inche Rahim Ishak, today opened an Asia-wide meeting of national information representatives and information representatives of United Nations bodies and agencies at the Conference Hall. The meeting, convened by the United Nations Centre for Social and Economic Information, will consider how
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  • 166 2  -  From S. M. Ali Jakarta, Tuesday Malaysia has made a definite proposal to the Indonesian govern-ment-owned airline Garuda suggesting close co-operation in air services between the two countries. A top Garuda official said today that the airline was favourably Impressed by the offer.
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  • 51 2 The Marine Department is investigating the mixup which led to four Pakistani warships being berthed in the wrong anchorage yesterday. The destroyer, Jahanglr, and three gunboats, Comilla, Jessere and Jajshahl, were berthed in the Eastern Man-of-War Anchorage instead of the Western Anchorage where they were supposed to
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 43 2 Weather Temperatures in capitals yesterday: world Jakarta Kuala Lumpur Bangkok Hong Kong Manila Seoul Tokyo Naha London Paris Moscow New York San Francisco Sydney Melbourne Perth 89—75 90—71 90—71 71—58 90—74 43—30 44—35 64—61 43—41 45—37 12 17 36—20 58—41 76—66 92—58 80—53
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  • 323 3 Lumpur, Tuesday UMNO's new ideology is "democratic nationalism" and it wants to attract as many, young Malay intellectuals al possible to the party. In a special Interview with New Nation, UMNO's secretary general, Inche Senu Abdul Rahman, said democratic nationalism meant the implementation of policies
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  • 274 3  -  From Jackie Sam Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday A compact advisory committee of perhaps 25 members is likely to replace the year-old 65man National Consultative Council soon. The NCC, set up after the racial riots and subsequent suspension of parliamentary rule, must go now that democratic rule is
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  • 202 3 Transport bosses and i their agents held for questioning after the CPIB's "tolls" raid last week are being recalled to make further statements. It is understood that at least three owners have "confessed" to the CPIB, giving the badge numbers of some of the
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  • 49 3 Kuala Lumpur, Tuesday. —Malaysia Is looking Into the possibilities of setting up computer education centres at its Institutes of higher learning. A British computer scientist, Prof. R.A. Buckingham, is here on a week's visit to advise on the re* qulrements and training of computer staff.
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  • 295 3 Bernie Calvert, a member of the Hollies pop group, went searching for precious stones today in a sight-seeing tour of Singapore. "I've heard so much about the stones here and I thought they might be a good investment," he said. Bernie is the group's bass
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  • 326 3 The Singapore Teachers' Union is planning a radical reorganisation of its constitution and structure at its Modernisation Seminar to be held at the Conference Hall between February 27 and March 1. The subject of the seminar is "The Teacher and the dynamics of nationbuilding." The Minister
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  • 198 3 Singapore is now in a position to offer 300 training awards annually under the Colombo Plan technical cooperation scheme, according to the Minister for Education, Mr. Lim Kim San. "As part of our contribution towards regional cooperation, various scholarships for study in Singapore are
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  • 97 3 A second Penguin bookshop The Book Room in Coleman Street will be opened by the chairman of the Industrial Arbitration Court, Mr. Tan Boon Chiang, at 5 p.m. today. A cocktail party will held after the opening ceremony and the Book Room will be open
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  • 127 3 The travel bug has caught Hongkong beauty queen Christine Hui, and she is setting her aim high "I'd rather live in a suitcase than settle down." A former typist, 21-year-old Christine gave up her job two years ago to take up modelling, and she has
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  • 207 3 The case of Private Richard Ho Chee Yeong, convicted yesterday of having ganja in his possession, has been referred to the Director of General Staff, Colonel Kirpa Ram Vij, for action. Private Ho was fined $250 by the First Magistrate, Mr. Tan Lian Ker.
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  • 41 3 Jakarta, Tuesday. Three children were burned to death when a motorboat caught fire off the coast' of Borneo. i The Indonesian Navy said yesterday 32 other passengers on board were rescued by a passing motor vessel.
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 107 3 At the cinema Lido: Krakatoa East of Java —1.30, 4.15, 6.45 and 9.30 p.m. Capitol: Vengeance of a Snowgirl (Mandarin)—l.3o, 4, 6.45 and 9.30 p.m. Rex: Raja Saab (Hindi) —2.30, 6 and 9 p.m. Sky; The Forgotten Woman (Mandarin) —1.45, 4, 6.30 and 9.15 p.m. State: The Only Game In
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  • THE WORLD
    • 201 4 Reuter Washington, Tuesday A Congressional subcommittee yesterday recommended the creation of a multilateral consortium to provide military aid to Indonesia. The House of Representatives' Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on National Security Policy and Scientific Development suggested that the proposed agency consist of Australia, New
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    • 26 4 Honolulu, Tuesday. A newly born boy was found early yesterday in a trash container aboard a commercial jetliner on a brief stopover here.
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    • Article, Illustration
      351 4 Bhutto threatens to boycott opening of assembly to frame hew constitution Reuter Islamabad, Tuesday The leader of West Pakistan's biggest political party, Mr. Zulfikar Bhutto, said yesterday he would lead his 83 national assemblymen in a boycott of the opening of the assembly in Dacca on March 3.
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    • 234 4 Reuter Calcutta, Tuesday Police yesterday shot dead four Naxalite extremists in a raid on a secret meeting in the Beliaghata district of Calcutta. At least six policemen were injured by bombs and builets fired at them by the extremists. Police said they arrested 90
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    • 51 4 Talpeh, Tuesday. Taiwan's exports to Canada increased fivefold in the last five years, according to official statistics released here yesterday. Exports amounted to Cssl million last year, compared to C 59.3 million in 1965. Imports from Canada increased by C 56.6 million during the same
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    • 205 4 Reuter The British Aircraft Corporation's chief test pilot said yesterday that after flight-test-ing the Anglo-French Concorde for nearly 400 hours he found it gave even better results than he expected. "We are now quite satisfied that Concorde is a profitable aircraft and with a pay load
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    • 191 4 The score could be three million to nil United Press International New York, Tuesday The US army is planning in aerial counterattack to exterminate three million birds which have invaded an army arsenal in Milan, Tennessee. An army spokesman said today that a plane would spray the
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    • 84 4 Washington, Tuesday. The portraits of the late US President John F. Kennedy and his widow Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis were hung officially in the White House yesterday. The painting of Kennedy, done in pastels, with his head bowed and arms folded, was placed on a wall in the
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    • 202 4 United Press International New York, Tuesday Doctors In Massachusetts County Hospital have administered a pint of rare blood from Malaysia to a 73-year-old woman in an effort to help keep her alive while they try to diagnose what is wrong with her. Mrs. Alma
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    • 34 4 Washington. Tuesday. Tentative agreement was reached yesterday between the United Steel Workers Union and National Can Company to avert a strike that hit three other major can making firms across the US.
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    • 520 5 Weather hampering air cover for troops Reuter United Press International jTri. .1 Vlentianne, Tuesday dipiomate here said today that they con c®med by indications that might be considering lnter?statement from the Chinese broa dcast by Radio Peking at the Hunrf'*V? <Ule Chinese people will take
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    • 194 5 United Press International Tokyo, Tuesday The Prime Minister, Mr. Elsaku Sato's, office yesterday ordered the forcible seizure of land owned by 55 Japanese farm families for completion of the new Tokyo International Airport. The farmers have refused for more than four years to sell their
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    • 224 5 United Press International Tokyo, Tuesday The Foreign Minister. Mr. Kiichi Aichi, indicated yesterday that American bases on Okinawa will not be available for direct military operations in Vietnam after Okinawa returns to Japanese rule. He told questioners in the Foreign Affairs Committee of the
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    • 61 5 Rome, Tuesday. Italy's vast network of toll motorway was free of charge to motorists yesterday because of a two-day strike by motorway employees. Toll gates were left open, mountain stretches remained covered with snow and radio-telephone breakdown services were unmanned. The strike, called to back
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    • 103 5 Reuter London, Tuesday TCLM actor Sean Connery, who won fame playing British secret agent James Bond, has parted from his Australian-born wife, Diane Cilento. The London Evening Standard quoted Connery as "lt is quite true Diane and I have parted this time it is
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    • 304 5 Reuter Athens, Tuesday A Greek actress, Elli Lambeti, publicly denied yesterday that she attended orgies mentioned, in a trial of two American airmen and a Greek nightclub owner. In a letter to Athens newspapers, Mrs. Lambeti, said she never visited a villa in
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    • 500 5 Answer to Jarring's proposals go to UN United Press International Cairo, Tuesday Egypt said last night that it accepted proposals by the U.N. mediator, Dr. Ounnar Jarring, for a Middle East peace settlement. Hie Foreign Ministry Under-Secretary, Mr. Salah Oohar. said Egypt relayed answer to the
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    • 252 5 Sato orders 'grab' Reuter Vientiane, Tuesday Lao Government troops have been sent to reinforce the northern base of Lone Cheng, where a US plane mistakenly bombed pro-Government troops during a raid by North Vietnamese forces. The Lao Defence Minister, Slsouk Na Champassak. said yesterday that
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    • 28 5 Belfast, Tuesday.—A see ond British soldier has died of wounds suffered during gun-fights between civilians and troops in narrow streets here last week, Army souroes said.
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    • 223 5 Reuter Ankara, Tuesday An American Air Force stall sergeant kidnapped at gunpoint on the outskirts of Ankara earlier yesterday was released unharmed last night. Staff Sergeant Jimmy Flnlay, 25, was put into a taxi by his abductors—believed to be left-wing extremists—and told to return
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    • 111 5 Hong Kong, Tuesday Peking yesterday sided with Denmark in its row with the United States over fishing off Greenland, and accused America of barring other countries from fishing near their territorial waters. The New China news agency said the recent row over the Salmon
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    • 59 5 Santiago, Tuesday—Regis Debray, the French terrorist who was captured In Bolivia while fighting with the late Ernesto (Che) Guevara's guerrillas, said yesterday he would fly to Havana today. Debray, who was freed by an amnesty in December, broke a two-month's silence to announce he was accepting
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    • 329 5 United Press International London, Tuesday Britain will have a Black immigrant population of at least four million out of a 60-mil-lion population by 1985, rightwing Conservative, Mr. Enoch Powell, said yesterday. "The explosive which will blow us asunder is there and the fuse is burning,"
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    • 68 5 Damascus, Tuesday. Syria and Tunisia yesterday decided to resume diplomatic relations broken off three years ago, a Foreign Ministry communique said here last night. When relations were broken off In 1968, they had already been at a low ebb and were handled at charge d'affaires level because of
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    • 138 6 Jakarta, Tuesday India has announced its support for Indonesia's Foreign Minister, Dr. Adam Malik, as a candidate for president of the United Nations General Assembly for 1971-72. The Indian ambassador here, Mr. N. B. Menon, told Dr. Malik that he had India's
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    • 216 6 Melbourne Herald London, Tuesday Ten delinquent girls are to be sent to a special school for boys in the hope that the boys will have a "civilising" effect on them. The school, run by the Nottinghamshire County Council, has 80 boys who have been sent
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    • 128 6 Rome, Tuesday Those charming leftovers from Rome's gracious days, horse-drawn carriages, which most tourists ride in at least once, may be on the way out. New traffic laws which have limited a number of key city streets to public buses and taxis, and other rules aimed at
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    • 542 6  -  By Michael Getler Washington, Tuesday The United States and the Soviet Union both cut back slightly last year on the number of spy satellites lofted over each other's territory, according to well-in-formed U.S. military space experts. But the Russians, officials say, continue
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    • 486 6 Rivalry within IRA United Press International Belfast, Tuesday Hostility between rival factions of the underground Irish Republican Army (IRA) has added a new complication to the British task of restoring peace between Protestants and Roman Catholics in Northern Ireland. "It is a very delicate situation now," a
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    • 418 6 Only two-decade-old party puts 100 polls candidates Reuter New Delhi, Tuesday The rightwing Jan Sangh Party with a legacy of Hindu nationalism will provide some of the toughest opposition to the Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, in her bid for reelection in next month's geheral elections.
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    • 155 6 Melbourne Herald Rome, Tuesday Actress Sophia Loren is worried by constant newspaper reports of ransom-kidnappings and raids on the homes of the wealthy. She has turned her magnificent villa at Marino, 20 miles outside Rome, where she lives with her film producer husband, Carlo
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    • 266 6 Reuter Riyadh, Tuesday Saudi Arabia, whose Time rate is possibly the lowest in the world, has no plans to lay aside the executioner's sword or the knife which severs the right hand of a convicted thief. Like the stoning to death of those
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  • COMMENT
    • 751 7  -  Party leaders realise the need for change From Pakir Singh The setting-up of the six bureaux by the UMNO central executive committee reflects the importance which UMNO leaders are attaching to the need for streamlining the organisation and maintaining it as an effective political body. Significantly, all
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    • 768 7  -  Caution and pessimism about the future From S.M. Ali A young Indonesian writer, discussing the country's political future. said: "We are afraid." This gloomy statement came when we were half through a discussion with three top youth leaders who were once prominent In the KAMI student
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    • 627 7  -  From Bernadino Ronquillo One irritant in Filipino American relations which both the US and Philippine Governments are now trying to remove is the matter of Uncle Sam's military presence here through continued maintenance of American Bases. Technical level taksaimed at revising and updating the military
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  • 345 8 For the first time in Communist Russia, consumer goods production is slated to increase at a faster pace than heavy industry. It was just such a shift in priorities that Khrushchev had contemplated a decade ago. He saw the process as involving inevitably a change
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  • 719 8  -  Part Two -By Edgar Koh Leaders of Singapore's 40-odd thrift and loan societies consider the 1924 Co-operative Ordinance a daunting hurdle in the path of their diversification pr ogramme. Before they can re-orien-tate the movement's objectives and overhaul its machinery
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  • 644 8  -  GERALD de CRUZ If you have ears to hear I did not for quite some time while I was teaching mentally retarded children 20 years ago in England. Occasionally I would notice a child pressing a dogeared card to his
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  • Letters
    • 534 8  -  Roland Puccetti Philosophy Department, University of Singapore. I am moved by Dr. Toh's remarks in his Saturday press conference (Sunday Times 14.2.71) to try to set :he record straight on a few points. It is quite right, as he says, that even back in 1968 I did
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    • 128 8  -  D. LEONG Your feature on Elizabeth Choy was basically a good idea, but it was too short and it was oversensationalised. The next one you run on local personality (and I do hope there will be many more to come) should be treated more seriously and
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  • The voice of the Press
    • 208 8 What the other newspapers are saying: The Mentri Besar of Pahang has announced that beginning from next year would-be pilgrims from Pahang would be given a special course on pilgrimage rites by Pahang students in Mecca. This is a very good idea and we think the scheme should
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    • 174 8 Mainland China has suddenly donated 500,000 yuan for the relief of West Malaysian flood victims and it is reported that Premier Lee Kuan Yew may visit Malaysia. From a long-range political viewpoint. both of these events merit great attention. We therefore think that Mr. Lee's forthcoming visit
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    • 73 8 Coups in post-indepen-dence Africa are due to the absence of a sophisticated political process in which different groups can express and exercise power. President Nyerere of Tanzania and President Kaunda of Zambia have tried to follow a policy of enlisting peasant support against would-be rivals by populist measures.
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous

  • 1853 9  -  Joining the rebels V in Burma Today the author describes the Burman rebel camp loyal to U Nu, the former JJurmese Premier now waging civil war against his successor, Genera] Ne Win. He meets an Australian adviser and a teen-age radio signaller, and hears an account
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  • SHOPPING
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  • WOMAN
    • 246 11  -  Singapore breathless at fashion spectacular STORY: Rohani Lee Ken Scott is a talented artist who not only creates brilliant fabric prints, but also designs dresses, jewellery and shoes for a total look. It was this total involvement with fashion that left Singapore
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    • 116 11 Roma Blair today tells how to tone up feet Today and for the next few weeks I will give some foot care techniques. I have not given many because most yoga techniques do tone up the feet anyway. Stand as you see me in picture
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  • Finance and business
    • 1094 12 ALL YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE STOCK EXCHANGE COUNTERS INDUSTRIALS 1979 1 wfc. 4 wks. Stock Closhig Price last DIvM. P/E TurnHigh Low ago Boyen i Sellers Sale Yield Ratio Over 4.50 2.90 2.90 2.90 Allied Chocolate 2.95 2.99 2.90 43N 19.4 1J0 0.944 1.10 1.05
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    • 341 12 United Press International London, Tuesday The stock market took a smooth ride into Britain's new decimal currency era yesterday and prices ended the first decimal session firm after fairly active trading. Resumption of talks on the postal strike helped sentiment. Gamblers
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    • 114 12 LONDON, Tues. The Teheran higher oil price agreement signed over the weekend pushed oil company share prices higher on the stock market yesterday. The five years settlement between the six Persian Gulf countries and the Wes- tern oil companies and its promise of price stability
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    • 249 12 United Press International Sydney, Tuesday The Managing Director of London's Investors Chronicle, Mr. D. Eglington, said yesterday overseas investors had confidence in Australia despite inflation and the mining-share crises. Mr. Eglington is leading a 30-man European. British and American investment mission to Australia to assess the Australian
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    • 83 12 Jakarta, Tuesday—lndonesia will not accept the proposal of other coffee producing countries to lower export quotas in order to raise prices, an Agriculture Ministry spokesman said yesterday. Such a policy could harm Indonesia's coffee exports, the spokesman said. Indonesia, In fact, wanted an
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    • 83 12 TOKYO, Tues. Japan and Communist China yesterday opened talks in Peking on renewal of their unofficial trade agreement for another year. A member of the Japanese delegation said the Chinese attitude was "flexible." Mr. Seichl Tagawa, a member of parliament from Prime Minister Mr. Eisaku Sato's
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    • 144 12 The Goodwood Hotels Corporation of Singapore has appointed Mr. Chris Y.C. Chen (above) as its Overseas Promotion Manager to head the Group's Marketing and Sales Department. Formerly based in San Francisco, Mr. Chen travelled extensively in Europe and America and made a study of
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    • 31 12 TAIPEH, Tues Chinese traders from all over the world will meet In the United States in May to promote the sales of Taiwan products abroad, it was disclosed yesterday.
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    • 250 12  -  MORE HOMES, NEW CINEMA ANIL BHATIA The Jurong Town Corporation expects an increase of 60 per cent in its income for 1971, to reach a figure of $39 million. The 1971 budget of JTC just released also estimates a doubling of its surplus from $6.5
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    • 220 12  -  PETER TAI The first locally-in-corporated security organisation, General Security Services (Pte.) Ltd. is making its presence felt in Singapore. Registered in December, 1970, GSS is run by Mr. Chai Fook See, its Managing Director. The Director of Operations is Mr. E. K. Ramchand, a
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  • 509 12  -  100-minute documentary with a misleading title which only an Elvis fan can really enjoy—or endure CINEMA By EDGAR KOH Elvis Presley That's the Way It Is Anyone who isn't an Elvis Presley fan wouldn't endure, much less enjoy, his latest movie, a 100-minute documentary
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  • SPORT 1
    • 422 13  -  Entered for experience, won title CAMERA ON SCHOOLS Words: Jeffrey Low The girls of Sin Min High School (Primary) scored an unprecedented win in the Upper Serangoon District Primary Schools badminton championships yesterday. Never in the history of the district has a Chinese stream school
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    • 435 14  -  By Sonny Yap Leslie Leow, 14, Singapore's youngest international chess player aims to get as much experience as possible before making a crack at the world title. With this In mind, he left last month with fellow player Choong Liong On, 22,
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    • 197 14 Reuter Paris, Tuesday The French rugby union selectors today dropped six men from the team which drew with Ireland in choosing the side to meet England in the international championship match at Twicekenham on February 27. In addition,, they switched the captaincy from Benoit Dauga
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    • 60 14 Sydney, Tuesday Thirteen men appeared in a magistrate's court here yesterday charged with behaving in an offensive manner and using indecent language during the Seventh cricket Test match between England and Australia. The Magistrate, fining them between As2o to Asloo said that people were entitled to
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    • 712 14  -  By Lim Kee Chan Asian countries enjoyed another successful year in professional boxing in 1970 while the amateurs were still struggling for world supremacy. Eight Olympic Games have passed since 1928—the Second World War causing two cancellations in 1940 and 1944 and Asian countries
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    • 84 14 Fixtures for the National Youth Table Tennis Championships at Eagle Engineering Hall today: Girls' team (starting at 7.15 p.m.) Combined Schools "A" vs Chung Hwa Girls' School, Jurong Community Centre vs Chung Cheng High School, Yap Transport vs Combined Schools "B". Boys' team (starting at 8.30 p.m.)
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    • 109 14 London, Tuesday An English soccer club, third division Reading, has put all its players on the transfer list. The club is A 560,000 in the red and losing more money each week. To try to get the club back on an economic footing, it is prepared
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    • 75 14 Kuala Lumpur, Tues.— An inquiry will be ;;held into the alleged misbehaviour of certain members of Malaysia's 16-member shooting team during the Asian Games in Bangkok in December.. The inquiry has been ordered by Tun Tan Siew Sin, President of the National Shooting Association of Malaysia. Last
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    • 246 15 Brilliant Success made the early running, leading into the straight from Scarlet Prince, with The Boss and Native Ruler handy. Scarlet Prince got up in the last stride. Dust Fury led past the half mile and into the straight from Green Sword and Amber Lass. Dukedom
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    • 372 15  -  By Sonny Yap The Singapore Amateur Weightlifting Federation is now embarking on an expansion exercise to beat public and schools' prejudice against the sport. The president, Mr. Soh Ohee Soon, said that the move was necessary If the Republic hoped to build up a
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    • 298 15 BOXING United Press International Miami Beach, Florida, Tuesday Cassius Clay yesterterday predicted his heavyweight title fight with Joe Frazier on March 8 would go the full 15 rounds because he wants to "punish" Frazier. He has asked for a different referee for each round. "I want
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    • 124 15 Manila, Tuesday. The World Boxing Conucil's flyweight champion Erblto Salavarria of the Philippines looked confident yesterday as he prepared for his non-title bout with Australia's Harry Hayes. Salavarria, who rested the world title from Thailand's Chartchai Cholnol last December, fights 12 rounds with Hayes here
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    • 151 15 Rio De Janeiro, Tuesday The Brazilian Air Force has been asked to join in a search for the South African Sloop Bprinter and its all-women crew, last heard of in the South Atlantic three weeks ago, a spokesman for the Cape-to-Rio Sacht race committee said ere yesterday. Reports
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    • 146 15 River Valley Middle School beat Bukit Merah School 4-1 yesterday to win the "C" Boys title of the Pasir Panjang district badminton championships. They won their last game to chalk up 11 points on the one-round league to tie with Queensway. But they were declared the
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    • 188 15 Reuter London, Tuesday Little Colchester United, who toppled mighty Leeds United on Saturday in one of the greatest English soccer cup upsets in history, will be away to Everton in the quarter-final round. Everton became the new joint favourites with Liver- pool following the shock exit
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    • 106 15 London, Tuesday The draw for the English Football Association Cup quar-ter-finals to be played on March 6: Leicester City or Oxford United v Manchester City or Arsenal; Everton v Colchester United; Hull City v Stoke City or Ipswich Town; Liverpool v Tottenham Hotspur. The draw for
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    • 21 15 A Singapore Youth's selection will play the Army in a soccer frieridly at Jalan Besar tonight at 7 o'clock.
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    • 52 15 London, Tuesday Leading English football goal scorers: Ist DIVISION Martin Chi vers (Tottenham) 23; Tony Brown (West Bromwich) 18; Colin Bell (Manchester City) 16; Ron Davies (Southampton) 16; Ray Kennedy (Arsenal) 16; Mike Channon (Southampton) 15; John Radford (Arsenal) 15; Alan Gilzean (Tottenham) 15; Bobby Gould
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    • 348 16  -  Britons 'muck in together to meet the national crisis' From A WTWI Joseph W. Grigg "Just like the 1940 blitz, gov'nor," said the Cockney news vendor. "Nothing like a national crisis to make us British all muck in together." The "national crisis"
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    • 300 16 The most talked about television shows in Japan are not the ones that appear in the newspaper schedules. iW They are the erotic fliw« that have mysteriously been JPPWtag on some home television sets ta Osaka. Tokyo and other big Japanese cities for the past month.
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    • 85 16 Here's a girl who likes short dresses but not short change. She's bank clerk Susan Seah, a 20-year-old mini enthusiast who keeps her hemline well above the knee for work each day. When all the money's counted and the bank's closed for the
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    • 121 16 An American public opinion survey indicates that nearly three Americans in four believe that television campaign advertising affects election results and that it should be controlled. The survey was commissioned by a New Tork advertising agency, Poote, Gone and Beldlng, which is not Involved in political
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    • 277 16 Things people do Gentlemen in ladies' clothing are not new in Singapore—as any visitor to Bugis Street will tell you. But we doubt if any of the locals who nightly "entertain" the throngs there have ever pulled off the trick that one cool Australian did yesterday. His disguise when he
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    • 344 16 5 Siagapsra 6.00 Opening and Woobinda 6.30 News in Brief 6.35 It's Happening in Singapore (Chinese) 7.C0 Fcr the Family (Chinese repeat) 7.40 News in Chinese 7.50 A Breath of Air —Documentary 8.15 Another Song Another Melody (English repeat) 8.30 My Favourite 9.00 News and Newsreel in English 9.25 Slattery's
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    • 419 16 Trust your lucky star BIRTHDAY IF IT'S YOUR isORN today, you have been 0 sifted with a marvelous sense of humour that 1* most exceptional for Its sharpness a sharpness all the mora remarkable because it is coupled with a general naive nature when It oomes to all your other
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