New Nation, 19 February 1971

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  • 17 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Friday evening, February 19, 1971 No. 28 Price 15 cents SINOAPORC nUDAY, FEBRUARY 1*
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  • 16 1 Police reported 71 accidents, one fatal, on Singapore roads dvtef tfc® pool 24 hows.
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  • 69 1 On stock market this morning, Gammon was the hot feature following the news of takeover bid. The share price slipped from $1.30 to $l.lB on turnover of 80,000 units of which about one quarter was recorded on delayed basis. In quiet trading Veneer products and STC held
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  • 36 1 LATE NEWS Jerusalem, Friday The Israeli Cabinet feels Egypt's reply to the Jarring peace proposals Is "the most farreaching attempt yet to meet Israel's concept of a Middle East settlement," according to diplomatic circles.
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  • 84 1 Reuter Rawalpindi, Friday Nine men, sentenced to death for having burnt nine people alive in a family feud, were hung yesterday. They were convicted by a West Pakistan military court after' the deaths of four men. three women and two children In a burning house
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  • 66 1 Two pretty girl*, two thoroughbred horses. The "confrontation" took place at the Bukit Timah Race course stables today. On the right, Beverly Sidwell slips a handful of hay to Hydro's Image, her mount in the wo men's races at the weekend. Next to her is
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  • 350 1 Stockmarket sources say change at the top unlikely Stock market circles believe that the latest bid by a new group of local shareholders to take control of Gammon SEA is unlikely to succeed. But the move could well swing sentiment among shareholders In view of the
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  • 84 1 Kuala Lumpur, Friday Allegations that the Vigilante Corps is furthering the interests of a particular political party are malicious, according to the director of the corps, Hajl Nik Yusof bin Mohamed. "Although sponsored by the government, the corps is non-political and does not side with any political
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  • 32 1 New York, Friday—Scientists at Harvard University's museum of comparative zoology yesterday announced the discovery in Kenya of a human jaw bone that is "some five million years old or older."
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  • 261 1  -  From S. M. Ali Jakarta, Friday The Indonesian government believes that the visit by Singapore's Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, will be an important step in the continuing improvement of relations between the two countries. Mr. Lee is expected in Jakarta in Aprtl.
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  • 22 1 Tokyo, Friday. The population in Tokyo stood at 11,400,566 as of January 1 this year, the metropolitan Government disclosed yesterday.
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  • 85 1 Car magnate Henry Ford II flies In today for a four-day visit to Singapore. He will meet government ministers, officials and leading businessmen during his stay. The 54-year-old head of the giant Ford company Is on a three week familiarisation tour of South-East A.si 3, It
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    • 60 1 London, Friday More than two in every 100 pilots and aircrew were alcoholics, a British Government doctor said yesterday. Boredom, duty-free liquor and the extrovert characters who were keen social drinkers were cited by Dr. Geoffrey Bennett, chief medical officer at the Trade Department. "The airline industnr
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    • 47 1 P O's 2800-ton passenger liner Oronsay, with 1100 tourists from Australia, will arrive here tomorrow. About 120 passengers will disembark. The liner, which left Sydney on February 11, will sail for Southampton via Hong Kong. Japan, the west coast of America and Panama.
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    • 55 1 London, Friday—The Idea of a national referendum on Britain Joining the Common Market was coolly received by the Home Secretary. Mr. -Reginald Maudling, in the House of Commons yesterday. He said he had no plans for conducting a referendum and the constitution provided for all matters
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  • 30 1 Bombay, Friday India yesterday established its first satellite communications link when telex and voice tests began between earth stations at Arvl in western India and Ooonhilly in Britain.
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  • 193 1 Kuala Lumpur, Friday Four opposition parties, accounting for 31 seats in Parliament, were meeting today to pick a Leader of the Opposition. The parties are: The Democratic Action Party whose 13 seats make it the largest Opposition group in the House, the Gerakan Ra'ayat
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  • 195 1 Reuter Washington, Friday The United States is considering further moves to ease restrictions on trade with China and travel there by Americans. The State Department spokesman, Mr. Robert J. McCloskey, said this today. Answering a series of questions on trade and travel concerning Peking, he said
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  • 424 2  -  That's what we are witnessing in Malaysia, says MP From Pakir Singh Koala Lumpur, Friday Though the goal of achieving political power by the Democratic Action Party might be remote, it will nevertheless attempt to go down in history as the buffer between the racial extremists in
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  • 183 2 Kuala Lumpur, Friday Tengku Abdul Rahman has expressed the hope that the British Prime Minister, Mr. Edward Heath, would not go ahead with the proposed arms sales to South Africa "as history is known to repeat itself." The Tengku was comparing Mr. Heath's intention to sell arms
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  • 398 2 Aimed at 'opportunists' Kuala Lumpur, Friday Recent amendments to trade union laws were made to encourage the growth of sound and responsible trade unions and to prevent them from being used for undesirable purposes. The Minister of Labour, Tan Sri V. Manickavasagam, said this when he referred
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  • 186 2 Eighteen divisional policemen have been transferred the Traffic Mobile squad to bring it up to strength after 24 officers and men were moved out two days ago. Eighteen of the new men will take the place of the mobile riders. They underwent two months
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  • 54 2 The Extra-Mural Studies Department of the University of Singapore will start a 12-lecture course next Friday on "Circuit design amlifiers and its applicator inttegrated operational tion" at the Singapore Polytechnic from 7.30 pjn. The fee for the course, conducted by Mr. KJP. Lee, an electrical engineering lecturer at
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  • 236 2 Anyone for a cup of tea poured straight from an 18th-century silver pot? All you need is $15,000. The owner, Madam Nora Mclalne, a 75-year-old widowed grandmother, has put this price-tag on the pot because she says, It is one
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  • 46 2 The Minister of State for Finance. Mr. Tan See Chim, will present academic awards at the Founder's Day Service to be held at the Anglo-Chinese School to celebrate Its 85th anniversary on March 1. Mr. Tang will also Inspect a parade.
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  • 84 2 Prague, Friday—A Prague court yesterday sentenced Vladimir Skutina, once a leading television commentator, to two years in prison on charges of agitation and slandering Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union. The trial was the first here against a prominent liberal of the 1968 reform era. Mr. Skutina,
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  • 305 2 Kuala Lumpur, Friday The Government will continue to enforce "mandatory conditions" on manufacturing concerns to ensure that the objectives of the new .economic policy are met. k it will also administer specific measures to these establishments In relation to capital participation and employment to keep in
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  • 370 2 In-laws got $2OO, some pigs and pearl shell Tribal customs die hard in New Guinea they can still apply even when a new religion has been embraced. Mr. Kongoe Sipwanji is a 23-year-old New Guinean converted to Christianity—and a fully pledged preacher. But when he wanted
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  • 131 2 Despite being one of the largest local shipyards with an annual turnover of $4O million entirely from shiprepairing last year, the Keppel Shipyard has no official symbol yet to represent it after its two years of existence. TO remedy the situation, the shipyard is inviting
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  • 53 2 The proposed Engineering Alumni of the University of Singapore will hold a lunch meeting at the Lion City Hotel tomorrow at 1.30 pm. The meeting is to finalise plans for setting up the Alumni which is considering joining forces with that set up by local graduates of the
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  • 34 2 Rome, Friday R|>man Catholic priests in 10 countries around the world can now p1 a c|e communion bread in the hands of church-goers Instead of directly into £helr mouths, the Vatican said today.
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  • 244 2 To 21-year-old Ang Peng Yam, leaving Alvernla Hospital for his home a couple of miles away has always been a problem as everything revolves round a wheelchair since he had an accident in December 1969. But this problem of Peng Yam, who
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  • 117 2 Two executives have left for overseas training, both sponsored by their companies. Mr. Llm Joo Kee, engineering supervisor of International Computers limited, Is undergoing an advanced computer training at the ICL School in Sydney, to familiarise him with the latest techniques. This is Mr. Lim's third
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 87 2 Weather Temperatures in ipltals yesterday: Hong Kong world 72—68 93—73 59—44 92—73 65—56 93—76 34—21 91—71 64—57 48—43 48-39 14—7 42—32 60—45 81—74 97—87 Singapore's weather forecast from Ipmto 6 pm. Isolated showers in early afternoon. The weather for the 24 hours to 8 am today— Max. temp.—B7.B. Mln. temp.—72.6.
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  • 344 3 Plea to spread word on responsible family planning Singapore's school children should be given the facts about birth control and responsible family planning. the belief of Inche Mohamed Ohasall T«m>n £f rl w. m 1 2* r y Secretary to the Ministry of Education. He told
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  • 459 3 150-year limit on capacity The world's present rate of population growth could not be allowed to continue for very long, Mr. Tye Cho Yook told the Beatty Secondary School seminar. Mr. Tye, a senior lecturer In the Department of So clal Medicine and Public Health,
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  • 100 3 The Adult Education Board will hold a 12-week course on Chinese cooking at its Mountbatten Centre in Dakota Cresent from March 7. The courde will be conducted by Miss Puah Sal Choo in English and Mandarin every Sunday. Two classes will be organised—one morning and
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  • 175 3  -  By Maxwell Brem Bangkok, Friday The establishment of an Asian Handicraft Centre in Singapore has moved a step closer with ECAFE's decision to send a survey team round the region to discuss how governments will take part in the scheme. The idea Is to make
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  • 243 3 Kuala Lumpur, Friday The Film Censorship Board banned 16 films from public screening last year. The films—l 3 in English, one each In Chinese, Korean and Japanese—were banned on various grounds, mainly sex. The board passed with cuts 200 films of which English
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  • 381 3 The eight-member committee on medical specification wants priority given to care of patients rather than specialities concerned primarily with research. This was part of the criteria adopted by the committee during its one-year survey. The committee, headed by Mr. M. Coomaraswamy, reported that development of
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  • 241 3 The Finance Minister, Mr. Hon Sui Sen, will open the Esso Refinery on Pulau Ayer Chawan at 5 p.m. today. The refinery, the largest single American investment in Singapore, costs $3OO million. Mr. Sebastian' Oppon, Ghanaian Deputy Minister of Rural Development and Bodal Welfare, Is
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  • 72 3 A Singaporean, Choo Hoey, will conduct the Israel Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra in "20th Century Music" on the Stereo Service of Radio Singapore at 10 o'clock tonight. Choo Hoey, hailed as one of the best conductors by leading Belgian critics, began his musical career at the age
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  • 162 3 Driver Goh Tiong Heng, 25, had a lucky escape today when his lorry loaded with sand, spun and landed on its side on a road divider at Braddell Road. Residents in the area heard a loud bang and rushed out to find him lying
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 114 3 At the cinema Cathay: That's The Way It Is Elvis Presley—l.3o, 4, 6.30 and 9.30 pjn. Orchard: Tora Tora Tora —2.30, 5.45 and 9 pjn. Odeon: Lost Command—--1.30, 4, 6.30 and 9.15 p.m. Odeon-Katonf: A Thrust With A Sword (Mandarin) —l, 3.15, 7 and 9.15 pjn. Lido: Krakatoa East of
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  • THE WORLD
    • 192 4 Reuter Oslo, Friday Seven seamen died in an explosion which ripped through the 52,510ton Norwegian tanker Fern castle in the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday night. A spokesman for the owners said today that 35 survivors including four women and a small childwere expected to arrive
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    • 53 4 Tokyo, Friday Arrests for use or possession of marijuana or LSD rose sharply in Tokyo last year. More than 80 per cent of those charged were people below the age of 24. The police said yesterday that there was 286 arrests last year compared with
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    • 192 4 Reuter London, Friday One of the greatest paintings still in private hands in Britain, Titian's "Death of Acta eon," is to be sold at auction next month. For the past nine years the painting has been on loan to the National Gallery, Britain's major art
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    • 183 4 New Nation Foreign Service London, Friday Lockheed Aircraft Corporation chairman, Mr. Daniel Haughton, met the top men of RollsRoyce yesterday only 24 hours after he flew into London in a bid to save the Rolls RB-211 engine for Lockheed's tristar jets. Throughout the morning, Mr. Haughton and
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    • 102 4 Mr. Henry Ford 11, chairman of ihe giant US Ford Motor Co., meets Mr. Hasjim Ning, an Indonesian car assembly business man in Jakarta. Mr. Ford, on a three-day visit to Indonesia during a wide-ranging Asian tour, has outlined plans for the manufacture of a new
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    • 422 4  -  East and West wings at loggerheads after the polls and cyclone By Phil Newsome United Press International New York, Friday Tragedy heaped upon tragedy is bringing closer the possible break-up of Pakistan. It is a country that never should have come into being
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    • 165 4 Reuter New York, Friday The UN Secretary-General, U Thant, will report today on Israeli building programmes in the former Arab sector of Jerusalem. Some diplomats fear that controversy over the issue could endanger progress in the current Middle East peace talks. The Jordanian Ambassador,
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    • 187 4 New Nation Foreign Service New York, Friday The Big Four UN ambassadors held their 56th private meeting on the Middle East yesterday, discussing possible guarantees for an eventual peace settlement between Israel and the Arabs. The ambassadors of the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain
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    • 63 4 London, Friday. The Anglican Church yesterday decided to allow members of ether denominations to holy communion in its churches. The general synod of the Anglican Church, holding its first meeting here, accepted a proposal to admit baptised and communicant members of other churches "who are
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    • 272 4 Pakistan accuses India of intimidation bid Reuter Islamabad, Friday Pakistan yesterday deplored India's reported refusal to accept mediation in the dispute over last month's hijacking of an Tnriinn Airlines plane.' India is demanding compensation for the loss of the plane, which was blown up > by its
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    • 338 5 Reuter London, Friday Six thousand striking postal workers marched behind a brass band to London's Hyde Park yesterday and roared approval when their union chief, Mr. Tom Jackson told them: "We'll go on until we win." With the post office stoppage now in its second
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    • 143 5 United Press International Manila, Friday The parole board yesterday recommended the retention of the death penalty in the Philippines because of the apparent lawlessness m the country. The board, headed by the Under Secretary of Justice Mr. Guillermo Santos, gave its view after President Marcos asked
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    • 306 5 China not likely to intervene, say South Vietnamese diplomats in report on invasion Reuter London, Friday South Vietnamese troops would be withdrawn from the Laos operation by May, the South Vietnamese Embassy sai<J at a news conference yesterday. Ambassador Le Ngoc Chan and defence attache Colonel
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    • 159 5 United Press International Washington, Friday Democratic Senator George McGovern has accused President Nixon of flirting with the third world war in his latest statement on the Indo-China conflict. Senator McGovern, a candidate for his party's Presidential nomination, told a news conference yesterday that Mr.
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    • 377 5 Reuter Paris, Friday Hanoi has charged that 'President Nixon is planning to extend the war to North Vietnam and is threatening China. The charge was made by the chief North Vietnamese negotiator Xuan Thuy at yesterday's 103 rd session of the deadlocked Vietnam peace
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    • 101 5 United Press International London, Friday Britain is conferring with Commonwealth governments before publication of legislation designed to clamp tighter controls on immigration into this country, Government sources said yesterday. The Bill will be published before the Parliamentary Easter recess in April, officials qald The Home Secretary,
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    • 222 5 Reuter Moscow, Friday Soviet scientists are being warned not to reveal the results of their work to foreigners unless they have been released for publication in the press. The warning is in an article written by one of Russia's top security policemen, Colonel-General Semyon Tsvigun,
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    • 307 5 Reuter Paris, Friday France and Britain agreed yesterday that neither the financial collapse of Rolls-Royce nor a mid-air engine mishap would seriously jeopardise their joint project to produce the Concorde supersonic airliner. French Transport MJnister Mr. Frederick Corfleld, after here with British Aviation Supply Minister Mr.
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    • 31 5 London, Friday. Film producer Mel Ferrer. 53. was married here yesterday to Elisabeth Soukotine, a 54-year-old Belgian of Russian origin. Mr. Ferrer- was formerly married to actress Audrey Hepburn.
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    • 184 5 Reuter Washington, Friday President Nixon yesterday unveiled a US$3,OOO million (9,000 million) programme to help Americans meet the soaring costs of medical care. But the President rejected the Idea of a national health scheme similar to that In other industrialised countries. Under a natlonllsed system.
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    • 314 5 Reuter Rome, Friday Rioting continued in the defiant southern city, Reggio Calabria, today as armoured trOop carriers bolstered 1,000 police mounting a massive military operation to demolish rebel barricades. Police fired tear gas grenades as they advanced in four powerful columns into the working
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    • 147 5 United Press International New York, Friday Chief Running Water, son of the famed Sioux Indian chief Sitting Bull and the model for the Indian head on the five-cent US coin, celebrated his 111 th birthday yesterday. His silver-white hair flowing almost to his shoulders, the
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    • 95 5 Roma, Friday.—Pope Paul yesterday received Mr. Chatichai Choonhavan, a Buddhist, who was presenting his credentials as Thailand's first ambassador to the Holy See. Mr. Choonhavan told Pope Paul that he ..would do all he could "for the advancement of collaboration between the kingdom of Thailand and
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    • 55 5 Tel Aviv, Friday An Arab, who nicknamed himself "Adolf Hitler," yesterday began serving a 10year prison sentence for guerrilla activities. An Israeli military occupation court ordered the sentence on Wednesday for Abdel Rahman Al-Samihl, 23. The prosecution said he had adopted the name of Hitler to
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    • 65 5 Detroit, Friday— A 37-year-old Catholic nun who taught mentally retarded children was shot to death early today by a sniper who fired two shots through the drapery covered windows of her convent room. Sister Jullta Maria Williams died shortly after being shot through the temple. She
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    • 347 6  -  By Mike Bingham Melbourne Herald London, Friday The Spanish Sahara, a part of Africa virtually unknown to the rest of the world, could be about to burst into the headlines. All the Ingredients are there. No fewer than countries are involved in one
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    • 323 6 Top mountaineers all set for the go Reuter Katmandu, Friday Twelve of the world's most skilled mountaineers are joining up here for an international assault cm Mount Everest along two of the most difficult routes. Among the first arrivals to jotai some of the 21member
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    • 280 6  -  Souvanna now worried China may step in at any time By Peter Jay Melbourne Herald Vientiane, Friday Prince Souvanna Phouma, the Prime Minister of Laos, is telling diplomats here he believes it highly possible that Communist Chinese troops will cross his borders if the South Vietnamese
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    • 302 6 A good way to get rid of your husband United Press International Karachi, Friday Pakistani women, who once used to weep over their frustrations, are increasingly taking to the kitchen knife to end their marital woes. The verdict, said Karachi's chief of police, Mr. M. T.
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    • 69 6 Mr. James Davis leaves court in West Covina, California, with his three-year-old chimp. Moe. The nattily dressed Hon charged with being a wild beast Mr. Davis denied the charge, saying: "He's no wild beast He's oS?so and his wile in a residential neighbourhood.
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    • 430 6  -  Scandinavian journalist expelled By Anthony Astrachan Washington Post Moscow, Thursday Per Egil Hegge, the Moscow correspondent for three Scandinavian newspapers, ordered to leave the Soviet Union, was officially accused of "activities incompatible with the status of a foreign correspondent," the .usual grounds for expulsion here. Fyodor
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    • 246 6 Los Angeles Times Lagos, Friday The young Nigerian civil servant worked himself into angry excitement as he detailed all the corrupt practices of his society and government Things were ao bad, he said, that "when I want my clerk to type something in only a few
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    • 286 6  -  From Tom Austen Melbourne Herald Tokyo, Friday A Cabinet minister's speech, which was first regarded as a national joke, has now set the Japanese people wondering how much democracy they really have. Justice Minister, Takeji Kobayashi delivered his Parllament-ls-a-farce Address in Hamamatsu city
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    • 147 6 Reuter Jerusalem, Friday. An Israeli archaeologist has described how he rediscovered in a shoe box the ancient religous scroll which he was offered up to US$2 millipn for several years ago. Professor Yigal Yadin, former Commander-in-Chief of the Israeli Army, told a historical convention
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    • 28 6 New Delhi, Friday—Naxallte communists shot and killed a wine merchant on Tuesday in Ludhlana district in Northern Punjab State, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported.
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  • COMMENT
    • 672 7  -  Australians push on to complete East Malaysian highway From John Hoffman Despite a big setback from the record floods in Sabah's jungle interior, Australian road and bridge specialists expect to finish the "grand design" link-up of Malaysia's two Borneo states by the end of next year. Australian
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    • 748 7  -  China's $625,000 aid offer for Malaysia's flood disaster could be the beginning of something big By Pakir Singh The gift of $625,000 by the Chinese Bed Cross to the West Malaysian flood victims has not sent officials of the Malaysian Foreign Ministry
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    • 1160 7  -  From Barbara Foster My heart was in my throat and I kept fidgeting with the camera in my lap. An American couple driving a beatup Scout obviously the kind of vehicle used by US advisory staff were sitting ducks. Ve were not alone. Crammed into
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  • 372 8 There is a death on the road every 24 hours in Singapore. Half-a-dozen major accidents and some fifty minor ones are the toll of the average day. The position is already serious enough for the authorities and the public to-stt up and take
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  • 673 8  -  By Pang Cheng Lian Changing educational pblicies and attitudes in Singapore and Hong Hong haa closed down the supplies of Singapore students to Hong Kong. Singapore's Hong Kong University Alumni Association, which Is holding its 28th annual dinner tomor£w, has 196
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  • 604 8  -  SHIRI MULGAOKAR The South Vietnamese task force which crossed into the South Laos panhandle from Khe Sanh-12 days ago appears to be in sight of accomplishing its main objective. This is the disruption of the supply and rear base
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  • Letters
    • 653 8 I agree fully with Jackie Sam's analysis of the •heart' of a nation In his article, "Living in darkness enables one to see the light of our handicapped," which appeared In your Issue of Feb. 11. The *heart' of a nation, as your writer puts it, is
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    • 57 8  -  TEE JOW FATT Congratulations to the Pakistan Navy for making the visit of its destroyer Jahanglr such a pleasant and friendly occasion. The ship was in excellent order, and' the hospitality and good manners of Its crew and officers had to be experienced to be believed.
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  • The voice of the Press
    • 174 8 What the other newspapers are saying: The youth problem m Singapore is becoming more and more serious. A spate of crimes has been committed by young people under the age of 30 in the past three months. To ascribe all the crimes committed to gangsters is
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    • 127 8 What grouses can the truly knowledgeable people in Indonesia have against Singapore? The accusation of a "two-faced" policy against Singapore as contained in articles in the Indonesian newspaper, Sinar Harapan, represents an attempt to magnify, in an unfair manner, what in fact is a small issue. Smuggling
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    • 73 8 The issue of a national culture for Malaysia is still unresolved and the most important question relating to this issue is the basis for such a culture. This issue is important because it involves our national identity. In this connection we would like to suggest that the government
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    • 77 8 The US Federal Reserve Board announced a 0.25 per cent cut in the discount rate. The repeated reductions of the US discount rate may induce a serious disruption in the" international money market. The US intends to prevent the trade imbalance from increasing by moving the value of
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous

  • 354 9 COUNCIL CHIEF PRAISES NEW NATION CONTEST Mr. Milton Tan, chairman of the Singapore National Safety First Council, said today the New Nation safety first contest has generated a lot of public interest on the subject. Mr. Tan, who was one of the four judges in
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  • 1357 9 THE MANY WAYS TO CUT DOWN ON THE DAILY TOLL OF DEATH... The first prize winner of the New Nation Happier, Safer on the Roads contest, MRS. SUSIE CHEW, emphasised the three requisites of safety first engineering, enforcement and education. She suggests that all vehicles
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  • SHOPPING
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  • WOMAN
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      120 11  -  A comeback tor soft, sumptuous pause velvet Words: Rohani Lee Panne velvet that shimmering fabric from the past glows again after dark. AH over town lights are going ug> on this soft, sumptuous material that Paris discovered last year. It doesn't crease, falls and folds like jersey, and
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    • 433 11  -  EATING OUT WITH DIANNE WOOD The enjoyment in spending an evening at Raffles Village is not so much for the food, but for the surroundings: lazy eating under open, attap-roof shelters in the warm night and pretty, colourful dancing girls. Wedged in a tropical garden,
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    • 906 11  -  Mow her job It to look after her husband and two kids By Lana Wells Margo McKendry, one of the most famous models of all time, has just retired in New York after a 16-year career. "The accent today
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  • Finance and business
    • 1104 12 ALL YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE STOCK EXCHANGE COUNTERS INDUSTRIALS 1 1970 1 wk. 4 wk*. dosing Price last Dhrid. P/E TurnHigh Low ago ago Slock. Bayers Sellers Sale Yield Ratio Over 4.50 2.60 2.90 2.90 Allied Chocolate 2.95 2.88 4.3N 18.2 1.90 0.844 1.18 1.17
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    • 212 12 United Press International New York, Friday Stocks declined yesterday in a continuation of Wednesday's soft close. Turnover was fairly heavy. At the cio&w, liie Dow Jones industrial average was off 2.81 at 885.06 of the 1,685 issues on the
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    • 252 12 United Press International London, Friday Prices moved irreguarly while trading turned light on the stock market yesterday* and dealers blamed the lack of signs of any settlement in the month-old postal strike. The industrial index fell 2.8 to 332.9 near the close
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    • 94 12 LONDON, Fri. British. Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Anthony Barber yesterday welcomed Singapore's Initiative In formulating an investment guarantee scheme. He stated that full financial liability had been assumed by Up Singapore Government, providing a guarantee of compensation against non-com-mercial risks for British investors there. The British
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    • 221 12 Allied Chem 281 65 i Am Brand* 471 Am Can Am Motors AT ft T 50| A St P 191 Anaconda 211 Avon Pd Beth Steel 22] 211 Caterp Trac 471 271 Coca-Cola 861 Corn G1 Wks 2101 Dow Chem 82i 1371 E Kodak 761 Fed Dept Strs
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    • 161 12 Brussels, Friday.—France yesterday rejected suggestions from other Common Market countries on how much Britain should be asked to pay towards the community's U553,500 million budget, informed sources said here. The suggestions were made at a secret meeting of representatives of the six Common Market nations and their
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    • 164 12 United Press International Canberra, Friday The Australian Government will ease restrictions on the export of uranium, the National Development Minister, Mr. Reginald Swartz, said in the House of Representatives yesterday. He said the decision had been made in the light of extensive uranium finds
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    • 59 12 LONDON, Fit— Mr. Edmund De Rothschild, the merchant banker, is to succeed Mr. Michael Montague as chairman of the Asia Committee of the British National Export Council. Mr. Rothschild, who has been chairman of his family merchant bank since last year, has made many visits
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    • 464 12  -  NEW CAR FOR ASIA ANIL BHATIA The grandson of the man who gave the Model T to America Mr. Henry Ford 11, is in Singapore today, and before long may be known as the man who put Asia on wheels. His visit underscores an attempt
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    • 90 12 Washington, Friday—The Agriculture Department has allocated import quotas covering 100,000 short tons of raw sugar from 11 foreign countries during the first quarter of 1971. The allocations were authorised on February 9 in a move to shift into the first quarter some of the sugar imports previously
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  • 435 12  -  STU chief' 9 call at seminar EDUCATION C. DION The president of the Singapore Teachers' Union, Colonel Abdul Karim Bagoo, will call for support for the setting up of a teachers' centre when he speaks at a session of the STU modernisation seminar. "The centre will,
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  • Page 13 Advertisements
    • 266 13 THE© NEW ESSO REFINERY Wmw-m *|pl't' •k# am K i «v ■mmKmp mim m. yfi ifwMsjl 4MPS4M t, i I .4 r I I il BY OUR SURVEY STAFF The island ofi Pulau Ay er Chawan has been transformed from virgin Jungle, swampland and hills Into a shining modern Industrial
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  • THE NEW (Esso) REFINERY
    • 1306 14  -  By Anil Bhatia New Nation survey writer In just under 18 months, the island of Pulau Ayer Cha wan has been transformed from virgin jungle, swampland and hills to a shinin? modern industrial refining plant making the gigantic task seem almost
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    • 647 15  -  He knows his job like the back of his hand 'Reftech' who likes emergency O v By Ow Wei Mei New Nation survey writer Ow Several refinery technicians are employed at ESSO's plant in Pulau Ayer Chawan. One of them is Masood Mohamed
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    • 770 16  -  By New Nation survey writer It is nearing three in the afternoon. And there is a blazing sun. A man in casual sports shirt is walking towards one of the low buildings on the island. He steps inside. Hie Is in a long, cold room with
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    • 955 17  -  By New Nation survey writer One might have thought that "people and life in South-East Asia" was what Russell Hud dies ton's Ph. D. when he came out to the thesis was All about region in 1966. Z For the American graduate
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    • 69 15 KIM PUAT SENG KEE (PTE) LTD. EXTEND THEIR VER Y BEST WISHES TO THE ESSO GROUP OF COMPANIES 111 SINGAPORE ON THE OCCASION OF THE OPENING OF THEIR OIL REFINERY COMPLEX ON PULAU AYER CHAWAN BY THE HON. MR. HON SUI SEN, FINANCE MINISTER WORK UNDERTAKEN: MECHANICAL FACILITIES TO: ATMOSPHERE
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    • 209 15 CONGRATULATIONS to ESSO on the official op ESSO Refinery at Pulau Ayer Chowan We are proud to be associated with ESSO and its developments LORE MUN HOI MECHANICAL ENGINEERING CONTRACTOR TEL ***** SINGAPORE 240 Jalan Pantai Port Dickson Seremban Tel: 459 Heartiest Congra to ESSO SINGAPORE GROUP OF COMPANIES on
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    • 103 16 on the official opening of their refinery at Pulau Ayer Chawan FROM LEE KIM TAH CO BUILDING CIVIL ENGINEERING CONTRACTORS 633 Upper Serangoon Road, Singapore 19. Telephones: *****3 ***** WE ARE PROUD TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH MESSRS. CHIYODA CHEMICAL ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION CO. LTD. FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF 1. ESSO'S ADMINISTRATION
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    • 67 16 Congratulations to ESSO on the official openi refinery Pulau AyerChawan FROM:NIKKO TRADING CO. (PTE) LTD. 32, Saunders Road, Singapore 9. Tel: Suppliers of skilled and unskilled workers and clerical staff to Messrs. Chiyoda Chemical Engineering Construction Co. Congratulations to on the opening of their* refinery at Pulau Ayer Chavoan LAI
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    • 147 17 CONGRA TULA TIONS t: to ESSO SINGAPORE GROUP OF COMPANIES on the official op refinery at PULAU AYER CHAWAN i ■> X from THE MALAYAN ENGINEERS (PTE) LTD. Office: 269 RACE COURSE ROAD TEL: *****/***** Factory: 165-A JALAN JURONG KECHIL SINGAPORE 21. CONTRACTORS FOR THE ELECTRICAL INSTALLATION TO THE LOADING
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  • SPORT 1
    • 576 18 CAMERA ON SCHOOLS about 150 young swimmers of the Royal Air Force Seletar Primary School when they took part in the school's last annual swimming meet yesterday. The school will close permanently' In July, because of the British military withdrawal, and the entire school about 500
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    • 533 19  -  [GOLF By Lim Kee Chan Eleven professional golfers from the last World Cup championship will feature in the Singapore Open over the Bukit Course from March 4 to 7. They are: David Graham (Australia), Sukree Onchum and Uthal Dhabbavibul (Thailand), TTuhn Chang Sang (Korea),
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    • 395 19 Draw and starting times for the Keppel Club "A" and "B" division medal stableford competitions tomorrow: 8.15 *jn.— D. O. Anthony U5), J. K. Robinson (15); 1.06 p.m. B. A. Johnson (16), John Hong (18); I.l2—Jacwant gingh (9), Osmah La tiff (12); Peter Tay (14); 1.18
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    • 291 19 Kuala Lumpur, Friday Malaysia's six-mem-ber badminton squad left Subang International Airport yesterday with a three-fold mission. The first is to groom the two youngsters in the team, the second to give the two women representatives more international experience and the third to restore Malaysia's image as a
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    • 153 19 London, Friday An a nt i apartheid group yesterday protested to the English Rugby Football Union over its decision to invite five white South Africans to compete in Centenary Games here this spring. The South African NonRacial Olympic Committee (SANROC), in a letter to Union President Sir William
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    • 156 19 Reuter Kingston, Friday Rain yesterday washed out play on the opening day of the First Test between India and the West Indies at Sabina Park here. Play was abandoned when a heavy downpour about one o'clock local time worsened conditions in the outfield, already under
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    • 127 19 United Press International New Delhi, Friday The First Asian lawn tennis championship scheduled to be held at Calcutta from March 1 to 7 will not be "open," Taj- Kumar Khanna, secretary of* the AllIndia Lawn Tennis Association said today. Mr. Khanna said the decision
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    • 33 19 -Picture by United Press International.
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    • 34 19 Belfast, Friday Deny City beat Carrlck Rangers by 4-2 in an Irish football Association cup first round reply played last night. The winners are now at home to Chimney Corner in quarterfinals.
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    • 19 19 London, Friday. Royal Navy beat Cambridge University 27-6 in the only Rugby Union match played here yesterday.
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    • 188 19 By Blue Peter Equity did a splendid gallop on a good track at Bukit Tim ah this morning. He sprinted smartly over 3f in 37 4/5. Yes Dear 111 was impressive in a 3f sprint in 37 4/5. Moving Everywhere went easily over
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    • 264 19 Kuala Lumpur, Friday Fifteen cricket players invited to tour East Malaysia and Brunei with the Yang Di-Pertuan Besar's Invitation team have been given until tomorrow to confirm their willingness. They are: Gurucharan Singh (capt.. S'gor), C. Navaratnam (vlce-capt., Negri), K. Loganathan, Mohd. Wafa, K. Arumugam and
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    • 25 19 New Town beat Gan Eng Seng 5-0 yesterday to become the new "B" boys champion of the Pasir Panjang schools district badminton championships.
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    • 75 19 Fixtures for the National Youth Table Tennis Championship at the Eagle Engineering Hall today: Girls Team (starting at 7.15 p.m.) Combined Schools "A" vs Yap Transport, Combined Schools "B" vs Chung Cheng High School, Chung Hwa Girls School vs Jurong Community Centre. Boys Team (starting at 8.30 p.m.)
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    • 29 19 New York, Friday. World lightweight champion, Ken Buchanan of Scotland, was named fighter of the year by the Boxing Writers Association of the United States here today.
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    • 258 18 TRAVEL GUIDE WtBCLY AND POftTNIGHTU scheduled oconomic/chorter flights to London. Enquiries to Mission Travel Centre, For East Finonoi House. Tel: S'pore *****. LONDON WEEKLY ECONOMIC PLIGHTS. Bookings, EI.TA, 426 Cross Street S'pore *****. BOATING/YACHTING /WATER SKIING tew VEHICLES FOR SALE 1970 FORD CAPRI GTL with many extras. Phone *****3 S'pore.
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  • Page 18 Miscellaneous
    • 257 18 NEW NATION CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Defeated. 7 Prospectors backers. 14 Disregard deliberately. 15 Presidential advisory group. 16 Witty reply. 17 First man to reach the South Pole, 1911. 19 Presentation by s Down 20 Tiff. SI Money in Bologna--33 Pollen sac. 24 Jack .comedian 35 Error. 28 Top player SO
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    • 100 19 DR. KILDARE by Ken Bald BY THE WAV, WHERE'S FUZZY FACE? -c HAV/EM'T SEEM HIS LEERING COUNTENANCE ALL CAV. 7 1 A I 4 A 2*4 <r» //<* £> WHO? OH. iL I THOUGHT HE NEVER TOOK TIME PR. APIEY. >yOFF. I KNOW I'M BEING- NOSYGOT THE CAV J BUT
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  • Back Page FRIDAY
    • 56 20 AH FOOK: The man appointed to become the next general manager of the Public Utilities Board will get a salary of $4500. This is ridiculous. MEI LIN: I think he fully deserves the money as he will have to shoulder lots of responsibilities in that post. What do
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    • 419 20 Our pasar malams are a way of life today Haphazardly strewn hurricane lamps with intestine trouble belch smoke instead of light; Chinese women shout at hawkers in a variety of dialects; children scamSer underfoot; and trafc crawls by at a snail's
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    • 122 20 A rational dose of sexual intercourse before a soccer match gives a player a chance to rest better and deliver more in the field, according to the personal experience of a member of Brazil's national team. Forward Moacir Fernandez Cafuringa, 21, said he had had
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    • 176 20 While a lot of folk won't admit it gambling is as much a part of the Singapore scene as scorching sunshine and heavy showers. But it seems the folk who are addicted to mahjong, dice, cards and the übiquitous race horses just don t realise how
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    • 157 20 Strange names are heard on the Chinese section of Radio Singapore these days. Listening to one news broadcast, I thought a whole lot of new roads must have sprung up overnight: Ever heard of "ee lang," "reh lang fu shah," "fu chlh chee mah," and "tse
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    • 159 20 It was the extra dollar that fascinated us. The Singapore Institute of Management were announcing two "intensive residential" seminars on Problem Analysis and Decision Making—their title not ours —at a big local hotel next month. One was for five days, the other for six. But
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    • 115 20 Long-legged Nancy Tan stands sft 9 in barefooted in her mini. When she gets her hotpants on she'll still stand 5 ft 9 in and it will be hard to imagine that her legs could look any better. But Nancy, very much a mini fan, is
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    • 72 20 The British Army has set up a special gfoup of sergeants to act as "uncles" to lonely young army wives whose husbands are away. They will help the wives with any problems they may have—everything from fixing a fuse, calming a dog or dropping in
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    • 256 20 5 Shgapara 6.00 Opening and Lucky Dip 6.30 News in Brief 6.40 Spring Chorus by the N.T.C. Choir (repeat) 7.05 Sports Parade 7.40 News in Chinese 7.55 Chinese Variety Show 9.00 News and Newsreel in English 9.30 Oreen Acres Bundle of Joy 9.55 Name of the Gam* 11.15 The Don
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    • 20 20 SHORT RIBS By Frank O'Nei E3p i Cr fv ££S« L i -4 Wl K2 we SWtVIMM. Of mt HTTBSr
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    • 392 20 Trust your lucky star... IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY Born today, you are a creative, Imaginative person who may well spend the better part of a lifetime coming into his own. Early in your adulthood, you may well carve out a career for yourself in business, in science, in education but
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