New Nation, 25 February 1971

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  • 14 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Thursday evening, February 25, 1971 No. 33 Price 15 cents xahonß
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  • 166 1 Tfci articles by W. Hermanns, Hm Indonesian journalist •wvfnny tuvtvq #tn^opof9 f WSNS fHii vOMV9V9fIy 3n Hm past ft w days. hh conclusions bava >aan dismissad by bath the -Indonesian Ambassador bava tba Shgapaso awtbaritias -as "rubbish" and "attar noajanst" and soma of his stata-
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  • 18 1 Police reported a total of 38 traffic accidents yesterday. Eight were serious and one was fatal.
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  • 30 1 LATE NEWS Christehnrch, Thursday— New Zealand were S3 for four wickets at lunch on the first day of the First Test match against England here today.
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  • 423 1 Opposition grows over UK decision New Nation Foreign Service New York, Thursday The UN General Assembly's special committee on apartheid will make a strong protest against the British decision to resume the sale of arms to South Africa. The committee's chairman. the Somalia Ambassador. Mr.
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  • 152 1 London, Thursday Lord Carrington, Britain's Defence Secretary, said yesterday that the government Would continue to station longrange aircraft and other forces in the Indian Ocean area. Opening a debate in the House of Lords on Britain's 1971-72 defence estimates, Lord Carrington renewed warnings that the Soviet
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  • 201 1 slm. system to keep cars moving Traffic flow on some of the city's busiest intersections will be controlled by computers early next year. The Ministry of Home Affairs Is understood to have decided to boy the comgiterised photographic sysm for $1 million. This will be done only as
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  • 297 1 Claim by UN group United Press International Geneva, Thursday A United Nations investigative committee yesterday accused South Africa and Rhodesia of acts of genocide against Africans. It also claimed Portugal, In its African territories, carries out mass e*cutions other forms of collective punishment and uses fJmmfeal
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  • 135 1 Eight-floor complex for Katong area Another multi-million dollar shopping centre will be built in the Katong area. Located at Mountbatten Road, next to Odeon-Katong Theatre, it will be developed at a cost of $l5 million. The eight-storey complex will house offices, restaurants, nightclubs and boutiques. Announcing
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    • 67 1 Belfast, Thursday The Duke of Kent and 100 *of his men began packing up yesterday to leave Northern Ireland after a three-week tour of duty in the vio-lence-torn province. The British Army announced that the Duke, a cousin of Queen Elizabeth, and his men were returning
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    • 45 1 London. Thursday.—The Government, in a crackdown on increasing vandalism in Britain, has proposed penalties up to life Imprisonment for arson and 10 years for other major damage. The proposals were contained in a Governmentsponsored Criminal Damage Bill handed to Parliament yesterday.
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    • 26 1 Los Angeles, Thursday.— The Pentagon estimates it will take US$lB,OOO million and 10 years to convert the US defence complex to the metric system.
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  • 82 1 Very quiet conditions prevailed on the Stock Exchange this morning. The majority of counters were untraded with the exception of Straits Steamship, with business done at $2.07. National Iron was traded at $4.10 and McAlister at $2.02. The lower priced issues were quietly steady with no feature.
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  • 63 1 Paris, Thursday. The Japanese tanker Clyde Maru struck rocks approaching the Martlgues-Lavera port today and spilled out 22 cubic meters of oil into the Mediterranean. The 70,000 ton tanker was coming from the Persian Gulf when the accident occurred. Antl pollution squads quickly set up special barricades
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  • 257 2 Trade unionist, Mr. G. Kandasamy, will meet ILO executives next month to thrash out a code of conduct for member governments and their employees. Mr. Kandasamy, who is secretary-general of the AUPE, is one of two ILO representatives of the Asian region. The
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  • 169 2 The British minister for Overseas Development, Mr. Richard Wood, will arrive for a one-day visit to Singapore this evening. He is returning from the Commonwealth education conference in Canberra and the Colombo Plan conference in Manila. He will also visit Indonesia before returning home. During his
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  • 80 2 Sydney, Thursday Rescuers yesterday recovered the bodies of four miners trapped in a massive earth and rock fall in a copper mine in Cobar. The four men were caught in the cave-in early today while working 1,200 ft underground in the mine. Sixteen others working
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  • 54 2 Two new Boeing 707s ordered by Malaysia-Singa-pore Airlines will arrive on March 5 and April 26. The seven-man crew for the first Boeing has already left for Dallas to fly it out on March 5. The crew for the second Boeing will leave Singapore
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  • 371 2 Fans wait in vain all night Hong Kong film star, Wang Yu, who disappointed hundreds of fans at the Paya Lebar Airport last night when he failed to arrive, is expected to fly in at 1.35 p.m. today. Last night fans began arriving at the
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  • 279 2 Tariffs a barrier, forum told Tariff barriers were making the export of Singapore's manufactured goods to neighbouring countries not only difficult, but practically impossible, the final session of the marketing and advertising seminar "Workshop '7l" was told yesterday. "Looking at the countries around us, export Is no problem,"
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  • 329 2 Education officer raises three factors for national progress Nation building demands the growth of new and more disciplined attitudes among teachers, according to Captain Huang Hsing, Peng of the Singapore Armed Forces. Captain Huang will present a paper at the teachers' union seminar on Saturday. He
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  • 323 2 Singapore may soon topple Hong Kong and become the leading tourist attraction in the region if the present pace of luring tourists is maintained. Leading Singapore travel agents said this today. They all agreed that tourism in the Republic has a bright future
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  • 57 2 Hong Kong, Thursday— Peking's official New China news agency yesterday said General Do Cao Tri, the South Vietnamese commander killed in a helicopter crash on Tuesday, had received his "due punishment." The agency said General Tri was a "murderer whose heads were stained with the blood of
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  • 124 2 The world famous Korean Children's Choir will give a performance at the Singapore Conference Hall next Wednesday before going to Australia and New Zealand. This first goodwill visit of the choir to Singapore, will cost its sponsors, the Heralds Choral Society, about $3OOO in publicity and
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  • 517 2 The following statement has been issued by the Primary Production Department. There has been a neat deal of publicity in the Press daring the last few days over the shooting of monkeys in the Botanic Gardens. The problem must be seen in proper perspective.
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  • 121 2 The Anglo- Chinese School in Singapore, will celebrate its 85th Founder's Day on Monday with a parade and marchpast of its 500strong cadet corps and a special service in its auditorium. The Minister of State for Finance, Mr. Tang See Chim, will review the
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  • 40 2 Nairobi, Thursday.—Kenyan government officials said today that police Killed 14 Ethiopian cattle and camel rustlers along Kenya's northern desert border. The rustlers in a raid into Kenya stole about 2000 sheep and goats, 600 cattle, and four camels.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 106 2 Weather Temperatures in world capitals yesterday: Jakarta 93-75. Kuala Lumpur 82-71. Bangkok 91-75. Hong Kong 68-61. Manila 92-70. Seoul 30-19. Taipei 63-57. Tokyo 51-45. Naha 66-55. London 52-39. Paris 41-30. Moscow 23-18. New York 40-31. San Francisco 56-40. Sydney 75-65. Melbourne 79-54. 'Perth 96-77. Singapore Singapore's weather forecast from 1
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  • 284 3 Fernandez in jail awaiting extradition Reuter London, Thursday The House of Lords is to hear an appeal by Gerald Fernandez, 32, former secretary and legal adviser to Malaysia Singapore Airlines, who is detained in prison awaiting extradition to Singapore. Yesterday, the House of Lords Appeal
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  • 76 3 Rangoon, Thursday—Sixteen people died when Kachin tribal rebels ambushed a passenger train on Tuesday near Mawhan town on the Mandalay-Myitkyina line. Mawhan is about 100 miles south of Myitkyina. Reports said about 100 Kachln rebels allowed an armoured escort train to pass before detonating a min
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  • 252 3 Teachers are more inclined to give allegiance to their immediate employer and paymaster, the Ministry of Education, rather than to the community at large. Mr. Ong Teong Wan, a lecturer at the Teachers' Training College, says this in a paper on "Teachers as
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  • 151 3 A dozen frightened electrical workers, who staged a sit-down strike in the worksite canteen at the 40-storey Mandarin Hotel in Orchard Road, went back to work this morning. The men stopped work yesterday when electrician Fan Chee Kong, 24 from Bidor, Perak, fell 90 ft to his
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  • 173 3 Crowded lorry and car collide head-on Thirty-five workers were injured, three seriously, when the lorry they were travelling in was involved in a head-on collision with a car in Bukit Timah Road today. The men were on their way to work at the Cycle and Carriage
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  • 127 3 The two electronic speed traps of the Traffic Police are being "put in cold storage" indefinitely following the transfer of three inspectors and 21 men out of the mobile squaff one week ago. The men from the two teams manning the speed traps have been assigned other
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  • 214 3 Out-of-work migrants 'at war* in New York United Press International New York, Thursday Police have charged a 14-year-old boy with assault" in connection with an attack by 20 youths on a Chinatown pool room, the latest episode of youthful violence in che area. Police believe the attack stemmed
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  • 90 3 The Minister for Science and Technology, Dr. Toh Chin Chye and Mrs. Toh will be guest-of-honour at the Anglo-Chinese School's Old Boys Association annual re-union dinner on Monday, the school's 85th Founder's Day. More than 1,000 people are expected to attend the dinner to be held at the
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  • 167 3 The slight lull in port activity which was recorded in October seems to have corrected in November, according to the latest figures issued by the Department of Statistics. After monotonous monthly increases (compared with the corresponding month of the previous year) during
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  • 46 3 Moscow, Thursday. Soviet archaeologists have found the remains of a stone-age descendant of Neanderthal man In the central Asian mountains of southern Uzbekistan. The find, they said, was evidence that human society had existed in central Asia for tens of thousands of years.
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  • 137 3 United Press International Bangkok, Thursday Bangkok's position as a crossroads of SouthEast Asia is being challenged by Singapore, the Bangkok Post said yesterday. In Financial Post, a weekly supplement of tne Englishlanguage daily, an unsigned story said: "In the race to improve its shipping, aviation, housing
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  • 57 3 Calcutta, Thursday. Seven prisoners were killed when warders made repeated lathi (stave) charges during a riot inside the Central Jail at Berhampore, West Bengal, yesterday. Thirty-six people, including 13 warders, were Injured. A curfew was imposed on the centre of the town, about 95 miles
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  • 277 3 Some 80 executives of Unilever Ltd., the giant household goods manufacturer, will hold a three-day conference at the Hilton Hotel, beginning on Sunday. An administrative staff member attending the conference said: "We do not want any publicity regarding this conference. This is a private
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 100 3 At the cinema Cathay: Brief Season 1.30, 4, 8.30, 9.30 pm. Odeon: Lost Command 1.30, 4, 6.30, 9.30 pjn. Orchard: Tora! Tora! Tora!—2.3o, 5.45, 9 pjn. Odeon Katonf: Professional Bride (Mandarin) 1, 3.15, 7, 9.30 pjn. Lido: Krakatoa East of Java—l.3o, 4.15, 6.45, 9JO pjn. Capitol: There was a Crooked
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  • THE WORLD
    • 340 4 United Press International Tokyo, Thursday Riot police today awaited orders to use force to evict farmers and militant students entrenched at the site of ft new international airport outside Tokyo. More than 2000 farmers, their families and leftist students are armed with rocks, empty
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    • 136 4 Paris, Thursday The French President, Mr. Georges Pompidou, yesterday received the credentials of new Malaysian ambassador Tan Sri Jamal bin Abdul, telling him he hoped peace would soon be restored to South-East Asia. "France hopes that SouthEast Asia may become a region where each nation can live
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    • 217 4 Reuter Paris, Thursday An eight-man rescue 1 team last night abandoned efforts to inch their way round a galeswept Alpine peak to rescue two climbers trapped 14,000 ft up in thi Grand Jorasses Range The rescuers were forced back by shoulder-high snow and the
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    • 420 4 Saigon forces facing the pick of North Vietnam's troops Reuter Washington, Thursday The US Defence Secretary, Mr. Melvin Laird, said yesterday that South Vietnamese forces were in for further rugged fighting in Cambodia and Laos. He also foreshadowed the possibility of battlefield defeats.
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    • 233 4 French oil firms taken over Reuter Algiers, Thursday Algeria announced last night that it was taking a majority 51 per cent share in French oil companies operating in Algeria. President Houari Boumedienne also announced the nationalisation of all French interests in Algeria's natural gas fields as well as
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    • 99 4 La Paz, Thursday. Bolivia's first tin foundry located at Vlnto has sent Its first shipment to three European and one Latin American country, the state owned National Foundry Company (ENAF) announced last night. A spokesman said ENAF shipped 55,000 lbs. of tin from the Chilean port
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    • 216 4 United Press International Hong Kong, Thursday The Financial Secretary, Sir John Cowperthwaite, yesterday gave the official goahead for the US$l67 million High Island water reservoir, the largest of its type in the world. Bir John told the Legislative Council in his annual Budget speech
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    • 190 4 Reuter Hanoi, Thursday North Vietnam's Defence Minister, General Jo Nguyen Giap, said current US moves in Indo-China had placed the security of his country in great danger. He was speaking at a Soviet Embassy reception in Hanoi to mark Soviet armed forces day.
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    • 67 4 New York, Thursday. Rescue workers yesterday found 10 more bodies In the debris of shattered homes bringing to 97 the death toll from the tornadoes which ripped across three states at the weekend. Ninety of the dead were in Mississippi, worst-hit of the states. The storms
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    • 357 4 United Press International London, Thursday The Government moved yesterday to clamp still tighter curbs on the flow of immigrants into Britain. It ruled that in the future Commonwealth immigrants will be treated in the same way as foreigners. It promised additional financial help for
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    • 170 4 Reuter London, Thursday The income -of the Beatles swiftly doubled after American manager Allen Klein stepped in and saved them from near bankruptcy, the High Court was told yesterday. The court Is dealing with the current wrangle between Paul McCartney and the other three members
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    • 269 5 We won't pull back to 1967 lines, says Golda United Press International Jerusalem, Thursday Israel yesterday reaffirmed its rejection of Egypt's demand for total Israeli withdrawal from occupied Arab territories as the price of a peace agreement. The Prime Minister, Mrs. Golda Meir, said Israel's reply to
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    • 212 5 Reuter Brussels, Thursday Belgium has decided to expel immediately the militant American Jewish rabbi Meir Kahane, arrested earlier yesterday after the organisers refused him entrance to the World Congress on Soviet Jews in Brussels. The decision to expel the rabbi waa announced by a Foreign
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    • 205 5 United Press International Amman, Thursday The Jordanian Parliament yesterday denounced plans for a Palestinian State and asked Palestinian leaders to fight the idea. The move came only hours after the Foreign Minister, Abdulah Salah, said Jordan would consider recognising Israel if it withdrew
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    • 122 5 Reuter Sydney, Thursday An 80-year-old woman, who shot and seriously wounded a constable yesterday said she though he had come to rape her, a police prosecutor told a court here. Sergeant R. McCracken said that when constable Mark Cohen, 20, arrived at Mrs.
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    • 87 5 Rio de Janeiro, Thursday —More than 180 people died in Brazil's four-day carnival which ended on Tuesday night, but police said it was less disorderly than in previous years. The deaths came from road accidents, fights and other causes as hundreds of thousands took to the
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    • 75 5 Rome, Thursday A father who ran amok in a Genoa hospital killing his 23-year-old son in his sickbed and his sister-in-law and wounding six people, was arrested yesterday. Police said 59 year old Domenlco Brutto told them when he was arrested in a hotel: "I don't
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    • 76 5 PRINCESS ANNE, sun-hatted on right, looks on as Prerident Jomo Kenyatta talks to young children taking part in tribal dancing in Nairobi: Also in the picture 'are Ngina, the President's wife, and Prince Charles, seen in a pose characteristic of his father, Prince Philip. Anne
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    • 251 5 Reuter Washington, Thursday President Nixon will send his. annual foreign policy message to Congress today setting out the administration's detailed views on Indochina, the Middle East and a host of other problems. Mr. Nixon will also make a rare radio address today, probably touching on
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    • 364 5 Situation in Bengal worsens with polls three days away Reuter New Delhi, Thursday With the general elections only three days away, the law and order situation in India today continued to show signs of deterioration. In West Bengal, police arrested 182 people and seized grenades, bombs, knives
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    • 140 5 Reuter Sydney, Thursday The national daily newspaper, the Australian, said yesterday Malaysia's racial problems would not be solved by being ignored. In an editorial, the Australian said: "Sheer logic would suggest that Malaysia's Tun Razak is not going to make his racial problems go away simply by
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    • 207 5 Reuter Moscow, Thursday The Soviet Union has expelled a West German diplomat in apparent retaliation for a similar case involving a Soviet diplomat in Bonn last year. The West German embassy announced last night that Dr. Immo Stabreit was asked to leave for activity
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    • 222 5 Prague, Thursday American student Fred Eidlin was released from a Prague prison yesterday and deported after serving seven months of a four-year sentence as a "subversive agent." Mr. Eldlln, 28, of Rochester, Hew York, was taken to the airport, within sight of the prison, and pot aboard
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    • 273 6 Reuter London, Thursday Britons are steadily poisoning their land, rivers and seas and filling the air with noise, a government committee has reported. The time for action to prevent a grave deterioration in the quality of the environment is now, the Royal Commission on environmental
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    • 67 6 Washington, Thursday Federal drug squad agents arrested 54 people in four cities on Tuesday night and early yesterday in the biggest ever carckdown here on organised illegal drug distributing. Mafia leaders were among those rounded up. The operation climaxed a five-month lnvesticatlon that netted 71 pounds of
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    • Article, Illustration
      379 6 He sells works to pay for cost of 'attack oh Pope' case United Press International Manila, Thursday In September 1969 an obscure Bolivian painter named Benjamin Mendoza gave a oneman art show at the Philippine National Museum. It "bombed." Entitled "Beyond realism," the show displayed Mendoza's oils and
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    • 218 6 Melbourne Herald Auckland, Thursday New Zealand Maoris are again calling for ratification of thtf 131-year-old Treaty of Waitangi. There have been similar calls for a century, but they have all been ignored. The signing of the treaty between some North Island Maori leaders
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    • 464 6  -  Stalemate follows a year of dramatic moves By Joe Morris Los Angeles Times Bonn, Thursday Chancellor Willy Brandt's dramatic steps towards rapprochement with Eastern Europe which marked the Social Democrats' first year in office have been replaced by a stalemate. A few
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    • 307 6 Australian outback Reuter Sydney, Thursday Americans are leasing millions of square miles and Japanese are planning to dig new harbours on vast tracts of Australian land now being eagerly bought up by foreigners. Nobody knows the exact area under foreign ownership, but estimates vary between 15 and
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    • 189 6  -  By Tom Lambert The Los Angeles Times Jerusalem, Thursday Israel and Rumania have signed a five-year extension of a trade and economic agreement in another development in their rather unique relationship. Rumania Is the only Communist bloc state with which Israel has a formal
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    • 146 6 The Australian Port Moresby, Thursday Two hundred and twenty-four men have been jailed following a fierce tribal fight in the New Guinea highlands. Armed police patrols are keeping an uneasy peace following a bloody battle in which 1000 warriors fought with clubs, spears and axes. At
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    • 88 6 And Friendship Highway opens GENERAL ABDUL HAMID KHAN Chief of Staff of the Pakistan Army, and YANG CHIEH, Chinese Minister for Communications press the buttons to inaugurate the "Friendship Highway" at Baltit on February 16. The highway between West Pakistan and Communist China along the axed
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    • 268 6 United Press International Taipeh, Thursday «^4. Ta *P e k res ident is fighting a losing war a dead namesake over a claim to part of a huge tract of land across which the Taiwanese Government is planning to build a freeway. Mr. Hsu
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    • 38 6 Kong, Thursday Chief's Charge iyAffalres In SH** 8 1 810 SUva Plderlt, ySSSay PeUng by fo^sS h X t SS.« mS?Sf January 5, two months after the left-wing ET^X II^ of Chief's sf£££ Allende took office.
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  • COMMENT
    • Article, Illustration
      944 7  -  Malaysia's policy on rice under question By Brien Parkinson If the FAMA estimates are correct and there is no reason to believe they are not one is entitled to ask just what it was that prompted the Malaysian government into embarking on its rice self-sufficiency policy. The decision
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    • 799 7  -  From Peter Osnos There is traffic moving through Highway (4), but very little: a small bus crammed with women and children going to the market at Kampongspeu, and old truck hauling the burnt-out remains of a troop carrier. It is now more
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    • 237 7 A > d Va ::::::::::::::V m Sffl/ 11/ l ODERN SINGAPORE is a University IfXof Singapore publication to mark the HP/ LSOth anniversary of the founding of Singapore. I!W The book < planned in 1966 by the late Professor W Lim Tay Boh, consists of fifteen original papers f on
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  • 320 8 A singular example of bureaucratic ineptitude was revealed this week. It is not so long ago that a Cabinet Minister advised us all that because Singapore's future will inevitably be affected by China, "it therefore behoves us to understand every move that she makes." And
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  • 618 8  -  JACKIE SAM Something happened to me on the way to the office this morning. No Ministry of Defence flvetonner truck crossed my path, literally speaking of course. I am one of those who have to go by some SAF camps every morning.
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  • Letters
    • 147 8 The stockbroker's report cited by your Market Correspondent last Saturday (Feb. 20) raises an Important question which the ASEAN Governments should consider. If the oil producers can force the industrialized countries of the West who deoend on oil for their standard of living pay more for It,
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    • 94 8  -  OTHMAN OMAR Af. Permanent Secretary (Social Affairs) Singapore I refer to the article "Legal men: End stigma In adoption" on February 13 about the unsatisfactory form of the Certificate of Extract from Adopted Children Register. The Government is fully aware of the need to revise a number
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    • 137 8  -  THOMAS BASAPA I was disgusted to read of the wounding of at least one monkey during the Government's anti-ape manoeuvres at Botanic Oardens. I am aware that the case you reported probably was an accident, and I realise the need to check the Gardens' monkey population.
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    • 200 8  -  ERIC CHEONG UP. for Toa Payoh Singapore 6. The story In the February 18 Issue of your paper relating to factory girls in Toa Payoh operating brothels is not calculated to enhance your paper's claim to be a factual dally. The several references to Jurong in the
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  • 791 8  -  By Al Shahab Man's life is a far more complex and remarkable thing, but it may be said to have a begin- nine and an end Sex is his beginning, death is his end. And wm in his books his
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  • The voice of the Press
    • 164 8 What the other newspapers are saying: The truth is that the decision on war or peace in the Middle East is not &>r Israel or the United Arab Republic to make, but for the two super-powers behind them. An Israeli chief of army staff disclosed last
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    • 38 8 In these potentially dangerous circumstances the government is urged to observe the "arms exports" ban in good faith lest foreign apprehensions about the "revival of militarism" and a "salesman of death" image should become more pronounced.
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    • 114 8 A good way to prevent the bralndraln in medical specialists is to Improve the quality of our medical equipment and Increase their pay. Otherwise they will resign and go into private practice even if they do not? migrate to other countries. The Ministry of Health has won
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    • 80 8 With the ending of emergency rule and the return to democracy through the reconvening of Parliament, Malaysia enters a new chapter in its history—one which will determine whether or not It is possible for it to emerge as a united nation. Another point which is worth mentioning and
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    • 92 8 Now comes a real shocker of an exposure for a great number of consumers to contemplate. The magazine Kurashi no Techo, which sponsors Independent tests of all sorts of marketed products, has tested eight popular dictionaries. One out of 100 words Is given a totally wrong definition, the
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  • 2199 9 SUPREMACY OF SINGAPORE ECONOMY CAUSES FEAR AMONG HER NEIGHBOURS, SAYS P. HERMANSES When I went across by ferry from Tandjong Pinang to Singapore, the first impression I had was the suspiciousness of the marine police whose patrol boats blocked the passage of the ferry
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  • 178 9 The three articles entitled "Indonesia-Singapore Dilemma'* by P. Hermanses of Sinar Harapan, the Indonesian newspaper, created a stir when they were published last month. They are in many respects typical of Indonesian attitudes towards Singapore, and we republish them now, in English translation, out of a desire
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  • WOMAN
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      536 11  -  Students on vacation crowd modelling schools to learn the secrets of charm, poise and self-eonttdenee By Shirley Manasseh Singapore's girl students have taken to modelling not for the glamour of parading the catwalk, but for the opportunity of learning the secrets of charm, poise and self-confidence. While
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    • 521 11  -  Nurses work at keeping everybody happy rrrnm DOING THE ROUNDS GRACIA TAY-CHEE The spirit of Florence Nightingale still exists today in our truly dedicated and hard-work-ing nursing and medical staff. This is what I discovered during regular visits to the Outram Road General Hospital these past
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    • 390 11 Anything which is good for you and others could be defined as yoga. But first one must define good. By good in yoga we mean those qualities of the moral and ethical aspects of yoga put into practice In
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    • 812 11 1 Simple operation sterilizes a man The Doctors guide Mi to tGOOD 1 \healthJ _V/ ■W One of the most pressing problems of the world today is that of population control. Singapore is aware of its need to lower the birth rate and this
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  • Finance and business
    • 1102 12 ALL YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE STOCK EXCHANGE COUNTERS INDUSTRIALS 1 1970-71 1 wk. 4 wks. Closing Price last Divid. P/E TurnHigh Low •CO ago Stock Buyer I Seller* Sale Yield Ratio Over 4.50 2.60 2.88 2.90 Allied Chocolate 2.85 2.92 4.2N 18.5 1.90 0.844 1.17
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    • 535 12  -  ANIL BHATIA Investors in Imperial Hotel Limited who hold shares at the under par market price of 67 cents per share will want a number of questions answered to put this counter in the right perspective. With a total paid-up capital of $lO million,
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    • 46 12 Alitalia will extend Its flight" to Kuala Lumpur from April I.*' s Detroit and Philadelphia are also new destinations in the United States. Alitalia plans to use 747s on the Italy-New York route. There will also be an additional flight a week to Tokyo.
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    • 318 12  -  NOW MOST FIRMS PLACE ORDERS FOR NEW MACHINES PETER TAI In the area of weights and measures, Singapore's decision to go metric is proceeding satisfactorily among firms involved, says Mr. J. R. Higgins, manager of W. T. Avery Limited. Most firms here have already placed orders
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    • 191 12 United Press International London, Thursday The stock exchange worked through another slow session and ended mixed yesterday with prices sustained by Wall Street's overnight gains. Dealers reported handling only 7,068 separate transactions on the day but the total 6t shares involved was not disclosed.
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    • 178 12 United Press International New York, Thursday The stock market, buoyed by improved economic news, closed higher in brisk trading yesterday. At the final bell, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 5.62 points at 875.2. Of the 1,657 Issues crossing the tape, 970 advanced
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    • 239 12 Allied Chem 28% Alcoa 63% Am Brands 47 Am Can 35 Am Motors AT ft T 49% A 4 P 19% Anaconda 21 Avon Pd Beth Steel 21% Boeing 22% Caterp Trac 45'* Chrysler 27% Coca-Cola 85% Control Data 59% Corn Q1 Wka 207% Dow Chem 79% DuPont
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    • 163 12 LONDON, Thurs.— Nearly a quarter of Britain's 185 biggest companies failed to make enough profit 11 per cent In the 1960s to cover even the cost of borrowed money and Inflation over the period, according to a survey by the mega sine Management Today. And. the
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    • 31 12 MANILA, Thurs.— President Marcos has authorised the Rice and Corn Administratis (RCA) to start negotiations for the immediate importation of some 300,000 metric tana of rice from Japan.
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  • 501 12  -  He puts on a very convincing act CINEMA By EDGAR KOH Director John Frankenheimer manages to give a very beautiful gloss over what seems to be a dowdy story in "I WALK THE LINE" starring Gregory Peck, Tuesday Weld and Estelle Parsons. He achieves a very fine
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  • SPORT 1
    • 423 13  -  CAMERA ON SCHOOLS Words: Jeffrey Low To teach discipline on the sports field, and to see that it is carried out, can sometimes be quite a task. Especially if you have to deal with playful schoolboys and over-confident ones, too. This was what we saw yesterday when,
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    • 919 14 Melbourne, Thursday Three years agp leading Australian tennis coach Vic Edwards announced that he had found a girl who would win Wimbledon in 1974. At the time, few people took Edwards' prediction seriously. In fact, many brushed it off as nothing more than a publicity
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    • 433 14 New York, Thursday Joe Frazier, the officially recognised heavyweight champion of the world, is thus far the forgotten man of the Joe Frazier Muhammad All fight. Comparatively he has been reduced to a spear carrier's role, so completely has the untamed, uninhibited All dominated the
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    • 140 14 A total of 24 teams have been invited to compete in the Singapore Cricket Club annual higby sevens from March 1 to 6. Last year, only eight teams took part but it is hoped that the number will Increase this season. Royal Air Force Changi
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    • 207 14 Entries for the 11th Singapore Open golf championship have reached an all time record of 152. The Singapore Open is the second leg of the Asian Circuit which begins with the Philippines Open over the Wack Wack Golf and Country Club course today. It will
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    • 1887 15 SATURDAY CL a Mr. I—6l r. ***** BABYLON STAR a (HT Wee) Teh 4 9.00 ***** CATTLEYA a (Archld) Teh 4 55 PCCh'ng A Ooh) West 4 8.11 9941 PAMILLB TBI! a (OS Lee) Teh 6 8.10 ***** PANOLIMA LARUT H a (KL Chong) Teh 8.8.09*
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    • 350 15 Twelve of the Republic's- leading motorcyclists have so far entered for the New Nation Autocross on Sunday. Heading the field will be Ken Stafford, one of the top scramble riders on the island, on a Suzuki 250. Stafford, who will start favourite to win the
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    • 220 15 London, Thursday Asian nations are mounting their biggest-ever assault on the All-England championships, the World's premier badminton tournament, being staged at Wembley's Empire Pool here from March 24 to 27. Despite the British postal dispute, entries have already been received from all the leading Asian badminton powers
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    • 101 15 Christchurch, Thursday.— New Zealand won the toss' and decided to bat in the first cricket Test against England here today. The weather was fine, and the pitch seemed bare as~ play started. England have named fast bowler Bob Willis as 12th man, and New Zealand have
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    • 54 15 Bangkok, Thursday. A Thai boxer died after being knocked ant In a Thai-style fight In the Northern Province of Chlepg Mai. Police said the boxer's head lut the canvas hard after he was dropped In the third round. The boxer —as Bnnteng died on~ the
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    • 151 15 Nagoya, Thursday. A total of 46 countries will compete in the 31st world table tennis championships In this central Japanese city from March 28 to April 7, the Japan' Table Tennis Association said yesterday. They will send a total of 294 players,—l9o male and 104 female—and 165
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    • 17 15 Willsl Mr. t Ms*. VMS ■iilll* Mr. Cahr m l«?Iis!ni"il > Mill I I tihst t
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    • 155 15 Cape Town, Thursday South Africa has rejected an application from American negro tennis star Arthur Ashe for a visa to visit South Africa, Interior Minister Theo Gerdener announced yesterday. Ashe applied for the visa to play in the South African Open tennis championships in April. Mr. Gerdener's
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    • 246 15 New Nation's contribution to the Republic's policy in building of a rugged society, the 20,000 metres New Nation Big Walk will be held on May 23. The route will be similar to the ones held previously by the Malay Mail from 13% m.s. Woodlands to the
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    • 238 15 From Blue Peter in Ipoh Trainer Colin Tulloh's candidates for the Tengku's Gold Trophy Royal Mark (Podmore) and Saxony (Nelson) did a sparkling trial at Ipoh this morning. Breaking from the 4f the two stablemates steadily clapped on the pace to run the last 3f in
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    • 261 15  -  By Sonny Yap Seven local fencers are now preparing for the Confederation Zone of Oceania championships to be held in Brisbane from April 9 to 16. They were selected by the Amateur Fencing Association of Singapore after a series of trials recently to undergo intensive training.
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    • 102 14 DR. KILDARE tfy Ken Bald I'M SURE YOU HAVE XXJR REASONS AHP IT IS MOT MV CUSTOM TO BE n&P N THESE MATTERS. A HOWEVER, YOU MIL HAVE TO REMAIN HERE UNTIL A REPIACE- MENT CAN BE J OBTAINEP. yJI Wf -5 hi if •5» v2i i "< i'ir j
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    • 228 14 NEW NATION CROSSWORD ACROBB 1 Raise crops. 5 Scraped together. 10 Symbol of victory. 14 Butterlne. 18 Boredom. 16 South 8m port 17 Orchestra leader*. 10 Dot. 20 Swedish explorer. 21 Performer. 22 Stele. 25 Dbuglas 20 Chessman. 29 Cheops built the largest one. 22 Burmese VIP. 24 City In
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    • 89 16 AH FOOK (Red corner): 80 you got your own way; the world heavyweight "fight is to be televised. I*m genuinely sorry that it is going on air v and I fear for the children who will be subjected to this brutality while their parents are watching mrt un
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    • 138 16 Mrs. Edna Davis had trouble getting her baby's pram over the big step outside her house in Lower Stoke, Kent, Britain.. So she asked the local Council to build her a pram ramp. They sent a man out, he had a
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    • 320 16 One-armed bandits are doing fine The craze for the onearmed bandits is mounting in Singapore. Last year members of 45 sports and recreation clubs spent $3.8 million trying their Jackpot luck. Statistics show that more and more people are becoming addicted to
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    • 601 16 The big break in show business takes many forms. In the case of Archie Leach, a starstruck kid from England; it took the form of Mae West. "He'd been hanging around the studio for weeks before I laid eyes on him," said Mae. "But when
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    • 50 16 Question: What's a beautiful girl like Joan Lee doing at a modelling academy? Answer: Pleasing her fiance. Nineteen-year-old Joan's fiance suggested she do the course but Joan was a bit reluctant at first. He won and Joan is now a model pupil. Picture by Steven Lee
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    • 359 16 Trust your lucky star IF irs YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you taw o receptlve and quick mind that leads you through curiosity into all of intellectual channels. Gifted with a subtlety which enables you to understand the most minute points bekind any general conversation, you possess an ability to see
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