New Nation, 26 February 1971

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  • 17 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Friday evening, February 26, 1971 No. 34 Price 15 cents I NEW XAI IONM
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  • 16 1 Police reported 82 traffic accidents, five of them serious, during the past 24 hours.
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  • 52 1 The Stock Market was quiet again this morning. Blue chips were generally steady. Movements of other shares were narrow. Gammons was transacted between $1.12 and $1.09 on light trading. Starlite Ceramics lost three cents to 51 cents. Hotels were quiet with sellers predominating. Properties and Commodity stocks
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  • 223 1 With tears streaming down her cheeks, a mother sat in her one-room flat today, praying that her 12-year-old son is still alive. Kok Nee Fah got Into difficulties as be swam off Katong Park yesterday. His mother, Mrs. Kok Kim Slong said: "Every time I
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  • 58 1 LATE NEWS London, Friday.—A West German oil tanker burst Into flames after a collision with an East German ore carrier outside Kiel Harbour. First reports said 11 crew were missing. Lloyds shipping intelligence said several vessels were searching for survivors after the collision between the 13,193-ton
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  • 213 1 Reuter London, Friday The fate of the eightnation group cm security of the Indian Ocean ia expected to be decided in Commonwealth consultations here over the'next few days. Following Nigeria's announcement that It will not participate as a protest against Britain's decision to sell Wasp naval
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  • 40 1 Hong Kong, Friday A crowd of 200,000 people packed the streets of Wlhsl to greet deposed Cambodian head of state, Prince Sihanouk, on his arrival m the last China city, the New China News Agency reported.
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  • 332 1 Communist tank thrust at Laos base succeeds New Nation Foreign Service Saigon, Friday North Vietnamese infantry attacking behind a spearhead of tanks have overrun Saigon troops at a base In Laos the second South Vietnamese setback in five days. The Communists, using tanks for only the
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  • 400 1  -  HONG KONG SCREEN STAR SHOWS HIS HARD HAND IS MATCHED BY A HARD HEAD By Abby Tan He stared hard at the five layers of tiles before him. Slowly he raised his hands and struck an aggressive stance. Gnashing his teeth, his small impish face
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  • 107 1 Bangkok, Friday. A baby, abandoned In a waste disposal unit of an airliner flying over the Pacific, will be allowed to enter Thailand. Colonel Prayoon BaiAroon said the boy could enter Thailand without a passport although he has not technically been proven a
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  • 68 1 New Delhi, Friday.—lndia received 280,000 tourists in 1970 36,100 or 14.8 per cent more than in 1969 officials said yesterday. The rise in tourist traffic exceeded the annual target or 13 per cent, though it was much lower than the 1969 growth of 30 per cent.
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  • 129 1 Kuala Lumpur, Friday Viewing time over Television Malaysia is expected to Increase over both channels this year. This is indicated in the expenditure budget for the Ministry of Information this year. Locally produced programmes will be increased by 7i hours a week. These will
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  • Briefly...
    • 37 1 Canberra, Friday Th« Australian Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr. William McMahon said yesterday that Australia applauded the initiative taken by Japan, Malaysia and Indonesia to achieve settlement of the present conflict in Laos.
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    • 27 1 Moscow, Friday The Leningrad Hermitage, largest museum of art treasures in the Soviet Union, recently received its 50,000,000 th visitor, the newspaper Pravda reported yesterday
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    • 24 1 Ulan Bator, Friday—Geologists have found marble that is as white as snow in northern Mongolia, the official Mongolian news agency, Montsame, reported.
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    • 21 1 Vientiane, Friday The Laos Government yesterday announced the appointment of Mr. Tianethong Chantharasy as Ambassador to New Delhi.
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  • 179 2 Kuala Lumpur, Friday The Malayan Railway is to implement new plans to enable the transportation of bulk goods at lower cost, under the Second Malaysia Plan. The plans Include rearrangement of the management and staff structure. modernisation of coaches and other equipment, smoothening of
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  • 40 2 Jakarta, Friday The Soviet Union is ready to send Its technicians to Indonesia to continue the construction of two Rus-sian-financed plants abandoned since the 1965 abortive Communist coup, the Soviet Ambassador Mr. Mikhail Volkov said on Wednesday.
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  • 304 2 Kuala Lumpur, Friday University students have been barred from affiliating or doing "anything which can be construed as expressing support, sympathy or opposition" to any political party or trade union. Students are also barred from holding any office in any political party or trade union.
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  • 196 2 Kuala Lumpur, Friday Efforts to improve the standard of living of the farmers and other rural people should be be considered as a responsibility of national importance. The Minister of Agriculture and Lands, Tan Sri Haji Mohammed Ghazall bin Haji Jawi, said this when he
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  • 454 2 Role for teachers in finding ways to better education The need for more and pertinent, research into education will be put to the teachers' seminar which ODens tomorrow. "We need research to settle pertinent questions quickly right here In, Singapore," Mr. Hwang Tiaw Hoe and Miss Ch3w Guan
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  • 192 2 The Singapore Teachers' Training College will celebrate its 21st anniversary with a series of pragrammes beginning tomorrow. Although the actual day falls on Monday the celebrations start with a cultural show tomorrow. The College's Malar Language Society will present the show at the TTC Auditorium at
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  • 74 2 Garlanded in the traditional Muslim marriage style, Mr. Noordeen Ibrahim and his bride smile happily as they facethe nmen and their new life together. Mr. Noordeen, a prof*—tonal Indian is the son oTMr. and Mrs. Ahmad Ibrahim. The bride, formerly Miss Sajahan Begum, is the
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  • 158 2 Just the way to relax and get away from the rat race. Executive Mr. Jerry Lien, 36, director of Hawaiian Land Sales, took his mind off business today to have his tissues "scientifically manipulated" by masseuse Miss Fatimah Ismail, after an
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  • 40 2 The University of Singapore School of Postgraduate Medical Studies will hold part-time and full-time courses in obstetrics and gynaecology. The part-time course will be from April 5 to June 18 and the full-time from July 5 to 31.
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  • 239 2 A New Zealand professor's "ultrasonic glasses" would open a new world to the blind, the secretary of the Singapore Association for the Blind, Mr. Charles Ooh. said today. A pair or tfie glasses, which pin-points objects in front of the wearer by emitting
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  • 127 2 Kuala Lumpur, Friday Malaysia's youth could play an important role in the tourist industry by contributing to the improvement and development of tourist sites. The Minister for Commerce and Industry, Inche Mohamed Khir Johari, said this at the work camp of the 4B youth
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  • 75 2 PERTH, Friday—The Labour Party won the West Australian State Elections yesterday. Premier Sir David Brand, who has headed a 12-year-old Liberal Country Party coalition conceded defeat when victory in the Mirrabooka rural seat gave Labour a certain 26 of the 51 Legislative Assembly seats from last Saturday's
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 106 2 Weather^ Temperatures in world capitals yesterday: Jakarta 86-72 Kuala Lumpur 88-73 Bangkok 91-74 Hong Kong 66-59 Manila 92-71 Taipei 73-63 Seoul 43-24 Tokyo 45-36 Naha 73-57 London 52-43 Paris 45-37 Moscow 32-23 New York 48-32 San Francisco 58-42 Sydney 76-64 Melbourne 85-58 Perth 78-71 Singapore Singapore's weather forecast from Ip.m.
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  • 209 3 Crash awakes nearby residents and rush-hour traffic diverted A 50 ft. tree crashed dqwn in Hale Road at 4.30 a.m. today, narrowly missing a block of flats. The tree blocked the road and forced morning traffic to make wide detours during the rush hour. The
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  • 95 3 The Adult Education Board has some vacancies in its pre-University Two Arts and Science classes at 11 centres. The centres are at Raffles Institution, Oan Eng Seng School, Queens town Secondary Technical School, Beatty Secondary School, Swiss Cottage Secondary School, Tanjong Katong Secondary School, Tanglin Technical
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  • 59 3 Colombo, Friday.—Ceylon police have arrested a 65-year-old American and two Ceylonese on charges of having carnal knowledge of a 13-year-old Ceylonese girl. They have all been remanded pending investigations, police said yesterday. The two Ceylonese procured the girl for the American who got her to
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  • 412 3 Employment of the disabled such as the blind, depends on total co-operation from society, Mrs. Irene Corbet, a visiting expert on the rehabilitation of the handicapped, said yesterday. Mrs. Corbet was a lecturer In eduoatfon of the handicapped at Maria Trey College in
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  • 68 3 London, Friday A British inquiry has cleared the aircraft carrier Ark Royal of being responsible for a nighttime collision with a Soviet destroyer of the Kotlln class in the Med 11 e r ranean three months ago. The Defence UnderSecretary, Mr. Peter Kirk, stated yesterday that after
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  • 323 3 Employees of the Port of Singapore Authority can now take a loan from the PSA to pur- chase Housing and De- velopment Board flats. A spokesman for the PSA said that special arrange- menu have been made with ;.the HDB whereby the authority will
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  • 127 3 Brigadier Denis O'Flaherty will hand over a TV viewing shelter to the MP for Bras Basah, Mr. Ho See Beng, at the Bras Basah Community Centre this evening. The shelter is built for the community centre by Sapper-tradesmen of 54 fFARELF) Support Squadron.
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  • 319 3 'lnterests of nation will prevail to pave way for democracy* The Pakistani' High Commissioner to Singapore, Mr. Zahir Farooqui, is confident that a formula will soon be found to enable his country's National Assembly to convene for the purpose of drawing up a democratic constitution for Pakistan.
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  • 105 3 Negotiations for a new bilateral air agreement between Singapore and Ceylon are now being held. The talks which began yesterday are being held in closed-door sessions at the Ministry of Communications. Representing Ceylon are Mr. Milton Aponso, the Director of Civil Aviation, and Mr. Sam Silvar,
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  • 74 3 An 11-storey complex li to be built on a 6,000 sq ft area at the Junction of Orchard and calrnhlll Roads. Due to be ready sometime this year, It will to provide more than 85,000 sq ft of office space. The project, according to developers
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  • 162 3 The Jurong Town Corporation today called for tenders for the construction of the $7 million Jurong Town Hall. Contractors registered with the JTC in the unlimited class in building works and with experience in building multi-million dollar office projects are invited to tender.
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  • 79 3 Publication of the Malaysia Malayalee newspaper resumed today after a one-day strike by 10 of its printing employees. The editor and owner of the paper, Mr. VP. Abdullah said: "The strike was settled shortly after It began. "The printers demanded the Incorporation of an allowance given
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  • 45 3 New York, Friday. An explosioii at a chemHal plant near Longview, Texas, yesterday killed three workers and Injured seven. The blast occurred at the Texas Eastman plant, a subsidiary of the Eastman Kodak Camera Group, and was heanT3o miles away.
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  • 115 3 The Foreign Minister, Mr. Rajaratnam will lead a 10-man delegation to the Fourth ASEAN ministerial conference to be held in Manila on March 1213. The meeting was originally scheduled for December last year, but was postponed due to the typhoon that hit the Philippines. The conference
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 91 3 At the cinema Odeon: Lost Command—--1.30. 4, 6.30, 9.30. Orchard: Tora! Tora! Tora 1—2.30, 5.45, 9. Cathay: Brief Season—--1.30, 4, 6.30, 9.30. Odeon Ka ton r: Professional Bride (Mandarin)— 1, 3.15, 7, 9.15. Lido: Kratatoa East of Java—l.3o, 4.15, 6,45, 9.30. Capitol: There was a Crooked Man—l.ls, 4, 6.45, 9.30.
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  • THE WORLD
    • 123 4 United Press International Tokyo, Friday A fairly strong earthquake yesterday rocked an extensive area ranging from the highly populated TokyoYokohama area to Northwest Japan. The tremor hi Takada, In Nllgata Prefecture, registered four (strong) on the Japanese scale of seven and caused window panes and walls
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    • 27 4 Washington. Friday—President Nixon yesterday urged Congress to give early approval to his proposal for an additional US$lOO million contribution to the Asian Development Bank.
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    • 146 4 United Press International Karachi, Friday President Yahya Khan flew Into Karachi, yesterday night in an attempt, unofficial reports said, to resolve a crisis facing the opening of the National Assembly on March 3. A spokesman for Mr. Rehman said the powerful list Pakistani
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    • 232 4 Colombo Plan loans discussed New Nation Foreign Service Manila. Friday Financial aid to Colombo Plan countries from the major donor nations dropped by about $6OO million between 1967 and 1969. The decline was announced in an official communique issued yesterday at the end of a three-day
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    • 260 4 United Press International Tripoli, Friday The Tripoli oil negotiations took an unexpected and dramatic turn yesterday when directors of 36 foreign companies, 21 of them American-owned, left Libya without explanation. Their departure came less than 15 hours after Deputy Premier Abdel
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    • 113 4 Reuter Paris, Friday A rescue helicopter yesterday plucked climber Rene Desmaison from a French alpine peak where he had clung to a narrow ridge lashed by blizzards for nearly a week. He was without food during his ordeal. His companion, Serge Gousseault, 24, died
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    • 174 4 United Press International Manila, Friday Five -people were killed in a shoot-out in a restaurant at Lipa City, 45 miles south of Manila, between local police and Philippine constabulary, a constabulary spokesman said today. The constabulary, a branch of the army serves as a national
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    • 188 4 Reuter Belfast, Friday A woman was badly injured by a gelignite bomb during a clash which flared up while police were escorting some schoolchildren here yesterday. A stone-throwing crowd pelted two policemen escorting the children in Belfast's Roman Catholic Crumlin Road area, and a bomb
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    • 60 4 Paris, Friday—Pilots and management of France's three main airlines agreed last night to resume talks aimed at ending the deadlock which has kept their planes grounded for a week. Air France, Air Inter and UTA Invited the pilots to start talks again and the night
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    • 259 4 United Press International Tokyo, Friday A Japanese trade mission in Peking hopes to sign a communique tomorrow that will denounce its own Government's China policy, but pave the way for a one-year extension of Japan's profitable trade with Communist China. Japanese newsmen in Peking reported
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    • 218 5 Reuter Johannesburg, Friday South African security police yesterday raided homes and offices of church officials and religious organisations in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban. They seised papers and documents. The raids—starting at dawn and going on through the morning—were launched as police continued investigations
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    • 152 5 Reuter Saigon, Friday The South Vietnamese Government yesterday abolished income taxes for Servicemen and civil servants. Income taxes provide only a small fraction of the Saigon Government's revenue. They are so widely evaded that economists said those on the government payroll, who have taxes withheld
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    • 70 5 Stockholm, Friday—Older workers will get a better deal under a Bill now before the Swedish Parliament. Dismissed workers over 45 will be given up to six months notice instead of the present maximum or or older workers in any factory will have to be at
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    • 406 5 US leader war whenever he speaks of peace in Indo-China' Reuter Paris, Friday Hanoi's chief peace negotiator, Mr. Xuan Thuy, has accused President Nixon of pursuing war whenever he speaks of peace in Indo-China. He was commenting on Mr. Nixon's foreign policy address In
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    • 692 5 'Peace depends on our ability to make certain each nation has a share in its shaping' United Press International Washington, Friday President Nixon made the following points in his radio report to Americans yesterday on US foreign policy in the *****:VIETNAM "The most immediate and anguishing problem
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    • 245 5 Reuter Bonn, Friday East Germany has offered to. open negotiations with the West Berlin city government to allow West Berllners to visit Bast Germany and East Berlin. iThe proposal came in a letter from the Bast Qerrtkn Prime Mr vffill stoph, to West Berlin JSSorTMr.
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    • 202 5 Reuter London, Friday The question of what the Beatles are worth in cold hard cash was raised in the High Court yesterday. The answer given: £l-5 million u of last February 9.. Altogether they have earned about £l7 million in the past eight years.
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    • 52 5 Montreal, Friday. A Pakistani, Abdul Wahid Khan, 46, and his wife Shaheen, yesterday denied smuggling 43 lb of hashish into Canada. A preliminary court hearing was told that they arrived on Tuesday on a flight from Brussels with three suitcases containing false bottoms. They will go on trial
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    • 333 5 New Nation Foreign Service Jerusalem, Friday A special Israeli committee, working on contingency planning, has drawn up a line which military strategists feel should be the limit of any withdrawal from occupied Arab territory. The proposed Red Line is believed to exclude from any Israeli
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    • 166 5 Reuter Nairobi, Friday Five young British Asians men yesterday began a new vigil outside the British High Commission here to protest at delays in Issuing entry vouchers for UK. Mr. DA Shah, Mr. H.H. Mehta, Mr. B.N. Shah, Mr. AJL Bhatti and Mr. VJ.
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    • 462 6 United Press International Saigon, Friday If the South Vietnamese invade North Vietnam, when would be the best time to do it? About the time the Laos invasion is due to end, military sources say. Speculation about an invasion of North Vietnam began this
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    • 374 6  -  By Jack Spackman New Nation Foreign Service Hong Kong, Friday The Peking-owned Bank of China will soon open a new branch in the Portuguese province of Macao. The bank will be housed in a new multi-storey building In a prime position
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    • 76 6 Prince Charles in Nairobi on a horse called Christine Keeler, in action recently at a polo match in which he scored three goals to help his team win. However, he was slightly injured in a collision with a goalpost. The suntanned Prince had Just returned from
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    • 258 6 Secret radio In Thailand urges Burmese to topple Ne Win Govt. Reuter Bangkok, Friday The Burmese peqple have been asked to rise in a mass demonstration of protest against the rule of General Ne Win, according to pamphlets circulating in northern Thailand. The pamphlets, transcripts of a
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    • 520 6 Ex-Queen fights Congressman to retain her Jaipur seat New Nation Foreign Service New Delhi, Friday The ex-queen of Jaipur is locked in a bitter election struggle against politicians who want to trim the privileges of the Indian nobility. The battle has taken 51-year-old Rajmata
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    • 454 6  -  By Gregory Clark New Nation Foreign Service Tokyo, Friday Japan's rising economic strength, and the declining US role in Asia and Europe, have encouraged many Japanese recently to think of their country in world-power terms. One concept views Japan as the fourth leg of the former
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    • 241 6 Melbourne Herald Hong Kong, Friday Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his foreign advisers on Taiwan will launch a strong diplomatic, economic aid and propaganda counteroffensive to try to stem the drift of United Nations support towards Peking. Taiwan's economic prosperity will enable the
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    • 26 6 Jakarta, Friday. About 120 houses were destroyed and one person killed by strong winds and heavy rain in three East Java villages this week.
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    • 280 6 United Press International New York, Friday The U.N. Secretary General U Thant, has called on the industrialised countries to develop safer and more effective contraceptive methods. "The most urgent conflict confronting the world today is not between nation* or ideologies, but between the pace
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  • COMMENT
    • 1177 7  -  Musa Hitam plays big role as Umno youth leader From John Hoffman Leaving aside conjecture about how long the two top Tuns will stay in office, the strongest candidates for the future political leadership of Malaysia are Tan 9ri Ghazali Shade and Inche Musa Hitam. They
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    • 867 7  -  Aswan's disastrous legacy still mounts From Claire Sterling Of all the dams built by rich nations for poor nations hoping to grow richer that way, the one built by the Soviet Union for Egypt is in a class of its own. The high dam at
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    • 231 7 A 1 Shahab looks at the surprise results of a political survey Better educated Chinese in West Malaysia are less likely to vote than those who are not so literate because more aware of their electoral powerlessness. This is the conclusion of Dr. Alvin Rabushka,
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  • 320 8 After Ambassador Soenarso's strong rebuttal of allegations made against Singapore by an Indonesian journalist, contained in a series of articles published in Jakarta newspaper, Sinar Harapan reproduced by New Nation in their English translation officials in the two countries may feel inclined to give
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  • 664 8  -  Letters G.V. ANANTHA SUBBARAM With deep regret I read the article, "Is Thaipusam a spectacle our city could do without?", in the New Nation of February 12, by Mr. Shiri Mulgaokar. It seems to be that after many days of deliberation I will be doing injustice to
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  • 795 8  -  By Gerald de Cruz The theme of the Singapore Teachers' Union Seminar, which opens tomorrow, is' "The Dynamics of Nation-build-ing." Teachers can play a crucial role in the dangerous decade that lies ahead by trying to reinterpret and restructure their
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  • 710 8  -  SHIRI MULGAOKAR The key to Asia's economic progress is export; expansion, not increased rice production. This was said by Mr. Takeshi Watanabe, President of the Asian Development Bank, in a speech oefore the Colombo Plan Ministerial level meeting in Manila. Anything Mr.
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  • The voice of the Press
    • 62 8 What the other newspapers are sai/ina Before heading for full democracy in Malaysia, there should be a basis for a national integration of our various cultures. To prepare them for full democracy we should condition our people's way of thinking. But first there is the need to create
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    • 58 8 The Important amendments to the Malaysian Constitution, as proposed by the Government, must first be approved in Parliament. If they are unanimously approved, they will pave the way for the unity and prosperity of the nation. Opposing the amendments or boycotting the meetings of Parliament are not suitable
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    • 156 8 Beginning Aprii 1, the National Police Agency plans to have most everyone seeking a new driver's licence take a psychological test. The test is said to have proved effective in discovering unstable factors, accident proneness or simple inaptitude for driving. There is a general need for more awareness
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    • 74 8 The case of Islhara Sangyo, the producer of titanium dioxide, who has been indicated on a charge of dumping 200,000 tons of waste sulphuric acid into a nearby harbour, has served as a stern warning to pollution-causing industries. Anti-pollution measures at government level can be truly effective only
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    • 73 8 The Malaysian Defence Ministry's move to set up a college to train military officers is in line with the expansion programme of the country's armed forces. Large sums of money have been spent by the government in the past to train military overseas although the training they received
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous

  • 128 9 This is the caption that appeared in Sinar Harapan under a picture of Pulan Batam... "Pnlau Batam, where PJf. Pertamina and Ingram Far East are trying to compete with Singapore in the provision of facilities for oil exploration in Indonesian waters. Situated some 12
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  • 1661 9  -  Singapore can do a great deal by giving up old methods of trade... By P. HERMANSES Batam, which is now under construction as a base for off-shore oil exploration in Indonesia, exists in order to compete in the oil boom from which Singapore is drawing
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  • 830 9 By a special writer Does Singapore need a home guard unit? This seems a pertinent question on the eve of the formation of what will be Singapore's lar-gest-ever civil defence organiasation. Those who still remember the terror of the
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  • SHOPPING
    • 803 10 HOME SECURITY WHO is to man the stronghold is a question most people ask nowadays, especially when there's a list of celebrations round the corner. More so when their 'castles' are not secure enough to keep out intruders. So with that same kind of apprehension,
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  • WOMAN
    • 873 11  -  That'a how ah* Mated a teak By SUSAN ROGERS The other day, a pretty secretary left her desk in the boss's office, wrapped a pinafore arpund her mini-skirt, picked up a bag of spanners and trotted offv to the company's garage. An hour later, having
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    • 460 11  -  Can you Identify these pictures oC well-known women In their sculptured versions? Some are so Sar out that you need a catalogue to help you... From Roland Pullen "The Beauties of Europe" is the title of a current Paris art show in which well-known French sculptors
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    • 353 11  -  The end to a meal fit Cor a maharajah EATING OUT WITH DIANNE WOOD I drank the nectar of the ancient Nawabs and was transported into nirvana. The Harem Coffee at the Omar Khayyam Restaurant is a mystical, magic potion for transcendental believers. It promises to "relax the
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  • Finance and business
    • 1101 12 ALL YQU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE STOCK EXCHANGE COUNTERS WOITOIAM im-iMi 1 wfc 8 wis. CkdH Prise i' last Dftrid. P/B 1 PWKWr iM Uv M* SSerit mmjmTi iHa i Sale YMA1 Ratio Over 1.80 IM IM 41IIM IM IM IM 44N 114 a? 646| 141
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    • 385 12 United Press International ♦New York, Friday Stocks closed on a Iflrm note in heavy turnover yesterday. The Dow Jones Industrial avermce was ahead 6.36 at BSIJ6 at the final bell. Of a total 1648 shares traded, advances led declines, 731
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    • 344 12 United Press International London, Friday Lack of interest and the absence of any signs of a settlement of the postal strike now in its sixth week plus worries over possible Ford Motor strike kept the stock market subdued and prices inched irregularly low.
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    • 204 12 Allied Chem 28% Alcoa 64% 47 >'i Am Can safe Am Motor* AT ft T 48% a r Anaconda Avon Pd Beth Steel Boeing Caterp Trac Chrysler Coca-Cola Control Data Corn Ol Wk» Dow Chem DuPont B Kodak 20% 2m 21% 46* 27 »S* 58 207% 80* 188%
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    • 118 12 HONG KONG. FH— 4 58man trade mission from British Columbia, Canada, will begin a South-East Asian lour on March IS In Hone Kong, after which It will proceed to Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines. Mr. John Swan son, Canadian Trade Commissioner here, said the mission, headed
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    • 54 12 BANOALORB, PH.— 11m M>l>yijai BmnnOlw &y« with an Indian flm 0 0 marlilnery for a war factory la Malays*. to UMI u a joint venture. Mr. KuleraJ, prmMtoH of the Co-operative union of MM Kirloskars ot Bangalore would supply machlnery for a to nke pomps and
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    • 578 12  -  From Gregory Clark Japan will ask Australia to become a future supplier of crude oil. to the Japanese market, it was disclosed in Tokyo. During a planned visit to Australia early in April, the Japanese Minister for International Trade
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    • 198 12 Reuter NSW YORK, Fri— Britain's Burnish Oil Company and the American Continental Oil Company announced ynterday they are discussing a merger. In a joint statement the companies said they are negotiating to combine their assets and operations into a new multinational corporation, Burmah's assets Include 23
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  • 332 12  -  Three top NJC students to go abroad EDUCATION By C. DION Three students from the school that had the best results in the Chinese Higher School Certificate examination in December will be going abroad to study engineering. Hie students are all from the National Junior College
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  • SPORT 1
    • 410 13  -  CAMERA ON SCHOOLS Words: Jeffrey Low The odd thing about schoolboy soccer players Is that they must always be given a pep talk before they will pull up their socks and play well. Somehow or other, a soft, encouraging voice often does a lot of good,
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    • 374 14 By Scrutineer Leading jockey Johnny Nelson is showing a handsome profit, on his mounts this season. A level stake of $5 on all his 58 mounts shows a profit of $278. Quite a tidy sum. This Is probably the first time a leading Jockey is showing
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    • 205 14 A total of 30 teams including four from the schools are now competing in the Singapore Women's Netball Association's Asian League. This meet, the first to be held, is part of a comprehensive competitive programme to enhance students' participation. Although the response by
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    • 187 14 SPORT IM THE U S New York, Friday.—The Milwaukee Bucks did as expected. They clinched a tie for the Midwest Division title and can wrap up the sectional championship tonight against San Diego. Milwaukee won its 57th game of the season and 12th in a
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    • 632 14 New York, Friday Cal Martin, the world's only Caucasian sumo wrestler, was groping for a description of his sport. "I guess you could say it's sort of like playing football In the nude," he said. Two years ago, when he first started sumo
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    • 154 14 Canberra, Friday Former West Indian Test cricketer Conrad Hunte believes the sport helped to complete a racial "cure" for two South African Test players. South Africa's Eddie Barlow, Hunte's opening partner with the multi-racial Rest of the World XI that played against England last year,
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    • 121 14 Johannesburg, Friday. Tienle Britz yesterday took over the lead In the second round of the Louis Luyt South African Professional Golfers Association championship when he returned a three-under par-69 to total 137. Britz held a single shot lead over Coble Legrange, who added a 68 to his 70
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    • 51 14 Singapore Police Force will be holding its annual cross country run from Denham Road to the Police Academy in Thomson Road tomorrow. There will be five sections —seniors ovgr 5y 2 miles, juniors over 4y 2 miles, women over 3Y 2 miles, senior Inter-unit and junior
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    • 329 15  -  By Sonny Yap The New Nation Big Walk to be held on May 23 will be different from its predecessor in its classification of walkers. For unlike the Malay Mall walk, it will now have two categories one for dedicated walkers and the other for
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    • 129 15 Bombay, Friday Sumirata, the Indonesian champion, won a hard-fought match against Anup Chowdhary of India yesterday to reach the quarter-finals of the men's singles in the Western India International badminton championships. Sumirata won 18-15 15-5 after trailing 11-13 In the opening game. Another Indonesian, Indra Gunawan, was
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    • 118 15 London, Friday Chester Barnes and Denis Neale sent England's table-tennis prestige soaring last night with a 3-2 victory over Yugoslavia in the final of the English Open team table-tennis championship at Brighton. The unseeded British pair gave thrilling performances throughout the day with Barnes, nervous and
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    • 962 15 The first round draw for the Keppel Club Farleigh Cup golf competition to be played over the Bukit Chermin course tomorrow: 1.54 pjn. Llm Cheng Hal (24) v R. E. S. Pearce (18); 2 p.m.—D. O. Harwood (18) v Robert A. C. Chow (18);
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    • 257 15 GOLF Reuter New York, Friday Tournament favourite Jack Nicklaus, firing three birdies in a four-hole span on the back nine, seized the early lead in the first round of the 53rd POA golf championship yesterday with a threeunder par-69 (35-34) at Palm Beach Gardens in
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    • 48 15 To moo Ishii of Japan fired a three-under par-69 to lead Into the second round of the Philippines Open golf championship over the Wack Wack course tomorrow. Ishii leads by one stroke from Thailand's Sukree Onchum and Filipinos Ernesto Plnet and Ireneo Legaspl.
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    • 209 15 Washington, Friday State Department officials said yesterday that the JSouth African government's rejection of visa for American tennis ace Arthur Ashe was "a regrettable decision, particularly because of its racial overtones." The officials said they had not received official word from the American Embassy
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    • 200 15 Reuter Kingston, Jamaica, Friday India were 306 for six wickets at the close of play in their three-day match with the Leeward Island's XI here yesterday. The Indian team had a poor start declining from a lunch score of 96 for one to 191 for five
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    • 346 15 From Blue Peter In Ipoh Pharever (Kingston) and Rush Again (Subian) did a splendid trial at Ipoh this morning. Breaking from the 4f the two stablemates steadily clapped on the pace to run the last 3f in 37 1/5. Owing to heavy down fall last evening
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    • 139 15 London, Friday Once-mighty Aston Villa hope to, rise above their current Third division status and bring back memories of their glorious past when they confront soccer aristocrats Tottenham Hotspur in the English League Cup final here tomorrow. Although Tottenham are hot favourites to ram home
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    • 193 15 There have been five more entries in the motor cycle section of the New Nation autocross on Sunday. Races will start at 10 a.m. and continue at regular intervals. Two of them are in the over 250 cc section and three in the under 250
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    • 717 14 '4 wfcad KUMARAGURU ASTROLOGICAI HOUSI (S.A. Govknfamlon Astrologer) 117 A Owen Rood, S'pore ***** 9 a.m. 5.30 p.m. Friday dosed. CONSULT the scientific palmist Kaiaithoothan, 1928, Roc* Count Rood, S'pore *****3. 1 OFFICE SPACE VACANT 122, CiCIL STRICT Singapore 1. Modem office space, area 1500 sq.ft. Contact Tel. *****4/ *****7
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 62 14 DR. KILDARE a %/£f£ m i i s7J a ▼L/ RIP KIRBY by John Prentice X. *z- AN 1231 r r£ r*i by Ken Bald WI at f f. sir? and Fred Dickenson v»y r WE'RE PRETTY HELPLESS WITHOUT WEAPONS, PESMONP, BUT AT LEAST ANPTS ALIVE. LETS > •ET HIM
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    • 180 14 NEW NATION CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Baseball hitter. Foot pounder. 15 Serving to bring together. It Having lashHke heirs. IT Smell sturgeon. 18 Fishing. It Oriental dress. 20 Blngen's river. 33 Legendary Qreek hero. 23 Xuchazist plate. 35 Vaudeville turn. 37 Ceech author Capsk. 30 Road map abbreviation. 33 Paeagmy. 35
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    • 43 15 'l/A 13j M.S. STARTING POINT tEGULAR WALKERS BUKIT PANJANG POLICE STATION STARTING PONT i [SCHOOLS. CASUAL ■CrfClub Lower"! Mi Car Park M lUS*h tH* NEW KAXION BIG WALK SUNDAY. MAY 23.1971. DISTANCE: 20,000 METRES •«5r T «u UNIVERSITY or SINGAPORE wrw MATHLETIC CENTRE
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    • 112 15 SENIOR SALES REPRESENTATIVE The Straits Times Group has a vacancy for a senior sales representative in Singapore. The person we are looking for should be mature and hardworking with considerable sales Experience. He should be in his mid-thirties. The successful person will be responsible for the securing of advertisements for
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  • Back Page FRIDAY
    • 66 16 AH POOK: This breed of ahaggy, long-haired youths! The government is quite right to clamp down on them we dant want to turn Singapore into a haven for hippies. MEI UN: What's the matter with long hair if it's clean and fashionable. A person has the right to
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    • 478 16 'BUSMAN'S HOLIDAY' FOR MANY As Television Malaysia finalises plans to telecast the Cassius Clay-Joe Frazier world heavyweight fight "live" on" March 9, local boxing fans are considering a "busman's" holiday. The American Embassy and the Hilton Hotel are installing special TV sets for
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    • 278 16 Scene: Jack's Place, a bar and restaurant in Killiney Road. Pretty Stephanie to customer: Do you wish to order a beer, sir? Customer: Yes, please. Give me an XYZ. Stephanie: How about a Tiger beer? Customer: Er...no. I always drink XYZ. Stephanie: Why don't you try
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    • 46 16 Putting the swing into the swinging chair is Stella Ong. Nineteen-year-old Stella likes old paintings and she hopes one day her house will be full of them. For now she makes a bit of a swinging picture herself. Picture by Brian Culley
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    • 150 16 10 DAY INDIA SAFARI NEPAL at S$ 1,850. Dept. 2nd APRIL, 1971 A fabulous holiday. On elephant to the famous KAZIRANGA game sanctuary, home of the One-horned Indian Rhino plus 3-days in Kathmandu amidst the giant Himalayas. 10-DAYS VALE OF KASHMIR at S$ 1,577. Deps. 12th APRIL, 1971 14-DAYS KASHMIR,
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 271 16 sflsgipsrs This Week (2) 3.58 It's Happening in Singapore (E—repeat) 4.15 Days of Our Lives 4.40 Close .fifty ."nirrr Lucky Dip News in Brief Recital by Chen Louise (repeat) Sports Parade News in Chinese Chinese Variety Show News and Newsreel (E) Oreen Acres The Ex-Con Name of The Game The
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    • 43 16 SHORT RIBS By Frank O'Neal P 1 DIWT, 1 STbLE 'EM. HR m SK w Awri^HL- H iu lb i A £4 m T*» OOSOT lb MM* ATtflW SUtom/ fUPFUNCNT. a Paiiga II m i /W A =S®f/ i| Ik 4 n !il:i
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    • 336 16 Trust your lueky IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY Born today, you take great Joy In your own personal freedom and for this reason may find the Idea of any permanent attachment to another human being foreign to your nature and your way of thinking. Marriage may be something you undertake well
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  • GO RACINGS
    • 1008 17 By BLUE PETER Chukell stable's up and-coming Royal Mark looks hard to beat in the Tengku's Gold Trophy race at Ipoh tomorrow. This strapping four-year-old by Henry's Choice put up a tip-top display at Penang early this month when he annexed
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    • 125 17 SCRUTINER EPSOM JEEP BLUE PETER MAKUDA MB. ED Bate 1 AMNESTY Miss Raconteur M. RACONTEUR Senator SENATOR Miss Raconteur M. RACONTEUR Raub M. RACONTEI Spaee Master Race t BUKIT 8EROK KINGS ROW LMfc-lfflWifc Fair Chanoe Hand In Hand Buklt Serek Race S BABYLON STAR Famllle Verte DENDROBIUM
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      10196 21 Hitam Manis is safe in Race Four Even Say can win in Race Six Have Nasi Lemak for the last race 2.00 CI. 5 Dir. 2—814# CESSB ($5500 $3850 to winner) 1 ***** CONQUEST s (Rise) Maisar 4 8.0 P.HLMif 5 G> •w aDM. TBNTHt <l2 started) 7-2-71
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    • 137 21 SCRUTINER ■TTmTFTTT* BLUE PETER MAKUDA ICHZKH Race 1 TYMKYN Daryl's Lark TYMKYN Daryl's Lurk TYMKYN r.i jifflai Race Z h ML HOUR Gold Tax ANTELAMI Espionage M HOUR Antelaml S. PRINCE MsJwHn Hour Race S INDIAN PATROL Dollar Seeker INDIAN PATROL Regal Rite PHAR PAL Glggote REGAL RITE Dollar
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    • 11 17 SCRUTINEERS NAP FORECAST Glen Larmonic and Precious Lotus IN RACE FIVE
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    • 67 17 SELECTIONS FROM PEACOCK for those difficult years when they're too old for toys and too young for boys (or girls WS M& f O. /•vvv Some titles at 4s. Fifteen Governess Lord of Thunder Shane and Other Stories Tales of Science Fiction Man-Eaters of Kumaon Remember, we haw many mare.
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    • 253 23 8 v» Ti Six Anthologies chosen by Helen Riley This is a new series of poetry anthologies, attractively illustrated with black and white line drawings, for the enjoyment of children aged 10-13. Poets of several centuries (Shakespeare, Clare, Auden, Hopkins, Wordsworth) are represented, the emphasis being on poets of this
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