New Nation, 4 March 1971

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  • 16 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Thursday evening, March 4, 1971 No. 39 Price 15 cents l\i:V\ NATIONU B!2I2!3HHHEn!E!232ES!E3n
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  • 281 1 At the ninth U—G. Wolstenholme (A tut). 34— K. Hoaolshi (Japan). _J. Vaughan (US). 35— T. Kamata' (Japan) D. Graham (Aust) M. Bernbridge (UK). —A. Dhabbavlbul (Taiwan) J. Child (U8) 37—D. Bermas (Philippines). M. McCullough (US) N. Takasu (Japan). 38— J. Albus (US), B. Arda
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  • 58 1 LATE NEWS London, Thursday The Union, of Post Office Workers last night agreed to call off its 44-day-old strike pending a ballot of its 230,000 members. Union secretary Tom Jackson told the newsmen he would ask members to vote in favour of an inquiry into
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  • 14 1 Police reported a total of 59 traffic accidents yesterday. Three were serious.
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  • 261 1 New Nation Foreign Service Washington, Thursday Communist China has launched its second space satellite into an egg-shaped orbit around the earth. The North American Defence Command (Norad) reported today that the satellite was launched last night and was being tracked by US radar. It soared into
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  • 72 1 London, Thursday.—British movie actor John Mills left a London hospital yesterday following treatment for injuries received when his left hand was crushed in a taxi cab door. One of the fingers was almost severed in the accident, which occurred last Thursday. Mills, nominated for an Oscar
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    • 70 1 Johannesburg, Thursday. Mrs. Winnie Mandela, wife of the Jailed African nationalist leader. Nelson Mandela, was yesterday sentenced to a year's jail for violating a banning order. Her counsel gave notice of appeal and she was release don ball. Mrs. Mandela, was one of a group of
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    • 44 1 Paris, Thursday.—Thoussands of taxpayers in Le Havre will have to make their Income tax declarations all over again because someone dropped a match Into a letter box at the local tax office and reduced the newly completed forms to ashes.
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    • 46 1 Nairobi, Thursday Five British Asians who have been demonstrating and sleeping outside the offices of tne UK High Commission in Nairobi since last week were yesterday removed by the police. The Asians seek entry vouchers to Britain and are protesting against its Immigration policy.
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  • 283 1 New Nation Foreign Service Karachi, Thursday East Pakistan and Awami League leader Sheikh Mujibur Rehman has rejected President Yahya Khan's invitation to attend a conference of Pakistan's 12 political parties, sparking new tension in the divided country. West Pakistan was tensely awaiting the Sheikh's
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  • 45 1 Moscow, Thursday—Mr. Boris Bezrukavnlkov has been appointed the Soviet Ambassador to Singapore. Mr. Bezrukavnlkov, 48, replaces Mr. Ilya Safronov, who has been given a new assignment. The new ambassador has held posts at several embassies during 17 years In the Soviet diplomatic service.
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  • 34 1 Hiroshima, Thursday—A small Japanese tanker split into two and sank yesterday In a collision with the 12,500-ton United States freighter California Bear in the Inland Sea, Western Japan, the coastguard here said,
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  • 294 1  -  East Germany wants trade agreement By S. M. Ali Singapore and East Germany have agreed to resume their formal trade talks which were suspended in 1967 and East Germany hopes thai eventually diplomatic ties will be established between the two countries. The visiting East German
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  • 69 1 London, Thursday Britain is now selling for the first time more goods to th*r European Common Market than to the Commonwealth, according to a survey on Britain's overseas trade. The survey, which covered last year's trading, said 40 per cent of exports went to Western Europe, 28
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  • 196 1 Police are probing the mystery of a 25-year-old Malaysian woman, found dead at the foot of a 21-storey building yesterday hours after she reiiewed her restricted passport for visits to Singapore. A witness who refused to be named said he saw her plunging down from
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  • 74 1 Trading interest was generally light in the Stock Exchange this morning. Starlite Ceramics, United Motor Works. Public Bank and Far East Ship Building were transacted one or two cents below overnight closing level. Leading investment stocks were steady. The announcement by Metal Box of a 6 ner
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  • 250 2 Soil testing for Penang's new and bigger $4O million airport at Bayan Lepas has begun. Engineers and workers are conducting dally tests. Actual work on the airport will start after assessing the results of the soil tests. A split-level terminal building and runway
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  • 159 2 The first top-level attempt to make occupational health a matter of important regional concern will be made when a symposium on occupational health is held in Singapore from May 19 to 22. The symposium is sponsored by the Singapore government, the South-East Asia Ministers
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  • 348 2 The 'rebel rouser and strike V V leader* has lost his place The demands on trade union leadership have changed the mere rebel rouser and strike leader has been replaced by those possessing greater sophistication in collective bargaining techniques. This point was empha- sised today by
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  • 427 2 US scientists squeezed out While developing countries such as Singapore cried out for technical experts scientists and engineers In the US were being employed as petrol pump attendants, an American trade union leader said today. He is Mr. Jack Otero, director of the international affairs department of the
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  • 182 2 The developers of the private market in Jalan Todak, off Upper Thomson Road, have decided to open It to vendors outside the area. This move comes after eight months of haggling over rents between the developers and local hawkers. One of the three owners of
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  • 47 2 Dr. Chan Kim Yong was elected president of the Singapore Paediatric Society at its recent annual general meeting held at the Alumni Centre. Other officials elected were: vice-president, Dr. Siak Chong Leng; secretary, Dr. Tan Cheng Llm; and treasurer, Dr. (Miss) Lee Seow Lang.
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  • 238 2 Kuala Lumpur, Thursday The Government has granted special Income tax concessions to an oil company here In Its search for petroleum In the offshore areas of Malaysia. An agreement providing the tax relief was signed here by the Finance Minister, Tun Tan Slew Sin,
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  • 212 2 Kuala Lumpur, Thursday The Second Malaysia Plan will be largely financed "through our own sources/' the head of the Economic Planning Unit, Mr. Thong Taw Hong, said yesterday. The rest would be from domestic borrowing and market loans, he said when briefing the visiting
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  • 215 2 ALL BUSY BACKSTAGE BEFORE CONCERT The cute Koreans hastily put on their national costumes, the girls had their hair done by their troupe leader, Mrs. Park Jiyung and vocal teacher, Mrs. Byun Yung Hee. Then a pep talk by Mr. Lee Yooc Jae, assistant director
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  • 264 2 Teachers will pay more to union The Singapore Teachers' Union expects to collect twice as much in subscriptions from $5OOO to $l2OOO per month when it introduces the new increased rates of payments for its members soon. Disclosing this today, the union's treasurer, Mr. Edwin Netto, said that
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    • 37 2 Best Wishes to Dr. Otto Winzer Foreign of East G for a very successful mission in Singapore. From: Mr. Mrs. Jimmy Seet J.K. oi# W ftfc (ft A) *IR fi| JEg 470-A, Upper Serangoon Road, Singapore 19.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 110 2 Weather Temperatures in capitals yesterday: Hong Kong Manila Kuala Lumpur Taipei Seoul Tokyo Bangkok Naha London Paris Moscow New York San Francisco Sydney Melbourne Perth world 71—64 92—74 91—72 67—67 46-37 48-45 91—75 70—59 43—35 39—32 9 4 37—28 52—39 74—65 81—58 94—72 Singapore Singapore's weather forecast from Ip.m. to
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  • 374 3 Prep school plan for expatriate children A private school, to exclusively for the children of expatriate professional and business residing here, is to be set up soon. *Application for registration of the proposed Singapore International Preparawill be made to the Ministry of Education next week. This was dlclosed
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  • 227 3 Few commuters turned up at the Kallang Park again this morning to use the newly-introduced bus shuttle service from the park to the city for the fourth day running. The shuttle run operated by four new buses of the Associated Bus Service began on Monday
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  • 41 3 The Higher School Certificate results have been delayed for a day due to unforeseen circumstances. An Education Ministry spokesman said this morning they are expected to arrive from London this evening, and they will be released by tomorrow.
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  • 93 3 The East German Foreign Minister, Mr. Otto Winzer, and his wife called on the chairman of the Port of Singapore Authority, Mr. Howe Yoon Chong, this morning. Later they toured the waterfront. This afternoon the visitors will go sightseeing and shopping. They leave Singapore tomorrow
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  • 205 3 The National Safety First Council hopes to raise $50,000 from 1971 Trade Exposition to be held at Kallang Park from May 1 to June 13. This Is the first of two fund-raising projects the council is organising this year to promote safety first. A donation draw with
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  • 274 3 English journalists Bob Wilson, 35, and his wife, Anne, 28, say they are seeing a movie called "Life" in glorious technicolour. The couple, travelling In a compact and brightlycurtained car-camper, are in Singapore on one of the last legs of their Journey to
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  • 185 3 Pahang may lose income Kuantan, Thursday The Pahang Government may lose $lO million in timber revenue if the traffic neck at the Temerloh ferry continues for another six monthsstate Forest Officer Inche Mohamed Noor bin Yaakob said on Tuesday this was because only about 25 per
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  • 294 3 Forty-five representatives from Singapore and Asia will take part in a course in Singapore next week on how to make precise measurements and counts of the different types of cancer. The course on cancer epidemiology and registration, to be held at the Institute
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  • 245 3 Razak warns top men Kuala Lumpur, Thursday Government officers have been told by the Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, to be more business orientated and give a new image of government and better service. The government was planning more industrial development proiects. Tun Razak said this
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 107 3 At the cinema Lido: The Eunuch (Mandarin) —1.45, 4, 6.30, 9.15 p.m. Capitol: There was a Crooked Man—l.ls, 4, 6.45, 9.30 p.m. Bex: Omar bin Al-Khattab (Malay)—l.3o, 4, 6.30, 9.30 p.m. Sky: The Night is young (Mandarin)—l.4s, 4, 6.30. 9.15 p.m. Boxy: The Night is Young (Mandarin)—l.4s, 4.15, 7. 9.30
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  • THE WORLD
    • 397 4 Reuter New Delhi, Thursday More violence in West Bengal, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh states marred India's General Election for the third day yesterday. Police reported two murders and one near-fatal attack on a 20-year-old man by Communist extremists. They also arrested 30 people in raids
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    • 182 4 United Press International Vienna, Thursday Austria's Parliament yesterday unanimously authorised the Foreign Minister, Mr. Rudolf Kirchschlaeger, to open talks with Communist China over diplomatic recognition. Mr. Kircnschlaeger prepared the move last November and won vital approval from the parliamentary foreign affairs committee
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    • 258 4 Tanker salvage bids failed Reuter Capetown, Thursday Attempts to salvage the 28,339-ton Liberian tanker, Wafra, stuck fast on a sandbank some six miles off Cape Agulhas, were abandoned yesterday and plans are being made to destroy it without causing further widespread pollution of the beautiful
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    • 240 4 Reuter Warsaw, Thursday Cardinal Stefan Wyszynskl, Roman Catholic Primate of Poland, and the Prime Minister, Mr. Piotr Jaroszewicz, met for three hours yesterday in the first summit meeting between Polish church and Communist leaders for more than 10 years. A single-sentence message by the official news agency
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    • 266 4 Reuter London, Thursday Chances for peace in Britain's seven-week-old postal strike hung in the balance last night as peace consultations continued. The Employment Minister, Mr. Robert Carr, chaired a meeting between post office executives and leaders of the 220.000 striking mailmen, over the union's latest
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    • 343 4 American support force has its worst day in the air over Laos New Nation Foreign Service Saigon, Thursday Communist gunners have shot down another eight US helicopters backing the South Vietnamese drive into Laos. The losses the heaviest for a single day In the Laos operation
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    • 238 4 New Nation Foreign Service Hong Kong, Thursday The Viet Cong have offered to release 39 Sou.th Vietnamese soldiers captured in a battle in the Ngotto Ba region of South Vietnam on Monday. The North Vietnam news agency said a communique by the Viet Cong command
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    • 160 4 Reuter Hong Kong, Thursday Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the deposed Cambodian Head of State, has returned to Peking after a tour of China during which he received firm assurances of Chinese support for the Cambodians' anti-US struggle. The New China news agency said Chinese Premier Chou
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    • 185 4 Reuter London, Thursday Scotland's Nationalist Party yesterday requested President Nixon to pay back rent oh a military base totalling a cool £5OO million (*****6 million). Nationalist representatives called at the United States Embassy here and demanded the money in return for use over
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    • 69 4 Caracas, Thursday —The brother of a kidnapped banyesterdiiy handed over U*****,000 ransom to his captors. The kidnap victim, Enrique Dao, Vice-President of the Banco Del Carlbe, was snatched three weeks ago. Yesterday h1 s brother Anlbal Dao and Senator Jose Gonzalez Navarro, who has acted
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    • 30 4 Taipei, Thursday The Nationalist Chinese Government is to promote the exby setting aside 5525,000 for design and quality improvement and technical training, the Central news agency reported yesterday.
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    • 285 4 New Nation Foreign Service Tripoli, Thursday Negotiations on- the price of Mediterranean oil continued in Tripoli yesterday in an atmosphere of tight secrecy? Both sides declined even to say who attended the talks. But oil sources said the WTest German firm of Gelsenberg, one
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    • 174 4 Reuter London, Thursday A 64-year-old doctor, accused of having sexual intercourse in his surgery couch with a woman patient, yesterday described a meeting with her in a cathedral. "She put her hand under my coat in the church and tried to hold me.
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    • 204 5 United Press International Jerusalem, Thursday A Greek archaeologist is reported to have discovered the 1636-year-old remains of the original apse and basilica of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, erected over the spot where Jesus Christ is said to have been crucified. Archaeologist Athanaslos Economopoulos ha*
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    • 409 5 British govt wins another round over its decision to sell helicopters to South Africa New Nation Foreign Service London, Thursday Britain's Conservative government won another round last night over its proposed arms sales to South Africa when it withstood a vehement Labour censure bid in Parliament. The
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    • 184 5 Reuter Tokyo, Thursday Officials have called a 24-hour truce in a battle for occupancy of part of Tokyo's proposed second airport after more than 200 people were injured in fierce battles on Tuesday. At one point hundreds of screaming youths attacked police
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    • 294 5 Highest state of emergency in 7 months, say Cairo observers New Nation Foreign Service Cairo, Thursday Egyptian troops stationed along the Suez Canal have been placed on full alert in case fighting breaks out when the present ceasefire ends on Sunday. Political sources described
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    • 210 5 Reuter Berlin, Thursday West Berlin governing Mayor Klaus Schuetz told East Germany yesterday he could not agree to its proposal to start negotiations today on re-opening the Berlin Wall for West Berliners. Mr. Schuetz gave no reason for his decision but it was assumed
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    • 83 5 Mexico City, Thursday Japan and Mexico will exchange 100 students each, giving them specialised training In culture and science, communications and transport, Secretary Mr. Eugenlo Mendez Docurro announced yesterday. Mr. Mendez Docurro, in his capacity as chairman of the National Science and Technology Council, said the 100
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    • 170 5 United Press International New York, Thursday Gunmen posing as plainclothes police grabbed a bank president at his home in Palm Beach, Florida, yesterday, held his family hostage, then looted the bank's vault of about US$5OO,OOO. The bank president, Mr. James Morgan and his wife
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    • 170 5 United Press International Washington, Thursday Federal Bureau of Investigation agents investigating the bombing of the U.S. Capitol have ask Senate employees to try to identify photographs of three possible suspects. Agents sought to interview all Senate employees who worked on Saturday and Sunday. The
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    • 344 5 United Press International New York, Thursday The Government was granted permission yesterday to widen its murder case against Lieutenant W i 1 li a m Calley Jr. by producing testimony concerning other alleged atrocities that occurred before the massacre at My Lai. The ruling came
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    • 294 6 United Press International Tokyo, Thursday The newspaper, Mainichi, said yesterday the misbehaviour by some Japanese visitors in .South-East Asia is contributing to anti-Japan-ese feelings in the region. In an editorial on the formation of an anti-Japan Club at Kasetsart University in Thailand, the
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    • 307 6 Melbourne Herald London, Thursday The dowager Lady Birdwood spends so much time going to dirty shows and complaining about them that she has little time to see anything decent. It's part of her campaign against sin. She says
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    • 403 6 Washington Post Quangtri, Thursday From 5,000 'ft, Air Force Captain James Thompson had a spectacular view of the war. flylng his little Bronco in a tight circle above an unnamed stream valley east of the Laotian border just inside South Vietnam, looking
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    • 291 6  -  By Angus Smales Melbourne Herald Port Moresby, Thursday Self government for New Guinea has suddenly become a real and national issue. This is the main impact from evidence which the New Guineans have put to a touring United Nations mission which is just
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    • 497 6  -  By Edward Delong United Press International Washington, Thursday Kitty hawk pilot Stuart A. Roosa reported yesterday he discovered "the thing" on the moon while his Apollo 14 companions were picking up rocks possibly dating from the birth of the universe. Roosa said he did not even
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    • 415 6 Reds fear US may use these weapons in Indo-China Melbourne Herald Washington, Thursday President Nixon, like President Johnson before him, has again categorically ruled out the possibility that the United States might use nuclear weapons in In-do-China. The spectre of mushroom clouds over the Jungles of
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    • 40 6 This was the scene in the Latin Quarter of Paris after riots between police and thousands of students who were protesting against the jailing of an 18-year-old student for wounding a policeman in an earlier demonstration.
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    • 220 6 He places rioting towns in police hands Reuter Manila, Thursday President Ferdinand Marcos has placed under police control eight southern Philippine towns where clashes between Muslims and Christians and several deaths have been reported in the past few weeks. Mr. Marcos also ordered military operations against outlaws
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    • 49 6 Apia, Thursday The Duke of Edinburgh was given seashell necklaces for Queen Elizabeth and roasted pigs when he visited Western Samoa yesterday. The Duke, who is on a two-month tour of Australia and Pacific Islands, was welcomed by local chiefs in a ceremony watched by thousands.
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  • COMMENT
    • 652 7  -  From Selig S. Harrison We must never, never let Korea become a battleground again," said Mr, Kim Dae Jung, President Park Chung Hee's aggressive opponent in the forthcoming South Korean presidential election. He added: "Russia or China or both of them would certainly be dragged into
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    • 1212 7  -  Everyone seems to have turned off, gone dead inside From Trish Sheppard Saigon, Thursday For ten years rve been talking about Vietnam. Long before it was fashionable, I signed petitions and protests, went on marches and demonstrations, got into discussions and arguments. In those ten years
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    • 781 7  -  A new worry for Colombo Plan donors From Anthony Haas Amidst the fashionable cliches about increased foreign aid, against the backdrop of declining aid values, some subtle changes in emphasis emerged from the annual Colombo Plan conference of ministers and officials. Had it not been for the
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  • 393 8 China and Japan have renewed their memorandum trade agreement for 1971 at around the level of 1970. But the so-called memorandum trade represents only a tenth of the trade between the two countries. The other 90 per cent comes from China's trade with Japan's
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  • 201 8 Surely, we can do with fewer lightweights In the political arena? We have already got Dr. Lee Slew Choh, Mr. R. Vetrivelu and Mr. David Marshall. Must we be plagued by a whole new set from the National Party? It's good to have an Opposition, but so
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  • 636 8  -  By Al Shahab The language we use, like the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat, is increasingly polluted. Our capacity to think clearly, feel truly, and act humanely Is being distorted by the
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  • 594 8  -  JACKIE SAM Sleep can't be coming easy to some people In the Minlsrty of Education these days. Imagine, the first time you get all these young teachers together under one roof, they give you a pasting. They blast the inspectorate to
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  • Letters
    • 236 8 Silence Is not, emphatically NOT, uncharacteristic of Singapore's governing elite as your correspondent Pakir Singh has so positively asserted (New Nation, March 2). The exact opposite is the true position. The governing elite, in fact, seems to operate on the principle that silence is golden sometimes
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    • 90 8 As an expatriate who admires Singapore enormously, I was distressed to meet a blind man who could not find work although he was fully trained. Mr. Charles Goh (New Nation Feb. 23) states that there are at least 25 such people. Why and how is this
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    • 267 8  -  LIM LEONG HUAT Let me congratulate the Singapore Teachers' Union for holding such a meaningful seminar and discussing such an important subject. But I predict the seminar will not go to accomplish much for our educational system unless the general public are allowed to participate. After all,
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  • The voice of the Press
    • 147 8 What the other newspapers are saying: Education is all-impor-tant to a country, as the future of a country may be gauged from the standard of its education. Therefore, the responsibilities of a teacher are far more onerous than those of an ordinary civil servant. A common defect
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    • 109 8 An Emergency Ordinance banning the participation of university students in political and trade union activities in Malaysia has been published in the Government gazette. In' recent years, the student activities In the universities had sometimes gone beyond the limit. And that is the reason why the Government has
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    • 115 8 Final results of the Tnritnn elections will only be known after the conclusion of the elections in 10 days' time. Mrs. Indira Gandhi faces opposition from a fourparty alliance composed of three right-wing parties and the Samyukta Socialist Party. She has travelled the length and breadth
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    • 110 8 *1 am the issue" says Mrs. Indira Gandhi of the national election now taking place in India, to which her strongest opponents reply: "Remove Indira!" To get the mandate to rule India Mrs. Gandhi and her New Congress Party must increase their seats In the National Parliament from
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  • SHOPPING
    • 402 10 The new wallclocks in the market can indeed enhance your home decor 4% INTERIOR DECOR Keeping time in the hustle and bustle of this changing world of ours is tough, especially if you are the absentminded sort who frequently forgets to wind the out-of-date and
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  • WOMAN
    • 651 11 Volatile ajagtr believes a woman 1 plaee la In her bra "What!" exploded Sheela Munro in a burst of laughter, "go around without a bra for women's liberation. You must be joking!" "A woman wean a bra because the hat to. "What is a woman going to do
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    • 684 11 The way women east prevent pregnaney 1 Se Doctors guide l VHEALTt-p Male prejudice and fear is probably the reason why female sterilisation Is more common than vasectomy which we talked about last week. There are three local operative ways of achieving sterility In a
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    • 459 11  -  Social brings to life Washington era mrvrn DOING THE ROUNDS GRACIA TAY-CHEE GEORGE WASHINGu TON, the first President of the United States, who has always been associated with the cherry tree, and Martha Washington his wife, with Martha's Cherry Pie, was once again "brought to
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  • Finance and business
    • 1105 12 ALL YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE STOCK EXCHANGE INDU8TR1AL8 1 1976-1971 1 wk. 4 wb 1. Stock Closing Price tact Divid. P/E Turn- 1 men uv •CO X» Bayers Sellers Sale Yield Ratio Over 4J0 2.60 222 2.00 Allied Chocolate 220 220 4.2N 18.4 120 0.641
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    • 283 12 DEAL SIGNED FOR MINIMUM OF 120,000 DOMESTIC OIL HEATERS United Press International London, Thursday The fifth largest Japanese firm is to buy British domestic oil heaters and has signed a contract with Valor Limited worth more than one million pounds (557.2 million), the heating
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    • 230 12 United Press International New York, Thursday Prices continued to move sideways on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday. Turnover was moderate. At the final bell, the Dow Jones Industrial average was off 0.62 at 882.39. Of the 1,654 Issues on the tape, advances narrowly
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    • 262 12 United Press International London, Thursday Hopes of an early end to the six weeks old postal strike and the feeling that the market was oversold triggered a rally on the stock exchange yesterday although trading volume stayed small. The industrial share index gained 7.6
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    • 224 12 Allied Chem nv. Alcoa Am Brands Am Can Am Motors AT A T A A P Avon Pd Beth Steel *1 u. Boeing Caterp Trac 47% Chrysler 27 *L Coca-Cola 8T% Control Data 56% Corn OI Wkj Dow Chem 80% DuPont 1MV. E Kodak Fed Dept Mrs
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    • 27 12 BANGKOK, Thurs. The Director General of Thailand's foreign trade department said yesterday the future of rice exports is not as gloomy as prevailing forecasts indicate.
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    • 306 12  -  TRAINING IN U.K. FOR 20 ANIL BHATIA The Beecham Group Will begin recruiting next week for Singaporeans to start their $24 million pharmaceutical factory. They hope to have an all-Singa-porean staff by the mid70s. Singapore will be the Far East headquarters with responsibility extending from India
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  • 478 12  -  Sword-play, super-pugilism all in one film CINEMA By Edgar Koh Zatoichi and the Roving Swordsman starring Wang Yu and Shintaro Katsu. We have had, first of all, the one-armed swordsman, then there were the roving swordsman, the blind swordsman and the Chinese boxer. Now,- Hong Kong
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    • 78 13 Swings of the Pros GOLF Hsieh Min Wan of Taiwan tries the putting green. Waiting for their favourite professionals. Australia's Peter Thomson chats with a spectator. Frank Phillips, twice winner of the Singapore Open, gets some friendly help from a pretty admirer. Pictures: Chew Boon
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    • 471 14  -  By Peter Koh Down in the cool aisle of an acacia paved avenue in Singapore, a lonely Primary four lad was hopping about with a bamboo pole and trying to leap over a wooden gate. The lad was no other than Ooh Pi Tuan, one of
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    • 144 14 New York, Thursday Milwaukee can set three team records this season and gain a fourth title if Lew Alcindor holds its present scoring pace in the American Basketball League. Alcindor is averaging 31.6 points a game apd tops the league In total points with' 2,241. John
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    • 813 14  -  Australian professional golfer PETER THOMSON, five times winner of the British Open, writes exclusively for New Nation about the Asian golf circuit. PETER THOMSON When the late Dato Loke Wan Tho gave his considerable support to the inauguration of the Singapore and Malaysian Opens back
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    • 531 14 London, Thursday A group of about 40 people in a little Cambridgeshire village aref rubbing their hands in hopeful anticipation of a killing when the flat racing season opens here. They are now midway through a school for punters—a further education course of evening
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    • 111 14 A soccer team from Chiengmai University, Thailand, will play two games here later this month. They are tentatively scheduled to meet {he Teachers' Training College on March 21 and the University of Singapore on March 22 According to the vicepresident of ffie Thai University Mr. Sonchai
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    • 853 15  -  GOLF ?y Lim Kee Chan Chen Ching p O Asia's ;;Ben Hogan" from Taiwan made a grand return to the Republic when he fired a six-under to top the individual best in the pro-am •tournament yesterday a prelude to today's Singapore Open. Ching PC's 66
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    • 78 15 The Ministry of Social Affairs has taken over the running of the Royal Air Force Seletar Golf Club, which closed last Sunday. Now under the organisation of the National Sports PromoUon Board, the club will continue to serve the many golfers who have been patronising it
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    • 162 15 Tokyo, Thursday World Junior lightweight champion Hiroshi Kobayashi and challenger Ricardo Arredondo of Mexico were confident of victory last night, on the eve of their 15-round title match today at the 10,000 capacity Nichidai auditorium. The fight, Kobayashi's sixth defense of hi* World Boxing Association's WBA)
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    • 226 15  -  CRICKET By Lim Kee Chan John Snow, England's Test paceman said in Singapore yesterday that he would like to see a world series for cricket. Snow said he did not think that cricket was dying out. If so, he added: "Starting a world series would certainly
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    • 347 15 Pointe-A-Pierre, Trinidad, Thursday Trinidad trailing India's first innings by 126 runs struck back in the final minutes of play here today and removed opening batsman Mankad before the Indians could add greatly to their lead. At the close scores were: India 464 for seven declared
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    • 112 15 Bloemfonteln, Thursday —Tlenle Britz, full of confidence after his win last week In the P.G.A. championship, held a slender one-stroke lead at the end of the first round ox the South African Open Golf championship here yesterday. His 65 was five strokes better than
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    • 442 15 New York, Thursday The contract for the Joe Frazier and Cassius Clay world heavyweight title fight on March 8 includes a return match clause, it was revealed here yesterday. This means that neither fighter can retire after the bout although it is unlikely that
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    • 145 15 New York, Thursday An injunction suit >Rfts brought in Manhattan Supreme Court today seeking to block bulletins and radio broad- casts of the Muhammad A&Joe Frazier world heavyweight championship fight cm Monday. *n» order seeks to enjoin the* Mutual Broadcasting System, Inc., from
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    • 137 15  -  By Sonny Yap Financial problems are now casting doubts on Singapore's participation in the 13th Asian Youth soccer championships to be held at Tokyo next month. For unless the Football Association of Singapore Youth Committee raises $20,000 -soon, they will have to drop the project.
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    • 39 15 The finals of the Radin Mas district soccer tournament for primary schools will be held tomorrow at Jubilee Primary School. Juniors—Jubilee Primary vs Alexandra Hill at 4.00 p.m. Seniors Kay Slang vs Jubilee Malay at 5.00 p.m.
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    • 48 15 London, Thursday.—Results of last night's football matches were: Texaco Cup semi-final second leg: Motherwell 1 Hearts 2 Hearts won on aggregate three-two. (Hearts now meet either DerryCity or Wolverhampton Wanderers in the final). Friendlies: Bournemouth 0 Coventry City 1 Crystal Palace 0 A.D.O. (The Hague) 0.
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    • 28 15 Jansenites will meet Singapore Armed Forces Sports Association in the fina\ of the Singapore Hockey Association Under 23 tournament on the Padang > at 5.15 p.m. today.
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    • 205 15 From Blue Peter in Ipoh Tae-Kwon-Do did a splendid gallop at Ipoh this morning. Ridden by Johnny Kelson, Tae-Kwon-Do sprinted over 3f in 37 2/5. The going was good. Four Wishes (Rao) impressed in a 3f sprint in 38. Trishaw Angel (Nawari) attracted attention when she sprinted
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    • 305 15 Auckland, Thursday. Australian Davis Cup player Bill Bowrey was made to battle hard before beating South African professional Bob Maud in the second round of the Benson and Hedges Open tennis tournament here yesterday. The Australian No. 1 was taken to four sets before winning
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    • 69 14 DR. KILDARE Heiress penny HASIEM IS HAVING PR. HARRY APIEY FOU.OWEP- TO FINP OUT •IF THERE'S ANOTHER WOMAN IN HIS LIFE". bV Ken Bald ROUNP TRIP TO MIIBARP. i S3 fi a SI m SS II U f 1 Si ..4 rvij -r \)i kU m ibi by John Prentice
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      126 16 'fHlltl realty cracking n/SvTivSSu£! n SmSi ii dwhig a mi lead by ImUbi into if Mini at its own power statl—s. Tho Government, too, it rifht vp with it, and legislation might ho enacted sooner than expected on factories discharging noxious matter into the atmosphere. So the PUB's
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    • 426 16 ANKLE-LENGTH SOCKS AND STAYING OFF FRUIT Golf champions smile a lot, have sun-tanned faces and .prefer to wear shorts with ankle-length socks. They spend the days swinging their clubs and the nights talking to their wives (or girl friends) all about
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    • 315 16  -  BOSCO GOMEZ Even the "sarabat" stalls along the waterfront have introduced an incentive scheme. For just as the PSA Intends to jack up cargo tonnage, these wayside "sarabateers" want to increase their sale of coffee the port's most popular drink after toddy. And this morning,
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    • 188 16  -  SHIRLEY MANASSEH Youngsters can tell the most amusing stories about their teachers. My neighbour's nine-year-old describes his teacher as "always wearing a ballerina dress with a coloured bow in her hair." She has been his favourite topic of discussion since he started
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    • 64 16 PEEK-A-BOO! It's Shirley Choa. A girl who is not a mad, gadabout partygoer. A 22-year-old who likes the quiet and simple things in life like sewing, reading and music. But she is also one who dresses with verve and style. A simple
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    • 136 16 As the Russians see it, a good airline hostess is one who tells comforting little white lies when the plane is falling apart in flight. Take Svetlana, an Aeroflot hostess. There die was, as the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda tells it, 26,000 feet above
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    • 370 16 ,v .V 5 Siigapore 6.05 Opening and Dr. Who 6.30 News in Brief •6.35 Interlude 6.50 The Young Rebels Blood of an English 7.40 News (C) 7.50 What Others Say (C) 8.10 Pi-Pa Recital by Lui Pui Yuen 8.30 Here's Lucy 9.00 News (E) 9.10 RTS Showtime A Musical Variety
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    • 411 16 Trust your lucky star IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY Born today, you have a very definite and very positive outlook and approach to life. Par this reason, you work steadily towards every objective, certain of your success in the end, willing to labour in the cause to the best of your
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