New Nation, 1 April 1971

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  • 15 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Thursday evening, April 1, 1971 No. 63 Price 15 cents NEW NATION
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  • 151 1 New Nation Foreign Service Saigon, Thursday Viet Cone have killed 100 civilians wounded 96 and destroyed more than 1000 houses in one of the worst attacks since the 1968 Communist offensives. The terrorists swarmed Into the village of Hoang Dieu In Quang Nam province
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  • 76 1 Prices held steady in quiet trading on the Stock Exchange this morning. Among blue chips and better class shares Dunlop Industries changed hands at $3.60; Straits Trading at $2; Motor Investments at $1.73 and PMC at $1.25. Borneo Berhad continued to attract buying support, the share price
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  • 60 1 LATE NEWS Washington, Thursday.— President Nixon is being swamped with telegrams from the public, running almost 100-1 in favour of clemency for Lieutenant William Calley, the White House Press secretary Mr. Ronald Ziegler said today. The White House has received about 5,000 wires and 1,500 telephone and
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  • 304 1 Inevitable power role in Asia says S'pore diplomat United Press International Washington, Thursday The Soviet Union cannot be prevented from developing as a major power in South-East Asia, Singapore's ambassador to the United Nations, Mr. T. T. B. Koh, said yesterday. Mr. Koh said: "The Soviet Union
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  • 431 1 Malaysia may become 'a second Vietnam' United Press International Washington, Thursday Malaysia could become a second Vietnam, British scholar-diplo-mat Sir Richard Allen said yesterday. Sir Richard, an expert on Burma and Malaysia, told the meeting of the Association of Asian Studies that a third national emergency in Malaysia
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  • 13 1 Police reported a total of 57 accidents yesterday. Five were serious.
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  • 409 1 Life sentence for Calley Reuter New York, Thursday Lieutenant William Calley was sentenced to hard labour for life yesterday for the premeditated murder of 22 people in the My Lai massacre three years ago. An army court martial jury of six officers also ordered the
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  • 55 1 London, Thursday.—The British Government has announced substantial increases In welfare state payments for the very eldv erly, the sick, widows and children In the second boost for British pocketbooks in two days. The increases followed the Conservative government's first Budget on Tuesday providing for a reform
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  • 387 1 Formula planned to increase payments A top civil servant is working out a bonus formula on how workers in Singapore could best be given a bigger share of companies' rising profits. Informed sources told New Nation today that the formula centres around Section 46 of the
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  • 106 1 Thai International today started its latest route from Bangkok to Sydney via Singapore by DC-8 jet. The flight makes the company an intercontinental airline. The plane left at 11.45 am and will reach Sydney at 9.55 pm, Singapore time, after a non-stop flight. On the Inaugural
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  • 383 2 Still few opportunities' for Malays here The chairman of the Singapore Malays National Organisation, Inche Ahmad Taff, today disputed the findings of the research committee of the Malay Cultural Organisation on Job opportunities for Malays in the Republic. •The Malay Cultural Organisation should give statistics for
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  • 161 2 Kuala Lumpur, Thursday SUPP leader Dato Ong Kee Hui said last night that he had not been informed of a call on him to resign from the party's leadership. "I have not received any communication on this," Dato Ong said. The Sarawak
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  • 200 2 Stolen laminated identity cards are being sold by a group of teenagers, most of them school dropouts, in Sembawang to earn extra pocket money. The group mostly operates In the night, moving around "sarabat" (coffee) stalls and looking for prospective customers. The boys seldom
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  • 110 2 The two branches of the Singapore Industrial Labour Organisation at the Singapore Glass Manufacturers Pte. Ltd. will soon amalgamate and represent all 550 workers. Announcing this today, the secretary-general of SILO. Mr. Phey Yew Kok, said that joint elections would be held within two weeks.
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  • 53 2 Taipeh, Thursday Nationalist Chinese ambassador to Washington, Mr. S-K. Chow, was yesterday nominated to succeed Dr. Wei Tao Ming as Foreign Minister in a partial Cabinet reshuffle. Dr. Lo Yung Ping was also nominated as new Education Minister to succeed Dr. Choong Kow Kwong, at a high
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  • 260 2 Singapore is in danger of being as materialistic as Hong Kong or New York according to Singapore's World Youth Forum representative. Miss Susan Liu, 19, of the National Junior College said: "Money should be used to develop the fine arts.
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  • 21 2 Teheran, Thursday—An Iranian army firing squad executed three heroin smugglers at dawn yesterday, the army prosecutor announced here.
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  • 133 2 Gemas, Thursday The Transport Minister, Dato Haji Abdul Ghani bin Gilong, is confident the railway modernisation programme under the second Malaysia plan should enable the railway to break even by 1974. Dato Abdul Ghani said this in a statement issued after he inspected the
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  • 258 2 Kuala Lumpur, Thursday Assistance and Inducements should be provided under the Second Malaysia Plan to help in replanting plans by rubber producers. "The decline of the market price of rubber last year reinforces the need for new Government inducements" the Rubber Producers' Council said in
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  • THE WORLD
    • 260 2 China attacked in Congress speech Reuter Moscow, Thursday A member of the Soviet Politburo, addressing the Communist Party Congress yesterday, accused Chinese leaders of spitting on Soviet experience in building Communism. By using such language Mr. Pyotr Masherov, party chief of Soviet Byelorussia, was less
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    • 77 2 Moscow, Thursday. A Chinese schooner sank off the Vietnamese coast after a collision with a Soviet ship on Tuesday, the official Soviet News Agency Tass reported here. It said the Soviet government had expressed "deep regrets" to China over the incident. The Soviet ship picked
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    • 23 2 Seoul, Thursday South Korea will open trade ties with "non-hostile" Communist countries probably within this year, Foreign Ministry sources said yesterday.
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    • 69 2 Los Angeles, Thursday. A Western Airlines Boeing jet on an early morning training flight crashed and burned on a landing approach in fog at Ontario Airport east of here yesterday. killing all four crew. The Federal Aviation Administration said the 720-B airliner was totally destroyed.
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    • 107 2 United Press International Jakarta, Thursday The Indonesian Government starting today will gradually withdraw all subsidies enjoyed for years by the local Press. Information Minister Mr. Budiardjo said the measure will first be made effective in Jakarta. By 1978, all subsidies in all regions of Indonesia
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    • 76 2 Jakarta, Thursday the Indonesian Cabinet has decided to Increase the state revenue by raising taxes. Announcing this, the Cabinet Secretary, Brig. Oen. Sudharmono, said Sart of the profits gained y state and public companies should be transferred to the Government and the companies should not be
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    • 283 2 United Press International New York, Thursday President Park of South Korea believes his country holds the key to peace in Asia. In a feature article for the Encyclopedia Britannica yearbook, he said that history proved that whenever Korea became a battlefield for
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    • 242 2 Reuter New Delhi, Thursday India's turbulent West Bengal state had over 500 political murders in less than a year, a Government minister told Parliament yesterday. Mr. K.C. Pant, Minister of State for Home Affairs, speaking in the Low Sabha (Lower House), said there were 1396
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    • 559 4 Reuter London, Thursday The Prime Minister of Malaysia Tun Abdul Razak, and Sultan Hasanal Bolkiah of the British-protected state of Brunei are due here next week for separate talks on revised defence plans in Commonwealth South East Asia. The London
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    • 437 4 But victims heap praise Reuter Manila, Thursday The captain of a, Philippines airliner hijacked to China said after the plane and passengers were released yesterday that the Chinese frowned on air piracy. This could have been the reason the BAC-11l Jet, 19 passengers and crew of
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    • 508 4 Two tell of horror in East's capital New Nation Foreign Service Beirut, Thursday Terrified citizens of Dacca are flying Pakistan flags from their bamboo huts in an effort to placate the troops sent to subdue East Pakistan, according to Europeans Just out of the
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    • 222 4 Embargo on arms to S. Africa contravened —UN Reuter New York, Thursday A United Nations report yesterday said that military equipment was continuing to be supplied to South Africa, in contravention of the Security Council's embargo. The document, prepared by the rapporteur of the General Assembly's Special Committee on apartheid,
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    • 193 4 Reuter Zurich, Thursday A Swiss woman, Lilly Selmair, once employed by the city of Zurich was jailed for three years here yesterday for spying for Russia and Rumania. Miss Selmair, 46, was also found guilty of accepting bribes, revealing official secrets and forging legal certificates. A
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    • 25 4 Rome, Thursdav.—Britain announced it would contribute £1,25 million to the World Food Programme to buy wheat and send it to developihg countries.
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    • 117 4 New Delhi, Thursday The last state government controlled by the Congress faction opposed to the Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, fell yesterday in the western Indian state of Gujarat. The Chief Minister, Mr. Hltendra Des&i, submitted his resignation after defections his Party left it In
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    • 395 4 United Press International Cairo, Thursday Egypt yesterday called for an urgent Arab world conference to discuss the latest fighting in Jordan between Palestinian guerrillas and King Hussein's army. The Egyptian Minister of State* for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Hafez Ismail, issued the appeal
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    • 293 4 United Press International Rome, Thursday American actor William Berger was a free man today innocent under Italian law after eight months jail on drug charges which newspapers called "absurd" and "unbelievable." His first stop after a Salerno court acquitted him and
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    • 130 4 Reuter Hong Kong, Thursday China today announced the formation of a new provincial Communist Party committee in the central province of Hupeh in further moves to rebuild the Red machinery shattered during the Cultural Revolution. v A New China news agency report said
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    • 55 4 Amsterdam, Thursday.— About one Dutchman in five is opposed to the planned private visit of Emperor Hirohito of Japan to Holland, the Institute of Public Opinion (NIPO) reported yesterday. NIPO, a private firm which also sells marketing analysis, said the opinion of 1098 people of 18 years
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    • 179 4 Reuter Rome, Thursday Pope Paul yesterday praised sex education in schools but called for delicacy and caution from teachers. Praising sex teaching as such, the 73-year-old Pontiff said there was sometimes a tendency to forget the need for modesty and the
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    • 191 4 Reuter Cape Town, Thursday Income tax was raised five per cent in South Africa yesterday in the 1971/2 budget presented to Parliament by the Finance Minister, Dr. Nicolaas Diederichs. A compulsory savings levy, paid by all individuals and companies, was also raised between 2.5 and 10 per
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 89 2 Temperatures in capitals yesterday: Kuala Lumpur Taipei Jakarta Seoul Tokyo Bangkok Manila Hong Kong Naha London Paris Moscow New York San Francisco Sydney Melbourne Perth Singapore Singapore's weather forecast from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.— isolated showers. The weather for the 24 hours to 8 a.m. today Max. temp 90.2
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  • 252 3 45 p.c. increase in 'satisfactory* year Singapore's pepper exports last year totalled $97.5 million a 45 per cent increase on the 1969 figure of $66.9 million. The chairman of the Singapore Pepper Exporters and Packers' Association, Mr. Tan Puay Yong announced this today. He described
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  • 266 3 Alor Star, Thursday The Ministry of Education is taking steps to expand the Technical College in Kuala Lumpur to raise it to the status of a college of technology. This is in line with the national policy to produce more trained personnel equipped with the
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  • 47 3 A preview of the Kiddies Easter Fashion Parade will be held at 4 p.m. today In the Viking Room, Goodwood Park Hotel, Scotts Road. The Blood Transfusion Service mobile unit will be at Maju Camp from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. today.
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  • 75 3 Bonn, Thursday. The West German Parliament yesterday moved against air pollution by cars by voting to reduce the lead content in petrol. The current average level of 0.44 grammes of lead per litre will be cut to 0.15 grammes at the highest. The measure will
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  • 69 3 Canberra, Thursday.— Foreign language studies in Australian schools should be revised to provide for an adequate Asian content, a government committee suggested yesterday. The committee, set up by the Federal government last year, suggested that schools should teach Indonesian, Malay, Japanese and Chinese, leaving other Asian languages
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  • 241 3 Kuala Lumpur, Thursday Staff of the University Hospital in Petaling Jay a yesterday staged a lunch-hour demonstration to protest against changes in their working hours, medical benefits and terms of employment. 'More than 100 union members met at the hospital's concourse to voice their grievances. A spokesman
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  • 78 3 YOUTH KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS AFTER COLLISION WITH CAR Tender hands give aid to a seriously injured youth, Yak Ah Koon, J. 5, last night seconds after he was knocked off his cycle by a car in Paya Lebar Road. People living nearby rushed from their homes
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  • 309 3 While other postmen deliver letters according to their addresses, Mr. Kamarudin Ismail, 18, delivers them according to their names. And this is not because Kamarudin cannot read numbers—it is that there are two houses in Duku Road, Joo Chiat with the same number. Both the
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  • 189 3 Malacca, Thursday Malaysian Certificate of Education examination results have been withheld by a secondary school in Malacca from students who owe the school money. The Principal of St. Francis Institution. Brother Philip, said today that it was the only way to collect its due
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  • 40 3 BOAC's advertising manager, Mr. James Croall, arrived here yesterday to survey the airline's advertising programmes in the region. Mr. Croall, a former journalist and press officer arrived from Hong Kong. He will leave for Kuala Lumpur tomorrow.
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  • 235 3 Commercial Higher School Certificate classes conducted by the Adult Education Board are proving very popular among the school leavers. New Nation was told today that there are about 300 applicants on the waiting list since the board started registering students for the HSC
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  • 191 3 The Science Council of Singapore will offer incentive awards for science and mathematics teachers in primary and secondary schools here. The council recently decided to offer three awards annually to outstanding creative science teachers in the primary and secondary schools. Known as the Science Teachers
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  • 39 3 Rome, Thursday. The Stromboll island volcano erupted yesterday, hurling red-hot rocks and cinders into the sky with a loud bang. Flaming lava flowed down a trail known as the "path of fire," but stopped after 165 ft.
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 97 3 At the cinema Lido: Burn—l.4s, 4, 6.30, 9.15 p.m. Capiol: The Lady Hermit (Mandarin)—l.3o, 4, 6.45, 9.30 p.m. Rex: Asmara Kirana (Malay)—l.3o, 4, 6.30, 9.30 p.m. Sky: The Eunuch (Mandarin)—l.4s, 4, 6.30, 9.15 p.m. Roxy: The Eunuch (Mandarin)—l.4s, 4.15,„ 7, 9.30 p.m. State: Which Way To The Front—l.4s, 4, 7,
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  • COMMENT
    • 1405 5  -  As Filipinos search for a workable political system From S. M. Ali In Just two months time, 320 elected representatives of the Philippines will begin their deliberation on their country's constitution in a unique move to modernise the young Republic's political system. The Convention, which meets on June
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    • 696 5  -  Portuguese outpost is Chinese all over From Pang Cheng Lian Hong Kong is now bustling with activities as foreign traders make last minute attempts to secure invitations to the Canton Trade Fair, but in Macau, the other official gateway to China, the quiet life goes on
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  • Page 5 Advertisements
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  • 299 6 The Government is prepared to support the establishment of co-operative supermarkets as perhaps the best way of fighting rising prices in Singapore. This was the gist of the Prime Minister's speech at the Pek Kio Community Centre, on Saturday. The need for consumer
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  • 610 6  -  JACKIE SAM The big political mystery in town is no mystery at all. Few people today are unware that a few doctors and lawyers are behind one of the two new political parties. The really mystifying Bart8 art about the whole affair
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  • Letters
    • 462 6  -  R. VETRIVELU Several people responded to the statement made by the Colombo Plan expert on Tamil Education Mr. K. Govlndasamy. Mr. Govlndasamy flayed the Government on Its attitude toward Tamil education and those who occupy the seats of the Inspectorate of Tamil Studies at the Ministry.
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    • 163 6  -  B.G.P. KRUYSMULDER Manager Caldbeck MacGregor and Co. Ltd. Singapore I should like to refer to the article written by "Li Po" (New Nation, March 27). While I am not unappreciative of the kind remarks made by "Li Po" in his generally excellent and enlightening article, it is
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  • 841 6  -  By Gerald de Cruz There has been a great deal of favourable comment on the liveliness and pertinence of our backbenchers in the debate on the budget, and it is justified. The backbenchers are now fully relaxed in their role
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  • The voice of the Press
    • 83 6 What the other newspapers are saying: The co-operative shoemaking industry in Singapore, which is run by a group of ex-detainees, is now a successful enterprise. This, as the Minister for Home Affairs, has said, shows that they have as good a talent for managing commercial enterprises as they
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    • 188 6 The fishing industry has a bright future in this country but our fishermen are still being neglected and there has been no improvement in their lot. This is not an idle observation. It is a statement that has been substantiated by a study carried out by two experts
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    • 100 6 Communist invasions are occurring all around Thailand. The situation is worsening daily as can be seen in neighbouring Laos. The Khmer Republic is also facing the same problem, because former Prime Minister Prince Sihanouk allowed the Communists to build up strongholds there. Thailand has long been a prime
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  • SHOPPING
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  • WOMAN
    • 206 11  -  DIANNE WOOD. Once upon a time there was a dark-eyed girl who just could not decide what she wanted to wear. The boys said she had nice legs and they liked to see her in long, shapely boots
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    • 932 11 They can eause anemia and malnutrition The Doctors guide f** to HEALTH I don't often see undernourished children in my practice nowadays but there was no mistaking what was wrong with little Rajoo the minute he walked into the office. He was pale, listless, scrawny and for
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    • 471 11  -  This yearly formality is far from boring DOING THE ROUNDS WITH GRACIA TAY-CHEE Annual general meetings are usually boring affairs except to the members immediately concerned in this necessary yearly formality. Husbands badgered by dutiful association member wives to accompany them to the annual
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  • NEW NATION'S Finance and business
    • 1176 12 ALL YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE STOCK EXCHANGE COUNTERS INDUSTRIALS 1970-1971 1 wk. 4 wks Closing Price last Divid. P/E TurnHigh Low ago ago Stock Buyers Sellers Sale Yield Ratio Over 4.50 2.60 2.80 2.90 Allied Chocolate 2.70 2.70 4.5N 17.1 1.90 0.84i 1.23 1.27 Ben
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    • 140 12 WASHINGTON, Thurs.—Lockheed Airport Company officials moved swiftly yesterday to see whether customers for its Tristar Airbus would pay a higher price for the Jumbo jet necessitated by costlier Rolls Royce RB2II engines. A Lockheed spokesman said that first on the list was Air Canada which
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    • 288 12 United Press International New York, Thursday Stocks moved slightly higher in fairly heavy trading on Wall Street yesterday. At the final bell, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 0.98 at 904.37 and advances topped declines, 772 to 626. A turnover of 17,610,000 shares compared
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    • 339 12 United Press International London, Thursday Investors liked Britain's new tax cutting budget with its promise of radical tax reforms and yesterday swept prices forward along a broad front. After the first hectic buying rush subsided, the market took a breather and trimmed some of
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    • 212 12 Allied Chem 26", Alcoa 62% Am Brands 49% Am Can 33'/* Am Motors AT T 48% A St P Anaconla 22% Avon Pd Beth Steel 21% Boeing 20% Caterp Trac 47% Chrysler 26% Coca-Cola 94% Control Data 63% Corn G1 Wks 243% Dow Chem 87 DuPont E
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    • 331 12 NORMAL SOON, SAYS REPORT Private British investors are expected to steer clear of Australian shares for a while yet. But the big London institutions think there may be a general recovery in prices over the next year. These are two of the findings of a survey carried
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  • 408 12  -  It will be hard to beat for a long time CINEMA By EDGAR KOH THE ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN starring Robert Shaw and Christopher Plummer. While shooting this picture well known British actor and playwright Robert Shaw said: "It is an incredible story. I'm amazed
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  • SPORT 1
    • 483 13  -  Principal is behind them all the way CAMERA ON SCHOOLS Words: Jeffrey Low Principals of schools can sometimes play a Seat role in encouragg sports, if they get themselves totally involved in school activities. Because, If they do not, the teachers concerned may -feel that their efforts
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    • 35 13 Leaping over the wooden-hone is Lee Chye Huat (40) from District 7. Pictures: Steven Lee Concentration Urn Took Gwedk (29) from District 4 doing the straddle in the floor exercise section.
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    • 389 14  -  By Lim Kee Chan Graeme Lawrence, the New Zealand motor-racing ace has finally managed to purchase a suitable car in time for the Singapore Grand Prix from April 8 to 11. Graeme told me when I .1 telephoned him In New Zealand yesterday that it was
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    • 183 14 Reuter London, Thursday The British Government today announced it will pay the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), England's ruling cricket body, £75,054 in compensation for the cancellation of last year's South African cricket tour. The announcement was made by Mr. Eldon Griffiths, the Conservative Government's Minister for
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    • 358 14 Rome, Thursday Nino Benvenuti, 32, former Italian boxing idol and World middleweight champion, is undergoing medical examinations. On the results will deEend whether he is fit to ave a rematch with Carlos Monzon the Argentinian who took the title from him last November, in Rome.
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    • 134 14 Johannesburg, Thursday. —The President of the South African Cricket Association, Mr. Jack Cheetham, said last night that i the future of cricket here would depend on teams being selected purely on merit, irrespective of race. He was commenting on Prime Minister Mr. John Vorster's statement at a
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    • 155 14 New Nation Foreign Service London, Thursday The Asian demonstration in London last Sunday against the Immigration Bill was a Sunday school outing compared to the Asian demonstration at Wembley where Indonesian, Thai, Malaysian and Japanese badminton stars showed the English public how to play. An awe-struck
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    • 74 14 Bangkok, Thursday.—The Police team of Iraq yesterday humiliated Taj of Iran, the defending champions, 2-0 but refused to play the Israelis in the final of the Fourth Asian Champion Club's soccer tournament. Iraq has already pledged a boycott of the Israeli team in any encounter and therefore
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    • 45 14 Mogadishu, Thursday. Omalia last night joined Zambia and Ethiopia in announcing they will boycott the 1972 Munich Olympic Games if Rhodesia's invitation to take part is confirmed. Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya said earlier yesterday they were considering the situation concerning Rhodesia's invitation.
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