New Nation, 12 April 1971

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  • 17 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Monday evening, April 12, 1971 No. 72 Price 15 cents SINGAPORE MONDAY, APRIL 12
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  • 353 1  -  Perseverance all round made it three in a row Stary by LIM KEE CHAN Perseverance is the word, said Graeme Lawrence, New Zealand's winner of the Singapore Grand Prix for the third year running at Sembawang yesterday. It took him, his dad Doug and brother Tony, almost
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  • 36 1 LATE NEWS Jakarta, Monday—President Suharto left Jakarta today for Palu in central Celebes for a five day visit to East Indonesia. The President will observe development projects in Celebes and on the Moluccas islands.
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  • 106 1 Reuter Calcutta, Monday. An Italian priest claimed today that about 200 people, mostly Roman Catholics had been mowed down by West Pakistani troops using machine-guns inside a church compound near Jessore, East Pakistan. Father Colussi, rector of the Don Bosco Missionary school in
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  • 63 1 A board of Inquiry made up of Defence Ministry officials will sit today to prepare a report on the two missing Hunter jets. The two pilots of the missing aircraft Lt Hoe ram Bock, 22, and Second Lt. Chua Tak Heng, 21 have been listed
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  • 76 1 The stock market opened the week on a very quiet note. Business was centred on only six counters in the industrial section. They were Chemical Company unchanged at $1.42; Cycle and Carriage at $1.89; Tractors Malaysia at $2.28; Malayan Tobacco gained two cents to $4.20; Starlite Ceramics
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  • 370 1 New bus system hits workers Policemen, officials from the Registry of Vehicles and bus inspectors joined forces today to help thousands of commuters cope with the new transport system. Armed with bus guides and cyclostyled sheets bearing service numbers and routes, they manned the main bus stops
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  • 384 1 Colombo, Monday Rebels attacked the military section of Ceylon's international airport here on Saturday but were driven off by air force guards, newsmen arriving by air learned yesterday. An airport official told a reporter, "I heard firing on the other side of the rnftin runway."
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  • 13 1 Police reported a total of 82 accidents yesterday. Nine were serious.
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    • 57 1 NEWS IN COLOUR! Another first for New Nation—action at the Singapore Grand Prix Border Tension, Page 4 THREE WINNERS Moneywords today pays out $lOOO to three people. Are you one of the lucky winners? If not, remember that the next contest carries a top prize of $5OOO. You could be
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    • 38 1 WORLD'S RELIGIONS Today New Nation brings you another Educational Broadsheet two pages that tell the full story of the world's religions. And with this special feature goes a special offer to teachers. ITS ON PAGES 8 AND 9
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    • 9 1 —Pictures in Page 3' Get and with VIMTO flavour
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  • 230 2 It was a case of urgency when the Singapore Association for the Blind sent out eight cheques last week. Totalling $17,123, they were for eight charitable organisations looking after the blind. The money represented 10 percent of tne runds raised at the Bth International
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  • 127 2 There were 40,682 people on the Ministry of Labour's "live" register looking for jobs at the end of February. Of these, only 1080 were receiving public assistance from the Social Welfare Department, according to the Ministry's latest employment report. The majority of these
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  • 40 2 The Australian Alumni has presented a TV set to the Red Cross Crippled Children's Home. It was presented by Dr. Anthony E. L. Ong, chairman or the sub-com-mittee community service of the alumni on Saturday.
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  • 577 2 Urgent need for 1000 workers in textile mills More than 1000 jobs are going a-begging in the textile industry as there are no women workers willing to fill them. Reason: The salaries are not as attractive as those paid by other Industries, p a r
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  • 256 2 These four are off to challenge a mountain Women may be considered the fairer sex but certainly not the weaker. At least this is what these four girls are out to prove. They left on Saturday with 11 men to
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  • 39 2 Jakarta, Monday. A Laotian government emissary, Mr. Pagna Kaniphan Panya, was expected in Jakarta last night to meet with Foreign Minister Mr. Adam Malik and other Indonesian government officials during his brief stay in Jakarta.
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  • 113 2 Rome, Monday —An official at the Romanian Embassy yesterday fell to his death from a fourth floor window while playing a game of ball with his small son, police said. The man was identified as Victor Baidac, 36, of Bucharest. A Red Cross ambulance
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  • 86 2 Captain Martin Choo Kok Lye of the Ministry of Defence and Miss Irene Lim Soon Kiang, a school teacher, were married at the Church of Saints Peter and Paul yesterday. The groom is the fifth son of Mr. and Mrs. Choo Peng Klang and the bride,
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  • 294 2 A local teacher who learnt Japanese during the Occupation has won the first prize in a Japanese language course. Mr. Chong Ah Wah, who received the prise said: "After haying learnt Japanese during the Second World War, I thought it would be a sheer waste
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  • 131 3 All-round help as new transport system gets underway here Worry, concern, puzzlement.. Just three of the expressions mirrored on the faces of hundreds of early morning commuters today as they i tackled the new transport system for the first time. Helping to solve the
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  • 114 3 The Youth Department of the Chinese YMCA today begins a five-day holiday camp for children. Highlights of the programme include sessions on learning to play the recorder, egg-shell craft, hlke-cum-picnic to Mt. Faber, a swim at the Yan Kit Swimming Pool and a tour
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  • 240 3 600 to shed last colonial vestige for new-look brighter uniforms About 600 officers of the Public Health Division will be wearing "new look" beige-coloured uniforms next year. Som,e officers have .already been measured for the new uniforms. Others have received circulars from the Ministry of Health informing
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  • 202 3 Kuala Lumpur, Monday Malaysian civil servants will have to wear special uniforms to work and for informal functions. Circulars to this effect have been sent to the secretary generals of all Ministries and State Secretaries by the Chief Secretary to the Government, Tan
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  • 41 3 A lecture on death from myocarditis—an appraisal of some clinical signs and symptoms will be given by Dr. Chao Tzee Cheng of the Pathology Department. Outram Road General Hospital, at 1 p.m. today at the Medical Unit n seminar room.
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  • 270 3 Malacca, Monday Heart patients here can now get intensive care with the opening of a special $50,000 unit at the General Hospital. The unit, called the Intensive Care Unit, is sponsored by the Malacca Rotary Club and financed by both the club and the
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  • 260 3 Three significant events will take place this evening at the opening of the 127 th meeting of the Synod of' the Presbyterian Church in Singapore and Malaysia. The meeting, to be held at the Presbyterian Church in Orchard Road, will be attended by some 60
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  • 235 3 The Port of Singapore Authority has trained nearly 250 staff to cater for the manpower needs of the $7B million East Lagoon Container Complex which will be operating by the middle of next year. A PSA spokesman, who disclosed this today, said they were
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  • 98 3 Melbourne, Monday->-Aus-tralla should have expected to lose its US$lOO million wheat sales to China, the leader of the Federal Parliamentary Labour Party, Mr. Gough Whitlam, said last night. "You cannot expect to abuse customers and expect to get their orders," he told a TV audience. Mr.
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  • 46 3 The Australian Defence Minister, Mr. John Gorton, arrives from Sydney tonight with his wife for a brief stop-over before flying on to London for the Five-power defence talks. Singapore's Defence Minister, Dr. Goh Keng Swee. left yesterday morning for London.
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  • 212 3 Students of Victoria School climbed Mount Ophir during the weekend. The 24 students from the school's scout troop and cadet corps and the eight teachers who accompanied them are due back in Singapore today. Mr. Tng Kim puan, a physical education instructor who organised the
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  • 28 3 Brlsb an e, Monday.— Thieves escaped with goods worth A 522,000 (8*66,000) from a gold dealer here because the batteries in a burglar alam were flat.
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 97 3 At the cinema Cathay: Darling Lili 2.30. 6. 9 D.m. Orchard: Ryan's Daughter 12.45, 4.30, 8.15 pjn. Odeon: Waterloo —2.30, 6, 9 p.m. Odeon-Katong: The Invincible Bight (Mandarin)— 1. 3.30, 7, 9.15 pjn. Lido: Irma La Douce 2.30. 6.30. 9.15 pjn. Capitol: The Battle of Giants—l.4s, 4, 6.30, 9.30 p.m.
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    • 37 3 Lucky Toto numbers x The numbers picked at yesterday's Toto Draw No. 28/71 were 33, 19, 37, 21, and 20. The additional number was 15. In the circles draw, the numbers drawn were 11, 6 and 38.
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  • THE WORLD
    • 452 4 Russians look back with sorrow, pride Moscow, Monday The Soviet Union celebrates Cosmonauts' Day today 10th anniversary of the day Yuri Gagarin startled the world with man's first journey into space. Since that history-mak-ing spin around the earth —one orbit lasting 89 minutes, six seconds 21 Soviet cosmonauts
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    • 262 4 Reuter New York, Monday The rift that led to the break-up of the Beatles began in 1966 when the pop group stopped touring, Paul McCartney said in an interview published yesterday. McCartney, the only one of the four who had not spoken out on
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    • 321 4 U.S. big stick on drug pushers United Press International Washington, Monday Increasing use of telephone taps may drive drug pushers out into the open where they will be easier to catch, the U.S. chief enforcer of narcotics laws has said. "The telephone has been a God-send to illicit
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    • 66 4 Chamonlx, Monday A police rescue team aided by a dog last night searched for four people believed burled under an avalanche which swept down the north side of Mont Blanc yesterday. The dog found a bag and a pair of skis but police have so far found
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    • 257 4 Reuter Phnom Penh, Monday The Cambodian, Premier, General Lon Nol, has decided against an operation to remove a small blood clot in his neck is expected to return from convalescence in Hawaii for the Cambodian new year this weekGeneral Nol, who flew to Hawaii lor
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    • 179 4 United Press International Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, head of the Bengali freedom movement is seen here under guard at Karachi Airport. No date was given when this picture, released by West Pakistan authorities, was taken. Pakistan has announced that the Sheikh was arrested at his home
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    • 76 4 Saigon, Monday. Vice President Ky said yesterday he may be a candidate for President in next October's election. President Thieu has not yet announced whether he will run for a second fouryear term and, if he does, whether Ky will be on the ticket with
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    • Article, Illustration
      555 4  -  Indian and Pakistani troops face each other Robert Kaylor UPI Reuter Calcutta, Monday Pakistani army troops pressed toward the Indian frontier in West Bengal State yesterday in a major offensive against "freedom fighters" in East Pakistan's border towns. Reports from the border said the Pakistani army was within
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    • 258 4 United Press International Washington, Monday Lieutenant William L. Calley's civilian attorney predicted yesterday a long struggle ahead to win freedo mfor the young soldier convicted of murdering 22 civilians at My Lai, South Vietnam. Attorney George Latimer, a former Utah Supreme Court justice and a
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    • 77 4 Rome, Monday. Bandits yesterday released Antonino Caruso, the son of one of Sicily's wealthiest industrialists, after receiving a ransom reported at more than 500 million lire (£333,000). Garuso, 31, whose father Oiacomo Caruso owns a fishing fleet and marble factories, and a chain of garages, was
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    • 37 4 St. Morltz, Monday—Fritz Von Opel, 71, a grandson of the founder of West Germany's Opel automobile firm and an engineer in his own right, died in the Samedan District Hospital at St. Morltz on Thursday.
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    • 209 4 United Press International Palermo, Monday A river of lava nearly two miles long oozed down one side of Mount Etna yesterday towards a tourist hotel, but authorities said it posed no danger. The lava Inched down the northwest slope of Etna towards a hotel sited
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    • 521 4 United Press International Rajshahi, East Pakistan, Monday From indications that reach the outside world, the struggle going on here is a good example of the battles being waged elsewhere throughout East Pakistan. In the city, once a busy trading centre
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    • 175 4 Reuter Bonn, Monday A South Korean diplomat, who vanished with his family in West Berlin last week, has crossed over into Communist East Berlin where North Korea maintains an embassy. Ud to Saturday, the police were reluctant to confirm that 38-year-old labour attache
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    • 28 4 Istanbul. Monday—Police detained two men after a bomb attack on the Ankara flat of General Atip Krdkan, planning chief of the Turkish General Staff, early yesterday.
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    • 218 5 Stability in Asia— Nasution tells how United Press International Manila, Monday General Abdul Harris Nasution, chairman of the Indonesian Provisional People's Consultative Assembly, said yesterday Asian nations must co-operate among themselves for this "the best way to safeguard stability in this region." Oen. Nasution, who arrived here yesterday for a
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    • 88 5 New York, Monday Newsweek j magazine "reported yesterday that North Vietnam has some selfmade foreign aid. The magazine said: "Hanoi's 1971 rice harvest. visitors report, may reach record proportions—an indirect and unspoken tribute to US technology. This year, North Vietnam's farmers are using 'miracle rice' seed,
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    • 425 5 US, Saigon gunboats, planes in battle New Nation Foreign Service Saigon, Monday American and South Vietnamese gunboats early this morning sank a North Vietnamese trawler after a twohour gunbattle two miles off Vietnam's far south coast. The US navy said American aircraft firing rockets and machine
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    • 58 5 A South Vietnamese soldier carrying an Ml 6 rifle and a guitar in one hand and a collapsible rocket launcher in the other, heads for a helicopter that will take him and Vietnamese soldiers to the rear bases. With the end of the Laos incursion, the ARVN
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    • 387 5 Sailing sea beset by storms —Pope United Press International Rome, Monday Pope Paul visited a humble but historic Rome district yesterday, then told a vast Easter crowd in St. Peter's Square he feared mankind was sailing a sea beset by storms of war, revolt, fearsome weapons and moral decadence. It
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    • 186 5 United Press International London, Monday A British editor said yesterday American troops in Vietnam have turned "drug-saturat-ed, mutinous, defeatist and incompetent" and should be pulled out immediately because they may be stading in the way of the South Vietnamese victory. "The position, today, in short, is
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    • 112 5 London, Monday.—Queen Elizabeth has joined Britain's ever-increasing chorus of pay demands, it was reported here yesterday. A special all-party committee of Mps will be fomed this month to review the royal family's income, which now stands at £475,000 a year, according to informed sources.
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    • 336 5 United Press International Phnom Penh, Monday A Cambodian paratrooper who was involved in a battle last Wednesday along Highway Four southwest of Phnom Penh, said yesterday he saw Communist soldiers captured Catherine (Kate) Webb, UPI bureau manager in Phnom Penh. The soldier's account was the
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    • 234 5 United Press International Tokyo,. Monday The Prime Minister, Mr. Eisaku Sato's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, which maintains the policy of close alliance with the United States, led today in local elections held in 44 prefectures. Early returns showed that the Conservative Party edged opposition parties
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    • 58 5 Rome, Monday. Pro and anti-divorce forces staged almost unnoticable demonstrations outside St. Peter's Square yesterday while Pope Paul VI was celebrating Easter Mass. An anti-divorce group handed out leaflets asking people to sign a petition seeking a referendum on the first divorce law in modern Italian history.
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    • 337 5 China welcomes visitors, confirms others invited United Press International Hong Kong, Monday China said today it had invited table tennis teams from various nations, including' the US to visit China in order to promote friendly relations with the people and sportsmen of those countries. The official Chinese
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    • 313 5  -  By New Natibn Diplomatic Editor Gerald de Cruz It will be succulent shark's fin soup and smashing service only on the ping-pong table-for the Americans during their stay in China. During the long years of their self-imposed Isolation from the world, the Chinese have, in
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  • 359 6 Resurrection is never obtained on the cheap, individually or collectively. It is usually a slow, painful and bloody business. But the business of resurrection is the business of life itself, for society as well as for the individual. To adapt a phrase from Socrates, unresurrected
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  • 774 6  -  ALEX JOSEY "This country lies under no obligations to admit any immigrants whatever. This country, through its Parliament and government, is as entitled to choose whom it prefers to admit and whom it prefers to exclude as any other na-tion-state. "And. in particular,
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  • Letters
    • 439 6 As a recent visitor to Pakistan and one who relies almost wholly on British and American newspapers and agencies for news about that unfortunate country, I would like to challenge every statement made by Mr. M.S. Islam, the Pakistani Trade Commissioner here in his letter in New
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    • 215 6  -  N. SOMAN Vice-President, Army Civil Service Union. Singapore The denial by the Base Economic Conversion Department that British base workers who are over 40 years of age are deprived the chance of participating in re-training schemes adds insult to Injury (New Nation April 5). I am
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  • 643 6  -  By Shirley Manasseh Wrongly prescribed spectacle lenses are not likely to cause serious eye damage. They only give the wearer eye strain, headaches and the inconvenience of going back to his optician for another checkup. In most cases,
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  • The voice of the Press
    • 163 6 What the other newspapers are saying: Japan's new immigration control measure is designed with the need for simplification and streamlining in mind. It sets up, for instance, new categories of "short-term visitors" besides the "tourist". They include people who w4ll be coming here for sports events, conferences, business
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    • 111 6 Singapore's urban renewal scheme centres on the old city area, which is along the northern and southern banks of the Singapore River. The greatest problem it faces is the re-settlement of the affected residents and businesses. It is not that these people would like to live in
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    • 12 6 Write to The Editor, New Nation, Locked Bag 15, GPO, Singapore 9
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    • 123 6 in i2Taa< HIS mi r^n \C *1 I f u ft Experience the Gddenßeacock Diningßoom at Here, the rich decor, fine cuisine and peerless service make dinner, lunch or just cocktails an occasion. Dinner menus will feature dishes from many lands. Prepared by Europe's culinary masters. The special lunch menus
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  • COMMENT
    • 976 7  -  They said that they would all vote against Thieu —but they did not sound happy about Big Minh either From S.M. Ali Unlike their counterparts in India or the Philippines, the students in Saigon seldom make news. As a generation that has never
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    • 871 7  -  40,000 refugees still a big problem for Thailand From Suthichai Yoon When the five-man North Vietnamese Red Cross delegation flew into Bangkok some six months ago to kick off the long-awaited negotiations over the last batch of Vietnamese refugees, there was speculation that at last
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    • 567 7  -  Hopes for copyright laws From Joe Hung Nationalist China may end its Dooming book piracy business this year. During the past 10 years or so, publishers in Formosa have reprinted thousands of American and European books without permission and sold them for a fraction of the
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  • Article, Illustration
    5154 8 New Nation Educational Broadsheet: 2 TTNLIKE other animals, Man cooks, laughs and makes tools. Even more remarkable is the fact that he worships. Throughout history, in every land, Man has sought to come to terms with something that he believes to be greater than himself. In every human settlement
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  • SHOWBIZ
    • 1019 10  -  ...And that's how a show is launched Bjr DIANNE WOOD It's opening night, and there's sense of expectancy In the audience as they sit, sippin? drinks, and making light-hearted conversation. Suddenly light showers the stage, there's a roll of drums, and an excited
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    • 444 10 Pianist with a penchant for people-watching Alfred Choo, pianist at the Singapore Hyatt, has an unusual interest. People watching! Alfred gets ample time to indulge in his hobby, unobserved, while playing in the hotel's Chin Chin bar. He sees businessmen strut and swagger in, carefree
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    • 383 10 Heather and Harvey speak... "It was almost love at first sight," said Harvey Fitzgerald looking fondly at his wife Heather. "I don't think it was," burst out Heather. "Crumbs, I don't think we have thought about it. "When we met each other we got along very well but
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    • 439 10  -  Stravinsky's music lingers on MERRY ANDREW Igor (Fedorovich) Stravinsky, who died last Tuesday, was born at Oranienbaum, Russia, in 1882, was a composer, pianist and conductor. A pupil of Rim-sky-Korsakov, he left Russia in 1914 and lived mainly in Paris. It was in 1909 that Diaghilev, Impresario
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  • WOMAN
    • 235 11  -  ALL YOU NEED IS AN EYE FOR COLOUR AND DESIGN STORY: Rohani Lee This is called the Separates Game. Have you played it recently? Any .number of players can take part, and there are virtually no rules all that is needed is experience and a good eye
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    • 625 11  -  Their ftenfr Is somehow more human and more alive From Jill Tweedie It began about 40 years ago fat people beginning to think there ought to be rather less of them. As a child, billowing bosoms and ample laps were still my natural haDitat; I
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    • 675 11  -  Serving in voluntary bodies Is a good start SOCIAL SERVICE NALLA TAN V Our morning dallies of April 2 carried 3hort accounts of a new wo- men's social group being inaugurated in Singapore. And my reaction to it was Ah, another women's organisation. I was
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  • WHEELS
    • 191 12 400,000 are killed or hurt every year on the roads —and If you don't want to be one of them heed this life-saving advice from the expert About 400,000 people are killed or injured in road accidents every year. This is one every 80 seconds. By any reckoning,
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    • 606 12 It's safer to buckle yourself down Did you fasten your seat belt when you took the car out this morning; If not, you're a mug. You're Just asking to become a digit in the road toll statistics. You would have to be the
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    • 555 12 They aim to make world's roads safer Imagine driving towards the beach for a quiet family outing. Suddenly, you hear a voice Inside the car. "Warning! There has been a five-car smash at the intersection of X and Y. Traffic cannot get through.
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  • 693 12 THE SHARES GAME: PART 13 BY CHAR^EXUS Growth shares are the ones that go up and up i.e. in a bull market. Here are some of the characteristics of a real growth share. The company's gross and net earnings must be
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  • SPORT 1
    • 103 13 What a day for a day dream at the GP. Pictures by Ali Yusoff and Steven Lee Albert Poon, full of smiles after he retained the Saloon and Tourers title. B. Tyler in his Ford T in the Vintage and PVT cars race. N. Kinoshita's wrecked
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    • 246 14 Reuter Augusta, Georgia Monday Charles Coody, the lanky 33-year-old Texan, shot a two-under par-70 here yesterday to win the 35th Masters golf championship by two strokes over pre-tourna-ment favourite Jack Nicklaus and youthful John Miller. Playing the pccr-72, 6980yar d Augusta National Course through four days
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    • 49 14 DEATH MR. K. P. NALLIAH Retired Govt. Servant passed away peacefully at 3.00 a.m. 12.4.71. Mourned by wife, sons Dr. Poramanathan, Pad ma na than, daughter Pod made vi, son-in-law daughter.-in-laws and five Grandchildren Cortege leaves Ma. 4 Jalan Beringin off Haig Road at 5.30 p.m. to Hindu Crematorium.
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    • 95 14 Taipei, Monday—Australia's Graham Marsh led the overall Asian Golf Circuit standings with 77 1/5 points after the Taiwan Open yesterday. Two tournaments remain to be played In the nine-leg circuit the Korean Open and the Yomiuri Internanational. OTHER PLACING S: L Hd.l. Min Nan (TaL) 7«K;
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    • 67 14 Seoul, Monday.—Thirty young boxers from elgbt countries will take part In the Second Asian youth boxing championships here from April 20 to 25, the South Korean Amateur Boxing Association said yesterday. The countries Include Japan, Thailand, the Philippines, Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan and South Korea.
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    • 44 14 London, Monday.—At the final forfeit stage yesterday Caspar, Psalt, X-Ray, The Buck, Gold Lane, Treasure Quest, Oolden Ridge and Pardon were taken out of the Queen's Prize handicap run over two miles at Kempton today, leaving thirteen declared runners.
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    • 358 14  -  By Sonny Yap When Raffles Institution began Its soccer build-up early this year, it was faced with the big problem of mustering a championship slge. Task No. 1 was to fill the void caused by the departure of many star players including some who represented
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    • 848 14  -  From Bob Waters New Nation Foreign Service in New York The Broadway sign over his head advertised that steak dinner inside were US$l.59, and Harold Johnson, who had been a professional fighter for 25 years and a champion for one of those
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    • 367 15  -  By Jeffrey Low New Zealand's Geoff Perry, 21, winner of the 1971 Singapore Grand Prix for motor-cycles over the Sembawang circuit yesterday, later said it had been planned that he finish ahead his team-mate Trevor Discombe. After winning the main event for the first
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    • 268 15 CRICKET London, Monday England's double series of Tests this summer against Pakistan and then India have the added significance of Australia's visit here in 1972. Although Pakistan and India are certain to provide tough opposition particularly India alter their successful tour of the West Indies
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    • 22 15 Blackpool, England, Monday—Halifax beat Blackpool Borough by 41 points to 10 in the only English Rugby League match played yesterday.
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    • 200 15 If there is any prize for ingenuity in the Singapore Grand Prix, it should go to British serviceman, Don Livingston. Don's 248 cc Ducati (No. 28) gave up on him after about 10 laps of the motorScle OP as he approached e Sembawang
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    • 116 15 Sydney, Monday Two of the most famous thoroughbred horse breeders in the world have combined to buy a 1720-acre stud farm in the Hunter Valley district, about 100 miles north of Sydney, for an estimated US$l million. The breeders are Lord Derby of Woodlands stud. Newmarket, England,
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    • 389 15 United Press International Melbourne, Monday The National Labour Youth Conference in Melbourne will organise a campaign to stop all racist sporting events, Including the forthcoming Australian tour by the South African cricket team. The Conference decided on Sunday to write to the South African cricketers
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    • 92 15 MELBOURNE Carlton 20.9 (U9) d. Essendon 9.15 (89); Hawthorn 14.11 (97) d. Fttiroy 7.11 (53) Geelong 16.14 (119) d. Sth. Melb. 12.20 (92). ADELAIDE Norwood 21.9 (195) d. Torrent 19.21 (117); Bth AdeL 21.15 (141) d. Glenlg 19.19 (199); West AdeL 99.19 (IS9) d. Central* 29.15 (1S5);
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    • 66 15 New York, Monday BesuMs of yesterday's games. Nat. Laapo Meto 9 Bods 2 BrtTM B Ptrateo 4 Astros 9 Cubs 1 Dodgers 1 9 Padres 9 Phittes 4 Expos 1 Giants 9 Cardinals 4 Amer. Leant Yankees 9 Senators 0 Orioles 9 Tigers 1 Indians 11 Bed Sox
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