New Nation, 28 April 1971

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    16 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Wednesday evening, April 28, 1971 No. 86 Price 15 cents NEW NATION j
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    ON THE 'CHANGE
    141 1 The stock exchange was dull this morning. First and second class issues were generally steady. Interest was centred on Robinson ordinary, which was traded from $2.84 to $2.88. Straits Trading was unchanged at $5.75. Oversea Chinese Bank and Guinness advanced to higher levels of $5 and $4.92
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    OUR ROADS
    10 1 Police reported 64 accidents yesterday. Six were serious.
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    Snow at equator
    50 1 LATE NEWS Ecuador, Wednesday—A heavy snow yesterday blanketed Quito, which straddles the equator. One person died in the snowstorm and heavy damage in the city was reported. Quito's position astride the equator combined with its 9000 ft altitude give it an average temperature of 55f.. in. May.
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    Students to press claims
    276 1 POSTERS ON BIG DAY Undergraduates of the University of Singapore •VaII press their case for greater participation in university affairs during a visit to the campus by President Sheares on Friday. The President, who is the Chancellor of the university, will face an array of banners
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    Lock icon Landslide win means third term for Park
    190 1 Reuter Seoul, Wednesday South Korea's President Park Chung Hee today won a third term as president. His election insures a continued policy of no compromise with Communist North Korea. At 9 a.m. today President Park held a lead of 568,750 votes over his
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    Lock icon 17 die in big fire
    357 1 Forest inferno traps Japanese firemen United Press International Tokyo, Wednesday Seventeen were killed when a fire swept through timber day mountain forest near Kure yesterday. The fire which was still blazing out of control this morning nearly 24 hours after it started is one of
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    Air talks resume
    137 1 Kuala Lumpur, Wednesday—Talks to hammer out an air services agreement between Malaysia and Singapore resumed at 11 this morning to give officials of both sides time to prepare tneir "figures." There were two sessions yesterday and according to sources the going was said to be "very tough."
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    Skull, bones unearthed
    66 1 A human skull and some bones were unearthed yesterday by construction workers involved in road works at 19} m.s. Lim Chu Kang Road. Police said today that a coffin lid was found next to the bones when a bulldozer was moving earth from an embankment. Anyone who
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    Uni students apathetic
    384 1 USSU president cites two reasons The enforcement of the regulations regarding the suitability certificate and the continued existence of Special Branch men among undergraduates are two reasons why university students are taking a cautious attitude towards political activities. Very often, outspoken and critical undergraduates have been warned
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    Bandits get $980,000
    34 1 Vancouver, Wednesday.— Two masked, armed bandits held up a bank here yesterday and escaped with U*****,000. The bandits held employees and customers at gunpoint while taking the money from the strongroom.
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    Lock icon Pakistan troops open fire on Indians
    297 1 United Press International New Delhi, Wednesday India has alleged that Pakistani army troops shot and killed five Indians and wounded three others near an important border crossing into East Pakistan yesterday. Indian military sources at the international border said today the killings occurred well
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    Hot pants in cold war
    91 1 Berlin, Wednesday—East German girls are being warned that hot pants are a cold war weapon that cannot compare to hearts hot for the cause of Communism. The Communist party newspaper Freedom; spoke out against hot pants, which now are being worn in East Germany, but
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    Defence burden won't be all ours ...
    218 1 Defence burden won't be all ours The New Zealand Defence Minister. Mr. David Thomson, said today the defence of Malaysia and Singapore would never rest entirely on the shoulders of the armed forces of the two countries. "It never has and never will," said Mr. Thomson, who arrived from New
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    A quiet life at sea, but it's no pleasure cruise
    286 2 'Ghost-ship* duty dull but also 'kind of scary' Life can be pretty dull if you are stuck with a 10,000-ton ship all to yourself in the open sea, especially when the pabins are locked and shuttered. This is what three
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    Drugs found in envoy's bag
    56 2 Cairo, Wednesday Customs officials found 70 kilos of drugs in the luggage of Central African Republic diplomat, Mr. Gilbert Fambl, at Cairo airport today, the Midle East news agency reported. Mr. Fambi, second secretary at his country's embassy. was coming from Beirut. His bags held
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    Children to take part in variety concert
    209 2 A children's concert, "The Budding Generation", will be staged at the Victoria Theatre on June 12 and 13. Some 180 children, aged 3V4 to 12 years, from the National Theatre Club Troupe will take part. The two-day concert is to mark the first
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    75 Thais leave after tour of bases in Republic
    174 2 A group of 75 officers and cadets from the Thai Air Force Academy left for home yesterday after a two-day tour of military bases in the Republic. The team, led by Group Captain Watit Holasut, arrived here on Sunday. They landed
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    Rolls talks
    34 2 London, Wednesday—Mr. Daniel Haughton, Lockheed's chairman, flew into London from California yesterday for another round of talks about the fate of the RB-211 engine which Rolls-Royce is producing for his Trlstar jets.
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    Fished out Second World War torpedo destroyed
    179 2 Kuala Lumpur, Wednesday A Second World War torpedo fished out by a trawler off Kuala Kurau in Perak has been destroyed by the RMN diving tender K.D. Duyong, The fishermen had at first thought that the British-made torpedo was a treasure chest, a
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    Outram shop centre seeks a reprieve
    668 2  -  TIME TO SERVE BUT NO CUSTOMERS By Wee Beng Huat The modern shopping complex which grew out of the shadows of the old Outram prison is facing its own kind of death sentence. The Outram Park shopping complex, with its fountains, gardens and fish
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    $1.2 mil. cargo ships link-up
    161 2 Agreement has been reached between Singapore and Japan to set up a $1.2 million joint shipping venture to own cargo ships. The new Joint venture will be set up by the Staterun Singapore Neptune Orient Lines, the Japan Kawasaki Steamship Company and the Jurong Shipbuilders
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    Trip that ended in a nightmare
    200 2 A boat trip to the Southern Islands over the weekend turned out to be a nightmare for an engineer and his family wiien they were left stranded on the Island after their boat was stolen. Mr. John Halllday, his wife and their 20-month-old baby,
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    Ministry checks on quitting firemen
    248 2 The Ministry of Social Affairs is investigating the reported resignations of five officers and 12 firemen from the Central Fire Brigade to Join a shipyard for better wages. A Ministry spokesman this morning told New Nation that the Investigation centred around whether it was true
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    Sponsored students
    75 2 Canberra, Wednesday.—A total of 481 Malaysians were studying at Australian tertiary Institutes under international or government sponsorship last year. This figure was drawn from statistics released by the Australian Department of Education and Science; The students were engag- Ed In nine different fields of study. These Included the
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    HDB flats bought with CPF funds
    160 2 More than 18,000 people have withdrawn $54 million from the Central Provident Fund Board to buy Housing and Development Board flats since the government introduced the house ownership scheme three years ago. These figures were revealed today by a spokesman for the Board. He
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    Antonio, dancer with soul
    154 2 "Antonio, he dances with the soul of Spain." That was the verdict on the celebrated Spanish dancer by a fellow Spaniard, Mrs. G. F. Anson, living in Singapore. She is one of the only two Spaniards registered with the small Spanish consulate here under the honorary
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      103 2 Weather Temperatures in world capitals yesterday: Jakarta 95-80 Hong Kong 79-70 Bangkok 94-78 Taipei 75-64 Kuala Lumpur 91-73 Manila 93-76 Naha 75-69 London 50-37 Paris 51-41 Moscow 39-28 New York 58-42 San Francisco 70-48 Sydney 74-58 Melbourne 65-52 Perth 70-49 Singapore Singapore's weather forecast from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.
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    Youth gives lead in social reforms
    532 3 The overthrow of President Soekarno by students in Indonesia, the anti-corruption movements of the Philippine youth and student protests against the Vietnam war were all indicative of the great dissatisfaction of youth with adult politics. Mr. Ong Ah Heng, addressing about 1000 preuniverslty students
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    High-power task force and political committee for MCA
    188 3 Kuala Lumpur. Wednesday The Malaysian Chinese Association is to set up a supervisory task force to ensure cohesion and co-ordination at all levels of the party's units. The association's president Tun Tan Siew Sin said yesterday the task force would help the
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    Industry's effect on society explored
    404 3 Today, all our actions count in affecting others, says economics lecturer Delegates from 4 nations hear paper The industrial process has spun new patterns of dependency in human society. This was stated in a paper by Dr. Lee Soo Ann on Probe into Industrialisation at
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    Ban affects AA
    243 3 The Automobile Association of Singapore will seek a blanket approval from the traffic police to allow its breakdown service vehicles to enter the centre carriageway of Nicoll Highway to answer emergency calls at all times. Under the new legislation which prohibits goods vehicles and those restricted to
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    Tourism to get big boost
    365 3 Increasing number of charter flights from Europe to Singapore and Malaysia in the long term will help boost the tourist industry in the two countries. Mr. Seah Kiok Joo, a director of Trans Euro Asian Travel Ltd., responsible for at least one flight a week
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    Toa Payoh Muslims to have a big mosque
    357 3 The 7 500 Muslims of Toa Payoh will nave one of the biggest mosques in Singapore within the next two years. The chairman of the executive committee formed for the $300,000 project Tuan Haji Buang bin Sarman, said the Muslim residents of
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    Lava course changes
    59 3 Catania, Wednesday—Red hot lava pouring from Mount Etna yesterday inexplicably changed course and began running into an empty, grassless and uninhabited valley much to the relief of the surrounding population. Etna has been belching forth glowing ash rock and lava for almost a month in one of
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    Sow unity seeds call
    298 3 Start it in the country's classrooms Hussein Johore Bahru, Wednesday The seeds of multiracial unity must be cast in the country's classrooms, the Minister of Education, Inche Hussein Onn, said here today. This task, though heavy for the teachers, was vitally Important, he said while on
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    Orchestral concert at the Vic to aid fund
    153 3 The Young Musicians' Society will present an orchestral concert in aid of its Tour Fund, at the Victoria Theatre today at 8 p.m. The Singapore Youth Orchestra and the Singapore Youth Chinese Orchestra will be featured. Tickets at $1 are available at
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    Epidemic hits India
    44 3 Bombay, Wednesday—The worst epidemic in India's history has stricken one out of every 20 of Bombay's four million population, Health authorities said today. Identified as conjunctivitis, the viral disease attacks the eye which then swells on reddens to an extreme degree.
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    Former detainees to make boots for the police
    262 3 The Shoe Makers' Co-operative Industrial Society a factory set up by ex-political detainees have been given a year's contract to make police boots for the Singapore Police Force Disclosing this today, the chairman of the co-opera-tive, Mr. Ong Chang Sam, who is
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    Research drive urged
    61 3 Rangoon, Wednesday Burma's National Planning Minister, Brigadier San U has called for a research drive to help in raising the country's sagging economy. Speaking at the recent Sixth Annual Research Congress, Brigadier U urged researchers to study current market trends to help launch Burma's first-ever four-year plan
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    51 detainees released
    40 3 Kuching, Wednesday. Fifty-one political detainees, including 13 women, were released yesterday In Kuching, after renouncing Communism and pledging their undivided loyalty to the King and country. They had been under detention for between one to four years.
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
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      82 3 At the cinema ORCHARD: Ryan's Daughter 12.45, 4.30, 8.15 p.m. ODEON: You Can't Win Them All 1.30. 4, 6.30, 9.30 p.m. CATHAY: Myra Breckinridge 1.30, 4, 6.30, 9.30 p.m. ODEON-KATONG: Mission To Die 3.30, 7, 9.15 p.m. LIDO: Singing Killer (Mandarin) 1.30, 4, 6.30 p.m. CAPITOL: Whem Dinosaurs Rule the
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Viet Reds can't attack for 12 months, says SEATO
      315 4 Reuter K.C. Thaler, London, Wednesday Leaders of the SouthEast Asia Treaty Organisation (SEATO) reached the joint conclusion yesterday that the ability of the North Vietnamese to launch a major offensive has been curbed for the next 12 months. SEATO Foreign Ministers
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      Lock icon Turkey invokes martial law
      214 4 Reuter Istanbul, Wednesday Army commanders took over 11 of Turkey's 67 provinces yesterday as the Prime Minister, Mr. Nihat Erim's v government invoked martial law to clamp down on politically-inspired violence. The martial law provisions, covering Ankara, Istanbul and other key areas, were announced after a
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      Lock icon Japan plans boost in defence spending
      475 4 Call for more tanks, missiles, ships and planes Reuter Tokyo, Wednesday Japan's Defence Agency yesterday announced a new draft defence plan more than doubling the nation's expenditure on its armed forces over the next five years. The five-year plan calls for an outlay of
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      Lock icon More aid pledge from US to growing countries
      344 4 Reuter Manila, Wednesday The United States yesterday- pledged to increase its total aid to developing countries in the next fiscal year. Mr. William Tonesk, first secretary of the American Chancery in Bangkok. told the 27th session of the United Nations Economic Commission
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      Lock icon Aust aborigines lose land rights
      152 4 Reuter Darwin, Wednesday Eleven Australian aborigine tribes have lost their battle to gain legal recognition of their tribal land rights. The Northern Territory Supreme Court yesterday dismissed a claim by the villagers of Irrkala, 400 miles e"2Lst of here, that land now owned by the
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      Lock icon Rationing in Fiji as dock strike remains unsettled
      155 4 Reuter Suva, Wednesday Suva shops have begun rationing food as the national dockworkers strike enters its 20th day without sign of settlement. Butter, flour, salt and tea are being rationed and many shops have no potatoes or onions. Airport workers have warned
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      Two killed in blast
      71 4 Bangkok, Wednesday Two people were killed and 16 Injured, several of them critically, when a grenade was thrown into a house in Sing Burl province, 95 miles north of here. The peopie had Just taken part in a Buddhist alms giving ceremony on Sunday when an
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      TV for Africa recommended
      65 4 Cape Town, Wednesday— A commission of Inquiry yesterday recommended as essential the introductoin of television in South Africa the last developed country still without it. The commission's report, tabled in Parliament by National Education Minister Mr. Johannes van Der Spuy, said planning for the first stage
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      The monkey's royal admirers
      28 4 Prlnc J e^ a MichTo;\Td iu?. I*l th h -other, Crown Princess, who turned two this month, Is the youngest oftoperor n °HhrUto he
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      Lock icon Israel's new peace offer
      381 4 Jerusalem seeks an unlimited ceasefire United Press International Tel Aviv, Wednesday Foreign Minister Mr. Abba Eban has disclosed that Israel is not demanding an Egyptian declaration ending the state of 'war but rather seeks an unlimited ceasefire. This indicated an apparent softening of Jerusalem's peace stance.
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      Draft calls cut in US from May
      245 4 Wednesday The US Defence Secretary, Mr. Melvin Laird, announced yesterday that draft calls would be cut for the rest of this year and said he did not expect them to exceed 10,000 in any month. Mr. Laird announced that the draft call for
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      Blast kills 9
      38 4 Moscow, Wednesday. Nine schoolchildren were killed outright and four injured in the Ukraine when a World War two artillery shell exploded as they attempted to detonate It during a school break, It was reported yesterday.
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      Lock icon Spying as an obligation
      340 5 Govt's right to gather intelligence defended United Press International Washington, Wednesday The Nixon administration's internal security chief suggested yesterday that the assassination of the Kennedy brothers and Kent State student shootings might have been prevented by better government intelligence. Assistant attorney general Mr. Robert C. Mardian
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      Lock icon Tupolev supports supersonic airliners
      269 5 Reuter East Berlin, Wednesday Professor Alexei Tupolev, chief constructor of the TU-144, Russia's rival to the Concorde, said yesterday he firmly believed that supersonic airliners would determine the overall future of aviation, even on shorter flights. Professor Tupolev, in an interview with the East German Communist
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      First Lady
      26 5 Haiti, Wednesday. Madame Simone Duvalier was yesterday declared First Lady of Haiti by her son, Jean-Claude Duvalier, the Republic's new teenage President for life.
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      Lock icon Ex-dictator Peron may return to Argentina from exile
      160 5 United Press International Buenos Aires, Wednesday Two top supporters of former Argentine dictator Mr. Juan Peron, returned here from talks with him in Madrid yesterday and said he wanted to return to his homeland as soon is possible. But Mr. Jorge Daniel
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      18 hurt in explosion
      54 5 Gaza, Wednesday. Eighteen people, including seven children, were injured by a grenade blast in a main street here yesterday, a military spokesman said. The grenade, thrown by an Arab guerrilla, exploded outside a grocery store. The injured, all Arab residents of Gaza, also included an 80-year-old
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      Lock icon A quiet start to Indon campaign
      295 5 Reuter Jakarta, Wednesday Indonesia's nine political parties and the army-backed Sekber Golkar yesterday got off to a quiet start in their campaign for the July general elections. In Jakarta there were no new election banners, slogans or broadcasts over radio and TV. Only one
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      National oil
      22 5 Lagos, Wednesday.—Nigeria yesterday established a national oil corporation with power to pump, process and market petroleum and all allied products.
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      Lock icon Everest bid abandoned
      284 5 Reuter Katmandu, Wednesday The International Everest Expedition has abandoned its attempt to scale the world's highest mountain by the West Ridge and one climber has quit the 13-nation team. West German mountal- neer Toni Hiebeler, 40, said he left the expedition because he was terribly shocked by
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      Lock icon Wind saved Soyuz from wet landing
      466 5 'Craft landed within 44 yards of the lake United Press International Moscow, Wednesday A puff of wind saved the Soyuz 10 spacecraft carrying three cosmonauts from plunging into a lake when it landed on Sunday, the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda said yesterday. Searchers strapped on
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      Lock icon 'Half military use drugs'
      382 5 United Press International Washington, Wednesday A special house armed services subcommittee said yesterday that more than half America's 2.9 million servicemen have experimented with drugs primarily marijuana. Calling for a "massive attack on the inservice drug abuse problem," the subcommittee said that 20 per cent of
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      Lock icon Nixon had talks with allies on China ties
      236 5 United Press International Washington, Wednesday The White House yes- terday declined to comment on a report that the US and China I have been in diplomatic contact for several < months over improving relations. Press secretary Mr. Ro- nald Ziegler said: 'There
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      Queen ill
      38 5 London, Wednesday. Queen Elizabeth, suffering from a heavy cold, has* cancelled all her engage- ments and is retiring to. her private home, San- dringham, for a week on" the advice of doctors, Buckingham Palace said yesterday.
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  • WORLD COMMENT
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      Behind the thaw
      872 6  -  THE IMPROVING US-CHINA RELATIONS INVOLVE MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE From Robert Elegant The developing SinoAmerican thaw did not Just come it was preceded by intensive negotiations between Peking and Washington. The negotiations produced something like a draft scenario which goes far beyond ping-pong to include: Peking's
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      Singapore sparks Japanese interest
      869 6  -  Trade mission's favourable report From Pang Cheng Lian Because of Singapore's strategic location at the meeting point of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and its economic development, Japan should continue recognition of Singapore as a suitable country for private investments. This is the conclusion of the
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      Imelda's ambitions
      593 6  -  From Bernardino Ronquillo To the more perceptive political observers in Manila, there is no longer any doubt that Mrs. Imelda Marcos, the President's wife, has political ambitions. The question now being debated is whether Mrs. Marcos will run first for the Senate in next November's off-year election to
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      Beefing up the HK police
      486 6  -  From David Baird Relations with China may be on the mend, but Hong Kong's internal security force is taking no chances. The colony's police force Is to spend millions of dollars beefing up its fire power at a time when some local citizens wonder whether
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  • THE LOCAL SCENE
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      What irony of facts for the working journalists
      776 7  -  The man who encourages them to speak really curbs By C.S. Ong A guilty conscience, a mistake in a letter to the press and an irate press which believed its freedom unjustly curtailed by the very man who admonished journalists to speak
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      Stress on Malay unity for effective control
      1770 7 The future of non-communal parties seems to be extremely difficult' > Non-communal political parties appear to have little future in Malaysia. As long as politics operate on the basis that Malays, as the only bumiputras (the sons of the soli), have a special
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  • Article
    Obvious limits to Razak's neutrality plan
    508 8 Tun Razak is much too practical a man to feel as much satisfaction as he expresses publicly at the progress of his idea of a South-East Asia neutralised under the umbrella of a three-power guarantee by the United States, Russia and China. He knows
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  • The voice of the Press
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      Utusan Melayu
      101 8 What the other news•papers are saying: It is quite difficult for the Malays to become industrialists and businessmen as individuals. But if they are prepared to set aside their individualistic interests and act collectively, it will not be long before they achieve their goal. I It has been
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      Dawn (Karachi)
      132 8 The 'note verbaie* presented to the UN SecretaryGeneral, U Thant, by Pakistan's Ambassador Agha Shahi, is a timely warning to the international community of a most serious threat to peace and wellbeing of the peoples living in Asia. This arises from the obsessive, and almost selfconsuming pre-occupation of
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    No danger of the Chinese language here being replaced by English
    944 8  -  DICK WILSON The language question has once again moved to the centre of the political stage, and now looks as if it is going to provide the main topic of debate in Singapore during the next few months. At
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  • Letters
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      Pollution polemics
      823 8  -  L.V.C. Although Singapore has presently Identified its problems of pollution (New Nation April 22 Page 7) it has been anomalous and ambivalent in the pursuit of their solution. Much of the anomaly is engendered by nescience—a scientific ignorance which as yet has not been able to identify some
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      'Yahya's action timely'
      296 8 The widespread condemnation of President Yahya Khan by the local Press, for the recent events in East Pakistan, is totally unjustified and displays a complete lack of realism in the understanding of the issues involved in Pakistan. It should be well understood that no loyal head of
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous
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  • Article, Illustration
    EAST MEETS WEST – SINGAPORE
    1860 9 EAST MEETS WEST SINGAPORE When you see a graceful Chinese performing his classical Indian dance, you begin to get the measure of the big mixture of peoples When you see a graceful young Singapore Chinese performing his classical Indian dance movements learnt so patiently from t he best traditional teachers
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  • EDUCATION
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      Seminar reflects Govt concern
      872 10  -  Showing the way to politically mature leadership By Patrick de Souza The seminar on Communism and Democracy now In progress shows the concern the Government has for the growth of a politically mature leadership among the younger generation. This seminar, sponsored by the Ministry of Education
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      Do our children enjoy going to school?
      316 10 Elizabeth Choo visits Natalie's Kindergarten to get their views SIMON TAN, 6. I like, the work that teacher gives to do by myself. I like to colour it's much easier than chalking. Now I can count from one to 100. DAVID NAIDU, 5.
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      The report card can mislead
      756 10  -  So don't jump down your child's throat From Helen Howard The next time your child comes in, grimfaced, bearing his end-of-term report, don't jump down his throat at his shortcomings. There might not be any... Rather, it could be that the report itself is totally
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      Beware of imitations!
      1009 11  -  Wood copying Is so easy ANTIQUES by MAGGI KOH Although the sources of Chinese hardwood furniture from the mainland have for the moment dried up there is still a great deal of it around South-East Asia. In Singapore, quantities are to be found in old houses and
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      The kings and their women
      913 11  -  Marrying at 10 not uncommon tor veiled girls From Katherine Hadley Weary for the sound of a woman's voice after days of talking only to sheiks In the oil-rich States of the Persian Gulf, I was grateful for the invitation to visit the women of
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      Riding the wave at the age of 30
      1147 11  -  Exciting to bask in the sun o£ emotional confidence By Trish Sheppard If life begins at 40 I have just over another decade to wait, but more and more I get the feeling that life, in the sense that the saying means,
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      'Invest more abroad'-U.K. plan
      268 12 INCENTIVES AND PROTECTION PROPOSED London, Wednesday British investors were yesterday starting to redraw their plans for investment in the developing world to take advantage of new incentives announced by the government. The aim of the government's scheme—which is expected to be debated in the House of
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      Daily share analysis
      1075 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 »*o Stock Buyers Sellers Sale Yield Ratio Over 4.50 2.46 2.54 2.70 Allied Chocolate 2.46 2.50 2.46 5.0N 15.6 1.90 0.84* 1.17 1.19 Ben
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      Wall St. prices
      174 12 67 48 V* Am Can 35% AT A T 48% A P Anaconda Avon Pd Beth Steel 21% 22% 23'/. 23% Caterp Trac Chrysler Coca-Cola Control Data Corn G1 Wka Dow Chem 52% 32% 97% 75 275 96% 143% E Kodak Fed Dept Stra Ford Mot Gen
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      US: Market recoups most of the loss
      161 12 New York, Wednesday The stock market, hampered by profittaking during the first hour, recouped most of the loss by noon yesterday eti route to a small advance in heavy turnover. At the final gong, the Dow Jones industrial average was ahead 3.09 at
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      Lock icon UK: Most prices go ahead smartly
      171 12 United Press International London, Wednesday Stock markets -put up s another strong performance yesterday. Backed by institutional and small buying orders, prices in nearly all sections moved smartly ahead. The Financial Times index had jumped 5.0 to 360.8 by late afternoon. Account-day proceedings slowed
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      Lock icon Alexandra Sports Club
      499 13  -  FOCUS ON SPORT Jeffrey Low The footballers of Alexandra Sports Club are up in arms against what they describe as "total discrimination" by the Football Association of Singapore. They are protesting against PAS's "unfair alloUng of venues" for their division one matches. Mr. D.T. Ratnam, the Alexandra
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      Who will it be?
      913 14  -  Pat and Henry get our vote By Jeffrey Low At 3.30 p.m. sharp today, Singapore's top sportsman and sportswoman will be known. Four men will decide who shall be bestowed the coveted 1970 Sportsman and Sportswoman awards. Behind closed doors will Singapore National Olympic Council President
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      UK rugby
      23 14 London, Wednesday.— Birkenhead Park beat Liverpool by six points to five in the only rugby union match played here last night.
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      Formula cars for Manila GP
      225 14  -  By Lim Kee Chan The Second Manila Grand Prix on June 12 and 13 will include an Open event for formula cars. Reason: The organisers have decided to include such an event in order to create more interest on the single seaters. The Manila Grand
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      Evonne in top form
      61 14 London, Wednesday— Evonne Goolagong the brilliant 19-year-old Australian aborigine, justified her top seeding by cruising into the last 16 of the women's singles in the Rothman's hard court lawn tennis tournament here yesterday. Miss Goolagong scored two comfortable victories against British opponents, beating Alison Fraser-Black 6-1,
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      Cricket win to Warwickshire
      45 14 London, Wednesday. Results of cricket matches played yesterday were: At Cambridge: Warwickshire beat Cambridge University by 109 runs. Warwickshire 292 and 97 for two declared. Cambridge Uni. 154 and 126. At Oxford: The match between Oxford Uni. v. Kent was abandoned.
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      i Probable starters for Bukit Timah
      2508 15 For full details of the weekend's racing at Bukit Timah get Friday's free lift-out guide in New Nation SATURDAY CLASS 1 DIV. 2 8F ($12,500 $8,750 TO WINNER) ***** PARALLEL a (HP Bloxham) R Breukelen 8 9 0 00 NIGHT PEOPLE (Agasam) Lee i
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      Copperplate in splendid gallop
      521 15 Newcomers impressive By Blue Peter Copperplate did a splendid gallop on a good track at BukitTimah this morning. Ridden by Omar Ahmad, the Denagh four-year-old strode out impressively over 3f in 37 3/5. On this gallop, Copperplate who went down narrowly to Mathies' Road over 6f
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      Two to watch this meeting
      558 15 By Blue Peter Two top class horses will make their debut at the Bukit Timah May meeting which begins on Saturday. They are Here He Comes IV (late Red Charger) and Great World II (Great World). Here He Comes is a four-year-old chestnut Australian gelding
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      Lock icon Pakistan's team is strengthened
      122 15 Reuter London, Wednesday Pakistan will be strengthened for the Homing Testi series against England by the experienced Northamptonshire all-rounder Mushtaq Mohammad. Mushtaq, who has been in dispute with the Pakistan Cricket Board of Control about financial terms, will be available to play in three Tests and
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      Australia beats Asians
      125 15 Sydney, Wednesday After the first round conight of the Philippine Airlines-Metro Goldwyn Mayer Asian ten pin oowling tournament at Suburban Bankstown 3owl, Australia defeated the Asians 24 points -o eight. Playing two three-man teams over three games the Asians, representing Japan, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia
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      Protestors left out
      77 15 Sydney, Wednesday.—Two Australian rugby union players who have said they will not play against South Africa on the tour starting in June were yesterday omitted from the teams for local trial matches on Saturday. Mr. John Suhan, secretary of the Sydney Rugby Union, said that the players,
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      Only six starters
      86 15 London, Wednesday. Six acceptors were announced last night for the English 2000 guineas for three-year-old colts. It will be the smallest field since Ayrshire won the race In 1888. The race to be run over one mile at Newmarket on Saturday is worth a total of 40,220
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      Ajax, Red Star are fancied
      301 15 London, Wednesday Ajax Amsterdam and Red Star Belgrade are favoured to win through to the 1971 European Cup Final when the second leg semi-final matches are played tonight. Both teams have showii a refreshing emphasis on attacking football in this season's campaign at a time
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      111 14 VEHICLES FOR SALE 1967 REGISTERED Fiat 1500 L with radio and cassette, 2 owners. Selling for $3,500/-. Tel: S'pore *****3 office hours for inspection. WIDE SELECTION! 1970 Volkswagens $4,300/- to $5,000/-. Tel. S'pore *****5 after 6 p.m. 1967 AUSTIN 1800 $4,500/0.n.0. 51-H, Nutmeg Road, S'pore 9. Tel: *****0 Mr. Pruyt.
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      120 14 DR. KILDARE by Ken Bald SHE'S MORE LIKE HER MOTHER. YOU... OR HER MOTHER? BUT... LET'S NOT TALK ABOUT THE CHILD CHILD/ I SHE SUT~ WELL, THOUGHT /OUR YOU KNOW HOW IT DAUGHTER WAS 17/7 IS WITH AN ONLY CHILD WHOSE MOTHER PIED WHEN SHE WAS AN INFANT. A f
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      291 14 NEW, NATION CROSSWORD 9 Novelist Delmar. 10 Conjunction. 11 "God be with ye." 12 Threw off the scent. 13 Decide. 15 Mother's helper. 20 At ease. 23 Esteemed. 25 Changed. 28 Seraphic. 29 Tennis trophy. 31 Scatter newly cut grass for drying. 32 Luzon city. 34 Covered wagon. 36 Walkie-talkie;
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      579 15 s SSHS i Cut alMf lettet luts NEW NATION Wednesday MONEYWORDS 'J' Cut Mt Mi in Witt ttttr cuius. Ptstitf iistmtitis appear ktltw. Nan (Mr./MfJ./MiSJ). 3 •1 ill! M CLUES LETTERS ACROSS Cit alM| tttttl lues CLUES FOR J-3 1. Where these are concerned, perfection may be aimed at but
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      Lock icon Lilian's always on the hot line
      277 16 c Y)ung aqd G Lovely Trendy Miss Lilian Thum Yeat Lin, 21, does not go for hot pants because "They're just like shorts." As a reservations clerk in Hyatt Hotel, Lilian's always busy on 'the hot line.' She is set on establishing a career
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      Keeping a killer in the house
      498 16 MORE PEOPLE ARE TAKING A FANCY TO REARING PIRANHAS AS'PETS In its native waters in South America, the piranha is known to be a blood thirsty killer and man eater. But In Singapore it is earning itself a place in household aquariums. More people
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      Another dictator with the 'Papa Doc' touch
      109 16 Papa Doc Duvalier of Haiti is dead but a more "bonhomous" dictator at the other side of the world continues to rule with an equally surreal touch. The news that President ■William S. Tubman of Liberia has just acquired a $5 million yacht,
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      TALKING POINT
      60 16 AH FOOK: Our roads are in a terrible state, full of potholes and great trenches, poorly fenced off and badly lit at night. Will we ever get a decent set of highways? MEI LIN: Patience. Just think of the difference it will make when all the work is
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      Mac's memoirs ...'weighty, incredible, dull'
      387 16 It is easy to have the imoression that all British politicians outside the present Tory cabinet are locked away in their country houses writing their heads off. Not only do we have the rash of journalism from such as Mr. Richard Crossman, Mr. Roy Jenkins
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      363 16 5 Singapore 5 Opening and Huckleberry Hound News in Brief > What Others Say (English) Our Music Makers (English) j Alfred Hitchcock (Dialogue in Cantonese) News and Newsreel in Chinese j F. 8.1. News in English The Carol Burnett Show 5 Wednesday Nite Movie—Without Love: Starring Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn,
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      83 16 SHORT RIBS 3 m e 1 mi' SNIFFY *3 S a i V'A S! by George Fett TWAT DID IT// I'M GETTUOG TOO OLD FOR "WAT SoeT. OF THIIO& ANDY CAPP FANCY YOU REMEMB6RIN' ME AFTER REMEMBER Mfc, AWE? I WAS JUST ALL THESE YEARS, GAFFER,- 'AVE A Klb, YER
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      404 16 Trust your lucky IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY Born today, you have been gifted with an exceptionally accurate memory which should work to keep you well ahead of the competition no matter what endeavour you are entered upon There will always be those who envy you the
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