New Nation, 18 May 1971

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    17 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Tuesday evening, May 18, 1971 No. 103 Price 15 cents NEW N ATION j
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    OUR ROADS
    15 1 Police reported a total of 63 accidents yesterday. Six of them were serious.
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    ON THE 'CHANGE
    146 1 Copper Industries, a Singapore based company, was officially quoted on the Stock Exchange this morning. The $1 share opened at $1.34 and was immediately taken up to $1.52 before easing to $1.45. The turnover was estimated at 170,000 units of which half was recorded on a delayed
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    Sky diver's death fall
    70 1 Tokyo, Tuesday. A 31-year-old Canadian plunged to this death yesterday when his parachute failed to open while sky diving over Honda airport in Okegawa, near Tokyo. Police indentified the Canadian as Thomas Morgan Howard, a member of the Japan Sky Diving Club. He was said to
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    Forest survey
    32 1 LATE NEWS Kuch'-ig, Tuesday. Sarawak Deputy Chief Minister, Ir. Stephen Yong, said ~terday Britain has offereu to study the development potential of about a quarter million acres of Sarawak's forests.
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    Third Herald man refused permit
    457 1 Immigration authorities will not renew Malaysian sub-editor's application The government has rejected the application, for the renewal of the work permit of Mr. M. G.G. Pillai, a sub-editor on the Singapore Herald. Mr. Pillai is the unidentified "third man" referred to In newspaper reports this
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    Lock icon Police chief Sadat continues shake-out
    484 1 New Nation Foreign Service Cairo, Tuesday President Sadat has taken over as head of Egypt's police force amid wide ranging purges of his political opponents said to have affected nearly 300 officials so far. The semi-official Middle East news agency said President Sadat had agreed
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    Russian, aged 154, dies
    61 1 Moscow, Tuesday The Soviet news agency Tass said Shirin Gasanov, described as "one of the oldest men on earth," died yesterday at his home in the Soviet central Asian village of Chereken. He was 154 years old, Tass said. The news agency said Gasanov directed an
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    Lock icon Lubis: Pressure on Asian Press
    352 1 Singapore action the latest example Reuter Jakarta, Tuesday Leading Indonesian journalist. Mochtar Lubis, wrote yesterday that government actipn against newspapers in Singapore was the latest example in Asia of how newspapers disliked by the authorities could be placed under heavy suppression. Mr. Lubis, editor-in-chief of
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    Hong Kong paper backs govt action
    400 1 Hon; Kong, Tuesday The English-language Hong Kong Standard has come out in support of the Republic's government in an editorial entitled "The Crackdown in Singapore." It said: "Dramatically and in unexpected quick time, the Singapore Govern conclusively proved its charges that the Englishlanguage newspaper,
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    Lock icon Sacrifice on Mount Turu to go on
    192 1 United Press International Bort Moresby, Tuesday The administration of Papua-New Guinea has decided to take no official action to interfere with the native Cargo Cult Movement which is sweeping the East Sepik district of New Guinea. The cult leaders with thousands of followers
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    Meat cargo hijacked
    69 1 Sao Paulo. Tuesday. Urban guerrillas hijacked a Swift Company meat delivery truck yesterday and distributed the cargo among residents of a slum, police sources reported. The cargo of 7 lb of roast beef, 441b of sausage and 13 lb of hot dogs were given by the terrorists,
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    Isolated rain expected
    67 1 The meteorological station says that isolated rainfall in the catchment areas is expected today but there will be no widespread continuous heavy rain. A total of 0.1 inch of rain was recorded last night 0.29 inches less than Sunday. Until Press time the Public Utilities Board was
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    Highway planner sets two good posers
    225 2 Koala Lumpur, Tuesday How much can you save if you reduce a Sunday drive by half-an-hour? How much can an office worker save if he is able to get get home half-an-hour early travelling on an improved road? These were the questions posed at
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    Buddhist Union man dies at 63
    79 2 One of the early pioneers of the Buddhist Union in Singapore, Mr. Pang Choon Jin, 63, died on Sunday. His mother, the late Mrs. Pang Cheng Klat and uncle, the late Ven. Dhammasukha were the cofounders of the Buddhist Union 33 years ago. The
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    Report says health of Singapore children improving
    422 2 Recent years have seen a steady improvement in the health of the children of Singapore and a change in the pattern of their diseases. This is disclosed in the 1970 annual report of the St. Andrew's Mission Hospital. It said that the establishment
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    Asean plans exchange of journalists
    415 2 Koala Lumpur, Tuesday There will be an exchange of mass media representatives of Asean countries by next year if a proposal by the Philippines is accepted by the current five nation meeting here. Under the plan, the Philippines would be host to two media representatives
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    Making way for Jews
    78 2 Jerusalem, Tuesday Israel has turned out more than 4,000 Arabs from the former Jewish sector of East Jerusalem since its formal annexation almost four years ago. Disclosing this on Sunday, Mayor Teddy Kollek told Jerusalem City Council members all Arab evacuees were given alternative housing. He
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    Display of Chinese paintings
    234 2 The PAP Whampoa Branch (Youth Section) will today commence a twice weekly Taekwon-do class for members and friends at Block 5, Jalan Tenteram. A nine-lecture computer course on "Operational Research II" by Mr. M.C. Ng will begin at 7.30 p.m. today at the Computing Centre. Singapore
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    7 killed
    30 2 Bangkok, Monday. Police reported today that seven railway workers were killed and another injured when a locomotive crashed into a track car they were riding in Nakhon Sawan.
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    Meeting at party led to wedding
    58 2 Mr. Ong Chyc Lee, 21, and Miss Neo Siew Eng, 18, who met at a social party two years ago, were married during the weekend. Chye Lee, a mechanic foreman, is the third son of Madam Tan Choy Keow. His bride is the second
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    4 HK dons due here next week
    358 2 Four leading Hong Kong academicians will be give a series, of public lectures and TV forums in Singapore next week. The four lecturers from the English and Chinese universities in Hong Kong will be participating in the first phase of an Exchange of
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    Experts to study the economic policies of Asian countries
    348 2 Working parties to look at different problems Foreign and local manpower specialists will study the economic policies of countries in East and South-East Asia. They will set up working parties to study different areas of labour problems at a conference beginning
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    Quake near Colombia
    27 2 Bogota, Tuesday. A strong earthquake was registered yesterday in the Pacific Ocean some 160 miles off the Colombian coast, Los Andes Geophysics Institute reported.
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    Co-op society plans more activities
    189 2 The Singapore Mercantile Co-operative Thrift and Loan Society Ltd. has submitted proposals to the Registrar of Societies to amend certain bylaws in the company. One of the proposals is the change of the society's name to "The Singapore Mercantile Co operative Society Ltd," to give
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    Riddle of a flying club on the bridge
    183 2 As a meeting place, a bridge may be ideal. But given as a postal address, it sounds farfetched. And several calls led the New Nation to Investigate an advertisement for a general manager for a junior flying club. The address given was
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    Symposium on space
    106 2 Tokyo, Tuesday. The ninth international symposium on space technology and science opened here yesterday with about 300 experts from at least 10 countries taking part. About 70 foreign experts are from the United States, the Soviet Union, India, Israel, Greece, Italy, West and East Germany and National
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    Club's top priority
    99 2 The Stedfast Club has placed as its top priority the recruitment of 15,000 ex-members of the Boys' Brigade to boost its present membership of 200. One of the main objects of the club, formed two years ago, is to complete the unfinished work of the brigade in
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    40 nurses flee fire
    33 2 London, Tuesday—Forty nurses in nightclothes fled from a Are which swept their residential block at a London hospital early yesterday. One was Injured when she pumped from a window.
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    Tanglin to get modern community centre
    237 3 Tanglin constituency will soon have a new modern community centre at a cost of more than $150,000. For the past six years, constituency's 35,000 residents have been making use of two small rural community centres at Kampong Chantek Lamah and Onraet Road. The new
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    Closing date extended
    76 3 The closing date for the poster bookmark competition organised for the Book Festival in July has been extended from yesterday to June 1 to allow more secondary students to take part. So far more than 20 entries had been received by the National Book Development Council, its
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    Klang crow shooting will be restricted
    350 3 Klang, Tuesday Mystery still surrounds the case of the unwanted crows in this royal capital. A reliable source said that there was now a move to give certain people the right to shoot the crows. The source said the "certain people" had considerable experience
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    School at Dover Road will get 70 teachers
    250 3 About 70 highly qualified teachers have been recruited by the Singapore International Secondary School scheduled to open in mid-September. Mr. Roy Bennett, chairman of the school's board of governors, in disclosing this today said "a great number" of them were from Britain.
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    A heavyweight air cargo
    236 3 18£-ton propeller flown in Singapore Airport handled one of Its heaviest single pieces of cargo when a plane brought In a 35-foot long propeller shaft weighing 18} tons from London on Sunday. A specially chartered CL-44 swing-tall aircraft touched down at 1.30 a.m. on Sunday. It
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
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      85 3 Weather Temperatures in yesterday: Bangkok Seoul Hong Kong Jakarta Tokyo Taipei Naha Manila Kuala Lumpur London Paris Moscow New York San Francisco Sydney Melbourne Perth world cities Singapore Singapore's weather forecast from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. —fair. The weather for the 24 hours to 8 a.m. today:— Max. temp.
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      111 3 At the cinema Cathay: The Gallant Duo (Mand.)—l.3o, 4, 7 and 9.30 p.m. Odeon: Mysterious Africa —1.30, 4, 6.30 and 9.30 p.m. Orchard: Carry on Up The Jungle—l.3o, 4, 6.30 and 9.15 p.m. Odeon Katong: The Blade Spare None (Mand.) —l, 3.30, 6.30 and 9.15 pjn. Lido: Lawman—l.4s, 4, 6.30
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  • THE WORLD
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      Lock icon Saigon troops take over brunt of fighting
      234 4 New Nation Foreign Service Washington, Tuesday US Army Secretary Mr. Stanley Resor said yesterday that 70 per cent of American combat forces are out of Vietnam and the South Vietnamese have taken over the major role in ground warfare. He predicted that the
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      Lock icon Turkey 'no' to kidnap ultimatum
      373 4 'No bargaining' over Israeli diplomat Reuter Istanbul, Tuesday The Turkish government last night declared that it would not bargain with kidnappers who earlier in -the day seized the Israel consul general, Mr. Ephraim Elrom. Tne kidnapper* had de-iverea an intimatum to a aomes>tic news agency
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      Lock icon Saints called in to stop Etna's lava
      246 4 Reuter Rome, Tuesday Terrified villagers in Sicily last night obtained permission from their bishop to carry the relics of their saints to the edge of a black torrent of lava which threatens to engulf their homes. Led by the mayor and parish priest
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      Lock icon Thoughts of Mao seem to be all pervading
      635 4 How Malaysian trade mission chief saw China Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah. president of the Associated Malay Chambers of Commerce who led the 19-man Malaysian trade mission to China, tells his own story of the visit in a report from Hong Kong. United Press
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      Lock icon Wang Yu sued by film tycoon
      166 4 United Press International Hong Kong, Tuesday "One-armed swordsman" Wang Yu appeared in the Supreme Court yesterday to answer a lawsuit filed by Asian film tycoon Run Run Shaw. Wang, who became a well-known actor after giving a successful performance in the Mandarin film "One-armed
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      Lock icon Editor on trial says articles not insult to govt.
      267 4 Reuter Jakarta, Tuesday Jakarta newspaper editor T. D. Hafas told the Central District Court yesterday that recent articles in his newspaper were not aimed at insulting or humiliating the Indonesian government. Hafas, editor-in-chief of the independent daily. Nus?>ntara, has pleaded not
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      N-subs at Holy Loch
      84 4 Edinburgh, Tuesday—The US Navy yesterday confirmed that American nuclear submarines carrying multiple warhead poseidon missiles now were berthed at the Holy Loch naval base in Scotland. Cmdr. M. W. Byrd, operations officer of the 14th Polaris Submarine Squadron at the Holy Loch base said the British
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      Lock icon Ismail in Bangkok for border talks
      321 4 United Press International Bangkok, Tuesday A Malaysian delegation headed by the Deputy Prime Minister, Tun Ismail Abdul Rahman, arrived here yesterday for talks with Thailand aimed at countering the Communist threat along the two nations' common border. This is the 12th conferences of the
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      Lock icon Team seeks China's 'yes' to climb K-2
      181 4 United Press International Washington, Tuesday A Seattle-led expedition planning to climb K-2 in the Himalayas has asked China for permission to begin the ascent from the onceforbidden country. The assault on K-2 (officially named Mt. GodwinAusten) originally was scheduled to begin next year
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      Lock icon Top US economists to meet in Singapore
      407 5 They'll discuss South Vietnam's many problems and needs for long-term American aid Reuter Saigon, Tuesday Top US government economists from Saigon and Washington will hold a special meeting in Singapore next week to discuss the long-term economic future of South Vietnam. Informed sources
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      Lock icon Shock in Saigon over plan for rock festival
      189 5 United Press International Saigon, Tuesday South Vietnam's plans for a youth rock festival patterned after the Woodstock concerts held in the United States has drawn consternation at Independence Palace, Saigon newspaper sreported yesterday. The office of President Nguyen Van Thieu termed as
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      Scheel in car crash
      97 5 Bonn, Tuesday. The West German Foreign Minister, Mr. Walter Scheel, narrowly escaped injury in a spectacular car crash here yesterday in which a taxi driver was killed and Mr. Scheel's wife, Milared, was injured. A passenger in the taxi was seriously hurt but Mrs. Scheel's injuries
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      Lock icon Break in the war...
      43 5 Two exhausted American soldiers involved in the new action around the A Shau valley drop to the ground with their back packs still on. They are operating in a fire support base west of the strategic valley.— UPI radiophoto
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      Lock icon Big thrust into valley of Reds
      520 5 Allied forces attack stronghold United Press International Saigon, Tuesday South Vietnamese infantrymen fought their way down 'jungled mountainsides into the A Shau Valley yesterday and their Command predicted the Communists intend to stand and fight. Hac Bao (black panther). shock troops assaulted from U.S.
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      Lock icon Taiwanese guilty of Chiang murder plot
      230 5 Reuter New York, Tuesday A Jury of 11 men and one woman deliberated about three hours yesterday before finding a Taiwan native guilty of an assassination attempt on the life of Chiang Ching kuo, Vice-Premier of Nationalist China and son of Chiang Kai-shek. State
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      Lock icon Pakistan accepts UN refugee aid offer
      217 5 New Nation Foreign Service New York, Tuesday Pakistan yesterday accepted a UN offer of aid for East Pakistan refugees and asked for help in meeting a two-million ton food shortage. Mr. M.M. Ahmad, President Yahya Khan's economic adviser, gave a list of requirements to
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    • Article
      Cub's cake
      19 5 Chicago, Tuesday. The Brookfield zoo's four-month-old Kodlak bear clubs got a birthday party yesterday, complete with cake.
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      Lock icon NY newspaper blasts Wilson for memoirs 'deepening scepticism'
      446 5 Reuter New York, Tuesday The New York Times printed a scathing attack yesterday on Mr. Harold Wilson, saying that his memoirs, now being published, show qualities "that make it impossible for others to trust him." An article headlined "Tales of Harold mitty"
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      'Strad' to be sold
      65 5 London, Tuesday. An American-owned Stradivari violin which once lay forgotten for over a century in an attic in Spain is to be auctioned in Britain on June 3. The instrument is believed to be the second best "Strad" in the world, and Sotheby's, the auctioneers, expect
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      108 4 Now you see It now you don't! Every home contains things that nobody needs. Yoci probably don't even think about them but every home needs money and you do think about that. Chances are that somebody else is looking for the very things you have. Do the New Nation vanishing
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  • WORLD COMMENT
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      Australia is lending a hand
      583 6  -  Team of 80 maps Sumatra From John Hoffman Greater trust has no country Indonesia than that It asks the "army" and air force of a neighbour Austratralia to make a detailed aerial and grourd survey of its home ter ritory. This Lb why 80 Australian
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      Free Taiwan movement worried
      1105 6  -  Any setback for Nationalists is applauded but China's probable UN entry sets poser By Pang Cheng Lian China's probable entry to the UN besides worrying the Nationalist Government of Taiwan is also causing some concern to the nebulous Taiwan Independence Movement. The independence movement is naturally
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      A crucial Common Market Summit in Paris
      454 6  -  Pompidou, Heath meeting may be decisive for Britain By Anatole Shub French President Georges Pompidou's meeting with the British Prime Minister, Mr. Edward Heath in Paris on Thursday and Friday is expected to be decisive for Britain's current bid to enter the Commca
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  • LOCAL COMMENT
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      ECONOMICS OF SMOKING Government ban cuts a big slice out of the advertising cake
      1108 7  -  NEW NATION SPECIAL New Nation concludes its wide-ranging look into smoking, its implications and related effects from medical and personal to economic arid political. Jackie Sam Anil Bhatia Brett Bayly Patrick de Souza Al Shahab The
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      The Quirks of smoking
      141 7 Stranfee things happen in the world of smoking. Tony Curtis went round handing out IQ (I Quit) buttons and featured himself in anti-smoke films. Then he got caught out with marijuana at London's Heathrow Airport. A group of businessmen in Canada in 1965 wanted to market
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      Filter brands take over the market
      224 7 PLAIN CIGARETTES LOSE POPULARITY Cigarette smokers in Singapore have shown in the past six years a growing preference for fllter-tip cigarettes. There has been a big swing from plain cigarettes. Surveys commissioned by the Straits Times showed that while 68 per cent of smokers
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      Cigarette consumption
      85 7 Estimated local consumption of cigarettes in 1970 works out as follows: Unmanufactured tobacco leaf Imports 13,300,000 lbs. Exports 4,400,000 lbs. 8,900,000 lbs. Taking a conversion of 31bs 1,000 sticks, then 8.9 million lbs makes 2,970 million sticks manufactured. Add 1900 million imported sticks less the 1400 million sticks
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      A text book for investment
      433 7  -  Singapore impresses big US educational publisher By Ong Choo Suat One of Singapore's most valuable resources is its people—a reservoir of talented, professional people and- a good labour force foreign investors can make use of. This Is the opinion of one such foreign investor—Mr. Edward
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    • THE VOICE OF THE PRESS
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        Sin Chew Jit Poh
        179 7 What other newspapers are saying: After ten years of futile negotiations, Britain has finally managed to break into the European Common Market. A formula under which Britain is to become a full member on January 1. 1973, has been worked out. If the membership of the
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        Nanyang Siang Pau
        95 7 Following the resignations of six Ministers and three high-ranking officials, a huge political storm is raging in the UAR's capital and President Sadat is faced with a full-scale political crisis. As the political crisis has arisen from disputes over major issues revolving around the President's peace approach
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        Daily Telegraph
        132 7 Last week's upheaval in Cairo, in the course of which President Sadat displaced half of the Egyptian political and military leaderships while remaining in the slippery saddle himself. seems to have been primarily a domestic affair. But there are two aspects of much deeper and wider significance, the
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        The Observer London
        103 7 Serious questions arise from Pakistan's decision to reject U Thant's proposal that international aid and relief services for East Bengal should be channelled through the UN. Should aid to Pakistan be suspended until the situation becomes clearer in Uast Bengal—or at least agreement is reached for international
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  • Article
    China starts making up time in Asia
    340 8 The ice has been broken between Malaysia and China. The warm welcome extended in Peking to a trade delegation from the Malaysian Chamber of Commerce has been followed by the prompt acceptance of an invitation for a Chinese team to return the visit.
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  • 'WHISPERS' by ISPY
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      Back from Europe
      51 8 Mr. David Marshall, who has been retained by the Nanyang Slang Pau to represent their detained senior executives, returned to Singapore Sunday from Europe where he nas been attending an international conference of United Nations Associations. Mr. Marshall Is the president of the United Nations Association of
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      Nice touch to MSA
      132 8 MSA has come under criticism recently for some of its advertising. I notice that it is continuing its series of rather Striking "MSA Finishes 0ff..." advertisements in the American travel magazines. "MSA Finishes Off American," the ad will declare. The Immediate thought is: how arrogantly ambitious
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      Dom Moraes in Town
      86 8 Dom Moraes, the famous Indian poet, and recently appointed associate editor of the Asia Magazine, was in town at the weekend with his wife. Dom's articles in the last two issues of the Asia Magazine together with the more lively pther materials, have certainly lifted this
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      A question of contempt
      129 8 As writs of habeas corpus have been filed on behalf of the three senior executives of the Nanyang Slang Pau who have been detained some legal circles are of the opinion that any comment on the Nanyang case is in contempt of court. But comments keep
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    The worldwide Red movement is divided but will it fall?
    1440 8  -  GERALD de CRUZ Has the international Communist movement been weakened In the past 25 years, especially because of the bitter and seemingly irreconcilable feud between the Soviet Union and China? Common-sense would indicate that this must be so, but there
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  • Letters
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      Simplistic attack
      312 8  -  EDWARD MORAIS Mr. Paul Elisha's letter published in New Nation (May 17) makes a rather simplistic attack on Jackie Sam's comments on the need for harnessing the Press. Mr. Ellsha seems to think that Press guidance is a preposterous, unheard of practice in democracies, assuming perhaps that there
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      English as main medium
      304 8 The proposal by the Malay Teachers' Union to introduce of a national school system needs to be examined thoroughly. The proposal calls for the use of English the main medium of instruction and the national language (Malay) as a compulsory subject. The objective seems to be
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  • SHOPPING
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      GIVE YOUR HOUSE SOME COLOUR UNDERFOOT...
      607 10 CARPETS Despite the invasion of tiles in the homes, the need for carpets has still not diminished and manufacturers are quick to provide a wide range of colourful designs that will brighten up your rooms all through the year WITH the accent on gracious
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  • WOMAN
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      A new era dawns on Singapore girls
      590 11  -  They take up respectable jabs in Hotels and earn mare money By Dianne Wood The days when "good" girls never mixed in a licentious atmosphere of men and alcohol are fast disappearing. There was a time when a girl, if seen in a
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      The best way to cope with life...
      323 11  -  ROMA BLAIR The basic ethic underlying yoga is the philosophy of noninjury, and yoga practice develops in an individual the ability to cope with life in the best way possible. The yogi is very strong spiritually, and while he would never harm anyone
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      The stithering Melinda ...
      703 11 The stithering Melinda Still a striking figure though over tortg She doesn't walk she slithers Into the room in a slit-to-the-hlps black midi skirt, high-heeled boots and sheer black Dior nylons. The waiter dropping ice in my drink missed the giass by at least an inch... and I, too, was
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      Sales strategy
      334 11 Shop eaters mainly for Katong-Siglap girls Anne Woodford, onetime fashion model and winner of several >eauty titles is the owner of "Pink Ribbons," a boutique in East Coast Road. "It was about two years ago that I started this boutique. I just wanted to run a cosy place
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      Daily share analysis
      1147 12 ALL YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE STOCK EXCHANGE COUNTERS 1970-1971 1 wk. 4 wka. Closing Price Last Divid. P/E Tarnturn LOW ago ago Stock Buyers Sellers Sale Yield Ratio Over INDUSTRIALS 4.50 2.35 2.42 2.55 Allied Chocolate 2.28 2.30 2.30 5.4N 14.6 14 1.90 0.84} 1.27
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      Industrial show at Conference Hall
      41 12 An industrial catalogue show organised by the American Embassy is being held at the N.T.U.C. Conference Hall. The show features close to 4480 catalogues of American manufactures specialising in building materials, hardware and other construction supplies.
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      NZ trade team due here on Saturday
      145 12 A 15-member trade delegation from the New Zealand manufacturers federation will be arriving in Singapore on Saturday for a week's visit. This is the fourth trade mission to visit Singapore. The mission consists of proprietors and executives from different companies. Each of these
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      Dollar flow reached tidal wave proportions in months
      199 12 Washington, Tuesday The flow of U.S. dollars overseas reached tidal wave proportions in the first three months of this year, with a deficit of US$55OO million in the balance of payments, the Nixon administration reported yesterday. That was the highest onequarter deficit
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      Lock icon Rippon predicts package deal
      433 12 TALKS TO END IN MONTHS New Nation Foreign Service London, Tuesday Britain's chief Common Market negotiator, Mr. Geoffrey Rippon, has rejected any possibility of a sell-out on New Zealand dairy produce, Commonwealth sugar, or anything else in the bid to join the European Common Market. His
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    The best western so far this year
    678 12  -  Strange taste of cordite and blood mixed with sorrow... CINEMA By EDGAR KOH LAWMAN Starring Burt Lancaster with Robert Ryan and Lee J. Cobb. The traditional duel-at-noon concept we've been made familiar with by decades of Holly wood westerns and more recently by
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      109 12 MARKET TALKS MAY END IN PACKAGE DEAL FOR COUNTRIES CONCERNED rma > li&n >B* a v 7 o* sssss 5 >£=s 3v Jpm y^s fcSs y 9* m #s^> €> /j^ f-% >•<* >«* iffli^S <■%. K >^s r> A w\ /S"*-\v /f N 5^ y-c \/r~^ *S m :>
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      11 12 DOLLAR FLOW COSJ U.S. J» <s $5500 MILLION IN THREE MONTHS
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  • SPORT 1
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      Lock icon Selegie Primary School
      372 13  -  CAMERA ON SCHOOLS Jeffrey Low There are only two reasons for a school to hold its annual sports meet at the Farrer Park Athletic Centre. One is because the school may not have a field, and the other Is simply that the school wants to make use
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      Lock icon When Singapore's two champs met
      426 14  -  By Jeffrey Low It may seem rather strange that our two sports VIPs have never met each other before. One would expect this man and this girl to at least, have exchanged glances during the course of sport activity. But Sportsman of .the Year 1970,
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      Baseball standings in the US
      168 14 NAT. LEAGUE Eastern Div. W L PCT G.B NY Mets 21 11 .656 Pitts. Pirates 20 14 .588 2 St. L. Cardinals 20 15 .571 2ft Chic. Cabs 18 17 .514 4ft Mont. Expos 13 13 .500 5' Phillies 10 22 .313 11 Western Dlv.
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      French XV for S-Africa
      50 14 Paris, Tuesday The French Rugby Union party left here last night for Johannesbourg for their five-week tour of South Africa. The party, of 27 players and three officials, included coloured winger Roger Bourgarel, centre of a fierce controversy here after being surprisingly omitted from the selection.
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      Putra Cup competitors
      40 14 B.R. Marks, David Milne, Gerald Loong and Wong Weng Hong have been selected to represent Singapore in the 1971 Putra Cup golf competition at Jakarta from June 2 to 5. The non-playing captain is Lee Kim Yew.
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      Nicklaus leads for money
      30 14 New York, Tuesday. Jack Nicklaus continued to lead the money-winning list on the 1971 US golf tour with U*****,788, the US Professional Golfers Association announced yesterday.
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      Drysdale shines in Belgium
      27 14 Brussels, Tuesday.—South Africa's Cliff Drysdale Open the US$l3,OOO Belgian Open tennis championship yesterday with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Terry Addison of Australia.
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      World series in HK
      123 14 Hong Kong, Tuesday. The Hong Kong international 505 Class Association is confident that it will host the 1973 505 class World yacht championship, the First World championship of any kind ever held in this British colony. Lan Robertson, class measurer of the association, today said he
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      India in s-finals
      67 14 Tokyo, Tuesday India defeated Japan in the Davis Cup Eastern zone finals when Premit Lall beat Toshlro Sakai, 6-2, 6-4, 6-4 for an unsumountable 3-1 lead in the flurst two remaining matches. India, thus advanced to the inter-zone semi-finals by scoring its tenth straight victory over Japan
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      Tennis upset
      98 14 England, Tuesday. South Africa's Bob Maud provided the first upset of the £15,000 British Open hard court tennis championships when he beat seventh seeded Georges Goven of France in four sets yesterday. Maud beat Goven 2-6, 6-4, 7-5, 6-3 aided by solid serving, brilliant retrieving and solid net
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      Sunday's Penang finishes
      343 15 The horses marked with a are the ones to watch. A lb€r L l f s f 1 was first to break but The Samaritan took over the lead at the half mile. Amber Lass challenged in the straight bat The Samaritan drew away to score by
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      Follow Ming Derby on Sunday
      232 15 From Blue Peter in Penan* Ming Derby worked weU on a soft track at Penang this morning. Ridden by Johnny Miller this son of Alcimedes strode out fluently over 3f in 43 4/5. Ming Derby, who showed definite promise at Ipoh last month when third
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      Owners may send horse to Australia
      235 15 By Scrutineer Classic Mission, a highly promising New Zealand colt jointly owned by Singapore businessmen Robert Goh and Leslie Wong, may be sent over to Australia to contest some of the classics later this year. The two-year-old by Persian Garden II who has already
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      Lock icon Another blow to Pakistanis
      298 15 Reuter London, Tuesday An injury to their acting skipper A s i f Iqbal added to the Pakistani cricketers' troubles as they struggled to stave off defeat against Cambridge University here yesterday. At the close of the second day of the three day match, the touring
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      World bridge
      38 15 Taipei, Tuesday. The Dallas Aces bridge team defeated France by 243 international match points to 181 in the final of the World Contract Bridge championship yesterday to win the Bermuda Bowl for the second successive year.
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      Record throw
      28 15 New York, Tuesday —Jay Silvester set a new unofficial world record for the discus with a throw of 230 ft llin at Lancaster in California yesterday.
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      Arnold beats Cordova
      51 15 Melbourne, Tuesday. South African bantam and featherweight champion Arnold Taylor defeated Philippino Willie Cordova on points in a 10-round return bout at Festival Hall here last night. In another fight, Welshman Cllve Cook, in his first fight in Australia, was outpointed by New Zealand's Kahu Mahanga over
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      Chess drawn
      43 15 Moscow, Tuesday.—Soviet Grand Masters Yeflm Geller and Viktor Korchnoi drew their third game in the World chess title quarterfinals match on the 35th move here, Tass News agency reported yesterday. The score now stands at 2 1 in favour of Korchnoi.
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      Mill Reef favoured
      88 15 London, Tuesday—American, Mr. Paul Mellon's Mill Reef remained a firm 4 to 1 favourite for the Epsom Derby when the card was called over at the Victoria Club here yesterday. Interest was shown in Mrs. J. R. Mullion's Lombardo, trained in Ireland by Paddy Prendergast. The colt
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      American School Eagles and Chinese High School players fly for the rebound in yesterday's Bukit Timah A grade basketball final. The Eagles won the game 57-50 after trailing 17-22 at half time. The height of the Eagles won the day. Chinese High School battled hard and although they showed more skill they could not hold off the late rally by the Eagles.
      62 15 American School Eagles and Chinese High School players fly for the rebound in yesterday's Bukit Timah A grade basketball final. The Eagles won the game 57-50 after trailing 17-22 at half time. The height of the Eagles won the day. Chinese High School battled hard and although they showed more
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      27 14 ENTER NOW NEW NATION/DOROTHY GRAY 'Young and Lovely' Quest n&'N^N UcW Bog 15, G.P.0., Singapore. Num. AMraas: T«tephtm No: OccmoHOO: I —do— My rocont pliotofroph. i Sif»o4.
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      118 14 DR. KILDARE by Ken Bald ANN// ARE YOU J I'm FINE, WPW. I WENT SHOPPING AIL RIGHT? FOR PLUMPIE... AND THE MAN IN THE STORE GOT ANGRY BECAUSE I KNOW... I KNOW, 8A8V.....8UT you worried wsppy.... YOU MUST NEVER LEAVE THE HOSPITAL THAT WAV AGAIN... ni"7 A r| Ss i
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      299 14 NEW NATION CROSSWORD "father." 12 Leg joint. 13 Dried up: Poet. 18 Bellows. 22 River islands. w 24 Puts into allotted places. 25 Collections. 2S "Kiss Me 27 Cartatas on rural themes 28 Fashions. 29 Dancer Jeanmalre 30 Pitchers. 32 Classroom periods. 35 Administrative chiefs in Prance. 35 "The Story."
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      543 15 CJE3 i •Cat >IM( lotted lues 1 NEW NATION MONEYWORDS 'M' TUESDAY Cat Hit Hi pie witt ttker cuins. Pestiif ustractiaas appear keltw. Naae (Hr./Mrs./Mi«). 2 ACROSS CLUES Cut iliac Intel lines CLUES FOR M—2 1. Area cultivated gross. 4. Could infuriate man cm- i.™ 5 6. They do this
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      OUTDOORS ANDREA JUST LOVES NEW FACES
      59 16 Miss Andrea Janine Mills likes being outdoors almost as much as she likes meeting people. Andrea, who is 17, is presently undergoing a secretarial course al though her aim is set on being an air hostess or working in public relations. At weekends she
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      A booming, bustling bazaar of a citythat is Singapore
      619 16 A booming, bustling bazaar of a city that is Singapore IT'S A 'MUST' FOR ALL TRAVELLERS By Australian Journalist ALAN STEWART who has just returned from a tour of South-East Asia. We are strolling through the regal, three- and-a-half storey high lobby of the sumptuous Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore. "Care
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      A proud father pronounces daughter wed
      92 16 James Snell was a proud man as he arrived at the church to give his daughter Helen away. The bride was on time, the groom was there. In fact the only person missing was the minister who was to perform the ceremony. So. Mr.
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      TALKING POINT
      83 16 AH FOOK: In view of the frequent reports on the "low" state of the blood bank at the General Hospital, I think our high school and university students should be encouraged to donate blood during the holidays. At least this could supplement other sources. MEI LIN: Dear me,
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      A protest by car at No. 10's door
      148 16 A man tried to drive his car through the door of No. 10 Downing Street, in London, to force the government to act over attacks on children by Alsatian dogs. John Lyttle, 31, a postman, admitted at Bow Street court that he
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      Discrimination over their curry
      145 16 An Indian restaurant in Yorkshire is to be reported to the Race Relations Board for refusing to serve curry to two Indians. The Indians, both doctors, claimed that a waiter refused to serve them until they told him where they came from. The incident happened at
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      385 16 5 Singapore 3.00 Opening and General Hospital 3.20 For the Family (M) 3.50 A Diary of Events in Singapore This Week (M) 3.53 It's Happening in Singapore (M-repeat) 4.10 Peyton Place (repeat) 4.55 Close 6.05 Opening and Skippy the Bush Kangaroo 6.30 News in Brief 6.35 For the Family (C-repeat)
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      445 16 TRUST TOUR LUCKT STAR IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY BORN today, you are generally in full sympathy with other people, for you have a knack for putting yourself In their shoes, for understanding their problems and their motivations. Nothing another does can ever make you take away the hand of friendship—though
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