New Nation, 19 May 1971

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  • 15 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Wednesday evening, May 19, 1971 No. 104 Price 15 cents NEW NATION
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  • 118 1 Quiet conditions prevailed on the Stock Exchange this morning. Blue chips and better class shares were steady. Fraser and Neave was traded at $5.05; McAlister rose eight cents to $2.80; Far East Levingston advanced four cents to $1.71; Dunlop Industries gained three cents to $2.98; Ampat Nombor
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  • 70 1 LATE NEWS Washington, Wednesday. —A reluctant Congress ordered an end to the second nationwide rail shutdown in less than six months last night, giving striking rail signalmen a 13.5 per cent interim pay raise and prohibiting further walkouts until October 1. The Senate and then
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  • 341 1  -  'Tycoon* traffickers involved By Douglas Chan The government has started a big crackdown on traffickers, who travel out of Singapore with large sums of foreign currency—particularly American dollars. To date, two foreigners, known to be big-time businessmen, who were attempting to sneak out of the Republic
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  • 237 1  -  By Anil Bhatia Rubber brokers expect that the deal brought back by the Malaysian delegation to sell rubber direct to China will affect the Singapore, trade, and repercussions can be expected in the local market. One rubber broker said: "It seems natural
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  • 163 1 With increasing daily water consumption and a weather outlook of continuing fair conditions, the threat of water rationing has once again become serious. With temperatures rising again after a mild weekend break, the water consumption on Monday rose to 110.6 million gallons from 103.2 million
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  • 452 1 Putting their answer to the govt The Singapore Herald's entire editorial and production staff took to the streets today to sell the paper. The 200-odd staff members were led by their editor, Mr. Ambrose Khaw. They covered the whole of Singapore promoting the sales of
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  • 414 1 Reuter Hong Kong, Wednesday Eight British soldiers who strayed across the Chinese border here yesterday were released at midnight after nearly nine and a half hours in Chinese hands. A government spokesman said this morning that the men. from the Irish Guards, were fit and well
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  • 246 1 United Press International Hong Kong, Wednesday If Mr. Lee Kuan Yew spoke at a Press meeting in Helsinki next month, the 300 newsmen there would not be satisfied with no comment, the director of the International Press Institute Dr. Ernest Meyer said today.
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  • 20 1 Police reported a total of 109 accidents yesterday, 12 of which were serious. There was no fatal accident.
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  • 202 2 Two charitable bodies the Singapore Cheshire Home and the St. Andrew's Mission Hospital in Tay Lian Teck Road are appealing for voluntary helpers—because of the British withdrawal. The appeal is partly in view of the withdrawal of services families in Singapore by the end
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  • 204 2  -  Man brought back from Penang By Sunny Wee The Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau believes it has broken a big bookmaking syndicate operating in Singapore and Malaysia. On Saturday a CPIB agent went to Penang and with the aid of the Malaysian police detained a man. He
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  • 150 2 About 50 managers and senior staff from BP refineries throughout the world will meet tomorrpw in Amsterdam. Topics to be discussed at the week-long conference will include safety in refineries and graduate staff recruitment and development. Mr. C. N. McColl, Singapore BP refinery manager,
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  • 225 2 The 1971 SingaporeExposition, in Kallang organised by the National Safety Council, which was closed after a blaze gutted 48 stalls, on May 3, will re-open on May 28. Investigations showed that a cigarette butt thrown on the wooden flooring of one of the stalls
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  • 163 2 Kuala Lumpur, Wednesday A five-man World Bank appraisal mission will arrive here early next moijtfr to study the modernisation of the Malayan Railway. The teastiwlll comprise a financial analyst, Mr. Sander, two engineers, Mr. Tachibanan and Mr. Blumstein, and two economists. Mr. Havllcek and
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  • 51 2 London, Wednesday.—The BBC Is transmitting Shakespeare in Swahili translated by President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania. Part one of the Swahili Version of the Merchant of Venice was beamed on Monday night to listeners In East and Central Africa, and the second part Is to be broadcast next
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  • 81 2 New Delhi, Wednesday.— A storm with winds, up to 125 miles an hour left at least 25 people dead and over 100 Injured in the North Indian city of Allahabad on the river Ganges on Monday. The storm, which lashed the city about 45 minutes in
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  • 435 2 Kuala Lumpur, Wednesday Freshmen girls said living in the Malayan University's mixed colleges was a "new and interesting experience." Although they had some doubts about living in the same hostel with boys, they said they were ready and prepared for anything In store for
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  • 288 2 Kuala Lumpur, Wednesday The MCA Is to set up a task force to turn its 800 "dislocated branches" into a single forceful body to meet any political challenge, its chief executive secretary, Mr. Ng Chin Hong said yesterday. The force has been
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  • 86 2 Married during the weekend with a Chinese-style ceremony were Mr. Johnny Yuen Keng Lai and Miss Annie Ng Hui Koon, both 26. The groom, who met his bride one-and-a-half years ago at a picnic, works in Times Printers Sdn. Bhd. and is
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  • 247 2 The 11 policemen of the MSA Auxiliary Police Force yesterday claimed that they were the "poorest paid policemen in SouthEast Asia." Recruits In the MSA force receive $l5O a month with a maximum of $215 whereas policemen in the regular force start with $2lO
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  • 74 2 Geneva, Wednesday. The World Health Organisation (WHO) assembly yesterday accused Israel of violating the basic human rights of Arab refugees in occupied territories. It passed a resolution warning Israel that its voting rights and WHO services would be suspended if the situation did not improve. The resolution
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  • 324 2 Proper ventilation arid space requirements were considered carefully before birds were put into the glass aviaries at the ShangriLa Hotel, a hotel spokesman said today. He was replying to claims of cruelty and an unsuitable environment for the birds in
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  • 61 2 Moscow, Wednesday. East Germany's Communist Party leader, Mr. Erich Honecker, arrived yesterday to confer with the Kremlin leadership for the first time since he succeeded Walter Ullbricht. Mr. Honecker was accompanied by high-rank ing government and party officials. The visit was described as a friendship visit at
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  • 42 2 Prague, Wednesday. Czechoslovakia and Communist China signed a 1971 trade pact yesterday. Under It Czechoslovakia will send steel, trucks, machine v tools and other heavy manufactured goods to China and,will receive food, raw materials and office supplies in return.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 103 2 Weather Temperature in world cities yesterday: Seoul 73-54 Hong Kong 86-81 Jakarta 90-79 Tokyo 68-63 Taipei 88-72 Naha 79-68 Manila 90-76 Kuala Lumpur 89-75 London 66-49 Paris 72-57 Moscow 77-59 New York 80-60 San Francisco 70-51 Sydney 70-52 Melbourne 51-45 Perth 70-59. Singapore Singapore's weather forecast from 1 p.m. to
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  • 134 3 The Chinese Women's Association has planned a unique stall to? the forthcoming International Bazaar for the Blind. The association is one of several bodies working to make the bazaar a success. President of the association, Mrs. Diana Eu, who has Just returned from a holiday
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  • 120 3 The Minister for Health, Mr. Chua Sian Chin, will open the first symposium on occupational health in South-East Asia at King's Hotel this evening. The Stage Club will present "The Anniversary" at the Cultural Centre on June 2 to 5 at 8.30 p.m. A domestic
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  • 176 3 The Singapore Armed Forces this morning clarified that the scholarships it is offering to the University of Singapore and the Nanyang University are meant for national service officers. A Ministry of Defence spokesman said: "SAF scholarships are offered for courses of study leading
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  • 100 3 The New Zealand Opposition leader. Mr. Norman Kirk, this morning met President Sheares before he officially opened the new Asia-Pacific Bureau of the Socialist International at the NTUC headquarters. Mr. Kirk, who is chairman of the Socialist International, arrived In Singapore last night. A spokesman for
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  • 249 3 Vacancies in takeover The Ministry of Health is expected to recruit more than 50 nurses and assistant nurses before the end of next month. They will fill vacancies arising from the government takeover of two British service hospitals on July. The nursing staff of the British
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  • 115 3 Having their moments of fancy were these freshmen and seniors of the Singapore Polytechnic at their Fancy Dress Parade this morning. About 10 freshmen marched round the Poly courtyard in their most outrageous garb for the competition—and it was all part of their orientation
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  • 68 3 New Delhi, Wednesday An elephant in a wedding procession ran amok and killed two people on Monday in village Banspar in Uttar Pradesh state, some 500 miles South-East of Delhi. Several people were riding the elephant leading the marriage party when the beast suddenly Jerked and trampled
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  • 265 3 Industrialists should provide adequate safety measures for their workers because of the shortage of labour in Singapore, says Dr. Alan Bell, an expert on occupational health. Dr. Bell, who is the director of the Division of Occupational Health and Pollution Control In Sydney,
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  • 233 3 A travelogue will be written by a team of Filipino® from a student travel association. The travelogue will Include details about board, lodging and entertainment in Malaysia, Indonesia and SingaporeMiss Lala Fernando— a graduate of the University of the Philippines, now with the
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    • 121 3 At the cinema Lido: Lawman 1.45, 4. 6.30 and 9.15 p.m. Capitol: Too Late The Hero 1.30, 4, 6.45 and 9.30 p.m. Rex: Six Assassins (Mand.) 1.45, 4, 6.30 and 9.30 p.m. Sky: Six Assassins (Mand.) 1.45, 4, 6.30 and 9.15 p.m. State: Invincible Six 1.45, 4, 7 and 9.30
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  • THE WORLD
    • 363 4 Report: 22 new projects financed New Nation Foreign Service London, Wednesday The Commonwealth Development Corporation today reported its biggest operating surplus after another successful year of financing economic expansion in under-develop-ed countries. The corporation's annual report, released today, said 22 new projects were started in
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    • 151 4 United Press International Tokyo, Wednesday A 76-member Italian Government economic delegation arrived in Peking from Shanghai yesterday at the invitation of the Chinese Foreign Trade Minister Mr. Pal Hsiang-kuo, the New China News Agency reported. The delegation Is headed by the Italian Minister of Foreign
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    • 392 4 United Press International Taipei, Wednesday Nationalist China is resorting to "personal diplomacy" to save its relations with Japan, on whose goodwill may depend its continued presence in the United Nations. General Chang Chun, 82-year-old secretary-general to President Chiang KaiShek and one of
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    • 53 4 Vatican City, Wednesday. The Vatican has ordered a worldwide inventory of Roman Catholic Church art treasures because of the year-long wave of art thefts, vandalism and Illegal sales in Italy. The Vatican also warns that if any priest sells art without permission from the Vatican he is
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    • 47 4 Moscow, Wednesday Russia has launched another unmanned sputnik "for the exploration of outer space." The Soviet Union says this sputnik is travelling close to the track of the "Salute" earth satellite launched last month. The launching date of the new sputnik was not disclosed.
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    • 185 4 United Press International Edinburgh, Wednesday The Scottish Aviation Co. yesterday said it had signed a £320,000 (552.3 million) deal with the Malaysian Air Force to sell it 15 two-seater Bulldog airplanes. A spokesman for Scottish Aviation at Ptestwlck Airport said the contract
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    • 112 4 West Berlin, Wednesday. A 64-year-old former senior Nazi bureaucrat was charged yesterday with murder and complicity in the killing of 150,000 Jews during the Second World War. The 634-page Indictment accuses Friedrich Bossham- mer, a lawyer In the Ruhr town of Wuppertal until his arrest In 1968,
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    • 443 4 They led group of refugees across to India Reuter New Delhi, Wednesday Two New Zealand missionary nurses said in Agartala yesterday they had led a group of men, women and children from East Pakistan to safety in India to escape bombardment by the Pakistani
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    • 305 4 New Nation Foreign Service Naha, Wednesday A 24-hour general strike by Okinawa's major labour unions is expected to paralyse the island today. Sixty-seven unions and organisations are expected to take part in the strike, stopping buses, the delaying telephone calls and tying up
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    • 117 4 Brisbane. Wednesday A resident of the Queensland country town of Maryborough, 150 miles north of Brisbane, has received an official invitation from the Peking government to visit China. She is Mrs. Lenore Taylor. who described herself as a "middle of the road leftist." She received the
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    • 154 4 United Press International Manila, Wednesday A seven-man dissident group headed by Fidel Samia, alias Communist Huk Commander Fidel, is being hunted by three different groups with three different reasons. Huks from Pampanga, about 60 miles north of Manila, are tracking Samia and his men for
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    • 41 4 Hong Kong, Wednesday.— More than 200 people were made homeless yesterday in fire which destroyed 30 cottage huts in Kowloon. The only casualty was a man who received slight burns on both hands and the face.
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    • 260 4 United Press International London, Wednesday Malaysia's Finance Minister, Tun Tan Siew Sin, left by air yesterday for Washington to confer with top officials of the International Monetary Fund. The Minister, in government talks here, pressed for changes in' the 1968 Sterling Guarantee
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    • 143 4 London, Wednesday. A Buckingham Palace reception, to be given by the Duke of Edinburgh, has been cancelled because so few people accepted invitations, a charity organiser said yesterday. Mr. Roger Sydenham, se-cretary-general of the National Institute of the Deaf, said the Duke planned to speak at
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    • 426 5 United Press International Moscow,. Wednesday The Soviet Prime Minister, Mr. Kosygin, said yesterday that the Soviet Union would do all it could to achieve agreement on reducing troops and armaments deployed in Europe if Western powers showed themselves willing to do the same. Mr.
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    • 509 5 Moscow seeking Sadat's assurance that relations unchanged United Press International London, Wednesday The Sovlei Union —increasingly perturbed by the purge in Cairo—was seeking assurances from President Anwar Sadat's revamped regime of its continued allegiance to Moscow, diplomatic sources said today. The Kremlin had been watching events
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    • 227 5 Reuter Messina, Wednesday The burning tide of lava inching its way down the slopes of Mount Etna appears to have lost its momentum following a dramatic appeal by 2,000 threatened villagers for their patron saints to to save them with a miracle.
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    • 67 5 This is Dirk Van Zyl, pioneer heart transplant surgeon Dr. Christian Barnard's sixth patient. Mr. Van Zyl, was Dr. Barnard's first transplant case for two years. The 44-year-old construction worker received the heart of an unnamed mixed race man at Capetown's Groote Schurr Hospital and is
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    • 373 5 Turkish govt acts over kidnapping United Press International Istanbul, Wednesday The Turkish government yesterday carried out mass arrests in a race against the clock to save the life of the kidnapped Israeli consul g en e r a 1, Mr. Ephraim Elrom. The
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    • 200 5 Reuter Jakarta, Wednesday Foreign Minister Mr. Adam Malik said yesterday he would now preside over a meeting of Indonesian ambassadors from Europe and Africa in Vienna on May 27 before visiting six east European countries. He -told reporters he would be going to Poland, Bulgaria,
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    • 256 5 Reuter Colombo, Wednesday The Ceylon government yesterday took over the biggest graphite mine on the island and moved in troops to prevent insurgents removing any more explosives, a government spokesman said. v He said the order for the take-over under Emergency regulations In
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    • 421 5 United Press International Sydney, Wednesday Difficulties facing the international Mount Everest expedition obviously are being aggravated by a group of "high-powered prima donnas", Sir Edmund Hillary said yesterday. Sir Edmund, one of the first two men to scale Mt. Everest in 1953, was
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    • 53 5 New York, Wednesday A white policeman shot and killed a Negro in a predominantly black section of Brooklyn, touching off hours of sporadic disorders that lasted until nearly midnight. The shooting on Monday was in the BedfordStuyvesant district near Brownsville, scene of widespread looting and arson
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    • 204 5 Reuter Bangkok. Wednesday Police killed a Muslim dissident leader with a government prize of 40,000 baht (S$6000) on his head in Narathiwat province on the Malaysian border, according to the province governor. Mr. Voravltaya RansiyoH H -J 0 local reporters yesterday that Arde Arware,
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    • 49 5 New Delhi, Wednesday Workers of the extreme Party Marxist (CPM) and the Moslem League battled with each Monday night at Vallikat village in southern Kerala State. At least two people were killed and 40 injured. The mobs set ablaze three shops and a house.
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    • 45 5 Melbourne, Wednesday Seven helicopters plucked 32 workmen from the sea today when a Aslo million gas rig in Bass Strait exploded and caught fire. A spokesman for the owners of the rig, ESSOBHP (Broken Hill Propriety) said there were no casualties.
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  • WORLD COMMENT
    • 812 6  -  By Pang Cheng Lian When I arrived in Taipeh recently I expected officials to be sensitive about the question of Taiwan's political future. Instead I found the Government Information Department very helpful in making things easy for me to discuss this question with senior
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    • 1020 6  -  Golkar's campaign is weakening its rivals' position From Mochtar Lubis Foreign Observers, and many -Indonesian political commentators themselves, < tend to judge the coding election in Indontete as a mere race fester votes between the r political parties and the Golkar, with the jmbsequent' consequence® of more
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    • 784 6  -  Shifts in trade, security aims inevitable From Bernardino Ronquillo Philippines foreign policy shifts appear inevitable in the foreseeable future in the light of the following recent developments: The Foreign Secretary Mr. Carlos Romulo's angry reaction at SEATO's sixteenth Council of Ministers' meeting in London to the
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  • LOCAL COMMENT
    • 1516 7  -  K. ISMAIL examines the aspirations, position and special problems of the Malay community K. ISMAIL Two facts stand out about the Malay minority of Singapore. It Is in the Interests of every community that the Malays should not be allowed to remain a comparatively backward minority. And It
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    • THE VOICE OF THE PRESS
      • 186 7 What other newspapers are saying: Britain's bid to gain entry to the European Common Market has sparked off a bitter debate in the British Parliament particularly over the issue of the sugar trade with' the Commonwealth countries In the Caribbean. The Labour M.Ps. have attacked the
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      • 159 7 The Malaysian Minister of National and Rural Development, Inche Ghafar Baba, In his briefing to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong at the National Operations Room, said that between 1962 and 1967 51,000 estate workers have been retrenched and that this Is one of the two Important problems to which
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      • 177 7 In his May Day message to the Burmese people from London, where he is still under medical treatment, General Ne Win promises to dismantle the country's centralised power structure, overhaul the constitution, and put more power Into the hands of the people. He also repeats his
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    • 108 7 Now you see it... Every home contains things that nobody needs. You 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 trick turn unwanted
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  • 437 8 The injection of ex-President Soekarno's son as some kind of a star turn in the PNI electoral campaign is an index of the desperate straits which the older Indonesian political parties find themselves in. Except the army-backed Sekber Golkar, all the parties legally permitted to
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  • 'WHISPERS' by ISPY
    • 54 8 There is a rumour going around that some foreign diplomats from friendly countries who were quite close socially with some of the Journalists involved in the various alleged "Black Operations" are now under something of a cloud. It Is even said that there mav be an ambassador
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    • 64 8 M. Singaporeans may be able to see Dame Margot Fonteyn dance here in a few months. Negotiations are going on between a newly-opened hotel and the dancer who is now in Australia. If all goes well, Fonteyn will be performing at the hotel nightly for
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    • 134 8 I see that Guntur Boekarno is now actively engaged in the Indonesian election campaign on behalf of his father's old party. There are many examples of the dynastic trend in contemporary Asian politics; the Prime Ministers of India, Ceylon and Japan owe part of their success
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  • 662 8  -  DICK WILSON It is extremely disappointing that ASEAN, the only regional organisation which holds out any feal hopes of solidly grounded co-opera-tion between the smaller countries of this region and an organisation which will prove later to be of
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  • Letters
    • 240 8  -  M.G.G. PILLAI I refer to your front page story "Third Herald man refused permit" yesterday and wish to make the following comments: I am NOT, as you reported, an Indian-born Malaysian citizen. I am a Ma-laysian-born Malaysian citizen, having lived in Johore Bahru for 26 of my 31
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    • 93 8  -  PUZZLED Singapore 9 The flood alleviation plans for the Bukit TimahDunearn Road area seems an admirable idea. It is good to know that soon the chaos that occurred here during a heavy rain-storm will eventually be a thing of the past. But as a layman, one
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    • 167 8  -  PARENT Singapore I am Informed by my children who are at the Singapore University that special preparations are being made for the revival of "ragging" on a scale which will far exceed that of recent years. Since I know how much humiliation and degradation were heaped
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    • 132 8  -  R. STORNOWAY Time was when a trip to the beach could be a pleasantly quiet affair but not any more. Try visiting places like Changi at the weekend and the scene is predictable. Transistors, cassette players sometimes even portable record players and television sets all blaring
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    • 187 8  -  DISAPPOINTED Singapore, 5 I'm writing to you in the hope that you will be able to solve the mystery of the vanishing College of Education. When I left Singapore last year, the college had gone through a second reading in Parliament, and was supposed to be established
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    • 232 8  -  COLIN GARRATT One of the central themes which seems to run through all the controversy about the newspapers, the Nanyang arrests and the cases of the Singapore Herald and the Eastern Sun, is the shortage of trained local journalists equipped with the broad up-to-date picture on
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    • 114 8  -  ABDUL RAHIM We've all been anxiously following the figures published by the PUB every day regarding water consumption. The public has been erratic in its consumption rate going down by 3 million gallons one aay and going up by 7 million gallons another day. The average person
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    • 160 8  -  ALBERT CHUA Have book prices actually gone up as Mr. Lee Eng Chong suggests in the May 17 issue of your newspaper? Why don't you delegate someone to write a feature on the price hike? Perhaps the feature would include a table of representative books
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous

  • 1524 9  -  FUTURE GENIUS: DECREE LEVEL AT 14 AND COMPULSORY RETIREMENT AT 46 LIFE 150 YEARS FROM NOW New Nation's dramatic view of the years to come—the technology, the sociology of the generations ahead From: Tomorrow's World by Raymond Baxter, James Burke IN the year AD 2120 the SecretaryA General
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  • 1051 9  -  Travelling with JANET HAWLEY An official at the airport (it's in the middle of a golf course) swathes two garlands of tropical orchids and love blossoms around every neck in sight. It seems a blissful place to the casual tourist eye, this
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  • 973 10  -  WOMAN By Trish Sheppard Forty people living above a shophouse on a busy main thoroughfare is hardly in keeping with Singapore's would be image of gracious living. But Heng Ouek Keng has lived like this for her whole life and she is now 20.
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  • business news
    • 1140 10 ALL YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE STOCK EXCHANGE COUNTERS 1970-1571 1 wk. 4 wks. Closing Price Last Divid. P/E TornHigh LOW HO •go Stock Buyers Sellers Sale Yield Ratio Over INDUSTRIALS 4.50 2.30 2.41 2.54 Allied Chocolate 2.27 2.30 2.28 5.4N 14.4 10 1.90 0.84| 1.35
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    • 243 10 A new kind of packaging unit for goods, particularly those intended for containerised shipment, will be made available by a British firm, Tillotsons Corrueated Cases Limited,-Cambridge. The packaging module, which is a corrugated box with an Integral pallet, is being marketed as the PalBox. Tillotsons
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    • 249 10 Allied Chem 31% Alcoa 6K% Am Brands 455, Am Can 3®^ Am Motors AT T 46% A P 18-8 Anaconda 21 >i Avon Pd Beth Steel 22% Boeing 23 1 s Caterp Trac 51 Chrysler 2S', Coca-Cola 99% Control Data 68'4 Corn G1 Wks 249" 2 Dow Chem
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    • 51 10 Sintat Rent-a-car has been appointed the franchise representative of Kays Rent-a-car, one of the largest car rental firms in Australia. Mr. John Murphy, national manager, said his company which has franchise companies throughout the world, attaches great importance to the establishment of this tie-up with
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    • 218 10 United Press International New York, Wednesday Stocks continued to fall sharply yesterday after suffering their biggest setback on Monday in nearly a year. Turnover was moderate. Selling stemmed from a variety of factors, including the second nationwide rail strike in six months, talk that
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    • 279 10 United Press International London, Wednesday Leading stocks, which had been boosted by Unilever's pood results, closed below their best level on the stock exchange yesterday. Shares of Unilever got a multi-million boost after the giant soaps, fats and foods combine announced a 26 per
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  • THE BIG WALK
    • 812 11 ONCE again the Republic's grand annual racev walking event has arrived this time called the New Nation Big Walk. And for the past few weeks it has been a common sight to see so many dedicated ones practising on the roads. From today, most
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    • Article, Illustration
      194 11  -  —Message from Inche Othman Wok, Minister for Social Affairs Inche Othman Wok I note with pleasure that the New Nation Big Walk this year, a continuation of- the Malay Mail Big Walk, is expanded in scope to give opportunity to newcomers and secondary schools to compete. I refer
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    • 161 11  -  —Message from Mr. E. W. Barker, President of SNOC E. W. Barker The Big Walk began in 1955; since then many other walks have followed, varying in scale and ranging from those organised by community centres and clubs to those attracting international race-walkers. The popularity of racewalking in
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    • 186 11  -  —Message from Inche A. Rahim Ishak, President, SAAA Inche A. Rahim Ishak Walking as a sport appears to be gaining |n popularity in our Republic. Quite a few associations are now organising walking races for their members. Community centres have also catered for their supporters in this
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    • 186 12 List of trophy donors Cups and Trophies:—Guinness Challenge Trophy and Replica for Senior Ist Men's Section (donated by Guinness Malaysia Berhad). Shum Yip Leong Trophy and Replica for Junior Ist Men's Section (donated bv Shum Yip Leong Rubber Works Ltd). Chan Ah Kow Cup and
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    • 87 12 SEATED (left to fight): K.C. Natarajan (Treasurer SAAA), M. Nicholas (Sec. SAAA), T.C. Koh (Organising Secretary), ASP Zaln (SAAA), A.W. Neill (Asst. Gen. Mgr. Straits Times), C.M. Cardoza (Vice Pres. SAAA), I. Freathy (SAAA), Ag. Suptd. Thambiah. STANDING (left to right): G. S
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    • 92 16 AH FOOK: Have you noticed all the rubbish collecting on Singapore beaches? I saw so much around at Changl the other day. Soon the beaches we have won't be fit for picnics. I think a new vigorous campaign must be launched to keep our sands clean. MEI LIN:
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