New Nation, 2 June 1971

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  • 17 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Wednesday evening, June 2, 1971 No. 116 Price 15 cents SINGAPORE WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2
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  • 118 1 Selective investment stocks moved ahead smartly in a generally steady market this morning. Gula Perak saw an extension of buying support from $1.19 to $1.25. Interest was also seen in F.Cj Wire which was traded to a higher level of $1.30. Paper Product and Development Bank of
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  • 15 1 Police reported a total of 72 accidents yesterday. Six of which were serious.
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  • 29 1 LATE NEWS Saigon. Wednesday— The US command announced today that Communist troops In South Vietnam shot down three American helicopters, killing nine Americans and injuring one.
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  • 507 1  -  Expected to follow same'lines as the telephone scheme in Malaysia By Sunny Wee The new 10 cents a call telephone system, similar to that now in force in Malaysia, is expected to be introduced into Singapore soon. Informed sources said that the Singapore Telephone Board
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  • 302 1  -  By P.N. Balji Israel's Vice-Minister for Finance, Dr. Zvi Dinstein, today gave an assurance that his country would set up joint industrial ventures here, involving millions of dollars, by the end of this year. At the end .of his threeday visit. Dr.
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  • 92 1 The ASEAN Standing Committee will meet here on Friday to discuss the progress in various projects since the ministerial conferen in Manila in March. The one-day meeting will be presided over by Singapore's Foreign Minister, Mr. S. Rajaratnam who is the chairman of the Standing Committee
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  • 51 1 Three young Malaysian* arrived here today bound for Auckland for hole In the heart surgery needed to prolong their lives. The Malaysians, from Sabah, are Sundand bin Bakod, 18, Lo Hing Ban, 12, and Maureen Goh, IS, who was accompanied by her mother Mrs. Mary Moj
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  • 90 1 For more than 100 policewomen, tomorrow will be a big day. And for Miss Wong Choy Goh, above, the prospect is an exciting one. She is wondering how she will look In that tall helmet and red jacket when she appears
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  • 119 1 The Prime Minister, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, is scheduled to leave Singapore for Helsinki on Sunday night by Aeroflot and. after changing planes in Moscow, arrive in Finland's capital on Monday. Reliable sources here said today that Mr. Lee's travel plan was still tentative and subject
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  • 277 1 Reuter Washington, Wednesday President Nixon warned last night that large-scale shipments' of new Russian wea- pons to Egypt would spark a new arms race in the Middle East and increase the danger of another war there. Speaking at a televised Press conference, Mr. Nixon said
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  • 118 1 Two Singaporeans were arrested by International Police in Spain yesterday after they were pursued through eight countries. According to a cable report their names were even as Richard and WUim Heng. Both are brothers and it is believed that they have passed off $90,000 worth
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  • 83 1 The water consumption figure has shot up again to 101.5 million gallons yesterday. Yesterday's figure registered an Increase of 6.3 million gallons over Monday's all time low of 95.2 million gallons. The Public Utilities Board today reiterated its appeal to the public to try and
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  • 32 1 New York, Wednesday. War hero actor Audle Murphy, killed in a fiery plane crash in the Blue Ridge mountains, will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery, his widow said yesterday.
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  • 200 2 Singapore's tourist inflow is likely to swell to 8,000 more a year from the Australian market alone/ This figure was given by Mr. Richard Ng, managing director of Inter-continent-ai Travel Service, after his successful promotion tour to Australia and the subsequent link-up with
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  • 51 2 Mr. George Sandosham, who has been in the Singapore legal service for the past six years, has resigned and is expected to go into private practice. He Joined the legal service in 1966 as a Magistrate and was later promoted District Judge. He was also a Deputy Public
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  • 282 2 A number of Asian countries have made big strides forward in education m the fields of science and technology. At the Unesco conference of education ministers and economic planners yesterday, representatives from Thailand, Korea and Ceylon stressed the advances science and technology were making in
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  • 400 2 A Chinese art of tray planting Mrs. Bruce Patterson, wife of a British businessman, is an ordinary housewife who makes full use of her hobby Bonsai to raise funds for charity. Bonsai in Japanese literally means "to plant In a shallow tray." It is
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  • 171 2 The Lions Club (Host) will hold its lunchon meeting today at 12.45 p.m. at Viking Room, Goodwood Park Hotel. Swami Nitya Chaltanya Yatl, head of the Narayana Gurukula and director of the Institute of the Science of the Absolute, Varkala, India, will speak
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  • 218 2 Catering for the coming jumbos Malaysia-Singapore Airlines is to spend $7 million to expand its catering services to meet the needs of the Jumbo jets. The present flight kitchen, which prepares 6000 meals a day is being geared to provide 10,000 meals daily when expansion
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  • 304 2 Local industrialists are to explore the possibility of stepping up their exports of Singa-pore-made goods to the Italian market soon. An on-the-spot study will be conducted by a 10-man trade mission, which leaves for Rome later this fnonth for a fortnight's visit
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  • 196 2 Over 500 members of the Ist Battalion of the Second King Edward Vll's Own Gurkha Riffles will leave for Perth, Western Australia, this week for a six-week training programme. Some 250 of them will leave In the H.MJ3. Intrepid, while the rest will leave by air.
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  • 395 2 The National Book Development Council and the National library is organising a series of forums, competitions and cbntests in July as part of this year's Festival of Books. The Children's Services of the National Library will hold a costume competition for children from kindergarten age to
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  • 288 2 Government policy of allowing the use of Central Provident Fund credits for the purchase of Housing and Development Board flats under the "Home Ownership for the People" scheme has enabled many citizens to become home owners. In its annual report for 1970,
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 130 2 At the cinema Lido: The Landlord 1.45, 4, 6.30 and 9.15 p.m. Capitol: One More Train To Rob —1.45, 4, 6.30 and 9.30 p.m. Rex: Kudrat (Malay) 1.30, 4, 6.30 and 9.30 p.m. Sky: Sons And Daughters (Mand.) —1.45 and 4 p.m. Love Styles XYZ (Mand.) —6.30 and 9.15 p.m.
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    • 59 2 Weather Singapore Singapore's weather forecast from l p.m. to 6 p.m. —Fair. The weather for the 24 hours to 8 a.m. today: Max. temp.—BB.3. Mln. temp.—76.3. Total rainfall for the month to date—nil. Total rain days for the month to date—nil. Hours of sunshine—6.Bs. TIDES Today: 6.10 p.m. (6.5 ft.).
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  • THE WORLD
    • 422 4 Saigon troops abandon weapons and tanks as they withdraw Reuter Hon; Kong, Wednesday Guerillas have taken full control of the eastern Cambodian town of of Snoul, in Kratie Province, after four days of fighting. The North Vietnam news agency reported yesterday that the
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    • 87 4 London, Wednesday—The Daily Mirror, Britain's popular mas s c irculation newspaper, said yesterday that its readers had voted overwhelmingly against giving Queen Elizabeth a pay Increase. Recently, the Queen asked Parliament for an increase on her- state income of £475,000 a year. A row blew up
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    • 567 4 New Nation Foreign Service Istanbul, Wednesday The 51-hour ordeal of 14-year-old Slbel Erkan, held hostage by two left-wing terrorists, began on Sunday morning with a gunflght in the street outside her home and ended yesterday with her rescue after a shoot-out between the terrorists
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    • 459 4 Over-production snag—UN report Reuter Rome, Wednesday The world rice market is likely to jremain depressed by overproduction for the next three to four years, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) rice study group reported here yesterday. The group, which includes delegates from 32 rice producing
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    • 99 4 Hong Kong, Wednesday. —Hoping to expand tride with Communist China is like chasing rainbows, a Hong Kong newspaper said editorially yesterday. The English language Star said: "Nations that recognise China are chasing rainbows II they think dip. lomatic ties will immediately expand trade. "China's total foreign trade
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    • 239 4 United Press International Moscow, Wednesday Soviet science writers yesterday mentioned the possibility of using scoops and culture media in efforts to discover whether life exists on Mars. The writers commented in general terms and did not say that such materials were installed on
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    • 100 4 Reuter London, Wednesday Government ministers from Commonwealth sugar producing countries met here yesterday to forge a united front for a Better deal from the European Common Market for their vital sugar export trade. The ministers and High commission representatives from 14 countries, are building
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    • 215 4 Reuter Los Angeles, Wednesday Hippie leader Charles Manson was removed from court yesterday after an outburst in which he accused the prosecutor of trying to orientate prospective jurors to the death penalty and behaving like a used car salesman. It was the fourth
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    • 54 4 Rangoon, Wednesday A Burmese astrologist has predicted that a third World War will break out between China and the Soviet Union and that America will become allies of the Russians. The astrologist, Thakin Tin Muang, writing in the Burmese journal Oway said it would happen "anytime after
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    • 233 4 Reuter Rabat, Wednesday Delegates from 19 Muslim states started a three-day meeting here yesterday to discuss the creation and reinforcement of Islamic cultural centres around the world. Malaysia's Tengku Abdul Rahman, secretary-general of the newly-formed Islamic Nations' Permanent Secretariat, said in
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    • 88 4 Cape Town, Wednesday. About 50 white people were turned away from a whites-only theatre here last night because they had blackened their faces with shoe polish. Protesting against the whites-only restriction at the newly-opened Nico Malan Theatre, they said in a joint statement that their blackened laces
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    • 251 4 Reuter Nassau, Wednesday The US Vice-Presi-dent, Mr, Spiro Agnew, yesterday denied charges that the Nixon administration loathes the free Press. The Vice-President, who has frequently criticised Press coverage of news, commented on a recent charge by Democratic Senator Frank Moss that the administration
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    • 424 5 First official meeting New Nation Foreign Service New Delhi, Wednesday Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi yesterday received three rebel Bengali leaders from East Pakistan ancj talked with them for 45 minutes. This is the first time Mrs. Gandhi has officially received a rebel Bengali
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    • 301 5 Reuter Calcutta, Wednesday The bodies of nine youths were yesterday recovered from three earth pits in the West Bengal town of Nabagram in Hooghly district, north of Calcutta. At the same time four other people were reported killed yesterday in violent incidents in other parts
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    • 121 5 United Press International The fourth biennial conference of the International Air Transport Association (lATA) being held in Singapore is likely to approve an average five per cent raise in, air cargo rates, a spokesman said yesterday. The main item on the agenda of the month-long
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    • 337 5 United Press International Tokyo, Wednesday The Communist Chinese Premier, Mr. Chou En-lai, yesterday paid tribute to President Nicolae and his party and to the Government of Romania for "courageously defending their nation a 1 independence against foreign pressure." the New China News Agency reported today.
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    • 210 5 Reuter Havana, Wednesday The 68 passengers and crew of a Pan-Ameri-can jet hijacked to Cuba on Saturday .were offered bus <tours of government projects yesterday possibly the last day of their enforced stopover. In Washington, the White House announced the piane was expected to be
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    • 69 5 Jakarta, Wednesday. Malaysian businessman Mr. Jok Sil King drowned while swimming in the Kapuasv River near Pontianak, the West Kalimantan capital, Antara news agency reported yesterday. Antara said that Mr. Jok, President and director of imwnggang Indonesian Sawmill Ltd., a joint venture between Sarawak and Indonesia, failed to
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    • 27 5 Dublin, Wednesday More than 200 Malaysian medical students heard an appeal from their Health Minister yesterday to return home after their studies are completed.
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    • 73 5 Members of the Japan Peace for Vietnam Committee (Beheiren), some of them wearing skeleton masks bearing the Mitsubishi insignia, shout slogans during Mitsubishi Heavy Industries general stockholders' meeting in Tokyo last week. The "one-share'' stockholders demanded an immediate halt to production of war munitions by the company,
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    • 112 5 United Press International Tokyo, Wednesday Japan will play an increasingly important role in the defence of Asia in the future, former US ambassador to Japan, Mr. Edwin Reischauer said yesterday. "Looking ahead 10 or 20 years in the development of the Japanese-American defence
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    • 142 5 Reuter Taipeh, Wednesday Two Nationalist Chinese members of the International Press Institute (IPI) left for Helsinki yesterday to fight an American move to expel Taiwan from the world body. The two members, Mr. Wang Tih-wu, publisher of the United Daily News, and Mr. Ting
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    • 230 5 United Press International London, Wednesday Nearly 12,000 blast furnacemen employed, by the governmentowned British Steel Corp. yesterday walked off their jobs for the first time in 45 years to press demands for a 35 per cent pay increase. A spokesman for the steel
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    • 180 5 It's Police Week! See the Police Tattoo at Jalan Besar Stadium on June 3rd at 6 p.m. Also visit the Sea Carnival at Pasir Panjang Park on June 6th at 8 a.m. Don't forget to take pictures or shoot movies in colour! Once in a lifetime shots happen every weekend
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  • WORLD COMMENT
    • 1181 6 Malcolm Subhan looks at Britain's position as EEC entry draws nearer The negotiations over Britain's entry into the European Common Market have accelerated during the last four weeks to the point where the problems confronting Mr. Edward Heath now lie in his own
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    • 787 6 y John Hay takes a look at the man who has launched a crusade against pornography His enemies call him Mai short for Malvolio, the Puritanical character in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. He acmits to toeing a Puritan and looks as one. He is the answer to a
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    • 717 6  -  The Revolution over, China is rebuilding its party structure—and is set to end the job LEE LESCAZE China is in the homestretch of a two-year campaign to rebuild its Communist Party structure, but it appears that Peking has saved some of the
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    • 628 6 The President has the cards stacked up for his re-election, says George McArthur in Saigon Los Angeles Times With South Vietnam's battlefronts now distantly simmering in Cambodia and Laos, an army engineer company has set up operations in the centre of Saigon, more or
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  • Page 6 Advertisements
    • 87 6 m Q Come to a barbecue around the most beautiful pool in Singapore. On the top floor of the front building of the Ming Court Hotel there's a beautiful pool. We call it the Pagoda. Every Wednesday, a great barbecue will be served there from 8 p.m. The cost is
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  • THE LOCAL COMMENT
    • 977 7 SOME SAY IT'S FUN, OTHERS CALL IT SADISTIC Will orientation once again revert to ragging when the academic year starts on July 9 at the University of Singapore? Many about to begin the academic year at the University are preoccupied with this question because they have
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    • 460 7  -  Faculty plan should help to defuse communal passions From John Hoffman Melbourne Herald The Malaysian Government s announcement of a Faculty of Fine Arts for the University of Malaya is a clever, well-timed move coming after the hot debate on national identity that has already led
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    • The Voice of the Press
      • 362 7 The White Fathers, an order of Roman Catholic missionaries, are withdrawing from Mozambique. They •are not being expelled; on the contrary the Portuguese authorities would prefer them to stay. The decision, taken after long discussions within the order, is entirely at the initiative of the White Fathers, and
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      • 100 7 What other newspapers are saying: Securing new foreign investment capital may prove a formidable task for Singapore in the light of the city state's current controversy with its communications media. The 11-year-old Singapore success story and its bid to steal away the little of "Crossroads of SouthEast
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      • 110 7 University's 15th anniversary passed without any fuss or form of celebration. The public's apathy is best illustrated by the poor response towards the donation drive launched a couple of months ago by the Nanyang University Council. The purpose and value, however, of the existence of Nanyang
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    • 119 7 mii 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
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  • 431 8 In spite of the incidents involving troops on the border between India and East Pakistan and the increasing note of urgency in India's warnings that she cannot rule out military action unless stability is restored in East Bengal, the prospects of war between India
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  • 'WHISPERS' by ISPY
    • 84 8 If diplomats round-the-world do not take to pingpong, who else will? A little bird from Canberra tells me that sports stores in the Australian capital have sold several pingpong sets to diplomats who include no other person than Tan Sri Donald Stephens, the Malaysian High Commissioner to Australia.
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    • 83 8 U Nvi Burmese "LlberaUon Army" hu run Into serious trouble. The chief adviser to the former Burmese Prime Minister, U Law Yone, the Magsaysay award winner Journalist who maintains a safe distance from fighting, has just left Bangkok for the United States reportedly to gather support
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  • 894 8  -  DICK WILSON The story of the Singapore Herald has appeared on the front pages of most of the English-language newspapers of the East and and South-East Asia, and in some of them its day-to-day death agonies have been covered in the
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  • Letters
    • 263 8  -  ALFRED HAN S. Lee's letter (May 29) wanted to know what had happened to the College of Education. If I remember correctly, the projected body was called the Educational Institute in official discussions. Tne subject was fully aired during this year's parliamentary debates. It was decided that
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    • 155 8  -  LEE AH SAN I refer to your feature article on Careers public relations on May 26 and would like to comment on the following by Mr. Patrick de Souza: "An overseas examination that can be taken in K.L. is set by the Institute of Public Relations, London.
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    • 300 8  -  TOM MIRANDA I feel your reader Tan Hong Slang (New Nation May 29) has been taken for a ride by Mr. Devan Nair who urged the public to give the benefit of the doubt to the Government in the Herald affair. The Prime Minister made a
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    • 307 8  -  GILLIAN ROGERS We reprint here a letter addressed to the Editor of the Singapore Herald. The writer of the letter sent it to us for publication as it was not used in the Herald. Tour paper has been arriving every morning, unasked for, with my
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    • 83 8 Write to The Editor, New Nation, Locked Bag 15, GPO, Singapore 9 8 i w w 'in W/i U r* m < v m <4 another woridwide consignment The world is our trading ground, too.The Bills of Exchange in our bank plays an important part in facilitating that transactions. We
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  • Page 8 Miscellaneous

  • 1802 9  -  Where Africa is heading Black Africa's first full decade of independence has brought changes that throw light on how it will cope with its future. PAUL WEBSTER concludes his four-part report PAUL WEBSTER A long finger of scrubland called the Caprivi Strip tucks itself in between Botswana
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  • 703 9  -  Nineteen Asian nations are represented at Unesco's third regional conference for Ministers of Education which started in Singapore this week. ONC CHOO SUAT interviews MRS. F. PARSAY, the Iranian Minister of Education, the only woman leading a delegation to the conference. Further interviews with other
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  • 933 10  -  Rewards in profession are plenty in this period of rapid construction CAREERS Bv Patrick de Souza There is a shortage of good architects in the Republic according to many local architects. In a good year, the school of Architecture in the University of
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  • 806 10 Today Student's Forum takes you to St. Margarets Secondary. Elizabeth Choo gets the views of six students: EDUCATION We can be very vocal at our prefects' meetings. At times rules and regulations need some adjustments
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    • 303 10 voccitioral guctame COLES CAREERS SERIES These volumes are specially prepared to help students decide on their future careers. Written by an expert in his field, each one is a practical guide, giving all the up-to-date facts and answering vital questions: opportunities in a trade or profession; which provinces need career
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  • WOMAN
    • 266 11  -  By DIANNE WOOD This is a fashion story for busy women. It could be your story. Always in a rush. So many things to do and not enough hours to do them. Maybe you are a career woman. Hard-work-ing, efficient, authoritative, exacting and yet
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    • 799 11  -  Singapore is the Meeea for old tamps ANTIQUES by MAGGI KOH "New lamps for old!" Was Alladin's cry or was it his uncle's? Well, never mind, the principle's the same. If you have an old kerosene lamp in your house, tucked away in the store
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    • 1122 11  -  Two weeks without him is like eternity By Trish Shepphard My husband has been away from home for two weeks. Two weeks hen he is here seems like-nojjme at all, but two weeks without him seems like eternity.. My whole time scale alters. It is
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 285 11 E.M.O. Wolff. 42, Lengkok Saga, 11H nu, Woodland! Road, Singapore, 23, 21st Mm*, 1971. South Island Medical Supplies Pte. Ltd., 391 Kalians Road, SINGAPORE, 12 As you know, I has* had stiffness and pain in the neck end severe rheumatic pains on my hip for the lest three years. I
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  • Finance and business
    • 177 12 United Press International New York, Wednesday The stock market, recovering from an oversold condition, finished higher on moderate turnover yesterday. Some analysts also attributed demand for stocks to hopes that President Nixon will have a favourable economic message in his news conference. Mr. Philip Clark,
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    • 171 12 London, Wednesday The market declined in very quiet conditions overshadowed by the national strike of blast furnacemen and growing inflationary fears. Towards the closa the Financial Times index fell 4.4 to 379.7. Leaders were generally lower led by Unilever with a loss of around
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    • 235 12 Allied Chem 30% Alcoa 68 Am Brands 43% Am Can 35% Am Motora AT A T 45% A A P 18 Anaconda 22% Avon Pd Beth steel 22% Boeing 23% Caterp Trac 49% Chrysler 29% Coca-Cola 100% Control Data #8% Corn G1 Wks 249% 97% DuPont 141% E
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    • 1121 12 ALL YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE STOCK EXCHANGE COUNTERS 1970-1971 1 wk. 4 wks. Closing Price last Divid P/E TurnHigh Low ago ago Stock Bayers Sellers sale Yield Ratio Over INDUSTRIALS4.50 2.26 2.36 2.44 Allied Chocolate 2.34 2.35 5.3N 14.9 23 1.90 0.84} 1.43 1.13 Ben
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    • 689 12 CLINIC marc Rapid industrialisation in Singapore has brought an increasing arvareness of the important role that the personnel function plays in industry and commerce. In this column, a senior Singaporean personnel manager with long experience in a well established international organisation will
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    • 282 12 Denmark, which exported a record $2l million worth of goods to Singapore consisting of mainly machinery and agricultural products, plans to push sales to $3O million. Mr. K. Westergaard, Far East manager of the Danish agricultural marketing board, said this on arrival here from
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    • 64 12 Mitsubishi Corporation of Japan, (formerly Mitsubishi Shoji Kaisha), showed a 33 per cent increase in turnover in the year ended September 1970, to reach $32,000 million—six times Singapore's Gross Domes- tic Product of Singapore. Consolidated net income rose to the equivalent of $2OO million, up nearly 42 per
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    • 82 12 Dato Lee Chee Shan D.K.MP., (A) O.ST.J.. J.P. The Board of Directors of Churig Khiaw Bank Limited in accordance with their new policy has abolished the post of the Managing Director which has been successfully held by DATO LEE CHE SHAN for the last twenty one years and has elevated
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    • 117 12 Aportments: not less than 1480 sq. ft. Penthouses: 2970 sq.ft.opprox. 3 big bedroom with 2 attached bathroom 7 showers room. Lounge bedroom floor In parquet the rest mosaic. Built-in cupboards kitchen cabinet*. 4 high-speed reliable lifts. Spacious car parking at ground floor. Market, school/ theatre other amenities within easy reach.
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  • SPORT 1
    • 523 13  -  CAMERA ON SCHOOLS Sonny Yap A district athletic championship is a time for sportsmen from different language schools to meet in common endeavoirt\ While this may entail linguistic confusion in running the show, officials have got around this problem by giving instructions and announcements in the
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    • 586 14  -  CRICKET By Lim Kee Chan Singapore skipper Reggie da Silva and Krishna Moorthy are the two outstanding performers to date in the current Singapore Cricket Association senior tournament. Da Silva. the Police legspinner, is the man responsible for putting his team in second position, behind
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    • 240 14 Paris, Wednesday Two American seeded players were eliminated in fourth round play at the French international tennis championships here yesterday. The defeat of tough Texan Cliff Richey, the fourth seed, by 89-year-old Istyan Gulyas of Hungary 6-4, 7-5, 4-6, 6-2 came as a complete
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    • 66 14 Melbourne, Wednesday— A total of 455 horses have been entered for this year's two-mile Melbourne Cup— Australia's premier horse race and the first race in the country to offer Asloo,ooo in stake money. It will be run on November 2. There were 520 entries for the
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    • 262 14 London, Wednesday Only one English Classic has eluded Irish trainer Paddy Prendergast, and that is the biggest of them all the Derby. Today he will try again to reak the Hoodoo. This time he has two colts entered, Lombardo and Creditman. Both horses have made rapid improvement
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    • 228 14 London, Wednesday Virginia Wade, one of the most temperamental figures in world tennis, and on her day also one of the best, is in the wars again. A painful wrist injury which has dogged her in three recent tournaments, forced her to quit in the middle
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    • 1411 15  -  KSI SCENE WITH JEFFREY LOW The time of reckoning has arrived for our national footballers. In two days, they will leave the country and play in their first overseas tourney this year the 10nation Jakarta Anniversary championships from June 5 to 17. Once again
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    • 59 15 Mrs. M. Eu appears to have tangled her wood up in her dress as she tees off in the SICC's A, B and C medal golf competition yesterday. Mrs. N. Clayton won the A medal with a nett 74. The B went to J. Sim (nett 74) and C to
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    • 31 15 Stockholm, Wednesday.— Swedish middle distance ace, Ulf Hoegberg, last night set a new 1500 metres world seasons best in a meet at Lidingoe. Hoegberg was timed in 3:39.0 minutes.
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    • 24 15 National league St. Louis 3 Atlanta I Los An*. 4 Montreal 0 American league Kansas 4 Boston 2 Mllwark 6 Cleveland 5
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    • 507 15 Reuter London, Wednesday Intikhab Alam spun the Pakistani cricketers to a morale-boosting win over Gloucestershire here yesterday less than 48 hours before the start of the first Test against England tomorrow. Intikhab, the Pakistan captain, grabbed seven for 108 with his leg-breaks as Gloucestershire crashed
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    • 21 15 Melbourne, Wednesday— The Australian baseball team will tour South Korea and Japan in September, it was announced last night.
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    • 112 15 WORLD OF SPORT Tokyo. Wednesday. Australian boxing manager. Jack Rennie, yesterday submitted a formal written protect to the Japan Boxing Commission against the handling of last Sunday's world Junior lightweight title match between champion, Yoshiaki Numata of Japan and Australia's Lionel Rose. Numata retained his Worid Boxing
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    • 26 15 Hong Kong, Wednesday. North Korea beat Syria 1-0 at an Olympic qualifying soccer match in Pyongyang yesterday, the North Korean central news agency reports.
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    • 150 15 Bonn, Wednesday The first racially mixed group of South African athletes to go overseas, who flew quietly to Europe over the weekend, are expected to compete in three athletics meetings in West Germany during the next 10 days, sports officials said yesterday. The athletes—Dicky Broberg
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    • 46 15 Moscow, Wednesday. Alexander Kolotkov, of the Soviet Union, set a world weightlighting record for the middleweight press with a lift of 359.35-lb. at' Balkhash yesterday. Kolotkov, 24, added 2.2-lb. to the previous record set by his fellow Russian Alexander Matveyev last April.
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    • 260 15 From Blue Peter In Ipoh Trainer Rinus van Breukelen's Derby candidates Man of Honour (Miller) and Keep Going did a dashing. trial at Ipoh this morning. After going once round the track at the steady pace the two stablemates steadily clapped on the pace to run
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    • 100 15 Darwin, Wednesday. Darwin bookmaker, Charlie Quee, an Australian-born Chinese .said last night he had been invited to a conference in Malaysia in August to explain his offcourse betting methods. Mr. Quee said he had been invited by the Malaysian professional bookmakers committee to their conference at Penang
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    • 127 15 London, Wednesday Twelve acceptors were announced today for the English Oaks for three-year-old fillies to be run over one and a half miles at Epsom on Saturday. The race is worth a total of 44,670 sterling with the winning over receiving 30,214 sterling. There are
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