New Nation, 8 July 1971

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  • 14 1 NEW NATION SINGAPORE Thursday evening, 8, 1971 No. 147 Price 15 cents NEW NATION
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  • 294 1 Smoke in waitresses' eyes so some go without paying Firemen get to work on the 18th floor Several customers in the coffee house and bar left without paying for their drinks when smoke got into the eyes of the waitresses during the brief fire at
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  • 111 1 The stock market was generally steady with firm trading In selective counters. Public Bank featured with business done from $1.37 to $1.40 to $1.43. Far East Levlngston from $2.96 to $2.97 to $2.95. Setron changed hands from $1.55 to $1.54. Lien Hoe $1.44 to $1.45. Allied Chocolate
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  • 138 1 The Singapore National Union of Journalists today was awaiting a reply to the letter it sent to the American Ambassador yesterday over the alleged discrimination against local Press representatives during the visit of the US N Vice President, Mr. Spiro Agnew. The SNUJ is seeking clarification
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  • 298 1 Amin: Don't worry if there's fighting Reuter Kampala, Thursday Uganda last night closed its borders with Tanzania and Rwanda only hours after President Idi Amin told an audience here not to worry if they heard news of fighting. At the same time the government declared
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  • 327 1 United Press International Manila, Thursday Philippine air force and navy units have been ordered to investigate reports that Nationalist China has occupied and fortified a group of disputed islands called Freedom4and in the South China Sea. A Filipino businessman, who claims the area, today identified
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  • 13 1 Police reported a total of 74 accidents yesterday. Seven were serious.
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  • 22 1 LATE NEWS Paris, Thursday. Two Pakistani diplomats have asked the French government for political asylum, the State-controlled radio reported.
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  • 108 1 Reuter Melbourne, Thursday. Indonesia's first woman Supreme Court judge, Mrs. S. W. Wiratmo, said yesterday women were more honest than men and should play a bigger role within the Australian judicial system. "Men will not admit that women are more honest," she said, "but it is true that
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    • 88 1 Another blaze: New Raffles Institution site, P 3 MRTIC SEVENDAY showing the date and the day of the week <*.r. {|niiWlllHHHllllßfflWW^[m,'i|k I 159 TB 154 3 Entirely automatic precision Quality guarantee, functional styling Reasonable Drices and a name that sounds well those are the distinctive features of the modern branded
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  • 409 2  -  Peeling paintwork and rusty hull but still a majestic sight By Herbert Teo Once the pride of the seven seas, she stood with her paintwork peeling and rust along her waterline at the Mobil Refinery's Jurong terminal yesterday. > But the 83,000 ton former luxury
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  • 46 2 The Singapore Conference Hall restaurant will reopen for business tomorrow. It was closed for business nine months ago when the premises was used for the Commonwealth Heads of States conference. Since then the, restaurant has been renovated at a cost of over $200,000.
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  • 31 2 The Singapore Association for the Deaf will hold a special ceremony to confer honorary membership on some early supporters at its premises in Mountbatten Road on Saturaay at 4 p.m.
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  • 34 2 New York, Thursday.— Joseph Colombo Sr., the reported Brooklyn Mafia leader shot at an ItalianAmerican Unity Day rally, remained in a coma and in very critical condition yesterday following brain surgery.
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  • 31 2 Moscow, Thursday. Russia's Lunokhod moon buggy took new photographs of the lunar landscape as It rounded a crater slope during its latest communications session with earth, Tass reported yesterday.
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  • 497 2  -  Tan Sri: Aim was to stress danger of a split By John Hoffman Melbourne Herald Kuala Lumpur, Thursday Warning against an active 'plot' to cast down UMNO's leadership, thus causing the downfall of the Malaysian government, have been attributed to the party's vice-president, Tan Sri
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  • 197 2 The Automobile Association Is planning to establish a vehicle establishment centre to provide a useful safety check on members' cars which are over 10 years old. According to an article in the Highway, the organ of the association, the centre would also contribute to road safety promotion. It
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  • 183 2 The National Safety First Council will send two delegates and the Automobile Association one to attend the third International Road Safety Conference in Sydney next year. Announcing this today the chairman of the council and the AA, Mr. Milton Tan, said: "We hope the government will
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  • 36 2 Hong Kong, Thursday.— North Korea's Premier Kim II Sung, has met a Soviet delegation currently in Pyongyang to attend celebrations marking the 10th anniversary of the KoreanSoviet treaty of friendship, co-operation and mutual assistance.
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  • 95 2 Two detective constables have been interdieted following a month-long probe by the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau on the activities of officers and other ranks attached to the Kandang Kerbau Police Station. The interdiction, which took effect three days ago, was the sequel to the CPIB report after
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  • 50 2 Registration for kindergarten classes in community centres for next year will begin on July 15 and end on July 31. Only children born in 1966 or 1967 will be eligible for registration. Parents need not bring along the children for registration. Only documents like birth certificates are required.
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 100 2 Weather j Temperatures in world cities yesterday: Kuala Lumpur 90-71 Jakarta 94-79 Manila 88-78 Hong Kong 86-80 Tokyo 84-77 Seoul 81-73 Bangkok 89-77 Taipei 96-79 Naha 91-82 London 77-64 Moscow 66-50 New York 90-71 Sydney 61-49 Melbourne 60-36 Canberra 55-23 Singapore Singapore's weather forecast from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.
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  • 333 3 Minister of Culture backs project by teachers' group The Minister for Culture, Mr. Jek Yuen Thong, has given official encouragement to a project by the Singapore Chinese Second Language Teachers' Society to promote the use of Mandarin. He has agreed to become the patron of/the society's
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  • 316 3 Books have a future, but we may have to get used to reading them via the TV screen. And how to choose books from the mountains of new titles entering the catalogues will become a mighty headache. This was the consensus of a public
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  • 80 3 New York, Thursday. Engineers began a weeklong rehearsal countdown last night at Cape Kennedy for the July 26 launch of Apollo 15 to the moon. The test scheduled to wind iip with a simulated" 'blastoff next Tuesday. The exercise Includes rocket fueling and virtually every other countdown
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  • 38 3 Buenos Aires, Thursday. An Argentine threejudge panel has announced it will try American Robert Lee Jackson and his Guatemalan girlfriend on air piracy charges in connection with the hijacking of a Branlff Airliner last weekend.
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  • 226 3 Singapore enjoyed an overall 70.9 per cent occupancy rate in hotels operating fully or partially in 1970. According to the latest report released by the Tourist Promotion Board, 1,071,387 room-nights out of a maximum total of 1,521,995 were sold last year. There was little
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  • 351 3 A Jurong textile factory which is entirely locally run, is now producing about $4 million worth of garments annually, 90 per cent of which are exported. This is the Raya Mills Corporation, which not only has a flatted factory branch in St. Michaels Estate
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  • 140 3 The Minister for Law and National Development, Mr. E.W. Barker, today toured Queenstown to look at the development of the housing estate and new construction sites. Mr. Barker was shown over the estate by the chairman of the Housing and Development Board, Mr. Lee
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  • 129 3 British Petroleum's $1 million hydrant system to refuel jumbo Jets at Paya Lebar International Airport will be operational by the end of the year. This was announced today by Mr. Barry Chong, operations manager of BP. The system involves the construction of two storage
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  • 307 3 New graduates, from institutions of higher learning cannot expect spectacular promotion prospects in government service, the Minister for Home Affairs, Dr. Wong Lin Ken, said yesterday. Addressing a group of freshmen and seniors at a University of Singapore Historical Society tea party, Dr.
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  • 68 3 Fire today destroyed more than $3OOO worth of equipment at the new Raffles Institution constryction site in Grange Road. Some construction workers were asleep at the site when the fire broke out about 6.30 a.m. Mr. Lee Loon Cheng, the contractor, estimated damage at more
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  • 138 3 Mr. Tan Lim Kwee, chairman of the management committee of Geylang East community centre, will head the panel of judges at the Toto draw in Wonderland Amusement Park, Kallang, at 7.45 tonight. The SAF will be conducting military exercises at Maju Camp Training Area from 6 p.m.
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  • 155 3 The First Lady, Mrs. B.H. Sheares, will open the sixth annual exhibition of the Singapore Sogetsu Association to be held at the Conference Hall from September 2—5. As in past years, the exhibition is being organised to raise funds for welfare institutions. This year's
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  • 208 3 Inchcape Berhad announced yesterday that the offer made on June 8 to stockholders of Motor Investments Berhad and Wheelock Marden and Company (Malaysia) Limited to exchange their holdings in these companies for that of Inchcape has been accepted by a substantial majority of the shareholders.
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  • 67 3 Hong Kong, Thursday.— A New York Times Journalist and his wife today boarded an early morning train into mainland China for a three-week visit. Mr. James Reston, said he would find out "what the Chinese think about ,the present state and the military posture of the
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  • 19 3 The People's Association Band will perform at the Botanical Gardens from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. today.
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 88 3 At the cinema Lido: Company Of Killers 1.45, 4, 6.30. The Priest's Wife 9.15. Capitol: Eyewitness 1.45, 4, 6.30, 9.30. Rex: The Love Auction (Mandarin) 1.45, 4, 6.30, 9.30. Sky: The Love Auction (Manaarin) 1.45, 4, 6.30, 9.15. Roxy: The Love Auction (Manaarin) 1.45, 4.15, 7, 9.30. State: The Hottest
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  • THE WORLD
    • 373 4 United Press International New Delhi, Thursday The Indian Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, told White House adviser Henry Kissinger yesterday that US shipments to Pakistan posed serious threats to the peace and security of the subcontinent. Foreign Ministry sources said that Dr. Kissinger was told
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    • 48 4 London, Thursday. Princess Anne, 20-year-old ;daughter of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, underwent *n emergency operation In a London hospital last night for the removal of fen Inflamed ovarian cyst which started to haemorrhage. A spokesman from her Jiome In Buckingham Paace said her condition was satisfactory.
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    • 45 4 Peking, Thursday. —The Labor Party mission to China, headed by opposition leader Mr. bough Whltlam, yesterday toured a computer-con-trolled oil refinery 30 miles West of Peking. Mr. Whltlam and the other five members of his delegation, are on a 12-day visit to China.
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    • 29 4 New York, Thursday. .One man was killed and -several people injured when two carriages of a train came off .the rails In New York's Grand Central Btation.
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    • 276 4 NG tribesmen act to bring 'good times' Reuter Port Moresby, Thursday A mysterious New Guinea "cargo cult" reached its bizarre climax yesterday when 4,000 tribesmen carried two concrete survey markers in a solemn procession down a sacred mountain. The villagers filed silently past the administration office
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    • 148 4 United Press International Santo Domingo, Thursday A Dominican court last night granted a divorce to motion picture stars Elliot Gould and Iterbra Streisand. The court said the decree would become final when published in a dally newspaper with national circulation in the Dominican Republic.
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    • 59 4 Moscow, Thursday.—Russia and Italy's foreign ministry agreed yesterday that a start should be made quickly to a European force levels. Italian Foreign Minister Aldo Moro, on a week-long visit to the Soviet Union, yesterday spent more than two hours discussing international affairs Including Europe, China and the
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    • 44 4 Belfast, Thursday. Mr. Iver Hoppe, the Danish shipbuilder who was appointed on Tuesday to rim Belfast's struggling Harland and Wolff Shipyard, said he was confident he could get it out of the red. "That is what I am here for/' he added.
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    • 33 4 London, Thursday Thieves ambushed a lorry In East London early yesterday forced out the driver and his mate at gunpoint and then drove away with a £27,000 cargo of Scotch whisky.
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    • 323 4 Reuter I New York, Thursday I The body of Louis lArmstrong, who said •he would play a duet "with Gabriel when he died, lay in a funeral home here yesterday as family and friends sought a big hall to accommodate thousands of mourners. Armstrong died
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    • 183 4 Reuter Hong Kong, Thursday Seven people, including two journalists and a senior British police officer, were injured in a demonstration by students protesting against Japanese claims to the Senkaku Island here yesterday. Police arrested 20 people, mostly students, who defied a ban by the
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    • 385 4 Formal American response will be withheld at Paris talks with Hanoi New Nation Foreign Service Washington, Thursday US officials here stressed the need for further clarification of the new Communist peace plan for Vietnam and said a formal American response will therefore be withheld
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    • 63 4 Queen Elizabeth gives a bit of an un-regal grimace after ge 11 ing caught in a downpour of rain in Edinburgh. She was leading the traditional procession to the installation ceremonj for two new members of the Order of the Thistle—one of Britain's highest honours.
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    • 67 4 Brussels. Thursday.—Tax inspectors arriving for work in Brussels and two other Belgian cities yesterday ran into brick walls. The entrance to their offices had been bricked up during the night, by the Belgian Architects' Association In protest at the profession having to pay value added tax. "Tou
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    • 49 4 Stockholm, Thursday. A 42-year-old Greek doctor. Vasillos Tsironis, was jailed here yesterday for three and a half years for hijacking an Olympic Airways plane from Greece to Albania in August 1969. He is the second person to be jailed in Sweden for a hijack offence.'
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    • 33 4 New York, Thursday Senegal yesterday called for the United Nations Security Council to be urgently convened to consider charges that Portuguese regular armed forces had violated its sovereignty and territorial integrity.
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    • 209 4 United Press International Vienna, Thursday The Rumanian Communist Party ordered a major ideological campaign yesterday to remove bourgeois influences from movies, music, schools and the Press and replace them with strict MarxismLeninism. The 17-point programme was presented by party leader Nicolae Ceausescu. Among its
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    • 58 4 NeDelhl, Thursday.—Two Two prisoners were killed and 31 others were injured In rioting inside the Bankipur central jail in the north Indian city of Patna yesterday. Prison officials said warders opened fire to hold back rioting prisoners, who attacked guards with iron bars, sticks and
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    • 24 4 Aden, Thursday.—Communist China increased its assistance to the Republic of Yemen with an agreement yesterday to build a £l.B million textile mill.
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    • 134 4 Reuter Jerusalem, Thursday The West German Foreign Minister Mr. Walter Scheel, last night paid homage here to the six-million Jews murdered by the Nazis. Laying a wreath to the victims of the Nazi holocaust at the Yad Vashem memorial on the first day of his
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    • 238 4 United Press International Vera Cruz, Thursday The lone survivor of a mysterious shipwreck yesterday told how his 11 crewmates were thrown to the sharks one by one as they died at sea. Raymon Ayala, 60, said: "Little by little the weakest ones died. We threw them
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    • 31 4 New Delhi, Thursday. Twelve people were killed and 41 others Injured when a bus rolled 200 feet down the bank of a hill road north-west of Simla yesterday.
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    • 238 4 Reuter London, Thursday Conservative rightwinger Mr, Enoch Powell said in Huddersfleld yesterday the inflow of Commonwealth coloured migrants to Britain should be reversed and turned into an exodus. He forecast that at the present rate of Influx, a quarter or more of the people in Britain's
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    • 115 4 United Press International Madrid, Thursday A Spanish jetliner landed on Tuesday night with an involuntary stowaway aboard a German luggage porter who was accidentally locked into the plane's freight hold Just before takeoff from Dusseldorf Airport. The porter, Elmar Meddendorf, 19, survived the adventure with nothing worse than
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  • WORLD COMMENT
    • 754 5  -  There is no intention of renewing war across the Suez Canal till the end of this year From William Tuohy Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, in the absence of a peace settlement with Israel, apparently does not now intend to renew hostilities across the Suez Canal until
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    • 829 5  -  But the menace is under control From Leon Daniel Communist China passed the word publicly in 1965 that a people's war would soon break out in Thailand, prompting fears that this nation might become another Vietnam. In the years that followed, Communist terrorists have engaged
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    • 764 5  -  Systematic Communist attempts to stamp out influence of Cambodia's Buddhist religion From Arthur J. Dommen Communist-dominat-ed village committees order Buddhist monks to do field work and turn pagoda yards into poultry and swine farms. These and other details of systematic Communist attempts to stamp out the
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  • 507 6 The debate on Tuesday at the University of Singapore on the income gap between the "haves" and the "have-nots" provided a useful exposition of the arguments for and against a relaxation of the government's continuing toughness on the wages and labour front. Dr. Augustine
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  • 'WHISPERS' by ISPY
    • 74 6 Diplomats tell me that some Indonesians are well aware of one consequence,, of a break-up of Pakistan. If Bangla Desh were to become an independent state, then Pakistan could no longer claim to be the largest Muslim nation. That honour or responsibility would go to Indonesia,
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    • 195 6 No less than 5,000 curious Singaporeans turned out on Friday to watch the Boeing Jumbo jet 747 taxiing Into Singapore for the first time. Many stood waiting for hours and there were at least three false alarms when one Japan Air Lines plane and two BOAC VC-lOs
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  • 731 6  -  JACKIE SAM TJawang's polling station catering for 360 voters is typical of the thousands of voting centres that sprang up overnight in Jakarta. The booths were made of bamboo poles and cloth within a roped off area. Anybody could
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  • Letters
    • 481 6  -  GENE M. TEO I am pleased to know that Mesrour has been following my articles with such keen interest. I therefore feel obliged to clarify any doubts or thoughts that have arisen from his reading. First, I would like to start with the premise that
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    • 142 6  -  PAT KOH The "travel by bus to work" call by the Communications Minister may seem to be a practical solution to ease traffic congestion in the city, but not convenient to all office workers. The residents of Farrer Road would gladly leave their cars at
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    • 324 6  -  SEET ENG TIONG Permit me to comment on your Talking Point of June 30 regarding the raising of professional standards among teachers. Self-improvement is the result of a realisation that some thing must be done to improve oneself, that one has to do much better than
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    • 94 6  -  MRS. JOSEPHINE SEOW Referring the letter from Mr. H. Hall (New Nation. June 26) regarding charges on push button telephones, this facility is a new innovation which the Singapore Telephone Board has introduced into its network on a limited scale. It is a more sophisticated form of
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    • 161 6  -  J. PANGLAYKIM Referring to Mr. Patrick de Souza's article in New Nation of June 23. entitled "Lack of Communications at Nanyang University," I wouia like to make the following remarks. Mr. de Souza's article was based on an interview with Professor Dick Eckel. The mention of my name
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    • 80 6  -  A.W.N. I am not a gambling man nor a racegoer, but I wish to put in a word for the bookies who are being hounded out of the Turf Club. Surely, the bookies are popular, otherwise the punters would not patronise them. Don't they fulfil
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous

  • 2301 7 CONTINUING NEW NATION'S EXCLUSIVE SERIES FROM THE WASHINGTON POST THE lIPB PENTAGON PAPERS When John Kennedy entered the White House on January 20, 1961, the focus in South-East Asia was on Laos. Three days earlier, one of the strongest advocates of
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  • 269 7 On November 11,1961, President Kennedy was told that Defence Secretary Robert McNamara and the Joint Chiefs of Staff "assume" that if Hanoi and Peking overtly intervened in South Vietnam after the United States sent its first troops there that the maximum American force required on the ground
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  • 5539 8 EDUCATIONAL BROADSHEET CAESAR Little life remains to Caesar at the point where the play opens. Indeed his natural life is almost finished: his bodily infirmities increase, and it cannot be long before in the course of nature he dies. The play is mistitled "The Tragedy" of
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  • SHOPPING
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      530 10 T CAME across several electrically operated articles that I think will go down very well with you. Top of the list is the fondue cooker with a double-sure safety system. Equipped with a wide range thermostat control that can go up to about 400 degrees Fahrenheit and a
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    • 149 10 FREE GIFTS! SPE For every $lO.OO worth of any brand of cosmetics purchased, you will be entitled to $2.00 worth of free gifts! A complete range of world-renowned cosmetics to suit your personal taste and requirement all under one roof. Hurry while stocks last! Stop shop at: A. S. MOHD.
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    • 240 10 Light weight. Convenient ALUMINIUM PRODUCTS WA I I 1 R V* V I k LADDERS DOORS J SINKS I ask for Seal brand the Seal of Quality TONG MENG industries ltd.. Town Office: 4725 Block 1, Beach Road, Singapore 7 Telephone ***** *****. tit wx SPECIALIST IN INSTALLING ALL TYPES
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    • 44 10 Interior Decoration, Furniture Manufacturer, JmJm Shop Furnishing Designer. SHANGHAI KQR TON 6 Furniture Co., 165-A, Paya Lebar Rood, Singapore, 14. Tel: *****/*****1. Honda Portable Generator Model E 300 oTo available at KHiMG MOM 6 CO. 393, JALAN BESAR, S PORE B. IfL: ***** *****.
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  • WOMAN
    • 61 11 Take a long black jersey pinafore, added to a pure white blouse with full cuffed sleeves and shirt collared. And one more thing a long back waist- coat trimmed with gold studs all along the edge and Joy's Boutique got together a garb just
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    • 877 11 'Children by choice, not by chance' slogan started Britain's first birth control clinic Fifty-five years ago, a housewife, wondering what had gone wrong with her marriage, looked for the answer In the reading room of London's British Museum. There, to her horror she discovered that her
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    • 400 11  -  SPLENDID PROGRESS CAN BE ACHIEVED IN ART TAUGHT IN FOREIGN TONGUE I SOCIETY I spotlight! GRACIA TAY-CHEE'S Whenever someone talks about communication difficulties, I am reminded of people who manage quite well when they have to, and of my own experience in Germany when I stayed with
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    • 493 11 The guide fGOOD\ Vhealth^ How many anxious young men I see complaining of hair loss! After all none of us want to be bald but some people do overreact to the signs of impending maturity as I like to put it. Normally
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
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  • NEW NATION'S Finance and business
    • 1161 12 TRENDS AND MOVES IN THE MAJOR STOCK EXCHANGE COUNTERS 1976-1971 1 wk. 4 wk*. Closing Price last Divid P/E TurnHlfh Low ago ago Stock Bayers Sellers sale Yield Ratio Over INDUSTRIALS 2.83 1.68 1.68 1.79 Allied Chocolate 1.94 1.96 6.4N 14.2 18 1.90 0.84| 1.39 1.39 Ben
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    • 202 12 United Press International New York, Thursday Stocks finished higher in moderately active trading yesterday. Among the items spurring demand for stocks were relief that the prime rate hike issue has finally been resolved, hints of movement in the Vietnam Seace negotiations, and beef the economy
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    • 160 12 Reuter London, Thursday The market closed very quiet and steady ahead of the publication of the government white paper on UK's Common Market entry. Towards the close the Financial Times index was up 0.4 to 384.0. Bechams firmed in belated response to the annual report
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    • 192 12 Singapore should logically concentrate on the manufacture of electronic components used in computers if it hopes to see its electronics industry grow and capture a sizeable share of growing world demand for eelctronlc components. This was stated by Mr. James McLindan, who was here on a
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    • 57 12 Hill and Delamain Limited of London have recently acquired a locally incorporated company, Apollo Aircargo and Transport Service. Hill and Delamain the airfreight arm of the United Transport Group, realised the strategic importance of Singapore from an airfreight poiht of view some time ago and neKtlatlons with Apollo
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    • 323 12 Mr. Ken Marston has been appointed chairman of the board of directors of Gammon South-East Asia Berhad. Mr. Marston, who was recently appointed a director of the company, succeeds Mr. C.S. Ashbrook who now becomes the deputy chairman. Mr. Marston has been with Bovls Holdings, the United Kingdom based
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    • 189 12 Allied Ctaem 32% 81 >4 Am Brands 45% Am Can 34% Am Motors AT T 45% A ft P 19% Anaconda 18 V. Avon Pd Beth Steel 22% Boeing 19 Caterp Trac 48% Chrysler 26% Coca-Cola 102% Control Data a»% Corn G1 Wks 255 Dow Ctaem 99% DuPont
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    • 286 12 Bonn, Thursday The U.S. dollar still remained as the villain which prevented complete unity of views between France and West Germany. This was made clear at the end of an otherwise successful two days of talks between Chancellor Willy Brandt and visiting French President Mr.
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    • 214 12 An agency report from London states that Sir Eric Griffith-Jones, chairman of the Guthrie Corporation, announced in London yesterday that about half of its present acreage of rubber plantations is to be progressively switched to the production of oil palm. Sir Griffith-Jones told shareholders
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  • 666 12  -  CINEMA By EDGAR KOH MISSISSIPPI MERMAID It isn't surprising that contiental movies like this, which is a combination of France's leading film talents, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Catherine Deneuve, should be consigned straightaway to our second run cinemas. On the other
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  • Page 12 Advertisements
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    • 8 12 GUTHRIES ANNOUNCE GRADUAL STEP-UP OF OIL PALM PLANTING
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  • SPORT
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      447 13  -  CAMERA ON SCHOOLS Sonny Yap Cricket, which once held a prestigious place in school sports many years ago, has fallen on bad days. If it had not been for a core of traditional diehards in several of our older schools, the sport would have already heard its death
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    • 250 14 Reuter London Thursday J3lg-hlttlng favourite Jack Nicklaus crashed on the last two holes when all set to take the first round lead In the 100 th British Open goif championship here yesterday and slipped two strokes behind four Joint leaders. Mexican-born Lee Trevino, recent winner
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    • 31 14 a leading squash player is seen getting into shape for the Singapore Open championships to be held next month in conjunction with the Pesta Sukan.
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    • 554 14  -  PESTA SUKAN By Jeffrey Low Japan will be fielding such a formidable force of athletes that they'd probably hit headlines in the three-day Singap or e AAA Open championship held in conjunction with the Pesta Sukan from August 13 to 15. Of the 15 athletes coming,
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    • 121 14 Paris, Thursday Guy Crescent, President of the Paris Saint Germain Football Club, yesterday said he was certain that Brazilian soccer king Pele would c6me here next year to play for his club. Crescent was speaking on his return from Brazil, where he held talks
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    • 280 15 From Blue Peter in Kuala Lumpur Precious Momen'os and Ness Lane, two of trainer Jack Spencer's prospects for the King's Cup, did a splendid trials on a good track here this morning. The two stablemates sprinted from the 4f post and ran the last 3f in 36
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    • 51 16 Petite Maggie Kay dreams of holidays abroad —the further the better. The 18-year-old waitress at the Shangri-La Hotel hopes to make first trip before she reaches 20. Meanwhile she is contented with collecting coins of the countries she plans to visit. Picture by Picture by Brian
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    • 422 16 Perhaps America's greatest ecological disaster is the disappearance of the Hollywood starlet. Like the great California condor, the dodo and passenger pigeon the starlet is a species of bird facing extinction, if not already defunct. Only 20 years ago Hollywood teemed with starlets. They
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    • 47 16 AH FOOK: It's a shame that kidney transplants cannot be performed because there is no donor. I always thought we were generous people: MEI LIN: I agree. How can our surgeons improve without regular such operations? What do YOU think? Write in to the Editor.
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    • 187 16 "Mountains are made to be climbed, records are made to be broken, and bananas are made to be eaten," 14-year-old Ellis Robin said yesterday before his assault on the world bananaeating championship. The 81-pound junior high school student decided to challenge the record
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    • 464 16 PROSPECT STILL BRIGHT Chinese sword duels, as popular with cinema-goers here as gun battles in the Western world, are certain to be filling the screens of South-East Asia for several more years. Sword fighting films have a long history in Hong Kong's film Industry
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